TRANSCRIBED FROM THE NEWPORT DAILY INDEPENDENT SEPTEMBER 10, 1918 P. 2
Hello, J. E.:
Well, here’s a sketch of our trip from Vancouver, Wash., to Port Angeles, Wash. Last evening at nine o’clock the sergeant said all out for Port Angeles. We grabbed our baggage and marched over to the Y. M. C. A. and loaded on a truck. We have a Scotchman with us, and Scottie was singing. We left Vancouver about 11:30 Friday night and we all went to sleep, but Scottie was still singing. When we awoke it was six o’clock Friday morning We stopped at an inter-locking station they call Black River. We stayed two hours there. It certainly is a fine country through Washington, especially at the place called Black River. We left there at 8 Saturday morning. Scottie was still singing. We reached Seattle at 9 o’clock and marched through the city over to the docks on Puget Sound and missed our boat about 45 minutes. We had all day in Seattle, which has a population of 325,00 and more traffic than any city I have been in. We had dinner at the Palace Café, just opposite the Smith building, which only has 45 stories. I haven’t time to mention all I saw, but 4 o’clock we went back to the docks and boarded the U.S.S. Sioux, and Scottie was still singing. We have about forty in the bunch and are going to Port Angeles as mill guards.
The trip to the port was a great one on the water. We enjoyed the trip through Postage Canal. The scenery was great, and everybody had a fine time. We left the boat and took a train. The railroad is trestled and, it being dark, we could not see much on the way. We are here at Port Angeles, in a real house, with steam heat, but will move into tents tomorrow.
We left Scottie with the 120th Spruce squadron, still singing,
Yours truly, Basil Wingo,
119 Spruce Squadron, Port Angeles, Washington.
NOTES: Basil Orman Wingo is writing to his friend Jesse E. Williams. He was born in Oil Trough, Arkansas on July 8, 1893 and died on October 10. 1964. He is buried in the Walnut Grove Cemetery in Newport, Arkansas. His military headstone identifies him as a PFC Co. II Receiving Co. during World War I. He enlisted on July 19, 1918 and was discharged on February 15, 1919.
TRANSCRIBED BY PAYTON DHOOGE
Hello, J. E.:
Well, here’s a sketch of our trip from Vancouver, Wash., to Port Angeles, Wash. Last evening at nine o’clock the sergeant said all out for Port Angeles. We grabbed our baggage and marched over to the Y. M. C. A. and loaded on a truck. We have a Scotchman with us, and Scottie was singing. We left Vancouver about 11:30 Friday night and we all went to sleep, but Scottie was still singing. When we awoke it was six o’clock Friday morning We stopped at an inter-locking station they call Black River. We stayed two hours there. It certainly is a fine country through Washington, especially at the place called Black River. We left there at 8 Saturday morning. Scottie was still singing. We reached Seattle at 9 o’clock and marched through the city over to the docks on Puget Sound and missed our boat about 45 minutes. We had all day in Seattle, which has a population of 325,00 and more traffic than any city I have been in. We had dinner at the Palace Café, just opposite the Smith building, which only has 45 stories. I haven’t time to mention all I saw, but 4 o’clock we went back to the docks and boarded the U.S.S. Sioux, and Scottie was still singing. We have about forty in the bunch and are going to Port Angeles as mill guards.
The trip to the port was a great one on the water. We enjoyed the trip through Postage Canal. The scenery was great, and everybody had a fine time. We left the boat and took a train. The railroad is trestled and, it being dark, we could not see much on the way. We are here at Port Angeles, in a real house, with steam heat, but will move into tents tomorrow.
We left Scottie with the 120th Spruce squadron, still singing,
Yours truly, Basil Wingo,
119 Spruce Squadron, Port Angeles, Washington.
NOTES: Basil Orman Wingo is writing to his friend Jesse E. Williams. He was born in Oil Trough, Arkansas on July 8, 1893 and died on October 10. 1964. He is buried in the Walnut Grove Cemetery in Newport, Arkansas. His military headstone identifies him as a PFC Co. II Receiving Co. during World War I. He enlisted on July 19, 1918 and was discharged on February 15, 1919.
TRANSCRIBED BY PAYTON DHOOGE