Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1918-12-26

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of Liberty and anchored in Long Is
land Sound, was there until Sunday
evening at $50, then we started for
"Over There" and every thing went
along smoothly, until about the
third day out, no it wasn't a Sub"
but / thought surely one was trying
to emerge from the bottom of my
stomach good many times before
landed on the other side. John AL
len and l slept on deck until it got
so cold that We had to go down in
the hole, that is the lower deck,
Seen lots of big fish on our way over
but no subs, and l was glad we did
not.
We sailed along the coast of Ire
land for quite Always and believe me
it was beautiful, just as green as
could be. Next came Scotland. We
sailed along the west coast, and for
a while some thought we were going
to Iceland for it surely did get cold,
finally we turned and sailed south
and went up river which they call
the Clyde It was surely beautiful,
The fields on 'ct'a sides was. green
and yellow ana lots of places the
PEOPLE were harvesting, finally we
landed at Glasgow Scotland. On
Friday morning, Sept. 18th about 6
o'clock in The morning, we had just
been thirteen days coming over. A
band of "Dagpipers" met us at the
boat and escorted us to the train,
had hear1 lot of talk about the
soldiers riding in boxcars, but l am
glad to say that with all the NOV
ing around over here, have not had
the extreme pleasure of riding in
boxcar. We came from Glasgow
down through Scotland to Winches-
TT, England, and gee, but the coun-
tiy was 'Dcdutuui, iCdi4y UcllcNc
that every foot of it was being cult
waited. The women were out in the
fields, cutting and shocking wheat
the same as men, some of them had
on mems clothing. The women along
the route. at the stations would give
lis cakes and either coffee or tea
They sure was glad to see us.
Landed at Winchester, England on
the 14th was there quarantined, one
of the boys had the mumps, there
about ten days, during that time the
company went on several short
hikes. one was to Winchester, about
two or three miles, and there we
seen and went through the second
largest Cathedral in the world, it
dates back as far as 500 A. D. From
there, that is, Winchester, we hik-
ed to Southampton, went across the
channel and landed at LIE Harve,
France, from there we went to Me-
hun, | do not know how far but We
travelled for about three days, | was
at Mehun for about four weeks, then
was transferred from there to
here, and so here / am in this beau
| tiful town of Touis. Now since this
war is over it will not be so very
long any more until | can join you
| all again. and believe me / am sure
hoping that time will soon come
Some Of the boys are getting ready
low to come back to the States. |
am going to stop, l could sit here
and write a dozen more pages and
then not tell you. all about my ex
periences, I have given you a syn
opsis of my trip and l will tell you
the rest when I come home. which
viii not be so long.
Give my love to mother and all the
rest, tell Herman and Virginia hope
Santa Claus will bring them lots Of
presents. Hope every one is well
and will all have a good time ex
changing presents this Christmas.
l did not have time to finish this
letter yesterday so | am fininshins
it this morning, Sunday morning.
Will close for this time, with love
to all,
Lovingly,
EUGENE.
p S. just came back from tn,
~. have been over there listening t,
Rcdeheaver and believe me he il
wonderful.