El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-03-26

F At last '4- -'-''--= are -'---'
Ten thousand people cnee-ed ths
boys O. company h sunday alshr rs. -
men strong. they came through che
union station doors an marched To
Cleveland square, there 10 receive Inc
national and state coIors, presented To
them IN honor Of their service Tor tie
nation, the state, and the city.
There was never such = crowd gath
cred together ia FL Paso before 70
celebrate any event
There was never 50 much kissing.
and So laanv happy tears, and suca
long embraces. IS when the compau.-
broke ranks after stacking arms in
the main hall Of The cha-aber Of com
lnerce ana It's members took mo their
arms the women who loved them
There wer- never men more aprar-
entity glad 10 Ice home among their
own people again. and never people
more glad To receive them
street TANNED with Onlookers.
rae train Was two hours late But
nobody aenr home iD dis-us-
AS early as four o'clock anxious folks
BEGAN 60 gather about tne station.
81 80. when number OF the q. II
and :. a. railway rolled into the city
bearing company \. every member o.
which was now only soldier OF Texas
having been mustered out of the fec
-ral service at Camp Wilson san An
tonic at $50 o'clock Saturday after
noon. the crowd had grown To such
-ropOrtius that il filled the station
completely and overlooked ia a uassed
Jam ali the way 10 Leon street, three
blocks away
More than 500 automobiles. many OF
them decorated with flags and bunt-
ing lined san Francisco street from
The station 10 FL PasO street
Cheer Resounds To Juarez.
When the little body Of soldiers came
through the train gates into the sta
tion LOBBY q cheer started that swelleG
in momentum as those outside realized
tlat at last Il Paso's soldier boys were
really al home after almost a years
absence i was = thunder of noise
which must have reached over into
JuareZ.
Those g. men of company h couI5
hardk- be recognized as the same band
of citizen soldiery who had answered
Tie presidents call last Nay.
BrOnzed soldiers Well Drilled
Lverv man, in smart uniform and
with soldier like bearing. obeyed with
machine like perfection tne orders OF
Capt Walter Z. jenkins, their chosen
leader.
They showed they were no iou-e-
recruits, but soldiers. brOnzeC with long
field service and drilled as wei as
any body Of regulars in the thousands
upon LilUuS1uG> Of cIdEA troops "a no
have paraded FL Paso streets dur
ing the past few years.
The crowd could not be held back
long.
Mothers, wives. sweethesrts. and Sis
tiers wanted TO feel the touch Of their
loved boys once more
So they broke through the line Of
Boy Scouts and fell upon the company
and tried TO hug il TO death
Wife Sits ON husbands shoulder.
The first woman to get 70 her boy
was the girl wife Of private ". g Nc
Ca-thur, Mrs Selma Macarthur.
This wife Of four months slipped
under the ropes with which 2 lane
had been made AZ the station. and ran
10 meet her husband He gathered the
sparkling, black haired girl into his
arms, and then swung her up on his
shoulder So with his gun on one
shoulder and his wife on the other.
private McCarther marched out Of the
station, one Of the pTOudest and hap
piest men TO be found anywhere l.
the United States
a hundred other women and girls