The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1917-12-16
1O,O0OSOLDIER
BOYS HAPPY IN
NEW ROCHELLE
City Of $4,000 Entertains
Flower Of American
Youth in Storm.
LIKE A COLLEGE TOWN
Homes Wide Open, Dinners,
Theatres and Motors for
Potential Warriors.
NOT A ROwDY TO BE SEEN
Squads Eat With Columbus
Knights and Sleep in
Episcopal Trinity.
NOT A ROwDY TO BE SEEN

Tu0 8lrlS Ill oVop tn0 county Nne De-
rsve they are At least trying to do their
bit BY knitting and purling between acts
70 voice. GOD blssgum!") ought to
take run out to New Rochelle. The
g!ris would come back 70 Manhattan
-ealising, a. they saEed thoughtfu,ly out
Of the New Haven roads car vipAows
that. comparatively they weren't doint
so much after all.
New Rochelle. as the late Richard
Harding Davis pointed out in his last
writings Is only as far from Manhstt
as the Germans were in 1914 from Paris
whom the French booted them hackwar I'd
.addenly. And although New Rochelle,
really suburb Of Manhattan. through
out the last week has been busy doing
the best bit OF patriotic work done by any
american community in the great war
the little town had been too much over
worked to tell the greater Manhattan
"hat was going on there
community Of about $4,000 men,
Women and children had had almost TO-
900 potential soldiers wished upon it in
me middle Of one Of the worst storms in
recent years. II the 10000 had de
trained at a little junction station sur
'ounded by pine forests-which easily
mtght'have been the case-an incredible
number of lads cold and hungry and
homeless would undoubtedly have frozen
or starved TO death in the frigid weather
of the last week while standing outdoors
through period OF from three to ave
days. which must pass before the sadly
overworked army men Of Fort Sloc,im
could care for them. 49,.
Lscky TO BE In New Rochelle.
Hut the thousands Of young men. ~
luck would have II. dstrsinsd At New
Rochelle. Wherefore since that time
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OF sleep in churches. clubs and resi-
dences and lunchine on more soups and
am and Aalads-Actually aiads-and
cheese and coffee. Then, after attending
'audeviiie shows without cost to them
s''ves. they have sat down to dinners Of
nemonico steaks. roast beef. potatoes.
baked macaroni (the reporter y taking
III. menu at tho New Rochelle Council,
Knights of Columbus. last night At hap
hasard). tomato salad. pies ana cof-
fee 70 brace them UP before turning in
q sleep upon the cushioned seats Of New
Hochelle's most elaborately upholstered
phurches--with more vaudeville shows
netween dinner and bedtime.
Hudsons and Marmons and Rolls
foyces and Packards and Cadillacs and
innumerable Fords had been at their dis
iosal in the meantime-either directly
10 take them from the station to the
knights OF Columbus general clearing
house for recruits and then to the build
'lgs where. they were to dine and sleep
or indirectly to bring hossy foodstuffs to
tlIe kitchens where New Rochelle women
we're cooking their foods and from which
NAw Rochelle men were serving them.
Ssadily at the end of yesterday after.
ocn long lines Of happy young men
in muf,i came arm in arm out Of Centre
street and then turned northward. cheer
ing as they walked. They favored pep
r"r and salt caps with long v!sors. dark
overcosts with turned UP collars and
siitcases Of a shiny newness.
Not . Roughneck In the Line.
And not roughneck among en-"
SAID Dan Noonan Of New Rochelle. as
ha watched them nle by. cheering every
thing IN sight with pAteruaI eye.
They are all china broken and silk
planket broken and eat with theif forks
know-the nlissus and ] house eight
~ them every night. They're the most
sppreciative boys ever saw. It's an
'''lo' " De AloWeo 10 keep them ted
and warm. They're the flower OF
America
They cheered--all day long and far
'h'o the night-until New Rochelle
sounded like a little college town the
n ght Of the day the little college had
lnt the rollers under Princeton and Big
hi!l Edwards himself. Let a cop pass
by and they'd cheer. Tripping across
me snow might come q Red Cross can
teen worker and promptly the air was
f2'it apart. They even cheered trolley
ears.
Joe Mayer. red eyed from loss of
s'eep, stood on the edge Of snowbank
ana cheered them on to cheer. Orson
lowell and Lucius Hitchcock. Manhat-
ian illustrators during legitimate work
Ing hours, happily directed the stranE-
ers IN town on their way. The long line
o' mufti clad boys which the reporter
mas particularly In mind swung around
ine snow banked corner OF Centre street
mo Husuenot street. or avenue, OF
boulevard-whatever the main street of
The town Ia caiied--and filed into the
parish house Of Ola Trinity.
Reninder Of Comiag Christmas.
Out Of the snow rose the Christmasy
pHe, Old Trinity. with it's clock face
sslow In the gathering dusk. and wei.
coming warmth coming from the latticed
windows beneath the spire To tho west
pink afterglow merged with the snowy
Churchyard
Into the Protestant parish house fled
tne young soldier boys who had Just
come from the Catholic Knights of CO.
,ambus building around the corner. The
IT, NJ. G. A. had had q part in sending
,hem on their way too. well fed and
nappy. The =. ~. c. A. In ordinary
Vines thinks enough Of dogma to ad-
mere to tho rule that no Catholic may
hoId an executive office In the great
oreanisation. The Knights Of Columbus
WIN have no Protsstants. In peace times.
orecting their business affairs.
YET the Knights OF Columbus yester-
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