South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-01-20
FOUR STEAMERS
BRING MEN HOME
Hundreds Watch as 1892
Heroes Enter New
York Harbor.

NEW YORK. Jan 20.-Four steam
ships. their decks crowded with
American fighting men. hundreds OF
whom gazed upon the home shores
from cots and convalescent chairs.
passed the statue OF Liberty today
amid a din from harbor craft. bring
ing home 1892 heroes
The climax Of the demonstration
came when the hospital ship Com
fort, bearing 81 sick and wounded.
entered the upper bay and was hail
ed by cheers from the throngs on
shore and the strains Of Home.
Sweet Home" from a band on board
a vessel carrying Mayor Hylan's
committee OF welcome. As the Com
fort came abreast the statue Of Lib
erty a great shout arose from her
decks. crowded 20 tho rails with sol
diers 10 bandages. supported By
crutches and canes, or seated i'm easy
chairs. Through the port holes OF
the hospital ship gTmpses were
caught OF the more seriously wound
ed.
The other steamships were trans
ports-the Tapland. which brought
2.O65 soldiers: the Sierra. with ISIS
and the Wnhelmina with 1.O41 on
board or the sick and wounded
brought back by the Comfort 129
were naval men and four were ma
rines
Many Casual Companies.
The troops on the LAsland for the
most part were casual companies
made up or men from base hospitals
in France and England, and most OF
whom were convalescent. One
other detachment, the Hath trench
mortar battery. which had not seen
service at the front. was on its way
back to Camp Beauregard, La.
The casual companies and their
destinations are: Numbers 211. PIP.
213, Camp Dix: pa Upton: 215, PIG.
&3S, 41S. Meade; All, Gordon. The
Lapland also carried 90 casual Off
GERS
Among the troops on the Sierra
were the 337th regiment OF field ar
tiliery and 237 casual officers and
enlisted men. the latter from hospf-
tails in France. The artillery regi-
ment was trained at Camp Dodge.
Des Moines. and comprises selected
men from Minnesota, North and
South Dakota. Iowa, Nebraska and
Missouri II had been in the Clare
mont section OF France.
or the men on the WfIhemina. 4o5
were from the radio station near
Bordeaux. where they were engaged
in constructing four radio towers |
There were also 200 or the naval |
aero squadron, with a base in north |
ern France. Also on board were |
the 334th and 336th divisions OF the
medical supply unit, the 311th SAM |
tary train OF the seth division. the
headquarters field hospital and three
hospital units and 172 wounded.
Among the wounded officers on
the Comfort were: I4euts. Alfred NJ.
Barlow. Gailopolis, o.; Farrell Gal
legar. Cleveland; John r. Boston.
Yorkville. Ill; Arthur Morganstein,
Grand Rapids, Mich: Joseph r.
Smith. Waterloo Ia. and BENJAMIN
y. Malone. Monticello. Ga
Two others on the Comfort were
\. J. Tobin. of Austin. Tex, a boil
ermaker on the T. s. 5. Olympia.
who served at Archangel Russia. |
and Boyd NJ. Hemp OF Des MONIES. a /
radio operator on the Jacob Jones
when that craft was sunk by tor
pedo on December 9Th.
All branches or the service we're
represented aboard the Lapland. in
Guiding women nurses and war
workers.
Officers Arrive.
Rear Admiral Joseph Strauss and |
Commander William. Glassford who /
achieved distinction with the Amer
lean naval forces abroad. arrived on /
the LapIand. Admiral Strauss was /
the head of the greatest mine Law
ing expedition ever attempted. when /
an American and British fleet. work |
ing under his orders. spread seventy
thousand mines across the North 1
sea from the Scottish coast 20 Nor /
way. PAS miles and virtually bos- /
tied ND the German submarines on /
Grating out OF Heligoland and Kiel. I
Commander Glsssford was COM /
mander Of the destroyer Shaw when 4
her steering gear jammed at o /
o'clock IL the morning OF October 9. 7
she was one Of the conveys Of the /
Giant Cunarder Aouitauia. then in I
the British channel loaded with Am /
erican troops for British port II
was a question OF whether the shaw I
would ram the Cunarder or Com
unander ClaSsford suffer his craft to I
be cut down. lie chose the latter 4