The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-28

c. A. uniform-to whom the boys
 may talk. And there is every clean, l wholesome diversion in Neuwied that can be furnished with American
 money. And, judging from 3Q.000 American soldiers who have enjoyed | the benefits of Neuwied up to the end of March, it is plain that between | them all wholesomeness wins.
 | Neuwied's open saloons are not patronized much by American sol | diers. Drunkenness has been practt- ] cally nil, and the conduct generally of the 30, 1000 is one of the greatest 1 tributes to American youth and the l wholesome influence of fine young American women, who have inspired with their surroundings, association
 and conversation and general whole | someness a desire to make the period 1 icaI three-day leave granted the
 American soldier in Neuwied a mem | ory that leaves nothing but clean 1 thought in the minds of the boys, l In the big recreation" hall, on the streets of Neuwied and elsewhere to- 1 day I have heard American soldiers l sing praise of the American Y. M. c. | A. And they hold no brief for the Y. | M. c. A. and it's many mistakes dur 1 ing the war. But believe the great
 est mistake made by that organiza- | ton during the war was admitI dly It's failure to put more American wo-
 men in it's working personnel.
 The good for morale and whole | someness of the American army in | Germany today being accomplished l by six American girls at Neuwfed | cannot be calculated.
 The second day of John Dough- | boys three-day leave begins just aft l CT breakfast at Uncle Sam's HoteI' from 7:3O to a. m. with 8 | steamboat excursion up the Rhine It ! ends with a grand costume ball in | the evening 1t the recreation hall. 1 The river excursion, with plenty of 1 food, music and refreshments aboard.
 begins with especial attention first ! called through @ megaphone to the i village of Weissenthurm just across : the river, the point where the French I General Hoche crossed the Rhine on i April IS, 1797. Immediately behind ! Neuwied, as the steamboat takes the i Rhine mid-channel, loom forth the l krupp gun works. Soon the island ! Urmitz Worth, on which the Romans i once camped during the period when | bronze was first used by these an 1 cients, appears. Next comes Fingers,
 a Rhine village of 5000 people. the home of a famous Prussian military | school Then Bendorf, manufactur-
 ing city of 5000 people, and soon the i giant fortress of Ehrenbreftstein | looms up around a bend in the river.
 The bally-hoo man explains that l "once upon a time" the sheer rock
 cliffs, which rise abruptly from the ! water, supported a Roman fortress
 As he remarks that the French cap | tured Ehrenhreitstein in 1799 some doughboy remarks some job" Look
 ing across the river thoy see CobIenz, | which the 1negaphone explains some | think like this:
 Capital of the government depart
 ment of the same name, 10000 in | habitants. The name takes us back
 to the Roman colony at the Junction
 of the Rhine and MoselIe, called
 'confuentes' In the years 1S5O-'5S Coblenz was the home of the Prince
 of Prussia, Emperor Wilhelm I, fath-
 CT of the ex-KaiseI, and here he
 formed the plans for the new forma- | tion of Vle Prussian army"
 l The boat passes up the river
 through the Cob1enz pontoon bridge
 to Oberlahnstein, scene of thirteenth | century ruins, and glides below Stol-
 
 1252, destroyed by the French in
 1883. rebuilt by King Frederick Will l helm ", and owned up to November
 Il, 1911, by the ex-Kaiser. Again
 upstream is the very ancient and | picturesque village of Rhems with
 well preserved Notifications 700 years
 old. BrauN1ch, a town first mention
 ed just 1197 years ago, and Maks-
 burg Castle, the most imposing castle
 on the Rhine peaks, are next.
 Past Bornh ofen, a village of legend
 and pilgrimage SaI;zig, a small town,
 surrounded by a forest of cherry
 trees; EhrenthaI, of lead mine fame;
 Wellmich, with it's famous Gothic
 church; St. Goar, a. village of 1900 , inhibitants, containing a church built
 in 55S by Frankish kings, and event ually the famous Lorlei is reached
 that imposing rock overhanging
 treacherous Rhine rapids, on which , the beautiful woman Of legend used , to sit enshrouded in veil of mist
 some etimes combing her golden hair and, more often, endcing lovelorn
 Rhine sailors onto the rocks as they , drew near to hear the strains of her , golden harp.
 ) Passing many other points of in- q terest, the doughboy is shown the lit
 tie church at Clemenscapelle mark r ing the spot where Kaiser Rudolph l won Hapsburg beheaded thirty rob- s Der knights in 1282. And there is us
 ually doughboy comment: Some 9 Kaiser" Finally, he passes the Mouse 9 Tower, built on an island, and reach :, es Bingen-o he-Rhine, that famous l Roman town said to have been bull l by Drusus thirteen years before t Christ. A trip beyond Bingen to Ru- g desheim and the excursion boat tur1T'
 it's prov homeward, racing with the . swift Rhine current back to Neuwied I There still remains time for Uncle = Sams theater and the. movies befoT' e supper time at Uncle Sam's hotel e where ice cream and cake wind III Q the evening repast- Then back to tht s recreation hall for the big dance s where American girls-the origina | six-and as many more from sur :. rounding points as possible, danc' - with doughboys in preference to of q ficers. Everybody is in fancy costume t made possible by the foFas baci t home through the Y. M. c. Al Ic' l Q