The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1919-02-21
NEWS and LETTERS
FROM BELL AMI GO.
SOLDIERS SAILORS
NYM0RE SOLDIER LEADING
4 THE LIFE or lGILLIONAIRE'

NYM0RE SOLDIER LEADING
THE LIFE or NIL LIONAIRE1
s In d letter dated at Ak les Bains,
january 20, written to Knute West
ness Of the fifth ward by Chris =. Oh
CON- member Of the Company G.,
13oth infantry AZ E. r., the writer
tells of living like a millionaire. !.
which is certainly good news. In
part the letter says. :S
Can tell you 1t is great to be on q
Through, or rather be free for a
whole week Have been real busy
now for two days, but today ! am
resting, or taking life more easy.
Suppose You like to know what has
kept me busy.a Well, Tuesday fore
noon took in some sights In town,
such as the old museum, a building
nearly two Thousand years old, and
other sights. III the afternoon me
and my pal, from Iowa, rented bikes
and rode ali over town and down to-
q big lake, also went out IN the coun-
try, and came back to town late, or
Just I'M time for supper
& esferday morning We again got
Ilp early, and took the train for the
mountains It was not regular
train, sas you mtg hit see iii the u. s.,
for this train climbed right up the
mountain side 1t was seven miles
up there, but III took ls nearly two
hours to get there, so YOU may know
tile speed was not greAt Al we came
up there NE Went right through the
clouds and pretty soon we were on
top Of the clouds and the mountain,
too Now there Is no snow down
here, but got our surprise when we
arrived on top OF the mountain, for
there were easily three feet of snow
up there. The name OF the mountain
AS Mount Reward and the attitude is
nearly 5000 feet above sea level.
Here we had some real sport In skiing,
toboggans, sleds, and the Hike, all
free to the American soldiers. Now
aet me tell you !. got hold OF q very
good pair Of skis, and having q good
hill made some good showing. But
being the only one out OF a. couple OF
hundred men, that knew much about
skiing, was kept pretty busy, and
so today | got pretty lame. Made
some pretty good standing jumps, the
longest about fifty. feet, but I also
took some falls. Am so hard and
.songh now, nothing seems to hurt
my more. We spent all day up
here They have big hotels up
there, SO and my pal took dinner
here. 1t was some dinner, but IT
lid cost us nearly 81 apiece, includ-
ng d bottle or two Of beer.
Well Knute, 1T is nothing to boost
syer,, but i am leading the life Of A
millionaire light now only haven't
rot the millions to spend But be-
@feve me am getting the very best
or the hundreds AS most OF the
1nusements are free at the X ;. No.
-. a. ID person doesn't need such an
awful lot of money. We sure have
great time here at the y. :C. "A.
auilding There Is some thing doing
very minute. It is one of the great
lst llaces in town, and It is awfnlly
large.
We have big theatre, library,
writing room dance hall, another
Zig hall that they call the Cinema
TALL, then d big restaurant where
meals, or lunches, are served at all
I lines from nine iii the morning till
swelye at night. Then there are
s OTIS Of other rooms, and can you
imagine all this In one building. and
Ill of it run by the Y, M. G. A., for
H he benefit and amusement OF us
boys on leave Here we can plainly
ZEE what the \ M {. G. "A. is doing
ever here.
Let ME tell you am glad the war
#ttfter having such good time, and
hen would have to go back to the
renches again. It will be bad
3nough to get back to my unit, or
:ompany u. gain, but thinking that
we will soon be on our way home,
Il isn't SO bad after all. Ny COM
1any Isl still in Luxembourg, but as
you know / am a long ways from
here now 1T took us over three
lays to come here, and 4 suppose 1t
will take that long going back
s Must tell you / went to a store
Ills morning and bought aunty an
lpron which I've wrapped up and
sent today You know lie Is fun to
surprise her and ] only hope she gets
Ills little package Here is lots of
nice little things that I would like
10 have back with me for souvenirs,
but 1t is quite a shother to take care
of such things as you know we have
So MANY equipments to take care Of.
4 am going To- try to get my own gas
mask and steel helmet home with
me Some of the boys are sending
home German helmets. Probably
yon have seen some Of them already,
that were picked up on the battle
field, but ] do not care much about
them. I think more OF my own for
i know at one time sit did save my
life