New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-12-27

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'oF rang clear over the apotlcss decks
" me snperdrcadnought New York
yesterday while she lay at anchor in
the Hudson off Seventy ninth Street.
NShore party, lay aft on the main
deck" he called hoarselv.
And they did clay aft" Those gobs
and marines tell in on that recently
;gtoomed deck with all the speed they
mad; ti'"y tumhlod in; they almost
walked OF the ship in their desire to
lay eft,' for i. meant bat short ride
~ navy cutter, and then tho good,
glorious old American soil. where
0Nere were briGht-eycd American girls,
and soda fountains, and movies, and
'Aince pie lhnt didn't have to be bar
gained for in francs or ha'p'ny bits.
That Shiill call from the hos'us tin
whistle WAS the sweetest music they
had heard for months. The peace news
save them u thrill, and later the f'ov,-
ers and Kisses and the girls in Paris
mat greeted them ware all very r;css
but those sailors and the stalwart
leathernccks, as the rohs call the ma
tan, and il WAS better than the wine Of
France. And Oft they went with pol
ished sAoeT aud clean, white stripes
and bright gold ones on almost every
eft slccVe-riCht up Sevcnty-ninth
Street., pe,l sao..
Head For The Subway
They hadn'S cyuised about the by
ways OF London and Brest and Pacis
For nothing, and they naturally hit
straight for the subway entrance and
instnstiv~.y lott tina subway at Forty
second Street. The gohs know where
10 20 and how to get there. And i, ia
dollars to doUghnuts that when they
hit the deck st s O'Clock This morning
each one viii have become a veteran
New Yorker over night.
inS in the feet that has swept the
seas for months, is tho flagship OF the
Ninth Division now, but in the war she
was the flagship Of the Sixth Battle
Squadron. She fias aloft tho flag OF
Admiral Rodman, and is commended
by Captain T. L. Beach. And like the
old Pinafore, she carries right good
crew" Tho gobs point with pride to
q battered propeller dashed between
tha two after gun turrets. With large
chunks Of the hard bronze broken off,
II remains as the proof of one Skin
mish with U-boat in the North Sea
The Propeller gave the German a
backward kick ard Admiral Rodman
was credited with dropping another
agoinT Fritz into Davy Joness
roomy locker.
Chief Praises Grew
Chief Heisner declared his men
We're the best on the Atlantic. at
was bitter those night out there, but
these boys showed the stuff" he said.
About half OF the enlisted personnel
are naval reservists, and many Of them
still with the down Of youth Ga their
chins.
Did You sink any submarines with
gun fire 2" the chief was asked.
"Gunilre.' piped up young COB, eve
sinking the phantom ships. A peri
scope is small thing and we took
10 chances. but plugged away at
shadows and sharks and anything that
would oat And we brought in every
ship we conveyed"
The New York was present at the
rode abreast of the hattie cruiser Won
der Tam, with guns trained on The
German. 'You cant trust 'enl, lad"
said tn Bos'r who had seen seventeen
years IN The reGular service. The flag
ship was also visited on two occasions
by King George, King Albert and the
Queen OF Belgian, Admiral Beatty,
Admiral Sims and the Prince Of Wales.
Railway Battery Men There
After yer tArday's parade tire steel
leyiathsn was almost bare OF her crew,
but there vas savory chow stewing III
the galley, ard belrv decks there Was
a happy crowd of soidier-sailors from
the Naval Railway Battery that sur
p1'ised the Germans with those 35-mile
guns. They wera the PICK OF the ser
VICE, swsar5tssly, clcar-eyed Young men,
whnSe only worry was hat they could
nos get ashore 10 telegraph to their
parents. But they got liberty last
nighf, and they, 100, explored Nsw
York, wearing German belts and sport