New-York tribune., 1909-07-26
GREET TENTH CAVALRY
BACK FROM p HILIPPINES.
Negroes Giue a Hearty UelcOme to
DARK BOys IN Khaki

Hard 20 answer would be query as to which
tie popuars the strains OF Home sweet
Home" or "There'u Be Hot Time in the Old
Town Tonight" played by the band OF the loth
United States Cavalry as the transport fitzpatrick
was laid alongside the quartermasters pier at the
end of Wall street. All but Troop ot the
well known negro regiment was on board. and no
other regiment since the boys came home from the
Spanish got such a welcome
The beaus and bellies of San Juan Hill Harlem,
the Tenderlon and Hells Kitchen were there some
hundreds strong greet the dusky cavalrymen-
Nearly every got ashore, and there was a
general exodus uptown. although small detachments
wandered about all afternoon in the direction
of Eddie Johnson's Douglas Club and the dance
halls OF the Hill
The men were a we'll set-up lot of fellows, trig
and natty in their khaki and carrying themselves
with swagger that well became the uniform
They u well behaved lot too although loose
in New York for the first time for long
month Even the gin they sell in Tenth avenue ap-
pGTently had little terror for those used TO the bno
of the barrios of Manila.
The regiment has been twenty-nine months,
having spent most OF the time in and around
Manila. so that few Of the anything that
locked like active service. The men came back
under the command of Lieutenant Colonel u.
H. {. Gale. the body of It's old colonel being IN
the hold with those of sixty-two other soldiers Its
former commanding officer. colonel J. A. Anger
was its first not to leave it to become orisfo'e'
general
Colonel Anger died lust before the regiment sailed
and only short time after his death II was learned
that he was about to have been made A hrigadier-
Colonel Augcrs widow ard daughter returned on the
transport. and will accompany the body to Wash
ington where it will be placed in the national
cemetery.
Among the officers on board we're Majors R. u.
Read H. {. Grierson and 6. H. Sands and Captains
r. J. Paxton. r. J. Fleming. II. G. Whitehead. r.
r. Wallack. W. J. Luhn and J. J. Ryan The loth
has negro commissioned officer and one negro
chaplain, but they did not return
The trip was a pleasant one for the men. al
though rather monotonous. The only excitement
while at sea was when, the first of last month the
Fitzpatrick ran into Indian Ocean storm. which
smothered her under one big wave after another
until the 10th a seasick- Eight of the
have Filipino wives and these suffered par
ticularly. The negroes who married the native
women appeared proud OF them Yesterday, and
wished it made known that they would have
brought them back with them even If the govern
ment had made 1t mandatory that officer or
enlisted marrying native must care for her
If OF his own race.
At the various British ports of call after passing
Alden the officers entertained by the British
garrisons and the enlisted men had a good time
About three hundred miles west Of Gibraltar a
carrier pigeon landed in the rigging and ~as apt
1red on the right foot nitiallcd silver
band while on the other was another band with "A
wing inscribed it.
Matthew McCulley. a white man. eiEhty-two
last six years he hns been in the Philippines rs
quartermaster's stcrekeeper in Manila. ON the
voyage home he was the companion Of orlando e.
Troxel the year old son Of Lieutenant Troxel. the
youngster having been adopted as the mascot Of
the ship
Soon after the Fitzpatrick left Manila tho boy
became I'll with pneumonia and In critical
condition for a long while when he was conva-
lescent he had some three hundred volunteer
nurses and playmates who taught him the manual
arms until when the transport docked yester-
day he a. expert any veteran
The men Will leave this city tomorrow 'or Fort
Ethan Allen. but before they they viii Re enter
tained in the evening by the negro citizens at the
Manhattan Casino, at lt5th street and Eighth ave
nue. Plans for tho reception 10 the men and on
GERS in the afternoon have been completed. \
deputation OF the leading negroes headed hy Frank
weldon the lawyer, vii! board the transport at
10 o'clock.
The men and the committee will then parade 90
Broadway up Wall street. and thence TO the city
Hall where they will be reviewed hy Mayor Me
CleIlan. From the city Hall the parade VIII be
up Broadway TO 23d street and then up FIFTH
avenue 59th street. to Columbus circle and then
down Broadway 10 26th street, and 10 the 69th
Regiment Armory ut Lexington avenue There "a
luncheon will be served and speeches made by
from all parts Of this city and New Jersey.
Major General wood. L. s A. and Mayor McClel-
Ian Will also be present.