The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1918-10-05
II. c. v. OSO|NACH
WRITES INTERESTING
LETTER FROM ENG.
Letter From Somewhere In England
From Bay St. Louis Young Man
to Home end Friends.
MANY FEATURES ARE NOTED
Tells of Trip and of How the Good
Ship Came, Saw and Conquered
i.,
Tells of Conditions.

Our young friend, Lieut.. Clarence
w Csoinach, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Jno. Osoinach, of this city, and who
recently arrived overseas, sent his
first letter home this week to his
parents end the family, and by re-
quest of The Echo, we have been
privileged to present extracts there
from for the benefit of our readers,
who will read the following with
much interest.
Lieutenant Osoinach spent a year
at Camp Pike, Ark, part OF the
time in training and the other part
engaged in training others, later
while at Camp Dix, n. j., and now,
as tbo date line of his letter states,
he is in "Merrie England possibly!
bv this time in "La Belle France.
liz letter is one of absorbing in
terest. "a 1o,o
First be understood that this let
ter is not intended to be 1uil anu
impartial account of the many ana
varied experiences which nave recent
ly transpired Such would be lmpos-
sibIe Neither shall it be notable as
a literary effort. There will probably
he MANY errors of expresslon-and
others. But as far as for the restrict
ions and exegienccs of time Will per-
n,it and as far as / am able to des-
cribe, will give full impartial &C
count of the wonderful events of the
past two weeks and the small bit
of this great country of which L have
as yet seen so little.
Naturally any unusual occurrence
which we anticipate, any meal worth
while. in fact anything really dlf-
ferent is preceded by an appetizer,
is well advertised so that our interest
will be more keen; for after all an
ticipation is much. So before start
ing nv little narrative / will, it |.
may give little introduction.
1t shall be this. After being very
busy for several days during which
time / sent several cards we left
Camp Dix at a certain time. Had a
most pleasant trip thru very histori-
cal country, which in itself was more
than the ordinary, and finally ar
rived at the port of embarkation
CITY which is much admired. Immedi-
atelv after detraining we went aboard
the ship and made ourselves as COM
Portable as possible. Can't tell the
happenings of the next few days, but
they would not be of particular in
terest. Our fare on, the boat was good,
and for a while no one was sick. But
after a short time the weather got
bad. and each day was little worse.
And each day new chair was con-
spicuous on account of being empty.
The weather got very rough and the
boat pitched and rolled terrifically.
Finally two days before We arrived
in port the skies cleared and the
wind calmed. All came on deck, and
the miseries of the preceding days
were forgotten.
| enjoyed the storm immensely,
AND did not get sick. My next amblt-
ion was to see submarine, and from
the gur1ners and crew | heard some
most interesting and thrilling tales.
For hours | stood on deck hoping
against hope. That's not braggadoclo,
for thew seemed joke to US under
tbe circumstances. Too much l can
NOT say. But no matter what reports
or rumors you may hear don't be IN
the least worried about me. am In
the very best of spirits and incident
aIly health. Here spirits are as es-
sential as health. Three words VIII
suffice as cannot tell what woula
like. Veni, Vidi, Vici.
At night and in the morning and
during some of the days it was very
cold. My trench coat felt flne, put
even then the wind got thru the GREY
ices and bit and stung. When the
waves were dashing over the DOW
of the boat, and the wind howled 3
dismal tune, and the spray new in
clouds over and about us. q tnoughl
of the September storms tina. Ws
have had at home, and WonaeTeo
If there had been one TINS year. Ley
me know when you write.
Had / the time could write
rreat deal more about this part OF
fha trip but / must hasten. Arriving