The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-28

ship In WITH BODY
+, OF MAJ. ROOSEVELT
Greeting Of Troops on Great
Northern Subdued by Flag
Draped Coffin.
VICTIM OF MENINGITIS
Officer Contracted Disease
Visiting Hospitals-Many
N. Y. Heroes Arrive.
VICTIM OF MENINGITIS

ITO utdli vi MAUI JaiiicS a. NooSC-
welt. second cousin Of the late Theo-
dore Roosevelt, aboard the steamship
Great Northern did not dim the musi-
cal and vocal jubiiation that greeted the
Z transport when she locked at Hoboken
yesterday afternoon. Silence came, how
ever. when the coffin OF the gallant SOL
der, draped with the flag of his coun-
try. was borne down the gangplank by
eight non-commissioned officers. The
body was placed in an automobile hearse
while officers and men stood at atten-
tion and a bugler sounded taps Major
Philip Roosevelt, cousin Of the dead Of
flcer, and Sexton william T. Boyd Of
Trinity Church in another automobile
followed the coffin, which was taken
across the Hudson to the mortuary
chapel at Old Trinity. Major Philip
Roosevelt said funeral services would be
held in Trinity Church at noon to-mor-
row and that the burial would be with
military honors.
C. e. Willis, father-in-law OF Major
James A. Roosevelt came to the pier
and learned from Lieutenant Conf
mander A. e. Lee, senior surgeon Of the
Great Northern. the story Of the Majors
sudden illness and death. Lieut.-Col.
William c. gill. surgeon of the 145th In
fantry. which arrived on the ship, in
dorsed the story.
Lieutenant-Co Commander Lee said that
Major Roosevelt was enjoying himself
on Sunday night, attending the movies
and taking part in a game of cards with
officers. He seemed to be in fine shape
physically and mentally. After dinner
the next day he complained and was I'M
able to account for the sudden change
Diagnosed ms Spinal Meningitis.
Lieutenant-Commande Lee, who has
had much experience with spinal menin-
gifts, instantly diagnosed the Majors af-
fiction as the almost incurable malady.
Within half an hour of the moment he
complained Major Roosevelt became un-
conscious The surgeon used serum IN
availingly after calling into consultation
, Col. Gill.
The Major died at 10: 45 A. NJ. on
wednesday and microscopic tests proved
that the original diagnosis of Surgeon
Lee was correct Two weeks before
Major Roosevelt had boarded the Great
Northern he had visited hospitals in
France to cheer some OF the I'll OF the
Seventy-seventh Division and had been
close to several men suffering from
spinal meningitis.
Major Roosevelt had gone through
some OF the toughest fighting OF his d.
vision, and when he boarded the trans
port at Brest on March 20 he said he
marvelled that he had passed unscathed
through all of it. He was unaware OF
the nature Of the disease that, in the
battle parlance of the doughboy. sent
him West" Col. Douglas Campbell.
who with Major Roosevelt, was one of
the advance guard OF the Seventy-sev-
enth Division, said fine things of the
Major and brought ashore a French po-
lice dog that had been given to him by
q sFrench officer.
The Great Northern is one of the fast
est American steamships anoat. and
when her commander learned that Major
Roosevelt was critically Ill he sent or
ders to the engine room for full speed.
and for day she carved the brine as
never before. Keeling of the unprece-
denied speed, for her. of more than 25
knots for several hours. There was no
lack of interest In the mind OF every
mothers son and daughter aboard when
the ships company learned that Major
Roosevelt was very Ill. All the nurses
volunteered, with the usual womanly in
trepidity and eight were accepted, In
Guiding the Misses Schermerhorn, Rich.
ardson. Wickner bore. F1avin and Pat
win and Mrs. Lees.
Major Roosevelts roommate was
placed under observation and blood tests
were mace winch showed tnat ne naQ
eeen unaffected by the disease.
Cruiser Pueblo Brings In 1902.
The cruiser Pueblo in yesterday from
Brest. brought 1872 officers and men,
including a detachment of the 147th In
fantry, commanded by Major NJ. II.
Pugh OF Toledo. who said the regiment
had been in every action of moment
from August l to the signing of the
armistice. With the Major was his
father-in-law Chaplain Harry f. Mac
Lane, late of the Christian Church and
the oldest volunteer in the American
forces which fought in France.
The chaplain Is also a doctor and cele-
brated his sixty-third birthday last Sun
day. The doctor was fired at twice in
the Argonne by a German aviator, who
maynot have noted that he was kneeling
over and assisting a wounded man. One
bullet hit the doctor in the left ankle
and the other passed through his cloth
ing. He keeps one as souvenir. The
Doctor also was gassed twice.
Toledo liz going to give father-in-law
ard son-in-law a great reception pretty
soon. 1t will also remember the 147th
which suffered 20 per cent IN losses
dead, wounded and missing.
Battalion Adjt.-Lieut- Kenneth French
OF Cleveland with lis men of his COM
pany was cut OFT by barrage at
Cierges on September 30 Twenty-Five
'sssA ID men w@sa2 HE'D >a6 he was
shot through the left leg. He had
started westward toward the main body
of troops with a daring squad when a
shell burst near him. killing two men
and wounding him in the back. He
struggled back with a few others and
reached his regiment. winning common.
dalton,
LarchmOnt Man Cited Four Times
Lieut.. Basil Neftel of Larchmont who
served with the French in 1916, was
cited four times for gallantry, got the
Croix de Guerre Tor rescuing wounded
men at Verdun and has been proposed
for the Legion of Honor.
Corporal Wayne Fulton of Woodbury.
n. j.. received the Crolx de Guerre fol
taking the place OF stretcher bearers af.
ter two had been killed.
A r. Calvo OF Dayton, Ohio. gradu.
ate of the New York Law School, whose
father was Minister from Costa Rica
returned with the Croix de Guerre.
Others or this vicinity arriving by the
Pueblo were Walter Garrett, who
pitched for Harvard In 1915, and was
In an ambulance unit in France; Cor.
poral T. w. Ingram OF Manhattan Dor.
ough. scout for the lost battalion who
while returning for relief was captured
by the Germans; Private f. ]. Cullen OF
the First Gas Regiment who was him,