New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1918-08-28

At Fort Huron, Mich, the Red Gross
! women were waiting for us with cigarettes
and gum and gave us cheers and cheers
and we continued our journey in wonder
full spirits. About P. M. we went
through the Sarnia tunnel which runs
under the river bed Of the st. Clair
| River. When we reached the end Of
that tunnel we were in Ontario, Canada.
We reached Niagara Falls about 10
p. M. Here we all got off and took a
80 minute hike to see Niagara Falls.
When we reached the falls it began to
rain, yes, it poured down, and by the time
we got back we were soaking wet. We
took all our clothing off to dry and went
to bed on the train and that's the last
we saw of Niagara. When we woke
up we were in Sayre, Pennsylvania.
We travelled through that state nearly
all day and at 4 o'clock reached Manch-
Chunck, Pa. Also at this place the Red
Cross received us with open arms and
had baskets and baskets of bananas for
us. We stopped there for about As
minutes to see the beautiful Blue Ridge
Mountains and the foot hills of the
Alleghenies. zF$E@ &. =
eve reached the Delaware River
which we crossed and on reaching the
other side were travelling in New Jersey.
We went through many important
towns. One of them was Bethlehem,
where the greatest steel plant in the
world is located. Reached Jersey City
N. ]. at 10 P. M. on the 18th of Aug.
and stayed there over night sleeping
in the Pullmans. We had to get up
at 4:45 A. M. and had breakfast at 5:15
A. M. By the way, we always ate on
the train. Carried a ''mess" or kitchen
car with us. - :.-I=s*ss "a
eve left Jersey City on ferry and
went up the Hudson River to New York,
which we reached in about As minutes,
as you know Jersey City, N. ]. is right
across the Hudson River from New
York. On reaching New York we en-
trained for Camp Mills, N. Y, the end
Of our three days trip by rail and the be-
ginning, in a way, Of a IL to Is days trip
on water to France or wherever we will
land. ,.s .,.s< &''--.a'
Fl will drop you several cards from
here, one day if possible and if you
don't hear from me for week or so, you
will know 1 have left for the other side."@
Address: Arthur Sannwald, - ], u
Co. C. 313 Field Sig. Bn.,
Camp Mills, N. Y. w.!
These letters show some of the in
teresting places the boys have an OPP
portunity to see on their way to the
front and for most of the boys it means
the chance of life time to see America
first"
The other letters are from William
E. Nichols, who has recently been pros
noted to Sergeant. He is with the
Aero Squadron in France. His letters
date from June "a to August 4. In the
first one he says that they had not
received mail for over month as they
were on detached service in another
field. The first call goes in at 3:45 in
the morning and they turn in at 10
o'clock at night. They have long noon
recess, but still find it hard to try to get
their sleep at that time. They were
working Sundays also that they might
get few days leave for the 4th OF July.
At the time of writing they had been
permitted to give their address and he
was stationed at Issondun, about 200
kilometers ESQ miles) southwest of
Paris. Quoting from his letters: - -
"The hangar that does the best work
during the week gets truck to 60 where
ever they wish on Sunday and the hangar
I am in was the lucky one last week: SO
we had fine trip yesterday. It is surely
a fine country here, and roads, II never
saw such good roads as they have here
and just as straight as you can see.
The grain is all headed out and sure
looks fine. And grapes have
acres of them, SO guess that we Will
be able to get all we can eat this fall,
and more wine to drink. There is also
going to be all kinds of English walnuts,
too. We saw some very fine looking
girls on our trip, but as we didn't have
any too much room left in the truck we
didn't try to catch. any OF them, still
some of us are thinking about trying
it when the boat takes us the other way
The next letter was written the 9th
Of July when he had a few days 9 ].
He says that he wished he might have
been home to help eat 4th;of July dinner = !.