The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1919-08-29

publicity man formerly with the New
YORK lines, two were transportation
men, one was an industrial man, ono
handy with the camera, and yours
truly who was not anything especially
! We could not get permission to
proceed to Talas (Caesarea) or Sivas
because the interior was still unset.
tied and so we waited in Konia for
more than five weeks and all that time
lived In our train on side track near
the station.
At last we moved and proceeded
days journey across the great plains
and up onto the divide beyond Eregli
We stopped at the highest point on
the railroad, Oulou Kishla (Great
Barracks). There we had taken over
Turkish military warehouse and had
guard of Turkish soldiers who also
worked for us loading and unloading
was delegated to remain in charge
of the warehouse and spent over two
and half months there most of the
tine alone. When the trucks came in
from the interior I loaded them ur
and started them out again and when
trains or cars came in for us I was
| also busy again. In one week I re-
ceived 40 cars for the Oulou Kishla
base. Six trucks came in for Mars
| ovan and Samsoun and thew went tc
their destination by way of Talas and
Sivas. Later / received eight ligh,
REQ trucks and these with our eigh,
heavy Reos are now somewhere on
the road between Sivas and Harpoot
At last I was relieved and came ur
to Sivas with the truck CONVOY which
was goin to Harpoot found that il
was the same in this work as it was
in Y work; that the chances are even
that one will not do the same work
he did at home and may be called
upon to do the last thing he though.
of when he left home. thought |
might drive a Ford but have not and
instead drove over 100 miles on a
motorcycle about the third time I was
ever on it. The first time I ever
drove truck was on the trip up here
and as we were short of chauffeurs
drove one of the light Reos the whole
distance of 240 miles Now what is to
be my job here? I am not a farmer
although I have lived on farm and
an irrigated one at that and I have
had to keep away from farm work be-
cause of hay fever. Here for the pres
ent at least I a INTO be the director oil
a large farm, very large and it has A
grist mill on it, and lime rock crush
err and the city water supply. 1t has
gardens and grain fields and pasture
and picnic places and a fine poo
where Our boys swim.
This farm, so we are told, be-
longed to the German emperor and is
now under the control of Greek here
He was afraid the Turks would get i,
away from him as they tried to dc
later and so he rented it to us for a
term of five years. We now have 9
chance to buy it for about $22,0O(
when it is worth $4,000 or $4,000
am afraid, however, that we will no.
be able to raise the money. The girls
mills Cat least three on it) alone are
worth much for the income they
would bring in and at present one o.
them is grinding all our wheat into {
good grade of flour and we are feed.
ing over 1900 people daily. We have
about 40 men laborers and about II
orphan boys there for the work in the
mill and gardens, ETC. On the whole
it is beautiful place and is consid
erably cooler, as it is in Canyon, thar
the compound in the city or even the
college on the hill.
want to give you a glimpse of the
work in various places. When I wa.
in Oulou Kishla I had a chance for ;
trip by Ford down through the noun
tains to Tarsus and Adana. l wish
could describe that trip to you
Through the wonderful Taurus noun
tains, around cliffs, across old eastern
bridges, by German military GENE
terry with its iron crosses, down :
wonderful canyon, and then through
the Ci1ician Gates famous in history
There we saw inscriptions and real
lied that Alexander the Great ant
Persian leaders and many others bacl
in ancient and Medieval history hat
passed that way too.
| Then out on the plains to Tarsu
home of St. Paul's college. Their,
we saw the veteran missionary of y
years, DR.. Christie, and his wonder
fully good wife and his daughter, Jean
Mrs. Christie has been there al
through the war and DR.. Christie ha
been in Y. M. c. A. work at Cam,
Kearney. California. and Jean did
remarkable work Y. M. c. A. can
teen work in France. They have thre
relief workers with them and hav
started lace and rug work and hav
some orphans. School was out whe,
was there and British soldiers (In
dians) were occupying the colleg
building
| At Adana they have the first hospit
unit sent out and II Is all up now an,
doing business. They have their de
lourser and their ice-machine and thei
washing and ironing machines an
have the Delco lighting system all il
On the whole II Is fine plant.
Sivas seems to be the place whcr
tbinps are really bummipp and II