New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-01-31
Rousing Welcome Given To
New Ulm Soldiers On Return
THOUSANDS TTIRoNG STREETS AS TROOPS MARGH
TO THE ARMoRY WHERE THEY WERE FEASTED
AND TOASTED By FRIENDS.
MAJOR PFAENDER RECEIVES IOyINc GRIP

New Ulm is glad to have her soldier
boys back. The whole town demon
strated that fact when the Minneapolis
& st. Louis special, bringing the members
of Goa the Machine Gun Co., and few
of the Second Regiment Band, arrived
about Z o'clock Wednesday evening.
Thousands Of people lined the depot
platform or the streets as the boys
marched to the Armory, headed by the
ENRICHMENT and the New Ulm Con
cert Bands. The boys were also vel
coined by several salutes from Burg's
famous battery, which has done like
service for many former New Ulm troops
in the past fifty or sixty years.
People Throng Streets
1t had been announced earlier in the
day that the train from Fort Smelling
would arrive; at a o'clock in the after
noon, and the M. & st. L. station began
to be thronged long before that hour
with people who wished to catch a first
sight of the boys when they arrived,
most Of them waiting through the long
hours, even after it had been announced
by the depot officials that the train
would be several hours late. The deep
snow and cold weather had caused a
long delay in getting the train from the
fort to the M. & St. L. yards in st. Paul.
Instead OF making up time the train had
rather lost it in making the run, and it
was three hours after the hour first an
nounced when the special, composed Of
a baggage car and two coaches pulled
intatthe station, The hands played and
the people shouted as the train approach
led. The waiting throng scurried around
m the darkness, in an endeavor to dis
cover relative or an acquaintance
among the arriving soldiers, while the
committee in charge of the home coming
welcome, together with the officers were
forming the men in line for the march
to the Armory.
The soldiers had been to the border,
done their duty, to a man, and every
body was anxious to show their apprecia-
ton and theiy pride in those who had made
50 many personal sacrifices in the ser
vice Of their country. That the, Their
nometer registered several degrees be-
low zero failed to lessen the ardor of
the waiting ones.
Armory Handsomely Decorated
The Armory had been handsomely
decorated tor the occasion, flags and
bunting being everywhere in evidence.
Especially artistic were the decorations
of the stage, the Ruby Theater Orches-
ira being seated among forest of flags.
The soldiers were lined up in the rear
of the assembly room, and marched
with military precision to. their places at
the tables which were stretched nearly
the entire length Of the long. hall, with
the speakers table flanked at the end
near the stage. At the latter table were
seated several of the officers, the COM
mittee in charge Of the affair and re-
representatives. of the press. ! 80
Sixteen boy walters, specially trained,
marched to the tables with the various
courses, to the strains Of music by the
orchestra. The menu consisted of the
following: .:..s q r
Frappe, fruit salad olives, celery,
pickles, roast spring chicken with cram
berry sauce, early June peas, creamed
potatoes, French rolls, assorted cake
ice, cream, coffee; following which
cigars and cigarettes were passed.
Sheeches To Be Short
Philip Liesch, who presided as toast
master, said previous to introducing the
speakers, that as the hour was late and
the boys were anxious to get to their
homes, the addresses would be short,
and they would not be detained longer
than necessary. He assured the soldiers
that New Ulm was glad to see her boys
back, and declared that kind Provi-
dence had certainly been with the bows
in their long campaign in Texas, when
it was taken into consideration that not
2 serious illness had befallen any Of the
hundred and more troops. which was
considered remarkable when the great
change OF temperature, between Mime
sofa and the almost tropical climate Of
the south was taken into consideration.
He attributed this largely to officers who
had guarded well the health Of the
soldiers.