The sun., 1919-01-25

went on conducting, using as a. hat the
green felt cover OF French horn lent
| to him by a bandsman. That's the way
| to feel when you are welcoming your
warriors home. .
The Patrol got the contagion from
! Brooklyn and put more pep into the
, proceedings than it ever had shown In
previous receptions. Patrolman Beban
! wigwaRged Chairman Rodman Wena-
makers message OF welcome TO the ar
tillerymen aboard both battleships. and
| got wigwagsed thanks. The wife OF the
Mayor, who Is a Brooklyrite. was
aboard the Patrol, and that may have
helped some. -'
Also aboard were Col. w. E. Wood OF
the Police Reserves, James T. Gilroy.
Mrs e. L. Griffin, Commodore and Mrs.
Stuart Blackton and group Of friends
| and relatives OF the artillerymen. The
Patrol. in command OF acting Capt.
James w. Hallock. put aboard the bat
tleshtps great quantities OF cigarettes
and chocolates, which were received
, with the usual enthusiasm.
Perhaps this ie a good place TO record
| that the number Of OF artllerymen who
arrived and will be released later from
camp Is ISIS. They form the largest
! unit Of more than 5000 troops that ar
rived In this port yesterday aboard six
| including the French liner Chicago. the
United States hospital ship Mercy. the
transport SURNAME. the British trans
| port Goentoer. which brought the cam
outage experts; the Calamares. the Ac-
| comac and the Gen. C. w. Cocktails.
First Unit to Reach Home.
The Goentoer also brought the 1920
Trench Mortar Battery of Gen. Organs
| famous New York Guardsmen. the first
| unit OF the Twenty-seventh Division 70
reach home. There were many old Far
| ty-seventh and Tenth Regiment men In
| the battery. which is under command OF
Capt. Charles Pearson Of Buffalo. Their
losses were small, but their services
great.
In the camoufiage outfit were many
| New Workers.. scu!ptors. artists. plain
| scene and house painters and decorators
| Of all sorts. They were organized at the
| American University. In Washington. in
August. 1917. OF the first four men en-
listed three returned yesterday. They
are Lieut.. Harry Faulkner. painter. OF
II Macdougal alley; Lieut.. Sherry Fry,
sculptor. and Master Engineer Twieg
Smith OF Hawaii. The remaining men,
Der OF the quartet. Sergeant Everett
Harter. son Of the Fifth avenue deco
unit, Lieut.. Henry Thrasher. sculptor,
and Sergeant Harry Wolf. architect
also were Killed.
| Capt. Lawrence W. Hit, regimental
adtutant OF the camoufiaGe unit. archl-
| tect, Il West Thirty seventh street. said
| the Germans had nothing on the Ameri-
cans In camouhage. They used chiefly
branches of trees instead of painted
things. perhaps because they could not
afford the paint. The bad luck OF the
Americans was due chiefly to careless
ness In not walking in prescribed paths
properly camoufaged. but taking short
cuts and creating paths that the enemy
air forces soon perceived. =,
The hospital ship Mercy brought in
only wounded and Ill. She was forced
into Bermuda by bad weather. and after
coaiing proceeded. docking at the foot
Of West Tenth street. so that her !nva-
lids could be quietly transferred to the
hospital In the old Greenhut store in
Sixth avenue. The list Of her patients
would make several columns Of THE
Sun.