The sun., 1918-12-29
son AND GRANDSONS
OF PRESIDENTS BACK
w. c. Hayes, d. Hayes Smith
and Algernon Sartoris Among
Returning Soldiers.
BILL HARRIGAN HOME TOO
Mauretania Expected to Ar
rive To-day Bearing Nearly
All the 347th Infantry.

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score got under tho wire Just in time
late yesterday afternoon to see Manhat-
tan all Lit UP. when the French Limo
steamship Niagara breezed up from
Quarantine and was warped into her
North River pier in the Chelsea section.
The handful OF soldiers aboard the Nj
sgara were the last OF tho scrappers to
reach here from Europe yesterday. the
total OF arriving troops consisting OF
ninety-two wounded officers aboard the
transport Turrialha and the small quota
on the Niagara.
Capt. William Harrigan, a son o; the
late Ned Harrigan of Harrigan and Hart
stage Immortality, was among the nine
fy-two wounded officers aboard the Tur-
rialba. Capt. Harrigan-Bill Harrigan
TO the Lambs Club and William Harri-
gan. actor. 20 theatregoers who remem-
her his work in various broadway sue
oesses-left tho stage the moment Amer
lea entered the war and Immediately mad
himself booked for a prominent military
part In the biggest of all shows, then
approaching a climax in Europe.
Two Srandsons and one son OF former
Presidents of the United States arrived
aboard the Niagara, and all OF them had
seen service abroad. Col. William c,
Hayes, SOL Oh. EbutIlbTAOTu %. HldyeH, wan
one of these, Col Hayes having been with
the American Service of Supplies in
France. Algernoon +. Sartoris. n grand
son OF Ulysses s. Grant. once was a
Lieutenant in our army In the Philip
pines, but in the greatest war was a pri-
waite in the Foreign Legion. Corporal
Dalton Hayes Smith. a nephew of Col.
Hayes and a grandson Of ex-President
Hayes. came into port aboard the Mag
ara with n Wounded left shoulder as a
result of the hard service Corporal Hayes
saw while fighting with Manhattan's
''Oh Six~ty-ninth."
sartoris Saw Hard Fighting.
Sartoris was in the French trenches
during three years OF almost uninter-
rupted fighting. A greater part Of tho
time his regiment was stationed near
Rheims, put he also had n hand in the
lighting at the second battle Of Verdun.
when the Allies tried out their new and
successful three wave offensive" which
swept the Germans back. He wears the
insignia OF the Legion of Honor and n
little bit of green and yellow ribbon In
the buttonhole Of his coat signifying
that he enlisted in the French service
voluntarily.
The sinking OF the Lusitania was the
only incentive that L needed TO push me
into tho fight he said. when that
ship went down with some OF my friends
on board ! was so all fred mad l could
hardly wait to get a shot at the persons
who were responsible for the outrage.
I did wait for a while. however. think
ing the United States surely would de-
clare war, nut when an interchange OF
notes followed i bought n ticket for
France and got into a uniform az soon
IS they would let me. Speaking OF those
Lusitania notes. I recall hat a French
soldier remarked 20 me one day that
the White House must be equipped with
. splendid typewriter.
81 don't know exactly how 70 put.
low TO do the subject Justice hut I
should like TO say 4 word about the
French officers. Their th~oroughress.
their anxiety to save their men and their
utter disregard OF their own safety were
things to marvel at. The French soldier
Is a wonder, but the French officer Is a
miracle.
Forty-eight Nations fn Legion.
''Th American soldier. one might say.
II n hit too brave. too anxious TO forge
ahead. That OF curse IL an admirable
fault. but i is one not to be found in
the French soldier. The latter Is abso-
lutely brave. but moro careful than the
American soldier. He doesn't rush his
fences as the British officer would say.
There were something like forty
eight different ~nationalities represented
in the Foreign Legion when ! enlisted.
The Captain Of my company was French,
the First Lieutenant a Persian Prince.
who. by the way. was a rafting good
soldier. and the Second Lieutenant was
an Ecuadorean, as brave as a lion. Both
his legs were shot on"
Sartoris will remain in tbs city sew
eral days and will then 80 to Chicago
90 yfaEt hfu pNn.1.p Will. l.rn ~ Will
attend to some business relating to the
publication OF his book OF experiences.
which To intends - cal legends %
the Legion"
In addition tn being the son OF an
NN-Presideut Col. Hayes also possesses
the proud distinction of having once been
Gen. Pershing's commander, That was
IN the Philippines when "Biack Jack"
was a member Of Col. Hayes STAFF.
ReIng a typical military man the Colonel
~ course would not discuss the business
that took him abroad. but L was banded
about among his fellow passengers that
he had been sent as far as Morocco on
a special mission for the United states
Government. HIS nephew, Corporal
Smith. was "A freshman in Princeton
when he enlisted in the ~SlNty-ninth New
York and was absorbed INTO the l65th
Infantry.
Went TO WhIttIesey's Relief.
The splendid record which young Capt.
Bill Harrigan made while being put
through a course OF training sprouts at
Plattsburg-a record so good that he
was commissioned a Captain at Platts-
burg when 50 many other soldier stu
dents were blessing their stars because
they had achieved Second Lieutenancies
was increased 10 greater splendor once
Capt. Harrigan had got his chance 10
show what he could do in tho field.
Al the time Col, Whittlesey, speaking
for his Los Battalion" told the whole
German army, from the Crown Prince
VI. that individually and collectively
the Huns could go to hell" Capt. Bll
Harrigan also was lighting In the Ar
come NJ the head Of his company the
one time Broadway actor beat and
slashed a path through the Argonne jun
gle as n part OF tho relief party hurry
ing toward the spot where they could
nelp Col. Whittlesey and his men send
no Huns TO some part Of hell Boosting
Of a southern exposure.
A machine gunner wearing Hunnish
gray saw Cart. Harrigan and his men
coming onward and opened up. A bull
let ripped through Capt. Harrigau's arm
and laid him low. When he came into
port with the other wounded officers on
the Turrialba, however. he had pro-
crossed SO far toward recovery that
there was every promise that before long
81 walter In the Lambs Clu grill will he.
gin reverently TO dus, of n chair for FIN
Hsrriran.