The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-11-19
HOOVER BOARDS
MARYLAND FOR
GOOD WILL TRIP
Nicaragua to Receive First
Visit of President Elect on
Peace Mission
HUNDREDS BIDFAREWELL
Henry P. Fletcher Precedes
Hoover to Los Angeles;
Will Meet on Ship

San Pedro, Calf, Nov. 19.-(AP)
Herbert Hoover arrived here at
$40 o'clock this morning from Palo
Alto and went Immediately aboard
the battleship Maryland for his good
will trip to South America.
The president-elect was met at
his train by Admiral William v.
Pratt, commander in chief of the
Pacific coast battle fleet and a
group of other naval officials who
escorted him to the admiral's launch
which put off Immediately down the
bay to the battleship. Five minutes
later there were q series of BOOM
ing blasts as various battleships in
the harbor fired the presidential
salute of 81 guns.
A few minutes before the arrival,
the president-elect's train paused for
two minutes at Wilmington, CAL,
while throng of school children
cheered wildly at their first glimpse
OF the nations next chief executive.
Hoover appeared on the platform
of his car, smiled broadly, and ad-
dressed a few words to the eager
crowd Of youngsters.
The train almost Immediately got
under way again, and steamed into
San Pedro near the harbor docks
where the president-elect's good will
voyage to South America begins at
sea.
Bidding farewell to the college
town that has known him for more
than thirty years since his UNDER
graduate days, the president-elect
of the United States boarded his
special train at Pal1 Alto last night
for a journey which is to carry him
into most of the countries on the
western hemisphere and across the
breadth of the South American con-
tinent before bringing him back to
Florida for month before his in
auguration on March 4.
Corinto Is First ~.
Before him as he boarded the
battleship Maryland for the voyage
southwark down the Pacific coast
lay Corinto as the first port Of call
where he is to pay the first visit
that any president or president-elect
of the United States has ever made
to Nicaragua.
Afterward, although the definite
itinerary for the entire trip has not
yet been announced, is to come a
stop at Balboa for brief inspection
of the Panama canal, and then the
long voyage down the rim of South
America to Callao, Peru. There he
will begin a series Of formal visits
that will mark his progress across
South America.
, The departure of the president
elect from his home town brought
hundreds Of his neighbors and fel-
low townsmen to the little station to
shout to him bon voyage.
Earlier in the afternoon more than
two hundred of his friends and
neighbors had travelled up San Juan
Hill to grasp the hand Of their fell
low Californian and wish him q
pleasant and successful journey and
q happy meeting in Washington on
March 4.
The president-elect carried with
him the blessing of the chaplain Of
Stanford university, DR.. D. Charles
Gardner, who in closing his service
yesterday prayed that this son of
Stanford might be successful in
carrying out his mission of peace
and good will. The closing hymn of
the service also had been one which
carried a prayer for those who
travel by sea.
Fletcher Accompanies Him
Henry p. Fletcher, American am
bassador to Italy, who is to accom-
pany him on the trip as q special
representative Of the state depart
ment, had preceded Mr.. Hoover to
Los Angeles and spent last night on
board the battleship California. He
was to join Mr.. Hoover at San
Pedro and board the Maryland with
him. After conference between
The two the itinerary for the trip
vas to be made known.