Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1918-05-10

There are about six hundred photo
graphers here now and more coming
from every state in the Union all the
time. We sure have bunch of funny
names around here. In Company 5
there is a fellow named Gozzlin and
in Com pany one named Gozzler. My
name is Gander and all we lack is the
name Of goose to complete the list.
Corp Clyen of company was in the
French army for fourteen months. He
has been on the battle line at Verdun
and was gassed three times. Trans
| ferred to q. S. army and is now acting
guard of company 5. His experiences
are surely interesting While on pa
fade review the other day / saw a ser
geant who is your double, absolutely
and IN on his trail now. I'm going
| to find cut who he is.
| There some great yarns about the.
photo business here. With men from
all over the country, moving picture
men, studio men, commercial photog-
raphers, newspaper photographers,
and most every other kind of cam
era man you can imagine that we get
most every angle Of the game. We
expect to train here for few weeks
to get discipline and then go to Roches-
| ter N. Y. for the real Photographic
work.
Our good luck in the way of barracks
lasted about two weeks. The other
day our company received Is new men
and the classy barracks wasn't large
enough for all Of us, SO we were trans
ferred to one of the newer wooden
ones They are good, clean and COM
Portable but not to be compared with
our former quarters, which are now
used for the officers. Each building
houses 80 men and there are u SUCH
buildings here exclusive of the mess
halls which. are in the rear.
i Must tell you about the mess hall.
That is one place where. discipline is
restrained after the ssbe seated ORDER
] is given. Noise and manners are for
gotten or you wouldn't get anything
4 to eat, because you have to reach for
what you want or get left. When ]
get back home I'll have to learn my
table manners all over again.
All one can hear is the rattle OF
dishes, babble of voices and the call
ling for X. p. which means kitchen
police. Each night four from each
company are appointed X. P. for the
next day. OF course if you do minor
things in disobedience you get K. P.
haven't been on K. P. yet.
! When one is, he has to wait on table,
wash dishes, scrub tables and mil
/ lion other jobs that most people don't
think soldier knows anything about.
Twelve Of Co. 5 men have been
i transferred to Co. 7, a new company.
/ The man from Hiles and / were
among the twelve. They always trans
fer few men from an older company
/ into the new ones that are formed.
Been on four hikes since my arrival.
Made an eight mile hike to Camp
BELLS Point on Lake Ontario, yester-
day and had good time. The route
order was given SO we could sing, talk
or whistle as much as we wanted to,
as long as we kept In step. Pretty
country around here. Much older
than Villas county and of greater his
torical interest New York state, as
you know, has as much history as any
state in the Union. Expect to get a
chance to see quite a bit of the sur
rounding country before we leave.
I'm glad I'm in this branch Of the
service. We have good quarters. good
food and our drill sergeant dosen't be-
lieve in working a bunch of rockies to
death. We get lots of entertainment
at the Y. M. G. A. and the fellows
are a good clean bunch. So you see,
we are faring well. Uncle Sam takes
good care of us. Write often because
4 the mail call is the most welcome one