The sun., 1918-12-17

the doggone cheap skate Capt. Phelps
Of the Leviathan."
And he deity disappeared amid
silence.
Upon the pier simultaneously came
young Cap'n Casey Morgan, blood In
his eye and trailed by 1,467762,OOs
distracted newspaper men-more or
less. Capt. Morgan had dropped the
papers on his desk, kicked over chair
and then had come to the pier when
II had been made plain to him that the
passes which he had signed for work
ing newspaper men we're being more
than ignored
In their widest dreams of magma
ton the distracted folk in his wake
couldn't have conceived a happening
more beautiful than the happening
which instantly happened. Believe 1t
or not, as Capt. Morgan started wrath
fully up the gangplank leading to the
deck Of the Leviathan to find out why
his working passes were no good
sentry showed rifle across Capt. Nor
gan's gold laced uniform and asked
him why he was headed toward some
place he couldn't go.
The San Francisco earthquake.
Mount Pelee. The Monitor and Merri-
mac. The South Amhoy explosion. A
Democratic convention.
When Dust Cleared Away.
And when the cust mad cleared the
sentry and two Second Lieutenants
were sitting reclining on ba,e Of
something and large First Lieuten-
ant named Elmer was tanning them
slowly and trying to lift their eyelids.
Young Cap'n Casey Morgan was back
ut mis- desk signing papers and all the
landsmen were roaming in carefree
fashion the length and breadth OF the
Leviathan.
II the Battle of the Pier hadn't been
fought and won so smaruy the best
that could be said this morning would
be that the Leviathan, wearing new
winter coat OF back which did not al
together conceal her recent summer
suit OF camouhase blue, white and
black, passed the Battery at'7:S0 A. M.
to the accompaniment of all the whis-
ties capable of grooming at so early an
hour.
BY 0 o'clock A. NJ. she was knitted
10 her dock at pier 4, Hoboken. Five
brass bands of excellence-if there can
be such thing as a brass band OF ex-
cellence--were braying on the pier,
said banks being the artists Of the good
ship wilhelmlna, which was tied up at
an adjacent pier, the Seventy first
Regiment band, the Red Cross band. a
hand from Camp Upton and the Camp
Merritt prize brass band. Also four
bllejackets had got hold OF four brass
instruments and were umpahing, to
the delight Of every one atoat and
| ashore who could hear them above the
magnificent noise. in true leetle Cher
man bandit fashion.
The sailor band, smuggling together
and leaning against one another low
| ingly on the barber shop chords. were
playing How Dry / Am" Soldiers
and sailors draped along the Levi
athan a few feet away grew emo
| tional over that tune and wept.
la Lorraine's Veil.
I'd the river while the noise was Al
| II durndest swept La Lorraine. the
river whistles again crying and cheer
| ing and grooming, with hreboa'
| keeping abreast OF the French girl:
quarter and throwing great misty jets
| from many nozzles into the air. A
stiff breeze came down the river and
trailed the water spray OF tho fire
boat aft from Ia Lorraine in way
| that made one think the French nne'
was trailing n lovely veil OF ole
| French lace.
One standing on tho ond Of th'
Hoboken pier and watching In Lor
raiue could not Ions be lost In ad
miration, for oil about the Leviatha NJ
pier were raucous motor trucks, Rec
Cross girls chatter!ng happily, tn
clatter of tin cups and plates as tn
| heavily weighted soldiers came of
the Leviathan and lined UP, pack
on back to cat the goodies and drinl
the coffee which the Red Cross folk
always on the job, were dishing out
with the possible exception OF th'
day the Oregonian arrived In Brooklyn
with many civilians and one lone so!
der, Sergeant Leland Kaufman, aboar
never we're troops taken ashore 8
quickly as we're the thousands OF sol
ders and sailors OF the Leviatha,
yesterday morning.
In came Capt, Phelps OF the Levia
than with the soldiers. Standing a
the foot OF the gangplsnk was Majo
II. p Hewes OF the army to receiv
them and take all but the decrepit I