Camp Upton L.I. 5-11-18

 

Dear Anna

 

            We arrived here yesterday and most of us were glad of it, as we were getting sick of riding.  We got on a ferryboat at Hoboken at 9 o’clock and it was one o’clock before we got on the train in Brooklyn.

 

We had to lay in the river and wait for a boat load of soldier to leave before we could land.  We rode sixty miles on the train and it took us five hours to make it.  It was the slowest train I ever rode on.

 

I do not like it as well here as did at Camp Logan. It is rather dreary looking as there are no tree[s] in the camp.  We have barracks to sleep in but I was colder this morning than I was anytime at Camp Logan.  I suppose our blood is thin yet but we will get used to it in a few days.  We crossed ten states on our way here.  We were treated fine.  At several places they met us at the train with sandwiches, cookies and ice cream.  We did not get anything extra in the way of eats on the train. 

 

I never had any idea that Long Island was as long as it is.

 

It was raining when we left Camp Logan and it rained the first two days we were on the train.  It also rained here last night.  We have been busy all morning get our stuff cleaned up.

 

There was quite a few men sick on the train.  We were paid on the train and we were eating everything we could buy.  I was one of the lucky ones and did not get sick.

 

            This place looks deserted.  I think the men who trained here have left for Europe.  I do not know how long we are going to stay here.

 

            I hope I will be able to get to New York and see our cousins tomorrow.

 

            Wherever we went the people were out waving and cheering even as late as ten or eleven oclock at night.

 

You had better tell Eva not to send any more packages because we may not stay here very long and it would not follow us across the ocean.  You cannot send anything across the ocean except upon written request by myself, OK’d by the commanding officer and that request has to accompany the package to the post office.

 

I understand there is no room for anything on the boats except government property.

 

We have a pool table and a piano in our barrack.  I have not had a chance to look around yet, but I suppose there are just as many YMCA’s here as there was at Camp Logan.  Some fellows told me it cost twice as much for meal here as it did in Houston and it cost $2.00 one way to New York and it take two hours.

 

There was 1000 of us on the ferryboat and it seemed as if there was room for about 2000 more.  Well I will close for now and hope I get some mail soon.

 

                                                            Love to all

                                                                        Theo