The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-03-06
OLD GOTH RECT.
NATI0NALGUARD
is FIGHTING NOW
On Front Line in France
With Rest of Rainbow
Division.
LOCATION KEPT SECRET
Freeport Corporal in Com
pany B Officially Reported
Wounded in Action.
KEPT SECRET

The Rainbow Division. including New
York's fighting Irishmen OF the old Six
ty-ninth National Guard Regiment. is
on the firing line In France. in action
against tho Germans. II is not per-
mttted to say just where it 10. but II IL
there and Is fighting and has been for
some time.
The New England contingent OF the
National Guardsmen was the FIRST to
cross the Atlantic. and the first to get
into the real war. The Rainbow d.
vision--always including New York's
own Sixty-ninth. mind you. even II the
ofiicial name Is now the 1s5th-was sec
ond and at its proper time Of succession
It went into the trenches.
The division has not been mentioned
in recent dispatches. which In itself was
q sign OF activity. But In a despatch
from Washington published in yesterday
mornings papers Arthur C. Travers. cor
poral. Freeport. n. Y. was listed by the
War Department as among those
wounded February %.
Probably Arthur c. Trayer.
There is no Arthur c. Travers living in
Freeport, but there Is an Arthur c.
Trayer. who Is in France as n member
of Company B of the l65th Infantry. the
old Sixty-ninth. in the Rainbow Division.
The War Department has notified his
parents In Freeport thet he has been
wounded. THE SUN IS assured from
hlp0 ,hot 10 <1
ty-ninth IL fighting on the French front.
tho location OF the sector. Of course. be-
ing kept secret.
Corporal Trayer was wounded while
helping to repulse a German trench raid.
which failed. His father. Edward p.
Trayer, used to be a corporal In the
United States Army. The boy went to
the Mexican border with the Twenty
third Infantry Of Brooklyn and later was
Transferred to the sixty-ninth. He re-
Gently was put In charge of a machine
gun. In letter to his parents. received
a few days ago. he said. II have been de-
tailed TO the Suicide Club'---thst being
the army name for . machine gun COM
pany.
The Sixty ninth Infantry. n. q. n. Y.
served for months on the bopdcr In 1915
under Col. Haskell. When It got back
W ANo" .AOTh Soi IihekSil TetuTneu "
his duties In the Regular Army. and the
regiment was reorganized by it's Lieu
tenant Colonel, Latham g. Reed.
He was eventually succeeded by Col.
Charles Delsno Hine. In whale of
an enlistment campaign the regiment
took In nearly l.400 recruits after Presi-
dent Wilson's announcement of the cX-
istence of state OF war.
To it were transferred $50 enlisted
men Of the Seventh Regiment On the eve
Of the Sixty-ninth's departure for Camp
Mills. Mineola. training ground Of the
Rainbow Division. which Is composed of
National Guard units from many States,
before its departure for France. The
Rainbow Division stayed at Camp Mills
several months. then steamed quietly
awdy.
Hine Succeeded BY ,. W. Barker.
Last month the Army and Navy
Journal announced that John W. Barker
had succeeded Col. Hine In command of
the old sixty ninth. Col. Hine. who is an
expert in railroad work. having been
assigned to transportation duty with
the American Expeditionary Forces.
THE regiment IL now as hard as
nails the Army and Navy journal said.
"and when the time comes for IL to
meet the Germans the best traditions OF
the old Sixty-ninth will surely be main
tanned. The regiment is anxious for the
day to 60 over the top"
Tho "Sixty-ninth" Is not filed to the
limit with lrishmen, as il was in other
wars. but they are in majority.
In a recent despatch to the Evening
World Martin Green said he found the
men Of a certain unit OF the ixty-ninth
sleeping In barn. They had painted
on the doors OF the horse stalls such
names az THE Knickerbocker." THE
Biltmore'' and even THE Martha WASH
ington." And they were singing The
Sidewalks Of New York;