The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-02-17
WET AND RELIGIOUS
COMBERS HIT SHIP
Mighty Wave Nearly Capsizes
Transport, Negroes Sing
Hymns and Pray.
LINER Tits FEARFULLY
Cruiser Louisville's Captain
Says He Never Saw a More
Vicious Storm.

/ When the barometer drops to sub
keelson depths and the spume OF eombing
seas blurs the vision of the man in the
dies aboard ship when nearly all the
ships company Is made up Of negro SOL
diers. chiefly from Virginia and Penn
sylvania.
| That Is why Capt. Herbert Ardley OF
the auxiliary cruiser Louisville. formerly
the American liner ST. Louis. in yester-
{ day from Brest, was not surprised i've
days ago at dinner time. a few moments
after cumulative sea swatted the ship,
! heeling her down on the port side. TO
hear resonant chorus come up from
| thirteen hundred black troops who
| seemed to suspect that the cruiser had
run plump into the port OF missing ships
| Capt Ardley says he never ran afoul
! Of such n vicious wave and never saw
the glass go lower, 2S.04 inches and
never heard more earnest singing come
| UP from the quarters OF the soldiers. who
had a right to feel upset. Even the vet
eran travellers were much disturbed and
the talent on the bridge had to think
swiftly to bring the liner to a level
keel.
Rang Danger Signal.
Dishes were tumbled from the saloon
tables as the Louisville was hove down
by the mighty comber. diners spilled
| and hundreds sent Keeling against bulk
heads and fixtures.
The camp meeting hymns did not start
until the lights went out and the auto
| matte switch to the alarm bells rang the
| signal to abandon ship. Tho wave took
complete charge Of everything for few
minutes Then the lights blazed up
again and the skipper eased the cruiser
out of the tumult. and the fervency OF
the melodies died away. Many were
bruised. but none seriously hurt, except
in feelings
|, Two women stowaways arrived by the
| Louisville and probably will be returned
20 Brest after the naval. army and i'm
migration. investigators get through WITH
them. Officers would not talk about the
women and none would say whether they
are French or English. -.
They are not American or they would
not be sent back. rs II was declared they
probably would he The naval authori-
ties at Brest, II was learned, had sent a
wireless to the Louisville saying the
women aboard had not been sent from
Brest by the embarkation officers there.
1t was said they had slowed away In
first class cabins. The names OF the
women. VINO are SAlO 10 DC anu
Young. may be revealed to-day by the
Ellis Island officials. who were not on
duty yesterday.
| Troops From Virginia.
Most OF the troops brought by the
Louisville belong to the 35lst Field Ar
tillery. recruited at Camp Meade from
negroes OF Virginia and western Penn
sylvania. They are in command OF Col,
Wade II. Carpenter of the Regular Army.
} who went to France with them in June.
The 35Ist was associated with the 18TH
Field Artillery, the headquarters brigade
of which, eight officers and hfty-seven
enlisted men, also came by the Louis
vile.
! Capt Walter Jones, rs East Fifty
| third street, one OF the officers. said the
l67th was the first American Field Ar
tillery to be motorized and that the lit
tie caterpillar tractors were much SUI
perior 10 horses In hauling the guns
along the front at a twelve mile rate.
The wives of Ave men Of the army and
twelve brides Of American sailors sta
, toned in the British Isles landed from
the cruiser. A blue eyed girl OF County
Kerry. originally Miss Daphne ,Beckham
was the fairest In the bevy. She mel
her husband. Lieut.. Paul r. wilmington
OF the Army Medical corps, at Boulogne
| where
Peter Brigham hospital.
He lives at 535 Beacon, street, Boston
, | and is now on his way to America. Hit
mother Mrs Charles Francis Whiting
; ton. and his brother greeted the bride al
the pier and took her to Boston in ar
= automobile.
Newark Mans Bride Comes.
\ Mrs. Jerry f. Spillane. whose husband
came here from Newark and took hel
= home, was courted in London when III
= was a sergeant in the American All
3 force there.
y Chief Petty oficer ]. A. Meeks OF thu
e Navy greeted his wife at the pier. Sh'
Q Is a Scotch girl and he wooed her II
Inverness Mrs Fred Talbot Jenkins
. formerly OF Salisbury Plains. England
= worked in q British airdrome there wheI
she captured Fred. who was a private II
the American Air force. She will star
\ to-day for his home in Winfield, Kan.
Mrs. Maurice Hickok, wife Of Chic
| Bos'n's Mate Hickok Of the Stockton
will travel all the way to Omaha TO q
to housekeeping Mr.. Timothy O'Leary
twho was met by .hsr husband, a blue
= Jacket Of the destroyer McDougal brough
along the only baby aboard. Margare
Patricia O'Leary. three months old.
& Lieut. c. r. Toucnstone OF the Amer
lean Air Force was brought down BY
a flock of FokSers last August and fel
far inside the German lines. His lef
II arm Was shattered and his jaw broken
= and when he landed a German soldie
ran a bayonet through his right hand
VA German officer saved him from
II another thrust Just before the armis
n tIce he and another American office
II escaped from a camp at Dusseldorf an,
= went 200 miles afoot to Brussels, whenc
Ar they We're sent to France.
II stanton a Passenger,
E. Former Assistant United States At
r torney Edwin NJ. Stanton, who super
70 vised the Federal campaign in this cit
l. agains Illicit dealers in NARCOTICS. re
turned from a years service as an En-
l., sign at the naval base at East Leigh
l. England. and bombing base at Pauillst
At France He said he would go to Bay
in shore for duty.
4. BY the transport Matsonia, from Dor
D. deaux. came winners OF decorations wit
n, stories or how they were won Cap
q Joseph w G. Stephens of Company r
v Twenty sixth Infantry. was among tn
first TO get the Distin guished Servic
e. Cross. He was under command q
t. Lieut.. Col. Theodore Roosevelt. Jr., an
his citation says he showed conspicu
T. Gus bravery In the face of heavy al
OF tllery and machine gun FIRE. bringin
Is his men up to reinforced positions o
err the Scissors Paris road, and contiruin
At TO lead them until he was brought dow
At by a machine gun bullet.
as Capt. Beverly w. Robinson OF Me,
Of rick, L. J., related by marriage to tn
late Col Roosevelt, was with the sObt
- Mo china Gun Battalion ~ tha