New Britain herald., 1918-08-21

we are jumping little side-show af- fairs over here? Better snap out of it. Some of these wagons are bigger na BoWery flat and room enuf to have a good size show inside of 'em. Don't think that there isn't room for yours truly to get into them with the lady like ankles that seem to be worrying you so. l would like to have you along over on this side long enuf to see a good working model of a Seaplane. Of course l cannot say they are just so long and just so heavy and all that but l can say that they are not quite as large as the New York City Hall nor are they as small as you seem to think they are. They are just about half way between. It is getting nice up in the air now and it is Q, pleasure to get out once in a while althO l am kept pretty busy on the lower stories. Was out a couple of days ago and did not bet back for fourteen hours whaddye- -think-a-that Some trip! Will be frank and say that we were not in the air all the time but we wished that we had been.
 Was out all night and it was some night you can be assured. Daylight never did look so good before. Believe me, the fellows that are on the job when they are over here do not need d book to write their experiences down in. Some of the guys that are home there in the States would have a swell time over here and there are a lot of them that l would like to have stick around one of these institutions for a while and see what we are up against, not that the rest of the fellows that are over here are having it any easier than am for 1 know that there are many of them that would donate their old socks for this job, but let some of the f1oaters that are there come over here, and get a taste of what the Ger mans are doing to keep us on the hump Have collected no bodily souveniers yet but may before I pull out of the business. The only thing I hope for in case I do get a dose is that l shall be able to get a living for beneficiary of Uncle sam. Speaking of such things, I wish you could have seen the celebration that we had here Memorial Day. We have some of our fellows lying up here in a little grave yard and we had exercises for them on that day There was d representative of the Y. M. c. A. that was up there dnu TSdO a lllllG SeENlCG WIllIG all the officers and men of the station were lined up on either side of the grave. During the services a section of our escadrille flew over the cemetery and dropped great launches of roses on the graves. It is said that it was a very impressive sight but l could not see as well as I thought I was going to as l was in the first plane that did the stunt and all I could see was that most of the ones that I dropped had landed right on the grave. The other fellows did as we'll It is the customary way to decorate the graves of men who have lost their lives in the air. You may imagine how well the graves were decorated when 1 tell you that it took two men to carry each wreath of roses, ferns, carnations and fOrget-me nOts.
 shall have to quit this now as the lights have Winked which means that it is five minutes to ten and that the lights must soon be out. You have been patient this long and 1 guess you will be patient a little longer. Be good and don't take any velvet dollars.