Evening star., 1938-07-15
Broadway Greeting
. Most TumultuOus
in Decade.
LINDBERCH FETE
is BROUGHT BACK
Metropolis Screams Its
l7.Minute Praise
for Flyers.
RACKGRONNn-

HoDdrd Hughes, multimillion-
dire sportsman and auiation en-
thusiaSt, ,rith creU of four landed
at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn
yesterday, completing a world flight
in ; days, 10 hours and ID min
utes. He more than haired the solo
flight mark of the late Wiley Post
OF days, 1S hours and 49 minutes.
The hop from Nep York to Paris
uas made in 161a hours, halt the
time Col. Lindbergh took in 1927.
BY The Associated Press.
NEW YORK. July 15.-Howard
Hughes and his four globe-circling
companions rode triumphantly up
Lower Broadway today. from the Bat
terry to City Hail. in the most tumultu-
Gus heroes parade New York has held
in . decade.
It was like a throwback to the
halcyon days when Jimmy Walker was
Mayor, when Lindbergh first flew the
Atlantic. Ederle conquered the English
Channel, Byrd few across the North
Pole and the canyons of the financial
district echoed with cries of greeting
to the intrepid airmen.
For II minutes-the time 1t took
the procession of cars to reach City
Nall-downtown New York screamed
its praise for the millionaire
Texas sportsman and his mates and
showered the men with ticker tape.
tore up and emptied from the windows
of the worlds greatest skyscrapers tele-
phone books, old stationery, letters.
newspapers.
Some Grow Delirious.
Clerks, stenographers, business men,
brokers and bankers, thrilled by
Hughes amazing feat of girdling the
globe in 3 days, 10 hours and 8 min
utes, grew sentimental and deirious
Five years ago today. some OF them
might have remembered, the town
was In something of the same state OF
mind as Wiley Posts Winnie Mae
roared down to landing at Floyd
Bennett Field to hang up record OF
Z days, 18 hours and 40 minutes which
stood until Mr.. Hughes broke it yes
terday.
Only this new record seemed in
credible. The thousands OF men, Wom-
en- and children, jammed around the
Battery, Bowling Green and Broad
ways sidewalks, stared at the tall,
thin Hughes. at his four smiling COM
panions and yelled their greetings
The police estimated there were ap-
proximately $1,000 persons along
Broadway and Commissioner Lewis j.
Valentine himself said there were
probably $4,000 or 10000 around City
Hall
The steps of the Customs House,
the walks or Bowling Green, the
church yard of old Trinity Church and
6f st. Paul's Chapel were a tightly
wedged mass OF men and women.
Restaurants, crowded during the
lunch hour, emptied magically. Men
and women sat on ledgeS of buildings
high above the procession. The storm
of ticker tape, fluttering downward
IN long spirals. the shredded paper,
the fluttering flags and banners. and
the constant roar of voices seemed to
bewlder the flyers at first.
But they quickly got used to the
frenzy of the reception.
Hughes Pale and Jumpy.
Mr. Hughes, wearing an oxford gray
suit, white shirt and black tie had
slept IA hours. Pale and a little
jumpy, he was nevertheless fresh. He
rode in the first car.
1t. Thomas ]. Thurlow, U. S. A.,
navigator, rode in the front seat of
the second car. The other navigator,
Harry P. M Connor, sat with Ed
Lund, flight engineer, and Richard r.
Stoddart on the rear seat.
The wives of 1t. Thurlow, Mr.. Stod-
dart and Mr.. Conor and 1t. Thurlows
boy, Tommy, 3, rode in the next car.
All had been driven downtown from
the Hampshire House, Central Park
south, where Mr. Hughes had joined
them after spending the night at the
J.. Drake Hotel in Park avenue
The morning had held threat of
gain, but the sun was bright when the
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