Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-09-12

To my schoolmates Of the Adams
school and Juniors
AS l cannot write to you each lnal-
yidually l will write to you throught
! the Courier Junior.
We are now in Sweden and | Will tell
you Of our trip from home.
We sailed from New York City the
! 18th of June on the Adriatic at noon. II
was large boat. We had l,6O0 passen-
gers and 500 crew. Among the passen,
| gers were twenty-six being deported.
Some of them were Hlndoos.
We had most delightful trip; not
stormy day. On the morning OF the
eighth day we sighted Ireland. we
landed in Queenstown at p. m. AS
the harbor is too small for the large
liners to go up to the dock, some
small boats came to take the irish
passengers off, There were 600 in all.
out to us, among them was one with
an old lady in. She had large basket.
They threw a rope upon the boat we
were on and tied the other end about
her waist and drew her up the side or
the boat, which was about tWenty-elght
feet When she got on deck we found
out that she had oranges and candy to
sell. An old man came on deck TO sell
canes. After staying at queenstown
about an hour we started on our way
to England We enjoyed seeing the
pretty coast of Ireland with its wave
beaten castles and lighthouses ana
forts.
During the night we encountered
dense fog. The boat stopped for about
five hours. The sailors said that it was
always foggy in the English channel.
The fog horn blew about every three
minutes. We heard fog horns from
three vessels. We felt our way through
the fog all day and then landed at LlV-
erpool England that evening.
We were transferred from the docks
to the Grand Central railway station
There we got into the queerest looking
coaches that opened from, the side. IN
our compartment there were Just h J. e
of us. We rode straight across England
to Hull We took boat on the North
Sea for Germany and after two day
Journey we landed in Hamburg.
We enjoyed the scenery along the
Elbe river very much. 1t consisted OF
bathing beaches, beautiful homes and
summer resorts. 1t was midsummer
day when we landed. In the harbor
was the Kaiser's yacht, which was gold
and white. All of the boats were in
full dress, over which was the flag OF
each nation. Midsummer day we saw
the Kaiser come from his yacht In
carriage drawn by white horses going
to the races.
We got in a boat at the harbor and
went through the harbor and saw
boats of all nations and then went to
the ship building yards where we saw
men building the Bismark, which the
king launched the day before. 1t was
the largest boat in the world and was
launched by Kaiser William. We also
saw men building a war boat and two
torpedo boats were lying in the harbor.
We saw them loading boats for Africa.
We went through what they called
Millionaire Row in an automobile
which took us about two hours. Some
of the. homes belonged to the nobility.
They We're beautiful mansions. Ger
many has the most beautiful flowers
and largest roses | have ever seen. The
stores were nice but not so large or
so tall as in the U. S. A. We visited
Hagenbeck park which is the home OF
the Hagenbeck circus.
From Hamburg we took train to
Sweden. We We're ferried onto boat
about 1 a. m. and were put off the ferry
about a. m. Then we were in Malmo,
Sweden where we first saw the wooden
shoes. We attended the worlds fair
which was very large and interesting.
When we first came to Sweden the
days were so long. The sun rose at 3:15
in the morning and set at 9:1:. in the
evening.
If any of my friends or any Of the
Juniors wish to write me my address
Mildred j. Swenson, age y,