New-York tribune., 1919-05-30
New Record Made by the
Cape May in Loading and
Leaving French Port in
l Hour and y Minutes
3,8Il Aboard Kroonland
Julia Luckenback, Italia
and Pastores Also Land
Soldiers From Abroad

ieA q new ""Tlu : record. She arrived
at Paui.lac, hcr French port. at 4:5O
p. n. May Is, loaded 1850 troons and
cast of on her return voyage to New
York at 6:g2 p. N. This turn around
time of one hour and twelve minutes
beat the former record, held by the
Mt. Vernon. of three hours and fifteen
minutes. Captain H. l.. Thompson is
skipper of the Cape May.
Thirty officers and 1893 enlisted
men OF the 326th Infantry, command
ed by Colonel j. K. Miller, of In
dlanapolis, made up the bulk of tho
Cape Mays personnel. This regiment
wert overseas in April. 1918. It was
IN action at Toul, Marbache. st. Mihiel
and on the Argonne Meuse. 1t suf-
Tered l,40o casualties, $50 of which
were men killed in action.
One of the New York men with the
a2oth is Captain Arthur s. HYDE of 10
East Forty-tifth Street, organist of st.
Bartholomew Church. He was passed
at Cantigny about year ago. He
served with the Army of Occupation.
3,811 Aboard Kroonland.
The Kroonland came In with SSH
officers and enlisted men, most of them
Of the 18th Division, Pennsylvania
draft troops. Major General .Josenh
t. Kuhn, divisional commander. was
with them. committee of Philadel-
phlans went down the bay to meet
the Kroonland
General Kuhn, who was once mill
tary attache to the American Embassy
IN Berlin, is one of the few divisional
commanders who returned with the
troops he went overseas with. He
served with the 10Th throughout all its
engagements. The French Government
awarded him the cross of a Comman-
der of the Legion Of Honor and the
CroiX de Guerre
Major Sydney L. Smith, of West
forty-fourth Street, came home on the
Kroonland in command of the 1st Bat
TALON, 304th Engineers
The Julia Luckenbach had 2,722 off
GERS and enlisted men. They included
thlrty-nine officers and 2,316 enlisted
men Of the 3l0th Infantry, 18th Divis-
ION. About LOO of them are from
Western New York 700 from New Jer-
sey and the remainder from Rhode Isl
and and various other states.
Jerseymen Greet Soldiers
An enthusiastic committee of Jersey
men went down the bay on the sight
seeing yacht Tourist to meet the trans
port They led the troopship up the
bay and North River to her Hoboken
pier, exploding bombs on the way. So
great was the crowd camoring at tho
pier gates in Hoboken to greet the SOL
diers that extra guards had to be
called out.
When ten hours out from Bordeaux
the Julia Luckenbach sighted mine.
She circled it and soldiers began to
fire at the mine from the decks. A hit
was finally made and the mine filed
with water and sank The same night
a wireless was picked up from the
transport Lancaster stating she also
had sighted and sunk mine.
The 310th Infantry was commanded
by Colonel w. c. Babcock, of Boston.
The unit went to France last Nav, and
saw action at St. Mhiel and on the
Argonne- Meuse sector. Its casualties
amounted to 1874 Fourteen of the
men received the Distinguished Service
Cross, one the Distinguished Service
Medal and one the Croix de Guerrc.
The Rev. James A King, of Lima,
Ohio, chaplain, was awarded the Dis
tinguished Service Cross for buryinc
the dead under a heavy fire at St.
Mihiel.
Italia Brings 1,o44
Lieutenant Kenneth Cramer, of
Gioversville, N. Y, was aboard. On
November he was with a patrol in
the Argonne and received two bullet
wounds, was reported missing and be-
leved dead Two months after the
armistice was signed he reappeared at
regimental headquarters, having been
taken prisoner by the Germans when
wounded and being compelled to re-
turn on foot when he was finally re-
leased.
The Italia reached port two days
ahead Of time because soldiers on board
helped coal the vessel She had nine
teen officers and l,044 enlisted men.
Three weeks were required by the
Italia to make the voyage from Mar
seilles. When the ship put into
Gibraltar for coal it was found that
all the dock workers had taken a day
off to help Spanish stevedore cela-
brate his wedding. The following day
was festival and there was no work
done. The third day the Spaniards
started to coal the Italia. but got
tired early in the day and laid off. 1t
was then 200 doughboys volunteered
to coal the troopship. They worked
from 3 in the afternoon till o'clock
the following morning, loading LOCO
sons of coal.
One Of the casuals on the Italia was
Private William NJ. Ferguson, of 1887
Third Avenue, member of Company
f, l02d Ammunition Train, 9th Di-
vision. Ferguson was in a hospital
at Tours when the eth sailed for
home.
A delegation of employees of the
Western Electric plant. West Street.
went down the Bay to meet thirty
five Of their former fellow workmen
in Company A, 3l9th Field Signal Bat
TALON, aboard the Italia.
The Pastores, which docked in Ho
boken. brought the 318th Ammunition
Train, 339th Machine Gun Battalion
and 337th Machine Gun Battalion.