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Show BILLY GLASMANN NOW AT NAVAL TRAINING STATION i Mrs Evelyn Glasmann has received a letter from her son, Billy, who la now at the naval training station at San Francisco. Bilh writes that he likes the 1 1 fo of a sailor. He mentions a number of other Ogden boys, his f hums at the Ogden high school, who are In the same company with him His letter follows : "U. S. N. Training Station, June 2, 1918. "Dear Mother: I arrived safe and well and I hope you are feeling the same. After arriving at San Francisr o I was placed aboard a U. Si tug with 12 other recruits and taken to Goat Island, which is the U. S. naval training train-ing station. We were kept over n i a li t in the main barracks, which is on the seashore of the island In the morning we were taken to D company barracks, which is the detention camp The detention de-tention camp is for tho new men and le used for preliminary training and to catch all of the cases of sickness among the men before they are put in the main barracks. ' There are now 700 men in D barracks bar-racks and about 2100 in the main barracks bar-racks The meals are. very good and we are enjoying things. "D barracks Is on the top of the Island, Is-land, (which is about 300 feet above the sea level), and we can look over 'Frisco, Berkeley, Oakland, and a lot of other cil lei "M j tent mate Is Gordon Van Namee of Ogden, and he is a swell little feM low. Hy Farnsworth, LeGrande I'in-gree I'in-gree and Dick Marshall, (school chums at O. H. S .) are also here and in the same company with Van and myself. my-self. We are getting along fast in our military work, and in about four weeks if we have good luck, we will be second sec-ond class seamen and join the regular sailors at the main barracks. "We will be here between six and eight months betore we arc put on a ship " |