New Britain herald., 1917-10-19
TIED HIMSELF TO
 TRANSPORTS RAIL
William C. Buell. Determined to "Stand His Watch" Going Over

"Wow, but it is terrible thing to be seasick and the cure is almost as bad as the disease" So writes Will liam H. Buell. to his parents, MT. and Mrs. Fred Buell., of 78 Winthrop street, this city. Buell. is "some- where in France" but in letters tell ing of his journey overseas he is found on the last lap of the trip and in ecstacies, for, as he. says. We ex- pect to sight land tomorrow.
 Uncle Sam has a pretty long arm." he comments after sighting a number of U. S. warships in the danger zone on the other side. The letters fol- low:
 Dear Father and Mother:
 We'll, I got it. I have been sick for two days. We encountered tho most awful sea- Wow, but it was bad. Some of the waves broke completely over the ship. It was impossible to stay in bed and still more impossible to sit up or stand up, even hard to sit on the floor. It was my luck to be called for patrol duty Monday morning. The fellow I relieved had fainted from seasickness. I was al- ready feeling squirmish, but orders are orders, The station had to be the worst on the ship, of course-ln the bow. Almost every wave broke over the rail. I was more than soak ed: was nearly drowned. l got sick CT, but I wouldn't give in, though, so I tied myself to the rail. This saved mo from being washed along the deck. I stuck it out for two fn the ships doctor. He ordered me to bed. This was an impossible order to obey. That is funnier than it sounds. Bed-gee, one might as we'll try to sleep standing on ones head. I went to my stateroom and sat down on the floor I got tired of hanging on to the sides of the bed. I sure was seo- sick. The sea was bad all day Mon day Tuesday I went to the doctor again. He said he could cure me in time for dinner last night. That was about noon when l saw him. l told him to go ahead, I could try anything once; it couldn't be worse than patrol duty. He gave me bottle of Apenta water. It is like Pluto water and a wineglass full is dose. He told me to drink the whole bottle. He said to get undressed and when I was able to take a. COIu UdlIl IO 1lAl6 AoI AAAAAA' Wasn't sick-wow! In about three quarters of an hour I was better and took the cold bath. Doc then brought me glass of champagne and in about two hours I was up on deck. l was pretty weak, but not seasick. Doc says I won't be sick again this trip if take care not to eat sweets. Be lieve me, I am going to steer clear of anything sweet. The cure is about as bad as the disease. The others who were sick at the same time are in bed yet. Out of 1,4OO passengers only 26 were down to breakfast this morning. I was one of them. We expect to get in Saturday or Sunday. Hope so.
 August g.
 We expect to sight land to lay. Our captain has regular science for lodging subs. The other ships with us have been copying after him. will draw a diagram and then ex- plain 1t. Diagram omitted). This IS the way he zigzags, always keeping in an easterly direction. He changes every 100 feet. A sub could be cas- fly sighted ahead and alongside of us but 1t would be more difficult if it was behind us. The way a sub does is to come up behind, sight, sub- merge, and steam to the location they expect the ship to be in when they come up again. In that way they get close broadside. Now by zigzag- ging in this way they miss out on their guess. Now notice the sub is in first position. They would sight the ship in the first 100 feet of di- rection and after submerging when they come up again would not be broadsides as they expected but point ing away from the ship. In this way a sub has got to come close to get telling shot and then it will be sight ed by the patrol guard and sunk. Hope you can understand it. Every one thinks that the Lusitania was sunk 200 miles from land in two miles of water. The captain told us that it was about three miles from land and that at low tide one could see the spars.
 August 10. .
 This is my birthday. Just think, we have been on board for three weeks. It has grown colder today. received very welcome birthday gift last evening in the form of U. S. and English. We gave them d great WSICOILlC yOu Cdl SuCoo. A~o" there is no danger from subs. I hope you will understand my telegram and not believe any press despatches stat ing that we have been sunk. That news is merely a decoy. Don't you think the arrival of these destroyers a pretty good birthday gift? We sighted a sub five miles off yesterday. We surely did some maneuvering. We would go about 100 feet ahead, then face them and back water fifty feet all afternoon and evening until the convoy came up. You should have seen them come. great sheets of