The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1917-11-21
news OF RAIN
| BOW DIVISION
Burmese BosIaugh Writes His Folks
4 in penison Telling Of His Expert.
i ence on the Transport.
VERY SICK WHILE ON BOARD
Glad to Again Reach Land and Says
Company May Stay There
For Some Time

!! Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Bouslough re.
|cently received a. letter from their
son Burmese, who is member of the
Rainbow" division, telling of his
|ocean voyage and the return to this
|country.
| The letter in part is published below:
\ Monday, Oct. 29th.
|iDear Folks
\ hope you are all we'll, but in fact
Ill know you are because / received a
humber of letters from the family to-
Nday that were written the Gath and
lI25th Also had letter from Marjorie
Hand the Denison papers. | sure was
l'glad to get some mail today; it was
1.-THE first | have had for eleven days,
Hand it seemed like years. You cannot
l|imagine how good it makes us feel to
l|get mail. and how lonesome when we
ldon't get any.
\ | believe | would have died on that
Hboat if had not had any reading ma
Iterial | bought four magazines and
/ I, read everything that was in them.
and | believe there were hundred
||others who did the same.
i Well folks, l will count the trip we
HAD on the ocean worth while it we
\ lont have to do it again. We certain
By went through some hardships. 1t is
'eally fine and pleasure to ride on
| ;uch a large lake, if you can be COM
| ,ortable, but we were crowded some
\ hing awful. My company slept four
lecks below the top one. We slept
u hunks, that is some did, one man
ebove the other, three high. 1t was
almost impossible to pass a person in
she aisles.
Well, l am so sleepy that I can't
write any more tonight; we surely
had to work hard today.
II Tuesday Morning, 7 A. NJ.
H l feel quite refreshed this morning
md it is raining real hard, that is why
II am writing so early in the morning.
\ 1t looks as though we were going
o stay here for some time as the Off
:ers had US fix our tents as warm as
possible. We got big load of straw
o put in our ticks and they furnished
is with little stoves, and they do heat
he tent fine. They set in the middle
| # the tent next to the pole. Our
Kitchen has been covered with heavy
black paper and is almost as warm as
|, house.
| was never so sick in all my life
IS | was the second and third day out,
Ind we almost wished then that tor
redo would strike us, but we felt fine
when it was all over.
1t was very warm on the ocean, as
We were in the gulf stream. We did
lot wear coats in the daytime and just
,nce in a while at night. We had two
)r three good rains at sea-, 1t did
ieem funny to have it rain when there
vas SO much water all around. The
;ea was rough only couple of times.
Nhe waves came up on the deck and
many got soaking. There is really
,othing to tell about the sights, only
water everywhere. Grover Tucker
ook some pictures on the boat and
will send you some as soon as | get
hem. We had to carry our life pre-
servers with us everywhere we went.
we were issued one heavy pair of
locks and one of those little sweaters.
| have three Of them now. They are
he best things and you cannot imag-
ne how warm they are to wear under
your shirt.
will get my mail all right if it is
lust addressed here. wish mother
would send me some more of those
lard brown cookies like she makes.
The ones that | used to find no matter
where she hid them.
went to church at Hampstead and
t was very good. They gave the sol
liers hot coffee and cake after church.
The Presbyterian church has taken
>ne of their large rooms and fixed 1t
Up for a writing, reading and smoking
'oom The people of the east treat US
ine.
guess this is all for the present,
20 will close with love to all.
Burmese.