Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-12

| to a large group of newspaper men
and Navy Department officials, who.
aboard the u. s. S. Porpoise, trailed
| the cruiser up the river from AleXan-
dria.
AS he came on the bridge this time
Col. Lindbergh saw another fore
runner of the welcome he is to re-
ceive in Washington. Off to his left
was Hams Point. narrowing down
Park and literally covered with a
mass of moving humanity. waving
and shouting to the approaching
hero. Just across Washington Cham
mel to his right Lindbergh beheld a
similar throng dotting the seawall
of the Army War College. The
mouth of Washington Channel
stretching across between these two
crowds was peppered with many
more private yachts, sailboats and
canoes, which added color to the pic
ture. with gay flags flying from
them. AS the Memphis swung sharp
ly to the right to enter the Anacostia
| River there doomed out from WASH
ington Barracks the first of series
OF cannon salutes that greeted the
vessel on the last leg of its journey
up to the navy yard dock.
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Noticing the hangers of the Naval
| Air Station at the mouth of the Ana
costa River, Col. Lindbergh hurriedly
crossed the bridge of the Memphis to
wave his hand once more to another
group, who stood cheering him from
the beach of the air station.
Back again he came to the port side
of the bridge to return the welcome
i-oP ,Ie,r 1saI
to the rivers edge on the north side
Of the Anacostia River.
While the guns at Washington
Barracks were still firing the first
salute to the returning flyer, other
pieces up at the navy yard began to
belch forth with a salute of IS guns
to Vice Admiral Burrage. The
Memphis answered this salute by
firing it's guns 10 times.
With all this booming of cannon
blowing of whistles and furious hand
waving, Col Lindbergh stood serenely
on the bridge of the cruiser, ex-
pressing his appreciation in that same
modest and unpretentious way in
which he. conducted himself when
European kings and countless thou
sands in foreign llnds were showing
their enthusiasm for his daring ac-
complishment.
Reaches Out Welcome.
From the time the Memphis crashed
through the early Friday morning
horizon mist at 25 knots, and that's
% miles per hour as a land-lubber
would understand it better, to be
hailed and challenged by a division
Of destr0yers. running aloft their sig
nal identification flags, when they es-
r. no N1Ny 20
pride got out her last double spring
line at the navy yard dock yesterday,
Lindbergh could have had no doubt
that first he was approaching and
then was within the shores of his
native land, which he left by air three
weeks before.
The nation, it seemed. could not
await him, but reached out with it's
strong fighting arm, in a firm grasp,
to peacefully welcome and to assure
that his home held friendly greetings.
1t held him and his floating castle in
it's grasp under the setting sun, and
kept him under watchful eyes until
he was we'll away from that roaring
and mighty expanse Of water, over
which young Lindbergh flew as a
challenger when he dared it and its
sister elevents to victory and fame
which now calls to him honors which
few conquerors have enjoyed, with
out the patriotic hysteria of war to
prod them on.
The destroyers held his ship as
watchfully and as closely within their
grasp as they held the millions of
fighting men, during the war. when
they were moving eastward to bind in
friendship the French nation with
America, which the youth of the air
seems now to have cemented for all
time. And the sailor lads aboard the
destroyers and their officers were as
proud to escort him to the American
shores as they were to land American