New-York tribune., 1919-05-25
Last of q Transports To Be
Welcomed Here Within
Seven Days Bring 16, ,447
Doughboys From France
Most Middle West Men
Dying Sergeant, Hurrying
Home to See His Mother.
Loses Race While at Sea

The arrival yesterday of four trans
ports, with 16,447 officers and men,
ended record week Tor Homecoming
lighters at this port. Within the last
seven days twenty seven troopships
came through the Narrows, landing
1858 lighting men. Many thousand
more men were landed at Newport
News, Boston ard Charleston, S. c. If
the record of last week is maintained
the port of New York alone will come
close to receiving more than 95 per
cent of the 100000 troops which Secre-
tary Baker promised to send home
from France each month.
The former Hamburg American liner
Amerika, from Brest, landed in Hobo
ken yesterday 7,O4S officers and men,
the important units OF her passenger
complement being the 122d, 1884 and
124th Field Artillery complete.
With them came Brigadier General
Henry D. Todd, jr, and Brigadier Gen
eral Charles Z. Kilburne, who went
overseas with General Leonard Wood
after the organization of the 89th Di-
vision at Camp Funston. He was
wounded with General Wood by the ac-
cidental bursting of a shell, and after
undergoing treatment. for his eyes here
returned TO the front.
Agamemnon Brings $500
The Agamemnon from Brest carried
$500 officers and men, the biggest unit
aboard being the 341st Field Artillery,
from the Middle West, which returned
in command of Colonel Robert Davis.
OF this city.
Among the returning casual officers
was Captain Walter Davenport, a news
paper reporter, who enlisted as a pri-
vate with the old 7th Infantry of New
York and won promotion for bravery
and efficiency in battle
He was attached to the 11lth In
fantry and was with the goth Division
IN the drive on Chateau Thierry. When
going over the top at Fismes on JULY
81 of last year he was shot in the left |
side. Two men who were with him |
during the raid were killed Captain
Davenport, though wounded crawled to
machine gun nest to which he had
been advancing and was found there |
later beside the bodies of five German |
gunners.
Sergeant Dies at Sea
During the voyage of the Agamem-
non Sergeant Major Alfred Emanuel, of !
Chicago, died of tuberculosis. He was
exceedingly Ill before embarking at |
BEest, but pleaded with the doctors to
permit him to sail, as he wished to see |
his mother again before dying. He |
knew that he could mot survive the |
voyage when the vessel was in mid
Atlantic, and died on May 10. His
mother, who lives in Indianapolis, was
Informed of his death, and the body
was sent there soon after the vessel /
cooked
A Belgian stowaway, sixteen years |
old, who followed American troops to
Brest from Lens, was found on board |
when the vessel was two days out of |
port. He was taken to Ellis Island
and may be deported.
The transport Radnor known to the |
troops as the Rolling Radnor,"
brought from Pauillac 1909 officers
and men, made up chiefly Of the 312th
Infantry, which was sent on arrival to
ten camps in various parts of the
country.
The vessel was stopped in q heavy
sea five days ago while surgeons,
lashed to an operating table, removed
the appendix of Edward Doheny,
negro stoker.
Among the travellers on board was
Professor S. N. Spring, who has the
chair of forestry at Cornell Uni
Nersity. He went overseas as a "Y"
secretary in October ana later assumed
charge Of educational work for the
troops at Nevern.
The Santa Teresa, from ST. Nazaire,
brought 1870 officers and men, mostly
convalescents. One Of the GONZALES
cents, Sergeant Hurley F. Bailey, of
Detroit, was reported missing. A
search Of the ship was made and after
ten hours Bailey was given up as lost.
lie was found, however, when the yes
sci docked. He said he did not hear
u5s uaOpe AZ rollc.N