The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-13
Curious Didn't Wait To See
117th Train Soldiers.
Their Train Did Not Reach City
Until Late Hour.
WENT ON TO CAMP FUNSTON
Only Sweethearts and Relatives
at the Depot.
ID. A. r. Furnished Ice Cream
and Cake For All.

For the first time since the Kansas
troops overseas have begun to pour
thru Topeka on their way to Funston
and discharge, the relatives of the
fighting men had the right of way at
the Union Pacific depot Monday night.
| For the first time the crowd of curl
Gus sightseers gave up and left the
field to those who truly care.
The 117th ammunition train arrived
in Topeka Mon"ay night-not at II
o'clock as was scheduled, but at
o'clock in the morning. The sight
seers and the sigh-seekers were I'M
willing to miss the last street cars
home, and the station platform was
| left clear for the relatives of the men.
When the train did finally come in.
after the relatives had spent long
hours gazing steadfastly and hopeful
| ly toward the curve of the Union Pa
cific tracks, the reunions were con-
summated with astonishing rapidity.
1t was only necessary in one or two
cases to send out calls for either boys
or relatives.
Sweethearts We're Patient.
And in speaking of relatives the
| prospective relatives should not be for
| gotten. The brides to be. or the brides
who hope to be, were Just as patient,
and waited just as lovingly as did the
| DlOOuf IcldllOllSs 4iSlbOhbdAiS tAiNAh
greeting was just as warm, as smiling
| and as moist.
| OF the twenty-three Topeka men in
| the ammunition train, eighteen of
them returned to Topeka with the
unit Monday night. One of the missing
was left in the hospital at Newport
| News. Captain MacLean is the bro
Their of Capt w. P. MacLean, of Bat
terry A, who is already discharged and
ready to take up his, work as director
| of the War Camp Community service
office in Topeka. Captain Hugh de-
veloped case of tonsilitis on the boat
coming home, but is not reported seri-
ously ill. 1t is thought that he will
be home some time next week
| The eighteen men who did arrive
| in Topeka on the trooper Monday
night-or rather this morniNg-are:
First Lieut.. Donald F. Mckee, 1903
East Eighteenth
First sergt. Frank Wilson, 1853
| Boswell.
sergt. George D. Gable, 715 Taylor.
Sergt. Harry Robbins. 4o6 Elm
wood
| Sergt. Horace Gum, route No. 7.
Sergt. Harold Springer, formerly of
Battery A, bu, who lives in Ottawa.
Corp. Russell Lent. 400 Chandler
Chief Mechanic Harry Hammond.
South Topeka.
Corp. zach Martin, whose sister is
a nurse at the st. Francis, hospital
| Corp. James Alderman, Alb West
| ern.
C. o. johnson. 419 Lime.
Francis F. O'Brien. 206 Elmwood.
William C. Haynes. route No. 8.
| Ed G. Werner, 1858 Mulvane.
Oscar Chappelle, 229 East Tenth.
| William Bundy. 400 Harrison.
Julius Heberling, who was employed
by the Whiteker Brothers Commits
sion Co.
Gus Steinmetz, 1921 East Crane.
Tom Evans, East Fourth.
Given Refreshments Here.
Every man who arrived on the am
generous dish of ice cream and a huge
cut of real homemade cake by the
Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton.
4 TwentN-three Topeka men were in
the unit when it, left Topeka. Ser
4 geant William Phillips is in the army
of occupation. George Bennett was
discharged in an eastern camp and
Lester Workman was discharged al
Camp Mills. William Bundy. ST., was
returned as a casual.
/ Topeka did not suffer a single loss
among the men she sent to France
with the ammunition train. The unit
participated in seven shows hauled
ton after ton of ammunition to the
front under fire, and the total loss to
the entire command was just nine
men killed and fifty-four wounded.
Oil NlaSnate on Train. 4
One of the peculiar characters in
the ammunition train is "Cy'' Simen-
ski, the $265 a day buck private "
His real name is Arthur A Simenski
and his income is real He was an oil
driller before enlisting in the train
at Chanute.
The ammunition train left Topeka
for Camp Funston at 2:3O o'clock this
morning. The men on arrival at the
camp were Immediately caught in the
maelstrom of the discharge mill u
which will cast them up as civilians
by tomorrow night.
Topeka may expect is see her first
bunch of three service stripe men not
. later than Thursday night