Willmund Reaux Glaeser (7 June 1897-Aug. 1966), of Houston, Tex., was a wireless operator working out of the office of Kilbourne and Clark, on freighter ships and tramp steamers plying routes up the coast of South America, through the Panama canal (22 Jan. 1920), and up the Gulf and east coasts of the United States as far as New York. Several times during his sailing career, Glaeser also took ship for New Orleans and Galveston, Tex., then traveled by train to visit family and friends in Houston, Tex., and the surrounding area. Glaeser probably received the majority of his wireless training when he served with Company C of the 221st Field Signal Battalion, based at Camp Alfred Vail, N.J., from which he was demobilized sometime around Feb. 1919. While serving aboard first the freighter S.S. Sag Harbor, then two excursion ships, the S.S. Chester W. Chapin and the S.S. Richard Peck, Glaeser experiences storms at sea, crossing the Panama Canal, a longshoreman's strike in Havana, Cuba, and the exciting social life in New York just after the war. He describes life in the ports of Baltimore, Md. and Miami and Tampa Bay, Fla., Charleston, S.C. and Wilmington, N.C.
From the description of Dairy, 9 Dec. 1919-25 Nov. 1920. (Texas A&M University). WorldCat record id: 50959475
