CLIMAX OF ROYAL TOUR

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 June 1939, Page 5

CLIMAX OF ROYAL TOUR

Millions Greet Their Majesties

HAPPY AND TUMULTUOUS RECEPTION

KING AND QUEEN SPEND QUIET WEEK-END ON PRESIDENT’S ESTATE

By Telegraph. —Press Association.— Copyright.

NEW YORK, June 11

Three gruelling' days of unending ceremonies, reaching their climax in if New York reception in the uproarious tradition ol the skyscraper city brought the tired and weary King and Queen to President Roosevelt’s Hyde Park home, lor a well-earned, and desperately needed weekend of rest and relaxation. Their Majesties were happy because the warmth ol New York’s welcome exceeded anybody’s expectation,. but they looked forward, nevertheless, to a night and day of informality with nothing more eventful scheduled than a service on Sunday morning in the little Episcopal Church and the much-heiaided “hot dog’’ dinner with President and Mrs Roosevelt. Their Majesties’ most trying day began with breakfast m Redbank, New Jersey, at 8 a.m., the earliest scheduled event throughout the American tour. A great ovation began when they left the train in Redbank. Thousands greeted them there with cheers, and many thousands of others lined the roads as they drove 15 miles to Fort Hancock, where they boarded the destroyer Warrington for New York. As the destroyer left Fort Hancock the'Royal Standard was raised to the masthead. It was the first time in history it has been flown from an American vessel. Harbour craft and excursion boats loaded with hundreds of people anxious to see their Majesties pulled their whistles and foghorns open and left them there. A 21-gtin salute was fired by the fort guns and another by the Warrington as their Majesties stepped aboard.