The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-06-13
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countless harbor craft, all dressed
In holiday attire Of flags and pen
nantS.
Aboard the Macon, New York S
first welcome was made by brilli-
ant assembly Of the city's represen-
tatives.
Overhead a "sky writer" scared
and circled, writing Hail Indy" in
letters mile high across the sky.
Bands played out on the water
and on shore. Airplanes sWooped
and sailed above in numbers.
Aboard the Macon, Lindbergh be-
gan his triumphant voyage up the
harbor and to the shore, where
nassed on the lower end of Man
haitian Island literally millions of
people were on the sidewalks and in
. the windows of the skyscrapers
Business at Halt
All business was at a StandStlll
Every one, the bankers, the lawyers
the flnanciers, the politicians, and
those who do the harder work, were
d OllU W WGlCOlIlC
just at the moment Lindbergh
>alighted in the NarrowS, Mrs. Evan
geline Lodge Lindbergh, his mother,
with Mrs. James j. Walker, wife OF
the mayor of New York, we're es-
corted to the pier where Lindbergh
will land.
There they stood, surrounded by
members of the welcoming COM
nlittee and with police holding
back the crowds which pressed
around, awaiting the arrival of the
Macon, bearing Lindbergh.
AT almost the same moment the
great military parade, with bands
banners, troops, marines and sailors,
started from the Battery to herald
the coming of the f1ier.
Thousands Jam Street
At 1871 p. m. the head of the
military parade reached the city
hall, before Lindbergh and his
escorting ships had reached the
Battery. Thousands of peopleNwere
= lnassed there, awaiting the coming
of the parade and Of Lindbergh
They broke into cheers.
From the top of the New York
Telephone Company's new building
on West ST., a United Press cor
respondent, with a telephone, looked
down upon the scene.
From the city hall to the Bat
terry it was a mass of people, the
sidewalks not unlike great garden
. with the bright colored dresses of
the women and the flashing straw
hats of the men. This crowd milled
anxiously, like a wind tossed field.
Over the harbor airplanes circled
and swooped while the hundreds of
: craft in the bay were brilliant with
their many colored pennants and
flags.
"Snowstorm" RACES
Over all the lower end of Broad
way was the web of ticker tape and
steamers, glinting in the sun, with
bits of paper tossed high in the
breeze above the streets. 1t was like
a snowstorm.
The streets were cleared of all
traffic and along the sidewalk edge
was a thin line of blue-coated po-
plicemen, one officer to each five
feet, holding the crowds in check.
The progress up the bay of the
!. Macon was slow. Lindbergh board
ed the cutter at 1890 p. H., boats
crowded around almost as far as
the eye could see. Then went up
the screech and below of a hundred
whistles and there was bedlam.
Boat Picks Way
The Macon headed for shore
through a. lane of ships, small and
large, all waving and saluting. But
the boats could not restrain their
enthusiasm, or rather their masters
couldn't, and the lane was not al
! ways clear. The Macon had to
weave and pick it's way.
r In the meantime, Lindberghs
mother and the welcomers at the
Battery awaited patiently Those
around had glimpse of Lindbergh
poise... In the midst of it all, Mrs
Lindbergh found time to speculate
on the danger of a policeman fall
I. ing into the water.
HE would sink, with all those
guns" she commented.
- She insisted chair be brought
for Mrs. Walker when someone Of
fnrpH I1nf, PhoiI.
Son Isn't Remarkable
She was asked about her boy.
HE isn't remarkable" she said
smilingly, she is just a healthy
American lad, and he is purposeful.
AS the Macon threaded it's way
up the harbor, planes swooped down
toward it. ranging from little
single-seaters, to great, tri-
motored monoplane, each paying
respect to the man being hailed to-
day as the greatest of the nations
y filters.
Two great amphibian planes cir
! cled around and around over the
4 Battery awaiting Lindbergh's COM
4 ing.
Six more wheeled into sight from
the lower bay.
Crowd Cheers Planes
The crowds cheered each plane
( as it came in sight. 1t cheerec
\ the troops and applauded the bands
In between times it threw more