The sun., 1918-12-21
10000 MORE HEROES
BACK FROM EUROPE.
5000 Land in Swarms on the
Hudson River Piers and
Hoboken Sees Parade.
MEDALS WORN BY MANY
Noisy Harbor Welcome for
Four Big Transports and
Cheers for Veterans.

Speaking about returning troop
ships-as everybody is--nobody came
ashore at this port yesterday except
almost 5000 officers and men, not TO
mention almost 1000 more soldiers
who we're unloaded at the same time
at Newport News, Va
olive drab officers and men stepped
on four ships, which docked in or
near Manhattan yesterday, In so CO.
ag,iiated q mass that for time the
observer couldn't put from his mind
the idea that a plague of light brown
bees was swarming along the upper
bay and North River waterfronts-n
one may use the hateful word plague
In Speaking OF such thunderously well
come guests.
Civilians Of distinction came across
the pond to town too. Coming hap
pilv down gangplanks on all sides OF
the North River all the time WERE
among others, War Worker (Mrs.)
ORC Phipps, who is a sister Of Mrs.
Charles Dana Gibson and therefore
one Of the "Ianghorne sisters OF Vir-
Montevallo, Ala, who was the most
Iavtshly decorated" soldier boy that
! has been seen In this or any other port
since the war began; a couple Of Brig
adler Generals Of artillery, dis
tineuished italian American. who had
TO brush aside his medals (awarded
for bravery before he could step out
into the air and speak; 80 many par
~ md nrivatoS
that the clank of their War Crosses OF
France and Distinguished Service
Medals awakened two thoughts after
one had heard why the many decora-
tons had been awarded to them: (a)
why should the decorations be so COM
mon? and % why, after hearing all
the tales of all the heroes who stepped
ashore, shouldn't everybody who came
back from France yesterday wear
decoration? In other words, why
shouldn't the medals be even more
common?
BACK Homo Before Christmas.
: go close on the heels of one another
came the troopships up the bay dur
ing the forenoon and early afternoon
hours that the onlookers. watching
rows almost simultaneously, couldn't
help but feel that II Henry Ford and
the entire roster OF the good peace ship
Oscar II.-famous two or three years
ago. or whenever It was-were draped
along the windows Of Hoboken tene-
ment they would rest content in the
thought that the boys really at last
had got out of the trenches by Christ
mas. -
q In fact he younger. or dancing. set
cf the army and navy cotillon OF
sweating boy officers attached to the
Hoboken port OF embarkation worked
SO feverishly and so efficiently all day
yesterday that word went out unofri-
cially toward evening that strike
was imminent. 1t was said that the
Army Second Lieutenants Amalga-
mated Workers of the World Union
Hoboken Local /. and the unionized
Navy Ensigns Union. Local SO, were
on the point toward evening OF
marching in a body to Maennechor
Hall, Newark. to ask Sam Gompers tc
address them ana give them permits
sion to strike.
One couldn't blame the Second
Lieutenants and Ensigns If they had
gone on a Second Lieutenants Union
strike last night: overlooking them al
the time were army First Lieutenants
navy senior grade Lieutenants, navy
Captains, army chiefs OF staff ant
general officers-and so on up to re.
porters of metropolitan newspapers
who kept on telling the youngsters o.
the army and navy what they mus
and must not DO when the troopship:
come in. The young Lieutenants hat
notion that the landing Of the
troops was a personal and private al
fair, and the older and kindlier army
men had to speak to them roughly.
Wherefore 1t Is self-evident that tn,
offictals and members Of the Lieuten'
ants Union, Locals to So, were on the
verge Of distraction at dusk last night
-Four ships had locked in ell ant
consequently there was tho deuce Il
pay.
Ships Follow One Another.
The good ship Henry r. Mallory
with 1,436 enlisted men and forty iv'
officers aboard, got into Pier 2. Hobo
ken, at GAS A NJ. Close on her trim
heels came the naval transport Man
churia to Pier 8, Hoboken, with 4.o6'
soldiers. sailors and marines aboard
plus forty-nine civilians
Immediately after arrived the White
star liner Megantic. which noatet
along in a calm and lovely fashion int
Der berth at Pier 81. over near tn,
foot Of the West Twenties, Manhattan
about P. NJ. with about 400 pas
sengers in her staterooms, some o
whom were fighting sons o. guns WIFI
had had big part in putting the wei
known international crook, Wilhelm
the over Insured, fiat on his sixth
cervical vertebra.
On top Of all these arrivals tn
United States naval transport Buiten
zorg, once Dutch ship. happened
through the Narrows and slammed he
mudhook upon the floor OF Gravesen,
Bay in the early afternoon, wit
sixty-fice officers and men giving tire
rousing cheers as they rubbed thei
eyes and looked south toward Sea Gat'
Coney Island and Bay Ridge.
T. Tor Tho Araf time since froOna cam