The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-07

from the top deck. others were posted
at portfolios
The Navy Department had its doubts
about the advisa b.lity OF letting the SOL
diers get to the ports at all. for II has
been found that they keep running from
side to side OF the ship as the view
changes, and a dangerous list might
result. But Gen. Organ said he knew
the discipline of his men and that II
they were allowed to get only a survey
OF the sights they most wanted 70 see
they would stay put. They were. and
they did.
Silence That Was Eloquent.
The returning hosts may have raised
their voices with glad shouting when
they sighted the Statue OF Liberty--some
did and some Just kept quiet and Toasted
their eyes, 50 their spokesmen said
later-but while the Levlathan was ap-
preaching Pier 4. Hoboken. they were
utterly silent. They were so silent that
what with their demeanor and the alb.
sence OF the customary chorus OF steam
whistles something seemed decidedly
lacking.
Not until the former German liner
tostled by nine navy tugs was turned
around 40 that she headed down the
pier and within a few feet OF II did the
Twenty-seventh make itself heard. Then
all at once. seeming TO come from the
interior OF the ship, muf'ed yet unmis-
taxable. there came 10 the ears OF the
Rad Cross nurses. army and navy men,
newspaper people and the few others on
the pier yell that was pronounced by
the experts TO be good old "Co-ee." Dor
rowed from the Australians, whom the
A. L. F. love and call "Aussiea'
It apparently was inspired by
the pier was playing. From that mo-
ment the silent men in khaki were silent
ne longer. but throwing of a spell that
seemed to have bound them gave voice
TO all sorts Of noises and exchanges OF
badinage with those on the pier. II was
after the band had obliged with 1.-THE
Cang's AL Here" that the doughboy
heretofore hientionedi during lull In
the vocal proceedinga popped his query :
Hey, what town 10 this?'
They had heard Home, Sweet Home"
maybe nfty times while the ship wa
coming UP the bay. but had cheer and
many You're rights and You said
IT'S" for the band on the pier when II,
too swunE into the song that Mr.. Payne
wrote. but which was never fully inter-
preted until yesterday.
How Dry I AM" the band suggested
"Yea-a-a-a-s-snd then some" chirped
a boy in a Leviathan lifeboat. Say,
what's this you been putting over on us
while we been away? Is II true we
gotta drink sody water after Julyr'
He was Informed that such was this
fact. whereupon the lifeboats occupant
spread both his arms and shot them for
ward palms out, meaning whatever you
please.
A few men or women who had friends
among the Twenty-seventh were on the
pier. and among these were several who
had the good luck TO spot the man, they
were looking for as he looked down
upon them. A man who had two sons
In the army was especially fortunate
for they were both In the Twenty-sev-
enth Division, and as he was a working
newspaper man as well as daddy he
was able TO do what hardly anybody else
did. He went aboard and embraced his
cons.
Disappointed Crowd in Ronoken.
River street, ffoboken. which gives
entrance 20 all the piers. was cluttered
with thousands OF persons who used
every sort OF argument with the mill
eary police. but were turned away and
had to stand In thu! street and peek
through high steel BARI ~ nothing ct I'll