The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1918-03-28
Eagle Hut, American y " G A.,
Strand. l.nnAon. W. c.


This letter should have been written
or Monday night at least, for your
gDoa letter q ian 4. Ny FIRST word
from you sincc lef, you on the dock
AT n. y. came 10 hand on Monday
morning. and ! WAS 80 glad 70 have H.
I intended 10 write you Immediately
but no opportunity came through the
day and while ! was engaged in pro-
noting nm illustrated lecture about 3
o'clock IN the evening, the air raid
alarm vas sounded and we all abnn-
doned the Hut ard sought shelter u
the subtcrranean club rooms Of large
hotel until ---- in the morning, and
then We were kept on the jump trAing
70 bed and feed two or three hundred
hungry freezing boys and II was
--- o'clock before ! could let up
and then ! was ready 70 lie down.
That accounts for no letter on Men
day, and Tuesday WAS repetition OF
Monday busy day and bright
moonlight night and another air raid
alarm---aud late return 10 Hut with
a couple Of hours hustle 70 straighten
out the tangle. And now Il is Thurs
day night Yesterday was my day
off" and | was buster than on the
other ays-busy trying to catch up SO
that ! could have the whole evening
70 write letters in and then, when
evening came, there came with It an
invitation from the management Of
one of the theaters here to my depart
ment to come and bring II boys to
see a show and as there was no other
secretary available, had to head up
the party. | was not sorry to 20 or.
rather ! was not sorry to have gone
for VIC had the best seats in the house
and the play was "A perfect gem, called
Romance" with Doris Kcene as the
star.
Today has been another busy day
but tonight it has let up bit and
can at least begin to tn You how glad
was 10 get your letters-they were
as said, my first word and it came
BY way Of Paris Of course. ! am in
hopes that a day or two will bring me
some word direct BY the way, you
may as we'll send your letters to me
direct to Eagle Hut, Aldych, London,
w. c. l.. England, as ] am at home
here do not know what became Of
tho other letters you mention, they
have not reached me as yet 1t seems
more than strange to think Of all OF |
you people being frost bound with such I
low temperatures as you report, the /
lowest New York has ever seen.
hope that by this time the usual con-
ditions prevail in and out. Here it is
so warm and filled with so many signs
of spring,-larks ard starting and
robins have been reported all around
II have heard and seen birds that
were strange to me, and dafrodils and
jonquils and violets abourd and oh,
the violets, on any street corner and in
between, great punches ard baskets
of common wood violet and the great
double English variety in store win
dows and public pieces | saw
great wreath three feet across nearly
made entirely of violets hanging in a
florists shop window. On Monday !
saw spring beauties in one or two
flower girls baskets and yesterday !
saw some hepaticas and they certain
ly did speak Of home and Of spring
quite different from the frost bound
tale Of your letter.
Before forget it want to speak Of
the air raids,--not that | am going TO
tell you about them, for | do not know
how far the censor would let me go in
that direction, and can tell you about
them when they are all over and the
war is thing Of the past. | just
want to reassure you in regard to my
danger in connection with them. ]
presume you will be reading Of them {
and knowing that | am here viii be
Please don't! There is
sone danger of course as there was on
the way over, but il is not nearly as
great as it seems from a distance
Tho raids are made and the warning 9
given and We who dwell in himsy or !
temporary dwellings arc obliged TO !
get out and seek shelter in some stone 4
building or in some basement Many :
" The people to into the tube" as the Il
z. r. Is called, which is S
many feet underground, MS much as a
hundred feet There is some noise !
md some excitement and considerable d
and anxiety and some I
iamagc occasionally, but Of the latter 2
here is surprisingly Little, and ] r
ant for the life of me see what the p
Hun Is doing il for, except II is for
,olitical purposes at home. They
must know that the damage done is Of 2