Brooklyn, N.Y.

303 Vanderbilt Ave.

October 8 – 84.

 

Dear George,

                        I was very glad at receiving your letter, it came with Mama's today. I hope you wont be shooting your arrow into some boys face, always point it in some other direction. I saw a young mans two fingers cut off the other day from his right hand. I put him on a car & sent him up to the Navy Hospital. It was through his own carelessness, so you & Frank look out.

 

I am afraid you would be / cutting yourself if you had a knife.

 

            I think it is a good idea for the school boys like you to have a fire engine company, & hook & ladder gang, so if you have a fire in the school you will know what to do.

 

            Glad you have been promoted. I hope you will soon be No 1 in first division.

 

The New York Herald has laid a cable from Europe to the Herald office in New York, & they are laying it in the ground right in this street to the bridge. I will send you a piece of it in the next paper to Mama.

                                   

Much love from                     

Papa.

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