Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-10-29

thy manufacturer, who has moved
where his mills are located. 1t has
ilfteen rooms, is three stories high and
built of cement. You open a pair of
iron gates and go up ten stone steps
into the yard. The first story will be
used as a lounge; the second for
officers and some sleeping rooms, but
picked my room in the third story
1t has two windows and is a good
size. l have set up my cot; have my
trunk and today, brought up pine ta
BILE, on which l am writing. This will
be my headquarters and / am to have
charge of six or seven camps from
here. My work is Secretary of Sol
diers Activities. Right in front of the
house is holly tree with the berries
just turning red and the walls of the
house are covered with a pretty vine.
BY walking up some winding stone
steps, in the rear, you can reach
another level and go into a summer
house, in a beautiful flower garden,
connected with very handsome es-
tate. This town has about 10000 in
habitants and lies in a valley with
low mountains all around, which seem
to be about half mile away and are
covered with woods, except the lower
parts, which are cultivated. / sim
ply can't describe the beauty of it all
Sunday Afternoon.
Got up this morning and found that
q car Of eanteenN material had come
in during the night, so we went to the
freight yards and unloaded it and
trucked it to our warehouse, which
took until noon.
Last night five girls, the Haroun
Sisters, Players, gave an entertain
ment in the Hall and the boys simply
went wild just to see five real live
American girls. The girls play vio-
lin, piano, clarinet and cornet and one
sings. / am eating at the mess with
the boys now and it is good; today
for dinner we had salmon loaf, bread,
butter and coffee and all the stewed
pruneS you could eat.
! The French are very happy today,
as well as the boys for yesterday was
at the front. The colored band of
thirty-six pieces, which is stationed
here, led parade today. In it was
the 1920 class of boys, a bugle corps
| of French boys and a French band
with a great many others. They all
went to the park and had games and
concert, after their parade.
900 p. m.-Just got back from
church. There was fine crowd and
the boys sung fine The services were
held in the chapel of large Catholic
church. At the hospital the other day
l met DR.. Geo. Whiteside, from Ste
vens Point, who has charge of this
unit. He knows several of the Wau-
sau physicians and you may tell them
that he built, equipped, put in sewers
and water, all in twenty days. The
wards are in tents and it is very clean
wards are in tents and are very clean
ord.
Sept. 20.
l have got the old Market Place"
fixed up fine for our opera house now
1t is a well built building 120 feet
long by rs feet wide, with booths
around the edge where people come
and spread out their wares. Only a
few were using it now when the
weather is warm, but they say in the
winter the booths are all full. I got
detail of six men to paint the win
dow panes ali over with dark blue
WdLCl paint. oO hO tl6nl oAOnS LII u,
had it wired for electric lights and al
so had foot-lights put on the stage,
which we built in, so we now have
quite a decent opera house where we
will give the soldiers some pleasant
evenings. We had concert there to-
night. for the first time. The 53rd
Regulars band gave a fine program,
assisted by Mile. Calet, French girl,
whi is a ''Y" employe. Last Wednes-
day l drove to a little town where
there are a number of men loggiL g
and running mill and I met Lieut..
Nichols, who Is a friend of the Mont
gomery boys and Harvey Schofield, al
so found Chas, Wickstrom, who lives
on the Town Line road. He has been
sick and thinks his mother is worrying
about him, so phone them and say
that he is In perfect health and has
one of the healthiest places in France
to live in.
Sept. 12.
Ran the canteen all day, as the men
were all off on business; it is fine
waiting on the boys, handing out
smokes and chocolate and kidding"
them along. We had another concert
tonight in the new opera house" and
after all the boys came in who wanted
to, we let the French people in and
the building was packed. There must
have been about 1000 people there.
Sunday, Sept. %.
ran the canteen all day again, but
closed up from 10 to IL while / went
tc church and led the singing. I
picked a preacher out of the crowd to
talk TO us for while and we had a
fine crowd out.
l eat at the mess" all the time now
and know lots Of the boys by name.
The more / see OF the soldiers, the
more / like the boys.
Tuesday, Sept. %.