Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-06-11
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WRITE FROM FRANCE

WRITE FROM FRANCE
Graphic xlianssss Of Paris. in wal
time. a. sosn By ANerdcaA women
over there. have just come to thia
country IA letters from the repsNoea-
tadN0 ~ the tEonDg WeneaS Chris
t4aA 1a6oetatisn VINO ere now sta.
TONED IA Paris.
I'm spite OF air raids, exp1osapnn
ana bDadbaFAmGbes, theiafaira At Ho.
tel PetkDBr1d have e0ae on about n
usual With the exception that Eueata
leave suddenly these days ana st4hnos
who haNe rsserveA roosns arrive :frssR,
- to ~ hours after thsy. are expectsd
This is irons letter written ART
s: from Mn Jean Caxers Of Coluna6ua
Onto. whS:8 one of fhea.Y.W q. n.
representatives working at the Hotel
Retrograd. q hotea eshaAHshed IN
Paris by the 7. W.. C. A. for American
women there.
"The biggest influx Of guests since
h hotel opened came With the frst
unit of American Telephone Eiras-83
OF them. IN their navy blue una6orms.
weeks be6cre they arrived. coming hy
way OF England and evidently having
q hard time to get here.
Arrangements have been COM
pleted tor throwing three Of our larg-
est rooms together, rearnanging the
furniture and making Q dD61nitory for
them.
ION the whole they ars a very
happy lot. although there were two
girls who did not seem eontented. On
inVestisdtton. we learned that one
a n roon~hfa ~hS,, onaead .na -.
other had lost her hatr pins, neither
OF which circumstances h annoying IN
ordinary times, but most upsetting at
n end ofA41ons trip. -
9 We have had I: several air raids
during the month. only one Of which
amounted to much. However, the fact
that our sleeping Is interrupted tends
to make US q bit upset on the days
following bombardment,, and some
times our nerves make us seem 4 bit
cranky.
: I'VE have had a little rest for .
lew days from friend the enemy,
and hope that the rest will continue
at least until the next fun moon"
Miss Elizabeth 3. NAyston OF Ho-
boken, N. j., who has gone to France
to do clerical work at Hotel Petro-
grad. Paris, in her first letter home.
! II s,a,, 1T toon forget: ! xsrn
welcome at-the- door Of Hctel-PetroA
grad.
"At the railroad station we we're
told at once to hurry. We will surely
have a raid tonight. Had a terrible
n a short time ago.. Several small
ones since. Hundred people killed
with one bomb. II you hear a siren,
into a place marked 1.Abri"-thfs
Is what they shouted to VI as soon al
we got off the train.
ION the way to Paris we met q
young Belgian, who was returning to
from q short furlough spent
in his home ia Chicago. after about
three years of fighting in the trenches.
flag this Beisia6 soldier asked il he
could have ii, and told me to think
it waving .. few days later IN the
trenches of Flanders. This wa before
this great drive. I wonder what has
to it and its. new 'owner
s~ince.,"> -, "a @- ~ -
THE Roche have given Us 30 many
affairs. raids, lombard
ments, ETC., that it has been q little
hard to get q free night for clubs
and entertainments" SO writes Miss
who has been working at Hotel Petro-
grad for 4 few weeks.
I'VE have quite acquired the habit
Of answering ANYONE asking what the
plans are tor the evening, Well. I am
going to- bed az soon as 4 finish my
dinner, to try to get a few hours
sleep before they come over because
you know that warming alerte. sound
ing through the streets Of Paris says
to US. Get up and come down. get up
and come DOWN And oh. those mid
night raid parties with the girls
into the vestiare in every
costume imaginable.
cover by the desk in. the corner sits
our bookkeeper, who has been caught
here overtime on the books. Mixed
in with the others are three or four
men in uniform who have come to
call and been forced t o stay. And
the whole il dtmly lighted by two
small candles.
Miss Blanche Geary, manager Of
Hotel Petrograd. always fully dressed
to the last hairpin-I don't see how
she manages it. I believe she never
undreses-is lake a general in COM
mand. She is everywhere At oncs,
even up to the top door to make d
that everysgneSt and sesyAnt has been
oh, It IL . great elifs:"