The Arvada enterprise. (Arvada, Colo.) 1908-1970, 1920-06-03
ARTHUR WHITE WRITES OF
WONDERFUL TRIPS ABROAD
On tho Black Sea:

On tho Black Sea:
Dearest Mother--This will be q daily
letter like I. wrote on the 8. S. Sib-
onsy. Now six day trip on the
Italian boat Abbazis from Constan-
tinople to Batoum. / am now bask-
ing in TIL. sea on the open deck. The
day is perfect, the sea like a mill
pond. Not a; ill like the Black Sea
l have heard of that con be 80 very.
rough. a Swedish man Is in the
next chai-. He lives in Stockholm,
speaks English well and is going for.
his firm to try to find out what has
has happened to cargo Of goods
they shipped five months aho. There
10 . mixed crowd on this boat, six OF
u Americans, four Red Cross nurses
with the Near East Relief, Miss
Dunn who came over on the Siboney,
to see her brother \ Lieutenant in
our Navy, stationed at Constantino-
pie and now going to see what is 60
ing on In tho Caucasus, an English
man, correspondent for the London
Daily News; he il going to try to
get into Russia; the Swede, some
Russians. Greeks, Americans, Italians
and Austrians.
The crew arc the latter, too. This
boat was formerly an Austrian one
now Italian, and q slow one. We
fairly creep along. It con only do 10
Knots per hour, but that's all right,
the weather IL fine, the service is
splendid, the food 10 delicious and /
have . very comfortable two-berth
cabin to myself. Our first stop Is
tomorrow ut Ineboh. -e
We got on board yesterday at noon.
Marc WIS down with me and came on
board for anho ur About one o'clock
we swung out into the harbor and
lay at anchor till about six the went
ahead about . mile and lay at anchor
all night. !. think that 1t was on &C.
count Of the very heavy fog. We
passed the huge British superdread-
naughts and battle cruisers. What
beauties they are. had two weeks
and two days at Constantniople. That
was fine vary interesting city 1t
il indeed-dirty as can be, but like
it-so different to. any other city.
There East meets West. One sees
all sorts Of types. We had . delic-'
ious dinner on board last night:
Soup, St. Daniel ham, roast fish with
tartar sauce, roast beff, potatoes, car
rots, peas, roast chicken, salad, cake,
fruit cheese and coffee-and I had
some Of everything. b.
Ne didn't fArA. @ibA TIA ~ =
huuSy. I1ot- 8 16stlf the day l lSft
C from Walter Davis, my Mississippi
friend. Do wish had got one from
home. You folks must write often.
Now tomorrow. Arthur.
Wednesday, April z, 1917.
This il perfect weather. Sitting
out on deck, and how warm the sun
IL. We are It anchor off the little
Turkish town Of Insboli. Got in here
about this morning and leave at 8
this afternoon. We took on several
small boat loads Of lumber for Tur-
llish barracks ct Samsoun, our next
stop. Got there tomorrow morning
early and stay all day. This il =
beautiful spot. The little town built
in the valley and on the hillsides. 1t
ID mountainous all along here and
lots Of snow far back. The noun
tain slopes near the sea are beauti-
fully green and peaceful looking. A
Greek boat has just come In and Is
taking on severa! small boat loads of
people. Have Just bee talking with
one Of the boats officers, . young
Austrian. He wa informed all thru
the war In Portuguese island camp.
Quite . number Of our crew are Aus
TRANS and very nice they are, Rather
uncomfortable. should think, for
them to be still working on q boat
that was once Austrian, now Italian
and under Italian captain and their
home town, Trieste, now under Ital-
ian rule. They tell mo that Trieste
Il very dirty now in all parts since IL
has become Itelian. I expect that is
true for the Austrians are clean.
Friday, April 8.
We got into Samsoun Bay yester-
day morning about 8 and are just
lesving-10 A. NJ. The reason we
stayed 70 long was that they couldn' I
get enough boats to come out to take
OIL the cargo. There are no piers At
these towns 10 the small boats bring
out and take off the cargo. II Ia q
slow process. ....
Nine Of Us in party went ashore
yesterday morning expecting to
spend the whole day In Samsoun.
The four nurses, Miss Dunn, the
Swsde, an italian soldier, the English
man and ]. About 8 o'clock the Ital-
Ian came rushing to u that someone
had told him TIE boat was leaving at
once. We wore at the U. 8. consul's
office having = chat with Mr.. Tuck.
the consul. We hurried to the land
ing place, got small boat and were
rowed out to our ship only to find
that there was no foundation to the
rumor and we would stay there all
night. We were . peevcd bunch.
The nurses had wanted to VISIT the
clinic operated by the Americans.
They are endeavoring to clean up
the town, and I wanted to Sc Mr..
and Mrs. Hyatt, who live there, whom
I met In Constant. We visited the
hospital and saw Miss Flower, .
nurse ! knew in Constant. She has
just como hero samsoun. The hos
pital ID beauty-built BY the Turks
now operated to the Near East
has 30 beds, al filled. II has . won.
derful location on the hillside over.
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