The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-01-04
DRUM STOWAWAY m
WITH 1000 TROOPS
Two Transports Arrive Bring
ing Heroes, of Whom 1000
Are Wounded.
MARCEL HIDES IN CASE
Stories Of Bravery Brought
From FrOnt-Bronx Chap
lain Arrives.

lain Arrives.
Two American transports, the Matso-
MIA and the Siboney. with almost 1000
soldiers. made up chiefly of commands
tht had sniffed the smoke of battle from
afar. arrived yesterday from Bordeaux
several days ahead OF schedule because
of the unexpected calmness OF the At
lantic lane. Among the unoff1cial heroes
was Marcel. surname unrecorded. aged
10, who slowed away aboard the Matso-
MIA In bass drum case. according TO
Capt. Peter b. Kyne, 144th Field Artil-
lery. and therefore may be alluded to
as the bass drummer boy. Capt Kyne.
whose speciality Is fiction for the maya
zines, occasionally talks facts to the re-
porters, and he took several oaths IA
habit he acquired in the army to what
he said about Marcel. which may APP
pear ifnlHferent form in the limitless
horizons of weekly or monthly short sto-
ries
Marcel is an impish. independent,
gaminlike person, with Hugoish aspects.
Being too young to fight and with the
spirit of Gallo scrapper. he had to
attach himself to the first fighting unit
he ran across after his father had been
killed in battle and his mother had been
carried away by the Huns. He became
the mascot of a poilu regiment and stuck
with Il until the Americans came and
he saw the possibilities of appearing In
fact and fiction and America with Capt.
Peter Il. kyne. who said to himself.
Here is a grand chance for me and the
Satere," and straightway filled Marcel
UP with chocolates and the wonders OF
America and adopted him.
PoiIus Want Boy Returned.
Now the poilus that Marcel had been
mascottihg did not like to lose him. and
they sent a deputation to Capt. kyne
asking him to please send him back. In
his best patois Capt. Kyne asked Marcel
to return 10 his former command. Marcel
SAID IN his own patols differing some
what from that of the Captain, that in
asmuch as he had decided to become an
American and view those marvellous in
candescent lights of that unapproachable
Broadway that the Captain had told him
about he could not see how no could re-
turn to his former command. He sa-
luted the Captain ana remarked that IL
II was an order he would obey. but that
no surely would come back. Then the
arrnistice came, and the boy learned
that he would have 70 leave the Ameri-
cans because they were going homeward
across 1000 miles OF sea.
March kissed the hand of Capt. Kyae
"a proper caper in magazine fiction and
indorsed by French custom) and gave
him such an aIniable smile of farewell
that the Captain wondered cat least he
Is said TO have said he did at Marcers
lack of emotion. Three days out some
body in some part of the hold heard a
beating on the bass drum case. Some
body opened the case, which is fastened
from the outside and Marcel appeared.
with several pieces Of chocolate In Iris
right hand and bottle OF red wine in
his left
Tho natural question Of Capt Kyne's
friends was: Who supplied Marcel with
food and wife and who slowed him away
In the drum case after taking precau-
tons to bore holes In the case so that
ms table dhote might he supplemented
with air. which the French sometimes
use. These things may not be the sub
joct OF a court-martiaL Meanwhile
Capt. Kyne will see tina: Marcel is I'D
mitted into the country as Marcel.Rync
and that he is taught to speak a Ian
guage that the Captain can understand
without perpetually referring TO a book.
The Captain will personally teach Mar
eel how to write American short stories
abouNing in nothing but facts.
Aboard the Siboney was the Rev. John
a. Connolly, chaplain OF tine Forty
Brigade. Coast Artillery. who before
going 20 France was pastor Of IS. Peter
and Paurs Church in The Bronx. lie
said that the doushboys with whom II
was his good fortune to be associated
had manifested the American spirit in
all its nobility. II might be that there
were other contributory causes TO the
ending of the war. but the American
spirit was not the least OF them.
Dog Wins Fricndship.
Cognac. n little French dog. had moth
ing to say himself about how he came
TO I've adopted by an American. He
harkcl approval of the story of CHIEF
Electrician Ayerlll or a naval seriai
squadron. who brought him on the Mat
sonia. .\verill got Cognac from Private
Williams Of The old Sixty-ninth. who
was wounded at Chateau Thierry and
tumble1 into shell hole. Williams
found CoGnac in the shell hole and
they became friends instantly. He took
Cognao 70 the hospital with him and
when Avcrill said ne was homeward
bound Williams persuaded him 10 take
CogHac along
Lieut.. Leon Harlow OF Waco. Tex,
brought the Distinguished Service Cross
with him. He was a plain, red haired
corporal when he did the heroic thing
that entitled him TO the cross lie had
been Sassed near Cantigny, but fearing
that he might be sent to hospital and
miss the fighting he kept his sickness
10 himself. He went over the top with
his squad of telephone experts and held
his post, keeping up communication be-
tween the infantry and artillery, al
though shelled constantly by the Huns.
who u the line out OF business four
times. Nfter the fifth time the only
way to 'eep AZ communication was
by the Of. FASHIONED way OF sending
back mess engers.
The first volunteer was killed when
he was hundred yards away. the sec
ond man returned wounded. Then the
red headed corporal went himself. al
though the French Interpreter tried 10
hold him back lie crawled from shell
hole to shell hole in the familiar way
OF gallant Yankees ard got through
with Il light wound in the foot. Then
| they sent him to an artillery school
| and made him n Lieutenant. 1t took
them three months to find him after his
exploit. because he forgot to mention
II himself. but he had appreciative
friends who told on him.
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