The sun., 1918-12-30
TWO TROOPSHIPS IN
AFTER OCEAN RACE
Sixaola and Carriage Reach
Port Early Sunday, Former
Winning Contest.
WHITE, AUTHOR, ABOARD
Son Of Browning, Inventor OF
Machine Gun, Also q
Passenger.

Two troop-h'ps. sister ships and both
formerly United Fruit liners. had a
friendly speed setto across the Atlantic
preceding their arrival in the upper
hay with fighters OF the army and navy,
officers and enlisted men, yesterday
morning. They were h Slxaola, with
ffty-one officers. nine enlisted men OF
the army and seven naval fiiers aboard.
and the transport Carriage. which
so large a cargo Of ammunition slowed
beneath her skin that h had room
for only s~eventy-four army ofncers-
three Of whom were Generals-and
twenty-five scrappy private soldiers.
The sister troopshtps left Bordeaux
half an hour apart on December is. and
although they were almost never In sight
Of each other they kept In touch, via
wireless. during a part OF the race. On
Christmas the shippers OF the Sixaoia
and the Carriage had q CHEEKY wireless
holiday conversation, but so keen was
the desire Of each ''oid man" Of the sh'p
to beat the rival skipper through the
Narrows that neither ship would tell
the other her latitude or longitude dur
ing their midses wireless conversations.
sixaoIa wins Race. .
The sixaola won the race, but only by
n few hours. She dropped her mudhook
beyond Quarantine Saturday night and
locked at Pier /, Hoboken. at $50
o'clock yesterday morning. The Carriage
did not come to anchor until three and
one-half hours later, Owing to the great
amount of explosives aboard the Carriage
abe had to anchor In Gravesend Bay
and send the returning soldiers to
Hoboken aboard transport service tugs.
Major Stewart Edward White, writer
on nature subjects until he entered the
army, was one OF the returning officers
on the Stxaola. With him was Lieut.
Van A. Browning of the Ordnance De-
partinent. a son of IN. inventor of the
highly successful Browning gun. Col, J.
VI. Browning. Lieut.. Browning had
been busy In recent months demonstrat-
ing the Browning gun in England. Italy
and France.
The Sixaola's passengers also included
CAPT Thomas A. Watson. formerly as
sistant postmaster, OF Fond du Lac,
Wis, but now the proud possessor Of the
Croix de Guerre for bis valiant work a.
Fismcs last August Lieut.. Paul d. Coles
OF Seattle. who was shot down three
times while flying with the Ninety first
Aero Squadron and has been recon-
msnded for the Distinguished Service
Cross Lieut.. ]. A. Physioc of Oyster
Bay, who was in the thick OF the fight
ing at Chateau Thierry and Scissors.
and Lieut.. Haywood Holden OF New
Rochelle. who fought for fourteen
months as a fiier with the Italian army.
General Omcer- Aboard.
The general Officers aboard the Cartago
were Brig.-Gens. w. ". j. Nicholson,
]. A. Johnson and d. 3. Devore. Gen.
Nicholson. VINO is the ranking American
cavalry officer Of the Regular Army.
headed a brigade Of the Seventy ninth
Division and went through hard lighting
IN the Argonne Forest right up to the
last bang OF the guns
The SiXaola got info the North River
at too early an hour to find much OF a
welcoming party aboard. When the
Carriage hove In sight. however, the
Mayors committee vas up and about
n fervently on the job. Wherefore
there was the expected bombardment OF
the returning troopers with cigarettes,
Sunday newspapers and Chocolates. The
Mayors welcoming folk ever had o few
copies OF Ana extree gowshawfulest
fastest editions OF the Saturday night
papers for the soldiers also.
Capt. T. S. Whiting of Hampton, Va,
n OF the officers aboard the Carriage,
had been wounded in eighteen parts OF
his body when a high explosive, made
IN Germany. went of beside him at
Chateau Thierry last June. Leaning
over the rail beside Capt. Whiting was
Lieut.. W. L. Baker of Baltimore, who
wore the Croix de Guerre because of his
heroic work while serving with the
Ninetieth Aero Squadron. Another
wounded officer aboard was Major II.
Nelson Jackson. a surgeon whose right
arm was badly wounded while the Major
was attending a wounded mar under
IRE last September.
The Mauritania. witt more than 5000
OF Pershing's veterans aboard, is ex-
pected to dock at her pier on the Man
haitian side OF the North River at II
o'clock.