Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 117, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1918 — INTERESTING LETTER FROM GUY DANIELS [ARTICLE]

INTERESTING LETTER FROM GUY DANIELS

Camp Raritan, N. Y., May 21, 1918. Dear Mother:—Your letter of the 15th has just reached me here. You will probably be surprised to hear that I am now in New Jersey instead of Georgia, but as I have told you several times we never know where we will be from day to day. We received orders to bring 200 men from Camp Hancock to Camp Raritan immediately and so we took the first train we could get,' which was 10:15 Sunday morning, and started. Arrived here yesterday about 4:00 p. m. This is a new camp but I like it fine, very much better than the sand hills of Georgia. We are about 25 miles from Hoboken and 30 miles from N. Y. city, just across the bay from Staten Island. It is much cooler here than Georgia It got so hot there that the sweat would roll off every time you walked around in the sun for a little while. Down South the oats are already cut| and shocked. We could see as we came through while up here they are hardly headed out yet. They have had strawberries for a long time. Isaw Golda (Mrs. Guy Daniels), when we came through Washington. I telegraphed ahead of the train about the time we would get in and she came down to the train. We stopped there and the Red Cross gave the boys all a sanciwitch and a cup of coffee. At Florence, S. Carolina they gave each a box of matches, cigarettes, chewing gum, and a stamped postal card, and at Philadelphia a box of matches, cigarettes, and an apple each and several maga- . zines. The boys all thought it pretty fine and it cheered them up quite a good deal. The Red Cross now have stations at depots, where troops trains stop. We had an entire train by ourselves. I have been trying to get Golda to take a vacation for some time, but she seems to think she can’t get the work at the office in shape to leave. I am afraid she is working too hard. She looked all tired out when I saw her yesterday. She would come up here Saturday and stay over Sunday, but do not know whether she will or not. I wish she would go out# west and stay for a month or two. It rained terribly hard here today and is raining again tonight. There is mostly clay here and it gets as slick as grease. I fell down in it twice this afternoon. Quite a contrast from sand six inches deep. Will close for this 'time and hope to hear from you soon. As ever, x - guz. My new address is Lieut. G. M. Daniels, Ord. R. C., Camp Raritan, New Jersey.