Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-03

rThis Is the fourth OF series Of arti-
cles covering the diary of Sergeant Carl
Zeisberg,. Of the Seventy ninth Divi.
sion.l
Sunday. May 1s.
TNHE last hike on French soil began
1 at 10 rs a. m. and took the head
quarters troops along the sparkling
waterfront to the Bassin &c st. Ma
zaire, where, at Dock No. Q, lay the
liner Kroonland, our boat, looming up
sky blue and big with its two slender
tunnels. Booms were dropping baggage
into the hold and the 304th Engineers
were filing up the gangplank to the air
Of Hail, Hail The Gangs All Here -
played by the ships band In this
band George Carl Randall, of Amber.
Pa, was playing his trombone with an
!, extra flourish, knowing that Pennsylva-
mans were coming on board. There
were many familiar faces Of Philadel-
y pbians in the line of Engineers. There
went Master Engineer Harry Booz,
photographer at 56jNorth Eighth street,
who snapped many war picture during
the campaign days. He was carefully
conveying up the gangplank hard
boiled egg that he had brought all the
way from Andelot.
Grins Are Bright and Wide
Everybody was grinning from ear to
ear.
After being the farewell guests OF
the Y. NJ. G. A. at a luncheon of cocoa
/. cakes. chocolate. gum and cigarettes we,
too, filed aboard the vessel at noon. II
was commonplace, this parting with
warehouses. cobblestones, railway
track sunk in concrete; and up the steep
I gangplank we scrambled with our packs,
shouting in turn our "last names first,
( as ordered, Down steep iron stair
way the line led to Compartment d.
and the hunks. There were 264 OF
them, uniformly of canvas stretched
across iron piping They were ar
ranged in tiers. four hunks high, that
filled the white painted compartment
Sergeant Frank NJ. ScheiHey, Of
Pottstown, Pa. investigated the di-
mensions of the cramped spaces and re-
ported as follows: From floor to first
bunk, one span vertical distance be-
tween hunks, two spans: length oi
bunk, eight spans width of bunk, two
spans; width of aisles between hunks
three spans. He deduced that each mar
was allowed forty eight cubic spans ir
which to sleep and deposit his persona
belongings. ....
During the interim between embark
ing and sailing, something was learned
of the boat from the friendly sailors
The Kroonland was Red Star liner
"the empress of the seas" built a
Cramps Shipyard, Philadelphia, il
1902 1t helped to take the Twenty
eighth Division back to the Keystone
state. It'is $50 feet long and of 10000
. tons displacement. Its speed is four
teen or fifteen knots an hour. 1t woult
make the trip in ten days. The com
mander was Commander Il. NJ. Girls
void, who was thanked by Genera
Rockenbach for his speed in getting tn,
Kroonland loaded in one day
Four O'Clock When Ship Starts
1t was 4 o'clock when tug noset
the Kroonland out into the basin ant
the lock leading to the mouth of th
river. A Sunday afternoon crow,
s;dss ~ .ha ,ocl and watched With in.
4 terss+ tha TOSSING of money and cigar
.ttas h., ~ soIJ;ors ~ tb. stroot ,,roh
In. below Thero Vas window !,
mourning, beside an American in div
drab, who looked with envy at the boa
load of his westward going country
men a priest. French officer, fla
man; VINO might De oaker, ana y
iamils' pretty giri III oiue gree,
sweater, VINO piuckeu nerVouslS WIZ
~nite, sioVed nngers a' an arlhlui
7 wlld mowers ana tnrew KISSES 10 some
one on ooarc anotner "oman' Il
mourning french -saiior more Amer
leans shouting sometnihg'
A shower of notatoes from an uppe
\ deck delueed the pamins. They pelte
/ the soldiers With tbe missiles and soon
bomhardment was in nropress Tb
3o4tb Engineers, Rand directed bv An
dren, CoJembesti of pbiIodeInbia
struck nm the "Stars and stripes For
.rsr ), then "Homeward Round
n Hearts heat fast The shin, slid tbroupl
tbe loci knotted rome was throw,
down the side and up scrambled al
urchin in olive drab amid the threat
4 OF military policeman to shoot an