The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1919-05-30
0uR BOYS ARE COMING
utrH AND 112TH M. G. B. HAVE AR
sIvED At CAMP MEADE-BOTH BAL
mIoNs INCLUDE CARROLL COUNTY
snInIERs---THE 18th ARE old COM
u,uy 1 MEN---WILL Be MUSTERED
oIr At MEADE AND SENT HOME.


rho Artemis, the American trans
49, with The G1Ztn Machine Gu
p, p.toIion aboard which arrived a
SaTport News Friday evening wa
Ns@r Nv Surveyor of Port Guy W
ssole w Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Raine,
o.50i .S Mrs H.. Scott Roop, of this city
80 80 erecting received by the men o
,ho NO 1I2th will long be remembered
.ociaIv ~ those who received tn
',a"or from our fair American
lD%ss h5is The Company arrived Thurs
H. I.T At Camp Meade where they vii
Sa % mustered out of service.
n was a little boat, this first wei
.,ns ship. and it had a business
No No air about her rather than an all
"A w gavetv. Directly in front Of hel
o,bin though stood four men, waving
t%oir hats frantically. Besides the
.Einner at the wheel and three o1
tanr tr,If oHicial-looking men who stood
naar the bow, they were the only per-
ans on the boat.
As they drew nearer so that they
amid see the flashes Of white teeth
sIong the line of khaki that adorned
tbe ships rail from stem to stern, Mr..
soplp shouted: Carroll county, Car
nil county. We're from Carroll
countv The first soldiers to greet MIR.
Steele was Cook Samuel A. Myers and
John MagiQ,
Then the little boat was alongside
he Artemis, and while one of the
oHcial-looking men was shouting to
he commander of the transport
through megaphone, the other four
men we're cIambering up the Jacobs
adder that hung down the side or
the ship. They were not sailors and
tbey made botchy work Of it.
They were former Senator Blair
Lee, Surveyor of Customs Guy Steele,
A P. Rainey, of Westminster and Ray
n0nd Tompkins.
Mr.. Steele was the first man
on the boat followed by Mr..
Rainey who will forever claim
or Carroll county the honor of hav-
ng been the first county to be repre-
sented aboard the transport that
brought home Maryland's doughty
regiment and the machine gun bat-
hliOn that supported it.. Senator Lee
claims nothing but that he was the
second man aboard the transport,
representing the Lee family, OF Mont
gQnery county. Raymond Tompkins,
correspondent OF the Sun, clair1s
nothing but modest scoop.
The first member Of the Lee Family
70 get on the Artemis was, Of course,
Major Brooke Lee, commanding the
Second Battalion of the One Hundred
and Fifteenth. He got on at st. Ma
laire Mr.. Rainey had a son aboard,
Sergt. A. P Rainey, Jr., of Company
!, Of the Machine Gun Battalion,
which came home commanded by
.apt- T. A. Lyon !
All four of this first party Of Mary
and to board the Artemis as sns. ay
rafting for the word to 60 on to port,
mbed over the rail finally, and
alded in the midst of the crowd OF
OdierS, who nearly tore loose the
eek Of the transport with a yell of
TelCOme.
Actually it was the soldiers who
'elcomed the first Maryla nde"s, and
lot the first Marylanders who. well
Omed the soldiers. The real well
ONE from the State of Maryland
anne little later when the Craft
ude, with Governor Harrington and
party of 200 Maryland men and
omen came tearing down the James
lver as the Artemis was steaming in.
The four boarders went below alter
le hrst orgy of handshaking at the
ups rail, and there in the mess: nall
Iere nearly all the officers of both
als eating the conventional hearty
feakfaSt Of bacon and eggs. Senator
NJ and Messrs. Steele, Rainey and
n Sun correspondent sat down to
v and typical navy Filipino walters
white coats came forth stealthily
feed them. y,
lhere was great hilarity in the
rVaktast room. Everybody wanted
ak politics and prohibition.
Inc men who arrived are in the
hhaaltary detachment. Charles r.
'zzard, Westminster; Wagner Al
w h. Mann. Finksburg; Wagoner
bsef Z. Peeling, Asbestos; Wagner
E0ry Zepp. Patapsco; Myron IL.
4uher, Union Bridge; William Al.
rvVm, New Windsor Raymond x.
Fghof, Cniontown.
company C.-Sergt. George r. Bell,
eslMnster; Alfred G. LarrimOre,
Slaery (did not return on Artemis,
SASlerred May l to Provisional
r4pany p, Embarkation Headquar-
N american Expeditionary Force:
Ill Nh Long, Westminster: James
Mllier' Mount Airy transferred to !,
LnLslonal Company ID, Embarkation !,
= ng%guarters, American Expedition
fofce); Harry 8. Gressler, Carroll
mess Sergeant Harry r. SNEAK, !
p.ialhSter; Supply Sergeant Arthur
''siney' Westminster; Cook SAM 1
4 Myers, Westminster; C,ok
hrL i'll a. Nusbaum, Westminster;
~ stewart ). Schmfdt, Manchester
nstaic uanic Allen wv. Rickell, West
80 .sf' Mechanic William r.. Myers,
uMIllster; Nj Mechanic Samuel wv
ES,o westminster; Ernest Z. Delphy,
N. purg' John :. Gouff Keedys- v
Fir aIi N. Wimert, Westminster; )
san " Bell, Jr., Westminster;
NM Morelock, Westminster;
y Chew. Patapsco; Jesse !
M tuaaneytown; Mi Eltinge r. iB
w. WWsstminster: Benjamin ID:
haytn tnaestmlnster; Frank Talbert, \
ta,. Carvel Horton, West :
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