New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-25
M Officers and Men, All
FL. Arrive After Six
Months at Border
cOI VANDERBILT
HEADS COMMAND
pslatiyes and Friends at
Armory Greet Return
ing Battalion

v.sor, or Christmas ~ home with
30. friends ard food Christmas
-. right have been spent in long
.bc border danced over the
=, r tho bronzcd troopers Of the
battalion or tho 92d Engineers Of
:. N,v Yorb National Guard as they
,e No T0b Avenue yesterday
-orning -.
.,-nosite photograph Of those +o3
So and men would have revealed
..,i,rge. expansive. anucipatory smile
/, a.. good 90 be back home; good TO
- ,lc welcoming cheers Of those
=, lined thc curbs; good TO see the
:, Christmas bells. the wrcsths OF
..r, hung BOO tho windows along the
lin, q march
The battalion started from the Dor
Ia esA $40 Saturday. Their prog
"a. uncertain. In S. Louis they
ere held up for thirteen hours: IN
r.,,lsrd four. and in Buffalo seven.
oter A. length a Lsckavanns ferry
,,..,h, them yesterday morning from
,,,..v CITY 10 West Twenty-third
s.,.,, q private echoed the sentiment
,f,l the men with: New York Ger
,,.r'v looks good 20 me especially the
esy before Christmas
Many Meet Battalion
Despite the fact that the hour Of ar
r7l OF the engineers had been IN
,,r,sin and that the day was one which
pretty generally given over to silk
hats and sunday newspapers, several
hundred persons largely relatives Of
The soldiers met the battalion.
These men and women kept step with
OH. marching columns IS Colonel Cor
rsl,us Vanderbilt. leading his new com
-and Tor the first time, strobe across
Tscrtv-third Street. wheeled into
fifth Avenue. passed the reviewing
stand a. the University Club, turned
westward At Fifty-rinth Street, ana,
af,er wait OF fifteen minutes. oaded
bis men into the subway and had them
rf..Acd uptown. The armory Al Fort
Warrington Avenue and l6sth Street
rss reached az o'clock.
With the exception Of the crowd
which mad waited at the ferry house
there we're few persons along the ave
me when the men felt beneath their
feet the asphalt that spelt the city ana
Welcome TO them Yet. by the time the
-eyicwinc stand was reached. the en-
-brsiasts-most Of them befurred and
befeathered or frock-coatcd and silk
halted we're three and four deep along
the curbine.
says Men Look Fit
Those fellows look 1T for any as
.irnment." said Governor Whitman. as
~ inn lines passed before him.
All glad ] stayed over Officially 10 wei
come them
Mavor Mitchell had words OF praise
for the battalion. And so did others
m the Official party Adjutant Genera
S,otesbury. Major General John,
O'Rvsn. Lieutenant Coione! Lorillaro
SPENCER. representing the Governor
military staff; Lieutensnt Command
Josepnthsl. Major Hoppih, Captain Gran
and Major CookinCham. Here. TOO
TODD Henry p. Cooper, vice-presideni
~ inc University Club; Genera Nelson
P Henry and Judge Frederic De VIII
Wells.
Colonel Vanderbilt lad not wished to
lad his men. but he had complied with
M, wishes expressed in insistent tele-
grzns sen. by Lieutenant Colonel W. ).
Csn-opr. who commanded the men or
heir trip from the nesting place OF the
cactus.
Lean. alert. vigorous, the new colonS
s..o5o q. .be head of his troops. lie
Vas recornizcd al along the route ana
cheers greeted him. Even as he passed
his home on Fifth Avenue, near tiity.
fsurth Street. from the windows o.
which his family proudly watched NM
his ewes with military decorum were
directed straight ahead.
Assn orator sometimes picks out one
rerson I'm the rear OF his audience sno
fsiss 10 him. Colonel Vanderbilt seemed
20 concentrate his attention upon one
hr,ss hutton upon the coat OF one o.
N, ten mounted policemen who were
clearing traffic six blocks ahesd.
Defendant Members March
Just ahead Of the colonel marched
sonsd ~ Defendant Association mem
b.rs. led bv Colonel Silliman, president
81 the veterans. Then came rows OF
arm Of a trooper. young raccoon
mildly interested in the reception ana
apparently prcferrine slumber to sem
sstion. -
The crowd a. the armory was even
srrer than that which, six months az =
gave godspeed 10 the departing rahhs.
The muskcts we're soon stacked INC
order 20 report on Tuesday morning 70
.. mustered out or Federal service was
quickly given and the men were as
missed
Families. wives. sweethesrts waited
with omen arms and few OF these were
metAphoricSl. The second battalion OF
he Twenty second Engineers o. inc
New York National Guard had come
home. 400 strong. with not man on
ta, SICK list. 10 WAS tho night before
CHRISTMAS. -Four hundred and three
men were ready 20 hang up TOT tnr
visitation Of New York Santa Claus