The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-03
WAR HONOR SHARED
BY RICH AND POOR
Negro Mother Gets Medal Won
by Son Who Died, as Does
Parent Of Captain.
9S ON LIST OF HEROES
Col. Monyhan Gets Cross and
Ribbon of Chevalier
From France.

They could have had nothing else in
common, those two--the trim middle aged
pAysician. immaculate from his care
fully trimmed gray hair to the tips of
his we'll polished boots, holding himself
A trife more erect than the soldier on
bis right and the stout negro woman.
clad in her best black dress and OBJ
vlously embarrassed by her unaccus-
toned surroundings
They stood side by side In the line
OF those who were to receive decorations
for gallantry In battle at the Sixty
ninth Regiment Armory yesterday morn
ing. His son had been an officer,
Captain OF infantry. who had gone to
his death at the head of his men in a
famous Regular Army regiment Her
son was corporal in one Of the quickly
raised and hurriedly trained organiza-
tons that made their own traditions
as they cut their way across the Marine
and the Aisne, and beyond. He, too.
had met death-had met 1t standing
his ground. outnumbered ten to one In
some advanced post. carrying out his
orders to remain there until relieved.
They had nothing else in common
except the gold star which each wore on
black band around the left arm and
10 receive from the picturesque foreign
officers who stood facing them. The
star, the cross and a memory-they were
all
Some VIII Never Answer.
Not all of the twenty-three men whose
names were called of by Major Samuel
T Stewart answered as the Major read
the latest addition to the roll of those
Il -.
the heads Of the armies which fought
under Marshal Foch. There were two
who had already received a cross-the
little painted wooden cross that marks
every one of the thousands OF American
graves from Baccarat and Luneville in
Lorraine to the gates of Client in
Flanders. There were others who are
still in hospitals where the doctors
feared that the strain and excitement
Of even the brief and simple ceremony
might cost them something of the
progress back to health they have made
There were one or two also who had
slipped quietly away when they were
discharged. unconscious that somewhere
In the long and weary routine that binds
the operations of all things military
were certain slips Of printed paper
signed Foch or Pershing or Dias, en-
closing bit OF bronze hung to an inch
o. 20 of gayly colored ribbon, being
passed from one bureau and ONCE to
another on their way to American SOL
diers who had long since vanished into
civil life.
Some of the names that Major Stew
art called 80 crisply were good old
English applications whose forefathers
might and probably did, sail out Of
Plymouth or Bristol on the Mayiower
or the Suzan Constant. Others were
obviously of the dozen or more diverse
stocks which made up the American
army as they make up the nation
from Kiev or Calabria or Killarney
their forebears came in the steerage Of
modern liner.
At one end OF the line stood Lieut.
Col Timothy J. Monyhan of the old
shty-ninth. who had fought just as
an Irishman likes to night. on every
front TO which American troops were as
ngned and back again. His name was
the frst called after the bugles of the
Fort Slocum band had sounded the notes
Of Attention." which brought the audi
sDce to their feet.
Col. MoRyhan Made ChevaIfer.
Major Ulysse Breton OF the French
Commission stepped forward toward Col
Aonyhan and with his drawn sword
touched the Colonel orr each shoulder
before he pinned the white enamelled
NaOnb VI u CuONdlleT OF inc Legion OF
Honor. with its flaming crimson ribbon.
On the Americans breast and saluted
him according to the traditional custom
OF the French army. The Colonel ga
lvted in return, wheeled and resumed
his place In the ranks. Next called was
the name Of Corporal Robert J. Has
siard 227 West 121st street. a member
81 Company F OF the Ninth Infantry.
On his blouse Major Breton pinned the
Me0aillh Milifafra ~ oil
nonors open to the poilu and which has
been awarded to only twenty-four Amer
leans. Then came the awards Of the
Croix de Guerre, some with the gold
stas which denotes a citation by a corps
commander, others with the silver and
bronze stars indicative of citations from
division and brigade commanders. re-
spectively.
Among the latter was the name OF
Corporal Fletcher Battles. deceased. OF
the sesth Infantry, formerly the Fiji
teenth Infantry. N. g. n. Y. His cross
and citation were handed to his mother
Mrs Ida Battles.
Then Came the Italian war crosses
OF which one was presented to DR.
Matthias L. Foster OF New Rochelle. the
father OF Capt Hamilton X. Foster OF
the Twenty-sixth Infantry, killed in &C
ton. The Italian decorations were pre-
a. sented by Capt. A. Biegi and Lieut. A
BarberinL Lieut.-Col. Norman Thwaites
British Provost Marshal in New York
represented the British Government and
presented the Distinguished Service
Order to Major Robert o. Marsh, while
Col, Wilbur L. Wilder. L. S. A, pinned
the American Distinguished Service
Cross on Corporal James Dolan of the
seyenty-seventh Division.
Moran Delivers Address.
President Robert l. Moran of tho
Board Of Aldermen delivered an address
Of eongratulation at the conclusion Of
NE ceremony.
Others who received decorations were
Italian War Cross for Merit-Corpora
Robert Storrio, ~ India street, Green
point, Company Z. s25th Infantry: FRS
Class Private William Odenwald, 1871!
Second avenue. Company N, S2Sth In
fantry; Major Paul DAILY. 20 Nassal
street, Eighteenth Infantry; First Class
Private Anthony Buonino. e22 Pacific
street, Company +, 3loth Infantry Cor
poral William Rochkind. 22s Henry
street, Company I, S05th Infantry; Pri
yate William Berry. Lockport, N. Y.
siIty-hrst Infantry; Private Julius Ar
tonson II First avenue, Company q
l0Sth Infantry