New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-28
Regiment Is Due to
Swing Up 5th Ave.
This Morning
TROOPS ON TRAIN
GAY, BUT CHILLY
FurIough at Washington
While Awaiting Laggard
Second Section
By THOMAS J. ROSS

route TO New York (vis Baltimore, Nov.
! 27).-A few hours more, barring mis-
haps, and the 7th will bivouac for the
night across the Hudson. The lights
Of New York will probably be fading
/ in the dawn when the two sections OF
the regimental special, close together
at last. crawl into the Jersey City Rail
road yards at the end OF their 1000
mile journey from McAllen.
1t is five months since the outfit
started South to face whatever Uncle
Sam or Pancho Villa ordained. The
battalions are in better physical trim
to-day than ever before in the regi-
ment's history. 1t is truly remark
able organization that will march up
Fifth Avenue tomorrow morning.
Colonel Willard c. Fisk is the proud
est man in the States, and most of the
es5 reasons therefor are singing their
way tonight from Washington 20 New
York and thinking thoughts Of home.
/ Colonel Fisk, his staff and the I'd
Battalion will reach Jersey City just
before dawn tomorrow, unless too
many freights clog the line, and the
second section. carrying the first and
third battalions companies A, B, c, D,
I K. l. and NJ, will trail in close be-
hind. -,
Men Suffer from Cold
! Major Dewitt c. Falls, in charge OF
the long lost trailer, paid his respects
70 Colonel Fisk this afternoon, when
the first section began to pull out OF
the capital. He and his troops bad had
succession of mishaps and most oil
the men had the snifles and sneezes
! from riding in chilly cars, but every
body was happier than ever that the
/ regiment was once more whole.
The regimental staff in the first sec
ton. Companies L, +, G and II. the
machine-gun corps, the mounted scouts
and the medical corps took breakfast IN
Washington this morning. Colonel
Fisk gave everybody a six-hour fur
Tough. Every man was in his place at
2.3O this afternoon, the time for de-
parture, and not one apparently had
violated &c. o. No. T." which is the
other name for the wster-wagon IN Nc
I Allen.
That breakfast in hotel, the first in
( five long months, was curious novelty.
Colonel Fisk admitted later that when
he sat down at table in the New Willard
grill he saw many things that he had
almost forgotten how to use.
Real Breakfast at Last
Captain ]. Weston Myers lifted the
covering from the eggs as though he
expected magic pigeons TO fly from un-
der. and everybody hesitated when the
winters set down "the silver bowls, with
water in them" at the end of the meal.
/ Colonel Fisk and about every one else
in the battalion worked the long dis
tance telephone lines until telephone
operators had no chance at all to call
anything but New York"
All took to sightseeing while the
( Colonel and Adjutant Captain Douglas
Despard paid their respects at the
B White House by calling on Joseph
p Tumulty. the Presidents Secre-
tary. When Major Falls and Saptain
Engle, of Company c. in charge of the
battalion, and several other officers OF
the second section came aboard the
first section Lieutenant Aldhaus, of
Company B, failed to excite envy over
the furlough.
There's only one town that We want to
ser" the major replied to the bandying.
"WeT see it | hope in the morning
New styles in haberdashery, new WIN
ter wearing apparel. all the interests
of a return TO civilian dress and life,
held deep fascination for the fur
loughed 9TH.
Policeman Gets Greeting
Some of the men in the ranks could
not resist greeting a New York-looking
policeman with an ELUSIVE handshake
and "Well, declare, regular COP.
Lieutenants Wilson, Willis and War
/ rem. nicknamed the "minnows" by Cap
J tain Myers, all three being junior Of
ficers. climbed every step of the Wash
/ ington Monument stairs Just to prove
TO Colonel Fisk that after fiat McAllen
| climbing stairs would not make them
I cripples. -.
The regiment will assemble in the
Jersey City station at Z o'clock for
+ inspection. Mess will be served be-
, fore that hour on the trains. Then the
regiment will ferry to Twenty-third
/ Street, where the Depot Battalion,
under Major Charles Z. Lydecker, VIII
1 be drawn up in line to act with the
veterans as escort.
Colonel Fisk will form the regiment
on the 7th Regiments drill floor as
soon as possible for short review
before the companies retire TO COM
pany rooms with their equipment. The
men will be dismissed for several
/ hours, to reassemble later for final
orders. Everybody will eat his Thanks
giving turkey at home, II Will take
, several days, at lessts however 10
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