Evening star., 1928-05-01
BY c. A. tDuKEl sCHILLER.


Newspaper Alliance asked me to write
my impressions of the reception given
the Bremen flyers, Charles j. v Muir
ply, Bernt Balchcn and myself
thought 1t would be an easy job. That
was yesterday morning,
Last night. as l tried TO put it down
on paper. think I'd rather make a
dozen trips to Greenly.
All / can say Is that II was some re-
ception I've seen Paris and London
at the height of war enthusiasm. I've
witnessed other paradeS and receptions
in New York. I've stood on the side
lines i'll Chicago when Chicago went
all the way u0 in the air. But I've
never been lucky enough until yeSter-
day to see vhole-hearted friendship,
good will, best wishes affection poured
out by great people on small group
of men in such unstinted measure.
Not that they didn't deserve it--thoSe
three flyers of the Bremen. Our part
in the whole affair was intinitesimal
compared to theirs. They're all such
good fellowS-New York couldn't help
but love them If they knew them as
well as / did Do you know what hap
pened yesterday morning. / got of 8
train from Quebec, went up TO the Rita
Hotel and walked in ON them Capt.
Kcehl Mai. Fitzmaurice and Baron
Huenefeld were lust eating breakfast.
Uus.inted Welcome.
say, Koehl jumped out of his chair
like a 2-year-old kid when l marched
in-iuSt tickled TO death FitZ smack
ed me on the back so hard that ms
shoulders are still red, and the baron
we'll, he couldn't talk any Of that Eng
lish he has so painstakingly learned Tor
20 minutes.
It made me think all the more of that
first trip into Greenly. when / came
down out of the bowling storm III
never forget Fitz making those clumsy
strides across the ice in his big rubber
boots, nor the welcome they gave me
then.
But. know YOU folks want TO hear
about The parade. Well listen. Some
people call me fairly hard boiled fell
low, lust because I'm flper and have
been through the war and other things
Let me toll YOU that during that parade
wasn't hqrd-boiled / had lumn IN
nv throat that stuck all the way
through
That pageant i'm the harbor was onn
of the most wonderful things believe
any man could ever witness. | mus.
esy. though. that it was a little hard
IN the eardrams-the baron had me
beat on that, for he had cotton in his.
And the people I met Hello Duke"
thet's all every one could SEEM TO saw
and Ii was coming 50 fast and thick
that I didn't have chance TO remem-
her all Of them / eo remember Mayor
Walker and Grover Wfaalen and Christr
Bchnsack and Commissioner Muldocn
and a lot of others whose names !
haven't the space 10 put in here, and
/ want 10 tell you they deserve a
tremendous amount of credit Tor put
ting on celebration like that when
thev had had their mans busted up so
many tinaos through the unexpected
delays in the arrival of the flyers So
far / haven't met a knocker or
gloom apostle in the whole bunch. That
ceremony at the City Hall like all the
rest OF 1t. will so down in my memory
as n1y life's most impressive sight
Flyers Greet Kin.
Perhaps the two incidents which inn
dressed me most were ths meeting Of
Capt and Mrs. Koehl and Of Maj FitZ-
maurice and his daughter Tat.
DO you know. 1t was only wh9n | saw
them find each other again after that
long Cay and night in the fog over the
Atlantic and tnnsa mnnv drearg DAYS or
desolate Greenly that I really realized
inst what they had been through--and
what it really meant to them to step of
into the unknown
A few more miles--snch pltifully few
more milcs--irto the interior of fabra-
dor. or in the other direction out in
thu ocean--and this celebration could
not have been held. They never would
have been found. l can imagine now as
never before Mai Fitznlaurice's sonti-
ments the day / was taking him back
from Sevcn Islands TO Greenly VIZ
we're In bowling storm. We couldn't
see foot ahead of the plane~-or above
Or below ton account OF swirling snow
and fog FitZ asked me where we were
/ di4nf know. and said SO
where's your map?" he asked.
didn't have any where's your COM
pass?" he came back / didn't have
any col. pass either. Then he said
Duke. let's get down 10 earth | told
him never mind. we'd land somewhere.
But let me tell you that after we were
safe at Nafashquan that night he was
sure a thankful Irishman, and me. be-
ing dumbeli. / guess, didn't think
OF those visions of his wife and that
baby girl that he must have been carry
ing in his mind then. But ! never saw
three happier birds in my life than
those three as they sat on the top of
that touring car and met the multitude
on the streets. II was good to see the
sheer abandon OF Capt Koehi as he
waved his hat gayly into the air, and
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