Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-09-27
INTERESTING WORDS
FROM PHILIPPINES
PAUL A. SCHLEUSNER WRITES
FROM THE ISLANDS.

Regular Army-SOn OF August
SChlGuGSnGr of This City-RG-
CeiVGS Discharge Next July.
Charles Schleusner is in receipt of
letter from his brother Paul, son of
August Schleusner of this city, who
writes from Camp Overton, Miudapao
P. |. The young man in the far
away country has served six years in
the regular array and at the time of
writing was q member Of Troop cd"
Fourth u. 5. cavalry. He soon COM
pIetes his service in the army and is
soon to return home. In his last
letter he wrote in part as follows:
Dear Brother: Received you broth
erly and most welcomed letter Just
one day ago and was glad to hear from
you all, as had about given up the
idea of receiving letter from any body
in the States. But as luck would have it
| received four letters all in one mail.
| also receive The Leader regularly
every week. That is to say | receive
all the copies of it whenever the
mail arrives, which is about three
times in two months. | wanted to
leave here in time to be home on
that great day known as home coming,
but 1t was impossible to do so and |
will explain to you. Just try and
figure out how long IL would take to
travel l0, 700 miles, the majority of
the distance being ON the ocean. 1t
was necessary for your letter to travel
from July 1st to August 10th and you
know that malt travels a great deal
faster than person can travel. | may
be home on New Years day or shortly
thereafter if nothing happens to ne
between now and that time. AS it was
something came near happening on the
Fourth of July. All men, that Is l
mean of all the the soldiers on the
Philippine island, in all 1t was about
20, 600 Americans and about that many
natives comprising the Constabulary
and Filipino scouts, which makes
total of about 40, 900 men besides the
U. S. navy, which is changing around
these southern waters and consists OF
about twelve to fifteen vessels. On
July 4th, all men On pass were all
Called il and had to prepare themselves
for field service and stay around
quartres awaiting orders. as the
Japanese government was on they erge
of declaring war against the United
States, and the war scare is not all
over, as it is over here. But we have
our sailing orders for the U. S. We
leave Camp Overtun some time IN
September and sail to Marvales to the
quarantine station and sail from Mar
Wales at II O'Clock noon ON the 18th
day of October. receive my dis
charge in the 10Th day Of July. 1908.
[ may possibly get home before that
time, as our squadron of the 4th
cavalry goes to Fort Smelling, Mimi,
and if the A, b, C, and D. Troops of
the first squadron are lucky and go
there, l may be able to go home and
spend Sunday.
No Charles, I do not think l will
ever re-enlist in the army. But one
thing about the army | must say that
when | leave it. | will be in position
to get fine government job some
where in the States, which will be
better than job on the outside. AS
this will probably be my last letter
to you from the Philiphines,I pray that
the voyage in the near futrue will
have no misfortune in store for US,
as rs days to one month is a long
time to be on the water. | NAV mail
some souvenir post cards from
NagaskI, Japan, Guam and Honolulu
and so on, and let you know about
my trip and the different places we
stop. Another thing army life has
done is that it has shown me and will
still snow me more OF the world than
most people have seen. Not long ago
l was over to Hung Kong, China.
will write again when | arrive in San
Francisco, some tim the early part of
December.