The sun., 1919-01-25
Borough of Homes Sets Record
Pace in Greeting seth
= Coast Artillery.
1900 GO DOWN THE BAY
FervOr AstOunds HOboken
Folk as Men Land From
Battleship

she really is entitled to wag the dog.
assuming that the dog Is this borough,
when It comes to turning out enthusiasts
TO welcome martial citizens who have
won glory on the fields OF France.
Brooklyn. as the several paragraph
lists. poets and special writer's OF the
Eagle might say II you gave them half
a chance, houses the men and women
who pass their working hours in Man
haitian and their leisure. emotion and
patriotism In the borough by the sea-
Manhattan is merely the Office address
OF Brooklyns manifold genius.
When the homefolk. from Flatoush to
the Heights and from Gowanus to Hunt
ers Point. heard that their old Thir-
teenth Coast Artillery now Incorporated
In the Ffty-ninth Coast Artillery. was
coming back they organized a real. regu-
lar lot OF welcomers, Just the sort. that
you might find at Topeka or Kansas City
or Hartford or any one OF the spirited
little American towns that wave the
American flag snappily and whole
heartedly without regard to prospective
appropriations.
Hire ships All Their own.
They did not discuss the subject OF
separate committees to greet the gallant
artillerymen. They did not ask the
Mayor to All up the Patrol. with Brook
lynites to greet the boys down the Bay.
They hired ship of their own, and
later found II was not big enough to ac-
commodate all who wanted to cheer the
Brooklyn gun fighters.
The essay!sts. poets. editors, para
hi pta Tt,h1 hod
been writing pieces about the event for
more than a week before the troops were
expected. They described the battleships
In which the men were coming and they
interviewed everybody who had even
remote relative aboard and printed the
pictures OF everybody who had even
talked to the remotest relatives. Natu-
rally. the expansive old town was q bit
stirred when the troops did get in yes
terday morning, after being held UP in
the worst fog Of the winter. That
Brooklyn's artillerymen should return
aboard battleships, the New Hampshire
and the Louisiana. indicated to the local
patriots that Uncle Sam rather regarded
the borough some pumpkins, as they
cay in the farming districts OF F1atbush
Were the :unnsrs cheered by hosts?
You bet they were, and II you have any
doubt about 1t look at the headlines OF
the Hd0'e anu All the o'ner prookyn
papeIs yes.eEuas. anu ~ lne mats. y,
INA inc Soonsn pape' $500 %. anu
,he I'd! ai"r anu 20 On Diooh.yn ooes
merely one spin OF the hand around the
dial.
OF course. you cannot expect a Man
haitian journal to go into all the Intimate
details OF the story OF the arrival Of
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only 1900 OF the multitude could get
ABOARD the Hshlander. but the re-
rainder stopped in the gale on the sea-
wall ana waited until the oattleshtps
passed Mp to Hoboken and cheered and
waved rags and made the remnants OF
the old Thirteenth feel happy. The
Borough President OF Brooklyn Riege!-
mann initials or great men are sup
ererogatory: az the periphTastic ed'to-
OF the Eagle Nigh say) was one of the
HighlanderIs ereeters. and with him
nrssent rbir,een,h Reg,,rart ~ ~
d Rishon NJ ,hs Oyar Uera AAoc,,,ion
,pd Nra Sydnay Crort n,So -. ~,
svdre,. Gran. -vbo ,ook tbs E'i,,,sr,n,S
Coos, Art;,arv IN Erancs ava III q.
tbare con,an5,ne dsharLatior ror,
E,ch weIconnsr had an Am.r,ca, -
and nepnn, ,n.cr;ne,; .rv-.;cnr,a - -.
Also Brooklvn sent over 70 HohoLe,
sisters. brothers, wives. cousins sweat.
hearts other s,r,s Who boned ~ h.
sweethearts and nIa,n Rrooi.,vn ,atr,o,s
WHO could mot resist be1n,nn Az, .h.,.
sorouph Thay storn,ed the 1o,s. ara
Hoboken wondered ar the,r enerey NJ
troons from snyvhere evar yot 40 a.
vent welcome 90 tho boys -, ~
Th,rt.enth from .he. foIIts ~ tbai- IA
home town. II Was mot that the arti,-
leryrnen haa lost MANY men and could
boast a lonp list az casualties Th.,-
losses we're small hut they had the sn,,,,
ts what counted 10 Brooklyn
That Eaole renorter who fold hon, ~
louisiana docked said that tbsro r.srs
groups Of girls on the upper decl ~ tbs
oier and the artiI,erymen su,.,ly s,,.d
"Oh. boys here's some ron, Aroar,o, -
sfis
John r. Ferry Manned.
There was a whoop." said the ro,,.
man. "fror, what seemed 70 he 80,
sand threats" and the artII,ervno.n