Weekly journal-miner., 1918-08-21
HUT IS HEADQUARTERS
 OF YANKEES
PLACE BOASTS THREE AT FRACTIONS so TYPICAL LY A M E RIG AN THAT THEY ARE REAL CURIOS- TIES TO LONDONERS.
By Associated Press.

American pancakes, she left part of her portion on the plate. A soldier, after their mapestics had departed. finished it, and went around boasting, I'm the man that ate the Queens pancake"
 The Eagle Hut boasts three attrac- tions so typically American that they are almost a curiosity in London. They are an American barber's chair, an American bootblack stand and a pancake griddle.
 The barbcr's chair was discovered somewhere in England' after a long, patient search and was bought for $50. When the Y. NJ. C. A. people hear the American soldier, as he stretches out in it, say "Ah-h, that's the stuff!' they know they made al good investment. The English barber chairs are upright, with an immova- blc back.
 In England. when an American wants to have his shoes shined he looks in vain for the familiar perman- ent chair-stands that he was accus-I toned to find in his home city. Here he encounters only an itinerant side walk knight of the shoebrush equip ped with small box. No seat IS pro- vided for the customer. The London branch of an American shoe company presented the Eagle Hut with an American stand which has marble top-piece and is surmounted by one of those comfortable armchairs in which soldier can repose luxurious ly.
 The pancake griddle was the hard est nut oi all to crack. The problem was to obtain a metal plate large enough to accomodate batter for all the cakes the hungry soldiers cray ed. London was searched from end to end and at last plate was found. But after the cooker had been con structed, another problem presented itself. What were the cakes to be made of? Enter the wheat ration question. The Y. NJ. C. A. cooks had one idea as to the amount Of wheat that should be used for the batter: the British government had another -one quite different The cooks had to capitulate to wars necessities and they mixed enough corn meal and potato flour with the wheat to con- form to the governments views.
 To be ''in on the first batch of cakes soldiers formed a queue in the hut canteen extending all around the room. They ate so many cakes the first week that, according to one of the Hut's, secretaries they used up all the maple syrup in England. A big supply of syrup is now on the way from home: also a consignment of buckwheat, the arrival of which will mean other queues.
 The introduction at the hut recently of what is euphuistically known as ice cream caused the quick formation. of a line even longer than the pan cake queue The average afternoon consumption of this favorite Ameri- can dish now. amounts to eighty quarts.
 One of the seven, secretaries ot the American Eagle hut here was snatch ing moments rest in his cubicle on recent Sunday afternoon when a tall American soldier looked in at the open door. It was evident that the soldier had a request to make, but he hesitated and stammered consider ably before he got the courage to- say he wanted to borrow suit of underwear. . "I hate to trouble you for anything like that sir" he apologized, but this being Sunday the stores are clos ed. and I've been asked out to dinner, .so you sec -"
 The secretary found he had suit to spare. A little later passing through the bathroom, he saw the big fellow splashing under a shower. Say" the soldier greeted him, ''I be- lieve you can get anything here if you ask for it
 The soldiers and sailors ask for all kinds of things at the Eagle hut, and rarely are they disappointed. One article in great demand is advice, which is constantly on tap at the in- formation window.
 \ lad in khaki will hang about until the window is clear. Then he will edge up to it and in bashful whisper say:
 ID you think it would be all right if I married an English girl?"
 Before the puzzled official can for mulate an answer, another soldier will dash up breathlessly and demand to know how he can get out of the Canadian army into the American. Still another will press forward for as to why mail from his Aunt Hetty in Sycamore Center, Kan sas, hasn't reached him in camp and when he may expect 1t.
 The Eagle Hut is headquarters for the enlisted men of the American overseas forces on their visits to the