The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-10
YOUNG HERO IN WAR
HERE AS STOWAWAY
Another Boy Wins Passage on
Northern Pacific, Which
Makes New Record.
ONE GETS FRENCH. CROSS
Sisters Of Secretary Lansing
Among Passengers on Ship
That Brings MERCER.

Tho troopship Northern Pactfic came
into port late yesterday afternoon with
white sea salt staining her tunnels and
her whole framework trembling from
her efforts to smash a record despite
the head winds and stormy seas that
menaced her.
The combination of high winds and
high waves proved too much for her,
although she cut her way here from
Brest in six days ten hours and twenty
Eve minutes. but she brought the record
Of making the fastest passage outward
bound Of any United States army
transport. On her voyage to Brest she
travelled from Ambrose Light to Pierres
Noirres Light in five days twenty-five
hours and seventeen minutes. This rec
ord. according to her captain. Lieut.
Commander Alvin A. Lustie, lowers by
some hours that made by the Great
Northern, her speedy sister ship.
Besides Cardinal Mercier, the Belgian
Ambassador and the record the Northern
Pacific brought back to New York 532
officers and men, principally casuals. two
stowaways, four welfare workers and
fourteen war brides.
Among the welfare workers were the
Misses Emma S. and Katherine T. r.
Lansing, sisters of the Secretary of
State, whose work in canteens under fire
earned them the gratitude of the French
soldiers the Croix de Guerre with star
and the French Red Cross medal The
two sisters left their home at Water
town. N. Y. in August. 1917. to Join the
French Red Cross. At Epernay. France,
a year later they were under heavy
bombardment, but operated their canteen
as placidly as If the storm of iron was
passing shower. 1t was for this work
they received the War Cross. Two
months ago the sisters went to Paris
for a vacation after their labors.
Two Interesting Stowaways.
The stowaways, Jules Lanias. is.
Of Breslau, Belgium. and Maurice
Bailey. 16. of jackson, Me-, have both
been through the mill with the allied
armies, have done their share by pass
ing out cigarettes and chocolate, caring
for the wounded and lodging shells,
and both are firmly convinced that the
u. S. A Is the place for them, although
Jules had never seen 1t before. The
fighting the two boys have been through
IS best made plain by stating that three
American officers with whom Jules made
friends. and who wanted to adopt him.
were killed in action. while both
Maurices father and brother were
killed.
Jules, whose father died in the Bel
gian army opposing the first invasion
OF the Germans, was a mascot of the
Tenth Field Artillery. Third Division,
and the only thing that Jules has
against them is that they sent him to
school in France and later, when they
moved to the Rhine. sent him TO school
q
ment also raised $1,000 for the boy.
This money was deposited in a New
York bank. but despite his plutocracy
Jules went to Ellis Island as an alien
last night Both Cardinal Mercler and
Ambassador dc Cartier are interested
in the case of the young stowaway. and
IL is probable that with their help and
that of the Tenth Field Artillery Jules
will get into the land of the free.
|. Maurice Bailey is better off than Jules,
for even a cantankerous immigration in
spector cannot keep an American citi-
zen from coming home. even If he did
stowaway to get over to look at the
war.
Maurice started for the war SNUG
gled in a barracks bag belonging to
the 103d' Infantry. in which his brother,
Alfred, was a private The boy was
following his father, Sergeant Victor
Bailey abroad. Alfred fell at Chateau
Thierry and his father died in the
Champagne sixteen days later At the
same time Maurice was wounded at
Chateau Thierry by a piecce OF she'll
He was wounded again at st. Mihel
A Jagged white scar over. his right
eye is the sign left by the first wound.
received while up in the front line pass
Ing out cigarettes to Company II of
the 10Sd Infantry during the high water
mark fighting of the war. Just after
he was wounded the company was
pressed back bit, leaving him wounded
and alone in No Mans Land for three
days
How He Won French Cross.
l. THE Germans in front of me had
machine guns and kept up a steady fire
at my comnany" ha 90 Ia "and ,,,,, 90,