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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 30, 1918)
PAGE 2 T H E CHEM AW A AMERICAIN The CHEMAWA AMERICAN Published Weekly at the Salem Indian Training School Chemawa, Oregon, HARWOOD HALL, Superintendent Address all communications to Ruthyn Turney, Manager Entered at the Chemawa, Oregon, Postoffice as Second- Class Mail Matter SUBSCRIPTION - - 25Cts PER ANNUM NICK ORLOPP WRITES Through the courtesy and consideration of a friend in Salem we are enabled to publish the following let ter from Nick Orloff, who was among the first of the Chemawa boys to join the colors. He gives an ac count of his cruise in the Southern Seas, as follows: I will now give you a brief story of our voyage and not go into details too much, in other words, will make a long story short. Well, as nearly as I can remember we left Mare Island on the 16th of July and passed out through the Golden Gate, San F ran cisco, on the 17th and learned that our orders were to go to Chill, South America. From the day we left San Francisco the weather was beautiful and we all felt that luck was with us for the trip —it was the maiden voyage for our ship, the U. S. S. Alloway. After leaving Frisco the land was out of sight for thirty days. Of course we crossed the equator before arriving at Chili. The first port we struck was Arica, Chili. We laid there over night and then left for Caleata Buena, Chili, where we arrived that night and commenced loading nitrate of sodium (salt petre) as our cargo. The loading lasted for fifteen days, during which we all had a great tim e. As to a de scription of that town I say frankly that it was the most rotten and filthy burg that I ever struck. The streets were dusty, the sidewalks not more than two feet wide, buildings small and low in which the peo ple dwell. Same rooms answer in turn for cooking and dining and sleeping quarters. After loading at that town we left for Panama to receive further orders as to our course with this valu able cargo. We reached Panama in ten days and learned that we were to go to Philadelphia and await further orders. We stayed at Panama over night and in the morning about 6 :3 0 we started through the canal. It took us eight hours to make the passage. , The canal is something wonderful—certainly beyond my description. Talk of beautiful scenery—it ’s all there. It surely is a marvelous engineering feat from end to end. So much for the canal. We dropped anchor at Colon, Panama, that afternoon and at 6 :0 0 p. m. passed into the Carribean Sea. Have been out now a couple of days. We are expecting to see one, or be hit by a German “ su b ” any m inute and the crew is on the lookout for any object which may look like a “ sea devil.” We have been informed that we are in a dangerous zone at present and will be until we reach and pass the Florida coast. So in case we reach the next port safe I will mail this letter and you wall know on receipt of it that all is well. We are not worried a bit for it is all in the game. We have also been informed of a German raider on this coast and have a good descrip tion of her and really know her without having seen her at all. I surely hope we reach the United States once more. It certainly is the only country; the best and most civilized of them all. Nothing like the old U. S. A.! NO SURE CURE At the present writing the Spanish Influenza at Chemawa is subsiding. It is hoped that the worst is over and that we may suffer no further—for certainly we had a bad enough time of it. This country has been and is in the grip of one of the worst scourges that ever visited our borders. There seems to be no “ sure cu re,” no real specific for the treatm ent of the disease. Caution is urged upon the public that little faith be placed in the so-called cures offered. Under date of October 28 the following dispatch was sent out from W ashington, D. C.: O ut of the maze of sure cures, recipes and vaccines put forth as remedies for Spanish Influenza, nothing so far has been found to be a demonstrated specific cure for the disease, the United States public health service announced here today. The epidemic has brought to the attention of the public and the health service no end of alleged “ cures,” it is said, most of them being offered for valuable con sideration, so that the government health experts have thought it advisable to make public announce ment that many of the so-called “ cures” are apt to do more harm than good, and that anything demon strated as valuable will be given the widest publicity by the government. Vaccines have been watched in their effect bv the service, but the service is not urging any form of vaccine treatm ent at this time. Sergeant H enry Darnell came up from Vancouver bar racks last Saturday evening and remained at the school until after noon on Sunday. He is connected with the commissary departm ent at that army post, being in a position of trust and responsibility, and is proving him self the man for the job. We are pleased to report that he is making a splendid name for himself.
