Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-01-09
DQUCHBOYS LIVE
LIKE PRINCES IN
GERMAN RESORTS
Dance in Famous CobIenz Hall,
Sacred to Beethoven and
Bach, in Costumes From
King to Mermaid.
BY Cyril Brown.
Copyright, 1919. by the Press Pub
fishing Co.


(rhe New York Worldly
Especial Cable Despatch to the World
and Albuquerque Journal)
Coblenz, Jan. S.--The dance craze
has spread from the officers to the
doughboyS, and 1000 of them held a
fancy dress stage ball and carnival in
Coblenz's festival hall sacred to the
memory of Beethoven and Bach I'M
til taken over. by the military author
tiles as the Y. Nj. c. A. entertaining
center sacred to American ragtime
and to be the doughboys' festival
hall--the Doughboys' Coblenz Club
The first doughboy dance proved
literally a bowling success. Barring
half dozen girls, the dance was
strictly stag, many doughboys dress
ing up in feminine costumes with
German fancy dresses borrowed for
the occasion
Prizes for Costumes.
Husky pajama girls, ballet girls.
queens, Cleopatras and sheperdesses
danced with doughboys grandees,
crown princes and feudal lords and
other incongruities according to the
Teuton costumes which the dough
boys happened to grab off.
There were prizes of silver cigar
cite cases for the best costumes. The
best doughboy dancers got silk Amer
lean flag souvenirs and there was ice
cream for the wall flowers,
The first doughboy bali was voted
refined success and ended in good
order
The privileged spectators included
G. w. Perkins and Mortimer Schiff
who arrived, it is understood, on an
investigation into Y. M. C, A. activi-
ties,
The latest discovered limit of lux
ury in the American area is enjoyed
by the buck priyateS of the 115th
Field Artillery of the 117th Sanitary
Train, a part of the Rainbow Divi-
sion. These lucky men are billeted
in a half dozen of the most modern
palatial hotels of a nearby watering
place.
These Rockefeller buck privates ar,
now leading the life of mllionair,
guests free of charge, taking the ia
nous sulphur ba'hs at the expense o
the German government, slipping sui
phur waters, notably those bileted il
the Kurbad, the latter containing
hundred sulphur baths, the waite
bubbling through the marble floors
the temperature regulated electrically
to suit the feelings of the doughboys
Luxurious couches, Turkish towel
and professional German bath attend
ants are at hand and many buck priv
atcs are enjoying a multi-millionair
existence for the first time, enthusiast
ticailv taking eight or ten baths daily
Others are bathing company-wise a
~ Krrhotel. AZ the magnificen
Bismarck hotel, privates are billete'
on thick velvet carpeted velour cur
tanned Louis Quinze suites and privat
baths, while one sergeant has a rose
wood grand piano in his suite. Thes
lucky doughboys are drinking thei
favorite temperance beverages in ex
quisite and costly thin-lipped, Ion,
stonmed crystal glasses instead of tn
old tin cups.
Mess Kits Abandoned.
In many cases mess kits are aban
doned in favor of the rare poreelai
dishes. Many of the de luxe private
,o"o renOrted having their meals an
coffee served in their rooms, Between
times they consent to lounge aroun
tn s'l'phnr springs in palm garden
and inclosed Conservatives, and to hi
the free sulphur booze hard.
Other buck privates are leading
pn,m Peach life in the fashionaH
Grand Floral hotel, where, off duty
they forega her in the exclusive ia
nous so-calleE wine room, glass in
closed sun parlor furnished with cas-,
wicker chairs. The field artillery
fortunate Kentucky's horses an
Missouri's mules are not forgotte
either. many being stabbed in kaise
Wilhelm's grapevine grove. glass in
closed, with brass rallied sulphu
springs bubblng in their midst.