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Show SAILOR WR1TIS OF X- mm m nmi The following letter of Henry Mc-Cardle Mc-Cardle of the U. S, a. South Carolina to his mother. iMrs. 11. P. McCardle, here will be Interesting to many people peo-ple In the camp. The letter reads as follows: "I wish you a happy birthday and many more of them. I wish that I could be at home to help enjoy it with you dear peiple at home, but at the present no such pleasure for me. I have not received a letter from home In quite a long time or It seems a long time to one away from home. If we eould hear from home every day It would not be any too often. This is certainly some city Philadelphia a blue jacket. The good people of the city cannot do too much for enlisted men In navy or army. I wish i could say as much for some other cities In the East, but it takes all kinds of people peo-ple to make a world. There is one thing that they do not do here, and that is not to hold up an enlisted man. A man in uniform can get good eats for 25 cents per and a nice clean Ted end hot bath for 15 cents. 1 have paid much more In other places and got less. "Last Saturday night we went ashore and attended a dance at the Ttotary Hub, stayed st the club all night and had breakfast as guests of the club. And met ever so many nice people. Last night I was on patrol outy In the city's unrworld or tenderloin ten-derloin I cannot tell all I saw or heard, but 1 saw and heard enough to d sgust me with booze, and its poor victims, both men and women The ; vice and crime that Is carried on Is frightful to think about. "There was one poor derelict that talked to me who said at one time he was a successful business man, and I could tell by his conversation that he was an educated man once, but the poor devil is now a total wreck on the lea shore. I have read and heard about the life In the underworld in the Jarre cities, and wanted to ,ee them but I have seen enough. "We will be on our wav 'over there soon, and I wish that we niav Ket a crack at one of the Hun's V devils I am sure that there would be some Rtranse faces in Davy Jones looker for I am Rome gun pointer to hear me tell It. I went to the Knights of Columbus chapel last Sunday and 'leard a good sermon. The Knights and the Y. M. C A. are surely doing won-d'Ts won-d'Ts among the boys. Mother, I am orry that I could not send a little token for your birthday, but I will send you bet wfnheH and prayers." |