A LETTER FROM CAPTAIN.KOHAHAN, FOHUSRLY CHAPLAIN AT THIS POST.
5th. Infantry, Fort Yilliams, Maine. February 17th.,1925.
Dear Ivlac: -
I'received the Jan. 16ch and Jan. 23rd. copies of the
old "Chilkoot Post" yesterday, for which many thanks. But what in
thunder are you doing up in Alaska?' I thought you had shaken the
snows of the Northland from your shoepacs long since, and had set
tled down for a warm southern winter down at Fort Banning, or at he
in Alabama. How come you v>ack at the old stand again? Did the lure
of the North get you? 'if I had ever known that you want to freeze
I1d have hauled you into this outfit, and this climate,-where 20 "be
low ' zeo for a winter temperature is as common as a snow flake.
I sure could have used you, too, at your old job of school-teaching.
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I’m still trying to start that regimental paper, bur office ma
terial is scarce. I really expect to get it going this month, though
as I have finally gotten a printer and a mimeograph machine co-ordi
nated. Naturally, I miss Alaska, hut am entirely satisfied with
my present post. We have a full strength regiment here. This summer
we have'the CMTC. here at Portland. This state of Maine is a wonder
ful place in summer, hut in winter-WOW*.r Ft.Williams, right on the
water’s' edge hit 15 and 18 he low several times this winter, with
about '3 feet of show. That was in January, however, right now we
are having fine spring weathe-r,-so springy that I’m tempted to get a
hig new sedan that I’ve bought, and start to drive it. But I think
I’ll wait a while,-March is coming.
I have plenty to do. Being Chaplain, Athletic Officer, E.& R.
Officer, Schoolmaster, Poatal Officer, Motion Picture Officer, Li
brarian, etc,etc, for a full sized regiment is no joke. And when I
add Editor to my other jobs I expect to have a little to do. But it’s
a.ll in the game, Mac, and I like it. They turned over the regimenta..
^aseball team to me last spring, after they had gotten off to a poor
start, and I managed by a lot of luck to bring them home as Champi
ons of the whole 1st. Corps Area, my work as Athletic Officer was
sure cut out for me. Then we had a fine football team in the fall,
following that with basketball that is more than holding it’s own
in the City League, with fine bowling teams as a side line. And next
spring, it’s off on baseball again. One continual round,-but it’s
fun. As long as we can put out winners I’m satisfied.
I surely could use some or the old. AiasKaa gang nere xu avvxo*
if I had them. I’m going to he short a first string pitcher this
spring, Maybe I don’t wish I had .Frank Rogers or M. G, Clarke uo falj
hack upon, I tried hard to get I,t.he', ree here from Vancouver hxxxx
hut the scheme flunked out at the last minute. I sure could work
in Clarke and Bruce Wilson on our basketball team, not to mention
Abie Chamberlain as an outfielder on the baseball team. And if I
only had old Andruskiewicz and Maxwell for the ball team I’d save a
great many of my fast vanishing locks. Butler, too, would make a
cracker jack football player, and I could promise him good money in
the fighting game, as we have two boxing shows every week in Port
land. My old pal Hoffman would work in wonderfully well with our
65 piece band,-con side red one of the vest in the Army, with plenty
of orchestra work on the side, to keep him! vusy. But here I am rav
ing over things that never can be. It’s tough, that’s what it is,
Mac, to know where good men are, and not be acle to get them when
you need them. I surely miss Alaska, though, and would go back to
morrow if I could. When I think of the Mountains, and the rivers,
and the flowers, and everything else that made the country there so
wonderful, it makes me really homesick foi; the old post.
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