Bisbee daily review., 1915-07-21
'. M, C. 4. DOES BIG
 WORK FOR SOLDIERS
 NEAR BATTLE FRONT
Local Man Has Letter From His Sister Telling of Help Civ en Soldiers By Organization at Headquarters in ROuen.

en soldiers by UrganlLallOn al
 Headquarters in R0uen.
 Through the courtesy of Jack O'Con nor. a member of the local Y M. c. A., The Review is enabled to reproduce the greater part of a letter recently received by him from his sister, who for some time past has been attached Co the department of the Y M. c. A. on active service in France with the British Expeditionary force. The Y. Nj. C. A.. as the letter shows, endea- vors to make life as pleasant as pos sible to the wounded who have re- turned from the front tul they are again in condition to take up arms, also for the fresh soldiers constantly arriving from home. The letter in part follows:
 "I have had such an eventful time since leaving home nearly a month ago that 1t is only now l can send you some account of my work. l was at Havre for a week and liked it very well, but 1t was thought advisable for me to come to Rouen. where l have now been working for about three weeks. but my movements were so uncertain that I did not care to take chances on having all my mail for warded from one place to another. vish my pen was graphic enough to tell you completely about it, but in any case we are under military regu- lations and l can onIy give you a sketch of my work.
 We are attached-so many women and SO many men workers-to a hut the huts are assigned Co different divi- sions, and Go my satisfaction ] was as- signed to a Scotch hut, and all day long we pour coffee tea. cocoa, lem onade and matted milk for hundreds of braW Scots Our nut is a fine large airy structure painted pale green, and capable of holding a thousand to fif- teen hundred men. There is a wide counter or buffet right across one end where we serve out (this is no eXag- geration) thousands of cakes, candies, cigarettes, matches, packets of soap, buttons, tobacco, tooth paste, candles. etc Anything else they ask for we try Co get for them while shopping in Rouen, and We pride ourselves that We seldom fail We are asked to do the most diverse commissions once l was asked for some marking ink, by a canny Scot who wished to cling to his possessions whether in peace or battle; another time one of us was written to from the trenches by a sol dier who wished Co buy an engage meHt ring for his girl at home and said, It must not cost too much but should be nice and ht properly Fuuts for finder lighters and rifles were also much in request watches to have repaired money to be sent home Co wives and mothers Every day we have shopping to do and 1t must be done in the morning as they rush to as whenever they hear that perhaps on the morrow they are to go up" as they call it. and l always feel that it is going up' indeed going in great ness of spirit, knowing the worst, and always with the chance of going up in- to eternity
 By the way this letter will probab- ly take me days, as I write bits of it whenever l can spare the time at the counter in the hut where We give out free writing material and keep a li- brary and picture postcards. I am getting to be quite dab at the his tory of Rouen, as whenever l give out a card l have to tell its history and often the men come pack again for ] the details. and I repeat them SO often that now ] know the most of them by 1 heart
 We start work at noon each day motoring out to camp from headquar ters up a tree-lined avenue white with i dust, meeting troops who are just out hot thirsty, and dusty. who always ! give us a salute, for We know hun dreds of them, and we are Y M. C. A l ladies who see them every day. Wher We arrive at the hut the leader Che |.