The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-16
FLOOD OF NOISE GREETS PLIERS
 AT WINDY CITY
Chicago Opens Arms To Aerial Namesake And
 Two Companions
(By Associated Press. )


 CHICAGO, Sept. 15.-First of the cities to greet her winge namesake, Chicago today took Lieut.. Lowell Smith and his world encircling fliers to her bosom, stood with barred heads while the planes figuratively unravelled more of the red, white and blue thread they have spun around the globe, gave them great ovations as humble homage and tonight rendered them food and drink at public banquet.
 From the moment Lieutenant Smith and his flagplane, Chicago, completed the hop from Dayton to Haywood air field at F :55 daylight saving time, he, with his companion pilots, Lieut., Erik Nelson in the New Orleans and Lieut.. Leigh Wade in his Boston H., received .all that the city could give them. To- morrow at s a. m., central time, they are scheduled to be on their way again to Omaha. an air distance of 40 miles.
 Arms Open Wide
 Thousands swarmed to the mail field 12 miles west of Chicago, for a view of the world girdlers as they came to rest. The sight of them far over stration. Every kind of noise contri- NdHCtg luSlt AuhSCu oPCCtdlOIo t0 the jazziest of bands, let go. When the three birdmen and their mechanicians taxied into position and leaped from their cockpits into the arms of the crowd, which had swept it's police cordon aside, it was a spectacle of re- joicing.
 All along Lake Michigan shore in Grant Park and Chicago's business ..,Ls LsaI Lz first circled, the outburst was as demonstrative. The flight of 294 miles was without incident. That with the honor visible brought out, put them in a mood much as does a circus inspire frolicking boys.
 Best Welcome Yet
 "We have been ~-eated royalty wherever we stopped on our trip, but I want you to all know that nowhere, Tokyo, Paris, London, Boston, any where, have we been greeted as we have in Chicago. l am proud to have flown the ship named after your city" These were almost the first words spoken by Lieutenant Smith when he and his com panions received the newspapermen.
 Lieutenant Smiths ship, carrying the name Chicago" over land and water where airplanes at some places never before had been seen, was literally fondled by,- the citizens who claim it's name as home. Because of this fea- ture, outside of the usual courtesy of permitting the flight commander to land first, Chicago felt exceptionally proud in receiving Lieutenant Smith and his mechanician, Lieut.. Leslie F. Arnold. The unfortunate loss of Lieu tenant Wade's original Boston in north Atlantic deprived him of being the first of the fliers to bring the plane into the city of it's naming.
 The planes stood up under the grind from Dayton so we'll that such adjust ments as were necessary were mostly perfunctory. Shortly before 5 o'clock in their "gong out" uniforms, the six airmen again wGded through humanity into their cars for sightseeing trip of Chicago to place wreath on Wash ington's monument near the Art insti- ute on Michigan boulevard, and for the public dinner at fashionable hotel. There each member of the squadron received in engraved words the appre- citation welcome Chicago attempted to show in her display today. The Chi cago Association of Commerce, speak ing for it's citizenship acclaimed them as ''the super-worthy bearers of your country's flag" and gallant represen- tatives of the army whose traditions of self sacrificing service are enriched by your unfaltering courage"