Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1918-08-09
SOLDIER BOYS TRIP
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WIN. Penn put a couple over on the
natives. Some old scout Bill was.
"Our stay was short but delight.
full but one bright afternoon we
hauled anchor and slipped away
several hundred of us on special
train-every town (for whistles and
cries from the train crews had not
yet been strictly prohibited) waved
flags and hollered something that
sounded like bum voyage which in
correct French is not so bad after
all. Well, l excuse them for even
confuse Gaelic with French and Yid-
dish with Chinese, tho I can talk
Yiddish better than all, still having
possession of my two hands as yet.
Hastily we were unshipped from
the train at our point of embark
ation-that last phrase sounds nice,
I like it read about it in good
story once so use it now. Nobody
knew what ship we were to go on
nor where we were to got all
seemed like a little parlor game
and puzzle guessing contest. After
we had unloaded and loaded and
landed and shipped about on two diff
erent tugs and walked what seemed
miles under our "impedimenta" we
were finally put on the biggest boat
in the harbor This boat was once
German property and the largest
afoat. Without mentioning any
names 1 can say her initials were
'vaterland,' that is what used to be.
OF course we changed her name, just
as we will the Kaiser and make
him WISER
Nov of course everyone looks for
ward to a long boat ride with plea
sure but yet with considerable tre-
peditation. / remember we'll the first
short trip on the Pacific didn't
exactly feel sick but didn't feel just
right either But that big boat just
seemed to stand anything. felt
fine the first day-the next seven I
felt rotten. / wasn't seasick but
whoever put that 'physic' dope in the
apple pie the first day out certainly
did me dirt Those who partook
of one piece were comfortably accom-
modated, but a pie lover like your
grandson who ate two-the remain
ing two on my table and salvaged
one from a table adjacent-well the
rest is a foregone conclusion. The
next few days everyone said I looked
down-hearted and homesick. Well
guess 1 fooled 'em there.
81 shall relate more of the trip
across. Of course, we thot ca
Fritzie was very discourteous not to
come out to see us for we had really
gotten up special blowout for him.
Yep-eight of them-and then we
had lot of little boats, steaming
along side-they were anxious to see
him thot it strange to see the
rivalry between them all as to which
one would do Fritzie's underwater
boats the first honor. guess
Fritzie's driver had imbibed too
much Book and couldn't find us.
We were so disappointed-we were
for seeing old Fritz getting his. May
'flooey.' Anyway one of the nurses
was so DESTROYS of being sure of her
own deductions or maybe she wanted
to enter her diary correctly that she
Queried one of the officers with an
extremely innocent-''Mr.- it
funny, I can't tell when the boat is
'zigging' and when it is tagging ]
withhold all the ready answers that
were offered. But Til bet she has
some diary. There were many en-
listed nurses aboard, some 800.
"Of course our Decentralization re-
quired some three or four days. We
we're held aboard till the boat had
been recoaled and many of our men
fell heir to shovel or coal basket.
None of our special unit encountered
the hardships of this pleasant task
and so on rainy Sunday afternoon
we were taken ashore and marched
up to an immense prison like fortress,
commonly referred to as the Chateau
De DUO De Bretagne-very pretty
assure you-that is the name Some
rest place in which we explored the
underground mysteries Of the ancient
masons. A piece entitled to the age
of Caesars conquest at present re-
poses in my hand bag now. Caesars
masonry-fine, great stuff-so and
so imprisoned here-Countess res
cued from death therein that hole
Barren Island was thrown to light
upon sharp iron stakes to be later.
carried out to sea by the tide. Tor
ture chambers-the rock-the wheel
the shackles-very ine-the more
money our guide thot was forthcom-
ing, the larger and better the story
(you see went thru twice. Well
when our sub-surface sightseeing u.
S. N. party had seen it all we trans
ferred a few of the loose sheckles
from our rusty pockets and went
our way. / mentioned a long ride
across France into the extent of it