Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-11-21

cans stopping here. The charge is
very reasonable, francs or about
SIS per day. We have very nice
rooms and we get very good meals
at very reasonable prices. One thing
they have at all times is hot water.
In most of the hotels here they only
have hot water twice week.
IeSterday we did several errands
that had to be attended to and in
the evening we went to one of the
French theaters, called THE Fol-
lies Bergere." 1t was a musical show
and was pretty good for that kind
of a show. Tonight we wanted to
go to the Opera Comique, where
Carmen was to be played, but as we
go to the theater too late to buy any
tickets we had to be satisfied by
going to the movies. The movies
were very good and in a couple of
the pictures we saw glimpses of the
United States, which certainly were
good TO look at. One of them was
taken in New York, and the other
at Fort Myer, both being of a mill
tary nature. We saw one picture of
the Zeppelin that was brought
down about week ago. OF course,
all the words explaining the pictures
were in French but we could trans
late most of them very easily.
This afternoon we went out to
NSiSeiileS, WIJn one OIL lnS L. NJ. \.
A. men as guide. At Versailles is
the magnificent palace of Louis
the 14th. The palace certainly is
as fine as one as you would want to
see. 1t is not used now, but is open
to the public. In the palace are
wonderful paintings and tapestries,
and other interesting things. The
palace Is enormous and to see every
thing in it would take several days.
Around the palace are wonderful
gardens, statues, etc. We only had
about two hours to see the place. so
that we only could see the most i'm
portant things.
Wide Boulevards
Paris, unlike the other French
cities / have been in, has lots of
wide boulevards, and nice wide side
walks. 1t is most interesting to walk
down one of the big boulevards. for
there are lots of interesting shops
and you see soldiers of all kinds,
such as Canadian, Australian, Bel
gian, Scotch, French Colonials, Brit
ish and quite a good many Ameri-
cGns. The French are the best
dressed, as their uniforms Chat is
the officers) always fit and their
uniforms are not all alike as are
the American. Some are black,
some blue, some red and blue, and
it almost looks as if each man wore
q uniform. the colors of which he
ordered to suit himself The Aus
tralians and New Zealanders are
nice looking fellows, and the Can
adams also.
We have not seen so very much
in Paris yet, but we intend taking Il
Y. NJ. c. 4. bus trip around the
town tomorrow and then we will
probably know a little more about
the place. They have subways, sur
face cars, buses here somewhat as
in New York, but we have done
most of. our travelling in takes, as
they are one thing here in Paris
that does not cost very much, but
they are scarce articles just now, for
we had to wait almost an hour at
the station before We could get one.
l have seen several fellows l know
here, two of whom were in my class
at College, but l have not yet seen
anyone from Harrisburg.
1t has been quite a while since l
have heard any word from home,
not that you have not written, but
| guess because our mail has be-
come delayed somewhere over here
1t was announced in the paper the
other evening that an American
transport was sunk leaving a French
port. I have heard that there was
quite a little mail on it, so that
some of my letters may not reach
you, or perhaps l had better say.
will not reach you, if they had the
misfortune to be on that boat. Well,
I suppose ] have written enough this
time, and as it is now 1880 / think
l will stop and go up to bed.
With lots of love,
EVAN ]. MILLER.