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Show -4LIEUT, DON E. RHIVERS SENDS 1 MOST INTERESTING LETTER ON I SIGHTS ACROSS THE OCEAN I A letter from Lieut, Don E. Rhlvers, tor his arrival in England, has been celved by his relatives In Ogden, 10 letter Is most Interesting, liter-y liter-y filled with news of the troops and scriptlonB of many interesting ings to be seen in England. Ex-icts Ex-icts from the letter follow: "Borden, England, August 27, 1917. ell, we arrived safely and dlsem-rked. dlsem-rked. The night we arrived I was all night. Wo got away in the )rning, loaded into small coaches, lich held about six men to the ich. There were over 600 men on train, which was drawn by a very iall engine and which is about the e of a broad-gaUge forty or fifty l dinkey, But the train averaged sr fifty-five miles an hour. It made big stops at that and I never rode ' a smoother track. The cars are very small. I have not seen a car it was larger than ten tons, box s or flats, so you can imagine how ;er they look 'Now you must all forgive me for king this a company letter, but our s are sure filled up. After we got the train we came straight to Bor-i, Bor-i, which you can find on the map t south and oast of Aldershot, which sure some military camp. Here wc nd tents ready for us, which we ipped into, and now we have our ers to move on tomorrow morning. Took n London. Captain Simmons has been sick t since he arrived here, so I have m looking after the company, but terday I went up to London early in morning and left there at 6:10 in evening. I saw all there was to seen of London. Out of 8.000.000 pie I saw 7,500,000.. so 1 think I very well. 1 saw the Tower ige, palace, parliament, St. Paul's, stminster Abbey. Pair Mall, Pica-j y circus, the big hotels, all the! auments and, in fact. I tried to see outside of everything. We ,had akfast at the Savoy hotel and ch at Trocadero restaurant. I am ding you the menu, so you can ; for yourself how England Is meet-; the war situation. But it is sur-j ;ing to know how well it seems to it the need of enough to eat. Letj club people see it. There are a great many sights I lid like to tell about and a great ly which I cannot remember. I think it would be a mighty fine ig if the club would put in that i of a meal, especially in regard :he bread and sugar ration as you it printed on the Savoy hotel 1U. Food of Soldiers. The soldiers have a ration which ery small, but they can come back' more quite often, but absolutely st not waste any of it, neither Is of bacon, nor bones. They arei saved. The officers now eat with the men "BBrnd we expect whenwe get to France, twe will have a better line-up, as we gill have our own supplies, whereas now the English are feeding us. But Ijmust say the English have treated its as royally as they can. They met fli at the station with two bands and marched us all the distance to our camp, two miles, and played all the wky. They then got us some hot cof-rle cof-rle and other stuff all they had to offer but we enjoyed it, I can tell you. "Now today it has rained hard all lay and I expect it will rain hard all aTght from the looks of things, and if Itjdoes we'll be floating in the morning. morn-ing. I must pack up now, as we leave it 6 a. m. My next letter will come from France, as we leave for London n the morning. j"Well, 1 had to quit and take the nen to mess and it sure did rain, i J golly, it sure was fine. We had janned salmon. If It hadn't been Snned it surely would have gone swimming off. As it was, oh. my, how uicy. Lots of fun. Black bread, saloon, sal-oon, tea and marmalade. Pretty fine ating in a drenching rain, with cold jea.. It would be a nove.l stunt for f war party at home. Try It some time on the bunch of slackers and see fcSow they like it. Well, I must pack T" bp, so will say good-bye. (Signed) "DONALD E. RHIVERS, rl "First Lieutenant" a Menu at Hotels. Enclosed In his letter. Lieutenant Rhlvers sent the menus from the Trocadero Tro-cadero restaurant and from the Hotel Bavoy. The one from the Trocadero, beautifully beau-tifully embossed, has the following menu : J Hors d'Oeuvre j Polsson If Supreme d'Aiglefln Provencale v ou i Omelette, Fines Herbes f :. v Rotl t'f ' ;j Canoton Paysanne i Pomme Rlssolee 5 " .1 'i Legume g.!' ' Choufleur au Gratin Wt-& Entrement S 1 Ananas Creole -fl ' Glace Vahille jfe &t The Savoy menu Is a bit moro in-telllglble in-telllglble to the average Ogdenlte. At B the top of the page is a government 3- order and the menu 1b as follows: Tt "Ministry of Food Control." fb; The public meals order, 1017, pre-fi pre-fi tribes tne following rations for breaks' break-s' Bread A ration not exceeding two ounces per person. . Toast If toast is taken, bread can-Xs. can-Xs. not be served as well. ' Meat A ration not exceeding two ounces per person. I Sugar A ration of two-sevenths of an ounce per person per meal, that is, jfe: ue lump per person per meal. Theso rations will limit the con- , sumption of bacon to two small raah- ttB, or one Bmall snusage can bo taken. No butchers' meat can be fcw j terved before 10 a. m. j There is no limit to tho weight of ttreals, other than wheat, or fish, tf which may be served. Breakfast, Served from 8 till 10 a, m. f . 2-0 Tea, coffee, cocoa or chocolate, ja bread and butter. -Tea, coffee, cocoa or chocolate, jt- h1i bread and butter, porridge or f kb2!ed eB. r Jf Tea, coffee, cocoa or chocolate, Porridge and eggs, either boiled, W a , scrambled or fried with bacon or ome-, ome-, lette. 4-0 Tea, coffee, cocoa or chocolate, with porridge or eggs, etc., as above, " with addition of whiting, haddock, bloater, kipper, sole or sausage. The figures at the beginning of each paragraph give the price. Woman's Work in War. A letter received by Mrs. Rhivers from a lady superintendent at one of the munition plants follows: "Dear Mrs. Rhlvers: Your husband came in here to see our work the other day on his way through and was Interested In-terested in the work the girls are doing do-ing here and asked mc to write and tell you a little about it, I may mention men-tion that ho was looking very well after his journey. We have girls hero doing the work that fully skilled men did before the war, and they do it extremely well, too. We employ entirely en-tirely educated women, as the work they do is much more intricate than shell making or repetition work,. It took an ordinary workman some years to learn it, but, in three or four weeks, these women learn enough to do parts of the work, so that by splitting it up the whole work can be done by women. This, of course, is necessary, as there is no time and no men to spare. "We work our girls forty-eight hours a week that Is, nine hours for five days and three hours Saturdays and no work on Sundays. Some factories fac-tories do twelve-hour shifts, including' Sundays and night work, but girls) cannot stand such strenuous hours for ! a long period and consequently can ! not put in such good work. "I am Jady superintendent of the welfare department and our business , is to inspect the conditions under j which the girls work. We see that ! there is suitable accommodation, feeding feed-ing facilities, ventilation, proper light, heating, drainage, etc. Although some! people scoff and think we are coddling the workers, it has been proved that far more and better work is obtained! when the workers are comfortable, ; well looked after and well fed. Woi run a canteen hero, where good and wholesome meals can be obtained at cost price, to encourage workers to have a good meal at midday. In places where the workers buy sandwiches, etc., they do not keep so fit. The men were very much against female labor at first, but one point t which made it easier for our branch was the fact that the girls we employ will not wish to continue the work, after the war and, in consequence, ; there will be no question of their keeping keep-ing the men out of their jobs. I think if the men realized this more they would not worry so much. "My husband is trying to obtain permission per-mission to send some photos of the work to Captain Kelton of your hus-1 band's regiment and hopes to be able to do. so in a few days. '"Ydurs$lncerely. -(Sighed' ' "N. G. KING." I : OO |