The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1913-02-27
LETTER FROM MAJOR H. NJ LORD.
GRockland Courier-Gazette. I

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A recent mail brought TO the members
OF Inc Courier-Gazette staff ar array of
interesting souvenir postcards from
Manila, +. L., sent as our friends will at
once guess, by the former editor of this
paper, Major H. M. Lord, u. S. A.
From the tar off Philippines these pleas
ant remembrances come with consider
able trequence to Knox county friends,
but the particular occasion of The Cou-
rler-Gazette' S Shower was the Ma
jor's acknowledgement of the modest
souvenir sent to him on the night of
Armies birthday party at Thomaston.
To A. H. Jones, the guest of honor, Ma
Jor Lord writes:
our letter, the picture on the menu
ard the familiar signatures thereon made
me just little homesick for the time.
l Was picked too RI pc to be easily wean-
ed from the Maine tree. Whenever |
think OF some one thing more desirable
to DO than anything else, that one thing
Is to so back to Knox county l enjoy
my work and the experiences | am hav-
ing, but it all ENDS in getting back to
Maine.
I'VE are very pleasantly located here
l have one of the old Spanish officers
quarters on Gale Nozaleda, the Spanish
military center in the old days. 1t is
rather palatial affair, with elegant
hard wood f1oors-wood that is almost
priceless these days splendid baths, and
built IN the Spanish style, which is the
most comfortable in this hot country
! We are directly on the car line from Fort
VIM. Mckinley. where Kenneth is sta
tloned-a twenty minute ride away, so
Kenneth gets in to dine with US or to see
US about once a day.
with the first of January | enter
upon new and additional duties as a re-
suit of the recent consolidation of the
Pay, Quartermaster and Commissary
Departments, In addition to the pay
ment Of officers and troops we now take
over all army disbursements, and all
supplies, including food and clothing.
have been designated quartermaster OF
Fort Santiago, which includes all of the
city of Manila, and troops stationed
therein, at Quarted de Espana, lnfan-
terra, Division Hospital, Medical Supply
Depot, Regain Barracks at Legaspi, Pue-
dta Princesa on Palawan and Camp
Ward Cheney at linus. Il will be rather
interesting work, ! think, and | think
will work out all right.
I'VE are in the midst of our winter
+ (?) season. You would la oh to hear
them speak of this as the winter season.
1t really is not quite as hot as the rest of
the year, and so we are duly thank ful -
Major Lord 5 son, Kenneth, above re-
ferred to, is a Sd lieutenant in the U. S.
Cavalry, and has been meeting expecta-
, tons by he winning Of frequent honors
i'll service to which he became attached
I at comparatively recent date. Before
US is the Dec. 17th issue of the Gable
s-American, leading daily of the
Philippines, containing a report of the
j test ride of cavalry and artillery officers
+! in Manila. 1.-The younger second lieu
tenants took the test like jumping rope, "
says the Manila newspaper. Lord show,
! ed up dandy, when his horses breast.
, strap broke. He had to hold up the
! other side of the breast strap to keep it
i from the horses feet thus leaving him
| only one riding hand But he sailed in
at about ten minute clip. The official
. figures are not in, but they ought TO be
about ten or under'