Bisbee daily review., 1918-04-07

the Young Mems Christian Association immediately began to make plans for the reception of the men. Arrange ments were first made with hotel pro- prietors whereby they would open their hotels earlier than usual and re- serve q certain percentage of their rooms for sildiers. All hotels in the department, which contracted with the Young Mems Christian Association to provide the necessary accommodations were divided into three classes accord ing to the rates to be charged. These rates were fixed at II, 14 and IT francs a day for room and board with the un- derstanding that no tips were to be giv on by the men. Each hotel also agreed to furnish the men with a hot bath up- on their arrival.
 At Aix-les-Bains the Young Mems Christian Association leased the big casino for the exclusive use of the sol diers. This includes large theatre. assembly hall, and reading, writing, billiard and game rooms. Afternoon and evening concerts and theatrlcals are given in the theatre with both pro fessional and amateur talent as at fractions. The soldiers have made full use of the handsome casino which is in operation from nine o'clock in the morning until late at night. The Young Mems Christian Association has also leased the casino at Charles-les-Eaux and theatres in that town and Cham bery.
 Tre famous thermal baths at Aix-les- Bains have also been thrown open to the soldiers for d nominal fee and they are proving very popular, especially among those men who arrive in AiX among those men who arrive in Aix fresh from the trenches of northeast ern France. A number of playgrounds and fields have also been leased where baseball diamonds, football gridirons and outdoor gasketball and tennis courts are being laid out.
 Lake Excursions
 X small steam launch on Lake Bour- get has been engaged for the season and used to take soldiers on excursions about the lake, including visits to the noted Hautecombe Abbey, where 4S princes of the Italian reigning house Of Savoy are buried.
 Automobile drives have been begun and each morning hiking parties start on trips to the summits of neighbor mountains. Good use is also being made of the mountain railway which climbs to the summit of Mont Reward from which one gets splendid view of the famous Mont Blanc.
 No attempt has been made to distate what the men should do on leave. They have been given liberty of action with in the necessary limitations of military rules and regulations. French police authorities are cooperating with Am erican army officers to protect the nor als of the men. Stringent orders have been issued to hotel and cafe keepers about the sale of spirituous liquors e men on leave. All suspicious resorts have been closed or declared "out of bounds but there have been very rev places of this nature.
 4 committee of women Young Mems Christian Association workers has un- deTTaken the task of having the clothes of the soldiers laundered and mended. This service is highly appre- ciated because trenches are hard on clothes and but few of the soldiers arc adept with a needle and thread.
 The cosmopolitan nature of Ameri- ca's army is indicated by the fact that 30 states and 12 nationalities were rep resented in the first two contingents of soldiers to arrive on leave.