Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-08-07
Letters From
Local Soldiers
Corporal James Christensen.

Corporal James Christensen.
Dear Friends:
swer your most welcomed letter that
l nave just received. 1 am getting
along fine and am enjoying my travels
immensely. / didn't think a year ago
that I would be travelling abroad but
time brings great changes. / receiv-
ed q letter from Cousin Odsted and
she expects to come over here as a
Red Gross nurse. She better hurry
as we are going to put the finishing
touches to this thing soon. We all
want to get back for that Christmas
dinner.
I want to tell you about our mascot.
He is a little French boy about five
years Did. He lives somewhere In
the village nearby but plays truant
from home and comes down to see us
and remains here for several days,
until his Mama M after him. He
| sleeps in our tents and eats with
tus. When we drill he marches along
in line. We made a sergeant out OF
him and sewed three stripes on his
coat leeves. He is really proud of
them.
1t is raining this evening so I am
staying under W. in my tent. I
will write again as soon as / have
a chance. Best love to all.
UNCLE jim.
Harold N. Clark.
July 7. 1918.
Sunday.
70 Rue Langier', Paris.
Dearest Dad:
A week ago last Saturday, 1 was
tken with the grip and had 1t pretty
bad. The first four days / remained
in the Red Cross hotel, where our
doctor tried to cure me, but he doesn't
know beans about medicine and /
began to get worse instead of bet
ter. The fifth day / was so sick that
I finally made the doctor have me-
taken with the grip and had 1t pretty
the ambulance came for me and took
me to American Red Cross hospital
No. 2. I sure will never forget the
first night there as to tell the truth
I was not expecting to see day light
again. Two nurses worked on me all
night giving me baths, etc., and in
general I sure was sick. Besides the
grip I had the chills and about fifty
other ailments. Now, however, 1 am
much better and expect to go back
to the hotel in two or three days and
this afternoon / am going for q walk
In the garden. They r giving me
all I want to eat and a big variety.
Don't worry about me as in a week I
will be as well as ever. Several of
the fellows in the hotel have the
bdAle lTOuDl6a out Hln6 happened 10
be worse than the ordinary. This
hospital is a wonder and they have
everything here you could want. An
A. r. G. man Is the chief surgeon here
and he Is q wonder.
Dad when / read in your letter
that you had sent me a Red Cross
bag for my birthday I nearly had
heart failure. This must be SOME
new way of sending parcels az
you know no more parcels are allowed
to be sent to the boys over here !
still have hopes, however, and every
day / have n of the boys go to the
p~ostofice and see II there is any
mail. The doctor Just this minute
came into the ward n CAV us all
the "once over" and he told me that
tomorrow I could leave the camp-as
he said-and go back to the hotel.
Since ! have been sick I have been
trying to catch up with my correspon-
dence and / have succeeded fairly
well. So far / have written nine let.
ters and expect to write three or four
more before the day is over.
I saw in the paper this morning
where ex-Mayor Mitchell was killed
n an, areoplane accident. There
seems to be many more accidents in
the states than over here. The meth
DDS of teaching must be different OF
else they are In too much OF a hurry
over Lnere.
The war news seems to be much
more encouraging during the past
week. The u. s. Boys are Just begin
ming to take part in the big battle
and to show some of the grit that II
In them. There are several boys here
who took part in the Chateau Thierry
Il have been there many times) dis.
trtct and they sure have been through
II. One fellow, alone captured seven
Germans. but he had to pay for his
deeds very dearly as he received sever
machine gun bullets in his right
shoulder.
About a couple of weeks ago who
should ! meet going down the Rue
De Rivoli but Lamb" Heiniger, OF
LawrenceIlle. He surely did look
like a giant In his uniform and he
must have stood six feet nine and
one-half inches. He Is in the sigma
Corps (Aviation) and likes IL very
much.
For the past month and a half
have been driving q staff car (Peu.
geot) and like IL very much. There
is much more travelling and there II
not al much hard work as when j
was driving Camions and Lorrys, Sc
1t is all right for a change.
Well Dad, I must let off now az
I have to take my nap
Loads OF love to all,
HAROLD