The evening world. Newspaper, February 8, 1919, Page 7

THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, “PHOTOGRAPH Or PART OF THE “FIRST BATTALION BEFORE THE “45TH SAILEO FOR FRANCE WORTHY OF BRAVE RECORD CPEs" Has Total of 171 Names, | SHARE HONORS lehells In the barrage. The bombard. | i} [iment lasted: wo hours and ‘into one | (iF REAT PARADE |foreetive ‘Krupp tts and fifteen iso |Officer and Buck Private Alike Got Token for jand an array of trench mortars and | |minenwerfer poured their vicious fire Individual Deeds of Bravery. | Then the German raiders followed pdcaeee |their barrage across No Man's Land, |doubtiesa expecting to find a terror Following is the roll of hooor of | F Jatricken and dazed bunch of men} the old 15th, 169 calored | © | with the fighting spirit knocked clean hyping poi harmrabent pips <a | Autos Will Carry All Old 15th | is, Private B, Freeman, Private veri Men Unable to March William A. Gains, Wagoner | ut" of- them. fitetend thoy met a | Dove whe were awarded the French | nichard 0, Goins, private J. d- Gee in Line. | i ; tone wall of New York negroes and | Cross of War or the Legion of Honor. | don, Lieut. RoC. Grams, | i Harlem Plans Special Reception to jn wall of Ieaden bullets, « line of |‘The names of Henry Johnson and| Private ‘Stilman Hanna, Private {riflemen and grenade throwers co- Joperating with a score of hidden ma- ; ine guns, 80 dexterously camou- | C4™Mpalgn won the Cross for repelling | prank Hatchett, Corporal laged that they had been entirely|a German raiding party, should be|Hawkina, Col, William Hayward, Jove looked by the foe, added to the roll, making 171 in all, | Lieut, 1. MH, Holden, Supply Sere, jits triumphant march through Har- HAYWARD LEFT HOSPITAL TO| The list is in alphabetical order and] William Il. Holliday, Corporal Hat |Jem on its return from France, there LEAD HIS BOYS. Includes the name of Col, Haywar el et ewagr WAEEE MRtOR will be in line not only the strong who was cited for the Legion of Hudson, Private) Menest| and hearty of the regiment, but aleo Instead of a dazed and terror- ; Hunter. those who from wounds or illness tricken lot of men they ran up| Honor: ‘ 1 \againat a ling, singing, | Sergt, A. A. Adama, Corporal John} Serst. 8 che a poral Clar- | are unable to walk outing and red lads | Allen, Lieut. R. R. de Armond, Licut on, = Pe Needham Roberts, who early in their | Hugh Hamilton, Private G. Han- When the “old 15th Regiment” nibal, Private Frank Harden, |now tho 369th, New York's famous [colored fighting organization, makes Its Negro Fighters Who Won Honors From Champagne to the Meuse. The first contingent of the colored 15th Regiment of New York | johnson; Private Sake it was announced to-day by y (now the 365th Infantry) is sailing home on the transport La France, 108 aig York rt a G. A. Arnston | eor gt, Hezekiah Johnson, st, |the Citizens’ Committee for the Res % 5 ft A 7" * CAPO up on nis “or for ‘ wee nes, ae jorman ce ion of 5th cel which will dock here to-morrow or Monday. The remainder of the gal- treneh_ and into tho| Corporal Ferrandus Baker, Sergt sn Be eee as Hadenee eet ita | Ceetlee Ot he ete Sao | Jant organization of black fighters is following closely behind, and the en Germans whi! grenades burst |. W. Barrington, Sergt. M. W. Wu Nithfield Jones, Private J. C have been made for a large number % Jalt around never touched } ron, Sergt, W. D. Bartow, Capt.| "1, him. The Sergeant explained ns | Aarot ¥ ates, Ci pora 2 « iction by saying that he wanted to] hatte a ae orporal: F ‘i cut. W. H, Keenan, Lieut. Elwin | Of Vehicles, in which the sick and tire regiment will be on its native heath, at the latest, a week from to-night. wounded will ride, and the commit. \/ King. Be cate Ae stra tie ei 7 ri : ? Battle, Corporal R. Bean, Landon, Ls tee is going to see to it that the ine = \ La France is bringing the 3d Battalion, composed of Companies I, LAA yar ret ne ia he te Kak kton, Private Myril Billin ajor Dav dA. capacitated ones ehare in every bit K, L and M, and the machine gun company and a medical detachment. hats re bet ineased us up a good deal,” he #ald, “but when we got through with those \Germans they looked like @ bunch of A cheos vate Wil ‘apt. L. 1. Shaw got the Croix de | jy Guerre for the placing of those ma Private M.D. Major Arthur Little, L ut, Waite of New York are planning for thelr RK. Lockhart, Sergt. B, Lucas, +e " tor A. Marahall, Private | OW" Aahters. . First Sergt Me It may not be well known, but Im Seth.” MacClinton, | the army hospitals around New York [shine Sunk Sena Renee ee, Catto, Corporal i. Chapman, ner McCowan, | Private | there already are many men from the of that It was very thot ay o Sergt., Major Benedict W. Cheesman, dirt, Capt, Comerford Mc! isin who have been sent home from | Because of them darin Capt. John H. Clarke jr ut. P. ughlin, Private l. McVea, First Collins and his. fel the green- | st. Gieudenin, Capt, Frederick W, Sergt, H. Matthew France, and inquiries show the 1 of the honors that the colored citizens On the Stockholm are Col, Willian Hayward, the Field and Stait Headquarters Company, Jim Europ. and his tamous band, and Com- panies A, B, C and D, comprising the First Battalion of the old 15th, Latest advices to the Port of Embarkation at Hoboken are that the trans- port will arrive at New York on next Wednesday morning. The 2d Battalion—Companies E, F, G and H—is reported on the § » Wihan fer, Firat Class Privated. L- [uch Joseph men, Corporal 't. gray raiders never setfoot in one Of| Cony, Sergt. Robert Collina, Licut. J. Miller, First | # Jority of so will be able to ride in transport Regine, which sailed from Drest for Boston, where it is sched- ee creel as in the: hennital 1, Connor, Sergt, William HL. Cox. ||) Hier, erat Fi Mitohell, FrivAte {Gs | the parade A e 7 Neret, C.D. ti r Corp! Molaen, Lie 2 uled to arrive Wednesday. However, it is expected that the ship will be when’he heard that the Germans had Ghats “Dek, avatar br Denke [E b. Moriy, Sergt, W. Morris, Sergt pes daca! ie Sebetea | broken through and dvancing " 14 Jorton, nt pek, the bi diverted to this port and the men ianded here by Friday. to Menehould, He Just got out of bed Wakoner Mertin Dunb {and hobbled to his auto on 4 crutches, and finally located his regi- ment and remained at regimental] ,,Serat. Sam Fannell, ( It’s the dandy 15th that is coming home, coming home with art ‘and with the laurel wreaths of victory surmountiag their “tin hats.” The Ellis. | SeUNG win until the da q Robert | Tieut. Otiver| Division parade | aa|F) Ferguson jr, Capt, Charles W headquarters until the battle was 7 rusor whole “darn” regiment has been decorated with the Croix de Guerre. over Bune wermritne Bann Cue moein (eat : | Harlem is turning itself inside out to welcome its sons, and Seventh and : bay ene Owns the nuctoes Ned, FD. Fox, Licut. Conrad Fox, Sorgt, |Petersan, Lieut, Col, W. A. Pickering | Te nay been officially decided that the i Lenox Avenues will be decorated with flags and colors and banners from ‘S; ’ led m under fire, On the night of July| Richard | _W. Fowler, Private Roland Tolih Pratt D. Primas. regiment will parade with the New Ki | 126th to 146th Street; and the list of the battles in which the regiment) 14 the Chief of Staff of the French] ~ : Private , Lieut York Division, but, according to the j " | division 4 ec ted the old 15th and ‘Not yet, sir, but soon,” sang back |;ant lice Rice plans of the committee in charge of participated, in compan,’ with the French, from the Maison en Champagne The small pictures surrounding the large picture of Col. Hayward | pronounce order of battle pe Aaruel at the welcome of the Hayward outfit, to the Meuse-Argonne, strung across the thoroughfares. are from a group taken in Alsace ond from left to right are Major fect, He ki ed the An ; lyzed at this | R \ vr Ritehie, Lieut 8. ede in prney A ll iba ae ae 7 ” ” fn gat reg tal heada rters and ” t ed tow ds Butler, co F Rogers, Private cached, ne J eave The bad luck of Col. “Bill” Haye @————— | AW Little, Col. Hayward, Capt. Clark, an aide (not identified) and | {fon® kissed Ieut, Gol. Wodell A.| fearing” an ambuscade, Jones sla: | Lionel Rosers, Private habe, procession and proceed to Ha: ward's 15th (colored) Regiment Of| recruited up to the Puropean stand-| Major E. W. Whittemore, medical officer. Pickering on both cheeks, after the) n to his beat it with R, M. Rowland, 8 Perey alone E mown now and known <fesee . manner of the French, The Ameri all red out o i © th u Now York, ki a ki ard it was Federalized, drafted by the The A 1 1 There the real celebration will take dg | throughout the war as the 369th, was lean commander was much embar-|the trenches and started back fo President and sent overseas ag the the welcoming committee . L. Sanders, Private William | place, thel coon songs and ragtir latest Ives, “just for practice,” behind rassed, the more so because he caught) their own lines, » Lieut. Ht ‘rivate| ts daily odding to its fund for the swallowed up in the bear con ee 15th New York Infantry, songs of the war. J t/the | . his colored orderties grinning at the| “Now let them have ft, Sergeant!’ I Scott, ¢ Shaw seas r pny b rye and ereuae France, Pluck and luck a: ri made the eatest t n ulatory exercises and making little; called back the ant Capt. Samuel Shethar, Lieut. Hoyt] Avenues, from 125th to 145: reet. iid oe Ai footing with guse andl ‘The 18th had loss training than any | M3 akan life of th the | WERE EAGER FOR THE FRAY] 0 ret hiding thelr mirth, 1° "Look out, Germans, 'm| Sherman, Major G. Franklin Shield,| According to the present plans, Gpv. good ha le reanization which sailed from this \itagers used to niles t AND “WENT TO IT.” | heir grins lit the place up like a) comin’! and turned |Vrivate A. 3 rat Sergt. Vert-| Smith and Mayor Hylan will review grenades, bombs, knives, bayonets] country for France, Three weeks at} oar it. The sinsing rh | served later \ nt! On, T 1 they nan. rdy, how 1 start ud Was 1 up ar automatic from af came that » enfiladed the trench French a| The German raiders never dreame wt one man who Wa and fists made their campaign from mp Whitman was all that was, at their work and the Champagne to the Argunue 4/deemed necessary when it was mus-| Werk was don pleasure-loving picnic, tered into the Federal service. ‘Then | {0° am! | mane 8 thay r vate Daniel Smith,| the negro soldiers from a atand to . 1 » Corpl, RW It by the city on Lenox or Sev- rd Spencer, Sergt.|enth Avenue, In the evening a ban pl. Dan Storms,| auet will riven to the fighters in rap ° 3 rhen | with the French officers and : River Driven ako ‘ UP, to do it all to them Stowell areaon| ie armory, presumably that of the NO BETTER SOLDIERS IN WAR,”|/t Was sent to Camp Wadsworth, §.C..| On March 12, 1918, the old Lath lost rs and waiters, butlers, boot ‘ seria Rue i Ae anak yd Thompson,| ‘Then will follow, of course, many SAYS COLONEL. where it spent ten days, and back to] its identity when it was orsanized,! blacks, lawyers, chauffeurs and the pory oolibre sbowarea auae y v'| private affairs In honor of the officers fhe Hell Fighter” is the sobriquet | CUM? Mills, from which camp it em- armed and equipped as a, Hr They) were ‘all alike. in thelr eS TD ea 1, Lieut. D. H.[ and men of the regiment. Among al r “1 a ‘or bi . antry regiment, under the n f Uncle Bam, ar cers. wi i t e the used them bi heir own these will be a receptio the Colone) said of his bell hop; and | HAD HABR must IN GETTING | Biates and made, part of ‘th Aine tate ta un tupendous shelling of the war. ma handful of grenades Wash-] tho “Salem Croacent Athlatie,” Club erators f Harlem, the . Bea u “aie bat 1 got the Croix de Guerre; so “pe . Capt.| who are enlisted in the "15th." ‘This Gavator op anlar beet yee ‘Tho 15th was scheduled to aatt tor | : ' NEVER QUAILED DURING FEAR: aiy Lieut) Jones for his coolness, An | Jom Serst White, | athletic club is one of the foremost “ ers” of Riverside Drive, 8 re tot F Sa ) ater heara| #erst hit nso Sf weeny Sika Bronx and Brooklyn, foot-| the equipment having failed to reach | Nominally, they we It of t The negroes never quailed during| tho won officer shot by Tutl Reeves Willis, Pris | uable trophies, among them being the , “waite anitors,| Camp Mills, the departure had to be 8d American Division, , wero t 1 loc ull that awful assault, Whether they minto his own trench | gt. L. Wilson, | point vy at the senior track and men, teamste! wal saad a » postponed until Nov, 12 “sim _ From the time thoy Joine ad tl Thay i 1} their first ste were in dugouts or in open tre che ont before he died secured excellent " re K. n nship meet held by the lawyers and chauffeurs: Durope, once famous bandmanter French to the 9 d of the w ar the Land when t t ney stood ground, In th rola t information from him, for which he By pad, Lieu : bel i ia Cece *t believe there are many | jj1 = 2 Mast th waa ove minute ‘i fi 1 ind the jot the bombardment the commander. to t the cro © Wrirht. | Long Island City, Aug. 25, A aeiigaatetnacge this war than these Peart cane Bg i Arg \the going was great and ray Th ¢ York lov was asked if he could establish some r soldie ar tha ; d cabaret life In] poys wero eager for the fray, They|plood-letting in the dark rt of communication” with ———_________— : en't seen any.’ |New York, bad organized a band of| wera jeilous of the 4 ‘3 rae jal oegi ll) nat , negro boys. 1 haven't seen any jow York, : jealous 0 marines : r pry 1 1 » regiment on the ¢ Ju: h H Ti 1 E " ‘The answer im the award to the en-| forty plocea and he played the Ieei- | Pousitil. too, of their own prowe vt ty having been eut. Without cu ‘ou ust Ought to ear immy cur ope ’$ 4 2G | ment f or o tidewate “Oh, Joas watt till we get there!"| 1 1 Need r volunteers, Lieut, Col. P tire Regiment of the Croix de Guerre! New York, and then across the bat- wank ¢ licked t t told. off halt zen men t 5 I B / Pl ‘oR Sed Me h by the French authorities for opera-| tlefletds of bloody France, Leet (PR aA La ntrol and ne ry messages. The runr we if: t ] vegt. DAU ay a ag ora are. tion in the offensive af September] On Nov, 12 the Regiment embarked leeetelag eenne f it, and r | ’ bi bi ed som| mpelled to inake two mile sed to the way, 1 ry one got his me trying a \ and when two days out and 200 miles, and October, 1918, and 171 citaloms | away a pont piston rod compelled the | ~ of individual officers and men for the] return of the transport to New York. | Croix de Guerre for exceptional gal-| ‘They salled again on Dec. 3 and were New York ’$ **Blac Ie Meee is. nation forced to return by a fire In the coal jantry saat ,| bunkers. Away they went agaia on i Col. Hayward was cited for the) tye 42 in the tecth of a blizzard aqua ed b fi Legion of Honor which was sweeping New York har- Watch’’ nas 'rench General: | arrive bration planned ; a Corpora, Eimer Karl, Private Prank |, leat, 0 A. Nostrand, Bergt. Sam-/ny the colored people will not take pl \ ay of the big 27th B. The date for that has not been fixed, but the first of thi division ts due home about | < Lite was cited three} vor, and colli ha tanker be- s Gostx decquaree they had cleared the harbor. y r, 1918, | t times and wears (he Crot It looked like a hoodoo, especially Col ayy Cat, le 809 Rost, d { deserts with a 1 star, a silver star and &1 ic the guperstitious colored brethre: Le Culone] Hayw: Y i i ; re but objection wa. made when thé Y Dear Colonel—I am gr plea your thoughtful 4 tay ward was a member of the| Captain wanted to turn back for the attention. You have collected the water of the Rhine in your . rps third time. © company of me- and you t nlaned the “B aatanvcalanestia aa, n nission when] oy Tiiciane declared that they could hand and you hay 1t I « Watch" al the riv a war, He re ndle the job, and they did. They It is ours from now but no Frenc an ignores that {t is to fir ¢ 1 ted to reeruit the 15tn| plastered the hole in the bow with! the Americans that we owe this cor 1 efore, you will permit |ehir sat when he had been at work | concrete, and after a delay of nearly iene : ah ae Re nought that there|tWo days satled again for France,| me not to accept the pers: ) mid, excep n the e upon ¥ w iptv arriving without further mishap In} foflowing reserve: I shall never forget that t {ty has been 1 was goto to be real trouble between | pret Dec, 27, 191 iy 2 he course « w to have under na ¥ ter aie 1 Mexico, ‘The regi-| For more than two months thrae| Si¥en me, fn the cour a ; nder 1 mand an aes nal aibutae atten Ab GM . ys 1 1 (ye colored} dusky soldiers did everything to Amertcan regiment wh v © previous t i has fought xploits of those hardy soldiers of eee ts f roughs, most of|Erance, but fight. They chopped| with extreme bravery which since the last combat applied | Harlem, eof t 4 ae Me i e a it < r ed a great number of sing Harlem’ and tho mpods 4u8 notes ane Sept sour Itself to such regular and steady work that as far as attitude and mill- hey a ® areet number 0f Bronx. When the yonization was sang hymna, plantation molodica, tary discipline are concer t A n regiment can compare |), 4 , 1 to a with any of my French regiment powerful ¢ r Therefore, !t in te TT nel, to Col. Pick eg and t foot of t > Of: ial I) cask Citation of to voit battalion commanders that } neerenu rib pica (bin ene Aaa ol ny atwlations, And, i! fs for t mt tr ta point to jund as frequent as shells in an enemy The 36 ‘9th and Its Officers a ‘th R, 1 U. 8. with " Hey citation in n Alle ation 18 In the regimental see- the ordera of my division, vis ne “ Champagne, Lieut. GGT TSDER command of Col. Mayward, who, thongh Mjured, in- When tho eftation !s approved, I chal have great Joy In decorating Ane Tour Taen Ens Oe U 1 leading his regiment in the battle, of Lieut,-Col, your flag and {n kissing you tn of your regiment. And that day, » artillery p ig Picke f mirably cool and brave, of Major Cobb (killed), we shall not only drink water the Rhin wo shall drink cham dragged fre SY oof Malor Spencer (gricvously wounded), of Major LAttlo, a true leader pagne, and {t will be a beautif for your General com ng |! of men, the S0%th RI, U, S, engsging in an offensive for the first the division, apiore, nS a time ihe drive of September, 1918, stormed powerful enemy po: Believe, my dear Colonel, in my sent! » atte etonate com: a a ek Rog yi 4 tions cnergedically defended, took, after heavy fighting, the town of redeshtp. 6, LE BOUC, formerly an olevator a iffeur, wes S—, captured prisoners and brought back six cannon and a great General, commanding the 16th French Division, | oes putts Un tact pember of machine gu th Corps d’Armeo, IV, Armee, \! “Don's fire, Buter!” ordered Jones, | ' oe