Evening star., 1924-09-15
Parents and Hometown
Neighbor Rush to Kiss
Man Who CircIed Globe.
REACH CITY AT 1855
AFTER LEAVING DAYTON
Three Planes Will Leave Tomorrow
on 440-Mile Flight to
Omaha, Nebr.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
AIR MAIL FIELD. HAYWOOD, ILL.,,
September 15.-Lieut. Lowell Smith
and his around-the-world flying conf
panions descended at the United
States Air Mail Field here at 1885
pm. completing their 294-mile hop
from Dayton in . hours and SIS
minutes.
The first view Of the flyers brought
tumultous cheers. The band blared
the snappiest tunes. Applause was so
deafening that it drowned out the
roar of a plane standing with it's
motor racing. AS the three planes,
with their escort, 'circled slowly over
tho field, the crowds virtually went
with them.
the roofs Of skyscrapers, from the
new municipal stadium in Grant
Park and other points of vantage
near Lake Michigan.
Whistles shrieked as the flyers soar
ed over the shore line. and boule-
wards and parks held their quota of
the spectators.
The world girdlers with an escort
of five planes reached the downtown
district at 1898 pm. Eastern stand
ard time. the three Army planes
flying in close formation.
Fire escapes as we'll as skyscraper
tops and windows of tall buildings
were black with people.
The planes instead of circling over
the stadium continued northward
along the lake shore until they pass
ed Lincoln Park and then turned in
a southwesterly direction for the air
mail field at haywood
Infolded by Crowds.
The three flyers, before any one
could reach them, jumped briskly
from their planes and were infolded
by the receiving party and the
crowds. The police, which up to this
time had successfully held the peo-
pie back, were overwhelmed. The
flyers had great difficulty in entering
the three automobiles, which took
them on a tour OF the field.
Lieut.. Wade's father and mother.
who live at Cassopolis, Mich, were
the first to embrace him, and it was
done over the struggling forms of
others surrounding his plane. Mrs.
o. S. Palmer of Cicero, a longtime
friend of Lieut.. Wade. succeeded in
giving him a resounding smack on
the lips.
The procession around the field was
preceded by an escort of motor cycle
policemen, flanked by mounted Off
GERS. A long trail of motor cars and
people afoot fell in back of them
and stumbled and stamped their way
around the three -mile-old speedway
race track.
AS the flyers passed the speedway
hospital many of the afflicted war
veterans there attempted to give
them an ovation. The attempt was
acknowledged by the flyers rising in
their seats. They had remained
seated on the rest of the trip
Police Force Path.
When the cars returned to the main
hangar the flyers again were cheered
and pathway made through the
crowd to the office of the field man.
ager for their interview with news
paper men. Police were compelled
to use force to let them through.
Such receptions having become al
most as much their business as sue
cessfully making their flights, the
flyers and their mechanicians good
naturedly lined up on a stairway and
answered roll call as their names
were called by member of the re-
ception committee, who wanted to
check up"
"All right boys, shoot" led off
Lieut.. Smith.
Lieut.. Smith was unanimously
chosen spokesman for the occasion.
His first reply brought out that moth
ing unusual occurred during the
flight here. The hubbub around the
building was SO loud it was hard to
near them talk. Windows were
banked with people attempting to
peer into the hangar, while a mass
OF humanity surrounded it.
1T is wonderful to finally have
reached Chicago" Lieut. Smith said.
I'VE have all been looking forward
to landing here almost as much as
to our journeys end at Seattle.
Greatest Greeting Yet.
I'VE have been treated royalty
wherever we stopped on our trip, but
l want you all to know that nowhere,
Toxic, Paris, London, Boston or any
where else have we been greeted as
we have in Chicago. I am proud to
have flown the ship named after the
city"
"Once is enough" Smith told news
papermen, when they asked him if
he would make the flight again. "Of
course, would be glad to go again If
were ordered" he added.
Lieut.. Arnold said his next trip
around the world would 'be on a
boat"
A woman reporter asked the flyers
IL they were not anxious to get back
to their homes because perhaps
there might be a girl waiting"
Lieut.. Smith said he was anxious to
get to Los Angeles to see his mother
and the others said they all hoped
there might be "some girls but dis
claimed any particular one was wait
ing.
After the. newspaper men had ex-
hausted their supply Of questions the
flyers were driven to the Riverside
Country Club for something to eat
in peace" AS they left the hangar
door photoeraphers and moving pic