The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-12-19

oAfln lHlautIy. lie WAS asked III the
jazz band was Of a high artistic order.
Man." he grinned. man, that band
that band-it's-man, that. that.
that band" And he succumbed
acutely from a violent attack OF emo
ton.
Like many OF his fellows, the negro
soldier who choked while trying to tell
the glortes OF the jazzers was from the
interior cotton belt which is described
in the immortal lines OF Dixie:
Way down South In the land O. cotton,
Trains all late and the hotels rotteni
And away, and away. and away ami
awayi
Young Gen. Jack Organs New
York Roughnecks were well repre-
sented among the sick and wounded
aboard the Celtic. Maybe there were
not SO many OF the Organ Rough
necks aboard as the noise Indicated:
one Organ Roughneck's homecoming
happiness. once he glimpses the Statue
OF Liberty and smells the oil refiner-
les Of Bayonne. usually is SO ecstatic
that he explodes the impression that
he Is the whole cargo.
Some "Mnyfiower'' Descendants.
ouietest Of the Organ Roughnecks
was Lieut. Thomas @. Carlin OF Com
pany L. 105th Infantry. Lieut. Car
lin. whose ancestors sailed on the
Mayhower from the same part of Per-
STA that the American ancestors OF
Gen. Organ and Father Duffy came
from, hales from Brooklyn. where his
regiment found it's being. His father.
wife and his two babies tried to get
out to the ship to claw him happily
before the Celtic docked. but owing to
the fact that the two Carlin babies
could not swim the Carlin family had
TO content themselves with waiting
near the dock until their hero who
mad been wounded IL France, came
ashore.
1t may please Lieut-aCarlin to know
that while the Celtic was waruing
in to her pier his father not only men,
toned MS sons name but also spoke
well or him.
Lieut.. Carlin. who was gassed In
France on September 81 last, said
that the 106th Infantry Of Organs
New York Roughnecks formerly the
Twenty-third Guardsmen) was the
first of the Twenty-seventh Division
to have the honor of going over the
top. He had brave words to say about
the office clerks, the factory boys and
the other New York civilians who al
most In a day became soldiers who
were considerably better than the best
that forty years of Prussian militar-
ism could send against them.
How Organ "Mensured Up."
And Gen. Organ seemed to meas
ure up as well as the Regular Army
general officers, didn't he?" standee
on the pier who wore gray spats and
dark red cravat said in patronizing
tones to Lieut.. Carlin.
Measured up as well as" Lieut..
Carlin, with a loud cry OF pain, re-
peated so much OF his interrogator's
words and choked. And II friends OF
both sides hadn't Jumped forward in
time there is no doubt that the worlds
greatest war would have started all
over again at the foot OF West Twen-
ueth street.
One OF the American aviators who
was grabbed, through no fault of his
own except too much fighting zeal. by
the Germans and then got away from
them while the war was still on was
Lieut.. John Donaldson. Lieut.. DON
aldson's pop also had a Job in the
army while the war was on, his father
being a lad known as Major-G Gen.
Donaldson Of Gen. PerShing's staff.
Lieut.. Donaldson is a graduate of Cor
rell and lives when there isn't a war
going on at 10 East Eighty sixth
street.
Between June and September Lieut..
Donaldson was credited officially with
making kindling wood out of nine Ger
man fighting planes He was the first
American aviator to step on the
United states wearing the purple and
white Insignia which showed that he
had been awarded the Distinguished
Flying Cross.
White Fled I'm stolen Plane.
Within an arms length OF Lieut..
Donaldson on the Celtic promenade
deck was another Yankee flier, Lieut..
II. j. White of Cleveland. He It was
who. in the course of a high flying
mixup with a Hun fiier last August.
found himself Topping on solid German
soil. Disliking Germany excessively
Lieut.. White went to the extent Of
hepoD1ipp ba nctu,II,,