Show AN interesting LETTER FROM A FORMER BOY salt lake city utah march 12 1920 auditor tooele thoele transcript DEAR E EDITOR v thinking possibly you would like to hear from a one time too elebey ele boy I 1 take this means of conveying a short message of my experience to my old friends and acquaintances of tooele thoele and va finity it is thirteen years since I 1 lived in n tooele thoele altho I 1 made one short visit there eight years ago I 1 have lived mostly in seattle wash but in november 1916 1915 1 I enlisted in the U S army for service in tho the philippine islands upon arrival in the tropical philippines I 1 was immediately assigned to tho the fifteenth infantry infanta y at tien tsin china I 1 was stationed in tien tsin four years being detained there during the war because of non relief as all sold soldiers aers were sent from the states to france I 1 returned to the states only last december the voyage from chin wang too tao china abina to san francisco colsum edone no month and seventeen days feg days over in I 1 i i honolulu T H had flad you heard of the de destruction on armistice day of tin willie willid in tien tsin of course excitement prevailed everywhere that tha day and I 1 helped destroy tin willie tin willie was a monument or of ali the kaiser erected years ago in the german concession of tien tin he stood on his pedestal tremblingly all during the war and finally collapsed as did his naster master and the country ho hb represented on armistice day he was lassoed with wath heavy ropes pulled from his defying position by american soldiers then dragged to death down wilhelm strause Stra the main street by a large fire truck that street lost its name nam too and was later christened woodrow wilson st street sign boards are there now bearing the latter name in english and in chinese during my last two years in china I 1 was wag a member of the i fifteenth infantry bacq bane I 1 learned earned to speak some chinese while there just enough to enable anable me to understand a conversation bation I 1 am now visiting with my parents mr and mrs E D horman in in salt lake city I 1 have re enlisted as a musician and will shortly go E east ast to my new post any anyone one wishing to address me may do so at 11 field artillery band camp grant respectfully EDMUND S HORMAN |