New-York tribune., 1919-02-27
10000 NelU Workers
To Greet 9Th Men
On Thousand Tugs

New York's reception committee to
welcome the first three regiments of
the Homecoming 9th Division will be
composed Of 10000 persons.
When the big transport Leviathan,
bearing Major General John F. O'Ryan
and 5000 officers and men of the 105th
and 106th Regiments, the 1O5th Ma
10th Regiment, with smaller detach-
ments, steams into the harbor some
time next week. 1000 tugs, yachts and
other craft will go down the Bay to
meet the returning New York fighters.
The craft will bear the relatives and
friends of the men.
Plans for extending a welcome such
as has never before been attempted
were decided on at conference held
yesterday between Lieutenant Colonel
j. Leslie kincaid and Lieutenant Colo
mel William T. Starr, of the 9th D-
vision, who returned from France to
arrange for the reception; Rodman
Wanamaker, chairman of the reception
committee of the Mayors Committee
on Welcome; Sheriff Knott and Grover
A. Whalen, secretary to Mayor Hylan.
Relatives and Friends First
Although it was argued that prac-
tlcally all New York will want to see
the arrival of the Leviathan and that
the waterfronts will be crowded with
eager spectators, it was decided to give
preference to the relatives and friends
of the men. Mr.. Whalen announced
that the reception boats will be for
the use only Of friends and relatives
and that tickets to board these boats
will be supplied on written application
to the Mayors Committee on Welcome,
at its Offices in the Hall Of Records.
Applications for tickets must be made
by letter and not In person.
Similar arrangements are beginning
made, although on a smaller scale, to
greet the Rochambeau, which is due to
arrive here on Saturday with the 1920
Engineers, formerly the 22d Engineers,
of the 27th Division. Tickets to board
the reception boats on Saturday may
also be had on written application at
the Hall of Records
Colonel kincaid and other officials
yesterday also talked over arrange
ments to house and feed the men in
the various armories when the division
comes in from Camp Merritt and Camp
Mills for the parade, which will take
place few days after March II, when,
1T IS expected, the whole division will
have arrived.
Where Troops Will Stay
The numbers of men and the detach-
mcnts to be housed in each armorv "a
decided upon are:
The 102d Engineers, 1000 men, the
Engineer Train, so men, the Mobile Ord
nance Repair Shop, 4S men, and the
Headquarters trains and military DO
lice, $50 men. at the 22d Regiment Ar
mory, ZIG Fort Washington Avenue.
near West 175th Street; 105th Machine
Gun Battalion, 700 men, at Squadron A,
1889 Madison Avenue, near Ninety
fourth Street; 1O8th Infantry. 3.I0O
men, 102d Ammunition Train. 1900
men, 102d Supply Train, 45O men. and
Sanitary Train, $50 men, at 9th Coast
Artillery Armory, East Ninety-fourth
Street and Park Avenue.
The 105th Infantry, 3,400 men, 1920
Field Signal Battalion, 500 men, at list
Ihirty-fourth Street; 104th Field Ar
tlllcry, 1900 men, at 9th Coast Defence
Command Regiment, 1875 West Four
tcenth Street, near Sixth Avenue; 10th
Infantry, except I'd and Sd battalions.
7th Regiment Armory, Park Avenue and
East Sixty-sixth Street; I'd and Sd bat
talions OF 107th Infantry, 1900 men, at
l2th Regiment Armory, Columbus Ave
nue. and Sixty-second Street; 1O5th
Field Artillery, 1900 men. division
headquarters troop and detachment $50
men, at 69th Regiment Armory, Twen-
ty-hfth Street and Lexington Avenue.
The Machine Gun and Supply com
panies Of 106th Infantry, 400 men, at
14th Regiment Arpory, Fourteenth
Street and Eighth Avenue, Brooklyn; !;
l06th Field Artillery, 1000 men, at 18th
Coast Defence Regiment, Sumner and
Jefferson avenues, Brooklyn; 106th In
1antry, except machine gun and supply
Armory, Bedford and Atlantic avenues
brooklyn. and 10ath and 1o6th Machine
Gun battalions, 700 men, at 1st Cavalry
Regiment, Bedford Avenue and Carroll
Street, Brooklyn.