Pacific service magazine . ourown. You folks at home must prepareyourselves though for more loan drivesand Red Cross and Y. M. C. A. drives be-fore we will be able to report home thatour work is finished. The Hun is notlicked yet by a long, long shot. We willdo it, however, in time. Love to you, and regards to all myfriends. Mr. Barrett received the following letter from Captain A. R. Thompson, Company B, 29th Engineers. Hisletter discloses the follow-ing most remarkable ro-mance. I had a most pleasant sur-prise this evening on my re-turn to barracks. As I camein an officer approachedme and as
Pacific service magazine . ourown. You folks at home must prepareyourselves though for more loan drivesand Red Cross and Y. M. C. A. drives be-fore we will be able to report home thatour work is finished. The Hun is notlicked yet by a long, long shot. We willdo it, however, in time. Love to you, and regards to all myfriends. Mr. Barrett received the following letter from Captain A. R. Thompson, Company B, 29th Engineers. Hisletter discloses the follow-ing most remarkable ro-mance. I had a most pleasant sur-prise this evening on my re-turn to barracks. As I camein an officer approachedme and asked if I knewwiiere he could get a drinkof water. I invited him tomy quarters and after satis-fying his thirst we began ageneral sort of conversationwhich soon divulged thefact that my chance ac-quaintance trained at CampLewis and originally camefrom California and, to besure, dear old San Fran-cisco, and, more remark-able, was a former employeeof my beloved Pacific Serv-ice. Have I aroused yourcuriosity? Well, here is the. Scrgeiuit Arthur E. Chandler,Aero Squadron No. 128, KellyField, San Antonio, Texas.(Formerly of Alameda CountyDistrict.) Lieutenant E. N. Murphy, formerly con-nected with the Land Department, nowwith the U. S. Geological Survey, is inthe Spruce Camp in the State of Wash-ington around Clallam a letter received fromhim we quote: When we first came Iworked with Mr. Hamilton(the U. S. G. S. man) fortwo dajs because y chain-man had not arrived. Wewere working along theroad, Mr. Hamilton aheadand I next about three hun-dred feet ahead of Reynolds(Mr. chainman), whenI heard a yell and whirledaround to see a panther inthe road about ten feet fromReynolds. It had jumpedout of the forest into theroad at him, but he wascarrying a rod (which is aboard fourteen feet long,painted black, white andred) and that seemed topuzzle the cat so he stoppedto consider. Mv hair rose Pacific Service Magazine 81 straight up. I knewRejnolds carried apistol, so I startedrunn
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