The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-21
TROOPSHIPS BREAK
DOCKING RECORDS
Navy Officers Put Four YES
sells Into Berths Here in
45 Minutes.
TWO ARE EX-GERMANS
Six Transports In With 1000
Men ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Wins Race Across.

Inc Yankee navy KNOWS now 10 COCK
ships with the same superb efficiency
that H. sails them, as 1t showed yester-
day morning when four transports, the
Zeppelin and Graf waldersee. German
ships temporarily Americanized to bring
the doughboys home, and the Great
Northern and virginian were all put
alongside their respective piers within
forty five minutes. Capt. Bernard, also
Of the navy. supervised the shore end
Of the most marvellous feat Of warping
on record at this port. or any other, for
| thai matter. The Zeppelin was made
fast at s:25 A. M. the Graf Waldersee
twenty minutes later. the Great North
ern at 1905 and the Virginlan at 10 10.
The speed of the operation kept tho
military greeting band stepping Lively
| from pier to pier.
The last transport to get to Hoboken
was the cruiser Seattle, which arrived
! early in the afternoon The santa
Paula landed Her troops at the Bush
| Terminal, Brooklyn, and they said they
we're sore because they did not have the
| privilege of passing and cheering the
bronze girl with the torch at the head
| OF the Day. ne dTIlNlHB
brought in and landed within six hours
more than $4,000 men and women of
our military and naval establishments.
Six Ships in Touch by wireless.
| The six ships were constantly in touch
by wireless on the trip and occasionally
in sight OF one another. The Virginian
sent a wireless to the Santa Paula when
they were fifty milese apart telling OF
! heading into severe storm. Capt.
| Wade OF the Santa Paula decided for the
comfort of the soldiers to steer to the
south, thus losing time through going
| over the longer course.
| 1t was admitted that the ships were
| racing, and the question in the minds
| OF the Santa Paulas outfit Is whether
\ that storm Of the Virginian was so fierce
as the wireless message seemed to i'm
| ply Naval men have been known to
josh each other to win point. The
| Santa Paula lost the race by several
hours through that diversion from her
| course.
When the Santa Paula was in real
storm several days before she headed
southwark to avoid the Nirginian S
great blow Private Loren B. Press. a
New Jersey youngster of the Second
Trench Mortar Battalion, was stricken
with acute appendicitis. eut.-Col
| Archibald B. Harrison, professor OF sur
! gery In the University OF Maryland. as
| sisted by Drs. Hoegen and Slattery OF
the ship. performed a successful opera
ton while the ship slowed down, which
may have been another reason for her
defeat In the race.
The Zeppelin. which finished yester-
day her maiden trip across seas and her
first long trip anywhere, having beer
completed at Bremen just as the wal
started. brought seven German officers
chiefly OF the engineering force, who
were familiar with the various depart
ments OF the liner, built originally fol
service between Bremen and Baltimore
and Galveston, She proclaimed in lofty
white letters on her sides in German anC
English why she had to do the thing she
was doing. The word is "Armistice."
Germans Had Been Here Before.
Some of the Teutons on the Zeppelin
had been here before when the Nortt
German Lloyd liners got different sor
If welcome Chief Officer Carl Woi
and Second Officer Karl Venediger ant
Chief Engineer Richard Rose admitt.t
. that food was scarce in Germany, but
ter selling at IS n pound. and that the,
, were mighty glad TO get wholesome
American meals. They were quarterec
, | IN NrSt Class StaterOOIlb ana ndu d sep
arate mess.
The Germans were manifestly glac
, to see New York again and they hopeC
. to get shore liberty to see some Ok
. friends. With the other German officer
who arrived by the Graf Waldersee the!
stood at salute when bands OF WELDON
; ers aboard the Correction and Patro
playec The Star spangled Banner"
. Lieut.. Henry S. Beardsley of tn
, Naval Reserve, executive officer of tn
Zeppelin, said she was one Of the eigh
. German steamships turned over n
Cowes for use of the Allies and tina
when he boarded her It looked TO mir
, as IL the morale of the German Grey
, was pretty low and ali were thin.
The cruiser Seattle brought the hap
piest lot OF soldiers in all the l4,00(
and they attributed their fine trip to tn
cheerful cooperation OF their hosts. Off
GERS and men of the navy. They sent
letter through their commander. Majo
E Frank F. Norwood. to Capt ]. r, y
4 Blakely Of the Seattle in which the
. said 1t was a pleasure to see the spiri
of mutual good fellowship between tn
{ army and navy personnel.
] New Workers in sd Pioneers.
In the contingent the cruiser brough
|
second Pioneer Infantry. nearly all RESI-
dents of this neighborhood the 406t
Telegraph Battalion, tho 335th Fiel
Hospital and fourteen casual companie!
Among the Pioneers were Capt. Arthu
: E. Shepherd, formerly OF tho World
, Sergeant Thomas McGuiness. formerl
. OF the Associated Press. and William n
< (Buck) Bolger. who was with THE SUr
The trio published the ships paper tn
7 SedSiok Scatter, so called because
4 represented the condition of most of tn
o uniformed landsmen on the trip.
;, Corporal John A. Antoni OF the Pic
!, neers has the distinction OF being III
y first American soldier to visit Ii
Island of Corsica, birthplace OF NapC
y leon. Before his enlistment last summt
he was assistant manager of the impol
| department of the Mercantile Bank
the Americas. 3s Pine street He wa
born In Venezuela and educatcA at Il
Lycee of Bastia, Corsica, where h
father was born. In a rest period 10
lowing the Meuse-Argonne offensive Co
poral Antoni got from Capt. ShepheI
seven days leave. He got transport,
ton from Nice and was twelve hours {
y the trip to the famous island.
n Nobody in Corsica had seen before &