Evening star., 1924-09-07
GIGANTIC WELCOME ACCORDED
FLYERS BY BOSTON THOUSANDS
Federal, State and City Officials Pay High HOn0rs
to Globe Cirdlers-PiIOts Viii Take
Rest Today.

would have been willing almost 10
have done the same when ! was on
the other side and you were here.
Smith said the fight today was IDEAL.
The IL De Havilands which lett the
air port early this morning reacheo
Mere Point, Me-. and played around.
as he expressed it, and then landed
on the beach at Old Orchard.
Brother Greets Nelson
Gen. Patrick was in the bunch. and
after the three seaplanes passed over
the De Havilands again took the air
and followed the world flyers into
Boston. When Erik Nelson came
ashore almost the first person to
greet him was Gunnar Nelson, his
brother, who had been flown up to
Boston from Dayton by Capt. Louis
G. Meister of McCook Field.
Among the select few who were
admitted to the suite OF the tired
flyers was Maj. A. Stuart MacLaren
and his colleagues. Lieut.. w. N.
Plenderlieth and Sergt- r II. An
drews, the Britishers who were in
the race around the world" short
time ago which has been won by
American airmanship and airplanes.
Smith presented MacLaren to wade,
and the tall. handsome Scotsman
said: Il feel ! can sympathiZe with
you" To which Wade replied: Il
can sympathize with you all the
more"
Wade is glad to be back in the
flight. No one would have him held
out after have flown as far and ex-
perienced what he did.
Wade confided to me he will be
glad to get back to Washington.
Il was born in Michigan and my
mother and sister still live there,
but all my friends are in Washing
ton. / shipped all my stun brought
on the flight back to Washington
and l want to call it my home. Sew
eral other cities claim me. but L
claim 1t.
Wants to Come Back Here.
II love it. and it is my fondest
desire that after this flight is nm
ished to be sent back to old Boiling
Field"
Wade said it gave him a thrill
to be back in the air again. But
Boston. She will do the work all
right and carry me through. 1 abso-
lutely know"
Smith asked me to tell the readers
of The Star of his deep appreciation
for the services rendered by the Navy
on the sixth division flight His ex-
pressions were sincere and from his
heart. He is grateful, il any man is.
and he doesn't know how to express
it. You know and saw what they
did for us he said. Where would
we have been without the good old
Richmond. the Billingsley, the Reid,
the Raleigh. the Barry, the Mil
waukee and those destroyers that
lined up like company of infantry
across the Atlantic between Green
land and Labrador-I know them by
heart and their stations-the Coghlan.
the Mcfarland, Charles Ausburne and
Lawrence? And the old tanker Brazos
at Bay Of Islands looked good to us.
Do you know that that flight from
Pictou on down was one of the worst
we ever have been through?
Picked Good Place.
Nova Scotia very well. but then we
hit fog-fog of the Greenland species
We had a hard job and there was
only one thing to do-come down. l
think l. picked out a good place, too,
for the millionaires at Mere Point
treated US royalty. And further.
| when we left you at Indian Harbor
| or rather when you left us tthe Rich
mond pulled out first)-on the flight
10 IldN heS Day, VIC hdo q Acoe II
time. Shipping was held up by the
heavy rains and fog, but We had to
get through"
Fog-how that man and the others
dread the word. and a twinkle comes
in their eyes and a smile forms when
they think of the flight to San Monica,
where there is little chance they
will see to thaD of meeting up with
the deadly opaque atmosphere of
hideous Cape Farewell.
Arnold spent a good half hour in
his room tonight trying to locate by
telephone some baggage he left on
the Richmond at Reykjavik. A truck
went to the navy yard this morning
and took off the ship all the belong
ings of the pilots and carried them
way out to the airport instead of the
hotel Arnold's boots and uniform,
as we'll as Smiths uniform. were in a
big black suit case which it was be-
lieved had become lost. He finally
located it, however, at the airport
After a round Of conversation with
few personal friends. the pilots
dined in their suite with Gen. Patrick
and Mr.. Davis and later held a con-
ference with newspaper men. They
will not hop off to New Yor k tomor-
row, but instead will go out to the
airport and direct the changing of