| Show Another Letter tetter from Ralph Finnegan 25 26 I Fairmount Street Woburn Massachusetts May lay 1923 Dear Mr Haddon Your Your letter and a 0 number of The Park Records reached me mo to-day to and It is le needless for tor me to say they were wel wel- come Would Would have received them sooner sooner had I not been so anxious to get home on my leave of absence As soon as my ship arrived in Boston Doston Roston Dos Bos ton I made a bee line for wife and baby not even waiting for my mail maH However I went to the navy yard this morning and my mall mail was there and yours is the first one to be ans ana We had bad a splendid trip from Guatemala Guatemala Guatemala Guat Guat- emala notwithstanding two heavy storms encountered We Ve made the trip of 1700 miles in six alx days Nearly half of cf that time we did not know which way we were going It is hard sometimes to tell whether we are goIng goIng going go- go Ing ahead or astern but we always get there Just the same Well Mr I sure would like to be In n the army of boys that sell The Record every Friday When I was one of the The Record Record Re Re- cord was published on Saturdays Saturday's and when I read the date line of Friday Friday Friday Fri day it did not look Just right I well remember some of your force Lynx Langford Charley James and your boy LaPa e. e Ask Lynx if he remembers a sack of bones we I sold to Lee Richardson the Junk Junkman junkman junkman I man about nine years ago It is pleasant peasant to remember when the old od gang went down to the brick hills for tor a swim And often vie we would go over to Smiths Smith's pasture for a swim in a of about a foot toot of water and six feet of mud We Ve were were not aware In those days that mud baths' baths were good for the skin If this Is true there should be many of the gang around Park City blessed with witha a beautiful particularly particularly In lary those who wallowed Smiths Smith's field fled in those good old days Thank you for the picture of old od Park City The Jefferson school building the old Swede hall the Ontario dugway and many other land marks aroused pleasant I was grieved to read in one of the Records of the death of Henry McBride Mc- Mc Bride in Salt Lake We Wo were sort of pals at one time and I am sorry that I will never see him again And sAnd then I read of Mr Mattas Matta's death I know all of the Matta Malta family ly y and the son Bob Dob Dobas was as one of my best friends My sympathy goes out outto outto outto to Bob Dab and the family in their loss And to Miss Winnefred Jennings my sympathy goes out because death of her beloved mother Miss Winnifred was my teacher for three years and no nicer teacher ever taught in the public schools I truly sympathize with her in her recent loss We leave Boston Doston on the of May on a three months month's cruise In the Baltic ocean and expect to get back to New York harbor some time in October We are told that after that cruise the Delaware Deleware the steamship I Iam Iam Iam am now on will be sent to the scrap pile and it may go there before that time The crew of the Deleware wIll put the New Colorado in commission The transfer r will be made at the nav navy yard From The Records Record's mining col 10 I am of the opinion there are a number of new mines in the Park City elty district now I suppose the Park Utah Is U one of the new ones or ones or perhaps perhaps per per- haps hap it Is III one of the old ones nea under a anew anew anew new name I am pleased to tell you Mr Haddon Had Had- I don dun that I 1 received an Interesting I letter from one of my old friends in I Park City CUy today to He lie got my address from the letter you ou BO so kindly published published pub pub- recently and for tor which I I thank you In closing let me mo say I have havo one of tho the nicest little girls in the world for a wife and we have a little daughter eighteen months old old and and It Is 18 beta because use of these two little girls that I am always so 80 glad to get a leave loave of absence from ship duty duly Very respectfully yours RALPH LPH D. D 1 |
