Show BILLIE WRITES WHITES BEAUTIFUL SAGE BRUSH BEATS THEM THE WORLD CAME IRON THE presidents BOAT ANO AND EXPECTS TO ID COME WEST SOON new york jan 27 alex H rollo esq Paro utah dear friend many times I 1 have sent you a teless since I 1 have been rone gone but like many others I 1 have often thought of writing tine but have failed still it is better I 1 la than never so here goes opportunities have been warm scarce for writing in ID the places and mccu lations I 1 have been in but now on the home stretch I 1 am goinz going to send a aline line klone along with a daily paper the hatchet which is published on the high big h sem seas and which I 1 feel sure will interest you I 1 wu was fortunate in coming over on n the presidents pr dents boat the george washington Waa hington As aa you know it is a steel boat maje made in germany and made over in U S A made over to the extent of taking all of the POWDERED RED frona from pistons bud and generally offsetting the devil went ment the german crew had done before we took the bout boat away from t them hem upon declaration of war the boat is IB a wonder I 1 do n not 0 t d dare re quote figures as they mean nothing to 10 we me but be as I 1 recall it she is some feet in length and tons displacement if I 1 am away off on that just add enough zeros to make it interesting then read the angures over again anyway ashes what she should be and she had several hand banda aboard a navy vaude ville alb troop moving picture show library Y M C A plenty of eats and plenty of weather to shake down or up the eats to make room for more so how could a fellow kick I 1 expect to go west won soon and from wine some camp out there I 1 should soon on be mustered out I 1 am probably getting out ahead of many others on account of having been n at so an officers training camp in d de la Is when tile the armistice was signed this made a casual of me 1 I the same as ao all of us fellows have small control of W where here w we so go but no DO one has tea heard rd me deeo aeeti against coming back to sage age brush there is nothing sweeter in the world that I 1 have seen men or breathed than good old utah sage brush sincere best beat withes wishes to a all friends tell 1 BILLY B arle |