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Title: Pacific service magazine
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Subjects: Pacific Gas and Electric Company Electric utilities Electrical engineering Public utilities
Publisher: San Francisco : Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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en years, so Iguess we are safenow. Lieutenant Fran-cis I. Maslin wrotea long and interest-ing letter from hisheadquarters inFrance, which arenear Tours. Lieu-tenant Maslin iscommanding officerof the 452d TruckCompany, and hisduties consist oftaking truck trainsfrom the port ofdebarkation to thedifferent sectionsof the front. In this way he is having awonderful opportunity to see France. Hestates, however, that his conscience hurtshim somewhat because he is not in thefighting end of the game; in fact, he sayshe has not even been uncomfortable. Healso pays his respects to the French peas-ants, who seem to have unlimited confi-dence in both the skill and good natureof his truck drivers. He says they standaround in little groups in the middle ofthe street and no amount of honking hasthe slightest effect on them. LieutenantMaslin expresses his appreciation of thePacific Service Magazine, and says thatthe pictures of California scenery in par-ticular are of great interest to all the boj^s.
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Have been inFrance over sixweeks. The weatheris fine here now. Isaw about fourhundred prisonerscome in the otherday, and there isplenty of actionaround here. Wehave taken over thesector and are giv-ing the Boches hell.We have just fin-ished running atelephone line be-hind the lines andare waiting for thenext detail to goout. Will probablysee lots of actionon the next job aswe are workingright through to thefront. Seated, Jos. Butler, Jr., A Battery, 144th FieldArtillery, A. E. F. Standing, Cecil L. (Tommy)Hornberger, same battery. (Both were employedin the ofllce of the secretary, San FranciscoDistrict.) The following letter was received fromCorporal Merkelbach, Company C, 322dField Signal Battalion, who was formerlyan operator in San Francisco District: In an interestingletter to Mr. Otto A.Knopp, W. N. Lind-blad, formerly ofthe Laboratory, de-scribes his life asan aviator in Rock-well Field, SanDiego. It certainly is agreat sensation tocut off your throt-tle, turn her nosedown and w

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