Evening star., 1919-05-04
ROUS|NG WELCOME
TO 1O9TH NFANTRY
Philadelphia EcIipses All Her
Other Greetings in Receiv-
ing City's Own.
CAPT. HUME OF D. C. BACK

PHILADELPHIA, May 3.-The trans
port Maui docked here this afternoon
with the 109th Infantry, in which the
historic 1st Regiment of Philadelphia
was absorbed for the war with Ger
many.
Everything that has gone before in
the way Of demonstrations for return
ing soldiers paled into iHsignificance
beside the welcome accorded the city's
very own. Few regiments in the Army
suffered more sadly or performed more
gallantly.
Thousands of people lined the river
banks to cheer and wave hats and
hands. Whistles shrieked and bells
pealed. Overhead, as the transport
moved along. circled and wheeled Navy
airplanes.
The military units aboard were the
55th Infantry brigade headquarters.
officers and 20 men: 1osth Infantry,
officers and 3,491 men. including regi-
mental headquarters; headquarters, 1st,
I'd and Sd Battalions: sanitary detach-
ments, 1st, I'd and Sd companies, Ma
chine gun company and Companies A.
B, c, d, f, F, G, H, X and L.
Newport News Arrivals.
NEWPORT NEWS, Va, May q
The transport Susquehanna, from Bor-
deaux. France, with about 1856 Off
GERS and men, arrived in the harbor
this afternoon. She sailed from
France April 20.
Aboard the transport were the 302d,
the S2sth and the 327th battalions of
the 307th Brigade of Tank Corps; a
balloon company. an evacuation hos
pital and a few casuals.
The battleShfp New Hampshire.
carrying LBS officers and men from
Brest. France, will enter the harbor
tonight.
Artillery Reaches New York.
NEW YORK, May 3-The 18th
Field Artillery. which arrived on the
cruiser Frederick, is the vanguard of
the 32d Division, 5000 members of
which are expected here Monday on
the transport George Washington
Gov. Albert E. Sleeper of Michigan
will be here to greet the men of his
state, and a citizens committee from
Milwaukee, headed by Jackson B.
Kemper, will be among those welcom-
ing the Wisconsin doughboys Col
Chester B. Mccormick, Lansing, Mich
commanded, the troops, arriving to-
day.
The 10th lost 4s men through death.
90 being battle casualties, and 253
wounded 1t served with the 26th Dl-
vision in the Toul' sector and with
the 32d Division on the Lorraine front
and participated in the Argonne and
Chateau Thierry battles. Most of its
men were from Michigan when it
went abroad, but returning it con-
tains men of every state except North
Carolina and Nevada.
Chaplain William A. Atkinson, pas
tor of a Protestant Episcopal Church
in Detroit, was wounded by an air
plane bomb at SoisSons and spent
several weeks in a hospital. His or
derby was killed.
Among the Tank Corps replacements
on the Goethals, which arrived TODAY,
was First Glass Sergt. William L. Edi-
son. son of Thomas A. Edison. He de-
cfared the large tanks first placed in
use were too slow and were "vari-
table death" traps for the men inside
them" and were unsatisfactory COM
pared with the whippet type. Sergt.
Edison is forty-two years old and a
veteran of the Spanish American war
The replacement troops returned in
command of Lieut. Charles N Love,
Louisville. KY. -.
The troops on the GoethaIs were in
charge Of Maj. s. J. Rathbone, Mont
gomery, Ala, commanding the 323d
Field Signal Battalion. Returned as
a casual was Maj. W. J. .Muirhead of
Seattle.