The sun., 1919-01-22
1896 MORE TROOPS
BACK FROM FRANCE
Three Vessels Arrive With
Daring Air Veterans and
Brave Land Fighters.
STORIES OF GALLANTRY
"The Hatchet" Tells Of Daily
Life Of Men on Transport
George Washington.

The George Washington is back again,
her prestige as President carrier
supplemented by her fame as the only
Yankee troopship that publishes daily
paper with real wireless news. up TO
date. and "columnist' material in verse.
free verse and freer prose that helped
to mako the stormy trip frothler. Nat
udally, one who knows anything what
ever OF the Father OF His Country would
say offhand that the name Of the only
Atlantic daily Is the Hdtchet, and that's
what 1t lie.
Despite the tradition OF the inability
of George to frame up material that
might lead to libel suit. some of the
naughty doughboys tried TO fool the sus-
ceptible editors OF the HGtchet. This
called forth an editorial warning the
writer's who wanted "to take a ride on
Pegasus not TO copy other peoples
poems and send them In as their own"
adding that a Pennsylvania infantry
! man came pretty near putting one across
yesterday. II was q regular sob sister
poem. only the doughboy did not write
It."
With the 3.474 troops that returned by
the George Washington were two big
yellow dogs struggled aboard. accord
ing to the veracious reports OF the
Hdtchet, by men of the Forty-ninth In
fantry. The chronicler says the dogs
were named Kaiser Bill and the Crown
Prince. but that their intelligence fat
| tered their ex-royal godfathers. The
dogs were put in the brig for examlna-
ton as to coolies. The master Mt arms
was to see that they were fed. Sympa-
! thetio doughboys turned them loose and
they were ordered put in restraint They
were tied to the mizzen mast with ropes.
Dogs Get Their Sea Legs.
Again" the issue OF the Hdtchet OF
January IS. midsea edition, says. "ths
doughboys set them free And again
came an order to the master at arms,
who set aside a compartment IN the en-
CINE room and started with Sailor Ahern,
| the lasso expert, TO corral them.
But Kaiser Bill and the Crown Prince
had their sea legs by this time Also
they know tho chief master at arms b.
sight, so that every time he spotted
them they spotted him. and having eight
legs to his two they kept at a safe dis
lance
when We reach Hoboken. said the
chief master at arms, when we reach
Hoboken-ah. we'll. there are many Wien
erwurst factories In Hoboken"
Some OF the washington's passengers
were Brig Gen. Chamberlain. who com
manded the Coast Artillery Corps OF
three brisades operating all heavy rail-
way guns, from s TO Is inches calibre
Brig Gen. William T.. Wilder OF the
headquarters staY; Capt. II. c. Curl
OF tho Medical Corps, veteran Of the
SPANS h American War, who had charge
OF the bast hopital at Brest: Capt. T.
b. Wood and Capt. David T. Jackson
OF the Fifth Marines. who fought with
their command until the armistice and
! escaped wounds
Lieut.. w r. Erwin OF Chicago. of the
First Aero Squadron, credited with
| bringing down nine planes and wearing
| the Distinguished Service Cross. rroix de
Guerre and the war medal OF the Aero
| Club Of America, was attacked at Yer
| dun last September by three German
fiers, was wounded and fell ! 900 feet.
| but before landing was able 10 get his
machine gun In shape and repel his pur
suing enemies He was concert pianist
before going TO war.
CORPORAL Walter Snow. 1874 Infantry
! Sioux Indian born In Oklahoma TWEEN
| ty-five years ago, won the Croix de
| Guerre and several wounds. On outpost
| duty at Nerdun he spotted four Germans
| carrying a machine gun toward the en-
envy lines. He dropped them with his
rife. He saw service also with the
French Blue Devils
Miller's French Bride Arrives.
Mrs Marcel Miller, who was married
| six months ago TO Corporal Howard
Miller. who recently arrived here. came
to Join her husband. She Is one OF the
ten thousand French girls who captured
| American soldiers She has been doing
| Red Cross work. She speaks no more
| English than that taught her ny her
| husband while they were sparkling in
| Paris, but she suspects he will help her
to learn more, She Is only IL and
pretty.
BY the Transatlantic Italiano liner
Giuseppe Verdi more than 400 American
| fighters came back, Including thirty
eight naval aviation officers commanded
| by Lieut.. G. w. Amour and Lieut.. VII
| liz B. Haviland, former commander OF
the naval station at Porto Corsino, seven
miles from Ravenna.
| Among the Nerdi's civilian passengers
were FREDERICK Giolitti, manager OF tho
! AnSa lido Company. Genoa. one OF the
| largest steel works In Italy. here 10 visit
American steel plants; Frank Crownin-
shield, editor OF Vanity Fair, and Peter
Mcdonnell. senior member OF Mcdonnell
& Trudax. agents here OF the Transit
lantlc line.
! The transport De Kalb. with 62i troops,
including c. W. Keene OF Chicago. who
I prded himself on standing near Gen.
| Pershirg and being decorated on the
same day by King George. The Sergeant
won the British Military Cross by gal
lsntry in rushing and capturing German
| snipers and machine gun nests that had
been killing stretcher parties sent out
to bring in the wounded. He left his
right leg in France.