Evening star., 1927-06-13
DropsFromSky
OPlaudits of
Thousands.
AUTOS SPURT
IMPERILS HIM
Broadway's Cheers
Are Mingled
With Tears.
By the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, June 13-Consider-
ing him one of their own because
he left from here on his pioneering
flight to France, New York's mil
lions today welcomed Charles A
Lindbergh, viking of the Atlantic
heavens, as they had never welcomed
any one before.
After greeting from $4,000 throats
at the Battery that shook the city
and triumphal march up Broadway
through close-packed acclaiming
crowds and a paper snowstorm from
the windows of the craglike sky
scrapers, the young flyer arrived at
City Hall at 2 :O9 pm, this afternoon
Narrowly Escapes Injury.
Col. Lindbergh narrowly escaped
injury just after landing at the Bat.
terry when unexpected acceleration OF
the official automobile threw him
from a standing position, his head and
shoulders going over the back of the
motor car. The quick clutch OF
Grover VVhalen at the flyers knees
prevented a fall.
When the shrieking of harbor
whistles gave notice that Lindbergh
had landed from the bay, to which he
flew from Mitchell Field and Washing
ton, a great rolling roar of welcome
spread through the city. Over miles
and miles OF the financial wholesale
shopping and residential sections
paper drifted into the air in the city s
traditional welcome to it's heroes. .
Along the line of march hundreds
Of thousands of cheering men and
women packed behind police lines
cheered until they were hoarse and
after that waved flags, blew horns and
danced about as best they could in
the press.
Sobs Mingle With Tears.
Any sound, any gesture was enough
so long as it indicated that though
this boy who had dared to confront the
forces of nature alone and who had
won fame might call his home in any
city he liked, he was by unanimous
adoption a son of New York and
a son loved above all others.
While waiting for Lindbergh to ar
rive, the estimated $4,000 persons at
the Battery were orderly enough, but
when he came their emotions broke
all bounds, Men beat each other on
the backs, women threw their arms
about those nearest to them and
both men and women struggled to
get nearer to their idol, alternately
laughing aloud and weeping openly.
Iindbergh stepped from the city
tug Macon at the Battery at 1920 pm.
after being brought up the bay from
Quarantine, where he had landed in
an amphibian plane after flight
from Washington via Mitchell Field.
Roar Sweeps Battery.
AS the Macon hove in sight the
crowds at the Battery burst into such
roar of greeting as that famous
welcoming ground had probably never
heard before. The sirens on count
less craft in the harbor added to the
din and the crowd surged forward
toward the sea wall as though its
every member wished to seize the
hero's hand and greet him personally.
Police were put to it to keep order
as men and women shouted out their
welcomes and everything available
from hats to handkerchiefS and pen
nants were waved wildly.
AS the Macon approached the Bat
terry fireboats began to shower water
from their deck guns in salute, and
excursion boats crowded with cheering
admirers formed a convoy for the
city boat.
AS the Macon docked Lindbergh,
his curly hair blown by the breeze,
mounted the pilot house and waved a
greeting to the wildly cheering crowd.
Battery Park echoed to the shouts of
the crowd and the air drummed with
the vibration of a squadron of planes
circling about the city.
Din Is Deafening.
AS Lindbergh descended from the
pilot house and came ashore the noise
Of cheering and of whistles on harbor
craft was so great as to be almost
deafening. Police said that the crowds
to welcome Lindbergh were the great
est that had ever gathered in this city
for any reason. The throngs were
orderly and submitted to the restric-
tions of police in a spirit of goodfel-
lOwship.
AS the cheering and whistles at the
Battery were heard, farther uptown
a roar of welcome rolled up Broadway
TO City Hall and was maintained there
as Lindbergh joined the parade at the
Battery and started uptown.
AS I<IIluDcISu WAS proceeding up
town in the parade, the pressure \of
the crowd became so great at the
corner of Murray street and Broad
way. where the procession was max.
ing a right-angle turn between the
City Hall grandstandS that the police
lines were broken and a wedge of
spectators was thrown forward into
the street.
Women screamed and confusion
was complete until mounted police
drove the crowd back to the side
walks. Women in danger of being
trampled on were rescued by patrol.
men on foot. Half a dozen women
suffered partial collapse. but were re-
ViYed at firSt-aid stations.
AS soon as word was received that
Lindbergh was on board the Macon
and expected at the Battery within
half an hour, the welcome parade was
started uptown. AT the head of the
Haskell and his staff.
Behind the general and his staff
were brOnzed Regular Army troops
from Fort Hancock, n. j., and Gov.
ernors Island. Then came two COM
panies of Marines and four of blue.
Jackets from the battleship Colorado
at Brooklyn Navy Yard. Behind these
were units of the National Guard,
Naval Militia, Reserve officers and
veterans organizations.
Behind the soldiers and sailors
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