Show New York Is In Splints To l Keep Great Throng From Crushing Windows Misguided Jersey City Man iMan Vho Who Is All Rigged Up to Lead Lindbergh Parade Gets Bums Bum's B ms m's Rush From Stern Gotham Cotham Cops Police Reserves On Hand NEW N EW YORK Junc JulIe 13 13 By The Associated Press The Press The buildings of Broadway Broa were put in splints today toda lest they get their ribs cracked cracke in the boisterous welcome to Charles Lindbergh Beginning with the International al 31 Mercantile Marine building at Broadway and the Battery and extending all nil the way up to City Hall the tho buildings 1 were boarded fenced and wired against Impend Impending ing crush h of ot tho the young oung airmans airman's admirers The boarding of or windows was the revival of ot an old election day custom cu tom which has fallen tallen into die dis disuse use uso In recent quieter years ears For Forno Forno Forno no welcome celebration In many years ears has such a precaution been deemed necessary ar BATTERY B. THRONGED But Dut that It was necessary today was II S evidenced 1 hours hou rs before the time lime for tor Lindbergh's arrival The early morning saw Battery place filling tilling with patient waiters walters who ho crowded the set wall all to Inspect gaily flagged lagged harbor craft and andring ringed ring 1 the tho aquarium to watch the marshalling of ot hundreds ot of horse motorcycle and amid foot police In In the tha open space before tho the Seventh precinct Nation house From historic old Trinity church at tho the end of ot Wall street pews had been dragged dragge 1 to the an an- ancient ancient dent colonial graveyard and turned into bleachers behind Ute the theIron iron fence t with the tho help of ot rough planks In front ot of the public library at Fifth Firth avenue t a nue and I second Forty street the cross cross- crossroads crossroads roads of ot the world green benches from Bryant Drant park parI were ere plied piled in two great reat heaps beside the time guard guard- guarding guardIng ing log granite lions watcher over o by police lest they bo be by bytho bythe the tho unemployed JEVELI J APPREHENSIVE pJ nElIE SI E Fifth avenue one ono of oC the the worlds world's orld greatest thoroughfares lied had to some extent followed 1 Broadways Broadway's ays ay's lead ad in boarding windows but the majority there trusted to th thO the wider streets and sidewalks to save uve their plate glass class laL from th the crush The Tho score or so o of ot build bull buildings buildings 1 ings which were boarded were ere Continued ou on Paso Pace Two SPLINTS PLACED ON NEW YORK Continued from Irons Page Pace One mostly those occupied by the fa famous fl fa- famous Jewelers behind whose win win- windows windows dows lay la treasures ures to tempt a king Fifth avenue was even eyen more mor gaily decorated than can can- canons canyons jons ons formed form by tho skyscrapers In the financial district lh The white lighting bulbs of everyday uio use had been supplanted with th the tho golden globes used us cd on very special cial occasions On every pol pole wes tuns a large shield bearing th the city's seal and the words Lind New v York LAST MINUTE n UTE RUSH The Tho feeling of or haste and last las minute rush was everywhere along tho the line Carpenters ham ham- hammered mared decorators hung out col col- colored colored colored ored draping and on the wall o oa or of ora ofa a building overlooking Madison l painters on a scaffolding wielded hurried brushes to com com- complete corne a a. half finished heroic por por- portrait portrait portrait trait of or the man who within a afew afew few tew hours was to to pass in glory GETS BUMS BUM'S U S 'S HUSH tUSH William B. B Francisco l of or Jersey Jerse City got all rigged up to lead the Lindbergh parade but he hc didn't mean to lead It by as much muchas as the police insisted on on which was by several sef eral J hours ours Francisco drew up at the battery bat bat- battery batten I tery ten about 9 o'clock in an nn auto auto- automobile automobile automobile mobile which would have hate made Josephs Joseph's Coat look colorless s am and which had an airplane propeller whirling merrily out In front Wheres her s 's Grover Gro Whalen chairman of or the reception committee com com- committee committee he asked police as he alighted Im going to be in tho the parade You are the police agreed and you start right now It was an argument but the I police won von temporarily Fran Fran- Francisco Francisco cisco agreed to go away from there but his chariot charlot balked finally I the engine which was not a Wright ht whirl whirl- whirlwind whirlwind wind was persuaded to run and Francisco headed for a stop non-stop solo hop to the Bronx with the crowd cheering his individual pa pa- parade rade One hundred veteran patrolmen carrying night nl ht sticks ticks were In the police headquarters held in re reserve to- to rosene serve sene as a unit to cope tope with any emergency that might arise Extra Ex Ex- Extra Extra tra reserves were also held in readiness nt at all police stations along ng tho tholine lino of the parade Four Tour boyhood chums of ot the aviator from irom Little Falls rails Minn were were- at the Astoria Waldorf-Astoria ho ho- hotel hotel hotel tel today wondering how they would witness the tho procession They were stero A A. L L. Grimes C C. H II HI I Longley Ingley I J. J S S. Levis and Kenneth I Konn tl L L. Martin They motored from Washington arriving fatigued They wore lumberjack shirts Grimes and Martin were school schoolmates mates of or the flier fifer Although not aware of any ar ar- arrangements arrangements arrangements they thought that space had hat been reserved some some- somewhere somewhere somewhere where for them but had no Idea as 25 to the location The lady of or island of officially of- of officially f- f known as the Statue of Liberty Libert held a great American flag In the hand with which she ahe enlightens the world to today to to- today day In honor of or tho the lono lone eagle From the Battery allery wall crowds looking across a a. misty mist expanse ol ot water could see sec the flag waving lazily In a n light breeke and were were able to see seo that lines of or pennants wore were also strung up the statues statue's sides to deck It in holiday hollday attire |