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Show W M0RR1SSEY I ENJOVS CAMP LIFE From the tone of a letter sent by j! Private Ray Morrissey, Battery' F, li 33th field artillery, Camp Lewis, to " Richard Barnett, proprietor of tho k Portola cafe, the former Ogden man ; I Is enjoying soldiering. Ho says the ft boys til Camp Lewis are all quick lo learn and eag.-' !o get across oe s.a p lo use sonic ol teir skill ugci'r.st the j Germans. Ray's letter follows: "Dear Friend Dick: "Well, this is the life. All you bavo to do I o be a jjlj good srldler is tn work, and you know A 1 was always fund of that. I am able I I to do anything from manicure a horse I j to f :c(i 400 men at a single meil, but, SjhB at that, I like it. M S "This is a drxdy camp, the largest i$jJ and best in the United States- It will m I ac.ommudate 70,000 msn. s f'U as Jfi J you can see in any direction you find SU ill fin all at uori. 9 j "It is 'londtrfu' to see 'he differ- J ruce a few week?, makes in a nuuci of JIM raw recruits. They get. off tho train m'rl in all shapes and sizes, some without fltil and some, with clothes. But it makes Hlil no difference for in ton days' every 111 man is alike and is in the place he is H(B best fitted for Ml j "The weather is fine The nights nH are cold enough to sleep' under three nl blankets and the days just hot enough U. j to drill. Wc get a good rain about HK twice a week and -with that manage 1 H to keep the dust down. All in all it is I I fl a wonderful place. fj "I have been transferred into the I I artillery and like than branch of the 3 8 service better than,,the infantry, and E I will be able to do more for the Huns I js with a three-inch piece than with one j n of those regular rifles. i "If our friend Kaiser Bill could just I take a look at this camp, I don't think J fc he would have much to say about the jL outcome of the Avar, " j E "My battery will train here four or HJ five months at least, before we go ml over. All the fellows are In pretty B much of a hurry to get over the pond, H so they take a lot of interest in their M work. H "Everything in Ogden seems to be H moving good. I get a letter daily from ffl my father aud my wifo, so do not feel j so far away after all- I j "The boys who left Ogden Monday, i arrived at camp this morning and I D must go and look them over. It will m do them a great deal of good to see B j an old regular like myself, and by this M time 1 should be well able to kid them W ,j along. IH ,1 "Give my regards to any of the fel- jffl j lows you sec and say that things are M fine for me. I must take this oppor- m . tunity to thank you for all tho kind- ) , ness shown me While in Ogden and pr hope to be able to reciprocate somo U. ; time. With best wishes to yourself j I and family. m- "RAY MORRISSEY, it "Battery F. 3Sth F. A., Camp Lewis.' Ml j on Mr . |