The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-11-29
WRIGHT SENDS
LETTERS HOME
Describes a Trip to Paris and the
Sights of the French Capital

William A. Wright has recently re-
ceived two letters from his brother,
Charles E. Wright, describing how he
spent his time on his leave area.
Dinard, France,
Sept. IA, 1913
Dear Bill: 3
As | told you in a previous letter,
/ four of the other fellows and myself
had a vacation coming to US and we
decided to go to the coast of France,
opposite England and here we are at
/ Dinard. Arrived here last Thursday
at 11.30 and have been rather busy
ever since but not doing much. Got
up at noon yesterday and 8 o'clock
/ this morning. The picture | am en-
closing is of the hotel we are stopping
! at am sitting in my window now.
! say this is a great life. / would like
! to live here on the water. One fellow
got sea sick just coming across the
river one-half mile. | went for walk
up the river yesterday. There was
! trip to Mt. St. Michael tday but /
/ didn't go. We are somtthing like $50
miles from our camp at Chaumont.
One of the pictures which l am en-
closing is of the Y NJ. c. A. building
and as you will note it is a magnifi
cent one, looking at it from the out
side and the inside is as nice accord
ingly. There are three dance halls
inside and one can be transformed
into a theatre. There lot of Am
| ericans here in peace times they say.
In front of the building is the beach
which the next picture will show.
There is a great variation OF, tide, 40
feet, they say. Haven't been in
bathing yet. They say it is great in
hot weather, fine beach. We have s
full days and about half of two 9th
ers and it takes about two days on
1.-THE road each way We stopped in
! Paris about hours. In Paris we saw
some wonderful work of art and won>
deIful museums with the inside walls
all covered with great paintings.
| Paris has a great subway system. The
city is laid out about like Boston but
it is not so easy to get lost as there
is large map of the city at every
subway entrance and on the inside of
the car door is list in order of all
stations on the car line so anybody
that can read can go where he wants
to.
We hope to get some time in Paris
on the way back. The women are
great artists with powder and paint.
They are very pretty, that is if they
are sufficiently skillful. There is 60
; ing to be great dance tonight. 1t is
:. open to Madamoiselles. and enlisted
!. men only. ! see. where I shine and
I where the others sweat. We leave
here next Friday to go back to duty
/ wish was going back to the Unit
, ed States instead. | am almost home
sicy when I get up here among all
the gay people. Say, you never
would know there was q war here. I
see that the Germans are conceding
that a military victory is impossible.
l think they will change their minds
before the United States gets through
with them.
+ Well l will send this along with
pictures and write some more later.
1. ..z ( C@E. W.
= Z Chaumont, France,
, Sept. %, 1918.
Dear Bill:
Well here | am back home again
E | got back from my vacation and got
: to bed about one o'clock SuS1ay
, morning and at 9 a. m. Sunday all the
! trucks were called out and worked al
day hauling commissaries. sent you
a few post cards from Dinard. Hope
you got the mall right.
O | will tell you a little about the trip
. | don't know what | did write on tht
cards but will try not to say the same
; thing. We left here about in the
morning, Sept. II, and arrived a
;, Paris about II a. M, five hours)
q Only got glimpses of some few
; things. 1t would take month tt
q look Paris over and in nine hours We
:, saw some of the old buildings ant
some wonderful art, mostly painting
q and statuary. AS I said we left Pari
= at p. M, arrived at ST. Mala a
y about 9 in the morning and crossed
. the river Rance, one-half mile wild,
+ at the mouth in little gasolen,
: launch to Dinard, where we fount
the hotel and dinner ready and for
: days we slept and ate, principally.
i was little late in the season to go il
; bathing, but | went in once. TIL
rest of the boys did not have tn
! courage to go in but | think I'd gon
: in if it had been January. There ar
! some fine swimmers here l saw on
= girl swimming around way out in tn
:. ocean. She must have been out ther
= half an hour and | nearly froze il
IS minutes.
% We had our carfare and hotel bill
;, paid by the United States, the countr
! | left last December and l made ou
: to spend SO or 65 francs The othe
% fellows spent more but l had all
saw that thought wanted. Som
u of the hotels were better than other
:, but our bunch of five happened t
= strike a good one. The proprieto