Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-10-17

saw such a dirty, thickly populated
place in my life. The streets were SIM
ply filled with loose, flying papers
and filthy children. AS we went
through they all from littlest to big
gest began to YELL We thought they
were the show and it seemed that
they thought we were. We at last
reached Chinatown, got out of the car
and visited Chinese store. Then we
were taken through one of those un-
derground Chinese streets and up to a
Chinese Joss House or their place OF
worship. We were told how they wor-
ship their idols and saw their high
priest. Today we walked across
Brooklyn Bridge took a car back and
then out to the wharf where we took
little excursion boat out to the
Statue of Liberty. 1t is wonderful and
I could just imagine how much more
wonderful it will look to us when we
come back from France and see Miss
Liberty getting both bigger and near
er
New York is not very well lighted
now because of the enemy and no one
is allowed to climb up the Statue Of
Liberty as of old. Anyone getting off
the boat to go up to it, who carries a
bag or bundle has it examined by sol
diers on guard. 1t is costing us some
thing to get to see all these things
but is a great opportunity and every
one tells us to have as good time as
we can now because it will be long
time before we get chance to have
one again. We were told tonight that
"a of us were going over to Hoboken,
N. r., Monday to start hospital I
am one of the number but send mail
to same address.
At Hoboken-We are in convent
with huge Catholic church on one
side and a 800 bed hospital on the
other The hospital is run by sisters
and the proceeds being given to Ger
man relief AS soon as this was dis
covered it was taken over by the u. S.
Government to be used as military
hospital for boys returning from
o'clock yesterday afternoon and they
moved out this morning and sixty of
our nurses came over from New York
to take charge of things until they can
get other nurses. The hospital is
only two years old and is a beautiful
building and well equipped. The hos
pital, convent and church are all to-
gether and can go from one directly
to the other. There is a chapel off
the hospital which is lovely and has
a pipe organ. | am working in the OPP
Grating room and Emily Klebb Of
Reedsburg works there, too.
BY the way I saw the Vaterland pull
into port today. This is the vessel
the United States took from the Orr
mans and now sails the seas for us.
1t is the largest boat ON the Atlantic
ocean and Hoboken the only port
where it can land
Back in New York
| am back in New York Am
through in Hoboken but oh, so busy
here 1t keeps one on the go from
morning until night Every after
noon we drill nearly two hours and
sing for half an hour. We have
French class twice a week in the
Chapel of the Old st. Pauls church
that George Washington attended.
His pew is set aside and no one al
lowed to sit in it. It is draped with
flags. Before going to church we at
tended dedication of the unit flag. The
girls were all in uniform and all the
other nurses marched behind those
of the unit They sang America, -
first verse, the one added for the SOL
diers, then the one for nurses and the
regular last verse.
The one for nurses is:
God bless our Army Nurse,
Brave fearless army nurse,
For them we pray;
In every hour of need,
The sufferers cry they'H heed
For them we pray God peed;
God bless them all way.
Yesterday we were given tickets
to go up in, the Woolworth building
1t is bueautiful, sixty stories high,
think. One can look way out over
New York, Brooklyn and the Hudson
river.
A Later Letter.
Dearest Mother and Dad:
Letters received, I have had big
doses of typhoid and para-typhoit vac
cine and have also been vaccinated
| am supposed to stay in bed Or DC
quiet all day. That makes me lose
out on drill this afternoon and | sure
hate to miss them. The Madison
Square hotel, where we are now sta
+ionod ic met across from Madison