New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-04-11
Men of the Old "69th" Live
Up to Their Fighting
Tradition
Not One Appears
In "Killed" Column
Most of Them Have Been
Only Slightly
Wounded

The names of many New Workers are
contained in the latest casualty lists
published by the War Department.
Most of them, however. are listed as
slightly wounded" only one as "se-
verely wounded" and none are in the
killed or missing" column.
Sergeant James P. Shields. of the
117th Engineers, is reported Severely
wounded" He is twenty-four years old.
the son of Mr. and Mrs. William
Shields, of 544 West 163d Street. Be-
fore entering the service he was en-
ployed as a draughtsman by the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company. He went
to France in October.
The names of New Workers reported
slightly wounded" follow:
Captain John p. Hurley, Company X,
119 Amersfort Place. New York City,
is forty years old, and before the war
was an engineer in the employ of the
Public Service Commission. Previous
to that he had served in the Bureau
of Highways. He saw service on the
Mexican border with the ol,. Goth. He
is a member of the Crescent Club. Mrs
Hurley, who is now living at Eighth
Avenue, Brooklyn, learned Tuesday
through the War Department that her
husband had been wounded.
Second Lieutenant William d. Crane,
Company X, 410 Park Avenue, is TWEEN
ty-five years old and Harvard grad
uate. He went to France at the begin
ming of the war to drive an ambulance.
He saw service at Verdun. year ago
he returned to the United States and
went to Plattsburg, where he won his
commission.
Second Lieutenant Thomas c. p. Mar
tin, Company X, COS West 112th Street,
is thirty years old; graduated from
Washington and Jefferson College
eight years ago; studied law and en-
tered the firm of Caldwell, Masslich &
Reid, III Broadway He served on the
Mexican border with his regiment.
First Lieutenant Coleman d. Burns,
Company h, II Arden Street, thirty
one years old. was one Of four brothers
who went to France with the 165th
Regiment. Has wife and two chill
dren, Coleman, jr.. five. and Douglas,
three. Before going to France. he had
been an electrical expert in the en-
ploy of the New. York Edison Company.
He Joined the Goth more than twelve
years ago. His brothers, James, Zenas
nj RI ,+on. y,tc
the regiment.
Second Lieutenant Arthur l.. Bun
nell, Company NJ, ITS East Seventeen
Street, was formerly connected with
the advertising department of The
Tribune. He lived with his parents
In 1914 he was graduated from Will
Jams College, at the age of twenty
three. He served three years with
the 23d Regiment, Brooklyn. and was
on the Mexican border.
Captain Martin II. Meaney, Company
n, ISL East Fifty-fourth Street, is the
youngest company commander in the
regiment In 1910, when he was twen-
ty-two years old, he enlisted in the
69th, with which he served on the
Mexican border. He received his com
mission at Plattsburg last September.
First Lieutenant Floyd L. Stevens,
Company NJ, 10 East Seventeenth
Street, Flatbush. He is twenty-eght
years old.
First Lieutenant John Rudolph
Quinn, Medical Reserve Corps. 314
Greene Avenue, Brooklyn, is a son or
Mrs. Ella S. Quinn. lie enlisted IN
May. 1917, was commissioned in June
and left for the other side on Septem-
Der 8. He was in the Aberdeen Hos.
pital, Scotland. for two months, and
was then sent to the firing line, IN
the field ambulance service. lie
studied at Adelphi College. and was
graduated from Princeton in 1909. and
from Cornell Medical school. He was
connected with the New York Dis
pensary in Spring Street.
Sergeant Hyman Selfish, lib Moore
Street, williamsburg. is twenty years
old His father is the proprietor of a
large restaurant. year ago he en-
listed in the Goth. and was afterward
transferred to the 9th Engineers and
put in Company D. He was most en-
thusiastic to go to France, and before
his departure told his father that if he
Germans he would be found on the
lob. 81 guess he was on the job" his
father said yesterday when he read the
telegram from Washington which told
of him being "wounded in action"
Corporal Philip II. Hellriegel, Com
pany X, 25I5 Seventh Avenue, was en-
ployed by the Consolidated Gas Com
pany before ne entered the service. He
served seven years in the list Regi
ment Mrs. Anna Druckmillcr, his
guardian, received letter from him on
March, "a, saying that he was in good
health. A War Department telegram
notified her yesterday that he was on
the casualty list
Private Francis Ignatius Kelly, Com
pany X, sos West 18th Street, en-
listed in May. Before that he was en-
ployed in the Office of the State Engi-
neer. His father. George T. Kelly, is