The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1917-09-19
PERCYCAVETT
IN CAMP LIFE
Camp at Lake Mills, New York, Large
n One and is Proving Very
sz Satisfactory One.
y. N. C. AS ARE ovERcRowDED
10000 Soldier Boys Stationed at Camp
and More Being Sent-Motion
Pictures for Entertainment.

Pictures for Entertainment.
Camp Albert l.. Mills,
~ Garden City, N. Y,
Sept. 10, 1917.
Dear Folks at Home:
Well. we are settled in our new
home but have not had time to lool,
around much as yet. The camp is
surely large one and is very level
Nothing but gravel and weeds, but
that makes very good camp grounds
and I am satisfied with it. We are
within six miles of the ocean and
expect to go over soon to see it, but
] must stay in camp so can see what
system they use.
We expect to work very hard. but
that is what makes real soldiers, so
am ready to work
We expect to leave here soon, but
can't tell how soon it will be. They
say that they take the boys out on a
hike and never bring them back, but
ship them to France. OF course this
IS all rumor.
When one sees five or six aerOplaneS
sailing around over their heads and
the big army trucks moving through
the streets you can imagine what
camp life is and the difference be-
tween the Des Moines camp and this
one. In this camp we have some 49,
900 men while in Des Moines there
were $500, so you can realize the
difference. 1t surely is fine to see the
aeroplanes 90 sailing around. You
know there is an aviation school near
: 41zss1e.
went over to the camp Y. N. c.
A. tent, that is our regimental Y. M.
c. A. tent, and it was so crowded
that could not get in. Then tried
the Ohio regimental Y NJ. c. A. tent
and it was not any better, so l came
here to the tent.
We have bath house at the end
Of each company street and every
thing is fixed up fine. 1t is much bet
ter than at Des Moines because we
did not intend to stay there long. We
expect to stay here a month at least.
They sure treat people fine here,
that is the soldier boys. They give
us moving pictures and interesting
entertainments.
Well, mother, might as well start
at Des Moines and go through the
trip with you. 1t surely was grand
one.
On Saturday we got the news to
pack our boxes and get things ready.
The boxes were not to weigh over IS
pounds. | did not have to worry
about the weight of mine because it
did not weigh very much. Then we
received orders to roll our packs,
which we did, then we turned in our
cots.
That night l went down town and
saw Cousin Flora. | had to get a
pair of shoes that had half soled.
At $3.50 at the last tap of the bugle
alltents went down. Then we rolled
them up and loaded them. We slept
on the ground that night.
At noon we took the train at the
Rock Island station and were off for
New York. I had hoped that l could
eat my dinner at Uncle Charley's and
Aunt Susie's, but of course could not.
We rode east through Iowa and saw
the real fertile land We got in Iowa
City just at dusk and had gone to
bed when we reached the Mississippi
river. In the morning we awoke at
Chicago. We slept in the Pullman
and took an upper berth and surely
slept fine. l was in company with
two fine fellows and surely had fine
time. Some of the fellows came
around with the feed and we ate in
our seats.
We did not see much of Chicago. We
went around instead of through the
city, going through South Chicago.
That day we went through Illinois
and in the evening at $50 we landed
at Fl. Wayne and took our exercise.
There surely is some difference be-
tween the. land there and the Iowa
soil. The crops there are very poor
and nothing compared with Iowa.
The next morning we awoke just
before arriving at Cleveland. We
saw the lake and it surely was beau
tiful The white waves would come
rolling along and break 1t was some
lake, believe me- We saw some of
the large lake boats unloading their
cargOes and some of the big steel
mills and the large draw bridges and
swinging bridges. This was very in
teresting.
When we left Cleveland we rolled
along the lake until we reached Buff
falo. When we left Des Moines we
went on the Rock Island to Chicago
and from there to Buffalo on the
Nickle Plate route. surely would
liked to have seen Frank Evans.
When we left Buffalo we took the
Pennsylvania system and then the
New York Central an1 then the Rock
Island line again. We started out
with a big modern oil burner engine,
then on the MCKEE Plate we had two
steam engines. but pulled into New
York with a big electric engine, so