The sun., 1919-08-11
|IMPERATOR IN WITH
SOLDIER ATHLETES
Big Transport Arrives From
Brest With Victors in
Paris Stadium.
ALSO BRINGS $50 DOGS
Gen. Miles's Son Among Pas
sengers-800 Women Wei
fare Workers. Return.

The transport Imperator came TO port
yesterday with 5,ksa voyagers including
2s6 Y. NJ. c. A. women war workers.
The ship might have carried several
thousand more. but they were not ready
for her at Brest, where she reported
thirty-flve other troopships In the har-
Dor waiting for troops on August Q.
when she departed.
with PAS casual officers aboard the
1mperator was Col. Sherman Miles. who
has been attached to General Headquar-
tiers with Gen. Pershins and who was
greeted in Hoboken by his father. Lieut.
| Gen. Nelson A. Miles. retired. Col Il.
Il. Haskell Of the Regulars was the
ships troop commander. He said he
believed the Imperator had broken the
record rs a dog carrier, having $50 OF
many breeds In special quarters on the
boat deck aft. One dog died, but the
account was more than balanced by the
appearance Of litter Of six puppies.
More medals came by the 1mperator
than has ever glttered on the b0soms OF
warriors and civilians on any other
transport. The wearers were listed as
| the 5,27tst American athletic unit, made
up of thirty-six officers. three enlisted
men and thirty-nine civilians. They
had won prizes at the interallied meet
at the stadium outside OF Paris.
Col. Thompson In Charge.
They are In command Of Col. JOSEPH
H. Thompson, formerly of the 110tt
| Infantry. summoned to France to take
charge Of tho athletic contests. Col
Thompson said the thirty-nine mer
listed as civilians were formerly in thu
American Expeditionary Force ant
therefore eligible to take part In the
| games.
Some OF the returning prize winners
are Lieut.. Richard l.. Byrd, Los An
! geles, winner of the discus throw; Lieut.
| Earl Eaby. Chicago winner OF the 40(
meter run: Capt. Wilfred II. Maloney o.
the Fosdick Commission. who was thu
1 coach of the American army athletic
| team: Robert l.. Simpson of the Uni
versity of Missouri. champion hurdlei
of the world; Fred w. Kelly. San Fran
cisco. also n prize hurdler; Charles w
! Paddock. Pasadena. Cal, winner OF sth'
! 100 meter and 200 meter sprints: Gor
man Ross. Chicago. greatest swimmer II
the world. who won all contests from 1Ot
! to 500 meters and during the war 9
Lieutenant OF aviation: Edward p. Egaf
! of Yale Sheffield Scientific School. tn,
middleweiaht champion boxer; Edgar r
Caughey. San Francisco. winner OF thu
shot put: Clinton Larsen, Salt Lake City
winner OF the high jump; solomon But
| Ter. colored, of Dubuque College. Iowa
winner of the broad jump
| Including the women of the Y. NJ.
| A., there were nearly 500 women welfar,
workers and casual army nurses aboard
The Y. NJ. C. A. contingent that had beer
working in with the Second Division
we're much disappointed because the Sec
and had paraded in New York befor'
| they could get here. They had expecte,
to be stationed along the line OF marcl
to greet their friends among the officer
and men. Some of the young womeI
| said they would go to Washington AN,
| see their boys when they were reviewed
| by the President on their way to GUAM
tlco.
New York Women Aboard.
with the Y. VI. C. A. women from thi
| city were Cornelia Colt Davis, 90 Eas
| Fifty-sixth street, who wears a Croi,
de Guerre pinned on her by Gen. Petali
for gallantry In working under shell
fire eight night and days giving the mel
of the Second Division sustenance
Elizabeth d. and Sally W. Simonton
Spencer Arms. Manhattan, who have tw
Mrs. Helena Smith Dayton. novelist an
sculptor. 313 East Eighteenth street
Frances w. Barrows, editor of House
ioires MdGdzine: Elizabeth Guilford o
Teachers College Mrs Matilda Orr, IL
East Thirty-second street, the frs
woman who Joined the Motor Transpor
Corps of the "Y": Marie Douglas Sloan
Horner, II West Tenth street; Jenni
ID. Wylie. SO Morningside Drive; ELL
s. Walk. 1877 East Slxty-sixth street Maj
jorle Morrison, Carnegie Hall Ann Ed
gar Donald. 9 East Nihety-second street
Ruth Garland. SS7 West End avenue
Janet Jackson. 10 West Sixty-frs
street; Irene Simmons, 227 West Forty
fifth street: Phyllis Darlington 81
West Sixty-ninth street Florence Dear
ing, 602 West l90th street Lydia {
Dehney, ia West Forty-seventh street
Elizabeth Grimball. $40 Central Par
West Miss c. b. Clagett. Al East Fifty
eighth street: Marie Terrence. 21
Riverside Drive Janet p. Hall. 62 Wet
Fifty second street; Eleanor Janvier. 6
West Tenth street; Marion Hall. IL
East Eighty-first street; Hazel Wood
hull. Pa Waverly place Margueri,
Clark. 47G Clinton avenue. Brooklyn.
Other arrivals by the lmperator wer
Brig. Gen John J. Bradley of Generi
Headquarters, Commander J. l.. CallaI
who has been with the Aviation Commits
sion at the Peace Conference Brig
Gen. Frank II. Bamford OF the Secon
Infantry Brigade OF the First Divisio
and Lieut.. Col Joseph d. Mckeany, VIII
said that when he left Antwerp on Jul
2S there was an immense salvaging OF
Grafton going on to raise the ships sun