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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1919
Page
10
Camp Devens swelled with homecoming as hundreds of 26th Division soldiers reunited with families after months abroad. Mothers and wives embraced and cried amid scenes of joy while officers and staff coordinated passes and sanitary protocols. Telegraph lines and telephones buzzed with greetings as gear and routines shifted toward a new training schedule.
Col Hale and Private Baker at Camp Devens show serious to critical pneumonia. Baker of Malden remains the only seriously ill patient among recently returned personnel. Colonel Hale from Brookline develops early pneumonia. condition to be reassessed after further medical evaluation. Several new admissions include soldiers from 1st Engineers and West Infantry, with locations across Brookline, Dover, Providence, Framingham, and other towns, but none other listed as seriously ill.
Boston Central Labor Union protests the 18th Amendment and demands repeal of the wartime liquor proclamation. Speakers urge congress to resubmit prohibition to the states, citing 500000 workers at risk and urging action to protect jobs and personal liberties.
Soldiers describe the sanitation plant and press jobs as they wait for demobilization. Odum seeks long distance discharge to Glasgow, Thompson attracts attention with a sign board, and Sears vs Leonard promotes a boxing pre event. Troops share jokes, trophies, and parade plans as 18 months in France fade into memories.
The Agamemnon voyage crew debarks and entrains for Fort Devens after transit from France aboard Mt Vernon America. Connecticut New England units lead the 26th Division arrival with old Guard and National Guard detachments from Maine Vermont New Hampshire joining the 102d Infantry under Colonel Potts. Delegations from New Haven Waterbury and other towns gather in Boston to greet Batteries A and B of the 10th Field Artillery Brigade on the Mongolia and Steuben transports with large crowds expected shoreward.
A rousing welcome home greeted members of the Machine Gun Company of the 1st Regiment, mostly Winthrop boys, as they arrived at Winthrop Centre. The homecoming drew families and sweethearts, with Belcher triggering a citywide fire alarm and Selectmen Macaney and Benson coordinating the gathering at the Central Fire Station.
Sidelights on a large gathering reveal private debates among embryo Lodges and Lowells about wet or dry. Despite prohibition, some attendees plan to drink, sharing rumors of improvised liquor and predicting future under current laws.
A troop train from Mt. Vernon passes through Framingham station on Saturday. Corporal Frank Fair of Company B, 101st Mounted Police, leapt from the moving train to embrace his two sisters on the platform and kiss them before sprinting back to rejoin the last car.
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