The evening world., 1919-01-23
BROOKLYN MOTHERS FIRST
TO GREET RETURNING SONS
FROM FIELDS OF FRANCE

Mother Brown said. but they did not
tell me why. I'm sure they cannot
be wounded"
Joseph, George and William Gun.
ningham. sons OF Mrs. Joseph Cum
ningham OF No. 1884 Schaefer street,
went away with the old 18th. but
William is now Capt. Cunningham. IL
YOU please. OF the 5Oth Coast Ar
tillery, stationed in Brost. Private
Joe and Sergt. George, both o, Bat
terry ID, will throw their arms around
mother tomorrow and "just love her
TO DEATH" Mrs. Cunningham cried
happily to-day in anticipation.
mo mother" she said, ever had
better, braver boys than mine. You
ought to see the letters they wrote.
Stacks OF them. Joe's last letter COW
cred twenty-siX pages. Yet therell
be a touch OF sorrow about their
home coming, and I'm half afraid.
One OF their sisters, Josephine, died
three days before Christmas and
they know nothing about It."
FOUR OF THIS FAMILY IN THE
SERVICE.
Mrs William j. German OF No. 2ss
Pacific Street, the service flag in
whose window has four stars. will
welcome home so per cent. OF her con-
tribution to the cause in tho manly
young persons of Sergeant Major
Arthur ID. German. twenty-four, and
Private Harry I. German, twenty
three. These two Joined the old 18th
a year before Americas entry into
the world war. Arthur took thirteen
other rockies in with him.
I'm that mad TO see them" their
mother confessed to-day, "that 1
spent all of Tuesday about the piers
at Hoboken. thinking maybe they
might steal in on me"
The other German boys are Sergt.
Thomas II. Of the li5th Stevedore
Regiment, now in France. and Capt.
William +. German, an instructor at
Camp Dix.
FIVE SERVICE STARS IN HER
FLAG.
Although there are five stars on her
service flag ana she will welcome one
Of five boys tomorrow, the best story
told by Mrs. Mary Tierncy is about
Vincent the Boy Who Stayed at Home
First Sergeant William r.. Tierney, OF
Battery +, comes home tomorrow with
the 59th. Bill was formerly with the
American Hard Rubber Company, and
a celebrated basket ball player with
Brooklyn's 81. Vincent de Paul team.
lie joined the 18th four years ago
when he was eighteen. The other
Tierney soldiers are John, thirty,
Mess Sergeant, OF Company 4. Sd Ar
tllery Corps; Sergeant I'd. Tierney,
Company {, S05th Regiment, and
Chief Quartermaster Frank, OF the
L. $. s. Amphritite.
The fifth boy. Vincent" said Mrs.
Tierney wasn't sixteen when the
war broke out, but from that day on
he fairly pestered the life out OF me
trying to enlist in the navy
1t seems to me. Vincent Tierney.'
| said TO him finally. that | have
done quite enough when | gave four
boys TO our country, but you wait
until you are seventeen and IL you
are then OF the same inclination I'll
let you 90 and God bless you
We'll sir. he was seventeen years
old on Nov. II, the day the armis-
tlce was signed. He came into the
house that night in tears.
Now, ma, you see, he cried out,
you've made n Stacker out Of meu"
one heard stories like these to-day
everywhere in Brooklyn, but here,
probably, are enough to convince any
fair minded person that Mother and
SON are really the only persons who
have any part whatever in the Wei.
come Home party.
Except. as Brooklyn argues. where
Mother puts on her best bonnet and
her Sunday gO-to-meetin's To welcome
two, three, or maybe four sons.