Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-04-23

Every girl one meets here asks II
won't bring her some sugar. 1t used to
ba candy wheaI was q kid How times
change" -.
War conditions In Liverpool. espe-
cially in respect to the dearth Of sugar.
are described in a, letter from Clayton
Gilkey Of the United States Navy. ad-
dressed to his sister, Mrs. William Wa
pie of Mount Rainier, Nd.
The letter IS given to The Star by J.
D. Cranston Of the guard of the Treas
ury Department. Mr.. Cranston has 1--WE
nephews, q niece and a great-nephew
engaged IN war work. They are: Clay
ton Gilkey. Joseph fGilkeyi his brother,
a seaman in the TRANSPORT service; their
sister, Ruth Gilkey, q Red Gross nurse
on the other side; Earl and Carl Hindle-
burger, brothers. one in the artillery
and the other i'm the ambulance serv,
ice; Ward Mccarthy. an aviator. and
William OBrien. also in the ambulance
service. All are from Washington, ex-
cepting the last named, whose home Is
in Baltimore. EarlsF1indleburger was a
newspaper man on a Washington morn
ing paper before he enlisted.
Repair and Rest Period.
Clayton Gilkey writes from Liverpool
that I'VE are up here for our repair and
rest period repair for the ship and
rest for the crew."
Have been here a week and can see
where the repair comes In" he observes,
but as far as the rest is concerned
well, / haven't had any.
I always find you can get more tired
resting than you can working, espe-
ctally a sailor, because he never likes
to sit still on leave, He is always
N {vpa-
AGNES there Is something happening
around the next corner ahead and If
he don't get there he will miss it,
The sailor boy then records his i'm
pressions Of Liverpool. He says:
The high cost of living has struck
como to stay.
Sugar is king. I dare say a man
could pay for his theater ticket with
sugar II he could spare to part with It,
A lunchroom has only three-pound al
lowance month; so you can imagine
just how much the patrons see of that
When you order tea or coffee in an
eating house they ask you IL you have
brought your sugar. If you say no, why
you are out OF luck. They sell you
er than sugar. to sweeten your drink
The tablets are about the size of the
head of arsmall tack" =.
He had;a time trying to- snapshot a
Liverpool L, conductorette. Thus he tells
You see. they have. women.employed
as street car conductprs and they. look
cute in their uniforms. ! thought I
would snap one d. them. NY friend
SAID he would stop. a car: as he got on
and the girl was about to pull the bell,
l was to snap her.
=: Had to Readjust Camera.
Well, he stopped the car all. right
ana got aboard. As I was going to
snap her I had to readjust the camera.
Then 'started-the trouble, I mean,
The girl wanted to start the car My
friend didn't want her to. An argu-
ment started. Passengers got mad at
the delay, and began saying nice things
ABOUT sailors in general and a few in
particular.
When got the camera set and was
gong TO get " .oyer a: cop appeared.
jumped on the scars and Told aef, Cd j.
Soha siars:1f-Do you think that " om-
an would start that ear q When she
round that We wanted her to. move
atongs rtgne there and theu-she; changed
After a discussion with tho police
man. who was finally convinced no
great harm had been done, the car
moved. The picture was not taken:
ne takes up another circumstance:
Happening upon q combined meat
market and lunchroom. we thought
wa would have cur sapper.-The' pro-
pristress INF formed, US she, had nothing
IN hef@ funchroom to eat. But that she
counter and then would cook it for
MS. in herglunchroom.- The only meat
she had was. a duck and cIfcke both.
dressed. -. i -:
" Makes Price as Favor.
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