Evening star., 1933-07-23
|GREAT CROWD HA|[S|
POST ON ARRIVAL
So ,000 Persons See Flyer
Drop Like Plummet From
Dark Sky.
Special Dispatch to The star.

Special Dispatch to The 0tar.
FLOYD BENNETT yULD, Drooklyn,
N. r., July 3s.-yIfty thousand persons
were WAITING here Whon Wiley poot, in
trepfid round -the.wofid Aysr, arrived.
Ten thousand automobiles were parked
hub to hub in the three parking spaces
close to ths hangers from which the air.
drome stretches away into the dark TO-
ward Jamaica DAy and the yellow lights
of the cross-bay highway.
With 010 police under the command
Of Chief Inspector Cummings Of Brook
lyn on duty, the great throng was mill
ing around aimlessly, looking up 1t the
mackerel gray clouds that made cross
bars of gray against the deeper black of
the sky, and Watching occasional szz,all
planes which dived like hornets with an
anGry buzz into the range Of flood
ligats on top Of the two-stuy brick
administration building.
Drops Out Of Sky.
. The flyer for whom all the Thousands
at the field had waited 30 breathlesely
dropped like q plummet out Of the sky.
There Nas one moment when every one
was Mating and was expecting to wait
for q half hour ct least, and perhaps
for longer. Then suddenly the little
white ship was skimming above the field
and had dropped upon it.
Another small white plane had gone
aloft but a few minutes before. with
Q roar of its motors, and its light had
disappeared. Then the Winnie May
yards from the ribbon Of asphalt ON
which the favored few Of the many
THOUSANDS were standing.
The crowd, which had been one solid
wall, strAining against the wire fence
in front Of the administration build
ing, seemed suddenly to disintegrate
into q forward surge. To the left the
mounted police began to Sallop. To
the right there were motor cycle police
and they leaped into action, sounding
like . machine sun company IN action.
In the center was . platoon Of police on
foot and they ran out across the erass
in the midst Of q do1en automobiles
carrying motion picture camera men
and radio announcers
Balbo's Flyers There.
A little group Of Gen. Balbo's flyers
who had stood out from the crowd, con-
spicuous in their white uniforms, and
escorted by q monocled diplomat be-
came lost tn the crushing wave. 30
did another unofficial detachment from
the United States Navy, petty officers
and gobs who had stood smoking BE-
side the line Of flve limousines waiting
to take Wiley Post and his party into
Manhattan.
The ship which had carried Post
stoutly on his globe -encircling tour
the distance. Only when the flyer
turned its propeller straight toward
the stands and came rolling into the
midst of his great ovation "a + show
lup clean white. with q little dash OF
blue at the cowl. The words winnie
Mae" on the f,0elage and the little
printed lettering of all the unpronounc-
able Siberian towns at which Post and
his erstwhile comrade, Harold 0atty
had stopped on the previous tour be-
came legible.
Nerves Obviously Prayed.
There was q smart new coupe drawn
up some so yards to the left of the
administration building prior to the
flyers arrival and Its occupants were
quite ready to tell every one Post had
ordered it by wire from Alaska to be
ready when he came home This was
the car which was swung around
through the milling mob to receive
the hero when he emerged from his
plane. Standing up. Post looked tired
He laughed at what his manager was
telling him and he seemed to require
an effort to stop laughing. His rervel
were obviously frayed.
Around his plane the Gordon Of pe-
lice managed at last to form q circle
joining their hands. Post stood high
above the crowd and savored the taste
Of triumphs while down in the uniden-
titled thousands stood pilots whose tri-
umphs were in days gene by, casing
up at the hero of the hour
(Copyright. 1881