Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-15

Chatcl Chchcry. The three machine
gun battalious wcrc Sandwichcd now be.
tween tho doughboy brigades and the
artillery brigadcs.
A great cheer came along the lanes Of
people as the head of General William
G. Prices artillery brigade came into
view.
The Chester brGadicr rode stately by
hIs fellow townsman. the GovCruo.. #
the state. His los and l5Js had made
the boches fear.
There was an empty place here for
the Philadelphia boys of the 1OSth Field
Artillery, who were somewhere off the
Delaware Capos.
Tho odd Second" boys missed the
parade.
But the gallant lO9th. the. bows who
went right up front with the dough
boys aud snipcd at German machine
gunners with their I5's. got the cheers
as Colonel +. st. John Grcblc led them
! by.
From the stands their heroic fight :
ing colonel Asher Miner. erect on
his crut"hes. his leg gone below the
knee. saw them go by.
| Lieutenant Colonel 4. V. Crookston
came next with his Gunncrs of the 10th
Field Artillery, lads who had fought
in France and Belgium with an Of
tcctivcnCsS that rivuIcd auy artillery
in the Allied ranks.
Captain Ralph W. Knowles headed
the 200 Philadelphia boys in the 1O3,l
Trench Mortar Battery. which closed
the artillery section of the parade.
Then came the fighting engineers of
the division. ono of the few engineer
regiments that could fight as hard as
infantry and build bridges no matter
what sort Of hell was breaking loose.
These boys. half of them Philadelphians.
under Colonel Fred A. SNYDER, had
built ten bridges across the Ncslc and
then fought to hold them against tho
attacking enemy. They rank with the
Second Engineers who held the boche
at bay for days at Chateau Thiorry.
The other auXiliarieS in the Twenty e.
eighth. each with its decorated mon. ia
show that even auxliarics in the Nv en-
t. eighth were fighting men. came in
order. Then were the signal corps mer
with their blue arm bands, Il on who had
kept the wires open up TO the farthcst
out PC and even to outposts under
seathing shell fire.
Finney Led Ammunition Train
Colonel NJ. r. Finpey led the men
of the ammunition train. the boys who
had to feed the guns when there was
no way to get there, but got there any
how. an outfit whose casualties were
above the average because theirs was
daily. nightly chance with hell at the
crossroads" The medical corps, with
Lieutenant Colonel William f. Keller
Mt their head. boys whose 'shcll proof
Jobs were turned into risks to save the
wounded, lads who bravcd anything tc
get the battered buddies back to the
hospital came along.
And then there were the IN. r. s.
! the lads who stood at crossroads in tn,
hell of a strafing and kept things NOV,
ing. the lads who stood and were gasset
under orders that others might cscap,
the mustard" the NJ. P.'s of the lin
division who really did help win tn
war.
/ Wounded Came Last
The way the crowd had cheered
seemed they must be running out. An
: then came the wounded. And they wer
laughing. boys whose arms are gone
whose legs We're taken at Courmon'
cheering, gay, happy, filling trucks an
automobiles.
!, Some of them rode the ninety foe
= observation tower once used by th
, Crown Prince in Montfaucon churc
tower. trophy of the Argonne.
Loaded down with cigarettes an
2 chocolates, the gifts of the Grove
$ these lads rolled by in limousines IN
c trucks, wearers of the Keystone re
with their sacrifice. Hundreds of the
there were, the boys who have spent a
these seven months since peace can
!, in hospitals in France and here, wear
3 crs of the Croix De Guerre in mar
II cases.
Ie These boys need not be silent, /
o were their buddies msrhing at attcntic