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

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,,,,;ssion are mostly former mis-
Cnar;es candidates for such service,
sNiieoe and seminary men, some mis-
e,ar;es not ministers for manual de-
rtrnents and nurses. Besides which
r. Pc Is quite a number experienced in
..n IN and direction of labor,
..hnse experience in army and naval
,m,athods and availability are valuable
~ cher words the best persons COM
atant who can be obtained, and pos
pp;hIv some Of these while able, willing
I'D valuable are not as pious as mis-
ss;onaries are supposed to be. This
nav he assumed from what Mr..
Hawkes says of some of his associates
and assistants. And from some things
he writes about some of the regular
missionaries one may guess that it is
not always easy to get along with
some "good" people. The following
letter is written from Oulou kichla,
Asia Minor:
Dear trends: 1t has been SINE time
since | have written long letter
ABOUT the happenings in this part OF
the world. | nave written a letter to
the folks at home and to Helen but to
nobody else. There has been more
go,np on and more folks here and
have had little time to write. | am
alone again as tar as Americans are
concerned although this time there is
a SWISS lad here who speaks very
GOOD English. | have been busy un-
loading cars and slowing stuff away
into the warehouse. Now the ware
house is full and there are tive cars
that i can not empty. Two OF these
cars contain hospital beds Ill crates
and are large and heavy and the other
two contain oven and range parts III
boxes and are very heavy. The fifth
car has bales of cloth, blankets and
mattresses.
The warehouse looks very different
with goods piled to the root and only
small aisles to walk around between
the stuff. Now | have goods tor
Casearea, Slvas and Harpott and on
the railroad loading platform there are
two tractors, two disk harrows, two
double plows, boiler, and some pipe
for MarSovan-SamSo
In TACT in two weeks we have had
forty cars of stuff here to unload.
Perhaps Is of these were flat cars con-
tanning the plows, tractors, harrows,
boilers, two ambulances, two tords,
two one ton REQ trucks, and quite a
number of REQ two and one-half ton
trucks. The trucks etc. TOR MarSovan
came this way because they could not
tlnd stamshiD transportation to take
them to Samso un, on the BlaCk sea.
The unit material and the personnel
went ahead on another ship. SO those
trucks left here loaded with pipe and
gasoline and oils for the Marsovan
oamsoun road
1t all started two weeks ago last
Monday when | went to Konla with
Miss Garffam who has been in Sivas
all through the war and with two fell
lows, Sutherland and Linn, who were
OF our original party out Of Derindje.
We spent day in Konia where got
there and got a hair cut. That even
arrived in Konia with a train of Il
cars. We left Konia Wednesday
morning arriving here last night. This
morning and were my guests here.
For TaIas there were two nurses, nice
girls, and Mr.. and Mrs. Theodore
Fowle. Mr.. Fowle's father was mis-
sonary in Talas formerly.
aries for Talas, Misses Loughridge,
Richmond, and Orvis and Miss
Bristol who some time before the war
had taught three years there.
For Sivas there was DIR. Fremont
Smith fine young chap about my age
who has lived and travelled in the
west, Miss Mary Spalding dietician
from Lowell. Mass, and nurse, Miss
Flynn. 1t seems that many of the
personnel for these two places were
allowed to go to the Caucasus for two
months. The need is great in that
region but it seems hardly fair that
these places should be cut down as
they have as Sivas especially has lot
OF work organized and Mr.. Partridge
is working too hard.
The same day that this party left
tor the interior, Wells, transporta-
ton man, left with seven Turkish
trucks austrian Pragas) Tor Talas
all loaded with hospital goods. That
was Saturday.
The next Monday Christensen, who
was sailor on one of our navy boats
which brought flour from Portland,
Ore, came in with the trucks and
stuff tor MarsovanS amsoun. Tues
day and Wednesday we got these
trucks off and loaded and then We'd
nesday night the Harpott party came
and Dave Warden with our truck con
voy; Thursday we got all our trucks
loaded and the Harpoot party ready
and they all started Friday morning
Tor Ialas, Sivas, Marsovan-S amsoun,
and Harpoot. 1t was some truck con-
Voy, believe me. There were IA two
and one-half ton Reos, one light REQ
truck, one ambulance, three Fords, and
one Indian motorcycle. 1t made the
convoy. about two miles long. The
SWISS lad, Robert. and | went with
them on the motorcycle they have lett
ior me. We went to the top of tho
NIL and dicovered that we were out OF
gasoline. We coasted about all the
way down the hill and came back to
,ne warehouse, got gasoline, some
lunch and started back. We overlook
the trucks just beyond Nigdeh and il
n ma,d taken us two hours and q half,
we turned back then and came back
more SLOWLY. That is the first time |