The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-06-13

l went up TO the hospital and found
that Major Belt had already started
to fix things up, and had spread the
books and magazines around, as well
as the writing paper.
The Major showed me around his
hospital. In the course of our CONVEX
sation he said he was from Oregon.
| told him that | was also from the
same state before making my home
in Hawaii. He then asked me if l
was Rev. Shorts son. l said that l
was. OF course he then said that l
looked like my dad and expressed
how much he thought of my Father.
The Major used to be in Seaside, AS
toria and Portland. He met my faith
er in the Stewart Hotel, San Francis
co, the day he left for Siberia last
fall.
l arrived at the %colonel's house
about five o'clock, a few minutes lat
er Jones and Alexander came in
shortly the rest of the household ar
rived and we sat down to a very
good dinner. The chaplain was to
speak on George Washington at the
Y. NJ. c. A. entertainment room, so af-
ter dinner we all went over and heard
a very good talk on the father of our
country. After the talk we had a
picture show which was over about
nine o'clock. We asked them all to
come down to the box car and have a
cup of chocolate, but they insisted
that we came back to the house.
There we had "Chai" and a little to
eat. We sat around the table telling
stories until eleven-thirty. While at
Spasskoe l left a case of cigarettes
and a case of candy for the company
that is stationed at Ussuri about six
ty miles north of Spasskoe.
We left Spasskoe at ten-thirty Fri
day, and arrived at Nikolsk at about
four o'clock. 1t. Alexander left us
there as he is stationed at Nikolsk.
We went over to his room and sat
around until time for dinner and all
went back to the car where the cook
had dinner waiting for us. We left
two boxes in care of Alexander which
were discovered in our car while at
Habarovsk and were not on the in
voice. / wired to Vladivostok to find
out to whom to deliver them. At the
time of leaving for Razdolne / had
not received an answer, so that
Lieutenant said l could leave them in
his care until word came telling what
TO do with them.
At four o'clock we left for Razdolne
arriving there an hour and a half lat
er. We were met by Capt. Bishop,
Boone, Sparks, Yates, and a couple of
recall. Jones and l went up to their
barracks with them and had dinner.
This was followed by a real good
show of local Co. L. Talent and dance,
Ruskies and Americans combined. 1t
surely was unique and cute to see the
Ruskie kids dance. Captain Bishop
is probably the most popular com
handing officer in the eXpeditionary
forces. All his company swear by
him. He is a regular fellow and
wants the men to work when there
is work in sight and play when it is
to play. The whole company
surely did the latter hat night. |
happened to have a few boxes of
minis and chewing gum left over so
| turned them over to the Captain for
the evenings entertainment. This an
nounced as the gift of the Red Cross
and the cause that l represented was
heartily applauded.
Sunday morning a detail of men ac-
by all of the aforesaid Of
ficers arrived at the car and we oon
made short work of delivering the
supplies for this station. We distri-
buted pajamas, socks, books, maya
zines, writing paper and envelopes,
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and a number Of other articles. There
was a miscellaneous case from the
Vallejo, California Chapter. After
delivering the supplies l went up to
the barracks and turned over to Capt.
two thousand rubles to be U.S.
ed in preparing a Red Cross room in
hospital here. l gave them some
R. G. posters and flags and they have
already started to fix up the room.
We are going to have very comfort
able quarters in the center of the hos
pital.
| invited all of the fellows down to
the car for a chicken dinner but as
the car was not big enough for them
we obtained permission from the
station master tO have the