Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-05-10
N. G.P.ARTILLERY
ARRIVES IN u. s.
Bulk of Harrisburg Men Are
Scheduled to Get Into New
York City Next Week

Many Harrisburg men are in
scluded among the 4,103 Keystone
Division officers and men aboard the
transport Mongolia, which steamed
into the port of Hoboken yesterday.
Aboard the transport were the 10th
| and 109th Field Artillery Regiments,
the 53d Artillery Headquarters De-
tachment of the 103d Engineers and
part of the Twenty-eighth Division
Headquarters Company.
Crowding the decks of the trans
port Mangolia as it steamed slowly
up the North river, the Keystone
| Division veterans gave cheer after
| cheer that ended in one mighty roar
when the sight of the pier of Ho-
| objective in the greatest drive of
all, the Hunland-to-Home Gland drive,
had been reached.
The bulk of the Harrisburg men
who have not yet arrived in home
port are members of the 10Sth
| Field Artillery. They are scheduled
to arrive in Philadelphia next Tues
day and to spend the intervening
time in preparing for the divisional
parade on Thursday.
At Brigadier General Price, COM
mander of the sad Artillery Brigade,
| and the best artillery commander
in the army" according to the unan-
imous vote of his men, the cheers
of hundreds on the pier at Hoboken
were early directed.
I'VE were given hard work to do
and we did it successfully" said
| General Price. "And that is about
all there is to it," he added.
| "Citations!" said General Price.
| Why we were so damn busy work
| ing we never had time to think
about decorations.
| ASK the general about the Bel
| gian and the French croix de guerre
he won,' suggested u staff officer,
safely out of the generals hearing.
The question was put.
Now don't say anything about
that" pleaded General Price. 81
have those things all locked up in
my trunk"
IF you want to say something
nice, though, I'll tell you something
This 53d Brigade may not have been
the finest outfit in the army, but
there weren't any finer. And right
now l want to say that Colonel
Asher Miner, of Wilkes Barre, is
wonderful. No braver man than Col
onel Miner ever went into the Ar
gonne fight, and Colonel Olin Har-
vey was right with him."
Colonel Miner, former commander
of the 1O9th Artillery Regiment, lost
his left leg during the fighting in
the Argonne, and was invalided
home soon after the fight.
Yesterday, supported by crutches
and wearing the distinguished serv-
ice cross, Colonel Miner welcomed
back his boys from the 109th, all
PENNSYLVANIA fighters from Wilkes
Barre and the vicinity. And to these
boys the reunion with their old col
onel was not the least feature of the
days events.
One by one, the men of the 109th
came forward to grasp the hand of
the veteran who had led them, and
at each man the colonel smiled in
welcome recognition.
THE Fifty-third Artillery Bri-
gade," said General Price, had the
distinction of being the only Amer
lean artillery brigade to fight in Bel
gium." At one time it supported the
Ninety-first wild West" division,
and the Westerners were so enthusi-
astic about the work of the Penn
sylvanians that they honored the
Fifty-third Brigade with the re-
quest that the Keystone troops wear
the insignia of the Ninety-first di-
vision. The request was not grant
| ed, however, and the Pennsylva-
mans came home yesterday wearing
the famous red keystone.