Washburn University - Kaw Yearbook (Topeka, KS)

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Ambulance Company 347, Camp Pike, Ark.. Jan. 15, 1918. DEAR ED :- - Vfell Ed, here we are still at Camp Pike, and it's nearly four months since we left Topeka, we sure thought then that we'd be in Berlin by now. There are seven new men in the company now, and there's sure a lot for them to learn. Uforley wore his leggins on the wrong legs for a whole day without noticing anything wrong! XYell Ed, we were all young once. We had a great spread Christmas day-turkey and trimmings, and Christ- mas Eve we had a celebration in the barracks, with the jazz band going full force, and stunts, and a Christmas tree, Carl Linge drew six weenies, and Carl Byers some chewing tobacco! Say, you'ye heard about perpetual motion, Ed. XVell that's what our Edi- son is, that the College sent us. Wioody Smith plays the Pussy Cat Rag every minute he is off duty. Some dark night, that record is going to be step- ped on-accidentally. Say, did I tell you about Louis Smith? He had some hard luck last month. He is one of the buglers of the company, and be bugled with such force that he had a blow out and had to be sent to the hospital to be patched up. There have been lifty lirst class privates appointed and those who are still bucks are busy with alibis. Most of them claim that the names were placed in a hat, and fifty drawn out. As yours truly is a first class, he doesn't believe it. Say, Ed, just in strictest confidence, I heard a fellow say yesterday who knows a major's orderly, that he had heard a high authority say that the 87th divi- sion was the best in the country, and also that the Sanitary Train was the most efficient part of the division. just between you and me, it's common talk about Ambulance Company 347 being the best in the Sanitary Train, and of course, Ed, you being a friend of mine, you can draw your own conclusions about yours truly, me being sort of modest, and not wanting to say anything bold. W'ell there goes tattoo. Yours, PETE. 23 .1 .1 as l I i l i l

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hX ' x I 9 l out o O 4 -.... H A Ambulance Company 347, Camp Pike, Ark.. Dec. 7, 1917. DEAR lin:- l'm on ambulance today and so am writing a long intended letter while waiting for a call. lt is snowing a regular blizzard today lon account of this being a winter resort, I guessl and it'll probably be my luck to get a call oyei to Ft. Logan I-I. Roots. which is about seven miles on the level, but a good deal more when you count the up and down grades on the hills. especially in six inches of snow. A lYell Ed, you probably heard something about our football team. XVe had a regular team. believe me. They cleaned up everything in camp. and also a college team, near here. The closest game. in fact, the only close one, was a tie game with an ofticer's team. The oHicer's team was composed of ex- college stars, but our boys played them to a standstill. and would have beaten them if the umpire hadn't been an officer. lYe tried to get another game, but they had lost their nerve and didn't want to play. Thanksgiving day, our boys beat the .-Xrmy and Navy Hospital team at Ilot Springs. The government has issued us considerable clothing and equipment by now. XYe all have three pairs of shoes. They're certainly generous with the shoe leather. If a fellow had been wearing a nine C he received two pairs of eleven EE which he could put on and jump back and forth in. They gave us our second shirt yesterday. The first one was issued a few days after we reached here, in September. and now we have a chance to wash it. Not much laundry expense at that rate. XYe have only thirty overcoats for the company and they are all twins. XYe have a eheckroom for them with XVoody Smith in charge and check out an overcoat when we go on a drive. Hoody sure was meant to be a salesman. lYhen a fellow comes in for a coat, he says, just as polite as any clerk, Any thing in overcoats today? ll'e have a new line just in, sir. I-Iere's the very model for you, just your style. Oh yes. sir, that's the very latest thing, to have the skirts of the overcoat wrap around the ankles when you walk. Shall I have it sent out, or will you wear it? XYell, Corporal has just got a phone call, and it's for an amb. to go over to the Fort, as I said it would be, since it's my time to go out. Yours in Gloom, PETE. Page 67 Z2

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