The sun., 1919-06-07
1889 TROOPS BACK
ON II TRANSPORTS
Texans and 0klahomans Keep
Decorations Hidden Out Of
Native Modesty.
COL. SYDNEY GRANT'HOME
Frazier Hunt Says Bolshevist
Is Bad But Not as Black
as Painted.
COL. SYDNEY GRANTHoME


time and transports that should be some
hundreds of miles Off Ambrose Light all
locked into New York harbor yesterday
from France bearing homeward from the
war 1889 soldiers and besides these
war brides, Y. NJ. C. A. women, Frasier
Hunt war correspondent, and Bobbie
Chevreul, stowaway. All told eleven
transports steamed into port. They
came from Brest, Bordeaux, St Nasaire,
Marseilles and La Pallice.
The Polar Sea carried the smallest
number Of men. He was Private walter
D. McCoon OF East Orange, N. J. There
are, of course, certain formalities to be
gone through on the landing of troops
in the United States, and for a while
after the Polar Sea nosed into her berth
on the north side of Pier 3. Bush Ter
miral, Brooklyn. Private McCoon was
busy For not only did Private McCoon
have TO say good-by to the captain and
the rest of the bunch, pack his kit, and
leave the boat. but he had to call the
roll while standing patiently at ease on
the pier, to see 10 he was present, take
another look around the ship to make
sure none of him had been left behind,
receive a delegation of officers from the
port of debarkation, tell a few tall yarns
10 the ship news men, scrutiniEe his papers
uniforms, and equipment with grave sus-
plcion to make sure all was regulation.
ana HldTCn HlT1eelI OIL tndI pier LII u
sodierly manner.
The largest number of men came home
aboard the Madawaska, which brought
2,S35 men to Hoboken, and Bdbbie
Chevreul as a stowaway. Bobbie, who
says he is 16 but probably is thinking
year or so ahead. came to port with
nothing much in the way of baggage or
assets but a sergeant's uniform. a bro
ken arm in a plaster cast, numerous
freckles, stubby nose. some red hair
and 1885 friends.
Orphaned at the Marne.
His father. he says. was killed while
carrying a message for Gen. Joffre in the
first battle of the Marine, which started
his wanderings. Like many other
French boys he attached himself to the
American forces when they came over
and then climbed aboard the NADIA
waska, broken arm and all. at st. Ma
Eaire. He popped into sight officially
a day and half out, but 1t is highly
probabl some doughboy slipped him a
snack unoffcially before the shores of
France had faded into the horizon.
Bobby must face the immigration au-
thorities at Ellis Island.
Aboard the transport were the first
units of the Nineteth Division. headed
by Brighten. Henry W. Butner. and the
staff of the 1S5th Field Artillery Brit
gade. Other organisations Of this d.
vision were the 2Ssth Military Police
Company, commanded by Cant. n. N.
Pryor. who left his ranch to chase Villa
or whoever it was-after the RAID on
Columbus, n. NJ. and the S43d Machine
Gun Battalion.
A casual on board was Lieut.. Arthur
Ester brook. Seattle's only ace, who was
twice wounded in the air but shot down
six German planes In his aerial coreer.
hnra with him n hn0lf IL,
notation by Brighten Mitchell, chief
OF the Air Service, that Lieut.. Ester
h look was second TO none in the service
and was recommended fol- aviation work
iii the Regular Army.
Won steubcn Brings 2.s14.
There was of course a romance on
board. the component parts OF which
were Miss Erminie Whittle OF Cleveland.
a 7. NJ. c. A. worker, and Sergeant ].
j. Buckner. They met before the war,
they met again in France and married,
and they are now living happily ever
after. Turning, as the rubber neck man
would say, from the unpa rallelel won
ders OF the Madawaska to the abso-
lutely unequalled marvels OF the troop
ship Noa Steuben we see ASIA officers
and men, consisting chiefly of the last
Of the Thirty-sixth Division, and Frazier
Hunt, a former SUN man and author of
'Yaphank Bennie," walking down the
gangpank.
The boys of the Thirty-sixth Division
are from Texas and Oklahoma, and
consist of parts of the 1920 Infantry
and l11th Ammunition and Sanitary
Trains. Col. Percy L. Jones' commander
Of the United States Army Ambulance
Service with the French army. also re-
turned on the Won Steuben as a casual.
He was in command OF 5000 men OF the
.H,,Ia
which operated $500 ambulances. The
cars and men are credited with handling
two million wounded, Ill and gassed
men. Col. Jones has the D. S. c., Legion
OF Honor, French Medical Department
Medal OF Honor, the CroiS de Guerre
and French Ambulance Service Medal
for his work at Chateau Thierry and
other battles. Another passenger on
board was the Rev. James Buckley OF
1872 West Fifty-hrst street formerly
assistant rector at the Church of Our
Lady OF the Rosary in Yonkers, who
has been chaplain at Brest.
Hunts Views About Russia.
Frazier Hunt was the first newspaper
man to venture into Russia since the
open rupture with the Bolsheviki. On
his return he made a report of con-
ditlons as he found them in Moscow
and Petrograd to Col. House, Herbert
Hoover and other Americans of the
peace delegation. Concerning Russia
he said:
The reign of terror is at an end.
The only ones who are shot down in
the streets are the highway robbers and
thieves. Soviet Russia has little pa
thence with thieves and burglars ard
workers against the public veal. But
the whole structure of Bolshevist Rus
sia Is a series OF contradictions. Here
is Government that opened $500 new
free schools and supported the students
gratis. that propagated the arts, SCI
ences and literature, on one hand and
tore down the very pillars of convention,
on the other.
"If you stop the New York street cars
and the subways, close up the leading
hotels, make Deimonico's into a lunch
room. board up three-quarters OF the
stores on Fifth avenue. shut down mos
OF the factories and work the others or
half time. take away all the private
motor cars. fail TO clean the streets for
week, charge $50 for a short quart OF
cheap booze-then you have the present
Bolshevist conditions in Moscow trans
ferred TO New York
1T is safe TO say that 30 per cent. OF
the people OF Russia are living on short
rations, but at the same time few are
dying. The peril. as II is generally seen
q from aEanad x1awara aS bodily "a.