The sun., 1919-06-01
ELSIE JANIS, WITH
$685. TROOPS, HOME
Royal Welcome Is Given to
Actress Who Entertained
Soldiers in France.
BRIDAL VESSEL ARRIVES
Gen. Atterbury Tells About
~ Feats of Transportation
= Forces at the Front.

Elsie Janis and 6, gS5 doughboys and
other military persons with higher rank
and pay, but OF no greater importance
arrived here yesterday aboard the
cruiser Pueblo and tho transports ROT
terdam and Louisville. The latter ves-
sci, which has come to be known as
the bridal ship. also carried sixty-five
wives and fourteen children.
Besides Elsie Janis. who Is returning
from fifteen months service with the
IA. L. E. another headriner on the Rot
terdam was Brig-Gen. w. W. Atterbury.
vice president OF the Pennsylvania
Railroad, and comma nder of the rail-
way transportation corps OF Gen. Per-
shing's army since it's organization near
sly two years ago. IN accordance with
arrangements made by cable, Gen. At
tsrbury was met at the pier by IN off,
Ger from Washington. who gave the Gem
eral his discharge from the army and he
lost NJ time in getting aboard a train
for Philadelphia.
= Miss Janis went directly 10 her homo
sat Tarrytown, where she was welcomed
spy the entire population with Mayor Ed
ward A. Martin at It's head. The fire de-
spartmen. turned out in her honor and
stho A. e. F.'s premier entertainer was
carried through tho streets while sirens
sounded. bells changed and the popula-
ton chcered.
81 Her welcome begnn Just after the Rot
terdam left CuaIsutir.e when two tugs
decorated with baniters reading well
come Home. Elsie Janis" strung along the
rails met the big transport They were
unable to get close enough for Miss
Janis to identify her friends. but the
same.
Gave 6IO performances.
Miss Janis gave go performances for
TIE men of the A. e. T.. some of them in
the sato but dreary baIo towns and
PORTS OF the s. Q. s. and many of them
Tor III. fighting men directly behind the
lines. On moro than one occasion Ger
man plarea dropped bombs in the
neishborhoo1 during her performances,
hut she went right on with her songs
and dances and won the undying affec-
ton not only OF the nren-who were able
TO ho3r her. bu. OF every one else in the
American land and naval forces in
" France.
She went abroad on her own initiative.
paid her own expenses, and incidentally
was the only woman TO whom the British
A authorities ever issued n white pass"
giving the bearer unrestricted freedom Of
movement anywhere in the battle area
This courtesy was the result Of per-
Z sonal request from Gen. Pershing. She
was accompanied on her entire tour by
her mother who returned with her yes
terday. Private William Janaschek. a
relative of the famous Polish tragedienne,
acted as her accompanist
a. Tn lxsr 90 =
said yesterday that she had been repaid
Sa thousand times for the effort she had
made. She said:
II would not have missed the etuca-
stion I have gained by getting to know
Americans as they were in the army in
France. They are wonderful boys,
shealthy in body. mind and heart. Nobody
can know how good and fine they are
T who has not been with them when they
were under the test rs they were in the
A, r. F.
Climax in Troop Movement.
Cen Atterbruy said that the troop
kmovement in France reached it's climax
Gin May. when 317.1S6 officers and
men were sent baC.. % the United
States. The previous high record was
7 the movement of $4,000 into Franco
( last September. He told briefly Of the
work of the Railroad Transportation
men under his command and praise
their achievements. AS an exampte of
what they had done he cited tha base at
/ Gievres, where plans We're made for n
railroad yard with 363 miles of sidings
and 1.152 turnouts, 4. 10000 square feet
of covered stores and 10. 1877 900 square
feet of open stores. When the armistice
was signed, Gen. Atterbury said. 1872
miles of track had been laid. three