New Britain herald., 1916-07-01
Having Varied Experiences and
 Accorded Housing Receptions
CHAMBERLAIN GETS HOST"
"Roddy'' Goes On Social Visit, It Is RumOred, And Is left At Hornell -Regains His Command Next Day However.
Especial Correspondence.)
 Akron, Ohio, June 28

Akron, Ohio, June 2S
 We'll happy ana ever eager to reach the border, New Britain's soldier boy mem bers of Company I will reach this place in a few minutes after trip fraught with varied experiences since We left Mantle and the good old Nut meg State in the distance on Tuesday. Company E, also of New Britain, is with another battalion and as they are somewhere ahead of us on their special train we do not know any, thing about them or their experiences other than that no reports have come back to us of any illness among them. Until we reach what seems to be our ultimate ination-Nogale Arizona,--it will not be possible to send much interesting information back to the folks at home. The jOlting of the train seems to act On both pencil and memory and it is hard to write intelligently. Especial ly since in our car are a half hum dred Or more hungry young men who are at this moment yelling Justify for their dinner. Firing of yelping for mess, they spend their time singing songs and offering suggestions to your correspondent who, by the way, is having troubles enough of his own trying to write with his pad placed against the broad back of Lowell Pickup. Pickup was selected as an improvised writing desk because he is the biggest man in the company, has the broadest back and 1t takes more to jOstle him than it does some of the others. However, even Pickup could be improved upon as a writing desk as at one of our stops he took 9 little time to take a swim. The inevitable resulted. His back is blistered with sunburn and every time the car gives a sudden bounce or I dot an 'i' un- usually hard he insists on squirming, thus interfering with the legibility of this article and also brea king up the train of thought.
 As far as we know we will land at Nogales, Arizona, within the next few days. Tn the event that we cross the border a strict censorship win be kept on all the dope sent out, but for a while at least we will be free to write almost anything. back home.
 Thus far the trip has had a variety of interests. Our first stop was at Port Jarvis, N. Y. There the boys had a brisk half hour of exercise and after a little "Quick time," a score of resolutions against the use of cig- arettes were made-and not without good cause either for we understand it will be hard to get them where we are going. Therefore, why not make a virtue out of necessity.
 Chamberlain Gets 'Iost''
 We had short stops at Binghamton. Elmira, and at HorneIl, N. Y. Rod" Chamberlain seemed to be very keen for this town of Hornell--so much so that he missed assembly, and the train when it came time to pull out. This morning. however, Rodman put our anxiety to rout when the second battalion caught up with us and he came aboard.
 If all goes well we will make Chi cago just before dark. Then for the journey south ward when we will sweep on to Kansas City, the half way point, and then into the great south west to--what?
 Given Great Receptions.
 All along the line the train bear ing the Connecticut troops is given a rousing reception and wherever we stop the populace turns out to cheef and wave. At some of these stations some very romantic flirtations have been started but owing to the fact that some of the guilty parties may have left an "only, only, lovey, dovey" back in N. B. I must in all fairness refrain from mentioning names, However, the young girls are charm ing and at some points where we stopped they handed us cards With names and addresses, requesting that we write. Two of the most suscepti- ble membe of Company l at one station mana ged to corral a couple of pretty damselS and were getting on famoualY until Captain Ladbury Continued On Eleventh Page)