New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-22
First Unit of
9th TO Arrive
About March 3 3
lO2d Engineers, Formerly
22d, Will Reach Home on
Transport Rochambeau

The transport Rochambeau, carrying
1900 men and 103 officers, will arrive
at New York about March g. This viii
be the first unit of the 9th Division
to reach the city.
On the transport are the 102d En-
gineers, originally the 22d New York
Engineers, with eighty-seven men each
from the 1st, 10Th, 14th, list and 74th
New York Infantry regiments. With
them are one officer and eighty three
men from the New York Engineer
train The 22d Regiment of Engineers
was originally commanded by Colonel
Cornelius Vanderbilt.
The battleship Michigan is due at
Newport News on March with the
105th Trench Mortar Battery and an
other trench motar battery the num-
Der of which was unintelligiblc in the
cablegram as received by the War De
partment. On board are also casual
companies of Virginia, Oklahoma,
California, New York, Ohio. Illinois
and Texas troops, and eighteen casual
officers, and 104th Machine Gun Bat
talon, composed OF men from the old
1st Cavalry.
COntingents to Follow
The next contngents to take ship
at Brest will be units composing the
54th Brigade, commanded by Brigadicr
General Palmer Pierce. They will be
put aboard transports in this order:
10th Infantry. formerly the old 7th
Infantry; 108th Infantry, composed of
men from the old list and 18th in
fantries, and 1O6th Machine Gun Bat
talon, formed of men from the old
1st Cavalry.
In the great Victory parade planned
for New York's returning 9th Division
the veterans Will pass in review before
the largest grandstand ever built. This
stand will extend along Fifth Avenue
from Fifty-ninth Street to 10th Street
1t is estimated that its seating capacity
viii exceed 100000.
Tentative arrangements for the re
ception Of the troops were announced
yesterday by Lieutenant Colonel Will
lam I. Starr, d member Of Major Gen
eral Organs staff. Headquarters are
at the Hotel Biltmorc. Rodman Wana-
maker, chairman Of tho executive com
Inittee of the Mayors Committee on
Welcome, and Grover A. Whalen. see
retary Of the Hylan committee, met at
luncheon with Colonel Starr and an
nounced that a skeleton plan Of the
huge celebration had been made, SUD-
ject to the time Of arrival Of the di-
vision, between March 20 and 30.
The first units Of the division to
reach this port, according to an Asso-
ciated Press bulletin, wil arrive on
March 3, on the transport Rocham-
beau Colonel Starr said the first fun
brigadcs probably would leave Brest on
March 5. The Levathan viii bring
10000 and the President Grant, leaving
about the same time, 5000.
Going Direct to Camps
AZ the troops debark at Hoboken.
they will be taken 10 Camp Mills and
Camp Merritt, u await Che day Of the
parade 1t vas not known wbcn a,l the
5000 men Of the division will have
been landed, but the transports are all
expected within one week aftor the
first arrives.
On the day before the parade the
division viii be Transferred to the city
and will be quartcrcd IN the various
state armorics over night The route
oY the parade has not pcen definitely
fixed, but it win inciuac fj}th Avenue
from Sne Washington Arch to iloth
Street Parade VIII start ~ nooo and
tne division ~ill ~ on the march for
FIVE hours.
The city viii provide memorable
banquet for the herocs after they re-
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