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Sierra Club Bulletin 



Get things in shape for the 1919 outing and enter my name on the list. 



I'll be there. ^ 



Billy Goldsborough, 



istLt.A. S.,U. S.A. 



THE NAVY CLUB 



For U. S. and Allied Sailors and Marines 

 509 Fifth Avenue, New York 



Mine Sweeping Division, Base B, 



Secretary Sierra Cluh\: ^^^^^^ I^^^^^' 



I would like some information regarding my standing in the Sierra 

 Club. I am anxious to keep up in my club payments, as I do not want 

 to be dropped from the rolls. The Sierra Club is doing too good a work 

 not to allow myself to do my little bit in opening up those grand old 

 mountains to the general public a little more than they are now, and it 

 is only when you are in service this way, and so far away from their 

 pine-clad ridges, that you can appreciate them to their fullest. There 

 are no snow-clad peaks, mountain trails or evening campfires out on the 

 briny, you know — only hard work. But the Kaiser's finish is in sight, 

 and then back again to our mountains. I want to go as a Sierra Club 

 member though ; so kindly tell me how I stand and how much I owe. 



S. F. address is 623 Third Avenue ; but send this information to the 

 Mine Sweeping Division. Yra^cis Kester Cliff 



U. S. S. "Tanamo," 

 Secretary Sierra Club: October i, 1918 



This evening, as I was about to write and say hello, and to gently 

 but firmly suggest that all the Sierra Club mail possible be sent to me 

 in care of this my good ship, the mail orderly came aboard with a nice 

 plump Sierra Club envelope, and I have lived over all the joys on the 

 map of the proposed Sequoia National Park, all the way from Simpson 

 Meadows to Cottonwood Pass. I sincerely trust the bill has had, or 

 will have, the consideration it deserves, although the time for pressing 

 it may not be just this moment, on account of war needs. 



The club's circular is of great interest too, and the very last para- 

 graph meets with a hearty response from me — "We shall all look for- 

 ward eagerly 1^ the day when annual outings will be resumed and we 

 meet again around the glowing campfire and listen to tales of our mem- 

 bers who have been overseas." 



Even in my short sea experience of less than two months I have more 

 than once stood on the bridge in the inky darkness and seen — not dark- 

 ness, but the beautiful meadows of the Sierras, and thought not war, 

 but campfires and jolly folks, and Colby miles ! But, Heaven willing, 

 when this job is finished we will all have a grand get-together, and a 

 happy day it will be. 



