The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1918-09-12
Waldo Wilson
Writes a Letter

Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. NJ. Wilson OF 23l
Greenwood avenue. are in receipt OF
AN interesting letter from their son.
OF the 3ssih Ambulance company. 313
the army. describing his trip from
Camp Dodge. Des Moines. Iowa. 10
the port OF embarkation for France.
Provia,e Wilson. who Is probably now
"oser there" says in part:
we had splendid trip from our
training camp here ard were provided
with Pullman sleepers for the jour
ney. The Fourth Ambulance corps on
the same time: making a train OF Is
cars. We left Des Moines at 10
o'clock and arrived here two days
later.
I'VE are provided with tents at this
camp. but they are good ones and We
viii not suffer from the heat. We
passed thru Chicago At night and did
rot get TO see anything OF the city.
We went thru northern Illinois. In
diana and Michigan We stopped at
Port Huron. Michigan. which is at
the lower end OF Lake Huron. We
vent thru a tunnel under the ST.
Charles river. which is about five
miles long After that We travelled all
night in Canada and reached Mag
ara Falls at 6 o'clock the next morn
ing. We did not get TO see the falls
as IL was too foggy but got glimpse
OF the bridge over the Niagara river.
which IL 400 feet above the stream.
We then travelled eastward close to
Lake Erie. but were unable to see It..
AT Geneva. New York. the Red
Cross people gave us a fine reception.
They treated us TO ice cream. candies
and lots OF smokes. After running
along a lake for about 80 miles. we
crossed over into Pennsylvania and
enjoyed the scenery OF the Alleghaney
mountains. where there were lakes.
rivers and wooded hills. There are
some great coal mines in Pennsylvan-
la and the largest mines in Colorado
would make only dump for some of
them.
"our next stop was at Jersey City.
which ia sure some town. We then
took a boat up the Hudson river and
over TO Long Island. where cur rest
camp is located. We were unable
TO see New York city this morning
as there was heavy fog. but we
could see the bridges over the Hudson
river. They were the Brooklyn
bridge. the Manhattan bridge and the
williamsburg bridge. They are
among the largest structures Of their
kind in the world
III we get to stay here long enough
we viii get chance to visit New
York for one day. l guess. / hope
so as want TO get look at the big
town. There is an aviation here and
I saw more than 20 machines in the
air at once this afternoon. There
are two aeroplanes doing patrol duty
around this camp and over New York.
At present one OF them is flying over
our tent at height of 1000 feet.
They Fly from 500 up to 10000 above
the earth. saw one sailing at a
height OF 1900 feet today.
II have met several Canon City boys
since coming here. They are from
Camp Kearney. California. Among
those whom have seen arc Pendar.
Wis. "Toots" Munroe. "Midg" Sherman.
who worked for the Arkansas Valley
Railway. Light and Power company.
also the Ragsdaie boys. one OF whom
is lieutenant and the other SER
geant. Nudge" Sherman shot on
one of his fingers yesterday. by acci.
dent and is In the base hospital. He
is a fine boy and like him fine. He
used to play base ball in Canon City.
"Our camp 10 close 10 the beach
and guess we will get to go swim
vx.tu0 rna ~ shoaa dova 70 xvc rnt,