The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-03-08
READY FOR DUTY
ON FRENCH FRONT
James G.. Adams Writes
from Headquarters in
Center of Paris
RESTRICTIONS ARE
BECOMING WORSE
Mentions Appleton Miles and Amy
Bradley, Both of Whom Are in Am
bulance Service - Men from Front
Tell Of German Extremities.

Mr.. and Mrs. James NJ. Adams have
just received letter from their son,
James G.. Adams, who is in the Ameri-
can Field Ambulance service in France
1t was written in Paris Feb. l. and
reads in part, as follows:
Have had about two weeks in Paris,
due TO red tape over papers, inoeula
tion, Ford work, etc, but expect TO
leave for the front this week sure.
Appleton Miles is here on leave and
hope and quite expect to be in his see
ton, No. ;, and possibly 20 back with
him Thursday. You may have read
about this being the coolest period in
Paris for sixty years, aad coal is ~
scarce as sugar. II costs $50 ton,
and is on sale certain mornings only
in small paper bags-one to a customer.
We have lone here at - and except
in the kitchca, only one wood fire occa-
sioualls in living In all four
large bedrooms we have the outer
doors open, da. and night, and temper
allure is about eight degrees higher
than outdoors. The thermometer next
to my bed one night at II clock was
- Fair. ! have oranges ad towels
freeze. Well, az result, we have three
men in the hospital at Neuiny with
pneumonia, enc very badly off.
Nearly everybody has heavy cold,
including myself, and though much
worse than / am accustomed to be, il
merely aauoys me. My para-typhoid
inoeulations taken here are terrible. 1t
keeps most everybody in bed for n
couple of days and several men are VIC.
lrutly sick at the stomach. Some
tainted when they tried to walk.
got awfulls stiff and sore but wa, on
hand for every meal. Believe me, this
IS no place for a frail youth or a pleas
urc seeker. / drove alone a acw ambu-
lance this morning to our shop AT Auteui,
lKcllucr Bros.J and got a puncturc
halfway. The ear was new and tools
were padlockcd in, so | couldn I change
the tire and drove ii Hat. One day
drove eight mics ald back, straight
across Paris to Livry and traffic i
! hard. Getting pretty we'll used to ;
Ford and have worked at the shop foul
or five DAYS. | passed my driving Ii
ecnsc O. X. and know Paris pretty
well now. We got great uniform
| equipment; new pair vcrY heavy shoes
! shccpskin coat. three or four hats, ano
\ aviator 5 leather helmet, pair Of stee
anti-shrapncl goggles with no glass bu
-four little Sits to look through.
Went to Opera Comique two night
ago with Smith and saw "Lakme;'
pretty good, but some job to buy tick
cts. restrictions are getting wors
here daily and | can imagine what il i
in Germany. Theatres close fou
nights week, and subway closes a
; =. IN. four days too.
| am in Uniform all the time now an
won't change until sail hon,
We attract much attention every
where, especially at this tim,
and have lots of people as
il subway, etc, if we are American
EHGllSh OIhccfS dress Ike MS IN som
was, but there are 20 Of them an
1000 troops, to every one of us. Ye
tcrday was most interesting dag We
-Four of MS went out to Versatile
eight niles for skating on ponds ,
the famous palace. All motor ears (can
ions) assemble there for the 'front.', an
We passed probably 1000 of them avail
ing orders. \ big, l50-ft. dirisib
balloon lowered continuously over Il
aud half dozen speed aeroplanes eli
cled around. We had dinner in a cat
there and came back through blae
streets. Paris s main streets are muc
darker than Cedar street at night
theatre viii have eight little blue ele
trio bulbs outside.
Autos travel at any speed and q y
destrial struck by one gets three da,
in jail for obstructing traffic. We Il
whistles at the front az the- don