The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-05-22
Captain Coney Makes Good
On His Promise When Bat
terry E Comes Marching
Home Again.
HUSKY AND HAPPY
Men Who Taught Gunnery At samur
Are Cheered BY Thousands AS They
Parade the Streets of the Old
Home Town.

j AS Captain Coney mounted the steps
| of the troop train that whirled him
away to war back in July of 1917, he
4 remarked to a friend who stood near
! him: Don t worry about the boys.
lI'll bring them all back home safe to
their mothers
/ 1t was a reckless prediction to make
| but the Captain has kept his word. On
Saturday afternoon he came back to
/ Kenosha with old Troop 3, now Bat
terry E Of the 120th Field Artillery, 32nd
i Division e. S. A. Every man in the
unit was "present or accounted for
and not one Of them had been left on
| the popped fields Of France. Husky
as hounds and twice as happy, they
jumped from another troop-train into
the care of the Welcome Home Com
mittee and the arms of waving, weep
ing, but overjoyed fathers, mothers, sis
tiers, brothers and sweethearts.
/ Kenosha's first volunteers in the
world-war had done their bit and come
back home, not heroes exactly-the
fortunes of war are fickle--but soldiers
from the tip of their russell shoes to
! the top Of their overseas caps in
olive drab and red.
| Say It With Flags and Whistles.
| Kenosha gave her troopers" a
royal welcome home.
! Thousands of people gathered around
i the North Western Station and under
the Victory Arch to wave or cheer their
/ greeting as the gunners stepped
from the troop-train.
i Words were unnecessary. The con
ventional we re glad to see you was
said in the blare Of whistles and the
flash of flags, adjoining the facade of
| the depot and the columns of the Vic
/ tory Arch. AS for the tender intimate
greetings, between the soldiers, their
relatives, and friends, they were said
as always at times like that-with
Byronic silence and tears. =
The rest was said by the Nash and
SINCE band playing "On Wisconsin"
and "Hail, Hail the Gang All Here. =
AS with the return Of the 340th, the
city Welcome Home Committee compos-
ed of Mayor Joachim, Judge Tully, Al
derman shearer, George Whyte, G. G.
Brown, w. 7. Marlatt and D. M. Korf,
was the first to meet and greet the re-
patries and to take them in charge as
they alighted at the station.
Were They Glad?
| Incidentally the folks back home
were nc happier to see the boys than
| the boys were happy to see the folks
back home.
Captain Coney was all smiles as he
Jumped from the coach at the head Of
his battery. In his Sam Browne belt,
Cordovan boots, silver spurs and every
thing, including riding whip, he was
I a typical Artillery Officer Of the type
| that made Fort Sill SO famous on the
training fields Of France.
/ Lieutenant Alexander was, as he ex-
pressed it, fine and dandy while
Lieutenant Appel was tickled to
death to be back home''.
/ In appearance both were models of
esprit de corps as was also every man
in the Battery from the last private
in the rear rank to the first sergeant
with the diamond cheyrons on his coat
| sleeve.
s'Did you get back all right, old
| top2' a husky corporal was asked by
an excited friend.
/ No, L he answered smilingly, IT m
still in France.
| But he wasn't at all; for a few
minutes later he was in charge of
squad in the great procession that NOV
ed majestically from the station down
West Main street, across on Prairie
avenue, and up Main street to the
old time rendezous, the lawn on Mar
ket Square.
The Grand March.
i Cribbing little from Whittier
i Down the street came the khaki
tread, Captain Coney marching ahead. =
On his right was Captain Steinert Of
the Home Guards, who, as Tt. Steinert
marched away with Troop E and who
Was especially 1nNlIeQ TO mdfcn with
the old bunch when it came back home.
On the left of Captain Coney was 1T.
Alexander. Behind him, marching I'M
der q sfrayed but sacred guidon, were
the boys of the Battery, militarily mar
shalled and kept in line by 1t. Appel.
Soup, the Captain $ police dog,
brought up the rear and attracted 50
little attention as he barked and strain
i ed at his leash.
In front Of the Battery was the Boy
Scout Fidelity Drum Corps, the Vel
come Home Committee, and the Since
Band. Behind it marched the Nash
Band and three companies Of the Home
Guard under the command Of Major
Mellnm.
A most colorful and pleasing feature
Iof the return in triumph occurred in
front of the q. g. Simmons residence
on Prairie avenue. On either side of