The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-05-15
R0OSEVELT'S WIDOW
HOME WITH TROOPS
Giuseppe Verdi Brings More
Men of lightning Division"
From Jersey.
FAMILY PARTY DELAYED
Three Other Ships Arrive With
Troops From France-New-
ark Unit Back.
FAMILY PARTY DELAYED

More OF the Lightning Division"
made up chiefly of New Jersey troops.
with contlngents from the northern
part OF this State, arrived yesterday on
two transports, the Calamares and the
Giuseppe Verdi of the Transatlantic
Italian line, and were greeted by a
committee headed by Governor Edge
and other we'll known persons from
New Jersey, and by crowds on both
sides Of the Hudson.
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, widow Of
Colonel Roosevelt, was among the YER
dis passengers, and because of several
changes In the order docking the liner,
which finally berthed at Pier 40, North
River, her children were late in reach
ing her. Even then they were stopped
BY O customs guard because they had
not procured military passes to the
pier Lieut.-Col Theodore Roosevelt, in
civilian clothes, Capt. Archie Roosevelt
and Mrs Alice Roosevelt Tongworth
and Mrs. Edith Roosevelt Derby with
their husbands, were there to greet the
mother. Lieut-Col. Roosevelt got into
communication with Rrig Gen. Nc
Manus at Hoboken and finally the Lieu
tenant Colonel and his brother. Kermit,
we're permitted to go through the Gus
toms lines Mrs. Roosevelt has been
away more than two months and visit
ed the grave in France Of her son,
Lieut. Quentin Roosevelt.
Gino Speranza, four years an attache
at the American Embassy at Rome, and
on his way to Washington, said the en-
thusiasm among the Italians for Amer
lea was absolutely unchanged. A guard
Of Italian soldiers had been thrown
around the embassy in the excitement
over Fiume, but they were not needed.
He intimated that when pEace was con-
Guided Thomas Nelson Page. American
Ambassador to Rome, would resign.
The Calamares brought other units
than the Jersey Lightning boys of the
18th Infantry who appropriated the I'M
usually noisy greeting sapart OF their
own. All Hoboken and a large part of
Jersey City tried to get at the men Of
the 113th and the guards at the Hoboken
pier gates had a task holding the multi
tude in check after the troops had land
ed and formed in front OF the pier sheds
facing River street. They were In COM
mand Of Brighten. La Roy Upton,
nephew OF Gen. Upton. for whom Camp
Upton was named.
The 18th Infantry was formed of
the old First National Guard Of New
ark the Second OF Trenton. the Fourth
Of Jersey City. with two Hoboken COM
panies and was made a part Of the
Twenty-nnth Division. the "Blue and
Gray" The regiment went into battle
with $500 men and came out after
fifteen days fighting with 1890 men,
II captured 500 prisoners and a large
number of guns. Capt w. p. Coon,
chaplain, said he buried more than
100 OF the 100 killed and marked and
charted the position of every grave so
that relatives who may go to France
can visit the places where their soldiers
rest Gen. Upton said of his soldiers:
They are the finest in the world as
America Is the finest country in the
world
The Pesaro. formerly the Hamburg
American liner Moltke. brought the
Sosth~ Field Artillery complete. forty
four officers and 1,273 men. which went
over May 20. laet year. and saw service
in the Argonne-Meuse sector, supporting
the Ninetieth Division. Tracy Peck OF
New Haven. formerly professor OF Latin
in Yale University. said italy was
strongly. pro-American. although nu-
merous bodies of Italians had expressed
themselves as anti-Wilson.
The Spanish liner p. de Satrustegui,
from Bordeaux. brought 1852 officers
and men, chiefly Of the Eighty-second
Division. commanded by Major Oliver
q. Melton OF Atlanta. These troops
went to France In May last and forty
OF them have decorations.