The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-31
EIGHT TRANSPORTS
BRING 1000 TROOPS
Major-Gen. McGlachlin and
Part of 38th Infantry Ar
rive on 0rizaba.
FIRST ENGINEERS ALSO IN
Cowboys Who Served in Re-
mount Sections Also Among
Returning Soldiers.

Eight transports, bringing more than
1000 officers and enlisted men Of the
A. Ia F., reached New York yesterday.
The Mallory. Santa Leonora, 1owan and
Peerless were berthed at the army base,
South Brooklyn, and the Graf Walder-
see, Santa Marta. Pastores and Orisaba
at Hoboken. All sailed from Brest.
In the Graf waldersees company was
passenger who did not board the ship
at Brest, but was transferred TO her
in midocean. He was Archie R Bleeten.
Is years old, of Boston, former mem
Der of the crew of the freighter LIB
erty Glow. Two hours after the Wal
dersee had passed the Liberty Glow on
August "a the transport received WIRE
less message from the freighter asking
that a boat with a medical officer be
sent to her assistance. The transport
was turned and after two hours steam
ing at full speed the Liberty Glow was
sighted and Lieutenant-Comman X.
A Toulen, senior medical officer, put
| off in a boat and boarded her.
He found Bleeten suffering from blood
poisoning and his examination convinced
| him that the boy had less than twenty
four hours to live IL an operation was
not performed Immediately. Under his
orders the boats crew from the trans
port lowered Bleeten to their boat and
transferred him to the Waldersee, where
| the necessary operation was performed
at once When the ship arrived yester-
Sday the boy had recovered completely.
| The Graf Waldersee brought 1858
men and officers under the command OF
Capt. A. j. Minor of Kingston, r.
Among the officers on board was Capt
L "A Wis a q.
tached to the Fifty-sixth Infantry and
later to Second Division Headquarters
He was decorated with the Croix do
Guerre for gallantry at Mount Blanc or
October s.
The Santa Marta brought 36S CASUAL
under the command of Lieut.. w. X
Lloyd of Ell Paso. Tex, and the Pastore'
landed 1913, including the advance
party Of the First Division. nineteen Of
ficers and thirty men bound for CAM
Upton. Among the latter was Majoi
ICharles S. Coulter. formerly OF the Prov
idence Journal and after the armistic'
editor of the Brtd0eheod Sentinel, the
newspaper of the Army of Occupation
published at Coblenz.
Second Lieut.. Roy Munger of tn
Fourth Engineers arrived on the shi
under guard. the result. his fellow off
GERS said, of an alteration with a cat
proprietor at Brest who had used Ian
guage insulting to American officer
| generally.
On the Iowan, which left Brest o.
August 10. were 600 casuals under tn
command of Major Myron Hingeley
The largest unit aboard was a detach
ment of the 304th Field Remount Squad
ron, most Of them ranchmen and COW
boys from Texas and the Wester
States. They were located In the Tcu
sector during the fighting and conveye
gassed and wounded horses from IN
.-c.. - the veterinary hosnitals Soy
eral thousand animals were saved In thi
, way.
The Santa Leonora had aboard III
2s7th Military Police Company. III
members of which have been on duty |
Antwerp. and a number of casuals, 81
enlisted men and 40 officers in all. TIL
Mallory brought SIS officers and me
and 10 army nurses. The troops o
board were under the command of Cap
H. G. Huckel OF Philadelphia.
On the Orizaba were the headquarter
supply and machine gun companies an
First Battalion of the Thirty eighth 1r
= fantry. the First Battalion of the Fir'
Engineers and division headquarters {
the First Division, including MaJor-Ge'
Edward F McGlachlin. Jr commandin,