Trench and camp. ([Admiral, Md.) 1917-1919, 1919-05-29

cabin. though, stood four men, wav-
ing their hats frantically. Besides the
skipper at the wheel and three or
four official-looking men who stool
near the bow, they were the only per-
sons on the boat
AS they drew nearer so that thsy
could see the flashes of white teeth
along the line Of khaki that adorned
the ships rail from stem to stern,
one of these four men on the little
boat began to shout: Carroll coun
ty, Corroll county. We're from Car
roll county" And the answering
shout from the Artemis was when
do we eat?"
Then the little boat was alongside
the ArtemiS, and while one of the OFF,
cial-looking men was shouting to the
commander of the transport through
a megaphone, the other four men
were clambering UP the Jacobs ladder
that hung down the side of the ship.
They were not sailors and they made
botchy work of il.
They were former Senator Blair Lee,
Surveyor of Customs Guy Steele. A. p.
Rainey of Westminster and a Sun
correspondent.
Carroll County First.
Mr.. Steele and Mr.. Rainey will for
ever claim for Carroll county the
honor of having been the first county
to be represented aboard the trans
port that brought home Maryland's
doughty regiment and the machine
gun battalion that supported it. Sem
ator Lee claims nothing but that he
was the second man aboard the trans
port, representing the Lee family of
Montgomery county. The Sun cor
respondent claims nothing but mod
est scoop.
The first member of the Lee family
to get on the Artemis was, of course.
Maj. Brooke Lee, commanding the I'd
Battalion of the 115th. He got on at
ST. Nazaire. Mr.. Rainey had a son
aboard, Sergt. A. p. Rainey. jr of
Company G Of the Machine Gun Bat.
talon, which came home commanded
ty Capt. T. A. Lyon.
All four of this first party of Mary
land to board the Artemis as she lay
waiting for the word to go on to port
tumbled over the rail finally, and
landed in the midst of the crowd of
soldiers, who nearly tore loose the
deck of the transport with a yell Of
welcome.
Welcome Came Later.
Actually it was the soldiers who
welcomed the first Marylanders, and
not the first Marylanders who well
coined the soldiers. The real welcome
from the state of Maryland came
little later when the Gratitude, with
Gov. Harrington and a party of 200
Maryland men and women. came tear
ing down the James rivSr as the Ar.
tennis was steaming in.
Record Has Cross.
There was great hilarity in the
breakfast room. Everybody wanted
to talk politics and prohibition, and
Col. Reckord finally ordered mo
more politics or prohibition aboard
this ship" And when you looked at
him with the new interest this order
awakened you saw that he wore the
croix de guerre of France, with a
bronze palm.
No one in Maryland had known that
Col. Reckord had won the croix de
guerre. Everybody knew how much
he deserved it, but nobody knew 1t
had actually been awarded to him. He
had gotten it late in March while the
regiment was still in the BourbOnne-
Les-Bains area waiting to come home.
and nobody but the men in the regi-
ment had known a thing about 1t. not
even his wife.
Lieut.. Merwfn Lilley was probably
in as great a state of excitement as
anybody in the mess hail. for this ar
rival home was. an epochal event for
him. He was about to land within the
borders of the country occupied by
another and smaller LiIley who had
not been here when he sailed for
France-his new baby born while he
was fighting and whom he had never
seen.
Woodcock Brings a Boy.
There was suppressed cage ness