New-York tribune., 1919-01-19
3 3 Ships Bring
Doug IA boys
And 2 Brides
One of Newly Weds Amer
lean Girl Who Spent Part
Of Honeymoon at Front
Three Men Die at Sea
| so Cases of Influenza OF
President Grant; All Yes
sells Delayed by Storms

Eight thousand American troops
from France, two brides and Lulu"
the first trench dog to reach the United
States. arrived in Hoboken yesterday
aboard three transports, two of them
battleships. 1t was the largest number
of returning soldiers to be landed in
thousands would arrive daily from
now on.
The transports were the President
and the battleship Montana. They left
Brest two weeks ago and ran into .
storm which swept the lifeboats and
1afts from the President Grant and
tore the pilot house from the South
Dakota Seven OF the crew were badly
injured by flying glass.
Miss Jean Mccall. of Cleveland, Ohio.
q naval nurse attached to a naval base
hospital at Brest, was one Of the
brides She is now Mrs. w. +. Green
wood, wife OF lieutenant, a physician,
from Providence, r. l. She met Lieu
tenant Greenwood in France.
Honeymoon at Front
We were married in Paris on Decem-
Der 10," she said, and we passed oar
honeymoon in Paris and OH several
trips to the front"
Mrs. Greenwood departed for Cleve-
land, but will make here home in
Providence when her husband returns.
The other bride was Mrs. Andrew
Patterson, whose husband, q captain,
lives on West End Avenue, Manhattan.
She is native of Paris.
Tho bio cOmO1pmpnt Of roOO]0r
army troops to return from the war
came on the President Grant. The
regular units aboard were the Head
quarters Detachment of the Eighth
Field Artillery, the I'd Field Artillery
complete and the 65th and S3d Field
Artillery complete. In addition there
was Company H of the Saith, the 113th
Trench Mortar Battery, most, OF them
from the Kentucky National Guard;
sixty-nine casual officers from all
branches of the service, eleven dis
charged officers and twelve civiliens.
Among the sick and wounded were
seventy-seven bedridden cases, eight
with tuberculosis and five mentally af-
tiicted Four officers and 1872 enlisted
men in the hospital bay required no
special attention. There were in all
1891 on the vessel.
The I'd Artillery is one of the oldest
organizations in the regular army.
When war was declared the regiment
was in the Philippines The Slst and
SD Field Artillery We're largely re-
cruited in Manhattan. Colonel Clar-
ence NJ. Jones was IN command of all
of the artillery. The troops were sent
TO Camp Mills.
Big Storm Hits Ship
The President Grant left Brest on
January 3 and on the second day out
she ran into a storm. The waves
washed over her decks and one swept
over the boat deck siXty-four feet high.
Lifeboats and RATS we're torn from
their fastcnings, while nearly every one
aboard was seasick. In the midst OF
the storm the ships surgeons per
formed three operations.
While the aftermath Of the storm
still kept the transport rocking, $50
cases OF influenza Developed All but
three survived, and when the ship
reached Hoboken yesterday there was
diers were Leroy B. Foltz, Company NJ,
1st Pioneer Infantry. OF Sterling Sta
ton, ~ y. Sergeant Edward Barnes
Of Iowa. with the headquarters com
pany of the SD Field Artillery, and
Dorian Tanning, Company d. 5th Ma
chine Gun Company, whose home was
in Illinois.
Lieutenant Van Burgin, Of Atlanta
Ga, and Lieutenant Arthur NJ Clark,
of Boston Of the 134th and 102d Aero
suadrons, who were comrades in a
German prison camp. returned on the
transport They were both shot down
by the Germans and taken to Karls-
ruhe prison. They were at Baden
when the revolution broke out.
Both said the revolution at Baden
looked bad for while, but later it
was more like q pink tea.
The cruiser South Dakota brought
the 56th Coast Artillery, and the 468th
Aero Construction Squadron. The men
Of the 56th are all New Englanders
and 500 of them are from Connecticut.
The regiment has three citations for
bravery. The Mayor of Danbury and
committee OF men and women from
New England were aboard the police
boat Patrol.
The voyage of the cruiser was one
Of the roughest the crew ever expert
enced. A hurricane tossed the ship for
three days. Tons Of water enyeioped
the snip and carried away the pilot
house and part OF the bridge SIX men
VINO were IN the pilot house we're
injured by flying glass and others mar
rowly escaped. Captain j. NJ Lubby
was knocked down when the bridge was
carried away, and was laid up five days.
Lieutenant + 1. montgomery, VINO was
officer OF the deck and Commander r
r. Caldwell, executive officer, both
we're injured Three pilot masters on
the bridge also we're hurt
Surgeons Work During Storm
During the height OF the storm. Cor
poral Z. o. Williams, OF Battery {,
36th Artillery, was taken down With
appendicitis and it vas found neccs-
sary 70 operate. It was u case Of life
and death, and The ship VS. stopped
while the su-geons worked
Corporal Williams was taken in an
ambulance 70 St. Marys Hospital. u
short distance from the army piers.
MAJOR Gresham ard Lieutenant Wood,
"no performed the operation, said he
would recover.
The armorcd cruiser Montana carried
1851 officers and men, al Of thc %