The sun., 1919-04-01
WELCOME AWAITS
MEN FROM COAST
Mayor Rolph Of San Francisco
Here With Delegation to
Greet Troops.
DUE IN PORT THURSDAY
California Society and Rocky
Mountain Club Take Part
in Festivities.

When the $3.50 Infantry rolls In sight
Of old Nsvesink aboard the Kentuckian
next Thursday, way, way out on tho
briny, there will be a little tug dancing
about like shjmmying dolphin. And on
,vp OF this little tug there will be pink
checked, dapper man. waving his hat in
one hand and flag In the other. and
drowning the whistle by his loud con-
tinuous veil E..
That will be Mayor James Tsolph, IT..
of San Francisco, sir, welcoming back
his own. They called the 363d "Roiph's
own" because 1t was composed entirely
!of San Francisco boys, and II went over
the top still fondly clinging to tina,
designation. He saw 'em or, and he is
going to be the first to greet 'em coming
back. And yesterday at a luncheon IT.
the Biltmore he invited n good part OF
the California Society and the Rocky
Mountain Club, and any other well mean
ing daddies of the Sunset Division to- 20
out and whoop It up for their boys.
Shat luncheon was the result Of bit
of pique on Jim Woods part. Jim, who
Used to be Police Commissioner for Mis-
sion Jim, as they call the Mayor out
home, welcomed his old friend with open
arms when ne arrived at the Hotel Bel.
mont which Jim Woods runs now az the
next most exciting thing to being a Police
Commissioner. The training isn't ex-
actly the same in the preliminaries, he
says. but still good knowledge Of crime
comes in handy.
Real California Luncheon.
when I got all settled said to Jim
Woods said Mission Jim, that
wouldn't mind going out to see the town
a bit, and what do you think he did?
Called the house detective"
And when Miss on Jim refused the ser
vices of the house detective Jim Woods
sat him down and thought and thought.
trying to hit on way Of showing his old
partner something in New York which
no one had ever seen before 1t came
to him slowly. but 1t came. and when
the plan was wholly evolved Jim Woods
called the chef who cooked President
Wilson's meals on the George Washing
ton and who In his two trips to France
had brushed up his technique quite bit.
Then said Jim Woods to Mission jim:
"1'll show you something. old-tlmer.
fifty people, a regular whale Of a lunch
con. and 1t will be on the house"
"Jim." gasped Mission Jim.
This in New York" And Jim
Woods's revenge was complete.
II was a California lunch. There were
lots of things to eat heaps OF things, and
California wines. but when Jim Rolph
and the other guests of Jim Woods got
way down to the end a number OF pale
faced walters, each mentally calculating
what sort OF job he could get when the
house went into bankruptcy. staggered In
with big bowls OF California strawber-
ries. Then they rose up In their places
and toasted Jim Woods. New York had
never seen his like before.
Sitting across from Mayor Rolph was
W. c. Ralston, who once ran for Gov
ernor OF California. and who owns a
bank or two. who In a moment of silence
told how his father gave the Mayors
father his first job in the Bank OF Cali
fornia years and years ago. Then there
was Capt. Jack Gleason OF the F'riars
and John Clausen. who also runs two
banks In California. and Eugene de
Saba, who owns most OF San Mateo. and
F. d. Waterman. who had one OF hts
own fountain pens with him with hole
In the top through which one could look
and SEQ pictures OF John Hays Ham
mond. and who gave the pens away just
to make people look through the hole
Also Col. Charles F. Hutchins of the
l60th Infantry and Lieut.-Col Henry H.
Brown, Major Alexander II. Thomas,
Major Stephen S. Boothe, Major VIII
liam Frieburg and Capt. Herbert
Simon, all OF the Sunset Division, who
expect soon to march through San
Francisco at the head OF the city's re-
turning soldiers.
Mayor Rolph referred briefly to the
convention of Mayors and Governors
held recently in Washington and ex-
planned his attitude there by saying.
amidst laughter. that he very seldom
voted for resolutions framed before the
meeting began" He said the main
thing on his mind now is the RESPONSE
bility OF taking care OF the returned
soldiers and seeing that each OF them
got a Job.
81 have found that some employers
do not want to take back their men,"
he said. Some OF them have en-
ployed women and prefer to keep the
women at reduced wages"
He also criticised the demobilizat ION
plans OF the army and said he thought
it would have been better II they had
been demobilized at their draft boards
instead Of being mustered out 3t the
home of the regiment from which the
replacement troops had to go to their
homes all over the country. He urged
the reconvening of Congress as the
only way OF getting appropriations
needed to save industry from uncer-
taiuty and possible disaster. The
country is all right, he said prosperity
is waiting on our doorstep. but Indus
try must have strong Government sup
port.
II has been arranged for Mayor
Rolph to go to the big Greenhut hos
pital during his stay mere to shake