Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-10-14
7iOiNGS FROM NEPHEW
 OF MRS. j. |. DAROUX
Young Attorney From Mounds. ILL.
 Is Win American Soldiers in Eu- rope. and Appears in Movies.


 Mrs. J. L. Daroux. of 6O2 East sac. ond avenue, has received the follow ing cl!fping from relatives at Mound. Ill., when was printed in a newspa. | per dt Calfn, the writer of the letter 1 hohlas Lackey, being her nephew. who, as shown ill the letter, is now Wlta the American soldiers in Flu rope:
 Thomas Lackey of Mounds of Com pany A, Twelfth regiment of Engi- neers, hints at something he has done that Will go down in history to the credit of his name. What that is the censorship prevents him from tell but the following letter to his par ents. lMr. and Mrs. A. J. Lackey Of Mounds, will be read with interest: Lear Father and Mother
 Have already written you a card every chance l got, but being as the mail is watched so awfully close in England, am afraid you haven't | heard from me. l wrote to several of the boys too. l wanted to write and tell you that we crossed the At lantic safe and sound, never saw sub, we were too well guarded for one to even dare show up.
 Some of us got sick on the ocean after couple of days, we were in it so long, you know. Took up 15 days to cross. We left New York July 2S and landed in England August 12. Some trip, believe me, saw whales and sharks and world of other strange and new things.
 The English people are sure treat ing us fine, the very best imagina ble They have nothing too good for us. Just go crazy over us: We paraded in London yesterday, my company leading the whole thing. I am in the third company, so you see I was we'll to the front. Sure broke into the big league on the picture. There were no less than fifty machines working all the time. Expect you will all be reading this in the paper long before this letter reaches you though But anyhow want you to know that have done something that you all can feel proud over. I can't possibly ex plain the whole days program only Say that we had the time of our life and put the old U. s. A. on the map in England. The captain told us this morning that Company "A" did all that was expected of them and done in way that surprised the world, we were taken for soldiers of four or five years training. The king and queen were out to greet us. I march ed in 20 feet of them. The American ambassador was also out, in fact it was the greatest day in London for over eight hundred years, over four million people crowded the streets to greet us. We were the first armed troops of a foreign nation to march through the streets of London since the year of 106S of William the Con- queror. The kings own cooks serv- ed us at mess in the Green park just outside the palace. The days eXperi- ence has been worth ten years of my life. Will explain it all when this is all over. Please don't worry about me one bit for I am as safe as you are, in no danger whatever, can't tell you what l am doing or where am Only that I am not working hard and am in England today. EX- pect to leave for France in the near t. dangerous than they are here; but as I have already written I am as safe from danger as you all are, only away from home, and that can't be helped right now, but within few months we will all see a big change. You can tell the people at home l am one home boy who has done some thing that will go down in history, and have done my bit in way that they can all be proud of. I had the chance and took it as you know, the chance onl ycomes once in life time. I have now done as much to keep the family name and honor as any of our ancestors.
 Please take good care of yourselves and wait patiently for my return is certain as the days are to come. This is only tri pof experience and plea sure for every one of the boys we are all as much in love with Great Britain as we are for the dear old l U. S. A.
 This is the prettiest country l ever saw. Have the pine trees and nearly everything reminds me of North Car olina, but is much prettler coun- i try Old scenes of the revolutionary 6ays-sure wonderful. I am seeing everything I possibly can, will have lots 70 tell you. Those boys at home are missing the chance of their lives. If the picture show ever has that pie ture of us go to see it. It will most likely be shown by the Pathe Weekly I1;1,, con,nany which shows in Cairo