Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-13
NEW YORK TAKES
LINDBERGH TO ITS
HEART ON RETURN
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came floats bearing floral models OF
| Llndbergh'S plane, the Spirit OF ST.
Louis; Of the Eiffel Tower and the
| Statue of Liberty, and girls represent
ing France and America. AS the pa.
| rade proceeded through the canyon OF
| lower Broadway paper was shoWered
| down upon it from the windows or the
| financial district in New Yorks tradl-
| tional gesture of welcome and ap-
| prevail.
| BY the time the front Of the pro-
cession had reached City Hall Broad
way, from there down to the Battery.
was as white as though there had
been a heavy snowfall. AS the pro-
| cession progressed it was greeted by
| thunderous cheers from the crowds
| that were jammed along the side
walks. perched on window sills ana
| leaning from thousands of windows.
AS the vanguard of the parade
reached City Hall Mayor Walker and
other city officials took their places
| in the pagoda arranged for the pres
entation Of the City Medal to Lind
| bergh.
Women in Crowd Faint.
| Although the official schedule called
for n 30-minute run from Quarantine
| to the Battery, the Macon was just
passing Governors Island 45 minutes
after picking up Lindbergh.
| AS the parade moved up Broadway
two groups of six planes each, flying
| in V formation, scared overhead,
| dropping red roses down upon the
crowd.
More than a dozen women tainted
| in Battery place while awaiting Lind
| bergh's arrival. The crowd was so
dense that the women were held up
by the press even after losing con-
seriousness until policemen made their
way to them and carried them to
the first aid station.
Broadway Windows Boarded.
The buildings of Broadway were
put in splnts today lest they get their
ribs cracked in the boisterous well
come to Charles Lindbergh.
| Beginning with the international
Mercantile Marine Building, at Broad
way and the Battery and extending
all the way up to City Hall, the win
dows of the financial districts build
| ings were boarded, fenced or wired
| against the impending crush of the
| young airman's admirers.
The boarding Of windows was the
revival of an old election day custom
which has fallen into disuse in recent
quieter years. For no welcome cele-
| bration in many years has such pre-
caution been deemed necessary.
| But that it was necessary today
was evidenced hours before the time
for Lindbergh's arrival. The early
morning saw Battery place filling
with patient walters, who crowded
the sea wall to inspect gayly tagged
harbor craft and ringed the Aquarium
to watch the marshaling of hundreds
of horse, motor cycle and foot police
in the open space before the seventh
precinct station house.
Flags Fly Everywhere.
The Stars and Stripes flew every
where, and buildings were hung with
| great streamers screaming a welcome
| in colored ink to the hero of the day.
Along the entire line of march prepa-
rations had been made by the more
fortunate to view the procession over
| the heads of the street crowds. Sec
ond-floor store and office windows were
banked with chairs.
From historic old Trinity Church
at the end of Wall street pews had
been dragged to the ancient colonial
graveyard and turned into bleachers
behind the iron fence with the help
of rough planks. In front of the Pub.
| lie Library at Fifth avenue and Forty
second street, "the crossroads of the
world" green benches from Bryant
Park were piled in two great heaps
beside the guarding granite lions,
watched over by police lest they be
pre-empted by the unentitled.
Fifth avenue, one Of the world 8
greatest thoroughfares, had to some
extent followed Broadway's lead in
boarding windows, but the majority
there trusted to the wider street and
sidewalks to save their plate glass
from the crush. The score or so of
buildings which were boarded were
mostly those occupied by famous
jewelers., behind whose windows lay
treasures to tempt king.
Fifth Avenue Gay.
Fifth avenue was even more gayly
decorated than the gray canyons,
formed by the skyscrapers in the
financial district. The white lighting
bul,j of everyday use had been sup
planted with the golden globes used
on very special occasions. On every
pole was a large shield bearing the
city's seal and the words "Lindbergh-
| New York"
The feeling of haste and last minute
rush was everywhere along the line.
Carpenters hammered, decorations
hung out colored draping, and on the
wall of a building overlooking Madi-
son Square painters on a scaffolding
welded hurried brushes to complete a
half-finished portrait Of the man who
within q few hours was to pass in
! glory.
The streets ere filled with men,
women and children, carrying camp
s. OILS, newspapers, mats, anything for
q seat. And among them moved an
army of hawkers, selling flags, but
tons, balloons, hats, and everything
that could bear the name or the pic
ture of the boy whose existence was
known to scarcely one in all the crowd
five weeks ago.
In the early morning the sky was
overcast and chill breeze from the
northwest swept the island, but to-
ward 8 o'clock blue sky appeared and
a warming sun smiled over the city.