The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-04-26
Advance Guard of 35th Here at
z O'clock This Morning.
Only Seven TOpekans Were on
the u. p. Train.
SPENT TEN MINUTES IN CITY
Train Six Hours Late-CrOWd
Met 1t With Cheers.
Mai. James Going One of the
TOpekans With Men.

In spite of the earliness of the hour
and the uncertainty concerning the
time of their arrival, more than $50
persons turned out to welcome the
advance guard of the Thirty fifth
division as it passed thru Topeka on
the Union Pacific about z o'clock this
morning. There were only seven To-
pekans on the train. among them
Major James Going, who left Topeka
in command of the supply company
of the 139th infantry. the old Third
Kansas national guard regiment, and
who had charge of the mobilization
camp at Ripley park. Among the 9TH
er Topekans were Phil Lockwood, of
the 18th sanitary train; Harold Shad-
dinger, former employe of the Poeh-
Ter Mercantile Co.; Edwin Fritz, of the
headquarters company of the both
field artillery and an employe of the
Merchants National bank; and Ed
Caskey.
Cheers AS They Came In.
AS the train pulled into the station,
the returning soldiers, leaning out
windows and crowding the steps and
| platforms of the cars, greeted the
/ first sight of Topeka faces with pro-
| longed and rousing cheers that were
as heartily returned by the civilians
who had assembled to welcome them.
| Red Cross canteen workers were on
hand with hot coffee, doughnuts and
chocolates and for time the station
was given over to a. tumult of riotous
joy. Most of the relatives of the To-
peka men were present and the sup
pressed emotions of eighteen months
were released in the ecstacy of that
Joyous homecoming.
The detail consisted of 412 men, be-
ing detachments of the headquarters
company of the 10th ammunition
train, military police, a sanitary de-
tachment, mobile ordnance unit and
a fully equipped repair shop.
Here Only Ten Minutes.
Gov. Henry J. Allen wired the ad-
jutant general Friday requesting that
the train be stopped here for an hour
but no response was received. The
train arrived about z o'clock. travelling
about six hours late, and remained in
Topeka only about ten minutes.
Orders to stop trains longer than
the time required to get train orders
and register the train must come from
military authorities at washington, it
was explained. Railroad officials are
time.
! A Touching Scene.
| Even before the grinding of the
| brakes reached the ears of the crowd
as the train swung around the curve
east of the depot, scene had been
enacted some distance up the track
| that brought tears of joy to the eyes
| VI tn6 OulOOktTS. A1dJ- JdIIl6S
who left Topeka in command of the
supply company of the 18TH infantry,
was standing on the steps of one of
the caches. leaning far out to catch
a glimpse of the "old home town."
The first persons he saw as the train
rounded the curve were his wife and
children, waiting to meet him.
The major didn't wait. He leaped
to the ground and started out on a
run. Mrs. Going saw him and clasp
ing the children by the hands ran to
meet him. Then. for the first time in
months, he clasped them all to him
with one sweep of his arms and for the
next moment the crowd. the war, the
future duty and everything that takes
the joy out of life was forgotten.
| In the window of a coach as il
swept by another soldier looked down
| on the little group and smiled.
That's nothin'. Wait till 1 gel
| home" he shouted as the train whirled
past.