The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-05-01
MORE OF THE SO7TH
BACK ON LOUISVILLE
Fred Tillman, Who Went Out
as q Lieutenant, Comes
Home a Major.
WAS CITED FOUR TIMES
Seventy-four Brides of Sol
diers and Sailors and 12
Babies Arrive.

| The auxiliary cruiser Louisville
brought in yesterday from Brest about
1000 men Of the Seventy-seventh Divi-
sion. including a detachment Of tho 307th
Infantry commanded by Maj. Fred A.
Tillman of 365 West Twenty-third street,
famous as hammer thrower. who en-
tered the war zone as a lieutenant. He
mas received the Congressional Medal
and the Distinguished Service Cross.
with four citations for extreme bravery
| at the battle of Grand Pre-. One Of his
company commanders, Capt. Elliott
| Adams of Mamaroneck, was severely
! wounded on October 81 at DEVILS Castle,
| near Fismes captured and held prisoner
until after the armistfce. Under his
training. Capt. Adams's command. Co.
| II, became tie best drilled unit in the
| American Expeditionsry Forces, winning
the championship at the meet nj lie
Mans on March IS. Serst. Phillip w.
! Bigoney of Brooklyn Of the crack drill
| ers won the Distinguished Service Cross
| with three citations for rescuing a
! wounded oficer at Chateau Thierry.
The Louisville had a mighty pleasant
| passage. the sea being smooth as a ball
room floor enjoyed particularly by the
brides of sixty-four soldiers and ten SAIL
ors. bringing a little brood of twelve
foreign-born Americans. Most OF the
| brides are English. They were known
| as Jenny Wrens," or workers for the
| comfort of soldiers in canteens and
| camps and cities OF Great Britain.
Memorial for Eddie Grant.
One of the husbands said the BRIDE
grooms were mostly from states where
there is q scarcity of women. he himself
remarking II come from Oregon, and
We need women there" He belongs TO
the Second Battalion OF the 162d In
fantry, which also arrived by the Louis
Vile.
Capt. Eddie Grant. the baseball star
original commander OF the best drilled
Co. II, who was killed in action. was re-
membered by his comrades on the trip.
They collected a fund of S106 for a
memorial to Grant and later will CO.
operate with John J. McGraw~ on the
subject. Lieut.. J. NJ. Adams of 305 East
Broadway, who is still feeling the ef
fects OF seven wounds he received fight
ing on the Aisne, has been recon-
mended as worthy OF the d. S. c. Lieut..
J. II. Mooney of 20 West Ninety-seventh
street, a broker. who went to France
with the Twenty seventh Division. was
twice wounded in the Argonne. He also
returned on the Louisville.
Miss Harriet Fits. Y. NJ. C. A. worker,
beloved by all aboard. stood at the gang
plank ,nd shook hands with the soldiers
as they departed for camps. Some who
knew her intimately kissed and Rugged
her. She was known as "Alabam" to
the troops of the Seventy Sc renth Divi-
sion. She was born in Alabama, where
her father. William c. Fits. was once
Acknowledgement. She was six months
in France and got influenza and bron-
chitis, but persisted in attending TO the
Seventy-seventh's boys until she was or
dered home by the surgeons.
Lorraine Boy n stowaway.
The Regina dTtalia brought chiefly
casua! companies. the largest number
that has arrived in single bottom,
Anton Meier, aged IA, native of Metz.
who speaks German and French with
almost equal fluency. came as a stow
tears. He says his father lives in Au-
rora, III, and the immigration authori-
ties will try to find him. He posed as a
doughboy, wearing a cut over Ameri-
can uaiform, and was struggled aboard
az a real soldier lie says his father
came here ten years ago and then Went
back for n time and tried TO persuade
his mother to go to Illinois with him
She refused and no came back alone.
When the Americans entered Metz An
ton got a job on a farm near Dion, and
when a regiment Of the Twenty-eighth
Division came along Anton kept step
with the band until he got back into
Metz. He adopted the regiment and
followed II to Marseilles, where he fell
in with Sergeant Gutman, who arrived
yesterday in a casual company. The
benevolent sergeant and his comrades
fixed up a uniform for Anton and put
him aboard the Regina Italia at Mar
sellles. His present ambition Is to join
the American army in any capacity,
drummer preferred, that boys may be
useful IN.
Lieut.. F.. NJ McNerney a Red Cross
worker from Toledo, who came by the
italian ship. said that he knew the
boys father and that there Was no
doubt that the father would claim him.
so he may leave Ellis Island in a day
or so and grow UP 10 be a soldier. As
they took him from the ship Anton said
in broken English: 1T Is good in Amer
lea, and ! hate the German soldiers. II
is not so good in France for me-"
Lieut.-Gen. Nicholas IHohvtsky. COM
mander in chief of the Russian army in
France. arrived by the Regina d'Italia
on his way to Vladivostok He was In
multi. His papers. signed by Marshal
Foch, said he was absolutely opposed
70 Bolshevikl rule. lie will stop at the
Hotel McAlpn before going West. He
said he was not permitted to tell the
object OF his trip TO Vladivostok