Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-08-19
SAILING. WITH
UNCLE SAM
Interesting Letter Received From
Carl Il, lHlansen,on Board
Til, Missouri.

The following letter was received
by the parents of Carl H. Hansen,
who is on board the battleship Mis-
souri,. ne tells most interestingly Of
a long cruise on the ship, of the life
of the men, and of the places they
visited. The letter follows:
u. S. MISSOURI
At Sea, August 8, 1914.
We are now about 800 miles from
Hampton Roads, and are due to ar
rive there early Thursday morning
and will be there couple of days to
take on ammunition and coal for tar
get practice. We might get some lib
erty there, but l don't care for any
until we get to Annapolis There is
some talk on board ship about disem-
barking the 22nd, but l hardly think
SO. In case we do, you can expect
me home a little earlier perhaps
about the night of the Gath.
Liked England. ).
had fine time in England and
hope we will 60 there again on an
ether cruise. 1t is the prettiest coun-
try ever visited and the people sure
ly treated us fine. We spent 16 days
there and l had a splendid time The
first three days l spent in London,
seeing the places of interest there,
and the rest of the time spent
around Gravesend, except that made
two more trips to London for day
each. London is large and busy
place, but it is easy to get around in.
tried about every mode of travel in
the city, from the underground rail-
way to the hansoms, which are one
horse carriages. The driver sits up
on seat behind and drives over the
top of the carriage. l went through
the houses of parliament, Westmins-
ter Abbey, St. Paul's Cathedral, the
British Museum, The Tower, and 9TH
er places.
On Watch for suffraoettes.
At the British Museum they won't
admit ladies unless they are accom-.
panied by some man. They are sc
afraid of the suffrage'tes over there.
While l was there a suffragette cut
up great painting in one of the art
galleries and q few weeks before a
piece Of the famous coronation chair
was blown off,1hy bomb thrown by
some suffragettes
City Of Gravesend.
Gravesend is place of about 10000
inhabitants and it's real nice place.
The people there treated US fine. Ut
is quiet place though, and not much
doing. ut has some very nice parks,
where we would go and spend or
time when our pocket money was out.
There were always so many visitors
aboardship that did not care about
staying aboard sanysmore than had
to. The people there could not un.
derstand why we had those towers
on our ships; you know we are about
the only country that has cage masts
on our battlesh.ps.
Bicycle Trip.
The last three days liberty we had
the other fellows and myself hired
bicycles for three days, at $3.50 each,
and made a tour through the country
The roads are very good in. England
and we had a very good time. Left
Gravesend on Friday afternoon, at
300, for Canterbury, where we stay
Ell er night and saw the famous
Canterbury Cathedral. / sent you
some pictures Of Canterbury. On Sat.
urday we let for Dover and stayed
there about half an hour, when we
started for Folkestcne, where we had
lunch. Folkestcne a summer re.
sort and a ver,. pretty place. It is
right or the c'ifr overlooking the
Straits Of Hoy I. md we could see
the ships pnssir~ in and down the
channel. after q cut two hours stop
we start6l for \ .idstone, about IS
niles further nr words rGravesend
It was rather hard rid.ng against the
wind, but ,te final MANAGED to get
there, sbout I o'c'ock and found d
place to stay over night. We were
pretty tired and mert to bed right
after v,o h3i $. nathing to eat. The
mex. morning We. walked around tn.
tow until about 1000. We started
b~ck for Gravesend and got there
sbcut o'clock and, being hungry
tired and broke, we went aboardshir
and hummed something to eat from
the galley. 1t was too late for din
ner. We had to go ashore again tc
turn in our bicycles nut came right
back to get some rest, because We