The sun., 1919-01-05
DOUGHBOYS PAY FOR |
THEIR OWN PARADE.
Returning Soldiers Appear in
Fifth Avenue and Welcome
Themselves.
1873 ARE IN CONTINGENT
They Take In Broadway Show
and Indulge in Real
Live Banquet.

There are o.40o perfectly good Amer!-
can dollnrs-army dollars, In fact =
nesting in Broadway's cash registers
this morning but. on the other hand,
there are $50 happy American fighting
men In and about New York who are
certain now that they are back I'm
Gods country" and that they have had
sG the long deferred good time for which
they were yearning even while they
stood up and faced the music of Ger
man machine gun bullets and high ex-
plosives.
y For a long time New York has been
thinking and talking Of the kind Ct
uproar that was going to mark the
first parade up Fifth avenue of n coll
tingent come home from overseas serv-
ice Ae New York thought the thing
out there would not be much left out
that possibly could be crowded in. But
the parade occurred yesterday and Fifth
avenue hardly knew there was parade
Now a little thing lik a stranded
steamship and n ducking In the over
ckhuou Atlantic hiOHB ABOUT NeW lear y
cannot even start to dampen the en-
thusiasm of a returned douEhboy Con-
. sequently there was a spring to the step
Of every man Of the 13S-four Of them
~ were officers-who swung up The Avenue
yesterday afternoon. All they happened
to be were the men who made up the
Eighth Trench Mortar Battery of the
Eighth Division, and believe them May
ors committees or no Mayors commit
teas thew Y1laa hAnt
Returned on Northern Pacific.
They came back to the portals of New
b. York aboard the transport Northern Pa
ciffc, which had the III fortune to pile up
on bar OF Fire Island the other day,
and for a time it looked as IL the plans
o Of the 1873 were all set to 20 awry
q Pretty soon the situation looked even
worse. for as they were coming ashore
= In supposedly safe lifeboat 1t got
cranky in the plungng seas and dumped
them out. Twelve or the soldiers were
so badly chilled that they had to go TO
hospital as soon their contingent
reached Camp Mlls.
But 1t long before the Northern
Pacific piled up on the sandbar that
these men of the tire nch mortar battery
mad laid their pans for seeing New
FORK They had decided simply that
he theirs. SO down in their jeans they
went and they saved up S1,40O against
the day OF their coming ashore in New
} ork The money had come principally
ont of their mess funds and it was their
Very own to do with what they wanted
So they got the twelve chilled ones out
or the hospital yesterday morning and
set sail for Broadway. They landed at
the Pennsylvania Station pretty early
IN the afternoon. Straight across
Thirty-fourth street they marched, with
lardly any one knowing who they were.
Jhey were led by Capt @. Y. McCor- !
laack of 124s St Johns place, Brooklyn !
Lieut.. NJ. +. DoZie" Of Chance, Ala ; |
Lieut.. Conrad G Wall Birmineham /
Ala, and Lieut.. Leo Johnson. Jone sboro, |
Ark. But II was First Sergeant Elmer |
Partridge of Michigan City upon whom !
the other marching men kept their eyes |
lie carried the s1,4O0
Take in broadway show.
Up FIFTH avenue swung the line aai ,
then over Forty-seconi street TO IN
GIFTED Broadway. And in a few mo-
'nents more the men from France and
the caTriZed lifeboat were viewing a
broadway show at the Palace Theatre
and enjoying il nightly. In the evening
tEey were still gong strong although
the 81 400 he'd begun 20 disappear. for
'"eS Hdu RAJ i've regular Darquet,
some eats they called il. at the Ho;el
Imperial. They said they had had thew
III or enjoyment. and they did not much
mind that Fifth avenue didn't know
they were from overseas. I'VE weren't
paradin at all" said one Of them. I'VE
were Just starting out on a jamboree-
and We had It"
The other contingent did not parade.
nnt had Just about the same lonNngs as
thT l3S from CnmD Mills mi ,ba u,a,,in
. IN the ocean They were 22l men OF
Company G, 3i7th Infantry who go,
dark TO find that New York's greeting
consisted in the dotfing Of high hats nv
-nembers of the Mayors Committee the
footing Of whistles and the serving 10 !,
mem or hot coffee and sandwiches bv
Houng ladies' of the Red Cross. When
~ 'hey wanted was for some one to |
cay:
Come along now, boys. The eats are
all laid out for you. Go to IL and then
we will take in IA theatre or two and n
rance with the prett!est girls New York
can produce, and that means the pref
test In the known world and then wei
Try lot Of other things, Let's CO..
Dug Up $1,000.
But New York said nothing OF the
F'nd' The members OF Company G
brought the whole thing over. then dug
Gown and dug up just 81 900 with which
- act as its own reception committee A |
'f.nm'ttee went to the War Camp Com
1uunity Service and outlined its plans
The service wanted to put the plans
through and foot the bills too but the
members of Company G said no, they
were running their own entertainment
uow. VIVA; they wanted was to know
how - 20 about It.
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