Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-06-02
40 MILES ALL THAT
SEPARATEDCO. CAND
OTTAWA AT ) TODAY
ClTYS OWN so NEAR AND YET
so FAR FROM HOME WHILE
BEING RUSHED TO CAMP GRANT
FOR SPEEDY DEMOBILiZATiON.

Only Forty-Five Miles From Otta-
way, set to the music Of George
Cohan's popular old song, only Forty
Five Minutes From Broadway" could
have been sung in earnest by members
of Company G at o'clock this after
noon. So near and far from their Oh
home town, Ottawa's own were pa.
! rading at that hour the streets Of
Aurora in conjunction with the rest
OF the l29th Regiment, the particular
pride of northern Illinois.
The stop at Aurora was made by
consent OF the war department, that
city being the regimental headquar-
ters and the home Of Colonel Greene.
/ former commander of the outfit, after
emissaries had been dispatched to
Washington to secure permission to
| review the fighting men of the 129th
/ Each train carrying sections of the
infantry topped for an hour while en-
route to Camp Grant. and then fol
/ lowed rousing reception by the An
! rofa folk of the hardlhitting old Third
as it passed along the streets in full
/ battle regalia
I Reception in Chicago.
/ 1t required five complete trains to
hurry the l29th from Camp Merritt to|
/ Chicago. They left the eastern can.
/ tonment Saturday morning and during
Sunday night they began arriving in
| Chicago. Trains and ~ arrived
over the Erie and stopped at the sta
/ ton at Fifty-tirst street and Stewa.t
/ avenue. Trains II, II and 13, carry
ing the remainder Of the regiment, ar
/ rived over the Nickel Plate, stoppinc
at Ninety-third street and Blackstone
avenue. At Z o'clock detraining was
set under way. and then the men we're
marched to Grant Park The 129th
was given quarters at the head cfI
Monroe street, where scores upon
scores Of proud Ottawa fathers and
! mothers We're cOngregated to greet the
! city's horOes, The reception continued
until few minutes before parade
time.
At II o'clock the big reveiw. mar
ticipated in by 5000 prairie fighters
was held on Michigan boulevard The
l3lst Infantry, l0Sth Supply Train and
l0Sth Engineers were with the 129fh
in the big demonstration. II is esd
mated a million people saw the boys
march with gIittering eyes and heads
up as thethrongs went wild with en-
thusiasm.
Given Big Feed.
At noon the l29th was rushed toI
the Sherman and Morrison hotels,
whore they We're served a banquet a la
American with large nocks of whol- /
some chuck that tasted as near t1I
mothers own as $4,000 per year chefs
are able to make food taste like
mothers without being it, All told the ,
feast was in enjoyable affair and the |
boys Lived it, The Company c boss |
'ook their chuck passively and could
not refrain from an occasional touch /
Of pride when they referred to what /
this and that mother makes at home, |
even if they were eating at places
where cover charges are paid to sit /
around a table and a bank account |
Of large proportions is needed to sec.
tie for lunch their thoughts we're
Of the breakfast with real honest-to
g0odncssfood with a mothers touch
to make il taste Just right.
First Through Muster-Out Mill.
beginning at 3:30 this afternoon
and for The next forty minutes the
Union station was a hubbub af buzz
ing voices and elatod infantrymen as
jhc 10Th re-entrainCd for Aurora, with
Camp Grant and the big honorable dis
charge as the final destination That.
tho i25ih is slated for first PRIVILEGE
in the mastering out mil was ind
Gated 10 prominent OttaWans today
In that event the city may be given
chance 20 welcome home her own
some time Wednesday or Thursday
If the thing can be brought about by
any hook OF crook Wednesday will be
tn day. Forty automobiles will rush
to Camp Grant to carry the precious
burden Of eighty-three brave Yanks
back to their native heath and into
the arms Of l3,00o people who are
awaiting them.
The roth Infantry. formed shortly
after the civil war continued in exist
ence as the Sd Infantry ! n C., until
it was designated the 129th Infantry
Of the 33d Division in Setember 1917