The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-12-07
HOME COMING
TROOPS ARRIVE;
First Contingent Of Overseas
Veterans Land at
New York.
MAURITANIA BRINGS
1000 INTO THE PORT
Welcomed Home By. Mayor Hy-
Ian and Thousands of Cheer
ing People Who Thronged the
Water Front on Both Sides of
the Harbor.

New York, Dec. New York, en-
barkation port Of many hundred thou
sands Of American troops bound for
war, heard today the first cheers OF
home coming men Of the victorious
army-more than 1000 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 Manhattan when their
transpc~t, the Maurctania. passed the
Statue Liberty. With Mayor Hy.an,
O. reception committee. accom- panied
by the police bond aboard. the soldier
freighted liner steamed up the bay
between lines CT ha"bor craft with the
fiags Of America and the allies flying
and with whistles shrieking wei
come. Battery Park and piers on the
Manhattan and New Jersey shores
were thronged as the Mauretania
moved up to her pier on the North
River.
At the same time, without cheers
or an official welcome of any sort.
1000 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 troop
ship Northern Pacific al 4oboken.
They were hurried to hospitals; IN Ho-
boken, Jersey City and St.ta:l Island.
TO safeguard the public against pos
sible infectious diseases. the troops
from both transports were Isolated as
they came ashore. Both the we'll and
wounded will be denied close contact
with relatives Or friends until after
they have undergone medical eNami-
nations in camp or hospitals The
units from the Maurctania, ali from
training fields in England, will be
mustered out at Camp Mills. Families
! of tie wounded viii be notified with
in n few days OF their whereabouts
and permitted to see them.
ThanHfulness at getting home was
! the prevailing spirit among the
wounded troops. Many bore more
| than one wound, but few would talk
of the incidents Of battle that has.
sent them on stretchers from Euro
pean trenches.
Al llIe plClS IlllIittllS ti'oSipiiiAN' .oS~
ceeded the freedom that had brought
officers and men side by side to the
rails for the flrst Wow Of Little DIG
New York" Units were quickly form
ed and after hot refreshments had
/ been given served by Red Cross
workers the contingents marched
aboard ferry boats which conveyed
them TO Long Island trains.
With the exception of few hun
dred men. the troops from the Maure-
tania We're IN aviation suua drons
In letter informing Mayor Hylan
that q parade cf the coming soldiers
would not be permitted, Major Gener-
al Bell commanding the department
Of the East, declared that ION the
unanimous recommendation Of the
federal health authorities" the gov
eminent had decided to keep return
! ing troops from contact with the pub
/! lie "uHtil they have undergone q san
isation process"
The senior army officer aboard the
Mauretania was Col H c.. Pratt Of
the air service.
Wounded men brought On the
Northern Pacific. it was announced,
included members Of the Fiity-fourth
Infantry. Tenth Engineers Sixth Field
artillery. two machine gun, two ma
rine. ono cavalry and one quarter
master units.
Passengers on the Northern Pacific
included Frederick r. Keppel. third
assistant secretary OF war, in charge
OF arn..., morale, and 81 army officers,
among them Brig. Gen. Thomas II.
Rees and Brig. Gen. Charles I. Mar