| Show DO DOUGHBOYS 11 1 1 ro THREE K DAYS OFF IN NEUWIED IS ONE 11 T RIOT MOT OF JOY smiles of six jolly american girls and lee ice cream and cake galore give homesick soldiers new spirit to keep the wacht am rhein visit points of interest and are royally entertained by REST in the new crork tribune Ger gennary mary in many ways the Amer american lenn solder forced to maln main wn a wacht nas am rhein here in germany carmany Is to be by those who have hurried back through the french winter months to home and fireside the honie home goers are possibly well pleased with their lot but the stay are beginning to come into their own the american army and the Y st C A have combined into a harmonious partnership here at on the rolac which gives full compensation for or enforced foreign service it Is called the third corps reccea recreation tion center antl anti Is today operating full blast tor for the benefit of morale of some 85 of uncle sams boys composing the third american army corps commanded by major general nines elven eleven hundred from the first second and thirty second divisions come from their prescribed villages and town of the occupied area into neu aled every three days to rest recreate and see the sights of the rhine the third corps recreation center made possible by the folks at home through the Y 11 C A Is the slogan you may read in neuwied today and the doughboys dough boys are beginning to appreciate it and talk about it american army engineers have built the largest Y 11 II C A club anif and recreation hall in europe the home of the recreating doughboy in which he neither worries about reveille nor saluting it is here that lie he first goes athen ben he arrives from the area and he le Is told to make himself comfortable by one or nil all of sti six comely american girls who have come from home to cater to john doughboy and he be alone natty young officers notwithstanding the boys are invited to make themselves right at home and they lose lese no DO time in doing so how the idea works follow mr john doughboy through a three day leave in tile recreation center lie ile packs up his blankets towels toothbrush and safety razor and departs from the scene of 0 duty lie he arrives in new ded by varl various routes 1100 of him and Is greeted by a brass bund band at the railway station A guide conducts him to the big recreation hall and turns him loose among potted palms and deep upholstered easy chairs divans and lazy backs set tastily in a great room flanked on two sides by big red brick fireplaces fire bre places in which cheery log fires tire burning lie he Is assigned a place in a double deck bunk and lie throws his blankets aboard and returns to the big room to loaf perhaps he sitt sift down at a table and writes a line or two to the folks back home then he meets a friend and plays a game of billiards or pool on the overhanging balcony at one end of the room or lie he just lolls bolls around on those easy chairs and sofas until lunch time then some one suggests that he stroll down to uncle sams hotel the place that used to be the holien zollern hollern house here the uncle samy C A combination serves a meal men tor for him and his 1009 1099 companions that lie has never seen equaled tit in the A E F crockery suffers sadly this crockery as the doughboys dough boys call it Is in reality an excellent grade or german china slid and as sergeant jr IT V W enfelt commander in chief of uncle sams hotel explained breakages break ages at the hands of some scores of german waitresses run ill up to I 1 per cent it a meal or nearly per cent a month but it Is uncle sams party and the boys enjoy it sergeant enfelt was be head ad walter waiter at a hotel in Clevel cleveland antl when uncle S sum sam um dratted drafted him ills his home however Is hartford conn and he never dreamed the armistice would bring lage of rhems with well preserved him alm here to run the biggest army ho he 91 1 it ir Go dorany rany nearly clearly 6 00 doughboys dough boys can sit simultaneously at a single meal and 1000 if 1 necessary drop in at two sittings for any meal of the day from the hotel the recreating soldier AN wanders anders back to the recreation hall which now becomes his principal point of orientation here he chats with american girls who make him feel tit at home and point out the afternoons entertainment there Is uncle sams theater a pretentious german playhouse with a good bill showing at two and again at seven there Is the theater continuous movies both afternoon and evening and when till all this does not appeal there are athletics of almost every character on a nearby field from to there Is music and ten tea or chocolate and cakes in inythe ahe recreation hall and from that alme onward there are music and games inside or outside winding up with lee ice cream and ca cake 7 e at 9 p m thus ends in brief outline the first of a three day leave lor for the stav stay a ah h roads here in in addition there Is a large swimming P pool I 1 and plenty of baths for those wb who wish to take the time saloons lack popularity there are open saloons in 1 soldiers are not barred from drinking and the saloons are open until 10 p in there Is also here an lee ice cream cake and pie factory running full blast for the exclusive benefit of american so soldiers open saloons tire are not patronized much by american soldiers drunkenness enness has lins been practically nil and the conduct generally of the 30 10 Is one of the greatest tributes to american youth and the wholesome influence of fine young american women who have inspired with their surroundings association ii and conversation ani and general wholesomeness a desire to make the periodical three day leave granted the american soldier in neu aled n memory that leaves nothing but clean thought thou glit in the minds of the hoys boys the second day of john doug Dough doughboys li boys three day leave begins just after breakfast at uncle sams hotel from to 9 a m with a steamboat excursion up the it ends with a grand costume liall ball in the evening nt fit the recreation hall the river excursion with plenty of food music and refreshments aboard begins with especial attention first called through a megaphone to the village of adt just across the river the point where the french general biloche crossed the rhine on oil april 18 17 1797 07 immediately behind Ne dewied Wied as the alie steamboat takes the lie rhine mid channel loom forth the krupp gun works soon the island urmitz worth on chiche which tile the romans once camped during the period when iben bronze was first used by these ancients appears next nest comes engers a rhine village of people the home of it famous prussian military school then bendorf Bon dort a manufacturing fac turing city of people anil soon the lie giant fortress of looms up around a bend in the river the ballyhoo bally hoo man explains that once upon a n time the slice sheer r rock dins cliffs which rise abruptly from ta the water supported a roman fortress As he remarks that the french captured in 1 tai somo some doughboy remarks some job looking across the river they see boblenz ob lenz the boat passes up tha river through the coblenz pontoon bridge to scene of thirteenth century rulus ruins and glides below stolzenfels castle tit at capellen Capell cn built in 1252 destroyed by the french in 1833 rebuilt by king frederick wilhelm IV 11 and owned up to november I 1 11 1 1911 by the ex ei kalser again upstream Is the very ancient and picturesque vil fortifications years old Dra braubach ubach a town first mentioned just 1197 1297 years ago and marksburg maksburg Maks burg castle the most imposing castle on the rhine peaks tire are next nest past bornhofen a village of legend and pilgrimage a small town surrounded by a forest of cherry trees ehrenthal of lead mine fame well balch with its famous gothic church st goar a n village of 1600 inhabitants containing a church built in by frankish Frankl sli kings and eventually the famous lorelei Is reached that imposing rock overhanging treacherous rhine rapids on which tile the beautiful woman of legend used to alt lt enshroud ed in rt yell veil of mist sometimes combing lier her golden hair ana more often enticing lovelorn chins sailors onto the rocks as they drew near to hear the strains of her goldea harp passing many other points of interest the doughboy Is shown shon the little church at Clemen lle ilc marking the spot liere kaiser rudulph rudolph yon von I 1 iiams 1 aps burg be headed 30 robber knights in 1282 and there Is usually ii doughboy comment some kalser kaiser finally he passes the house tower built on an island and reaches dingen on the rhine that famous roman town said to have been built by drusus thirteen years before christ A trip beyond bingen to Rudes Rud eshelm heirn and the excursion boat turns its prow homeward home ivard racing with the swift rhine current back to neuwied Neu wied more ice cream and cake there still remains time for uncle sams ti theater leater and the movies before supper time at uncle sams hotel othere ice fee cream and cake wind up the evening repast then back to tile the recreation hall for the big bie dance ice cream and cake comes again at p m the alie third and last day there are nil all the features of the first and second and a boat trip awn the illaine toward cologne for those who care to go historical sightseeing Is repe repeated a ted in eluding the beautiful city of honn bonn seat eat of germanys germanas Germ anys most famous university and once home biome of beethoven then back up the river to entertainment ice fee cream and cake athletics sports games and recreation winding up with the grand brand tug ot of in recreation hall between picked teams then more ice fee cream and cake and to bet bed ready for or duty again back somewhere where in the coblenz bridge bridgehead hend clean recreation has beaten the german open saloons in Neu vied and in addition to that the ice fee cream pie and cake factory now producing gallons of cream and cakes of various kinds 11 d each day soon will double its present output |
