New-York tribune., 1919-03-06
Leviathan and Mauretania
Coming and Neither Bad
Weather Nor the Strike
Daunts the Enthusiasm
Expect 100000
TO Wave Greeting
Besides Reception Fleet,
Great Crowds Will Line
\ Shore While Bells and
Whistles Sound a Pecan
"Welconle homs,"

welcome home."
New York, with viii hstles, with bells
and the clamor Of human voices, will
shout that greeting to-day to the
Leviathan and the Mauretania as they
come up the bay, carrying $4,000 Of
the city's sons from the city's own
division.
From the shores and from the hotilla
that will steam out to meet the great
transports this message will be borne
to the ears Of home-sick, war-weary
men.
The soldiers of the 9th Division
Will receive no more substantial well
come to-day. The city stands with
arms held wide to greet her return
ing warriors, but army regulation has
said to her:
stand back"
No Visitors Until Sunday
Until the returning troops have
passed through the longthy and compli-
Gated sanitary ordeal that Is Uncle
Sans first welcome " his homecom-
ing sons. there will be nc opportunity
for mothers and wives to take back
into their arms the men they gave the
country. Not until Sunday will the
soldiers OF the eth be allowed to
receive visitors at the camps to which
they are to be assigned.
All that those who journey down the
bay today will see OF their dear ones
will be the olive-drab ranks that will
crowd the decks of the transport,
feasting their eyes on that vision Of
which they have dreamed so long
little old New York"
Relatives who flock to Hoboken,
wnere the Leviathan docks, will prob
ably see even less. Ferries will take
the men assigned to Camp Mills direct
from the transport to Long Island City.
Ferries will transport those assigned
TO Camp Merritt to Edgewater, where
special trolleys will be waiting.
Undaunted by Drawbacks
Striking marine workers have de-
creed that only limited number Of
boats can sail the harbor during the
day. The weather forecast has prom
ised combination of undesirables
that make for wind and choppy seas.
But in spite of all these obstacles
the giant transport Leviathan, carry
ing more than 10000 heroes of New
Yorks own 9th, with their commander,
Major General Organ, will be greeted
somewhere down the bay by as many
craft available and get within shouting
distance of the homecomcrs
And those that can't get aboard the
welcoming feet will line the piers at
Hobokcn, the shore line at Long Island
City and the boundaries OF Camps Mills
and Merritt where the soldiers will
spend the night.
100000 to Wave Greeting
l, was estimated yesterday that not
fewer IMAM 100000 men and women
would wave greeting to the home
the variouz points Of vantage that were
s'akcd cut for that purpose during the
day.
According to the last word by wire
'eas from the speeding transport yes
'erday. il VIII be abreast Of the Sandy
hoox iixhtshjp at 8 o'clock this morn
1A2 At this hour the fleet Of six
"oats that will 70 down the bay 10
greet it will cast of their moorings
at the Battery and turn their noses
o"ard the ocean. The greeting prob
aoy will take place at some point be-
icw Quarantine.
Inc Lcyiathan has on board:
haJor General John f. O'Ryan'a
headquarters STAFF.
Ihe entire 105th Infantry.
The entire l0sth infantry.
The lobth Machine Gun Battalion.
The 5Sd Brigade Headquarters.
ohicers and men Of the l07th In
'sntry, numbering 1880.
Nanrefania Due in Afternoon
The Manretania will dock At the
Aanard pier with 80 officers and s30a
w'stsd men of the z7th aboard
nsIsss reports last night Indicated
Mat sne would be off sandy Hook
contfmned mn p0os eight