Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1917-12-21
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Paris, France NOT Sd

Qeof Earl
Paris At last q Arrived here
yesterday one week ago and sls
Town hard ii work once inore:
How glad I am to get settled |
Town 10 work once again. Was
"a tho boat just three weeks to 2 /
day, disembarking at Brest. No
10Th, spending two days
IN the French barracks there and
then coming here. Can you
imagine being on the water three
weeks 7 Well, I began to feel
rs if / owned the boat but was
glad to relinRuish my interest
in her and plant my feet on ter
ra-frna once again.
/ am tickled to death to be To-
Gated in Paris. Am working in
the Office of the Chief Purchas-
ing Officer, Ordnance Dept,
which is located on the second
floor of a large hotel and am
chartered in another hotel across
the street and only several blocks
away which makes it very con-
venient. Now when say quar-
tered in a hotel I don't mean
that I am getting frst-class ho-
tel accommodations. The hotel
referred to, which is quite new,
is occupied by several hundred
soldiers who are working here
i'll Paris and we are furnished
single beds with mattresses to
sleep on which, with heat, water
and electric lights, make it de-
sirable place to stay as compared
with barracks.
About fifteen of us Ordnanc
men came here to report for or
ders aud transportation to oul
destination somewhere in France
and learned that theywere need
ling some men in this new de
partment so we got busy an(
more than half of us got worl
here. 1 am doing practically
1.-THE same work that l performed
lin Washington (handling cor
Irespondence. etc. and find my
self quite busy, even working OF
Sunday and have been on TIT
LOB as late as ten o'clock at night
Even at that. / am glad to ge
located and lay my pack dowr
for rest after being on thu
Iroad for almost month will
practically nothing to do blu
sleep and eat. Came through il
tgood shape, feeling fine but an
lnot quite acclimated yet. TIL,
atmosphere is somewhat differ
lent over here and is awful,
Idamp and .foggy for an milan,
town.
| My baggage came through il
Igood shape but quite a few o
1.-THE boys lost theirs with every
thing they had except what the,
were wearing which was an I'm
fortunate loss indeed, while quit
Ia few others had numerous thing
stolen enroute.
| Yesterday was Thanksgiving
and we had quite a feed. Gu
menu consisted of turkey, a gen
uine, juicy American bird too
being shipped over from til,
Estates. cranberry sauce, swee
potatoes, gravy, figs, dates, nut
land lemonade. Some feed =!
We'll l got up too late for break
lfast. not having reveille on ac-
|count of holiday, and dinner be
ling served after one O'Clock, yor
|csn imagine what l did for thu
mess. Worked little while af'
Tier lunch and was given liberty
1.-THE rest of the afternoon and at
TENDED a social at the Soldiers
and Sailors Club at night where
we were treated to chicken salad,
lemonade, etc. and free enter.
Itainment. This club is financed
ia Philadelphia partly by Rod
ney Wanamaker, the only SON of
the big merchant, and they pro-
vide smokes and some kind of
free entertainment every week
and of course is quite a popular
place with the "Sammies" in
Paris. The Y. NJ. C. A. is op-
Grating two hotels in Paris and
they too are popular joints for
our soldiers.
This French lang uage is some-
thing fierce and we have a great
time getting around and making
ourselves understood. l have
only learned one word SO far,
we" which is yes in their Lam
guage. My watch broke on the
'wav over so took it to jeweler
several days ago to have it re-