The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1918-01-31
SAUK CENTRE BOY
feeds THEFISHES"
LELAND GALBRAITH, OF THE
NAVY, NARRATES EXPER-
FENCE CROSSING OVER.
FRANCE In BAD CONDITION
OLD WOMEN AND CHILDREN
ARE DOM GWoRK OF THE
MEN THERE.

This letter from Leland Galbraith
who enlisted in the navy last spring
will be of interest to Sank Centre
readers. Leland has been across and
back and tells of many interesting ex-
periences. ..>
On board the U. S. S. George
Washington, Dec. a, 1917.
eve are leaving here "Hoboken"
tonight sometime and suppose we will
anchor outside of Sandy Hook and
wait for our conveys to pick us up
and guard us on our journey.
"The soldiers came aboard yester-
day, also about 100 or so of Red
Cross nurses who are going over to
do foreign duty. We have about
$500 white troops engineers and
quartermasters departments) and
about the same number of negro
troops. They do most of the work.
Things are not in the best of order yet
and the soldiers are not fed especially
we'll as there are so many of them.
DtSlUeS luc GUMS SdiuAoI PASPoAS
enough and anyway they do not in
tend to feed them very heavy as they
are not doing any work. So the
troops are getting only two meals a
day and at noon, lunch"
Dec. S.
81 had to stop writing last night as
they called for all hands to go up on
deck and work, so I beat it down into
the bread room and took it easy until
afterwards. My mess partner and l
are detailed to carry bread from the
bakery, which is amidships, to the
bread room up forward, so that let's
us out of all other work. That is, we
are supposed to be let out of any ex-
ira work, but we have to keep out Of
sight whenever anything turns up so
as to be safe. Today we carried
about 1900 loaves of bread besides
setting our messes, so we had quite a
lot of floating" to do.
eve set out from Hoboken last
night at 1890 Il was asleep at the
time) and this morning when I woke
up we were well off the coast. Today
we seemed to go mostly in a circle so
didn't make any progress to speak of.
They say we are waiting for some
more transports who are going over
with US. There are three ships besides
ours out here now. They are the
transport Huron" which used to be
Frederick the Great" "a German
ship,) the battleship Montana" and
a destroyer, don't know the name of
it yet.
"Some of the soldiers are sea sick
already, so I don't know what they
will do when we get into heavy seas.
I have felt fine so far, but don't know
how long I will continue to do So"
Dec. 10.
eve are now nearing the war zone
and we may be in it as far as know.
Our conveys are supposed to meet us
tonight and the Montana" is signal
ing now to some other ship, also sew
eral other lights were reported by the
looks outs, so by morning the other
conveys may be with us.
"Day before yesterday we had bad
storm and sad to relate, it made me
little seasick. 1t is an awful feeling
and hope never have it again. The
ship is rocking considerably now but
nothing to what it was then. Tables
benches, dishes and everything else
fell and were scattered all over the
deck. Nearly everybody was too sick
to eat and the worst of it was we had
ice cream for dinner and l couldn't en-
JOY it, but 1 ate two dishes anyway
just for spite and to keep it from be-
ing wasted.
1.-The last couple of days have been
perfect, nice and warm like August
weather and it doesn't seem like De-
cember. We have been going south !
and east for the past six days so no
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