The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-01-15


great ex-beer town.
THE Ninth veterans were worthy Of the
greetings. musical. vocal and otherwise
and although they left comparatively
few dead on the fields where they won
glory they fought gallantly wherever
they were called, and as a part OF the
Ftfty-seventh Artillery they were COM
niended by the French Generals under
whom they lserved for n time and who
hed only one fault to find with them
they were bit too reckless. The Hunt
irgton. then fucated to help conceal her
from enemy submarines. assisted in con-
vey!ng the Ninth to France when il left
this side of the Atlantic on May 10
aboard the Holland America steamship
Ryndam impressed into the service OF
Uncle Sam as a transport. The Ninth
considered 1t fitting that they should re-
turn aboard the cruiser. now wearing
her old style gray war paint.
Dupuy Spins a Good Yarn.
The man who spun the best yarn Of
the Fifty-sevenths exploits was before
the war the ship news expert OF
the New York Herald. He wanted to
ba anonymous. being modest. but ship
Nftcs voted that II was entitled to claim
him and name him. He is Capt R.
l'upuy, fteSlrneTtal AOlutant, ana
he was formerly q Lieutenant in the old
Ninth. The finest achievement Of the
artillerymen of the Ftfty-seventh, associ-
ated with its sister regiment, the Thirty
nrst. and the Fifty-tfth and Fifty sixth,
was during the last ten days of the
lighting They decided to take revenge
for all their losses. amounting to per
cent. OF their united commands. by
smashing all attempts OF the Boches to
smother the Yankee batteries.
ION the morning Of November ! the
brigade massed barrase fire OF high
explosives on the ITolie Wood. where the
Germans we're rallyine for n counter at
tRck. Five thousand rounds OF shells
we're showered In that little patch of
woods. six kilometers in area. In two
bburs. The next day the First Battalion
went forward as n pursuit body, followed
~ the Second. while the Third remained
NJ position shifting its fire across the
rYer to support the attack on that side.
The First and Second suffered severely
several days. or until the Germans were
dtslodged. The Americans remained in
the positions they had won until Sovem-
bsr II the day OF the armistice, when il
ehded its work by firing the national
salute of forty-eight guns. one for each
State of the Union.
After this the Fffty.seventh's COM
~ the United States, and Col n A.
Cross took command The regiment was
sent to a rest camp TO prepare for the
homeward trip. Col. James W. Wheeler
vino commanded the Fifty-ninth Artil-
fery, assumed charge and the regiment
was ordered to Brest. whence it sailed
for this port.
New York Officers on Board.
Among the New York officers with tire
Fifty-seventh are Major Robert y.
Mackin. Capt. Frank II. Brown, com
nlanding the Third Battalion; Cant.
Gilbert Higgins, battalion adjutant:
Lieut.. Herbert u. Fowler and Lieut. e
SyTack. Headquarters Company: Lieut.
Robert +. Garvin. Supply Company
Lieut.. Alexander w. Peek. battery A
lieut.. Frank J. Rosdell. Lieut. Albert
Jourueay. Lieut.. Thomas F.. Heating
Battery Z Capt. William L. Cameron.
Eieut. GrenvlIe W Tarkin. Lieut.. John
Z. Hutton. Battery L: Lieut.. Thomas
Rleazer. Lieut. Joseph A. Connell OF
Battery F,
In Batteries L and T. of the Fifty
seventh are men from every borough OF
the city. Only three OF the New York
efe were killed. twelve were wounded
and large number were gassed With
Dne voice the artillerymen proclaimed
That there was at least one simon pure
hero In the returning bunch. He Is
and he did not say It h!mself-Lleut
Rressley II. McCance. on November 4
1t BEAUFORT, Boche shell smashed the
commissary shack, killing or wounding
Hbout forty men. The Lieutenant de.
bed the shell fire and ran out from his
npgout and made gallant personal eff.
fort to pull out from the clutter some of
We wounded. He found that the job
was too big for one man and ran back
through the German fire for help and
got It, He stuck to the task until every
wounded man was dragged from the
wreckage.
A.. Alfred Ingram Of battery + WAS n
ibTinter before the war. living at 81
West Twenty sixth street. He said he
AND his comrades worked most OF tn,
time with atheir gas masks on. They
isfnt gas shells to the Boches in re-
turn for those they received The
Yankee guns mostly of French make
were camouhaged with paint and trees
tut were sometimes located by the air
lriane experts Of the enemy and the
Tanks suffered. Ingram went through
~. Mihiei. the A~gonnc and Beaufort
enwounded. He left three brothers in
France
: DOughboys Win Doughnuts.
: Morris ]. Samartini OF 60 Thompson
trest said the cooks of his command
We're stingy with their doughnuts But
one day the hungry privates got even
The cooks had just finished a big batch
Of doughnuts when the German shells
hogan dropping mighty close to the
shanty where the cooks were working
They beat It. and when they got back
there was no shanty. but the dough.
nuts were slowed away In the interiors
L ~ the doughboys
~ J, B. Wood Of Cedarhurst, L. l.. noted
ALDERMAN leaning against a tree with
n machine gun pointing in Woods
Direction. lie sidesepped. and as the
iGetman did not fire he drew cautiously
heassr and found that he was tied tc
the tree dead.
Ray Langdon OF Battery r. residen,
Of Woodmere. L. J.. said he was one
Of detail OF fifteen men that wenI
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