Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1920-03-19
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Cleveland, O., Mar. II, 1920.

Cleveland, O., Mar. IL, 1920.
Capt. John H. Grabill,
Kind friend, I now write you
a few lines again for your old
standby the HERALD. l left
Maurertown on the 10Th of Jan.
and reached Cleveland at I'll
sharp. I'm glad to say l found
my two boys, Claude and Ira and
families all we'll. They are both
doing we'll in their line of work.
Cleveland surely has had some
winter too. Notwithstanding
the bad weather, there is great
deal of building going on. l
took lunch down town different
times with my boys at Chamber
of Commerce and other noted
places after which we would lis
ten to some fine speeches given
by some invited guest. On one
occasion they had retired army
officer to speak, General Crozier.
He gave a fine talk in regard to
the great war we passed
through and referred to the pas
sage of scripture, Am l My
Brothers Keeper 2" Said we
were i'll sense, and that the
United States should look after
them to a certain extent.
left Cleveland on Feb 18th
aud went to Orrsville, Ohio, 10
visit another son, Edgar, who is
preaching there. | saw some
fine country from Cleveland to
Orrsyille, which is a busy hust-
ling town of some 5000 Thirty
and sometimes more trains pass
here every twenty-four hours, l
remained here until the Goth OF
February then went to Detroit,
Michigan, to visit my Youngest
son, Glenn, who had been III
training service at Camp Gordon,
Georgia, eight months, and then
went to Camp Miles, n. Y, and
left 10th of May, 1918, did some
valiant service which of course
helped to win the terrible war.
He passed through some of the
terrible battles and came out
without a scar. Glenn returned
May -, 1919 and got off the
boat at Newsport News was soon
mustered out at Camp Sherman,
Ohio. | found Glenn and wife
quite we'll in this large city
which is now sixth in population
in the United States. There are
quite a number of Virginia boys
here, but | only met Robert VOL
verton and family and E. L.
Saum and family found them
we'll, they like Detroit fairly
we'll. March the 4th Glenn met
ue at the big Ford Plant, one of
the guides took about eighteen
of us through d good portion OF
this wonderful automobile build
ing, | never saw so many men
and machines at work. The guide
told us lie would be glad to an
swer any questions. | asked him
few questions and these are the
figures he gave ME on paper
ZOO men at work, output OF
cars $4,000 daily and daily pay
roll $500, 900. They give a book
to all visitors, l will give you a
| few items from it. This proper
t. comprises a plot of ground
containing 305 acres, IS acres of
floor space actually under roof,
sixty-tllree nationalitles speaking
more than a hundred different
languages are in this book. In
1914 they started a school with
20 pupils it was only a short
time until they had 1000, now
they have $500 ranging from IS
to - years Of age. Teachers are
volunteers from these shops.
They of course have hospital,
there are 68 members of the hos
pital staff, including 9 doctors
and several first-alds. In the
year of 1916 with a daily force
of 30, 900 men. Of accidents which
really occurred only 20 men after
receiving treatment failed to re-
turn to work on the second day.
| left Detroit on Tuesday for
Cleveland say some fine farming
land as we came along. Some
of the farmers still had some