"OVER THE SEA WITH
UNCLE SAM"
As a soldier a man can travel far.
wide and handsome, but then* are
complications. For instance ther ? is
the three years That are connected
with 4-he trir-r tha*. i man trtK.es when
he i.i tmvti'^ir with I'ncle Sam. I
rcinlHted '^ith the United States Ar
my .1 unc 24. 1,'.0 for the third tirrr?.
My s'-rv . n the Sta.es iiad b?en in
North * aro'ina ami ' ?e rgia, I t? jd
mys??If that if I enlisted again I
would travel and see *?rw of thej
world. And here I an. in Hawaii.
When I enl: led in Atlantr. C?a..
I whs -efit to Savannah, Ga., where
I boarded of the Ocean Steam
Ships. (Jfhe City >f Birmingham!
which arriei me to New York. We
arrived in New York early in the
mo?n;r-.g .?.? i was met by a Sergeant
of th?? t* S. Army who was stationed
at roit Slocum, X. Y. After we ar
rived on the street- 'n New York I
thought tnat we were in a small town
by th ? looks of the streets but I
found out later that it was only 3"?h
-treet and thit I would change my i
mind. In passing from 35th street
?> 11 ?. treet 1 didn't see wry
nfurb. for the most of the journey
was by subway .-.nd in there i* is as
dark as it i< at night here. At 1 4~?th '
street we wer ?? transferred to the 1
ij|fac?' car which took u.<- to the
Si?? oni l>??ck near I >rt Slocum1
when* .v ? were destined to .-tay for
a while. No* long, though, only two I
wer..-. and ther* We were carried
do ., n ? r ?? cii.il river to the Brooklyn
A. . Uase where Wiere was an Army
Tra: i ' waiting for u-. In passing
dawn t h i' East River we passed un
der th bridges that are famou- all
over the world. I can't remember
all the names but one that is the
Id est I remember. It was the Brook
lyn Bridge. It sure Ls wonderful too.
1 can't describe it for I haven't the
time ??r space, for I have many more
things to describe as I go along.
On the 1 Sth of July we .-ailed
from New York in the Old Atlantic
where the water is blue and rough. 1
We had a very pleasant trip to Pan- ,
ana where we tied up for the night, i
Th" only thing that was wrong with
that trip was the water a little too
rough. I couldn't keep my food
sown, so you see I had six meal.* a
lay throe down and three up. And
n st of the way by the rail.
We arrived at the break waters at
olon about seven o'clock four days
ifter we sailed from New York and
had to anchor until morning before
wp transited the lock-. But what a
scene when I i?ot inside of the first
hree lock.- Th?* Nek.** are just boxes
with pates tha* hoii A .ter. The ship
passes llii-ugl tv< fir-t irate and
stops and the pat' behind is closed
and the water came in pretty fast.
In twenty minutes w.- were through
the first lock int the next one, and
there we were raised in the same
manner as before. The ship is pulled
along with elcrtric car? that are on
the side of the locks. After wc had
pass# 1 through three locks we were
[ in Lake Gatun and that is the larg
<-*t artificial lake in the world. It
:> filled by water that comes from
the mountain that surround the lake.
When a boat g?*t-< in that lake it is
twenty feet above sea level. When
the boats get to the other end of the ;
anal there are fou- locks that lower j
' tne -hip to the Pacific. In goinu
' to the Pacific from the Atlantic it
>eems that a per- n should go south
but it is direct east.
Well, we are now Med up at Bal- j
b >a. which is ;is close as a ship goes
to Panama City. We all have a pass
for three hours and are on our way
to the City of Panama where whiskey
runs freely and the beer comes in
barrels. I sure wanted to get some
f the beer and sec just how good
it was but I was disappointed for the 1
oys that were with me had to go to
the ruins of Old .Mexico City and I
had to go with them. There is one
of the most magnificent pieces of
construction that was ever built in
Mexico.
We were almost run over by an ap
proaching automobile and when we
remonstrated to the driver of the car
he kindly told us to keep on the right
? ide of the street as the cars run on
the left. Were we surprised? I'll
say we were. All the traffic there
is Wust backward* to th^it in the
States.
A lot of the boys had to be carried
in for they had stayed at the bar too
Ion;*. And probably that was the
first time that they had ??ver been to
CROSS-WORD PUZZLE
Horizontal.
1? Apartment* of women In a M?
h*mm?d?n house
I? A musical Instrument
I? A pronoun
i* ? Dlstlntfuldhrtd
II ? A note of th? musical seals
14? On -the oondltlon
If ? A period *
;16? Noting motion toward
11 ? Sphsrloal
JO ? One who rends 22 ? Upon
?? ? A falsehood
1i ? An lntsrjeotlon
'IB ? An Implement for sewing
>19 ? To deprive of horns
11 ? A negative answer
'SI ? A diphthong:
SI ? Group of flvs 14 ? Alarms
jSI ? Like 40 ? A grain
41 ? Abbreviation for the "stats
where the tall corn grows"
*41 ? Escorters
44 ? A collection of four
49 ? A printer's measure
j4T ? A beverage
.44 ? Same a? ?! horizontal
<50 ? East Indies (abbr.)
?61 ? Pertaining to living organisms
44 ? A pronoun
|SI ? A carousal 17 ? Fear
C?el?tloa will appear Is scit Une
Vertloal.
1 ? A pronoun
8 ? To pay baok
? ? A printer's measure
4 ? The center
4? Fondled
4? Within
7 ? Fasten
t ? From
9 ? An abnormal type
11? .A negative answer
It ? Oarmsnt to protect olothlag
14 ? A pronoun
17 ? A conjunction
14 ? One alone
11 ? A genus of tropical plant
14 ? An age
17 ? A msadow
19 ? An elongated fish
30 ? An tmplement for rowing a beat
11 ? Cessation
14 ? Vibratory motion
15 ? The nature of a dose of medi
cine
14 ? Listen 17? -Attrncl
11 ? A girl's name 41 ? A pronoua
45 ? Sun ffod
41 ? A note cf i?e musloal aoale
61 ? A form of the verb "to be"
61 ? Prefix meaning again
64 ? An assimilated form of prate
"In."
16 ? Doctor of medicine (abbr.)
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We left Balboa Friday the 24th
and sailed out onto the calm Pacific
where we stayed in sight of land
most <>f the way. In fact only one
time were we out of sight of land
and that was when we crossed the
Gulf of Thaunepee After two days
of sailing we stopped at Corrinto.
Nicaragua. There we put off three
passengers and took on six marines
and soldiers.
How many of the readers have
seen flying: fish? I know that most
all of you have read a^out them and
I guess that most of you don't be
lieve that there were anything that
stayed in the water that could fly.
But it is rue. There are flying fish
by the millions. I saw hundreds and
hundreds of them as I was passing
the west coast to San Francisco,
Cal. Sharks are a common thing to
sec in the Pacific. They follow the
ship to devour anything that may
drop from the ship. And porpoises,
by the hundreds follow the ship leap
ing in the water and playing, waiting
for dinner to be served. The ship
would run into a school <-f these fish
and split them and you should see
them a> they went in either direction
from the ship. Just any where to
get out of the way.
One of the most i nt ?* ting things
that I saw on my trip "<? the West
coast was a turtle about seven feet
across h?s back with three birds of
the sea on his back, in other words
they were using him for a float.
They were safe as long as the tur
tle .stayed on the surface of the wa
ter, but when he took a notion to go
down the birdd had to go up.
We arrived in San Francisco on
the 4th of August and stayed there
or five days and then we were
bound for the play ground of the
Pacific, or the Paradise of the Pa
cific ? Haw'aii. In my mind there
were a lot of things here that I want
ed to see when 1 arrived here. For
instance I wanted to see the Grass
huts and the Hula girls tnat a person
reads so much about. Hut I was mis
taken for those days are of the past.
There are no more grass huts and i
there a.?e no more hula girls, unless
you are fortunate enough to .*c one
of them on the stage. There arc only
two grass huts left and they are for
the benefit of the tourists.
It. rain? here some times very hard
and at times there is only a mist
while the sun is still shining, the
people here call it liquid sunshine.
The climate here Is wonderful. The
temperature ranges from 75 to 85
and the sun shines most of the time.
The birds here are a rare type and
I do not know the names. Of course
there are some doves here, but not
many. The trees here are not com
mon in the U. S. A. I cant even name
them hut there are some that I can
name for I have a specialty, and that
is Cocoanut trees. And there are a
lot of banana trees here too. Pine
apples (rrow in abundance here, jn
fact Honolulu is the hoine of I.i'bby
McNeal canneries.
I have only been here 4 monthi
and haven't been to any other of
the islands as yet but hope to w
In closing I wish to say that the
trip to Hawaii is one to never be
forjrotten and I hope that soir.e day
there will be a way for every one in
the United Staites to make this trip.
I thank you.
H. R. MORGAN, (a soldier)
P. F. C. Motor Transport Co.,
Fort Armstrong, T. H. '
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