The evening world. Newspaper, March 6, 1919, Page 1

fate (Special Staff Correspondent of The Evening World Sailed on the Leviathan With Home-Coming Heroes From Brest to New York) _ EVENING WORLD TO-MORROW Martin Green’ s Story of Fighting and Complete List of Casualties of the 27th. PRICE TWO CENTS. Che “Circulation Books Open to All.” 9 Ud “ 3140, » The Press Poblishing York World). Copyright ' WEATHER—Fair, colder to-night; Friday cloudy. ‘PRICE Two CENTS. ——— 24 PAGES HEROES LANDA LEVIATHAN BEING WARPED INTO ARMY PIER AT HOBOKEN 144894 POPOL OOOOEIOOIIIESIIEISLODOD eee ® > P 3 BOD MOLO DED 2 i i AND FRIENDS GREET HEROES DOWN BAY Nine Thousand Soldiers, Led by Maj.-| Gen, O’Ryan, Land From Ship— Mauretania Follows With 3,300 More Men of New York Division. The giant transport Leviathan docked at Hoboken at 11.30 A. M. to-day with 9,000 men of the 27th Division, New York’s own Big Ship Encountered Rough Seas at heroes of the war. L0G VOVAGE OF LEVIATHAN: VESSEL DIDN'T BEHAVE WELL a CROWDS WELCOME 27TH HO All the magic of the simple w “home,” all the sweetness it car- : Times to Discomfiture of Passen- the magic of the simple word “home,” all the sweetness It C€t-| ooked the yreat steamship ever so gently and a hot sun flooded the decks| At Quarantine the police and fire-® 4 ries and all that it stands for was conveyed to New York boys when they | with warmth and cheer, there was not a case of seasickness on the boat boat bearing — the mmittees| The food was plentiful and well gers — Plenty of Entertainment sited into port, back from France, veterans and victors of the world’s] No effort was spared to make the ® = - teamed Into the escort line and the} cooked, and tha men of the Stth sick and wounded comfortable and| he expects to play his part in the life] wseort grew in size with the slow |*sreed that it was the best “chow! Aboard and ind Everyone Was Happy. greatest war, contented. The cripples were sent to| of his community when he gets home Is oe they had had an opportunity to sii. , y onde, he vr ing 5 t 2 their meals before the well. The sun-| He went into the war without fear| 2roRress of the transpor’ round since leaving home, | A welcome was extended to the returning soldiers by the 12,000 or | "i" aKa GHAl’ ahaltahed orilone of | and coming out with spirit|8IG@ SEAPLANES DO STUNTD| Nevertheless the trip was tedious, tgif Martin Green more mothers, wives, sisters, sweethearts, fathers and brothers who were | the wide decks were assigned to their| Undaunted. ABOUT THE LEVIATHAN. , First the days dragged; then the’ clal use, Some of the boys This deviation from the thread of | Above and ut the ship roared jours dragged and at last, when We a c inden’ h i c rd the Leviathan. | crowded o} ¢ excursion boats which w dow u special Some of th ys on . Special Bs ff Oo naeeks hes ’ af Penna an s Sate nee Be “i >wded on the excursion boats which went down to quarantine to speak crutches moved over amazing dis-|the subject with which thin article| three b planes doing serial | knew the shores of Long island were OF “BR t S Tuesda 1 bh 25 Leviathan, anchored far out the Leviathan; by the 50,000 or more men, women and children who |tances of heaving decks and up and | 's to deal ging and feeding 10,000 | stunts, On the decks of the saphrting off to our right in the darkness and | : ; i ‘ "i lined the wharves from the Battery to 14th Street; by the thousands who |@own staircases and through narrow | Soldier n a ship-was taken be bony Hb n me of people vanes ve we ecule imagine we tar the glow of ty hart mis up like a gray cliff against the background ; sneha we art ; 4 ag |paskigeways, seeking with tric|Cause the people of the United States | cards bearing the names of soldierithe Lights af New York in the sky ai « een peel ad waved handkerchiefs and flags and, kisses from the crowded windows of Rsenncn Gurinaiec view ganeatione |B pegs come to « realization | boys they wanted to greet, but the!away off forward, the minutes drag eadlands across the ba OUSNDOYS of 4 MS'\the skyscrapers and the thousands which thronged the Jersey shores. ana new points of view jot tho great army of wounded and | soldier boys were too remotely situ-|ged, and early to-day the seconds aboard the great steamship by way of lighters since Jay mornin The whole heart of New York throbbed and thrilled with the pie al] They were pathetloally cheerful, | cripples which is slowly sifting down | ated to read them. jut there were/dragged, and each time we set our cripples, whe As lines of he coa rance from the ba wome signy which could be read,| watches back as we stcadily t . ian em were sitting with their backs lelds and will pour steadily into | notably one elcome to the ni ° estward course we Officers of the division s t the hotels in Brest are astir at| down the rivers and bays to the brave lads in khaki as soon as the|! »mfortably braced against the deck | Atiantic eaports for many weeks to| Division and Sergt. Frank Conklin cou not repress a feeling of an- dawn. Madame, the cashier of the Hotel Contine 1, is bulwarked behind | Leviathan stuck her great nose through the Narrows, The air was electric ‘housing, 2 band would ke up in|come Another wel ing Tom Hopewell|noyance. We felt that we were steal- breastworks of mone The lobby swarms with porters and orderiies.| with it, The boys felt it and each heart among the boys of the 27th |their vicinity and soldiers and sailors! The crippled and wounded consti- | raised a bla cheer when it appeared, |i time from ourselvee—and from ‘ ' 1 would go tangoing along the deck with|tute a problem growing out of the | ‘ndicating that Tom ts popular in the {those aiting to greet us VU, 8. A. automobiles and trucks block the streets outside. Of course, it is| tugged and a lump arose in each throat in response to it aka ealtial leah Aha hand lem | division, | The soldiers agreed that there was raining. What a home-coming for the $s of the Hindenburg Line! thought about a future #| will require thou Our| As the ship approached the pier/no tedium about the voyage to Down to the docks, where the ¢ nt embarkation officers have made} The Mauretania, with 3,800 more| thousands on board. Pheir bands |no promise of dancing their faces} wounded are coming home cheerful | issembly cull was sounded and the | France year, Then all hearts m - fn 27th, passed Sandy Hook | w playing and then to them came |mirrored no reflection of their/and confident. It is up to those who | soldiers fa from the decks and| Were bounding with eagerness for the all arrangements for transport of tho officers to the Leviathan. A short trip | . a si f rnoon and proceeded |the strains of music across the |thoughts. not experienced the horrors and | Ved to their mpartments below for|sreat adventure and hours and days over a choppy sea and we are aboard, following a guide gh thronged North River near|water as the excursion boats with |TRIBUTE TO “GAMENESS” OF ships and pain conflict to| heir pa and rifles, Save for the) slipped by unobserved, save for the passageways up staircases and down to the registration booth, where rooms She was greeted with a) their friends and relatives bore down | AMERICAN WOUNDED. see that this cheerfulness be not dis- | creat. p and the formalities at-|intervals when nightfall caused the Me anh, AG bear Gen. O'Ryan and the headq rs nilar to that of the Levia-|on them, Familiar airs to the music| ‘The smiling American wounded! 1/sipated, ynfidence be not weak- | ‘ending discharge the great adven- | hi¢ of lights: nen there were watt come he damp dour ued uplontha’d yr hours ca jof which they sang before crossing | have seen them on the field of bat even after the sight of a erip-|‘ure of the 27th ended with close of |Ships all about—the other ships of aaa a gee iad ahi eba tats se he Leviathan reachcl port on|the sea, and over there, were | tle, in the dressing stations and the becomes a commonplace | he xe of the Leviathan to-day. | the convoy, Gunners stood at thelr cheers. i. a ; time, making the hours like| Wafted to thelr ears, and they sang | field hospitals and base hospitals in|feature of the peaceful life he has | INLY ONE ROUGH BAY DURING | Po son deck and destroyers flanked It is 10 0% are not to unnel, Luncheon is \ rth A tiend kept their busy until the |wran the than me aay t 8 fell . and crossed the soldier-laden fh hl , “er at wed down a H U6 ! Franco and on thi athan movin | guaranteed to his fellow zens b THE ENTIRE VOYAGE, eet, at noon, k of coaling {Sreat m hall, w ke the) ouara didn't stop, at 10/boats came close up and then they | toward home. A gone or useless, | th acrifice of h lood, his bones! On the whole it was tranquil] leaving long plumes of smoke trails < has been delayed. W 1 lea am, 08 Who Grand | was off the Battery at|burst Into a cheer which New Jan arm or an eye missing, a his flesh yage, We had but one rough day—-|ing on the water, “The sleeping noon to Nobody cares, We}! piney 1, | 1040 and ) was at Army Pier) York suldiers can give arred ‘by shreds of shrapnel~all| HOW SOLDIER 18 LOOKED AFTER) ast Monday—when what tho navi-! Quarters were stifling; the food waa ener andthe At eihetawih yi be La Min Gur- | No. 4 at Hoboken |GEN, O'RYAN GREETS FAMILY a pari ¢ gam A ippled ON SHIP. ating officers called a roderate| bad, but then they were going in and Py are aboard a ° 4 ' e attert Hands are playing | phe boys sera sl aan (i ACROSS WATER. American sc with a n his! And now to return to our lodging | sale from the north tipped the great} on this trip they were coming eum w. \ Bian i tured sewars toe a OD: SIGNE: OE VBR Sh SURNUIRLIRG as soon the Narrows were) ack from the boats came the re- |Mouth, slanting upward, more cigars ceding system on the Leviathan | ship over to port and she plunged Thes had seen and they had dope | moke iw drifting from her fe ; % in entered, all cager the Arst View| sponsive cheers and the blare of |!" his pocket, mess call approaching |‘The system begins to function in of-|and rolled along with docks aslant| thelr work and when an American (97% (Continued on Sixth Page ) of the skyscrapers and the Statue fly. nds came nearer. The boats turned 40d the Statue of Liberty drawing] tices at Tours and Brest long before the |and many @ stomach likewise, Gen-| has finished his job he is impatient q outa Saree Liberty, nd formed an escort, well able to | closer hour by hour asks no odds of] particular unit which is to be trans-|erally the sea was calm and the air}to take up another, The war was am 4 nue $h.cn ra ere Geel At Quarantine the troops saw the pissalhahoi ss anybody. eee way kind enough to allow prome-' American job, ale “ | etd aoe eos, “tie volt “Grat of the welcoming craft with their §Continued on Second Pag He was out of luck in France, but (Continued on Sixth Page.) nades om the decks without overcoats, One woyld Imagine that * » ¢ a ME; ND GO To CAMPS: SOLDIERS CROWD LINER’S DECKS, PROUD OF THEIR HOME GREETING ee Twelve Hundred Wounded, Many|Cheering Troops Shout Their Joy of Them Crippled, Get the Best| Coming Up the Bay and River, Quarters and Service on Trans- Having Had Only One Stormy Day port—How Men Slept and Ate. on the Voyage Across From Brest. BY | MARTIN GREEN (Special Staff Correspondent of The Evening World on Board the Leviathan.) Copyright, 1919, by the Press Publishing Company, (The New York Evening World). FROM BREST TO NEW YORK | LANDING OF HEROES PORT When the Leviathan steamed out of Brest harbor for New York They gave us everything they had,” said the 27th Division as the she carried, including 1,900 crew, about 11,700 persons and of these | Leviathan docked at Hoboken to-day. From outside Sandy Hook to the 9,800 were plain ordinary doughboys, privates and non-coms. pier the boys had been given every evidence their Of the soldiers 1,238 were cn the*sick and wounded list at the eyes could encompass that their city and their State time of sailing and about 125 men were listed as permanently crippled. is proud of them and proud of their achievements, | These men had special quarters They have yet to recejve the welcome they have been longing for—the intimate welcome of loved ches, and they will be satisfied if that is as warm and whole- hearted as the welcome of the community, Surely heroes could not have expected more than they received, In fact the size and sound of the dem- onstration was overwhelming. Especially was the fe@l- About 50 used crutches because of jlost legs or stiffened legs or ankles caused by machine gun bullets. The rest limped about with the aid of canes, The permanently crippléd were all able to help themselves, but there were hundreds of otners who remained on their cots throughout the voyage and will be kept for some time in base hospitals around New York after they are landed | Cases of influenza, pneumonia and other contagious diseases were | isolated. A score of soldiers surfering fr shell shock and a fe’ ie ering from shell shock and a few ing of New York conveyed to the returning soldiors £8 whose minds broke down under the strain of hardship and battle wer poe is + ip and oo Were | the great transport moved slowly up the river after passing the Statue of lodged in comfortable quarters behind locked and barred doors between | PW) Liberty and the closely packed Battery, which, from the towering decks cks. The grand ball room of the Leviathan on the muin deck, a room|! ‘He Leviathan .ooked like a garden of red and white flowers waving im about the size of the grand ball room of the Waldorf-Astoria, was used | ‘Be Wind. There was seen, blowing seaward, clouds of confett!, glistening Asa hospital. Light reaches this room through windows on both sides|in the sunshine like And, on dll the pier heads ‘ooking out on the sea and a stained glass roof, ‘Ihe walls and ceilings | and the roofs of piers, on the roofs of the tenements and lofts along West are decorated with paintings executed with characteristic German color| street, in the windows of the skyscrapers the soldiers saw their towns effects, but most of these works of art are covered with canvas. | b The hospital was not one-third occupied on this trip. men for the first time in many months, and they knew they were back was less sickness aboard the Leviathan on the than there Las been at any time since she ward. “ Favorable weather bad much to do with this day, for instance, when the myriad flakes of snow. In fact, there voyage which just ended began to cirry troops home. in the Wig town at last. | The outer edge of the tide of welcome home was encountered off | Norton's Point when tugs and power boats bearing delegations of friends of members of the 27th turned in impudently alongside the Leviathan ondition. On last Mon: | blue sea lizily swung in long rollers which | and headed up the bay