The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1919-04-11
Letter from William Hawkes..

On board U. S. Freighter Pensacola,
Off Cyprus, sailing the ak denise
White Sea, Mediterranean, Feb. 49,.
A wonderful night on the Mediter-
ranean and beautiful morning, clear
and warm, for we are where the sea
gets the warm winds from Egypt. Ny
last letter l finished and mailed at
Gibraltar. Our day there was very fine,
although some windy, but was spoiled
for most of US as we had no oppor-
tunity to go ashore. Of course we were
all up early to see everything and be
ready for whatever came The night
before the Port quarantine officer
came out and asked who we were,
where going, number of crew and pas
sengers and if we had any sickness?
and then gave US "clean bill"
Some of the men are not good
sports. l am sorry to say, and when we
could not go ashore there was a great
deal of Grabbing"
We all took various pictures of the
Rock, which is truly a rock, and the
Prudential can truly say ''as strong as
Gibraltar" When the men came back
they told us of the interesting town
with its stairs and walls and houses.
1t is almost isolated from Spain and in
fact is connected by very small strip
of land. The Sunday we were there,
on the main land and near the Spanish
town of Algeciras was the biggest
bull fight of the year with the cham
pion bull fighter. That night we struck
into some rough weather and sea and
most of the fellows were rocky"
again. Monday was better. In the
evening lecture and L could hardly
stay until it was finished, and then
made bee line for my bunk and
barely escaped feeding the fishes. That
was the nearest I have come to it
while / have been on board. This was
followed by fine day, and in the
evening / sang in quartet which we
named the Ocean Pitch Quartet.
Thursday evening we cited Sardinia,
Pantellaria on Friday, Saturday we
passed Malta where Paul was ship
wrecked. We passed Crete with its
bautiful snow-capped mountain (Mt.
lda), which kept us gazing most of the
morning and about wrecked the Turk
ish class: every now and then some
one would rise up and say "See those
caves worn by the water" or What a
great sight that mountain and its
clouds" In the evening we had lee
ture by DR.. USHER on the Social Gus
toms and Diseases of Turkey, and this
was on deck to the whole ship and
was followed by some movies. Before
we left New York some of the officers
bought through the Red Cross a fine
Powers Motion Picture machine with
motor attached and all the fixtures
with it. and they got some films.
Running this machine with its motor
is "a snap" compared with turning il
by hand as we did at the Y. DR..
Partridge told us of his trip into ST.
IBERIA last year and his Industrial Re-
lief work in the Caucasus. when he
was driven out and had to flee through
Siberia. This trip has been an exceed
ingly interesting time to study human
nature, and the real man has shown in
most cases; some have shown them
selves to be "real sports" and true of
heart; while Il am sorry to saw
others have shown themselves no
sports in little things. One prour
we have called the Bolsheviks and
have had some fun. We had some
figs olives and raisins which were
extras to help out when the grub was
punk (often) and of course some one
some of the figs so that now
every little while some one raises his
voice who got the figs?" and this
was even put on cartoon on the
movie screen. (He praises Mr.. Part
ridge, one of the missionary leaders
and says) | hope may never get TO
that point where fail to see the view
of the Younger men