New-York tribune., 1918-12-12

ana again at the pier one thing is Ger
tain--thc men who were aboard her
were unanimous in confirming stories
OF the men of the 69th, given out ear
Her IN the week, that the Prussian
Guards were bad sports when it came
to an even fight. In every case, they
saiu, ~ was a case OF retreat or plead
ing "kamerad" with them.
The Tenadores carried mostly West
ern men, but there were scores from
New York-from the Gas House District
to the Bowery and from Brooklyn to
The BronX--and most of them were
wounded, and while the rain pounded
down on the decks and Manhattan was
still invisible to them they were laugh
ing, sometimes almost crying, with joy.
Maybe the most interesting passen-
ger g abroad the Ship was Elmer J.
Goyer, fourteen years old, of East
Pittsburgh. He got in, after running
away. from home, by telling the re-
cruiting sergeant that he was twenty:
and when they asked him to get the
sanction of his parents, because they
didn't believe he was telling the. truth,
he told them he had no one in the
world and that was why he wanted to
go. They took him, and now it's all
over. He's going back to his home to
KISS his waiting parents and sell papers
again.
Face to Face With Death
But his trip was not without it's
drama. He fought along the Somme,
in the Albert sector and at Chateau
Ihicrry. and he was wounded in the
leg on October A. He was too light to
carry a regulation gun--he weighs only
ninety pounds-so they gave him
light rifle to kill Germans with. His
pal on the trip over was J. H. Henry,
sailor, who stands almost two feet
over his chum and who weighs exactly
one hundred pounds more. Elmer never
could keep up with Henry when they
went downstairs from one deck to the
other so Henry usually carried him.
The five warriors of the 69th were
Leo Throop, machine gunner, of 1912
East Twelfth Street, Brooklyn; Will
Jam Cummings, Company H., of 81 East
End Avenue, Manhattan "Jock" Cam
eron, Company NJ the vaudeville
actor; Morris Cotter, Company A, of
l54 East Forty-ninth Street, and John
McMorrow, Company l., cf 344 Park
Avenue, Brooklyn. All of them were
wounded in the leg or the arm and all
of them were up against the Prussian
Guard. McMorrow told of a man in
his company whose brother had just
been killed in action emptying his
automatic into member of the Crown
Prlnce's shock troops.
Jazzed With Machine Gun
Murray Freedman, of 1853 Kelly
Street, The Bronx, was one of the
77th Camp Upton) men. Before he be-
came a soldier he was a musician at
the Martinique and jazzed things up
pretty we'll. He repeated making peo-
pie dance to his music on the other
side, because when he was asked if
, ne knew if he had gotten any Huns
| he said, ooh, did ?" and then he showed
pictures he took himself of few
he brought in. He was wearing a Ger
man belt around his coat
Charles w. Sweet, from White Lake
| Corners, Oneida County, a member of
the 37th Divisions, was in gas attack
for eight hours without a mask and
for two weeks after he couldn't see
and was unable to speak a word. Ply
sicians told him his was one of the
most remarkable cases of the war. He
fought at both Metz and in the Ar
gonne.
Other wounded New York men
aboard we're: James Cox, 8l1 Wash
3l3 Huguenot Street. New Rochelle
Richard Kelly, 2103 Eighth, Avenue,
Manhattan; John j. Stumph, 81 Fayette
Street, Brooklyn; August Micha, 1916
Gravesend Avenue, Brooklyn; Henry
F. Smith, New Brunswick; Harry
Greenberg, 215 East Fourth Street,
Manhattan; Joseph Offner, Is Lincoln
Avenue, Woodside, L. L.; William Ar
gumper, 800 1arbor Road, Mariners
Harbor, S. L.; William Nj. Fels, 26 East
Second Street, Manhattan; John
Monck. 23O Fountain Avenue, Brook
lyn; John Foley, 3O5 East Thirty
seventh Street, Manhattan; George
Hassard, East Sixty-third Street,
Manhattan; Nathaniel Mintz. 441 East
Sixteenth Street, Manhattan; Cara
Baron, 212 Eldridge Street. Manhat-
tan; Anthony j. Burke, 66 Fourth
Street, Brooklyn Robert j. Marshall,
582 Eleventh Street, Brooklyn; Charles
McCann, 552 Eleventh Street, Brook
lyn; Peter Rubinattio, 346 Metropoli-
tan Avenue, Brooklyn; James Stance,
723 Glenmore Avenue, Brooklyn; Louis
j. Peterson, 809 Fortieth Street, Brook
lyn