Show private holdaway writes from the island of gaam the reporter has just received the following letter from M L holda way son of 0 manager Hol holdaway dawal aj of the tintic gintic central mine the 3 soung oling man enlisted several months ago adz aad in his letter he tells of his travels i i to this time the letter was writ en just be ore christmas and came to hand the other day editor eureka just a few lines to the ons a home from one tar far away I 1 left the old town on july 1917 for mare island cal to enter the marine corps and a ler ter two days journey arrived in san francisco whence I 1 traveled by ter fer ry to the island here I 1 was sworn into the service on august 1st 1917 and for four teen i weeks spent my time drilling at least four hours a day on nov ath thirty marines a ser geant and a sergeant major left for san francisco where we departed on the following day on the U S A T logan for guam somewhere in the pacific and as expected I 1 was sea sick although not alone tor for I 1 had plenty of company the vo age to honolulu was uneventful and lasted seven days here we were allowed sixteen hours shore liberty and utilized it in visiting the town which is what you might call an ancient and modern city built in one large park while there I 1 visited waikiki beach and park also went to the f funeral of the late queen of hawaii and must musij say it certainly was impressive es specially ally the singing and decorations ithe the decorations consisted of feathers arranged in baskets on poles of slender bambo also the capes worn by the women and men were gerej worked up in aa feathers of different designs and colors those of the wo men reaching nearly to the floor we left honolulu the next day and after faur fourteen teen more days landed in guam and here thirty two of us dis embarked and were taken to asan j one of the three large villages on the island where we staid in antine tor for twelve days guam so tar far as I 1 have seen is a very pretty place palm trees and banana trees every where and lots of them bananas here sell for about four cents cent s per doz en while oranges are about one cent each the natives here use the water but talo falo as a beast of burden there are three classes of natives here the barefoot class the sandal class and the shoe class the latter are the only ones that live in any thing but huts we do not have very much to do here as we only do guard duty every two or three days and the only draw back is that we don t have very much to do between times it seems funny to think of christmas and hot er at the same time but that is what we have havia here will close wishing everyone in the old town a merry christmas and a happy new year M L HOLDAWAY private |