The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-30
OFFICERS GROWL AT
BEAN MENU ON SHIP
1900 Trapped on the Zeppelin
Had Only Enlisted Mems
Food and Quarters.
VETS ON FOUR VESSELS
18th Field Artillery and Units
of Fourth Division Among
Days Arrivals.

An assortment Of growls. chiefly from
young Lieutenants. helped to enllven the
trip Of the troopship Zeppelin. in yester-
accommodations in the ship for 400 OFF,
GERS and 1.eo0 showed up. The navy
runs the transport and there were re-
marks and counter remarks between the
officers Of the two services that lasted
all the way to Hoboken and spilled of on
the pier. The lieutenants Gall Of the
senior captains got cabin ber.hs) plas-
tered the Zeppelin bulletin board with
scornful and other remarlss One writer.
name not attached, said:
There was plenty OF room on the
transports that took the men to- France.
and each officer had cabin accommo-
dations. The war was not won then. II
is now and this is what we get"
The officers particularly. disiiked eat
ing In the style of privates. with the
SANE grub. They had the run Of the
ship, and this enabled them to say few
things through open windows to the off,
GERS who had the privilege of eating In
the saloon.
Col II. II. Rucker. troop commander
aboard. says he understood that the
officers, neraly all casuals. were not
told until they got aboard that they
could not have officers accommodations.
and when they learned this they found
out also that 1t was against orders to let
them go ashore. Col. Ruckev remarked
that some Of the young officers did
not play the game fairly. The officers
as whole admitted that the food was
all right. but It was the food for en-
listed men and seemed mostly beans,
and they did not like 1t.
Members of Congress Back.
The Zeppelin brought back Repre-
sentatives Edward J. King (Ill.) and
Frederick 8. Purnell (Ind.) and former
Representative Dudley Doolittle (Kan.) }.
Mr.. DoolIttle was in Italy on a spe-
cial mission for the Treasury Depart
ment. He said that when he arrived in
Italy two months ago there was a
strong anti-American feeling because of
the Fiume incident, but that since then
the Italians have been cordial with the
Americans.
The Seventy Field Artillery Of
nineteen officers and 1853 men, In conf
mand OF Col. a. r. Comisky OF 1S9
Sixth avenue. Brooklyn, Regular ar
rived by the troopship Tiger. This
command fulilled the traditions of It's
long existence. the Colonel said. II was
originally the Second Dragons of Vir-
ginia and fought in the Revolution and
the War OF 1912 urder that designation.
In the civil war IL was the Second Caval-
~ and in the Spanish-American War
the Nineteenth Cavalry. It fought in
the Aisne-Marne drive, at st. Mihicl
and in the Argonne-Meuse sector. Gel.
Comisky was seriously gassed on No
vember 4 and was ordered by surgeons
; to retire from the line. He refused.
sticking with his guns until the Sign
Ing Of the armistice. He wears the Dis
tinguished Service Cross.
The Won Steuben. in from Brest, when
within about 500 miles OF Sandy Hook
OF Sunday took aboard from an Ameri-
car destroyer an experimenting scien-
t.st whom the officers of the ship called
Prof Hayes" and who had an equip
ment that was said to be a submarine
Listening device.
Secrecy About Experiments.
The destroyer accompanied the trans
pert to Sandy Hook after the professor
had Installed his apparatus on the Won
Steuben. He evaded reporters and the
result Of his experiments were not avail
able.
Men of the Fourth Division, formed
most of the military passengers by the
Won Steuben, all in command of Col r.
A Wheeler of the Regulars. Rear Ad-
miral II. A. Wiley came to take COM
Sand of the Pacific destroyer feet. In
the war he had charge OF squadrons in
the North Sea and later a division of the
Atlantic feet.
The French liner Chicago. from Hall
fax. brought 400 military passengers,
chiefly casuals. in command OF Lieut.
William Thompson OF Brooklyn. AS en-
'tarkation officer at Bordeaux he said he