The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1918-11-28
NOW IN PERUVIAN WATERS.
Seth Stantial. Grangeyiile Boy in
Radio Service, Writes Home Folks.

The following letter written ny Setn
Stantial on September -, and Oct. ),
is somewhat out of the ordinary, mas
much that while Seth is in the service
of his country his vessel is plying the |
peaceful waters Of South America, far
removed from the recent world strug- |
gle,
Seth. who is well known in almost |
every home in the city by reason OF his
occupation as chief of the delivery de-
partwent of the Alexander Freidenrich
Co, for n number OF years, is in the
radio service and Is taking training
aboard Il vessel that is now in South
American waters. The places mention
ed in the letters are located in Peru.
The letter was written 10 Mrs. Stan
tal and daughters and forwarded To-
Mrs. Geo. Sly also II sister, at this
place. The letter read as follows:
Dear Folks All Is lovely and the
goose hangs high. We had Il little
rough weather passing the gulf of Gallo.
but not enough to get seasick. I'm get
ting that hot weather | wanted, al
right we keep fan going in the sleep
ing room all light, and sweat like
Turks. without thing over us. There's
! always n big wet spot where my head
/ laid aud my gown is usually soaking
wet by morning It's not hall SO bad as
/ Thought it would be right by the
equator though. It's the winter sea
son down here and il rains about every
other Gay end nearly always nice
cool breeze blowing out on deck. AT
the first stop they are going to get II
big canvass to stretch over part of the
deck so we can sleep outsida. l slept
out one night; moved out springs and
all, but il rains too often for conven-
fence, and besides they say # you sleep
out where the dew can fall on you, you
get the fever SO quickly YOU don't know
what hit you. No chances for mine.
What do you think-we don't expect to
he in New York until December-some
time. 1t will take all thrt time for
stops along South America. Maybe
can spend NmaS With Amt Lucy. That
would be great
Here's y joke o. the crew: After
we got too far out IF port to turn back
| got out my clarinet and | get in NJ
hour day now. | am starting my
Spanish, too. One Of the cooks has 1
! start and book, so we work together
; Nothing has happened yet so ! will
; wait until we get to port (a5out foul
, more days. and add some more then.
, Under date Of October s, Seth mad
, an addition to his letter, in which IN
,, says:
, I'VE stopped at two ports. Payta ant
, Sallverry, Tut not there long enough t
} have shore liberty, so will mail this a
! Callao or Lima. Both stops were small
} places, and looked like miring towns
J though | saw two pretty good size'
, buildings at Payta. The real town o
D Salaverry is about seven miles up tn
] coast and we stopped at the pier, SO
D guess | can't make any comment on tn
0 town as yet. The coast, though, i
0 nothing but sand bank. so bare tina
0 it would be dressed If it had even
0 fig leaf It's getting more mountainou
0 now. and | guess i'm Chill wen see a
0 we want TO. The third mate and W
0 radios plan on renting horse each a
0 Callao and having trip, either u
0 some mountain or to Lima. If we sta
0 over Sunday we may see Il bull fight a
0 Lima. At Payta the natives have Iii
0 tie fishing RATS instead of boats an
0 they use board at the back end fo
@ motor power; one fellow stands up an
o pushes the board down and then draw
o it back again. They 90 away out frol
q the harbor, a couple of miles or mor'
q and weak head all right AS soon Il
n we sailed into port bunch of native
n came out with Panama hats to Sc
a They had enough to supply an army an
n never sold q one. When we get to Pan
N anna they tell me we can get a hat fl
"a $40 that would cost 500 in the State
N Wish | had the money to invest In on
N What do you think of the wa
~ news; 1t looks like Turkey would SUI
n render now. Maybe the war will
NJ over before we get chance to sight
~ sub.
~ Have you gotten the pictures fro
~ San Francisco? I'm anxious to 81
~ what they are like. and say, in my a
~ ~ dress, make 1t. Armed Squad, Ne
~ York, instead of armed draft eith'
~ one will reach me, but | don't like Il
~ sound of the second one.
~ I'll leave this to add some more
" Callao or Lima, or I'll write again. II
~ heat sealed all my envelopes. but
~ colder since we crossed the line. v
~ use blanket at night now.
~ do you remember the story
so Mother Carry's Chickens? Well di
w before yesterday | saw some. Thu
w mostly stay around the Horn, but #
w low the winter down the coast. TIL
w are black and white and about the 81
w of pigeon or larger
O0 '"The natives that come on board
O0 unload all 20 barefoot, but wear reg
90 lar shirts and pants. Most of the
90 have small knit cape like Il SIN
90 stand cover around their shoulde
90 and many Of them wear flour sac
90 for hats, either folded back and I
90 sack hanging down the back or roll
so up like turbans. When they leave
90 ship they have a bunch of stuff
90 those sacks too, If they're not watch
so awfully close. They managed TO bre
100 open some canned goods and one
100 low had dozen. cans of caviar in
90 sack. Believe me we kept all our do
100 locked after that The rest Mt Gala