Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1916-06-29
DEAR BILL" LETTER
FROM TRAINING CAMP

Dear Bill:
have had your letter for a matter Of
a dimes worth OF days in which you tell
me the city editor asked for series of
letters from my very worthy pen, on
this Southern Military Training Camp,
feeling as he puts 10 that, Il should be
thoroughly qualified to discuss the
proposition and make the comparison
with the Plattsburg camp, we having
served one sentence there" and one
here"
OF course am very much pleased to
think the editor of our great semi
weekly would consider my humble
offerings as worthy Of space in his sheet.
In it see an opportunity to become
known from coast to coast as one OF the
literary lights, DINNERS would probably
be better word, and / am already
anticipating that very delightful feel
ing that must chase itself up and down
the spinal column of these scribes when
as l register at some great hotel at
Atlantic City twelve months hence to
spend few hundred OF the royalties.
will be receiving then from this series
of articles, know the whole lobby has
paused and is saying to itself, "Ah!
that's the great newspaper writer"
So much for that, by the way that is
of the expressions General Leonard
Wood kept pulling all during the talk
he gave us rockies while he was here
in May. Ifhe can use it, why cannot l?
Our camp here, to get down to the
shiny headed pins used for holding
carpets to the floor, is the best ever.
wrote you about Plattsburg so many
times last year that / know you will
wonder how it could be improved upon,
but these fellows at Fort Oglethorpe
shave got it."
Now just let me have your undived
attention, Bill, and will put the final
clincher into the arguments you are
turning over in that bean of yours as to
coming to the July camp AS 1 once
mentioned, Plattsburg was good, but
at Plattsburg we lived in the same kind
of tents set right out in the blistering
sun while here the camp is located in
one of the prettiest yon ever did see.
Great tall pines and oaks arch above US,
clear over to thesparade grounds, throw
ing on the terra frma one more great
flock of dark cooling shade. And be-
lieve me William, when you have come
in from hike after Juggling that famous
thirty-eight pound PACK for two hours
all the way Lookout Mountain on one
side of the parade ground to Miami,
Florida, on the other, the above mem
toned shade looks good. Sun-stroke is
one thing not on the calendar. We do
not even have to wear our lids when we
go to the mess hall, several hundred
feet from our tents The camp is on
the side of a four per cent hill, and
just slopes enough to drain good.
The Chattanooga bunch that had the
preparation of the camp in charge fixed
it up more like a chautauqua tenting
ground. We have floors in our tents
this summer and that is another great
improvement. Sand floors make it hard
for you to keep your kits clean. This
way too, when it rains, all we have to
do is just do like they do in Arkansas
(some do, Bill, I'm good at at this).
While at Plattsburg, every time we had
to roll up our pants and go out into it
to trench the tent.
The bugler has just whistled his call
for 'chow" To me that is an event
look forward to three times per while
at these camps SO FL rip off a little
more about this camp later. What
ever else you do this summer make your
plans to be here July II, when the next
one opens
Yours as ever,
JACK FORREST. |
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