The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1918-12-04
GOTHAM HEARS first
shouts OF RETURNING
AMERICAN BOYS
The TransOrt Mauretania, Carrying
Over 1000 Returning Soldiers
Passes Statue of Libperty
Amid Joyous Scenes
WOUNDED MOVED ASHORE
Homecoming Troops Must Undergo
Medical Examination Before Being
Allowed to Mingle
With Populace

Now 7 ork, Dec. New York, en-
barkation port of many hundred thou
sands of American troops bound for
war, heard today the first cheers of
homecoming men of the victorious ar
,my-more than 1000 OF chem from al
most every State in the Union-who
Joined ina shout that carried across
The watches and into the streets Of
downtown Manhattan, when their
transport, the Maure;ania, passed the
Statue Of Liberty. With Mayor Hy-
Ian and q reception committee, ac-
| companied by the police aboard, the
| !!.oldier-freighted liner steamed up the
bay between lines of harbor craft
with the flags Of America and the AL
lies flying and with whistles Shrek
ing welcome. Battery park and piers
en- the Manhattan and New Jersey
| shores were throngcd with flag
waving, cheering multitudcs as the
Mauretania moved up to her pier on
the North river.
Wounded Land
At the same time, without cheers
or an official welcome of any sort,
1000 wounded soldiers, returned by
way of hospitals in France from the
trenches where they gripred with the
foe and helped to crush him, were
| being moved ashore from the troop
| ship Northern Pacific at Hoboken.
They were hurried to hospitals in
| Hoboken, Jersey City, and Staten
Island. To safeguard the public
against possible infectious diseases,
the troops from both transports were
isolated as they came ashore. Both
the we'll and wounded will be denied
close contact with relatives or friends
! nj %, fI,n,y Il
ical examinations in camp or hospital.
The units from the Maurctania, all
from training fields in England will
be mustered out at camp Mills. Fam
! lilies of the wounded will be notified
within few days of their wherca-
bouts and permitted to see them.
Thankfulness at getting home was
the prevailing spirit among the
wounded troops. Many bore more than
one wound, but few would talk of the
incidents OF battle that had sent them.
on stretchcrs from European trenches.
AT the pier severe discipline sue
ceedcd the freedom that had brought
officers and men side by side to the
rails for the first view of "little cid
New York." Units were quickly
formed and after hot refreshments
had been served by Red Cross work
ors the coniinrcrts marched aboard
ferry boards which conveyed them to
Long Island trains.
with the exception of a few hun
dred men, the troops from the Maure,
tanla were in aviation squadrons
| No Parades
In letter informing Mayor Hv)and
tnat parade Of the Homecoming SOL
dlers would rot be permitted, Maior
Gen. Bell, commanding the depart-
ment of the East, declared that "on
! the unanimous recommendation of thr
federal health authorities" the pov-
crnn,cnt had decided to keep return
llng troops from contact with the pub
nc until thew have Undergone SAN
| ltation process"
| The senior army officer aboard the
Maurctania was Col. II. C. Pratt, of
the air service.
wounded men brought home on the
Northern Pacific, it was announced,
/ included Members OF the F;f.y-fourth
infantry, Tenth engineers, Sixth
1ield artillery, Second machine gun,
Second marine, First cavalry and
first quartermaatcr units.
Passengers on the Northern Pacific
included Frederick r. Krcppcl, third
assistant Secretary of War, in charge
OF army morale, and thirty-scvcn
army Officers, among them Brig.
Gcns: Thomas II. Reese, and Charles
l.. Martin
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