Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-02-24
NO MAIL FOR FORWARD
DURING THREE MONTHS
state Corporation Commissioner, in
Rome, Misses Letters From
Virginia Friends.
SENDING FOOD TO BALKANS
Major With Rcd Cross Ill for Scv.
cral Days With Throat Trouble.
Warehouses and Ships Filled With
Supplies for Stricken Peoples.

Mail a, last which makes it, 4 rod
der Forward from Rome, under date
n six months leave Of absence from
the state Corporation Commission 10
the tn Balkan states. The Balkan com,
by Licutcnant-Colon Henry w. An
dcrson. OF richmond on November l.
other Thermometers included in the
personnel OF more than 200 men and
women which compose the commission
are Claude T.. Davenport and Rev ".
+; Thompson: II. -. pastor OF Park
Place Methods; Church
NO doubt we shall now have ,ddi-
.lonal mail from Salumiiii. Greece. from
time to time. Our trs; batch Of let
today tJauuary 22).
Nobody really knows without actual
experience what it means to be- totally
without mail for twelve weeks. ana
with almost no information about wha,
Is going on.
COLONEL ANDERSON MEETS
JOHN STEWART RRIAN
Just an hour before We left Paris
last Saturday night to return to Rome.
tolonel Anderson told me that he had
Just met john Stewart Bryan on tho
street there, but had not a momcn,
to try TO find him. Il was very sorry.
for. no doubt. he could have given M.
much news
Mr.. Forward. who has recently been
promoted to tho rank OF major with
great pleasure 1t had given HIM to
sec Or. w Russell Bowie. y H., rector
Of st. Paul's Episcopal Church. Hicn.
m Iaip L., n ~ PaTis Or Bowie WIS chan-
which is returning TO the United states.
reached Rchmnd
closed my Paris hcadqarters las,
saturday. when | left there" MIR. For
ward continues. and now hav. my
headquarters in Rome.
Y "A - ell
transact business Since We have tho
bulk of the. winters supplies for the
Balkans either on II" ground or on
four. ships in tho Mediterranean and
Elack Seas. tho first problem of Tho
big job as director Of supplies for ,hc
Halkan states is over. and my next
scattered over a far-nuny hattie line
OF a thousand miles and TO sec thu,
the stun is properly cared for and ac-
counted for.
EXPECTS TO TRAVEL
MUCH IN FUTURE
II shall travel much in tho ncx, two
or three months. but my mail addressed
to Rome viii always be forwarded.
had tho darndcst tnc IN Paris
with an liberated throat. bu, as il vas
the critical period of my supply work
could not go to bed, as tho doctor
ordered; but kept at work. 1t pretty
ing inc entire journcy from Paris 10
Rome. but by the time I got here I
felt much better and am now all richt
again. Am kept very busy all the time.
Today went TO lunch n, the famous
restaurant called Caste, iii Ccsarc
which overlooks Caesars Palace and
INC Circus MaXitnuc and many Of tho
RUNS. The scene was cnlivened by tho
presence Of hundreds of American sail
ors from the feet Of submarine chasers
IN inc Mcditcrrane who came over
from Corfu. and have bccn royalty en-
tertained.
We do no. see many American
uniforms herc-niorc Canadians The
Red Cross Is OF the highest standing
in italy. Bishop Cannon. with a par,v
o. Methodist bishops, has been hcrc
this week. They hive hccn spending
nc past few days sightseeing down n,
NaPIeS and Sorrento and Pomncii"