Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-02-28


Harrisburg is favored as the prop
or place for this reception by the
strong undercurrent of feeling for
it. An appropriation from the Penn
sylvania Legislature to provide for
reception to the men and big
parade of the unit through the city
streets, is limited at as being quite the
proper thing to fittingly honor these
men who attained an enviable repu-
taton for their fighting qualities in
. France and made the name of
Pennsylvania famous throughout
Europe.
The men of the Twenty-eighth
Division" Chaplain Charles G.
Conaty, a Catholic priest, of the
111th Infantry, who returned yes
terday on the Wilhelmina, ARE
fighters-real fighters-and every
Pennsylvania should be proud Of
these noble men,
Anxious to Parade
81 believe the friends and rela-
tiVeS of the men in this organiza-
ton owe them more than they can
ever repay" Chaplain Conaty said
in advancing his argument in favor
of a tremendous reception for the
men. And remember" he said,
that the boys are mighty anxious
to get back home and every officer
and soldier hopes TO parade with his
full equipment with the small red
keystone, the divisional insignia. on
his right arm, down the main streets
of the larger cities in the State"
Harrisburg was especially men
toned by Chaplain Conaty as the
fitting place for the reception.
Several troop ships. IN addition
to the one which carried Chaplain
TO IN N Il
York yesterday. Several Harrisburg
veterans We're aboard. They were:
Edward II. Bennett, Robert Ross and
Leroy Stauffer.
Due to Real Heroes
On their return the Keystone
Division men deserve a welcome
such as is due real heroes, Chaplain
Conaty continues. Inasmuch as
when the unit left this country there
were no cheers and waving of ban
ners for they never paraded as a
unit, sentiment is strong in favor
of big reception to them is moth
ing more than their due.
The lads of the Twenty eighth
Division were the finest and most
courageous / have ever come in con-
tact with, he continued.
Many times as / stood and
watched them in the frontline
trenches preparatory to starting a
drive l marveled at their complacent
yet determined miens," he adds, II
saw the fight, witnessed them over
come every obstacle with which they
were confronted and then saw some
of them return. exhausted, trium =
plant and always smiling. They
We're engaged in the bloodiest con-
flcts of the war. at Chateau Thierry,
at the Vesle and in the Argonne
forest, where they lost more men
than any American division with the
exception of the First, and for that
reason | hope the people of Penn
sylvania give their boys the great
est reception that can be accorded
to the homecoming troops"
Harrisburg the Point
Harrisburg has always been espe-
cially interested in the Pennsy1va-
MIA National Guard whose men made
up the Twenty eighth division. Tt
has been the home of several units
ever since the organization of the
guard and proportional by large
number of its citizens have served
as members of the unit
The very fact that three units
We're located here when the Guard
vice and that the majority of the
members reside within a shorter
radius of Harrisburg than of any
other city of the State, together with
the fact that the city is the capital
of the State. are arguments that are
being forcibly advanced to empha-
size the fact that the city is the
proper place for the holding of the
reception