Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1917-11-15
HERBERT WARD WRITES
INTERESTING LETTER.

tcdCAcl dl DIlSHt, W MiSS MdDcl
Jones of this city who taught al
Bright last year with Mr.. Ward. Mr..
Ward has been in the service for
some months and he wildly desert
bes in this letter some of the most
interesting things he has seen since
he put in with Uncle Sam. The let
ter is we'll worth reading. 1t fol
lows:
Dear Friend:-
Again l am going to try writing tic
you with your address as Coulee
City and mine 1000 miles away.
Since last wrote you Uncle San
has had me in twenty-five different
states in the Union and in the Dis.
trict of Columbia to say nothing Of
my being in state Of poverty and
unrest.
We left Fort Walla Walla October
9th and after spending seven nights
and six days on the trains and afte,
being in Is different states we UNI
loaded at Camp Green, Charlotte.
N. C.
Our train started from Walla Wal.
la consisting of IS coaches and Z
powerful freight locomotives. As
the grade diminished we were re.
lieved of one engine and went Oh
our way with only two.
w stopped and paraded at many
small cities and towns along the line
We also stopped for game of base
ball al Hastings, Nebraska. Nebraska
| really like about the best of any
Of the states we passed through.
There the fields lay as far as the
eye can travel in broad gently roll
ing fertile plains. The crops arc
corn, winter wheat, and hay. Thee
aim to raise all they feed an
feed all they raise to hogs, horses
and cattle. The people are univer.
sally Of the highest possible intelli
gence and wealth flourishes OF
every hand. While in the South
quite the other way-poverty pre-
dominates and ignorance is in style,
The land throughout the South is
Of a very poor quality. In fact i
appears run out and the country
does not seem to have recovered
from the effect of the civil war. Ir
a thousand instances one can SEE
where prosperity once flourishet
and now naught remains but ruins
In Nebraska the farmers were cut
ting their last crop of clover anc
alfalfa hay, while in the South the,
were picking cotton.
| had chance to see quite BIZ
Of Kansas City. All the city is il
Missouri save for the large packing
house and stock yards which are thu
largest in the world save for Chi;
cago alone. Mules-Heavens, they
have more mules there than any.
where else in the world. There
were so many of them that when
left | had to feel my ears to see if i
had effected me to look at so many
mules.
East St. Louis ranks first in being
the dirtiest city | have ever visited
1t certainly is terror.
We took part in the Charlotte Sec
ond Liberty Loan Parade. 15,0G|
soldiers paraded and it took 2K
hours for the line to pass the review
stand.
We remained at Camp Greene jus
one week and we were loaded on {;
train with orders to be quiet ant
that we would know where we Were
going when we got there. We even
tually rounded up at Long Island
We passed from N. C. through Vir
ginia, District of Columbia, Mary
land, Delaware, New Jersey, Penn
sylvania and New York.
Washington, u e.. is truly worth,
Of being called the most beautiful
city in the world as it is so Otter
called. We stopped about 3 hour
in that beautiful city. 1t was rainint
so we could not parade there but
had the opportunity to see the U. S
Wireless Station, Curtis Lee Mansio,
Washington's Monument, Whit
House, Capitol, Arlington Cemetry
and other government buildings
The Potomac is surely wonderful
and beautiful river. George Wash
ington surely showed fine taste il
making that place his permanen
home and also did that government
"Of the people, for the people an(
by the people," show good judge
ment in making that same place thu
seat of governmental activities O.
this great nation. | now wondel
who could be so base as to suggest
moving the capital to more central
city. Now that have seen the most
central city / have such nauseatins
memories of E. St. Louis that GER
tainly would hate the thought OF
chanpinO the canital from the heall-