The evening world. Newspaper, March 11, 1919, Page 3

“AMERICAN CAMP AT BREST | NO “HELL HOLE": SOLDIERS KIN HERE NEEDN'T WORRY ————— comments of the men left behind were mu In this connection tt Is pertinent to Say that many strange transitions of opinion work on the minds of men and women—members of the military establishment and civilians—when, upon returning from France, they en- counter newspaper reporters, Take the case of United States Senator Owen of Oklahoma and his wife. They inspected the camp at Ponta- nezen in the early part of February. Major Gen. E. A. Helmick, comman- der of Byse Sector No. 6, headquar- ters at Brest, furnished them with a limousine tor the trip, They told of- ficers in charge of the camp that, tak- ing the continual rainfall and other natural hindrances into consideration, they couid find nothing about the camp which would furnish the basis Martin Green Continues Series on “The Truth About Pontanezen.” CRITICS’ M 27th Division Fault Finders Should Have Only Kind Words for It. 2NTAL FLOPS. By Martin Green. In a criticism of the Pontanezen Camp at Brest, published yesterday, hare Set th Division are| for reasonable complaint, They told saab yesualy intial idcevine re Gen. ‘Helmick and several officers of 83 r his staff, on their return to Hrost, camp as a “hell hole.” Surely, 27th) that, in their opinion, Pontanezen Division men should be the last to] Wa8 a good camp and that the army criticise conditions at Pontanegen| hd achieved wonders in improving conditions in the ci Dore camp and in the But when they got to New York, they were unsparing in their de- nunolation of Pontanezen Camp, Mrs. Owens said the sight of soldiers standing in mud waiting for their Meals, drew tears to her eyes. Any- body standing in the open in or about Brest must stand in mud, For that matter, the writer has seen thousands of people standing in mud and rain, waiting for a chance to buy tickets for theatrical performances in New York. And Senator Owen and his wife have doubtless seen People standing in mud waiting for street cars in Muskogee, Oklahoma. because they went through that c@np more rapidly than any other unit which has been sent home from France, They missed, through the efforts of Major Gen. O'Ryan, the delousing process, Rone of them was required to do any work outside of the work a soldier does in a routine way to make himself comfortable, and the writer can say, as one speaking with knowledge fained from personal observation, that the permanent officers of the camp accomplished superhuman tasks! in expediting the departure of the ath. The mental flo rt Pp of people who su It is true that units of the 27th,) pontanezen Camp - ‘a fight Ia during their stay in the Pontanezen | Brest and describe the same camp as Camp, were lodged in wet, muddy | aj) wrong in New York is puzzling spots, because the entire camp hi : to the overworked officers who are not yet been madc handling the tremendous task of put- entirely comfort- ble, and troop: i rng 4 hogs gh ting our returning soldiers on ships @ hurry must take the best that can! at our main French port of debarkn, «be given them. The 27tm Division tion. Officers of the army are not lly psychologists. Much has been written about health conditions at Pontanezen, about the alleged excessive death rate and the high suicide rate. The Evening World correspondent inspected the hospital and mortality records, Here are the tact From Dee. 1, 1917 to Feb. 5, 1919, there were 2,023 deaths from ali causes in the Pontanexen camp and in Brest and other small camps in the vicinity, weed through thousands of men who had been at the camp as long as from four to six weeks. These men constitute casual un They are not attached: to any regularly organized outfit. “It is a sad fact that the cas- ual is, in effect, an army orphan; but if any casual officer or enlisted man ean submit a workable plan to do away with the casual problem he will earn for himself the profound grati- tude of the General Staff in Franco and the War Department in Wash- ington, The trouble with most erigics In addition th of field conditions 1s that they fail to| pontanesen "Camp. 516° demieee to take into account that war is war, transports bound from American ‘The 27th Division critics of Ponta- nezen Camp, who are hidden behind the screen of anonymity, must have experienced a change of viewpoint after landing at Hoboken last Thurs- day. There wasn't a complaint reg- istered at Brest, nor was a complaint heard on the transport homeward bound. In all truth, the 27t) Division ad- vance units, which left Brest on the Leviathan, made up the most unpop- ular body of soldiers that hes de- barked at Brest—or will debark, for that matter. The reason is that this snappy, cocky, derisive New York | outfit “leapfrogged,” as it were, 40,000 | soldiers who had been Mm camp fur ports to Brest. During September and October, 1918, 1,217 soldiers died in Brest and vicinity within five days after landing, from infection con- tracted on transports. These deaths are included in the 2,028 total. In the period from Dec. 1, 1917, to Feb. 18, 1919, there were six cases of suicide in Pontanezen Camp. Two of these occurred in Feb., 1919, but one has not been absolutely estab- lished as suicide as there is evidence that the man involved may have ac cidentally shot himself. In the per. manent troop force maintained at Pontanezen for ail sorts of work, | numbering at this time about 14,000 men, there have been 130 deaths since days and weeks befare the New | Dec. 1, 1917 | Yorkers abandoned their embarka-| December, 1918, when Pontanezen tion area, twenty-four hours’ ride to|Camp was in very bad shape, fu the eastward. The writer was in| fished the best hospital record in the Pontanezen Camp on the night Feb. 24, when it was generally known throughout the community that Gen. O’Ryan’s boys had been given pri- ority in departure. ‘The blasphemous almost caloric enough to dry up the of {history of the camp. The average daily troop population was 33,292 men The total admissions to the hspitai during the month numbered 1,020, an average of 33.23 per day or one per| |thousand. The hospital admissions at | |this time with @ total camp popula- | tion running up to about 54,000 men | average about per thousand, | | HALT PARENTS’ FRAUDS. |Community © rind Too Mi Children Foisted on Charitie: Charitable organ'zations will not ac- cept children in the future until an { vestigation Is made of their home Too many parents foist ch'ldren on } York charities, and the Executive Com- | tnittee for the Development of Com munity Councils of National Defense has undertaken to abolish this ev). — | Bird 8. Color, Commissioner of Pub- lic Charities, has agreed to send to the} councils names of children made wards | atsworth “Like a bouguet from an old- fashioned garden.” That's what you say when you open a package of Wheatsworth Biscuit and hold | it close enough to get the wonder- | ful aroma. Wheatsworth brings you the; fragrance of dew-drenched wheat | fields—glistening and golden in * of the public, In every case the par the moming sun. 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D, AUERBACH & SONS Finest Chocolates, Breakfast Cocoa, Candy and Specialties Tleventh Avenue, 46th to 47th Street, New York City, N. Yo ' {wiil meet the 105th, a unit made up| | ments of those numbers. THE EVENING WORLD, T GEE 90965-9498990-06-69O6-60-100656O-96-616-0.0-64-0000000008, $4-9008900646494 oe 9008909000008 UESDAY, MARCH 11, 1919. POSTGRADUATE HOSPITAL NURSES HOME ON MOUNT VERNON GOR. * a8 TATE GUARD REGIMENTS T0 RECEIVE OLD BODIES NOW IN 27TH, ON ARRIVAL siesta City Will Have Chance to See Some Organizations Twice, Notably the “Old 7th.” |! zens ate atteng tite atau tions, including hotels, have recelved with the rear-rank man's steel hel- met under the front-rank man's bayonet. In this way, the line will within four hours; otherwise, Division when they arrive from cairp| sion which passed yesterday between b England and New York: the day before the parade, Thus the|Pagiand And Now Ninks Douglas city will have a chance to see some of| Haig to Major Gen. John F. O'Ryan the regiments parade twice, notably the 107th Infantry (old Dandy 7th of New York) ‘The of the old 7th arranging the programme for greeting | the 107th, When the boys arrive at the foot of West 23d Street Monday, “In the namo of your comrades in the British Army, I send to you and all ranks of the 27th American Divi- sion our heartiest greetings on your safe return, You can tell all those who to-day welcome you in your own home that countless homes in Europe are the happier for what you have veterans are de and that the Old World will March 24, they will be met by the 71] never forget her debt of gratitude to Regiment, New York Guard, the Vete- | America Major Gen. O'Ryan to the British Field Marshal “Many than) |gram of cong The disciplined courage in battle of the British soldiers, their fortitude and determination during the dark rans'| Association of the 7th, and a contingent of officers, who were commissioned in other regiments from the ranks of the 7th and 107th. | ‘These units will then parade up Sth for your kind cable- Avenue from 2d to 68th Street, todays of the war, and their modesty 1 egime mory in Pack] and generosity in their relations with mente eee Shrne enor will be} Us won our respect and high re- Avenue, The sf gard. We shall always remember led by Major Gen. Daniel G. Appleton, | with pride our service with the Brit- who for twenty-scven years com-!ish Armies under your, command in the great war for world freedom.” PLANS TO GREET INCOMING 27TH MEN DOWN THE BAY. Tho following statement given yesterday by Major Topping of the n,| Advance Division of the Zith conce:n- ing this week's arrivals and the sub- sequent festivities: s "The Field Artillery Brigade of the h Division will be met in New York Harbor by a fice! yachts | power boats and ferry boats, in num bers which will almost equal the re- |ception given to the Division Head {quarters and other units of the 27th pe |Division which arrived on the 6th of largely of men from the old Tist aod/thiy month, 24 Regiments, and the Mth and 24] "The America ts noheduled to or- Regiments of Brooklyn will meet the|five Friday with the 62d Fiéld Ar manded the 7th Regiment, and who ‘s to be Grand Marshal of the parade. There will be two bands, one the 107th | and the other the State Guard. As) League the parade passes the Unio! Club it will be reviewed by Brig. ¢ Charles I. Debevoise, who commanded the 53d Brigade, 27th Division, Col Willard C. Fisk, who succeeded Col Appleton in command of the 7th, w lead the Veterans’ Association. In the same way the Tist Regiment s un |tillery Brigade’ Headquarters, 1) 106th, which consists largely of MeN | o4eh, 105th and 106th Field Artillery from the old National Guard Regi-| Regiments, The 104th and 105th fought in the Meuse-Argonne and St ihiel offensives with the famous 75-68, while the 106th Field Artillery used heavies—155 “The Mayor's O'RYAN TO REVIEW PARADE! OF 30TH. tated to-dav that he Committee has ar-| Gen, O'Ryan to accept the invitation from South Carolina, 4 other Southern States, re- questing that he attend th » Parade) 9 peoooedoe of the 20th Division, This division is expected to closely follow the 27th Division from France Many of the residents of Spartan- bur®, 5. C, will come to New York to witness the The splen- h parade. did behavior of the New Yorkers while in camp made the population friends for of the New Yorkers. The contin from Spartanburg will be headed by Gov. Cooper of SB h Ca A. Gen, O'Ryan warmly praised the fighting qualities of the 20th Division. Jay, helped the 27th Division to] ¢ apture Vierstaat Ridge They also] @ fought r against the Hinden-| @ burg line, between Quentin and} ¢ Cambra 1 again in the battle for| © t La 8a River Many of the] ¢ New Y men bedame separated} ° from the 27th and fous ith the |e 30th during these thr ements, | Maj Donnelly, Disbursing Officer of the F mailed to-day pa hecks to every man of the Div on, The men are now paid up to d to the plan for having the 27th parade on Ma » down Fifth Avenue Mem! the Mayor's Committee say the de iti » the aver we planned with the idea that the division would march up the hor fare, symbok zing its victorious return from wa A conference will bo held to-day with Gen, O'Ryan to see he will order a chang The present plan is to have the vet 3, a8 far as practicable, march in the business-1i} rin whieh they delive a knockout to the Germans. | They .will have fixed bayonets; the gas masks will be slung to their sido; they will have belts without ammunl tion, and light packs; they will wear A agree Be In thousands of home ew York to-day mn hammered away mercilessly at the Boche de” with the stars of Orion of the 27th Division are telling admiring friends and and made him overwork his stock ery of “Kamerad." WILL TAKE FOUR HOURS TO PA. | relatives all about the war. On Tae wall hang his trophies, souvenirs con RADE IN CLOSE FORMATION, | The photographer caught Private Smith as he was sisting of a helmet, bell, ana gas mask taken from aa | The plan of march will be the “close | Jains: t i a e “ ” 9 C enc niits formation as used in the Frecen| explaining, to his proud motner and admiring sweet: | unwilling “Heinle,” and his canteen and trench rolits, Army~that is, a front of twenty men, " ot the State Guard regi-| Permission to build grandstands, but | bi Mier ‘ ft He fy SABE ; - ee fy. | these will be inside the property lines. ments to-day bega ?. 01 stvinphes s int hang of ing the old regiments now of the 27th ams concerning the 27th Divi- tylation and greeting. | AKING MOTHER AND “HE heart, with the ald of » ma; » how the 105th Machine | memories of “a great fight while it lasted.” ‘ALL 27TH UNITS NOW HOME OR ON SEA, CABLES PERSHING Last Contingent Left Brest on March 6— List of Those on Way Here. WASHINGTON, March 11.—All of the units of the 27th Division @re now on this side of the Atlantic or en route across, The War e- partment to-day announced the receipt of a cablegram from Gon, Per- shing’s headquarters announcing that the “last element of the 27th Division left Brest March 6 on the Seattl Following is a list of the remaining units of the 27th Division com- ing overseas: Number of Men. ‘Organization. Officers Enl sted, Bhin. Doe. Camo, 104th Field Artillery. 61 1,436 America Friday = Mills 105th Field Artillery 5 144d America Friday Mills } 106th Field Artillery., 63 Lott America Friday Mills 102d Field Si talion i 4i7 Hollandia Thursday Mills 104th M Battalion , ar 396 Seattle March 18 Detachment 107th In- fantry 3 244 Seattle March 18 Dix 106th A Batt 4 724 Missouri March 18 ranged for three boats, the Patrol, | pas: There were few vis.tors because Correction and Queens, to steam down |s0 many of tNe boys had gone home. the harbor with the friends and rela-| Mrs, T. Hammer of No, 388 Bast 136th tives of the artillerymen on board.|Street, one of whore sons was lost Tickets tor boats may be had]on the Rochester, and a second was ipon application to the Mayor's Com-|killed while with the tot Infantry, mittee at Room 602, Hall of Records, |came to the camp looking for boys Chambers Street. of Co. L, 106th Infantry, 27th Division Five dances are to be given for|of Which another son, William, was w the wen of the 2th Division by the| member. Friends of William told he |New "York War Camp Community had last seen him fall while go at the Tist Regiment Armory, Park |!0% Over the lop. Avenue and 34th Street, on March ~_ 13, 15, 19, 22 and 20. There will be|Gymnnastem to Millerton Neeucst 3,000 men Invited to each dance and William Denne there will be partners supplied for all His advocacy of physical culture time Few Visitors at Camp Mills; 27th - Men on Leave. _> Baker Known of No Plan to Junk CAMP MILLS, L. 1, March 11. Two thousand or more relatives of | CHICAGO, Bocretaty Raker haa dented of any soldiers of the lon Kept the | ener pet ieee une oe telephone op yesterday |know nothing about 2 nuld her looking up men who had not Ween fore | inion, has made. no recommendations tunate enous’ to leave the camp on tome * OVER THE TOP Petia SS aaaag 77TH NSN OPENS BUREAU __ FIND MEN 8s Employment Office Will Co-} operate With 77th—Plan Re- ception for Upton Men. Active co-operation between the Wh and 27th Divisions in finding New York Jobs for New York sol- diers” was hegun to-day when the 27th Division opened its Employment Rureau, charge with Lieut, Mullaney in The 77th Divieton Employment Bu- rea was opened March 3, and has since been conducted in co-operation with the United States Employment Service. Everett Wood, State! Federal Director of the Government Service, detailed Gordon L. Sawyer, an employment expert, to take charge of the Government's end of the 77th Bureau, and he Alexander Wiley fantry, Licut, Mullaney working with Capt of the 306th In- before opening the 27th Bureau, visited Capt. Wiley and Mr. Sawyer and talked over the ol- dier employment situation with them. The result of this conference was that it was arranged that if one Di- vision Bmple Bureay had an opening it was unable to fill at once it would that particular Job tot Diviste Bu Au, yment lover » ot been ghaseea i chasse’ eaatlincee ver, Martin Casey, A. Willis, J. Ams co-operating.” ald Lieut, Mullaiey, [U8 Shaw, Don C. Seitz, John H. Ten The nploymer Buren e a aati nant, Martin ‘eon, Marguerite ‘ach! Mooers Marshall, Zoo Beckley, Ad& division has the same object in view ! : atterson and Robert Baxter, that of placin w York soldiers in New York jobs. The noldier who], no Service was read by the Rev. lived in New York with his wife DE ararundlne ticlaaepal ein nies se parents and gaye up his New Tork nay was taken atlerward to ieee Job to go to war, Is entitled to get al lfob in New York when he returns. 1¢|*°® fF cremation, jemployers will think this situation re jover they will redlizo that it is up to] U, S, INSPECTORS FREED, them to hire N York soldiers - wherever possible, Were Tried With Rosenwaasers f At a meoting of the 77th Division Alleged Conaptracy, Association, which is working with] Indictments against Nils Andrien, Major $. Fullerton Weaver who was| Adolph Hollander and David Labowiteh, |sent here from France to arrange for| Government inspectors, on triad in the the return of the Division, plans w Federal Court, Brooklyn, with Morris ger dutty for recelving “New|#0d Leo Rosenwaaser and thirteen |York's Ow men of the 77th when) ethers for a 4 conspiracy to defraud jthey return, and for getting a tem- porary clubhouse for the 77th Divi- sion n a clubhouse will be th [first nal Army structure to be joccupied in the United States. The City of Houston, Tex. is building a $3,000,000 clubhouse for its men who Jfought in France, but that structure 4 ‘ eins i not be finished for more than a]the Olympic will sail this week fro York's Own” will be the guests of vide for building and endow- | Dr. William T, Manning, rector of }oamped at Ithyt, where r honor, 3 blic gymnasium there in his | Trinity Church, presided at the meet- | last k. ‘The’ rioting wa United States Senator Calder gave| will, which was filed yesterday with |!ng of the Home Association, A nen due to the delay In returning definite assurance to-day that the| surrogate Glea on of Dut + County jfinance |e Bagi AM ae appointed, he | 5 bs var tng RaavrouRTEne Ana anal Frustens to erect a building anw $9,000 Jian Hi. Dodge, Stephen Kt. Bertron nployment and clubhouse plans. fllowing, a conference with Major | £0 Cipping and maintalniig the gym: |and Majors Archibald G, Thachg-and y muh, cennat be was Ge tee Gen, John F, O'Ryan, commander of | "!4" cae Fullerton Weaver. An gfdnge- (work these Auniliarian SiGe 27th Division, and Col, Franklin | ment committee was om | dor suid Major Weaver. “While P. Ward of the 106th Infantry. Nuffalo Herd at Pabtie s Jposed of Major Thacher, nigthe men of th ) were fighting The parade will be held either the] OMAHA, Neb, March 11.— What ts|Capt. F. 8. Greene, of the 30: n- Jon the er side their women. rela day before or the day after the Man-| said to be the first herd of buffaios ever | Bineers; Major Delancey K. Jay, | tives and friends were working cease- hattan demonstration, A tentative] offered for sale on any open market in| Stephen Bertron, Mrs. Russe! Ff.|lessly over here. They sent socks plan is that the regiment S406 <ie eatid aren. pocelvea ir sth Omah, | Houdiey, Cleveland H. Dodge, Mrs.|and other comforts to the fighting truin at Bedford Avenue and march}to day. The 1 Of twenty-three i, {lames A Roosevelt, Walter Grafton jimen, looked out fr dependents of the to Prospecs Park from the famous ra Ranch, und Lieut, Shelton Martin soldiers and made the men who were merly, owned by mer, and Members of the various auxiliary | fighting realize by substantial sup- pas =i ated near Fort Garland, Co | associations of units in the 77th Divi-| port that women were with them n are Working with enthusiasm on No more crumbs left on plat Its new and really slice, not too large — ht and satisfying get more slices quality of Peac variety of WARD Bread ‘famous. tronize Your N Ciwe Him, if V Thus Aw “Quality, Ps YANKEE RYE 7 LONG IDEAL Ww A R FAMILY LOAF Keeping the The Right Loaf for Family Servic crusts, half-eaten enables you to cut a handy and dandy kind you knew befor texture, color and crust once more the high standard which ng Waste and Di Bread & Cakes \ We put the name WARD in all our produce Forward — Onward — Upward — Toward FUNERAL SERVICE HELD FOR NKOLA GREELEY-SMTH slant Many Persons Pay Last Tribute to Mrs. Andrew W. 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