The sun., 1919-03-25
FIVE TRANSPORTS IN
WITH $4,000 TROOPS
Cruiser Montana Shows Her
Speed by Logging 1t Across
in 8 1-2 Days.
MANcHURIA BRINGS 4,492
Phiiadelphians Here to Meet
FIRST Contingent Of cath
Division.

1~'@kOhts' tho the
bastleshtp North Carolina. the arnored
cruiser Montana. the Anugono and the
Matsonia landed moro than $4,000
doushboys at IIoboken yesterday to q
hot meal, an enticing innovation inaugu-
rated on Sunday by Major Cen. David
saanks, commander o: the port OF EN-
barkation. to stay the stomachs of the
man while they are waiting TO take
trains or ferries for the various camps.
rhs Montana, which on her trial trip
ten years ago developed moro. than
twenty-five knots. showed that she is
stu swift one by making the run from
Brest In eight and one-half days. a rec
ord for cruisers carrying troops. She
locked without the assistance of TUGS.
which were engaged in helping the mer-
chantmen transports. and was bit
bruised
The Manchuria's big contingent of
t,t32 officers and men included the 304th
Trench Mortar Battery and the 2l2th
Signal Battalion OF the Eighty-seventh
Division. composed of men from New
Jersey. this State and the Middle West /:
eight aero squadrons, seven casual COM
fN'NS N'tN hity-t OIlCcTS ana S6D
men OF 81. Na1aire convalescent detach-
msnts. There were forty-three cases Of
infuensa on the trip and one death, Pri-
vate Erwin r. Turnburn. Nebraska Of
the 3oars Asro Squadron.
Col. Noble I'm Charge.
Col. Robert RI. Noble, graduate of
West Point, class OF 1884, was in COM
fnand OF the 3.ses officers and men who
GOT in BY tho Matsonia. Like many
Cth~rs OF the old army officers. he was
made Brigadier General at the begin
ming OF the war only TO lose tho tempo
rary rank later. lie was former COM
mante- OF the Sixth Infantry In Mexico
under Gen. Pershing. He commanded
he 15Sth Brigade in the Seventy-ninth
Division In the Argonne- Meuse drive.
He viii! report to Washington for fur
tter orders
Lieut.-Col W. B. stacom Of the 1s5th
Infantry. the old Sixty-ninth. returned
by the Matsonia. While a Major on the
Lorraine front last March he was
wounded in the right knee by the frag-
nent Of a high explosive shell, and after
he came out OF the hospital he was put
In charge of the First Army Corps re-
placement battalion, with headquarters
in the Toul sector. In the heavy night
ing around st. Mihiel from 1000 to 3, 900
received the Croix de Guerre for his work
at the front.
The only man aboard who came back
with the Distinguished Service Cross
was Jack Dillon of Boston. He was at
Chateau Thierry with Company C OF the
11ed Infantry. Twenty sixth Division.
Wien there was call for volunteers to
act as runners between the front lines
ana headquarters. Dillon responded with
others. and before he had finished his
work on July 2s he had been wounded
five times.
Antigone brings Convalescents.
The Antigone. formerly OF the North
German Lloyd line, brought 2.653 con-
valcscent soldiers from the American
hospitals near Bordeaux. In command OF
Col. w. w. Wright of the Regulars
Capt Bradley Steit of Gil West 111th
street, who had been IN charge of the
transportation OF motor trains from the
port OF debarkation to the front line
came back limping.
He had been wounded in the some.
times peaceful American sport of foot
ball, in which he INDUCED recently. He
was fullback on the Princeton eleven ir
1918 and thought he knew something
about the game. He helped his team tc
win. but went down with badly
wrenched right leg. He warned tn,
newspaper men not TO ask MIN Wnere M
had received his wound.
Lieut. w. ]. Gallagher of Brooklyn
who went from the first Plattsburg CAM
into the Eighteenth Artillery and Tough
In all the battles OF the First Division
being wounded in the right leg at Can
tigny, came home with a Belgian Rec
Cross dog without tail, the appendag'
having been shot off while he was carry
ing messages at Paeschendale Ridge,
The battleship North Carolina broush
IN 1,47l officers and men. chiefly of thu
13sth Aero Squadron and the 1895
Trench Mortar Battery. The latter 4
the first unit of the Twenty-e!ghth (Key
stone) Division TO get back. and com
r1ittee OF Philadelphians went down tn
bay In tug to greet the troops. man!
of whom were members of the old Penn
sylvania National Guard.
The battery saw service with the Brit
ish in Belgium, at Fismes, Verdun> an
In the Argonne. The largest part OF tn
Keystone Division will get back In May
Among those on board was Murra
w. Stand. former secretary to Mar
Eisner, Collector OF Internal Revenu
for the Third district. Mr.. Stand wa
former Deputy Collector and ha
In Fra wit