The weekly Alaska citizen., 1919-02-17
MEN AT CIBBON FARE WE'LL AS
 TO CONDITIONS

In the last down river mail wal a communication addressed to The Citizen from private in "D'' com pany. 30th Battalion. United States guards, stationed at Fort Gibbon. The writer had noticed the article pub lished in The Citizen from Asa Pit took in which was mentioned the food furnished the men at Camr Stuart. In making comparison be- tween the condition of the men ir the north and those in the east the writer has the following to say:
 "Gentlemen:-I noticed 8 copy oi d letter from one Asa Pittock from Camp Stuart, Virginia, in which he states that he misses the northern bill of fare to which he was accus toned but did not get, so he en closed a bill of fare that would make sourdough blush, the most con spicuous thing being coffee. which Is served three times a day. In an swer to this l will send you a sam pie menu from Fort Gibbon, Co. "D' 30th Bn. U. s. c. It may not make the sourdough blush. which could hardly be expected for 1t is an Al askan post. which accounts for 1t but l will also send you 8 list ol garrison rations which Is the bill oi fare laid out by the government. Any thing taken away from these rationf must be replaced by something else The money allowed for rations must be spent for rations and nothing else by the mess sergeant, 1t is then up to the cooks not to use any more than Is necessary and still have enough for all.
 owing to the nature of Alaska we have advantage over the Outside camps. We are allowed the store price for beef and when moose is in season we buy moose. therefore we save on every pound of meat and then If we do not use the full al lowance of meat per man per day we save again. With the money we save we can buy canned fruit ol anything in the food line. If the commissary cannot furnish 1t we car buy 1t up town. Now the moose Is out of season we have to buy beef so we will not be able to save very much from now on. If we could get some greyling or brook trout that would be fine fine or Jake" as we call it.
 we have school three times 6 week. Monday, Wednesday and Fri day. also a three-legged sack race Today we started boxing and wrest ling. There are bowling matches every night. The company has three teams, officers one team, signal corps one team, medical corps one team. quartermaster corps one team the civilians one team.
 There are IA men in this com. pany--S3 here, 20 at Nenana and IA on detached service at signal corps stations. AS to myself I am one oi the four cooks, two on shift al once. Twelve, noon. till 12 noon next day. Supper, breakfast and dinner Everybody here Is feeling good, no body sick. Enclosed will find the menu of our T. anksgiving dinner, also a program of our free Christmas dance and lunch, of which we gave three this winter-Thanksgiving Christmas and New Years eve. The town people gave us an entertain ment the day the armistice was de- clared. They are going to give us free dance on the 18th of February and l think we will have one on the 22nd, George Washington's birthday. Outside of that there is no news. will now bring my letter to close, wishing you all happy and pros porous year.
 Pvt. J. c. CROOK,
 GO. "D," 30th Bn. U. g. c.
 Fort Gibbon. Alaska"