The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-03-11
SEEING SIGHTS IN PARIS.
Clarence A. Pike Of Motor Transport Co
Finds Some Time for Pleasure.

Finds Some Time for Pleasure.
Rev. Frank Bloomfield, pastor of the
Congregational church at Berlin Corners,
has received the following letter from
Clarence A, Pike, son of $. c. Pike Of
Berlin, in which he tells many interesting
things in connection with his work in
France, but expresses his desire for an
early trip to the United States. MIR
Pike is connected with the 6l7th motor
transport company and is located in Par
Is.
Doubtless some cold Sunday, about
the time you receive this, you will have
a few people in your audience and will
want to console yourself that all have
not forgotten their pastor Foresee-
ing such a case, | win write YOU a little
note and thank you for the letter that
I received from you through a letter
from home.
81 am now stationed in Paris, one of
the wonderful cities of the old world.
have been here since the first of Deem
Der, when my old outfit was broken up
and scattered to the four winds of the
A. +. r. A few Of them came up here
with me, and those who did not felt
worse at seeing us leave them than we
did in leaving them. 1t seemed pretty
hard, after the great struggle was all
over, to leave all your old company and
start off to a new field and with new
men. But wherever one goes in this
army he finds the same sort Of men, all
good fellows and a feeling Of good fell
lowship, too, The uniform Of Uncle Sam
stands for a good deal.
I'VE are having somewhat different
weather from what Isuppose you are hav-
ing there in Vermont. From the first of
December it has been very nice, but
rainy a good deal of the time Before
that, the ground froze during the nights
and thawed out daytimes. But now it
rains about half the time and the other
part of it all, it clears mp every night
However, it makes no difference to us
and our work; it goes on just the same
We send out trucks every day and they
do all sorts of work, hauling baggage for
the president carrying furniture for the
peace commission, carrying troops that
are homeward bound, carrying rations
for those who are left behind, etc, There
is no end of work in sight for us yet, but
/ suppose that It will grow smaller some
time when a good many of the men are
over there. | am not driving a truck
myself, but stay in the Office and make
up the reports and help dispatch some
of the trucks for the jobs that come in.
IL get a chance to see some Of the
city between times, that is evenings and
Sundays. We have to work pretty stead
lily, so I get but little time off | have
been down and visited the lnyalides and
Napoleon's tomb, That sure is one Won
derful place. 1t is an old building that
dates back good ways and is used to
house a museum. There are rooms that
are set aside for a particular period in
French history. Aside from the collec-
tons that are in the cases, there are
many paintings representing different
scenes painted 0h its walls. just now
in the courtyard in the center, are many
of the guns and other war machines of
the present war. Among the most inter
esting of these are some German air
planes and parts of two or three Yep
pelins. One Of the Zeppelin cabins that
was there, or rather a part Of the same
had two engines in it that were geared
to one propeller shaft. The engines were
of six cylinders eaca and were capable