People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1900-02-22
A Letter from Roy Naugle.

Editor VOICE: Some OF your
readers may like ~ hear from Frisco.
We are having fine weather. |
haven't seen snow or ice yet this WIZ
Ter.
1t is warm through The day and just
Cool enough eight, and morning for a
little coal III tue crate. read 10 the
papers That you're having bilzzards
back there which makes me glad | am
ia California. The tlIwers are out in
bloom and everything looks like
prlng. In walking around you see
whole hedge fences Of CALI lilies. Out
IN our front yard are two punches
shat have fifteen blooms on them.
While W. were 10 San Jose | worked
10 florists store evenings and Salur-
dayS-ran errandS, delivering pack
yes and so forth.
Last Friday papa and / took wheels
and made IA trip 10 the Presdio, to
see the soldiers and the big guns at
The Qualifications. Papa has a wheel
aud thinks he can ride pretty well,
but ] can beat aim.
We went ont through the Golden
Gate park, all the way to the Cliff
house on the Ocean-ab0ut seven
miles-then ~ over SutrO Heights
across TO the Preside.
We followed the carriage road
around the Cliff overlooking the
Golden Gate entrance TO the harbor.
Talk about your big guns: we saw
EN-. They are mounted on great
stone walls protected by walls in front
Some OF them shoot one thousand
pound balls. There are about ninety
in all on both sides OF the harbor.
The biz dynamite guns are set away
hack behind the hills. They shoot
rainbow fashion, getting distance and
direction by aid Of large chart. I'd
hate TO be on a ship coming in that
harbOr to capture the United States.
We then came around down the hill
tn the barracks, where the officers live
and where the soldiers are canned.
IL Is lovely place. There are onlv a
few soldiers there nova part Of two
regiments. | think. Some OF them
are from Fort Riley, Kls. We then
-ode ont Lombard street. and down
Van Ness avenue, on asphalt pave
ment all the way home.
On Sunday afternoon had an even
better trip than this. / was down on
the wharf Saturday, and made friends
with the captain OF the government
launch belonging 10 the cruiser Phila
delphia, which is lying out In the hay.
He told me to come down Sunday
afterAOon and he would take me out
to the Philadelphia. Or course /
went. | found my friend all right
and he told me TO get In. In a few
moments we we're on the Philadelphia,
and went from one end Of her to the
other. She is fine old ship. Her
largest guns were only six inches
She had smaller guns that shot three
hundred times without relnading
Everything lOnks so nice and clean on
the ship, that | thought it would be
pretty good place to live. The ships
messenger hoy got disciplined while
] was nm board. He was told 10 do
something quick and vas ton slow. He
paid for his hardness nv standing Ou
2 chalked square Gfteen minutes.
The Philadplphia's last fight was
down at the Samoan Islands.
After We bad been aboard awhile,
we got back into the launch with some
distinguished visitors whom did not
know, and took trip around the bay.
clear out tn the Golden Gate and back
to shore. Ills not necessary for me-
IN tell that enjoyed IL. II isa trim
| shall long remember. | like to live
in Frisco because there ia 50 much q
ere. / 20 TO school and am doing
fine.
On Saturdays, i sometimes work On
a laundry wagon, Going all over the
city. delivering laundry packages.
I'd like to see all my friends back 10
Wellington.
| wish / had nv dog, Tellar, here In
NAV on the beach as other dogs do.
expect | have written enough hut
hope you will End room for this some
where even II it has 10 On into the
editorial waste basket. Should this
escape 'his fate. / may scribble you
come more sometime.
j Yours Respectfully.