New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-07
18th Regiment Gets
First Welcome Here
Honor Escorts Accompany
Militiamen, Back from
Border Duty

r,ent. back from the border, atter
...;,inc eight months for something.
,s,, wasn't 10 be started by some one,
,bo didn't, followed its Irish band and
il, Irish heart along the thoroughfarc
eloser home.
7, Fifth Avenue a great crowd. which
,srlier had cheered the homecoming OF
.be 10Th Infantry, fingered 70 yell its
greeting to the Fighting 69th'-a
crowd comfortable, well fed, we'll
dressed. buttoned-up, distinguished
even.
Windows Of clubs and balconies Of
hotels we're thronged. Limousines,
turned for the occasion into private re-
viewing stands, stood parked in the side
streets. Little flags. some red, white
and blue, some green, futtered here
and there along the jammed sidewalks;
biz ones hung festooned or whipped at
uasthesds above.
Such a welcome as Fifth Avenue had
given to the 7th and TO Squadron
and the rest. it was prepared to give TO
the 69th. But Fifth Avenue had 10
wait.
Tastes Its Triumph
Over on Tenth Avenue, where the
clubs have swinging doors and the man
who has a nickel holds a guest card,
where the buildings that line the way
aren't much TO look at, where mud
these days lies thick underfoot. the
s9th was tasting its triumph.
Tenth Avenues flags were of cotton.
and so we're its holiday frocks under
shabby closks. But the 69th wasn't
locking for silks and sat:ns.
On parade the soldiers eyes must
look straight ahead; his ears must be
.'osed 10 everything but the word of
Command There isn't any rule,
though against using the sense of
smell on the march; and IL was 70 this
sense that a most important feature
Of Tenth Avenues greeting appealed.
In hundred homes bordering the
avenue corned beef and cabbage-yes.
cabbage IN these days. and none too
good for hungry boy if il was Tiff
ianys selling twas simmering in a
sastronomic symphony.
Calls TO Her Boy
Where on Fifth Avenue might such
delicious odors be blending? Where
would there be. on Fifth Avenue, an
old woman with white hair, leaning
from fourth floor window and wav-
ing a green flag and calling so that
your own ears could hear her clean
Through the laundering of Garry
Owen:
%Oh, Dinny. pinny. boy"
Nhere would there be, on the same
Fifth Avenue, Old men stationed on the
corners, with something green about
them, sure, letting loose in the Gaelic
with their rusty voices? And cops,
with no sleeps face 20 hold solemn
ior the eyes Of the commissioners. to
Join in the shouting? And the peoples
own reviewing stands, made by NOV
ing Tory's vegetables back Inside the
grceer's-where would they be?
They couldn't So Tenth Avenue had
irst look at the 69th, and the 69th first
look a. Tenth Avenue, and Fifth Ave
nue. waited
It was an overlong wait. beyond the
TINE taken up in the long detour. Both
me 18th and the 69th, which had
stopped over in Washington for the
New York IN the forenoon. II was
<:p0 In the afternoon when the 18th
landed a. the Manhattan end of the
Twen,y-third Street ferry. with hun
ereos Of friends and relatives. Ahead
Of the regiment. as it moved through
Iwenty-third Street and up Fifth Ave
nue.. marched Spanish American War
veterans. veterans Of the command and
part OF Squadron A.
Governor in Stand
From a stand in front Of the Union
League Club. Governor Whitman re-
viewed the regiment. In the group
about him were Brigadier General
George r. Dyer, Major General Dan
Appleton, Major General John +.
O'Rysu. Adjutant General Louis ".
Stotesbury. Major General Charles f.
Roe, George ". Wickersham, George
]. Wilson, Commodore Robert z. For
shew and Lieutenant Commander JOS
ephthal.
hose who had seen the 18th march
away noted a marked difference in it's
appearance. The regiment took fine
ioi Of sighting material South, but a
5loofe. organization. IL came back a
igniing unit.
The seth reached the New York side
full hour after the l2th had entered
~ arrnory.
i VAS close 20 s o'clock wher. the
regiment finally swung into Fifth Ave
nue. from the north, after having
marched In Tenth Avenue from Twenty
third Street % Fifty-seventh through
ne hear. Of the G9th's favorite recruit
ing ground
Met by Delegation
A. Fifty-seventh Street the regiment
va picked up By a delegation Of
friendly Sons o. St. Patrick. a detach-
msni - Spanish War Veterans, the
1stn depot battalion, a handful OF old
men In carriages who once marched
WIN General Mesghers famous IRISH
bugsde, and the silk-stoeking 7th In.
@n'ry, which turned out 80 escort or
honor.
late ~ 10 VAS and long as the wait
fzd been, Fifth Avenue displayed a
'ortitude that the 10th might envy. The
eioNd stuck, and its cheers thundered
Htsr The seth until the last man had
pared into the srmory, a. Twenty
si1th Street ard Lexington Avenue. The
bah1 was still playing when the regi-
"sht Droke ranks, and the crowd ina,
vas there 70 prove old acquaintance
an1 old loves were not forgotten poured
Ss~h from the galleries.