New-York tribune., 1918-12-03
1,1O0 Wounded i'm
Port, Greeted by
Nurses; No Cheers
Hospital Ship Brings in Boys
Manned by Foe, but Still
Ready to Joke at Things
as They See Them

The LOO wounded soldiers who
reached Hoboken Sunday night on the
troopship Northern Pacific without a
welcoming whistle or a word from any
reception committee were disembarked
yesterday and taken to hospitals in
Hoboken, Jersey City and Staten Island.
Stretcher bearers were leaving and
rcentering the ship in an endless pro-
cesson and Red Cross ambulances de
parting for their destinations in quick
succession while a footing river escort
accompanied the bedizened Mauretania
and her load of sound and hilarious
soldiers to the pier.
All Fronts Represented
But the men from the Northern Pa
cltlc did not seem to mind the city's
apparent forgetfulness. They were too
! glad 10 be home after a boisterous
passage. They came from every battle
front in France. There were marines
from Chateau Thierry, one Of them
with only one leg and one arm; men
who crossed the Ourcq with the 165th:
men who fought in Picardy and selec-
tive service men who helped turn the
st. Mihiel salient inside out.
fifty-four infantry regiments were
represented on the Northern Pacific.
ten engineer regiments, six field artil-
lery regiments, two regiments of
marines, two machine gun battalions,
two regiments of cavalry and the quar-
termaster's corps and the navy. The
navy was represented not only bv
sailors but by 200 officers and men Of
a United States naval air station in
France, which has four U-boats to its
credit and record Of 45O hours of
flying in a single month with ten
planes and six pilots.
The units represented were:
1nfantry-309th, 128th, 326th. 315tb
Sth, 26th, 28th, 58th, S2Oth, 11th. 47tb.
SO6th. 30th, 35th, 29d, 31oth, 7th. 1o9tb
lS7th, 359th, Tooth, S23d, s53d 332d
146th, 3tth, 18th, 314th, 4th, 10th. 56th
Goth, dist, seth, 962d, 320th, 16Oth.
l38th, 361st, 18th, 197th. l67th, 129th
ll3th, 163d, 1O9th, 1SOth, 36Oth. 3sth,
10th, 35ld and 131st.
., Etan2ginneasarss-1o2d, p naas 18th, goth, 2sd,
81 6th, ,3o9th, 311tn, 9TH, 318th, 1O1st
Field Artillery-129 10th. 10th
10th, 3l3th and 18th.
221st. '1-'i' anu
Cavalry-2d and 304th.
Quartermaster's Corps.
flfth and 9th Division Of Marines.
Kin To Be Notified
AS soon as the men are settled in
the hospitals to which thew ware taken
yesterday their relatives will be noti-
i'ed and they will be permitted to re-
celVe visitors. They were divided into
ooo walking cases" and 500 "sevcra
cases cases No friends or relatives were
allowed on the pier
According to Lieutenant Commander
IL. u Davis, of the Medical Corps. who
superlntended the disembarkatirn, most
u tne severe cases will be taken to
foX HILLS Base Hospital, Staten Island.
Laughed at Mal-de-Mer
Naval officers VINO crossed on the
hospltal snip said that the passage was
one OF the toughest they ever knew
Storms lay in wait for the shin ali
lhc way from Brest to New York. thev
SAID, and she had no sooner shaken of
enc than she rolled into another
But through it all" said an officer
OF the ship, the spirit of the men
never dropped for a moment. The
stretcheI cases were no exception. Men
Joked at their own seasickness and sug-
gesced song, even when they were
200 tagged out to join in themselves
1T is no wonder the German arno,,
cracked before such men at Chateay
Ihlerry and other places.'