Evening star., 1919-09-17
TROOP TRAINS COME
AND MEN B|VOUAC
Arrival of Infantry of the First
and Huge Transport of
Modern Equipment.
EVENTS OF A BUSY MIGHT

Troop trains carrying infantry or.
ganiZations of the LIST Division began
arriving at the New York avenue
railroad yards last night, and the
last train was in before 4 o'clock
this morning.
Leaving the camps near New York
late yesterday afternoon. the first
troop train pulled into the railroad
yards at 10:40 o'clock last night.
Other trains followed quickly, and
the men debarked as readily as the
trains arrived, and were marched to
Camps Meigs, Leach, East Potomac
Park and 18th street and Massa-
chusetts avenue southeast.
AS the infantrymen arrived they
were met by War Camp Community
Service workers, ''Y" workers, X. of
c. and Jewish Welfare men and wom-
en-, who served hot coffee, chocolate,
sandwiches and cigarettes.
Original schedules of the troop
trains. called for arrival in this city
of the first train at $50 o'clock this
morning. BY that hour all of the men
had come, had debarked and proceed
ed to the quarters assigned to them.
and only empty cars and a vast litter
and sandwich wrappings remained to
show that the troops were in.
Parking the Parapherna1ia.
Before 1880 o'clock this morning
streets and avenues in the vicinity of
the New York avenue yards began to
I'LL up with units of the transport,
commissary and quartermaster organ
izations.
"CouIosb cop,onsn oc ,,ap,, of +ba
men call the rolling kitchens, were
parked along New York avenue. Flor
ida avenue and intersecting streets,
with steam up" cooking big kettles
of "slum" and boiling coffee. Supply
wagons loaded with sides of beef, bags
of potatoes and onions, cases of to-
matoes and stacks of bread backed
: up the kitchens, while the field cooks
were as busy as ants getting Chow"
ready for the soldiers both before and
after the parade. Breakfast for many
OF the men was delayed until the
outfits had been assembled in the gen.
eral vicinity of the Capitol.
Scores of the wicked-looking little
Vlckers machine guns with their load
ed ammunition carts, and dozens of
portable anti-aircraft guns. their slim
muzzles peering almost straight up at
the heavens. made an interesting part
'of the SHOW" and hundreds of resi-
dents of the northeast section forsook
breakfast tables to gather around the
men with these implements of war
land listen to explanations of the man
'ner in which they worked in France.
Small Boys in the Saddle.
. A human touch was given at one
point in Florida avenue, where ma
chine gunners, evidently fond of chill
dren, dismounted, placed their tin hats
on scores of small boys and hoisted
them to the saddles of their mounts.
Those youngsters certainly had the
time of their lives for an hour or so.
The machine guns, anti-aircraft
guns, field kitchens, water trailers,
supply wagons. baggage wagons and
huge transport camions took up both
sides of Florida and New York ave-
nues from the railroad yards to I'd
street northwest, and also were at
rest along several Of the intersectiug
streets. Civilians inspecting the equip
ment remarked on the condition and
numbers of the wheel equipment and
the horses and mules. Several vet
erans from the Soldiers Home min
gled with the 1st Division men, one
old soldier remarking that right
around here you fellows have more
wagon equipment than Grants whole
army had at Petersburg"