The sun., 1919-06-29
HAS FRENCH BRIDE;
OTHER GIRL WAITING
Sergeant Philosophically Re-
marks; "They'll Say I'm
a Heartbreaker."
5000 SOLDIERS RETURN
Four Transports Come In
With Troops as Part Of Peace
Day Celebration.

Army officers at the port OF debarka-
: ton at Hobolsen yesterday had abso-
% lutely no reason to doubt that peace had
p been signed, for more than 5000 soldiers
: with their fighting days behind them
poured In upon them from four trans
ports
,. Two OF the transports. the santa
RI ga and the santa Paula. had started
: FROM France on the same day. aithough
from different ports Bordeaux and st.
. .Nazaire. and locked within ten minutes
of each other at Hoboken. The santa
. Rosa carried 1861 troops and the santa
Paula 2,OO3 The Santa Rosa also had
. the distinction of carrying the smallest
casual company which had hit port In
many a day. The company. which ap-
, pears officiaiiy on the records az
/. Especial Casual Company Number le4z'
was Lieut.. G. f. wittet Of the Thirty
fifth Engineers, who comes from ana IL
now going to Detroit and Regfmentai
. Ordnance Sergeant Arthur II. Donohue
~ Somerville, Mass. BY way OF further
distinguishing itself every ofhcer ana
man Of Special Casual Company NUM-
Der 1912 was married and brought MS
wife along with him.
Lieut.. Wittet and his bride. who was
Mile. Helene Lamarque. f Feurs, were
|; married May % and both were unmiti-
gatedly glad TO see Hobokers smoky
strand Sergeant Donohue looked over
the same view with mixed ieNhss,
which turned an even darker blue In
hue when he was handed on the pier
letter from a girl friend from Massa>
chusetts who announced she was COM
ing to meet him.
This Is only the beginning" Ser
geant Donohue, who is a Dartmouth
man and former member Of the baseball
team. remarked, as he wiped his brow.
81 happened to be popular with tne
girls at home and nobody back there
knows that l married in France.
Everybody is going to say that broke
their hearts. Gosh! I'm going to be
/ PANIED for the rest Of my life"
I Happy With His Bride.
However, Sergeant Donohue admitted
that there was n mitigating circum-
stance in the case. Before November
IS last she was known as Mile. Eliza
j, beth Therin of st. Brick, France.
The troop commander aboard the
Santa Rosa was Major w. VI. Brumby
who is also commander OF the 333d
/. Service Battalion. Quarterfnaster De
psrtment. fifteen officers and 1.024 en-
listed men. Lieut. Col F. A. Prince
son OF a former Congressman from I'LL.
nois. was troop commander on the Santa
Paula. whose troops. including the
10th Provisional Battalion of sixteen
officers and 1908 men and the Ills,
Provisional Battalion of seven officer,
and go men.
Sergeant Ralph L. Grosvenor Of
White Plains. composer and formei
. organist at st. Bartholomew Parish
House, 209 East Forty-second street
was also on board. Before he enlisted
. in the Second Pioneer Infantry Ser
geant Grosvenor wrote a song entitled
We'll Lick the Kaiser II II Take
S'wenty Years" After some though
the horrible possibility that the Kaiser
. might die Of old age or something be
fore he was licked struck Sergean
: Grosvenor. So he enlisted and cleaned
! him up in less than two years.
!. The transport Aeolus, which used (,
I be known by the sweet sounding nam
! or Grosser Kurfuerst, tied up at Ho
boken with 1884 officers and men VIII,
: were probably almost as glad to ge
. home as the Germans were TO hay
!. them. The troops include Companies !
: to d of the s06th Pioneer Infantry. 3
: officers and SIC colored soldiers, com
manded by Col. F. NJ. Maddox, a par
&. Of the S11th Pioneer Infantry. an
f. casual detachments.
: Occupying a prominent place in tn
(: brig OF the transport was the small fig
= ure OF John Lemaire, a stowaway,
/. years old, who speaks FIVE language
: and claims to have been born in Ney
/. Haven. Conn. Despite the fact that Yal
University is there located. the officer
: of the transport doubted that he picke
: up all those languages there and sen
. him to Ellis Island, where he will b
!. held until he proves he Is an American
Johnny's story OF War.
F. According to Johnny's story his folk
/, moved from Salt Lake City to France 1
e 1912. Both his parents, he says, wer
: killed when a bursting shell destroye
: his home during n bombardment G
; Rheims in 1915: Johnny stayed wit
friends until last November, when h
met up with the Sixty-second Engineer
/. He smuggled himself aboard and whe
+. found two days out was clad in tn
white uniform of COB, He refused I
tell what soldiers and sailors had aide
him in getting on board. Johnny sal
that when his uncle. Dewey H. Stads
man OF 114S Southwest Temple stree
Salt Lake. learns he is here everythin
will be all right again.
The transport Julia Luckenbach, wit
$3.50 troops aboard, including IA off
! GERS and 1858 men OF the 213th Prov
sionsl Battalion, which is made up
men of all branches Of the army, docke
yesterday at Brooklyn. She brougf
: word that the cruiser Charleston on Il
way to this port with 1,400 troops O
board from Brest had met with engir
: trouble on the way across and Is no
lmping slowly toward New York. Sh
should reach port Sunday night or Nor
> DAY morning.
: Major w. S. Woolford OF Denver Col
. medical officer, is now an authority o
steamships. The Major discovered OF
: day during the voyage that the ship wa
shooting along at full speed with no or
at the wheel in the main pilot hous
Big ships being little rare In Denve
: II did not occur to the Major that III
ship was being run from the bridge s
he wrote letter to the commando
/. about IT. So the commander of the boa
I Lieutenant-Commande George G. BeI
ner, gave the Major a lecture on shiI
and how to steer them, and everybod
else on board also contributed somethin
on ships to the Major absolutely witho,