The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-19
OFFICERS GROWING
OVER DISCOMFORT
Seven Hundred Forced to
Come Home Second Cabin
and Steerage.
MANY WOUNDED ARRIVE
Casualties on One Transport
Entrain at HOboken for
Camp Merritt.

The transport Northern Pacific, which
finished yesterday her FIRST round trip
from France since she grounded on New
Years Day Oft Fire Island, has FIRST
cabin accommodation for ITS persons
only. and that Is why 700 officers who
arrived in second cabin and steerage
growled their way across the Atlantic.
Much Of It was good-natured growing,
except when beans were repeatedly
served for breakfast Even the privates
do not take to beans as a seafaring lux
ury.
1t was said that somS of the officers
who had been offered second class pas
sage on the Leviathan, which sailed
from Brest before the Northern Patifc,
protested to headquarters and were or
dered to take whatever was offered them.
so they reluctantly boarded The Northern
Pacific. Rumors came that about 800
protesting Officers still on the other side
would be disciplined for characterization.
Hospital Train Leaves for Camp.
The first hospital train from Hoboken
since the wounded and Ill have been
landed there left for Camp Merritt yes
terday afternoon with 265 soldiers and
sailors who arrived by the Northern Pa
cihc. They are the first patients to
land here since the closing of the Green
hut Hospital at Sixth avenue and
Eighteenth street. Capt. Charles Col
Inns supervised the transfer of the men,
all litter cases, from the transport to the
train of bed cars and day coaches,
which was in charge of Major Harry
Kerns, assisted by a corps of Red Gross
nurses.
The Kaiserin Auguste Victoria was
forced to anchor in a thick fog Off Rock
away Beach nearly twenty-four hours,
within actual sight of port, and did not
make dock until yesterday afternoon
Creeping through the murk. she took al
the morning to finish the Job. She car
ried thirteen general prisoners, including
one who is sentenced to fifty years fol
killing his major at the battle front.
One of the prisoners did not show VI
at rollcall yesterday and the whole
ships company made an unavailinl
search for him. His offence was i'm
personating an officer, and it was sus
pected that he might try the trick agar
in his effort to get away. 30 all officers
more than 400. including 2S6 casual
who had been taking special courses IL
French colleges, were held up at thu
gangway and forced to identify them
selves. The missing man was no
found.
ss5O,OOO.OOO In rsupplies Left.
The troops were in command OF Col
Charles j. Symmonds, who has been TO
the last seventeen months In charge o
the Service of Supply at Grevres, France
He said he had left behind $3.50. 200. 00'
worth OF supplies, enough to last. hat
tho war continued, up to two weeks ago
Col. Symmonds. a veteran cavalrymal
who fought in the Spanish American
and the Philippine wars. lost son
Capt. Robert Symmonds, who was NOR
tally wounded in the Argonne. Hi
adjutant First Lieut.. A. r. Jones, i
also a veteran who served with him IL
the other wars
There were eight Colonies aboard tn
Kaiserin, including Col. Charles c
Pierce, formerly an army chaplain, bu
now of the Quartermaster Corps ant
head OF the Registration of Graves Ser
vice. He Is going to Washington t
talk with officials of the War Depart
| ment on future phases of the mortuar!
work. He said 1t was improbable tina
any large number OF the bodies o
| Americans buried in Europe would b.
| brought back. Private Frederick
Fisher OF Col. Pierce's command, diet
| OF pneumonia on the trip. His body wa
CllDdHllcu " pOAN ioi ~ oile
| fer to the home of his father ant
| mother in Chicago
Mother-in-Law Comes Tee.
Mothers-in-law are serious institutions
| in France not to be lightly treated b!
| the humorists of the local papers. Tina
is what Sergeant Joseph c. johnson o
| the 33rd Engineers and Hattiesburg
Miss, found out when he married Cecili;
Guilmineau, daughter of Mrs. Clara Gull
mineau OF acknowledgements wher
| the sergeant was stationed severa
months. Mrs. Guilmineau said she coul'
not think OF letting Cecilia go to Hatties
burg, q thriving little town, without he
mama, so the sergeant told her to conn
along. He says she is a very fine mother
in-law. She is the second to come from
France with a doughboy and his bride
The sergeant and Mile. Cecilia were mar
ried by an American chaplain. The
arrived last night with sixty-nine othe
war brides abroad the transport Man
| churia
Georgette Jeanne Brand Of Mantle
came as the wife OF Lieut.. James L. Til
lery of Scotland Neck. n. c. She Is tn
daughter of the Baroness Viccola d
Charter of Portugal, and she and he
/ husband met while she was working 10
! the Red Cross in France.
! Six telephone girls returned by IN
Manchuria with Communications from tn
! French for sticking to their switchboard
during the air raids on Paris and