Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-15
Goes to chapuItepec.

Among the places which the Amer
;can aviator visited were the foreign
Office, Chapultepec Palace and the
national museum. at the latter place
inspecting the famous Aztec calen-
dar stone.
Everywhere that he went the boy
ish-looking. smiling. good viii am
bassador was greeted joyfully by
Mexico's citizens. into whose hearts
he has completely won ms, Nay.
A crowd Of several hundred persons
had gathered outside the gates of fhs,
American embassy when Lindbergh
and Ambassador Morrow left 1t for
the foreign office.
"Viya," the crowd shouted and the
American flyer responded with his
usual quick smile and wave OF his
hand. ,.,.
Ambassador Morrow beamed with
Measure at the friendly demonstration.
Along the route to the foreign once,
where the streets were still befiagged
with the stars and Stripes and Mexi.
can coIors from yesterdays triumphal
procession. the populace recognized
fhef1yer and cheered him madly.
Gales Hugs Flyer.
President Gales gave Indy full
.embra 20. ." a real hug, expressing ms
,oy and the Joy of the people at the
sirpoan's successful termination OF
,he flight Yesterday after being lost in
the heavy fog off Tampico. Not con-
tent with merely shaking hands. the
president threw both arms around the
AYERS shoulders and patted him alice
tionately.
The tension of that long wait on
wiz
for the airman broken, the surging
croxvds voiced their relief in mingled
sho,,ts of viva" and bravo" Three
hours of apprehension that misfortune
nod befaIlen the flyer. during which
th.v comforted themselves with the
thought that Indy always arrives.
o.,ye Mace to a deIirious demonstra-
tion of Joy. 1t was doubted If even
the crowd that greeted Lindbergh at
tho conclusion of his first great air
venture at LIE Bourget, when ne com
nIeted his New York-toP Paris flight.
gave a greater demonstration of en-
thuSia SIN than those VINO hdheu MN
in Mexico City.
Trndaunted by hours al the controls
NJ the Spirit Of st. Louis. Lindbergh
announced that when he left Mexico
II would be by air.
Morrow Expresses frtde.
The American Ambassador, Dwight
W Morrow. looked upon his fellow
citizen with pride. Isn't he Won
derful boy" he exclaimed. lie is
perfect physically, mentally and
spiritually"
will be A guest during his visit,
I jndv's thoughts turned To his mother
q, Detroit and he telephoned her be-
tore he called it day and retired at
mn. What the flyer told the
,,other. whose confidence in him has
lever wavered, was not revealed.
rrhose who should be in position to
,.,oxv said the mother told her famous
sap how glad she felt of his safety
20 success and Lindy replied in eff
@ect "Oh. shucks, it wasn't anything
Cor YOU TO be worried about.
nd while the crowds milled around
,be embassy shouting for the nyer
,nechanIcs at Valbuena Field, ga
,;Ias from the city, were carefully
,,,ng the other half of the famous
.aan, Of "We"-the Spirit of ST. Louis
,rta nlane in which Lindbergh has
~, spnroximately 35 900 miles since
lift San Diego, Calf, last May on
IL first leg of his flight to Paris wa'
.opounced TO be in tirst-class comb
I;on Every bit of cotton waste witt
itch il was cleaned was CAREFUL,
T.nrished by the mechanics.
IT wasn't worried at all about be
lost" Lindbergh said. II knew
ihe ,,as merely question of floating
round until found some Landmark
or other"
Saw Name on Station.
,Yaavv fog off the coast and noun
IL caused him to go off his cours
tai mnico. He flew around until h.
81 the name Toluca on a railroa'
s saw, Then he knew he was clos
SIC az capital, Toluca being about 4
10 TO- IN the southwest.
News that the American had bee
AT Toluca reached the hyln
s1S and eight Mexican Army ali
nelu u,es set off in quest of him.
few minutes later a tiny spec
.sred against the purple mour
,ances in the distance. AT leas
=, au 400 perhaps 100 900, persons on tn
a S',v1 field watched the speck gro
ny,nS they were afraid to chez
!al ,' we're almost afraid to hope Falls
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