The sun., 1918-12-21

trains. Again the FIRST silence, the
shuffie of feet amid lanes of silent
humans, the sudden hysterical cheer
after company after company had
gone by, and then bedlam.
The Manchuria came into port with
authoritative news that among her
passengers were four stowaways, one
a Captain Of the army and the other
three Lieutenants, The detkils of
how the Captain and three Lieuten-
ants had bobbed UP on deck q day
after tho Manchuria had left Brest
was told authoritatively aboard the
Manchuria yesterday after she had
locked.
But" grinned the high authority.
"all four of the officers had fought
so hard and had suffered so much
that no one could blame them, once
, they knew the war was over, for
sneaking aboard this ship to get home
to their young wives and families
again. No. I won't tell you their
names"
The overworked police boat Patrol,
with the Mayors welcoming commit
tee and the usual quota OF vocal and
| instrumental musicians aboard, tried
to pick up the Mallory, first OF the
ships to get in, in the upper bay yes
terday morning, a dense fog blanket
| ing the bay at the time. And after
stumbling around opposite the Liberty
Lady for some time the Patrol awak-
ened to the fact that the Mallory al
ready was warped into her Hobokep
pier. The Patrol, once 1t had found
| In wit
noise for all the time lost in greeting
the returning army heroes.
wounded Goth Men Aboard.
| Three Of the momentous old Sixty
ninth fighters were in the sick bay OF
the Manchuria, which was also greeted
by the Patrol and much racket OF
water and waterfront whistles. The
three were Private Joe Drury OF 2S6
Bedford avenue, Richmond Hill; Cor
poral Cornelius Horgan OF 213 Thirty
fourth street Brooklyn. and Corporal
John ]. Casey of ia Nineteenth street.
Flushing. who wore chevrons on his
right arm which showed he had been
wounded in three different fights.
1t is customary TO say when q
troopship comes In that there were
SO many heroes aboard their names
cannot be listed" As for the soldiers
aboard the Manchuria there were &c
many wearing tho Croix de Guerre
and the Distingu ished Service Cross
not to mention the fighters credited
with one. two and even three citations
in addition to their decorations, that
their names cannot be listed.
Aboard the Megantic was one Colo,
mel of the Italian army, Col. Ugo Pig
zarello. whose chevrons showed HI
had been wounded in four differen
battles. On the Megantic also wa.
Lieut.. Jimmie Murphy of the Roya
Flying Corps. Jimmie's home address
being 465 fremont avenue. The Bronx
In 1918 Jimmie jumped of the Brook
lyn Bridge on a bet or for some othel
reason, wherefore 1t was to be ex
} pected that when the war bust loos,
Jimmie should become an allied flier
should be downed behind the German
lines, escape and finally should COM
ashore at Hoboken yesterday blith
and merry and bright and glad to b
J home again. thank you.
: Three American officers stepped OF
the Manchuria wearing the Croix d
} Guerre-Col. T. a. Roberts. Capt
Phillip 3. Paul of Boston and Dart
mouth, and Capt. John Prout OF tn
} Old Sixty ninth. And from the Nal
lory came Brighten. Richard "
. Young. a grandson OF Brigham Young
beaded for his home in Salt Lake Cit.
after many thrilling experiences Il
France. In fine. the troopships Man
churia, Mallory and Bultenzorg an
the liner Megantic had so many heroe
and SO many stories aboard that the
cannot be listed"