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Show I: WURSE WRITES FROM I Of OF EASTERN : 1 ARMY GAMPS A fine letter has just been received in Ogden from Miss Stella Sainsbury. who recently resigned her position as superintendent of nurses at the Dee ; hospital to enter the sehvice of the country' as a Red Cross nurse and who j is now at Camp Merritt New Jersey. Miss Sainsbury explains how even-body even-body at. the camp is working for the cause of Uncle Sam and how they are anxious to "go over." The letter was written to Mr. and Mrs. Tom Feeney. i who were her very close friends. She j says: "Dumont, New Jersey, April 18, 1913. It surely was nice of you to see me off at the station. The Canadian soldiers sol-diers were all right, and I didn't get a chance to get lonesome. We have been here a week tonight at 11:30. Came straight through with the exception excep-tion of a few hours in Chicago. Ono of my class mates met me there and we went to lunch and then walked around a little until train time. The rest of the trip was delightful because I we were together, although we had planned on stopping in Buffalo and going over to the 'Falls.' We v. en appointed. We also had planned on go-inc go-inc down the Hudson in the daytime and went down at night "Dumont is a very' small town, with only a few families living here. All the rest are soldiers, which are 35,000 and 167 nurses. So you can see we have city of our own. All of the hospital buildings are connected with corridors corri-dors which occupy five miles and they ;r-ll me the ninht superintendent of nurses makes rounds fiv times each night. So 1 was just thinking she-would she-would have some walking to do. "We do not know whether wp will go to France very soon or not. We must have a little training first, I guess. Yesterday we had our physical examinations to see if we were fit lor anything. Don't know how it will come out. There seems to be such a ood spirit and feeling among everybody every-body here -because we are all working for the c;ood of the cause, which, without, with-out, the least doubt, will he victorious. "Everyone Is so anxious to go oer and put one over on the kaisr-r. That is all they can talk about. Believe me, there will be something doing when ihey do get busy. The surgeon general gen-eral from Washington is coming and there is some 'fussing' to get everything every-thing straight. Well he can come ami ." i ire a year's growth out of my patient. pat-ient. "Miss Weiburg and myself are on special with a captain. She is on at niht and I am on the day time. He is nice, but rather fussy. It is 'some class' to be a captain. "1 am expecting two girls from New York. They are waiting to go to France. One is from Ogden and the other from Salt Lake. It surely will be cood to see some one we really know, although we feel right at home here with these girls. There are thirty-five of us in the dormitory together. "Some lively' bunch There isn't any rest for ; the wicked at our house, but we are i living in hope of something better some time. Three timos a day the band plays ajid it surely gives one the fight - I ing spirit. 1 have my patient on thej porch and haven't very much to do beside be-side sight-seeing. There are some of , the boys drilling all day long. They say this isn't a real training camp just a mobilization camp where the boys are waiting to go to France. "Nearly every day some boys are j going. We are not supposed to know anything that is goins on and we surely sure-ly don't. All one knows is just what he finds out from his neighbors, or by making mistakes. "This hospital proper, will accom modate 8000 patients when it is completed. com-pleted. There seems to be a lot of sick boys already, and not nearly enough nurses to give them the care they need. Of course we have orderlies order-lies to help, but some of them are so dainty it would give a patient the 'Jimmies' to have them come near. But it isn't their fault, they are put there the pour k'ds Some of them are preat big men doing such trifling things. MISS STELLA SAINSBURY. "Reserve Nurse. U. S. Base Hospital.; "Camp Merritt, Dumont, N. J." |