Sharp diary 1918 page 29. Saturday 26 January 1918 - Chicago
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Saturday 26th of January 1918
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Up early took Maud her tea at 7.45 and after breakfast caught 8.18 train to Chicago. Another blizzard began in the night — the worst of the 3 we have had since we came here — and my journey in to Chicago was very unpleasant, and the journey home still more so. Indeed I was lucky to get back and not find myself stalled in Chicago. The trains when I returned mid-day were beginning to be stuck up and became completely so in the afternoon. I took my two classes from 9-11 and then came home. It took me nearly a quarter of an hour to walk from Wabash & VanBuren corner to U.B station — about 2 or 3 hundred yards the mud & driving snow nearly stopping me. In the evening the wind still bad and temperature rapidly falling, close to zero. We run a good risk of being starved out here. As it is there is hardly any coal, no milk and all supplies will probably be cut off for several days. How America is going to help us when she can’t even supply herself with coal beats me. She has rich coal mines in the most central parts of the country, any amount of labour and the best railway system in the world — or said to be, and yet the whole nation is almost fuel-less. I see that in Dec[ember] 1st last Pershing ordered 200,000 Khaki uniforms from Eng[land] and 100,000 blankets from Spain!Location
USA : Illinois : Chicago [41.8781136,-87.6297982]
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