Evening journal., 1898-08-30
THE SEyENTY-FIRST.
New York's Fighting Regi-
ment Back From the War.
GIVEN An ENTHUSIASTIC WELCOME.
Soldiers Taken Up broadway In Cable
Cars with Thousands Cheering Along
Their Way Pathetic Scenes
at the Armory.


trip from Camp Wikof the heroic 400.
remnant Of the seventy-hrst regiment.
reached their armory. at Thirty fourth
street and Park avenue, late yesterday
afternoon They were all day on the
Journey from Montauk. but were moved
from start to finish without any veXa-
tious delays. They arrived at the Bat
terry on the ferryboat Flushing. which
brought them from Long Island City,
and were received with wildly enthusi-
astic cheers by an immense throna
which surrounded the ferry house and
overhowed into Battery park and all
the neghborng streets.
The trip from Montauk Point had
been one continued triumphal progress.
All the stations along the route We're
crowded with cheering people, and
country folk turned out at many points
10 wave flags and shout hearty greet
ings TO the battle SCARED heroes as their
train swept by.
At Long Island City great crowds
surrounded the station and pressed
close TO the tracks as the train came
in. Ringing cheers greeted the men as
they left the cars. Men grasped the
soldiers by the hand, women hugged
them, even kissed some Of them, and
covered them with flowers.
Al the Battery the wearied soldiers
after they had been greeted by General
McAlpin and a committee from the Vet
eran association. boarded Broadway
cable cars, which took them TO Waver-
ley place, the starting point of their
parade to the armory.
Broadway was mass Of waving flags
and bunting In honor OF the regiment
The sidewalks We're densey packed
with people, who cheered continuously
as the cable cars with their precious
burden passed by Business at the
Stock Exchange was suspended while
the command was passing Wall street
and. in fact, traHlc throughout the
lower part OF the city was at stand
still. so thick We're the crowds In the
streets pressing toward Broadway.
All the side streets were blocked with
trucks, carriages and vehicles OF all
kinds massed near Broadway. Passage
across that thoroughfare was utterly
impossible. and it was impossible to
move about with comfort block away
Their cars moved slowly at points. 80
dense was the mass of people on the
sidewalks, who threatened TO overflow
into the tracks through pressure from
the surging lines behind
Flags waved everywhere In Broad
way. and spectators shouted a Welcome
until they were hoarse
No time was lost when Waverley place
was reached in starting the weary vet
Grams on their triumphal march from
the arch to Thirty-fourth street, and
thence through Thirty-fourth to the
armory.
Fifth avenue was one OF the sights
that come once in q lifetime. -Four hun
dred jaded troops, some in wagons. all
thin and bent, occupied the center OF
the street Before them were their ohi-
GERS, little better off In health than
themselves. on ahead was the Veteran
association of their regiment, acting as
an escort In the lead was their own
band giving martial music and led by
their own bandmaster, Fanciulli. whom
they left behind with his musicians
when they went 20 the war, 1,04S strong.
To the right and left Of them was a
surging crowd, whose cheers brought a
flush OF pleasure TO their wan cheeks.
These crowds filed the sidewalks. They
filled every step Of house and church.
People wedged in windows four abreast
and looked out on the scene. They look
ed and eheered a welcome from the
ground floor TO the roof Of every build
ing. and they also occupied the roofs.
where.
In Thrty-fourth street similar scenes
were witnessed. Crowds about the ar
mory impeded traffic for hours before
the regiment arrived.
Just as the hands OF the armory clock
pointed at quarter after Ehens band
leading the Seventy Veteran asso-
citation. approached the main entrance
to the armory playing "The Star Span
gled Banner" with the veterans the
band drew up at company front and
played Home, Sweet Home"
A mighty shout Of welcome that ech-
oed and re-echoed through the armory
greeted the veterans as they filed into
the building, changed by the heat OF
the tropics and thin and weak from
hard service in the field and camps
The officers and several companies @.
the one Hundred and Seventy-frst reg
lment. who acted with the veterans as
an escort, led by Colonel Francis. pre-.
reded the veterans into the armory and
Joined IN the glad welcome home to ths
men,
Ii was a scene never to be forgotter
as Colonel Downs. followed by Lieuten.
ant Colonel Smith Major Whittle. Ma,
1or Keck and other stan officers step.
ped over the doorsin and entered tn,
regimental home which they had left
few months ago.
Hats were thrown in the air, Will,
men and women. cheering and shout
Ing in a frenzy Of welcome waved flag
and leaned over the balconies TO see tn,
returning heroes.
The soldiers, many mere shadows o
the brave men who4marched from tn,
armory TO fight for their country. quick
ened their steps as they looked abou
the familiar walls and galleries OF thei
nrmory and looking az the multitud
assembled 60 greet them. forgot for
moment all their fstigue and illness.
1t was only a remnant OF the regi
ment, and tears stood In the eyes o
many spectators as they watched II
gain for loved ones. Others were han
py, and they We're too. Ia a way. bu
they could not forget the brave mel
who nov lie buried in the quiet hill
sides Of Cuba. where they gave up thei
lives for their country and those VIII
now lie on beds Of sickness fighting 70
their lives.