Philip A Embury Journal #3

nole and surrounded by a great wall with turrets, that give the whole place a very interesting and ancient appearance. We hiked from the statiuon along the cog railroad up the hill into the town in a pouring rain. The town is about a mile and a half from the station. The Amer. have a large school near here. I never saw so many high ranking officers before. We cadets are a great curiosity. No one seems to know what we are. Tracy and I got a room

at a hotel and a good supper. We were in sad need of a good meal, and are so bad off for some rest.

Friday Apr. 26. '18. After six hours sleep Tracy and I piled out at 3:30 A.M., still mighty tires and stiff from loss of sleep and rest on the train. Took the cog railroad from the town down to the station after getting up in the dark, and cold and getting down to the station we found out that our train was not going until 7 instead of 4:41. We could find no place where we

could get warm, or get anything to eat. As soon as it got daylight Herb. Kendall and I found a place where we could wash. We were cold and stiff so we roughedhoused to get warm and then washed by a hydrent, and shaved. About six thirty we managed to get hold of some bum coffee. After going back to the train Frost and I wandered down to the end to watch them hitch the engine on. Jack Stores and Stewart were already down there. We amused ourselves for some time by

throwing rocks at a telegraph pole. We were standing right by the end of our train so that it couldn't get out without us. We finaly got anxious to know when we were going, so we asked a French yard man when our train was going. He said that it had gone two minutes ago. They hitched the engine on the other end, and the cars that we were so carefully watching wern't cuppled on to our train, and then the darn thing went out the other way from what we had expected it to. We went over to the station

Jack Stores didn't even have his coat with him. Stewart loaned him his overcoat. At the station we found that the next train left for Gondrecourt at 4:30 P.M. Then we wanted to know if there was not some other way that we could go to get there sooner. We found that there was a trian leaving Charmont at 9:18 for Neouve Chateau, and another leaving there for Gondrecourt at 4:30 It was then 7:20 and we didn't know how we would get to Charmont by 9:18, a distance of