The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-03
GOTHAM WARMLY
 WELCOMES F FIRST
 RETURNING TROOPS
Fighters Let Loose Cheer, Heard on the Downtown Streets of City, asStatue
 of Liberty Is Passed

New York, December ?.
 New York, embarkation port
 of many hundred thousands of
 American troops bound, for
 war, heard today the first
 cheers of homecoming men of 1.-the victorious army more than 4000 of them from almost
 every state in the union-who joined in a shout that carried |across the waters and into the streets of downtown Manhat-
 tam when their transport, the Mauretania, passed the Statue of Liberty.
 With Mayor Hyland. a reception com mittee, accompanied by the police band aboard, the soldier-freighted liner steamed up the bay between lines of harbor craft with the flags of America and the allies flying and with whistles shreking a welcome. Battery park and piers on the Manhattan and New Jersey shores wereNthronged with fiag~waving, cheering multitudes as the Mauretania moved up to her pier on the North river.
 1000 WOUNDED ARRIVE At the same time, without cheers or any official welcome of any sort, 10oe wounded soldiers, returned by way Of hospitals in France from the trenches where they gripped with the foe and helped to crush him, were being moved ashore from the troopship Northern Pacific at Hoboken. They were hur- ried to hospitals in Hoboken. Jersey City and Staten Island To safeguard the public against possible infectiors diseases. the troops from both trans ports were isolated as they came ashore Both the well and wounded | wifi be denied close contact with rel i atives or friends until after they have 1 medical examinations in l camp or hospital. The units from the | all from training fields | in England, will be mustered out St | Camp Mills Families of the wounded |
 
 their whereabouts and permitted to see | them.
 Thankfulness at getting home was | the prevailing spirit among the wound 1 .d troops. Many bore more than one wound, but few would talk of the incl le,.ts of battle that had sen >them on stretchers from European trenches
 REFRESHMENTS SERVED
 At the pier military discipline suC- ,eeded the freedom that had brous Int | officers and men. side by>side to the rails flor the first view of Little Old New York" Units were quickly formed served by Red Cross workers the con .ingents marched aboard ferryboats which conveyed them to Long Island rains.
 With the exception of "a few hundred nen. the troops from the Mauretahia were in aviation squadrons.
 IE a letter informing Mayor Hylan hat a parade of the home coming sol- Hers would not be permitted AIsJor feneral Bell. commanding the depart- nent of the east, declared Athat "onj he unanimous recommendation of the ederar-health authorities" the govern-j nent had decided to keep returning roops from coming i'll contact with the public until they have undergone
 The senior army officer aboard tllel was Col. H. c.sPratt. of the Lir service. st $ < ;ss {
 Wounded men brought home on the Northern Pacific. it was announced, in- I lnded flembe~s of Ef infaatrr, 4 s1.I- : ,ineer, six field arfNlsry. two machine l ( run. two marine. one cavalry and one uartermaster units ii
 Passengers on the Northern Pacific l, Frederick R. Keppel third as- ( istant secretary of war. in charge of 1 rmy morale, and 27 army officers. {