Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-09-21
LETTER FROM RAY EMERLING

The following letter will be of inter-
est to the many friends of the writer
in Wauseon and vicinity.
. Camp Mills, Hampstead, New York.
Dear Friends at Home:-
/ presume you will be surprised to
hear from me so far away. We left
Camp Perry for good, Friday night
September Sth at eight o'clock for
Camp Mills New York. 1t was rain
ing pretty hard when we left Camp
Perry but it quit by the time we
reached Cleveland. We Travelled on
and then we sighted Buffalo about
three miles away there we changed
engines and then we moved on to
Rochester, where we waited for two
hours on account of little accident,
one of the boxes got so hot we had
to change cars then we went on to
Syracuse where we changed engines
again. Our next stop was Ithaca which
is as large as Toledo. The crops are
awful bad through this state, the corn
is about as high as your shoulders
and no ears on it, this is quite
dairy country, the land was very level
but the nearer we got to N. Y. the
hitler the country gets, there are
some places that the railroad runs
for miles with nothing but rock on
each side up as high as you can see,
We arrived at N. Y. City at eleven
o'clock Saturday night, but had to lay
over there till o'clock Sunday morn
ing, then they hooked an electric en-
gine onto our division and took us
under New York City to little sta
tiOn on the Hudson river then they
took us through another tunnel under
the Hudson river to a subway sta
ton then we layed there until four
divisions that were ahead of US were
taken out to Camp then they took US
out. There are fifty thousand men
there now and more coming in every
day, there are certainly some hills in
! York state but it has got Ohio beat in
roads nearly all over, but it isn't the
state good old Ohio is; they are max
ing hay yet and are about half done
thrashing around here, there is lot
of truck raising around the big cities
Every once in a while we saw an old
stone fence around Buffalo but the
farther East you get the more you
see one place we passed through
there was not wire fence they were
all made of stone, even the houses are
built of stone. The forests were OF
all kinds of trees such as we have in
Ohio with few fir tree mixed among
them and in some places it is sc
marshy that it is impossible to farm
and in other places it is so stony that
they cannot plow, but York state is
some busy state, in some parts dairy
ing is the main industry and the type
of cows are Holsteins, the same as
we have in Ohio. They haven't got
big dairy barns like they have in Ohio
only once in a while you see a mod
, looked good was the buckwheat anC
that is certainly nice, they sow theil
corn lust like oats and then they Gu
it with a binder that way they ge
all the fodder. They don't raise corr
for the profit as we do they raise i
for rough feed only. There ism
much corn cut yet so far as l hav,
seen, little was cut here and there
York state is some stony then larg,
hills that are covered with all kind
! of trees a person would wish to see
/ We certainly did see some country OF
our trip. The Camp is about the mid
die of Long Island, about three mile
from the Atlantic ocean. They rails
. . lots of popcorn through the hill state
it grows about as high as a man.
hips and it takes a short man to Gu
it, but it is nice Corn at that.
Well l guess this is all for thi
! time, so good by from
= Ray Emerling. Camp Mill:
: Hampstead New Yorl