The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-01-05
LAST OF WOUNDED
ARRIVE SINGING
Hospital Ship Solace Takes
40 Soldier Patients to
HObOken.
JOKE OVER STRANDING
Say They Had Good Time Be-
ing Swung Over Sides OF
Northern Pacific.

The hospital ship Solace. with 40 se-
vereiy wounded soldiers In her hunks
slipped gently Unto the army pier at no
boken late last night. bringing the last
OF the bedridden men who had gone
through the exciting experience OF being
stranded aboard the big transport North
ern Pacific, on a sardbar Off Fire Island
The wounded men came in with cong
on their lips. The trying ordeal OF Their
transports stranding apparently had not
even annoyed them. Badly wounded
though they were, they laughed ana
3oked and thought they had had gcod
time Of Il being swung over the sides OF
the stranded transport In wire baskets
and thus tranehipped TO the Soace. while
heavy seas rolled and clipped beneath
them. The spirit of all the men was
bound up in the happy chirpng OF one
soldier, both Of whose legs are gone.
~Cheer up" auoth lie. ITS lucky !
am IT isn't my arms that are gone; Tor
j stu can hug the girls just the same
Distribution of wounded.
Those who were able to walk at all
were quickly of the Solacc and gent IN
ambulances TO St MalEs Hospital no
boken. The others required longer time
and wore transferred to the Army Hos
rvtal steamer General O'Reilly. which
will take them to various hospitals about
New York.
Commander II. II. Odds, L. 5. \. Medi-
cal Corps, commanding the Solace, SAID
tho last wounded man had come over
the side of the Northern Pacific just
otter o'clock yesterday afternoon ana
that the fifty-five enlle trip from Hoooken
rad been made IN six hours. When the
hospital ship got in, every man OF ne,
cargo Of wounded had his wounds freshly
dressed. -.
AS dusk fell yesterday nifty weary but
happy lighting men landed at the port OF
embarkation reservation. 1t was inc
first time they had set foot on American
soil in a year. despite the TACT that tney
had been within 500 yards or the T'cTe
during the preceding three days aoeara
the beached transport Northern fae'r.
casting longing glances at Fire lslanu
Though they had spent day and nigh'
secure from any possibility OF harm on
the cruiser Des Moines. to which they
were taken at noon on Friday. they still
showed evidences Of having been under
a strain, bufYeted by sea and WIND
They were subducd In manner when the
cruiser, having come up the bay under
Capt Casey y. Morgan. unloaded them
all upon a tug In fnidstream or Hoooken
Even the feeling that at last they were
IN America a. their feet hit the pianks
Of Pier did not seem TO anect them, 70
Judge by any outward, visible manife.-
for fayv
they saw the score of Red Cross women
waiting to receive them. They followed
directions and shuffied almost apatheti-
cally along the stringpiece TO the pie
lighter that was to transshp them to the
Ellis Island Hospital.
Frost Nips CheerfuIness.
These were all men whose wounds
were not sufficient to keep them from
looking after themselves and moving
about Much of the cheerfulnes:
which appeared to have buoyed them UT
during the early hours OF shlpwreck had
been nipped by the frost, But when they
reached the warm. comfortable cabin and
realized they were positively on the last
lap their irrepressible youthfulness be-
gan to crop out.
"Oh, boy, waitll hit that train fol
Chiw one OF them sang out. Then al
thrusting buns upon them and pouring
out cascades of coffee, conversation be
came general. And when they were
asked II they'd have cigarettes-well
"bo, now you said somep'n.'
Three of them, warmed by hospitality
revealed themselves as New York boys
They were Henry Mulvaney, 304th Ma
chine Gun Company, Seventy-seventf
Division, whose home Is at $50 Eas
Nineteenth street, whose right eye wal
struck by two pieces of shrapnel a.
Verdun, which were extracted without
impairing his sight; Thomas Scoma
Company \. 3O6th Infantry. Seventy
seventh Division. WHOSE home is at 141'
Second avenue, and whose right hip ant
chest were hit by high explosive SHE'LL
at Chateau Thierry. and Frank Clam
baivo, Company g, 325th Infantry
Eighty-second Division, whose home Ii
at A Bremen street, Brooklyn. ant
whose left leg was nicked below the kne,
by q bit of shell at Verdun.
Not Excited by Stranding.
When the transport sithered up to he
heels In the sand all three OF them wer
Furnishing their pillows and displayed thu
, capacity of young America TO sleel
through anything. on waking they wer,
surprised to find themselves on the Yerg'
of making an impromptu landing, blu
nobody appeared to he excited by that.
II guess the captain" said Clam
. balvo, Thought he was going to run u
ashore on wheels 1t sure was funn.
to see the beans jump at meals. Ever!
time n wave would slap the side of th
ship and she'd give heave. the bean
would fly out of the mess kits. Rolled OF
the boys knives somethn' fierce. An
going below decks a mans coffee woul'
spill out all over the steps and max
them slippery, 30 the next man woul'
come down EASTERN he expected"
Then the forty-eIght soldiers and tn
two marines picked up their Red eros
Kit bags preparatory TO disembarking a
Ellis island. They had been forced L
leave all their other belongings on tn
transport and the kit bags, snuggle'
out under their overcoats, containe,
something more valuable than mer
necessitles---to wit, souvenirs of tn
Germans.
Earlier in the day casual navy officer
from the Northern Pacific were lande
by the transport r. II. Mallory
The bodies OF two soldiers We're take
from the Northern Pacific yesterday an
placed on the SolaCe. \ wireless mes
sage said the men were Private Howar
". Ashbridge. Company X. 31tth In
fantry, and Private James A, Newell
Company X, 32sth Infantry,