The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-07
Cheers of Relatives and
Friends Returned Lustily
by Troops.
HEROES ARE MODEST
Many War Crosses Won by
the 10000 OH Leviathan
and Mauretania.
PRAISED BY OFFICERS
Most of Returning Troops Go
to Camp Mills, Rest to
Camp Merritt.
PRAISED BY OFFICERS

The frecked doughboy who thrust
his head through portfolio of Deck e
end yelled Hey. what town Is thisf"
as the Leviathan. our biggest German
souvenir. was breaking the Hoboken
line at noon yesterday uttered what 10
known as a rhetorical question.
lie and his comrades on board the
Leviathan and the Mauretania, which
came up the bay later, were fully ad-
vised by every sight and sound OF =
city wearing its heart on it's sleeve
both sleeves-that the large and sud
denly demented community which they
were penetrating was their own home
town.
The return OF the Twenty seventh
| Division, the one time New York Ma"
tional Guard. the first to smash the
unsmashable Hindcnburg line. saeging
under the weight Of medals bestowed
| by three grateful nations, was accom-
| plished with every manifestation OF
| JOY afloat and ashore that was pos
sible in the presence OF one lamented
but necessary fact. That was the pro-
hjbition. until the end of the cleanup
period in camp, against the soldiers
and the persons they most want to
sec and who most want to see them
having a good hug and a chance to
talk it over.
Only . Few Could Dodge Camp.
Gen. ORyan and his staff-lucky Cen
eral, lucky staff-left the ship and had
regular shore luncheon and were
treated to sp4eches-- at City Hall. But
all the rest except a few officers of
the 10000 homesick men whom the
Leviathan and the Mauretsnia brought
vent to camp and must stay there until
the sanitary authorities turn thumbs up
ACCORDING 20 the official announcement
not until Sunday at the earliest can n
soldier get leave from Camp Mills or
Camp Merritt or receive his relatives
But so fine ano clean and healthy
did the great majority OF the fighting
pilgrims look that the few stayathomes
who got a good look at them yester-
day suspected that the scrubbing process
ought not TO take very long.
The Leviathan brought 5000 enlisted
men and 275 officers OF the Twenty
seventh, including Major-Cicn. John +.
: Ryan, the om;y commander who
served from start to finish at the head
Of his original division The ship, after
. swapping two four inch hawsers, was
fast at Pier 4, Hoboken. by IL 80 L. NJ
Before sundown all except the wounded
and casuals were in camp or on the
way.
The greater part OF them were taken
to Camp Mills Transferred from the
former German liner to Long Island city
by ferryboat, they had a closer and even
more tantalizing view OF the adorable
city than they had enjoyed during the
Leviathan's slow progress up the harbor
amid great fleet of welcoming craft.
Those going to Camp Mills from tho
Leviathan we're Division Headquarters.
Headquarters Troop, Policing Detach-
meut, Fifty-third Infantry Brigade Head
quarters; l05th and l06th Infantry and
the 105th Machine Gun Battalion, The
. two battalions of the 1O7th Infantry
ttho old SEVENTH which arrived on the
Leviathan went to Camp Merritt.
MauretR Men Mt Camp Merritt.
On the Mauretania were eiGhty-nus
officers and 1908 men Of the Twenty
seventh Division. all OF whom were az
signed TO Camp Merritt. They were tho
headquarters. machine gun and supply
companies and the Third Battalion o.
tho lo7th Infantry and the 1921 Mobile
. Ordnance Repair shop. The Mauretania
also brought Lieut-Col. Theodore Rooso
welt. Jr.. home, with wound stripes and
, deCOrst ions for valor.
Among all the men Of the Twenty sew
, enth the questions oftenest fired through
: msSa1hoaic aE--% to tic home folks
hohbnS on the bay and To reporters
WHO went UP gangplank A. IIobollen
we're: When do ve parade =" and
:, when do We get discharSed""
= 1t plea sol them miEhti!y "a earn that
/, tho parade. which on thoir day Of real
welcome TO the cit, a. yesterday
marked the greeting on tho threshold,
| would make place very soon. Not that
/ they're so crazy to show themselves in
public-although they confess that since
they marched down Filth avenue on
Il August 30, 1917, eighteen months ago
it is only fair that they should march
up the avenue now. But what the It'd
y ings 81 an early parade really mean to
A them is that the moment for their getting
. | back to the homes and their citizen :
r clothes and thek jobs is that much
nearer.
g And of all the wishes in tho world
/ that these men would wish IL they had
! a magic lamp n rub they would ask
!, Get us on, of this quick They are
a sobcrly. deeply, justly proud Of what
. they have done and now that it's over
lhoy want to he out
Orders New York Men Received.
What have they done? Il has an been
recitei ana viii be again and need not
hc detailed horc. But It is appropriate .
here 10 publish. Cor what they suggest
20 the state those men represented the
orders under which they battlcd These
u wore. the orders for the machine gun.
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