Bisbee daily review., 1917-09-19
4 Letter from
 Camp Funston

All interesting lelJer 0dS Just DeeU received by l. A Rosok of the Bisbee
 Improvement company from Junior Hayden, who was one of the boys from Bisbee who left for the training was employed for several years prior to his departure for the army as cleo trician for the B. l. company. The letter follows and is self-explanatory: Dear Mir. Rosok:
 We greatly appreciated the send-off
 the Bisbee people gave us. In addi- tion there were big boxes of sand wiches and eatables on the train and lots of cigars and cigarettes. We ar rived at Fl Paso the next morning and were there nearly all day. Some of the boys celebrated bit while there, but I shall not mention any names. We had some little time off at Tope- ka and arrived at Camp Funston at gy morning. They stripped us i'm mediately of our clothes and had us take a bath in ice cold water. The heating plant is not yet completed. Then we were put. into army clothes, were given breakfast and were physi- cally examined. We were then mus tered in, vaccinated and "shot in the arm"
 We sleep upstairs on canvas cots, with hay ticks under us and two army blankets cover us. These cold nights they are hardly sufficient The i'm mense size of the camp is astonishing. Here are barracks extending east and west as far as one can see and 1 have are three miles from Fort Riley near Junction City, 131 miles west of Kan sas City and 6S miles west of Topeka.
 The grub is good, very good com pared to restaurant cooking. But the dish washing facilities are atrocious.
 Electricians here get 6S 1-2 cents per hour, work 10 hours per day and get II hours for it. They work every Sunday and get "A hours for that. They eat and sleep on the ground.
 The recruits who arrive are not all flowed to keep anything of what they bring with absolutely nothing except some toilet articles. Most of the recruits are wearing overalls and jumpers. We were fortunate enough Ito have a first class supply officer and were issued nearly a complete. uniform the first day For the same reason we are to get our horses and guns first
 We were issued the following arti- cles besides uniform, underwear shoes, etc: Two towels, bath brush. hair brush, comb and three pairs of socks. We are allowed to wear only the stuff they issue to us. Some of the boys had regular leather leggings which they are not allowed to wear, and I have an army shirt that is slightly different in color than the rest, SO cannot wear that.
 My advice to the boys who are com ing, in view of my experience, would be to wear clothes and shoes that can be thrown away, bringing his shaving outfit in a bundle, or else take a suit case along empty, except for his toi- let articles and then he can express his clothes in it back home
 Today l was assigned to the head quarters company. I was greatly elat- ed at first, but my spirits fell when I was informed by Rice. Lindholm, Smith and Chetney, who are in the same company, that while l might make a few extra dollars. our chances for promotion were greatly lessened. l
 An officer just came into the bar. racks and stopped the gambling that was going on. It appears to be. against the law. Some of the boys lost hundreds Of dollars, both here and on the train in blackjack, poker and crap games.
 I would be glad to hear Bisbee news from time to time.