Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-14
Y.M.C.A.N HAVEN
FOR U.S.BOYS JUST
FROM TRENCHES
Hotel de Pavilion Reserved
For Men on Leave in
Paris

FarlS, '-~|. Is CAssociated Press
Correspondence). - The American
Army and Navy Young Mems Chris
ttan Association is trying to make
the American soldier and sailor feel
at home" when he comes to Paris
on leave. TWO hotels. one for officers
and the other for enlisted men, have
| just been opened here and provided
with all the comforts of home and
of well-regulated club. Both hotels
are convenient to the railroad sta
| tions at which the men will arrive
from ports of landing and the front.
Other hotels will be opened as may
be required. Few men will come to
Paris on leave at present. but provi-
! sion has been made for the time
when the American armies take their
| places on the fighting front and the
| men are given short furloughs from
trench duty.
The Hotel du Pavilion is reserved
| for 400 enlisted men. American am
bulance men, soldiers. sailors and
marines stationed in Paris are being
housed there Professionally. They will
give up their quarters when men be-
gin coming to Paris on leave in large
numbers.
A correspondent OF The Associated
Press recently found the large loung-
ing room nearly filled with men in
-ANib AAnNS piuC anu th0 HCW pea
green uniforms of the Marines. A
boyish-looking ambulance driver at
the piano accompanied a quartet of
two soldiers, a sailor and a Marine
singing American "ragtime" airs.
Give us another" shouted a sailor,
and the crowd approved Justify and
Joined in the chorus.
You Promised Mother a Letter.
Write 1t Now; "Why Not Send a
Faw TJnad Hnrnaop nd
nitions of like character on conspicu-
Gus signs were being obeyed by a
number of boys around a large table
in an adjoining ROOM
Say, how do you spell Champs
Elysees'?" Che pronounced it Champs
ElizaD aaked one soldier of the COM
panion at his elbow. Don't ask me-"
replied the other. 'Ive only been
here two days. Why don't you go up
and look at the map?" with the ex-
| ception of Interruptions such as
these the room was usually quiet. A
| few boys were taking a late meal in
| one corner of the diningroom.
How do you boys like it here?"
| asked a Young Mems Christian AS
| sociation official.
| Fine; home was never like this"
replied one of the group. Meals are
J served at virtually cost prices. En-
1
| steam heated rooms for sixty cents
| a night.
Association secretaries meet all
! trains from the front and ports of
| landing and show the men around
| Paris and Versailles in sightseeing
buses. Theater parties are arranged
| nightly and church parties leave the
| hotel for both Protestant and Cath
olic services each Sunday morning.
| Accommodations for one hundred
Army and Navy officers are provided
at the Hotel Richmond. At this hotel
meals are served by a committee of
volunteer American women workers
headed by Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt
Jr., and the men liked it so much
that they fell automatically into the
habit of tipping the mattresses. Word
was tactfully passed around that this
was superfuous. and the Richmond
has become the only "tipless" hotel
| in Paris.
| A shopping bureau established here
undertakes all sorts of purchases for
| officers from handkerchiefs to rain
| coats and gifts for wives, sweet
hearts, relatives and friends at home
| Two handsome lounging rooms fur
nished with heavy club furniture on
! the ground floor and an interior gar
den where tea is served each after
noon by American women are popular