New-York tribune., 1919-04-25
Welcomcrs Crowd Four
City Craft on Trip to
Meet 1000 Soldiers
Arriving on Aquitania
Barrase of Fruit
Fired on Transport
Bands, Whistles, Cheers,
Tell New York's .Jov
Over Return Of s'Own''

Thronged with the largest crowds
they ever carried. four city craft made
their way through the rain of the lower
bay toward Quarantine shortly be-
fore 10 o'clock yesterday morning. Ten
thousand persons Nere at the rails
old men with white boards, portly ma
irons, family groups with children and
babies in arms. They shiyercd under
their umbrellas, and strained hungry
eyes in the direction Of Ambrose
Channel
A second later. the stolid, sober
bearing fell from passengers on the
Correction, and the ferryboats Gaynor
and Gowanus. Unmindful of the down
pour. they suddenly hurled their UNI
brellas into the air or shut them and
waved them frantically A Wild roar
went up across the water.
The gray hulk OF the Aquitania
doomed through the mist far down the
bay. From it came answering cries
The police boat Patrol. leading the fleet
Of the Mayors Committee of Welcome.
prepared d triple barrage of oranges
bundles of newspapers and music for
the first OF the 18th Division-New
lork's Own-to come back.
'Joe-e-e, Call Rita"
Every deck, yard portfolio and bridge
aeid It's khaki burden. Daring dougb-
boys swung their legs over th~ side
OF leaned far out to shout message
70 relatives o. girl friends" from
gTand or Rivington Street. As the
lsFEyboats got closer to the liner the
nuODub increased Bands blared from
me Aqutania's decks in answer TO the
P0lIcemen's musical welcome. Mega
pa0nes were whipped out and directed
'OSard the steamship in veritable
battery.
One man on the Patrol, peering at
'A' faces drifting by, suddenly saw the
'ns he sought.
'0e-e-e-e'' he beloved through
supped hands. Welcome back 70 New
'OfS. Eyelybody's 0. X. And, Joe-e-e.
'alI Rita at Morningside
me Mayor Gaynor and the other
ss,s'eOns'ng anips had been transformed
',sns and banners bearing the names
- men on the Aquitania, were held
a'sa above the heads of the passen-
gers.
oss Of the streamers, twelve fee,
ss' ,sas' bore the legend. "Wolcome to
.a. mss'e Samuel Stutzer, Company C.
sSs'a infantry Il was stretched
gross The boat by MIR. and Mrs. lsa-
WIG ~, s'uizer' The soldiers parents.
"s''o' Tom pankon.' read another
,sa, Another was "Welcome Home
NY 'ahherbaum." and one. held by
ms'V girl Welcome Home, I.ucicn
~ss'~Ada.' Although most of the
's'eoming cmblems were for Jewish
ss"fs~ Max krantx and Ignatz stern
es'e was Phclan and a Quinn and
S"n'an and Dan McVarsh among
'"' and even Lee Du.
Vae Of the mon on tho Patrol shout
sa'oveh megaphonc:
~ you want to parade ?'
'as dopghboys' answer was far from
: .1A'nons' but tho paradcrs seemed
,,, -S'e II, and the rest, it is reason
1ofe, answered in the negative
~" dough6oy's sense Of humof.
-, Bombarded With Fruit
~" Dry Am,V from the police
-. 80 raised the customary groan Of
S@'ay' and syncopated tunes which
kss sa soon had the FIVE thousand
x.a "a HSaN' s~ayinQ. One doughboy.
~ On the 6 deck. acted as con
lie leaned fer out Of a port
ma Kept time - the music uith
9sps 81 mess tins for batons.
aaas.. 3ppF boats eircicd about the
~ T. s'"l@ ' for about an hour. bon bard
~ r. |'tg iret md nswgpapcrg. Az
14e '.'ss q, ~s4 compelled - matt for the
u III "s welcDmefz mere carried back
u ste s nSIery, whence they had start
u, msa 1sn ne Aquitania finally got un-
sse b..xt' a. noon, She Mayor's Commit
ssd '.@ss ~ "Fst otit into The river again
AAsey "'sfSen heF ~ Pier Sd. Norm
@e H.. mayor HylaB d,d not go down
Re s~ese ~ en the PatYr!s Grover Wbaleu.
~'~fS' fepres4ntInY The c]ty,
Il. s94's'oaot uosos of the returu oJ
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