The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1918-12-21
2,O42 SOLDIERS
! HERE TODAY ON
THE LINER BALTIC
White Star Vessel Brings 90
Officers and i,943 Men
From Liverpool.

! Tho White Star liner Baltic. loaded
with American soldiers from France,
can't TO her dock here to-day at 1880
cropping through n fog so dense that
the Statue OF Liberty was invisible
from the Battery. The soldiers insist
ed on seeing the statue. however. and
the ship nosed over that way, pass,ng Z
almost under tho torch.
Ono couldn't see soldier at al.
from the Battery, but could hear
them cheering. and the outlines OF the
ship os she turned in toward the New
York side became vaguely dlscerni-
bic. Long before the vessel was
sighted by anybody in Manhattan
everybody knew she was near. for the
sirens were screaming a welcome and
I band music was audible from some
river craft that could not be seen
at all.
The Baltic docked AZ the White
Star piers south OF 73d Street.
she carries 90 officers anc 1898 en-
listed men classified as follows: 20
officers and Jo7o men OF winchester
Casual Companies 1887. 1858, 1859,
leo. 1861. 1.o63 and 1864: 6 casual
officers and $50 men sick or wounded;
officers and 10 men OF medical de-
tachments: IS officers OF Quarter
master Corps: officers OF air SER
vice; officers OF air service: 80 ON
GERS OF chemical warfare service;
officer OF AdJutant Generals Depart
ment; officer Medical Corps; l
infantry otficer: enlisted infantry
man. q.
The army transport Metspan with
thirty-seven officers and twelve en-
listed men docked at Hoboken at 10
o'clock this morning. The vessel was
met by a reception committee down
the Bay and the soldiers were the
centre OF an enthusiastic celebration
when they lasded' at Hoboken.
There were two colonels, THREE
Majors and thirty-two commissioned
offfcers OF lower rank aboard. Col.
Morgan Lewis Brett OF the Ordnance
Department. who resides on Hillside
Avenue, Montclair. y. j.. was the
ranking officer on board. Lieut.. Col.
George r. Norton OF the Ordnance
Department. who 1ives In Washing
ton. d. c.. also returned. New York
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S. Buck, Engineers. No. 400 West
i60th StreetI Capt. Henry u. Allen,
Ordnance Department. No. II South
William Street. and Lieut.. Frederick
d. Bell. No. East 42d Street.
Tho Meta pan also brought the first
OF tho entertainment troops" 10 be
sent home. lie liz A. ]. Schneeman of
the Headquarters Company. 3Ith Di-
vision. He went from his home in
St Paul. MINI, to a Western camp,
where he and some companions, all
members of tho theatrical profession,
formed a minstrel troupe. On arriv-
ing in France they furnished enter
talnment for wounded men in hos
played one-night stands In Paris and
London.
Liaut. c. Edward Palmer Of the
Signal Corps. who lives at the North
End Club, Newark. n. J., went over
seas as a sergeant and three days be-
fore the armistice was signed he was
commissioned n second lieutenant.
He told how he strung wires along
tho front lines at Chateau Therry. st.
Mihiel and in tho Argonne Woods.
The Rappannock arrived from
Brest last night with one officer and
rs men OF the 9Th Railroad Ordnance
Repair Shop, and anchored down the
bay. The men will be brought to
Hoboken to-day either by tho vessel
herself or else on a tug.
A large cargo OF Christmas mail
from American soldiers in Europe was
brought by the British liner Walmar
Castle, which arrived here to-day.
The liner also brought twelve mom-
hers of the United states Naval Avia.
tion Service. who were on patrol duty
on the North Sea during the war.
They were the only returning mem.
bers OF American armed forces on the
ship. Some Red Cross. Y. NJ. C. A.
and X. Of c. workers also returned.
II was reported at embnrAatIon
headquarters this morning that the
George Washington. which took
President Wilson TO France, sailed
from Brest on Dec. Is and is due 10
arrive In New York on Christmas
Da". She will bring the complete
la9th Field Artillery, consisting OF
So officers and l,is4 men. OF he
isT.h Field Artillery she win BRING
the Headquarters Company. Bat
teries A. II. d RnG Il, consisting OF
SS officers and S24 men. Others un
board will be: 80 officers and 81
| men OF advanced school detachments n
OF the llth Division; two officSI 8
and l0S men OF Casual Detachm Nnt
No. l of the chemical warfare SER
vice, IS officers and lt9 casual officers
OF the i3;th Field Artillery and 96s
sick and wounded. The total on
board will be s,Sls,
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Aircraft Exposition Here Feb. 27
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