Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1917-11-30
Lieut.. Reddick Writes
Interesting Letter
from England

Ross Richardson from Lieut.. Reddlck
of this village, who is in the Medical
Corps of the U. S. army in England:
Dear Friend Ross:
My voyage over was without event
regarding the present instruments of
warfare, but the boat stewards and the
various ship officers always had new
story of how they were submarined in
the early days of the war. Such tales
we related to one another and we were
thus given a subject of no small mo-
ment to think over during the long
days at sea.
No one, except one who has ex-
perienced it, can know what it is to
see nothing but water day after day. A
school of whales or floating debris are
Of much interest When nearing Eng
land we passed an empty lifeboat which
caused US to carefully examine our life
belts for the one thousandth time and
to put on an extra Stint.
The English people with whom we
have come in contact, have treated US
most cordially and extended every
courtesy. All of my colleagues have
been of the same opinion regarding the
English peoples acceptance of US.
I travelled some days before arriving
at my station. The railway trains are
much different than ours. The coaches
are small and divided into compart-
ments, each holding from to persons.
One enters the compartments from the
side No end doors or long passage
ways as we have The engines are
smaller and there is no cab to protect
the engineer or fireman, but | must add
that they are powerful for they pull
long trains and very fast.
The fields are very small compared
to those over there and one sees moth
ing but hedge fences. Very pretty but
they take up room. The wagons are
two wheeled affairs drawn by one horse
in shafts The traces extend from the
collar to a ring in the center of the
shaft to which is also attached the hold
back straps. If man hitched two Or
more horses he does it tandem fashion.
| saw man blowing with four horses
hitched one ahead of the other.
Brick is the predominating building
material. Buildings bridges, tunnels,
towers, and even section houses are
built of brick. Not much farming here,
but grazing and that confined mostly
to sheep altho Wales and Scotland pro-
duce much beef.
In one city | saw very old cathed-
raj with windows that were put in by
the Saxons Also in this city was the
remains of an old Roman wall. In the
city in which / am now located many
Roman ruins have been unearthed In
the Museum | saw stone columns and
tablets, instruments, tools, etc, made
of bronze, copper and iron. In the
basement of two small stores are the
floors of Roman houses. They are made
of three-fourths inch squares of various
colored stones, forming many designs
including a peacock. These floors were
dug into during excavations for a Gel
lar 1t is almost staggering when one
thinks of how long ago they were
built.
Invent to vaudeville show the other
evening American songs are very popu
lar. The headlines were the "Brooklyr
Comedy Four"
England is at war and one sees it or
every side, but cannot write of it fol-
the censor would no doubt strike il
out. The evening of ouriarrival mum
ber of physicians were eating supper al
hotel. With the coffee one is served
three small cubes of sugar about one
third the size of your cubes. Cne doctor
called for the second cup Cf coffee. Il
was served but without the sugar. HI
called the walters attention to the fac
and the waiter said, You have haC
your Government portion, sir. ,
"Well," the doctor said, "SHERMAN
WAS RIGHT" That was our init
alton, we have met up since with man.
things which causes us to know tina
Sherman was right"
The only steam heated building
have seen is the American Express
Co.'S, office in London. Private houses
and public buildings are heated {?
with open fire places.
A physician from Philadelphia AM
myself are quartered in private hom
not far from the hospital One nigh
loud siren whistle blew and the land
lady rushed in saying, Turn out tn
gas and quench the fire, the "Zepps'
are coming" In moment it wa
pitch dark. All street lights out AM
no lighted cigars or pipes on the street
My partner and / hurried out into tn,
street to see the ''Zepps." True Ameri
can fashion eh We astounded tn,