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Col. Donovan
Proud of Old
69tlrs Reeord
Happy and Smiliinj, He Re
fuses to Talk of Himself,
but Grows Eloquent About
the Deeda of Hi* Men
Ruddy and smiling, with ni< overseas
oap at a jaunty angle. Colonel William
?T. Donovan, commander of the 165th,
looked to be the happicst of all the
men of his regiment who lined the rails
of the Harrisburg, as a flock of tugs
tucked the big ship into her berth.
And he was the handsomest, according
to a Red Cross girl among the group
of nurses and cantcen workers who
?*tood waving flags on the pier.
"Home!" he shouted, clapping Major
John Mangan on the back, as the gang
w?y to the Harrtsburg was opened.
'Home, John! Get that? The finest
?'. ng under hcaven. Isn't that so,
rather DurTy?"
The colonel, bucking a passage
?hrough the dense pack of khakied hu
manity to the bridge deck a little later,
strode without a limp, not a sign of
the wound that shattered a knee last
"ctober at Kriemhi'.de Stellung, a Ger
man strong point in the Argonne,
ivhere he remained in action for eleven
lours, dirccting the assault, despite
; 'i:?abiement.
Don't Want to Be Governor
Governor?" he questiored lated as
e sat on a skylight, the target for
constant volleys of queries. "Don'1
?alk about me. 1'm a lawyer, and my
hief aim in life is to resume practice
is soon as I get back to Buffalo."
'olonel Donovan is one of the young
est commanders of a combatant regi?
ment in the American army. He was
iiorn in Buffalo thtrty-slx years ago,
Fi^htino 69tlr
Is Home; Will
ParadcMondav
fontlnned from pate I
aed as stroke for a Harvard crew,
i cc ... a ftag-mai ked grave nea r
?.' hore he fell facing the ei e
Lieutenant "Pat" Dowling,
American ooldier to cross the Oureq
'?-. is anothcr of the hcroes who
? '?? n 1 hear the plaudits he earned
bi avery.
? lere ??'. ill he a parade of l
full unit became certain as hoop b? the
n docked. Colonel Donovan, when
as to h..4 dccision, announced
u i hi * men were ready to
march in a homecoming review at any
? ? were called upon 10 oo ?o.
Me immediately apoosnted a commit
tce, con isting <.f Lieutenant Colonel
\nderson, Major John Mangin. Father
Duffy and Lieutenant Harold Allen. to
vitti locnl ofricials in the parade
:,-f r.ients.
Will Parade Next Monday
in two hours after the commit
it into session at the Hotel Bcl
mont headquarters it was decided that
the parade would be held next Monday.
\'o other details of the pageant o\ wel
come were worked out, hovrever. While
there ia n possibility that this date
may be changed iti order to avoid the
difficulties of making the last minute
preparations on a Sunday. it ra consid
ered almost certain that it will stand.
The committee of trustees of the
for the beneht of the 165th
otherwise the Old Sixty-ninth) an
ounced that the heroes would return
rom camp the day before the parade
and go into such armorios as might
marricd there and livcd there prac
tieally all his life.
"How then did you come to com
mand a regiment that is Xew York
City's own ?" he was asked.
"Simple enough. 1 was captain of
a Buffalo troop ef cavalry. When 1
found that the 69th?rechristened the
16oth?was going across before the out
fit l was in I got a transfer. And so
1 went over with the Xew Vork Irish."
Colonel Donovan is the ninth coni
tnander the old 69th has had since the
outbreak of rhe war. When Colonel
Louis D. Conley relinquished command
atter the border tour of service Colonel
Latham Reed had charge. Then fol
lowed in order Clonel Charles Hines
Colonel Barker. Colonel McCoy, Colonel
Harry D. Mitchell, Colonel Dravo and
Colonel Charles R. Howland.
Xo Kickers in Regiment
Colonel Donovan sat on the skylight
patiently answering questions for half
an hour after the Harrisburg docked
"What was the spirit of the men?"
ne was asked.
"Splendid, ' was the replv.
"How about morale after -he ar
mistice was signed'."'
"As high as it was before, and there
was no better disciplined regiment. in
ttie army.
"Did sending the ,,.en to Remagen
as part oi the Army of Occupat'ion
have any erTect ? How about kicks
against long hikes some of the othe
commanders put them through?"
There's no kick to make. This ia
one regiment that has no bellyache."
Colonel Donovan deprecated the pre
'?'??? ")<? ild Bill."
"Who tacked that on?" he demanded.
Ihere is nothing wild about me The
men do not call me that."
He resolutely declined to talk about
himself, but was free to tell of the
valor ot his officers and men. Obvi
ously he was proud of them. He told
of father Duffy, saying the gallant
pnesi 'epitomized the soul of the
regiment"; of Major Bootz, the ex
sergeant of regulars, who is now with
m two steps of tho rank of his < d
commander when Villa raided l olum
bus three years ago; of Major Alex
ander !,. Andcrson, who le. I i
saulting battalions at Cote de < I ???
Ion and St. Mihiel, nnd of otl er o I
and men. all of whom, he d >c i
charged splendidly in the g ,
record made to add to that achieved
by the old 00th in the Civi] War
When an officer of the port com?
mander 3 ataff came up and whis
pered a word or tw0 ne rose. hur
ried from the boat to the end of the
pier, where the first mnn to meet him
was Daniel Bradv, or the rrish So
cieties.
be opened for them On the same
ng ii linnei wil bi tendi red I >
' 'olonel Doi . ? ? md tl i fflci i
the n giment by the Mayor's Comm
:"" of Welcome lo Homecoming
1 roop , ? ? ici of I he benefil fui d,
and ? group of patriotic citizena who
' ' emsclvcs in the w..j
c o m o ?.. thi ? . ' ? ?
Another evenl the same evening
will be n reception, dinner and dti cc
0 ' . icn of tl c regiment, tl cir fan
? ' ? ? ? . nt Modison ! .
Garden. Hii affair al n v I bc r i i
by the Mayor's i ommit ti i
Dinner lor Entlre llegimeni
... . i en ing ol I ?,<* day I a
paredi si dinner will be tendcred to
' ho ent ire 11 : m it l he llotel < lom
modore. The Lambs < lub hn i undcr
. offei ? ? ii ontcrtai nmenl al
' h .1 nner nnd haa prom i cd mch a
producl oi u been aeen on
? .?- ? i ? . . ?
i round i tl ?. ties of wel
coi .- . a "Father Duffy Daj " will be et
aside at l.he Polo Grounds, when the
. < ub i and the i liant j ??' il] play
a regular national league championship
game to raise a fund for the reg ment ..
chaplain and the regiment, Just how
it will be divided was not announced
yesterday,
Colonel Donovan smiled broadly when
told that an incipient boom, in ??
he was named as a probable candidatc
? or Governor, had made ita appcaraucc,
"If too foolish to talk about," he
said. "1 have no idca of going into
politics. Al! 1 want. to do now i I i
gel back to practising law, Tl I j
what I want to do more than m I
1 can think of just now.
"But," and here the colonel became
serious, "I wish you could draw the
picture of the n-al Father Duffy when
talking about the regiment. H< did
none of the circus stunts that have
been talked about. He didn't go up
into front line trenches and t'ight along
with the men, because that would have
been utterly foolish. If he had I
A.
_S it seems to me, a Custom
Tailor, the boast of quantity-cut
clothing to be hand - tailored is
enough to make even a weeping
willow . laugh. Hand-Tailoring,
you know, may be the work of
all sorts of hands? farm hands,
factory hands, right hands that
always get left, and left hands
that never get anything right.
Only a Merchant Tailor, like myself, needies simon-pure,
unadulterated, old-fashioned journeyman custom hand
tailoring into his clothes. And ?my hand-tailonng
\i all hand - tailoring all the way down, up, in and
through; not a case of "put-down-one-and-carry-two.
Army And
Saxy Uniforms
Of Slashing Svxmk
V^ivilian./Vmy
And Navy Taiior
Broadway at 39^
<?1 [Yeors OnThis Corner
.
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LIGGETT'S DRUGS
Domg business in 200 drug stores. thus sup
prying the w&nts of millions in vanous sections
of the country, we realtze our great respon
sibility.
We are satisfied with nothing less than the
best. and as a rule you pay no more than for
ordinary drugs.
Jobs Demanded
By Fighters at
Mass Meetino
"Bread Instead of Parade*.*"
Appeal of Addre^-ses by
Discharged Men to
Cooper Union Throng
More than 3,000 persons. most or
them workingmen and civilians, filled
the auditorium at ( ooper Union last
night and listened to addres-.>- of d -
charged soldiers and sailors demand
ing johs. The meeting was held unde
the auspices of the Soldiers. Sa lors
and Marines Protective Association,
whose offices at 12:! Last. Twent;
third Street were raided and wrecked
recently by a band of men in uniform.
.Men in uniform delivered impas
sioned addresses describing the diffi
cult economic position of many men
discharged from the service and de?
manded "bread instead of parades."
The American Legion. now being or
ganized by Lieutenant Colonel Theo
Oore Rooseve t, came in for a good bn
ot denunciation as"a political organiza
tion," and Lieutenant Colonel Rooseveit,
himself wa = characterized as an .>.'.,.? ?
who fought "behind the lines" bj Al
fred li. Levitt, a sailor and secretary
of the association. The .1 rogator;
reference to Lieutenant Colonel L.......
velt was checred by the audience
Oi one woman, who said she had
a son who died in France, objected,
? ing
"Rooseveit fought with all the boys
and he was wounded on thi
ti? d!
was hustled oul quietly by r
number of the soldit r- .1 hei s ica tti n
among che 1 ud 1
(?np of the speakcrs, a marine, ???
that I hc "i ./:? al u v ;? affil ial ?? ;
with no pol cal or other propag
bodiee and denied the charg ? of Bo
.;? ? iga ?
"Al. '?? e " ant," he aid, "is a decei I
ob and a sccuri ? : I 1 R
?: then every man wearing th
1: fo m of I he '' n ited Stal es . ~: a Bol
???."
Albert Bern ' e n, formerly in the
med ica! 1 rps, and chairman of the
meeting, who appeared on the platform
? : that ? ? . oldier ai I
sailors were now determined to gel
;omc of "that bettei I .
? .
! [i dri iv much applausi ? ? c n hc
B
Imvc comi ;.. ? witl ' ? ? rj
tc rmi nat in to havi ometl ng n<
? g 1.cr, omet h ing grander
for themsclvi and h<
you all know they wcrc cntitled lo it,
We see former men walking Lhe
peni . . broke '... Lo the
cnmcnwail
? - for n pieee ? f L 'ad to be do ? I
'.. ' heni w '? r.- found no
. ritabh po ti. 11118, no millionair
lo help u VVi have 1 ca; ed thi
? . ; . , . . , ? ? ? | . ..
for 001 ??: 1 h orgai
? ... ,.;..? a
did on the othci de
The lasl rcmark in particular drew
enthu asl applausc from ' hc 0 ud
? ni e
"Bul I .:"n ' mean what you mi
'n<' speaker hastc.I lo amend, "I
mco 1 to say thal if ii had not l.n for
perfect organization wc could nol ha e
broken Lhrougl lhe em m
1 m ly by organ izing ou 1
compel the govcrnmcnl and the coun
: ' large 10 do . omel hing for m
Jami ? Baglej. 0rganizer for
Pressmen's Union, blamed the prcsenl
"ai ul .? eci nomii l ual ion" 01
workers Lhemselves and urged the
former service men to join lhe labor
nent as a mcan of remi
condit ioi He cha racl ori ? ed 1 he w u r
a "a " ar tarted al ? he behe l oi
capi tal."
A reference by Bagloj lo the rc
reportcd mutiny of a compan?.
of American ?oldier on I he Are
front brought down I remei dou
probation from t he audiei ? ??
"We say to our boys," declarod Bag
ley, " 'j ou have I he pow cr ii
hands to gain everything you want.'
How they are goii g to do il i do 1 >|
I ropo e to tc them Some on.
gi r than I will have to do l
would .diave kicked him oul myself
"Bufhe did things that were in
fii itely harder. 1!" went out to do
the dirty, disagreeable work after we
d fighting, He buried the dead,
he worked as only a man of his type
can work amid unspeakable hardships
fncull iea to dent ify the dead,
to make the condit on of the ivoui li I
more tolerablc and to keep up the
'.: e spirit of the men.
"I always have considered that
Father Duffy epitomized the soul of
the old C,'.,\h, and I wish that could
bi said about him."
Major a German-Born Hero
The colonel talked proudly ot' lhe
morale of the men who, ?? mi of them
having been borr in Germany and
many of them bearing arm agn ? I
members of their own families, dis
tinguished themselves by Iheir unsclf
ish devot ion to dul y. 1 ? was becau c
of this spirit that the French govern
ment bestowed sixty-threc decorations
upon members of the regiment, and
General Pershing recommended and
bestowed fifty-seven Distingui
Service Crosses upon its officers and
men.
Major Henry A. Rootr., a wearer of a
Croix de Guerre, is pointed out as
typifying the ideal soldier of New
York's fighting regiment. Major Bootz
was born in Germany and had four
brothers in the 1 lorman army. i.
heroic work in the front lines swept
away any lingering prejudice againsl
him among hia comrades. It was bc
cause of hi i stubborn rei istanc
'.\iv superior forces In the Lui
sector that the French commandcr
there brought hi? acts to the a:1.
of the French government and caused
him to bc cited and decorated.
Great Crowd Grrets
69th as It Entrains
At Long Island City
At Long Island City the biggest re
ception that has yet been given to rc
turning soldiers was accorded to
old 69th when the men were entraining
for Camp Mills at B:30 p. m. yesterday.
For more than a mile on either iWe
o1' the Long Island Railroad yards from
.',,000 to (1,000 people were ma -ed jvho
had coif.i' from all over Manhattan,
Brooklyn and Queens in wagons, auto
mobilea and automobile trucks. They
began to arrive early in the mori ing
and took their places all the way from
the Thirty-fourth Street ferryhou ?
the railroad yards, at Borden Avenue
and Front Street, nnd on the Bernon
Avenue viaduct overlooking the yards,
Two ferryboata brought. the men.
They filled three trainloads, each with
ten cars. All the way to camp, espe?
cially from Long Isjand Citj to
Jamaica, crowds gathered to preet the
noldiers.
The police had great difficulty to
kee,, back the people. especially the
women, a- thej surged lhrougl
lines at Long Island City, Police In
: pe.-t.or Ryan, ol the 17th li.:l 0
P: 1 rlct, had charge of the arrange
,,.,,,. 11, -... ;i ited by Captain
McNally, of the Huntcr'a Poinl Pn
, inct, and < aptain Smart, of thi
-.,,. police. There were 250 patrolmen,
tiftv mounted policemen nnd 100 rncm
k< r? nt. thi milil r> nnlire
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