The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1919-08-30
ENGINEERS
LEAD FIRST DIVISION
HOME FOR BIG PARADE
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both ships were enormous signs which
bore the imprint Of being freshly paint
ed. reading:
The War is Over; the First b
Here"
CHEERING SOLDIERS SWARM
INTO THE RIGGING.
And both transports tr9iled in the
sea Behind them homeward bound
pennants. the tops OF which were tied
to their highest masts. And while the
boys In khaki swarmed into the rig
ging and lined up at the rails. shout
ing and cheering and swinging their
overseas caps, the bands blarcd rag
time. Hail to the Chief" 'Over
There" keep the Home Fires Burn
ing" and when the Boys Come
Home'-anything but Home, sweet
Home"
The advance guard OF the grand
cid Fighting First came home on the
Pastores. They were headed by Col.
T.. c. Peck and represented every unit
in the division. nineteen officers and
thirty men whose headquarters are
Mt the Hotel Biltmore, where they
will make arrangements for the par
ade OF the First which will take place
on Fifth Avenue when Gen. John ].
Pcrshing and the rest Of the divi-
sion get home.
The orizaba was held back for two
days after the departure OF the Pas
torres TO allow the latter with the ad-
vance guard to reach New York. But
the Orizaba, after all the arrange
ments, came into port only an hour
behind the advance guard and was
the first OF the two to get out Of
quarantine.
Thirteen officers and $50 men of the
First Engineers were in the Orizaba's
contingent. The First Engineers
/ blazed the way for the boys TO come:
they built bridges and fences and
blazed trails under the German fire
when they couldn't fire back and
then there came a day when they
were sent against the enemy as shock
troops. II happened time and again.
Other units of the division are due
/ to arrive within the next ten days on
the transports Suwanee, Liberator,
Freedom. Amphion, Callao. Santa
Teresa and the Leviathan. which u
expected TO carry Gen. Pershing anN
his staff. Members OF the division
will be sent TO camps around New
York pending the return of tho last
unit, when they will be the guests OF
the city for two or three days.
General McGlachlin took up his
headquarters in Room No. 152 at the
Biltmore and quarters we're also as
signed him in Room No. COZ in the
Hall OF Records for his preparations
for the parade. The General said
that II was the proudcst moment OF
his life when he was ordered to the
command OF the First.
mot so much for the reason that
II is a suit Of the regular army and
am an oficer OF the regular army,
but because was so proud OF its
achievements. The First was the
greatest of all the fighting units in
France. or the 26,S32 casualties. only
3s were taken prisoners. The, First
took $500 Germans. There was not
period OF more than six days that
they were out OF the lighting from
Jan. IL. 1918, until the armistlce,
Nov. IL. 1918"
The slogan OF the First emblazoned
on the cars which carried them from
the Rhine to Brest was:
I'VE Were the First to Join Yop
We Are the Last to Leave You. Au
, Revoir."
Four other transports, the Santa
Malta, Graf Waldersee. Iowan and
Henry r. Mallory, reached port to-
: day from France,
Miss Gertrude Ely, niece OF Mrs
Charles Tiffany. was one Of five well
fare workers returned on the ORR
zaba.
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