The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-11-15
NEWS OF OUR SOLDIER
BOYS
New York Like a CircuS-What
Happened to John Gamage
and Howard Gaylord.
From "The Boy"

been moving along fine in camp. We
have sanded all the paths down the
company streets and have things fixed
up fine so the next rain won't catch
us unprepared as it did last time.
Friday afternoon / went to New
York, returning Sunday night, OF
rather Monday afternoon. | arrived
in the big city about in the after
noon, called up William Wachter, son
of Louis Wachter of New Plymouth,
who advised me to go to the Herald
Square hotel. l went there and asked
for a room with bath, as | thought
it was getting pretty near time for
me to get some of that North Caro-
lima mud off of me, but | changed
my mind when l was told that room
with bath was worth 81. | had not
had bath for over week, the wea-
ther being so cold here that it took
more nerve than l possessed to jump
under an open air shower, and when
/ learned the price of bath at the
Herald Square I concluded that Caro-
lima mud was a pretty good thing
to keep. But the hotel clerk and l
finally compromised on room with
shower bath at 50 per, so am several
pounds lighter tonight as result of
the effects of that shower.
l then went up to 59th and Broad
way to the Roosevelt hospital, where
/ spent few minutes visiting Floy
Clark. He is getting along nicely
and will be back in camp the last of
this week if nothing goes wrong
Broadway is one of the most beau
tiful and impressive sights at night
you ever saw. Electrical displays are
everywhere, and all kinds of fantastic
shapes and colors blended together
as to make it great white way that
one can never forget having once seen
it. l can't describe the city to you;
it is beyond me. Sunday morning l
took the surface car from 59th street
to the Brooklyn bridge and all the
way were business blocks after busi-
on the ground, even in crossing the
crowded corners, but was continually
looking up at the skyscrapers. 1
know everyone who saw me took me
for the rube that I am, but l didn't
care, everything was so different and
so interesting from anything that l
had ever seen before that l couldn't
turn my eyes away, not even for
minute.
Friday night went to the Hippo
-drome, probably the biggest theater
in the world. The attraction was a
vaudeville show, but on such an i'm
mense plan that it was exceedingly
interesting. Trains, steamboats, and
"a swimming tank that was almost as
large as the Nat at Boise were only
"a portion of the equipment used on
the stage. Saturday night l attended
"a musical comedy at one of the ia
NOUS theaters, and it was pretty punk
to what l expected. have seen bet
ter shows in the West.
Sunday was the guest of Bill
Wachter at his home in Brooklyn and
was royalty entertained in true West
.ern hospitality and style. He took US
for a 5O-mile ride, through Prospect
park, an immense park located in the
heart of Brooklyn, to Coney Island,
Rockaway Beach, and along the shore
of New York harbor. In going along
the New York harbor shore, we had
our first view of the Goddess of Lib
.erty statue, with the famous New
York skyline in the distance. We saw
battleships, transports and steam
ships, and we even picked out what we
would like to travel in when we leave
for France, but up to the present
time we haven't wired President Will
son of our choice.
New York is wonderful sight to
a Westerner, at least, and is certainly
worth coming miles to see But l
certainly have no desire to live there,
and once having seen it one is salts
fed, and like circus 1 have no desire
to see it again.
John Carnage narrowly missed get
ting a job on the wood pile the other
day. You know that when we soldiers
are naughty how they give US a job
the wood for the kitchen and ,
mess hall fires. The other morning
when "frst call'' was sounded, John
made jump for his clothes and put
them on quickly so as to be in line
when the whistle sounded for reveille.
But John had been out late the night !
before and was pretty sleepy. So he I
hurried into his clothes and when he
stepped out of his tent to get in line
and the Geld wind struck him, he sud-
denly discovered that he had forgot ,