The sun., 1918-12-10
WOUNDED 69TH
MEN HOME WITH
OTHERFIGHTERS
Noisy Welcome for New
Workers Who Won Great
Victory in Champagne.
SPURRED BLUE DEVILS ON
Deeds of ValOr by Negroes in
Haywood's Old 18th Told
by Survivors.

Strong mems tales of fighting
priests. Of goodies caked around the
extra smiles of Salvation Army lassies
(the same being doughnuts). Of New
York Irishmen that simply did not
know how to back up for a Boche. Of
the horror of bombed hospitals. OF
American pep that put heart in the
mind tired, body tired Allies, Of Yam
kee courage that will be deathless--
tales that will be the bones Of history
and the meat Of fiction as long as the
L. s. A. stands up-were brought in
yesterday by two hospital transports.
These were the Sierra and the Com
fort. bringing 1000 officers and men.
nearly all Of whom had been wounded
in the great four months from mid
July to mid November.
The two ships. which plainly showed
the hattering they had received from
nearly two weeks OF incessant strug-
gle with North Atlantic storms. the
little Comfort bfving been tossed
about like n cork ever since she sig
nailed farewell to the Azores, carried
the largest contingents of wounded men
that have been returned so far to their
native land.
III comparisons are not always
odious they are often unmelodious. go
1t is OF no import TO remark upon the
oinerence between these human car
goes and the passengers brought
previously by the Mauretania, Lap
land, Minnekahda and Orca from Eng
lish training camps The point is that
there were occasional yarns out OF
these boats that fairly lifted your hat
from your head. while almost every
returning fighter aboard the Sierra
end the Comfort had a story to tell
(could it be pried from linn that was
ike The Star Spangled Banner" nut
into prose.
Wounded Fighters Msdest.
The trouble was prying IT from him.
ior these boys back home after the
bitterest fighting that American SOL
diers ever went through zone has
Pershings word for that are as mod
est as the heroes they shrink from
being called. They talk in n toneue-
tied. jerky. unsatisfactory fashion
when it comes to relating their own
deeds. one would think thev had
been caught in something furtive and
Illegal. so much they hate To burbla
about their exploits
Helfs bells. brother" said Cant
Bill Day of the field artillery "alI we
had to say we said to the Huns over
there"
The Sierra came In early Yesterday
morning and the Comfort dockad IN
the late afternoon, another steamship
the Chicago, carrying a contingent ~
Red Cross and Y. NJ c. A. worker.
having sandwiched herself in between
ana all tnree were salutcd not merely
by the din and clamor of whistles and
oelis' out by the most horrendous
scream that ever was loosed over the
city.
Air Raid Siren Joins In Welcome.
This scream came from one Of the
dig sirens which were installed to warn
against air raids. They gave a shrieker
hrst tryout yesterday and for miles
around and about the city the peopIe
were suddenly conscious Of the fact
that New York had found new noise
After hearing the thing there WAS no
reason on earth 10 doubt the statistic
contributed TO history by the MAYORS
secretary that II cost $500.
The big Sierra, craziIy camoufiaRed
came out OF Quarantine in the dawn
while the town was awakening 70 the
turmoil of tortured whistles. and was
greeted off the Battery by the In
defatigable police boat Patrol which
hasn't done so much work since HyIan
and his tall hat came over the bridge
Whether or no the fatigue Of greeting
a persistent flow Of incoming ships is
getting too much for his Honor and
other personally selected notables
didn't appear, but the business of well
the ships was left to the
Mayors secretary and a police inspec-
tor or two
AT the Statue of Liberty the flreboat
Continued on Fourteenth PaOe)