The Denver Jewish news., 1919-04-09
Letters from Our Boys

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!. Norman Grant:
Chaumont. France,
March /, 1919.
! Dear Follss:
/ know ! haven't written for some
time, but before l get thru You will
see that had good excuse
In my last letter / wrote that was
| going on leave and i hoped that it
would be to somewhere in Southern.
France, but it exceeded all my hopes.
| We were sent 10 Mention. II YOU look
on the map sou will find it Just out
| side OF Nis and Monte Carlo, right
on the Mediterranean sea. ] will start
\ at the very beginning and give it to
you in detail.
We left here Sunday night Feb.
16. there were lS5 Of US from G. H.
q. We had to lay over might in the
llcll-hoie of France. "Is-sur-tillc"
where the mud is ankle deep on the
Level. We were put in rest camp.
but l am still trying to find out VIII,
they eau it q rest camp for between
the engine whistles and the hard
hunks We got about two hours sleep
We got the trnin at 4 y. In. and hi;
Marsailics about sunrise. (Now il
/ startsl / am no poet so l can't des-
rribc the scenery from Marseilles w
the coast 1t was wonderful Roses
blooming all around, palms as thick
as pines in Colorado. flowers every
where, oranges hanging on the trees,
it the Blue MEDITERRANEAN had the
| right dope and the sun shining all the
time Tall this in February.) We
| went thru Cannes, Nice, Monte Carlo
md Mpnaco to Mentoni up near the
! Italian border and were assigned to
our hotels "the best in town. Ben.
Jack and I got in one room. We
walked around the town III the after
noon. We arrived about noon and In
the evening we went back TO fine
supper, after which I rang for the
maid and told her wanted to take
II bath She snid "Oui. Monsieur.
/ loot sweet" Well. when my hath was
ready, the maid calls me. How is that
for class? Then l Pile III between
nice clean sheets and sleep tue sleep
Of the innocent.
In the morning we bad the maid
call us at I 10 and we took the car to
Monte Carlo. My vocabulary Is too
snail to describe that trip Dud the
town. The car winds around the hills
always overlooking the sea and the
town is so pretty and clean you are
afraid to drop cigarette butt Tor
! fear 1t will show up against the clcniI.
| illness. In tho u. M. we went thru the
big gambling casino and believe me,
| 1t is some shunty, and the grounds
! around il are wonderful They make
| il so pretty so these big bugs wont
feel so bad when they lose pile Of
| iack and want to kick off or soue-
thing. IN the y. III. We took the car
TO Nice. Oh. boy, TINT is real burg
and is inhabited by colony of high
,loss yeggs, they take away your
| francs without gun. We bummed
around the town especially the boulc
wards by the sea and looked at thu
pretticst, best dressed, woIucn in all
Europe, believe me, they are soine
queens and wear the glad rugs The
/ ;e Casino at Nice is now the ~ Nc
officers allowed, and believe ine it sure
is pretty as you cou sev frPm the
views ! nm sendiDg
We liked tho pluce 50 well, we de-
cided TO stay oil night so VIC went
10 look up hotel but the birds talked
telephone numbers instead Of prices.
hut VIC were on leave and didn't care
In the evening went to swell French
Ounce. II only cost !: francs To 20 in
hut before you got out YOU found tiiiit
| you had gotten rid Of quite few
! more. but NC sure bud Sood um".
In the morning we bummcd around the
i town and took in all the sights. IL
| is surely II wonderful place Wc went
into II tea room thc three oil us) ana
4 Ind two small dishes of ice cream
apiece and few small cakes and WHEN
we asked the girl ''coiUhicn' q how
! much.' she thought We asked her tlpc
war strength of the Belgian urmy. so
4 after taking inventory OF tue bank
roll we decided TO hit back to Mention
where our board and room was free.
In the morning we went TO the ltal-
inn border, only a short distance fronl
our hotel. They allowed US to go over
the border about n quarter of mile
mud send somc cards thru the Italian
mail 1t is just to say that you were
in Italy.
j In the p. III. We took the chr back