New Britain herald., 1918-06-15
FACTORY MEN MAKE
 GOOD FIGHTERS
Stanley Workers Describe Their
 Experiences in Service

at the factory, contains letters rom soldiers and sailors in the service. Robert Loomis of the U. S.. s. Apache writes as follows from Jack sonville, Fla. We have been cruis- ing around for the last fifteen days conveying submarine chasers up and down the coast. It's an awful un- comfortable feeling when you are out
 in a heavy sea, especially when any one mentions dinner or supper to you. I had the amusing experience of
 falling out of my hammock the night before last. Gee. I was sound asleep and swinging about eight feet from the deck. Some jar!'
 Frank r. Howard of Company H, 102d U. s. Infantry, has written eX- pressing appreciation for gifts sent to him by fellow employees.
 After enlisting at New Haven Cliff ford G. Fields of the Third P. o. D. Infantry, went to Fort Slocum and was transferred to Camp Jackson, $. S. He is now at Camp Merritt, N. J. Tn a recent letter to his parents, Joe Albston Dept. 41), c. A. c. U. $. R., Battery B, 53d Artillery, A. k. r., writes that he was pleasantly sur prised one day a short time ago to meet a college chum. Lieut.. Geo.
 
 and Lieut.. Albiston enlisted the same day from the Rensselaer, Polytechnic Institute Troy, N. Y and were sent l to Madison Barracks, Watertown, N. Y. After 0 months time they were separated and did not see each other 1 again until the recent meeting in l France. They celebrated the first an- niVersary of their enlistment May ] 18th, by going up in Lieut.. Hinman's l balloon and spotting for artillery tar 1 get practice A few days later Lieut.. l Hinman brought a new arrival in the 1 camp to Lieut. Albiston to be intro 1 duced. There was great rejoicing in 1 the camp when Lieut. Alhiston 1 found the new arrival to be his old ] boyhood chum Edmund J. Felt ] (Dept 9. Lieut.. Felt was trained 1 in the Aviation and Balloon Observa- 1 tion School at Omaha and recently l received his commission and was sent 1 to France with a company of 1O9 ! men.
 Letter From Sergt. Ogren. ] Sergeant F.. E. Ogren of Company ] I. 102d, writes as follows;
 l This finds another weeks work 1 done and a good one at that. Since 1 last writing you I have left the
 
 l Army Candidate school, where I ex- pect to honestly land that commis- sion.
 We are just beginning to take on l tolerable spring weather and nature 1 is beginning to look as if she had something in store for the next few months. You can bet. it's all well come and surely will be to the boys up front.
 1 There is not much military news l to give you other than that you have 1 already had in the papers Back l where I am now I have to depend l on papers for the news, and perhaps 1 get less news than you do in the l States. Of course the big topic is 1 the scrap up around Amiens, which 1 may possibly be finished by the time l this reaches you. I am still on the l anxious seat in regard 70 my brother. l His outfit got mixed up with con l siderable scrap and I have not been 1 able to get any word from him. How l ever, I am trusting to luck that l they" didn't get him.
 1 Believe me, Walt that last place we were in certainly was a live wire I thought that I had seen quite 1 lively joint in our first sector, but l this one-well, it had me on my toes 1 all the time. I had one case where l I had to take detail of 20 men l down a road that was shelled at 1 certain curve very frequently. When we hit it quite number of shells ! were falling. Ordinarily we would l have stopped, but since the orders l had called for delay but to keep 1 on moving all we could do was to 1 pull in our necks and beat it 1 through. We did all right, but for l a while I must admit I didn't feel 1 exactly comfortable. There was some l gas about, but not enough to war ! rant the wearing of our masks It's some sensation to be roaming 1 the streets of these little towns inn l mediately behind the lines. Every 1 thing seems peaceful enough, and 1 you find quite a number of the boys
 about, either on details or just na- 1 turally roaming about the Y. M. c. l A. huts and Salvation Army Canteens ! when 'toute de suite comes that old familiar whirring of shells followed by loud explosions. Immediately
 everybody executes double time and l in almost no time the streets are ] deserted and everybody inside his ] little hole in the ground. l really l never knew how fast I could travel 1 until l started to duck shells. I think l I could make a mile in nine seconds. l Carelessness and movie" bravery l don't get a fellow much here Un-
 less your mission actually requires
 you to do a certain thing regard 1 less of what may happen, the wise 1 man is he who seeks cover when the l Boche is exercising his artillery.
 l F. F. OGREN.