Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-06-13
DOUCHDOYS' THREE DAYS OFF IN
HEUWIED IS ONE RIOT OF JOY
Smiles of Six Jolly American Girls and Ice Cream and Cake 6aIore
Give Homesick Soldiers New Spirit to Keep the "Wacht
am Rhein"-vst Points of Interest and
Are Royalty Entertained.

and pie factory running full blast for
the exclusive benefit Of American sol
diers.
Neuwied's open saloons are not pat
~ronized much by American soldiers.
Drunkenness has been practically nil,
and the conduct generally of the 3d.
600 is n of the greatest tributes to
American youth and the wholesome in
fuence Of fine young American women,
who have inspired with their surround
lngs, association and conversation and
general wholesomeness a desire to
make the periodical three-day leave
granted the American soldier in Neu-
WED q memory that leaves nothing but
clean thought in the minds of the boys.
The second day of John Doughboy's
three-day leave begins Just after break
fast at "Uncle Sans Hotel"-from 1880
to o a. m.-with a steamboat excursion
up the Rhine. 1t ends with a grand
costume ball In tho evening at the
recreation hall. The river excursion,
with plenty Of food. music and refresh
ments aboard, begins with especial at
tention first called through a mega
phone to the village of Weissenthurm,
Just cross the river, the point where
the French General Hoche crossed the
Rhine on April 10, 1877. Immediately
behind Neuwied, as the steamboat
takes the Rhine mid-chnnnel, loom
forth the Krupp gun works. Soon the
island Urmitz Worth, on which the
Romans once camped during the period
when bronze was first used by these
ancients, appears. Next En-
gers, a Rhine village Of 5000 people,
the home of a famous Prussian mill
tary school. Then Bendorf, q manu-
featuring city Of 5000 people, and soon
the giant fortress of Ehrenbreitstein
looms up around a bend In the river.
The bally-hoo man explains that
"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 Ehrenbreitsteln In 1899 some
doughboy remarks "some job" Look
Ing across the river they see Coblenz.
The boat passes up the river
through the Coblenz pontoon bridge
to Oberlahnstein, scene of thirteenth
century ruins, and glides below Stol-
zenfels castle at Capellen, built In
1852, destroyed by the French In 1888.
by King Frederick Wilhelm Nv,
and owned up to November II, 1911, !
by the ex-kaiser. Again upstream is
he very ancient and picturesque viii
age of RHEIMS with well-preserved
Qualifications 700 years old. Braubach,
| town first mentioned just 1197 years
lgo, and Maksburgg> Castle, the most
imposing castle on the Rhine peaks.
are next.
LoreIeI Rock Passed.
Past Bornhofen, a village of legend
and pilgrimage; Salzig, a small town,
surrounded by a forest of cherry trees;
of lead mine fame; Well
mich, with its famous Gothic church;
st. Goar, a village of 1000 inhabitants,
a church built in 558 by
Frankish kings, and eventually the
famous Lorelei is reached, that lmpos-
Ing rock overhanging t~rcacherous
Rhine rapids, on which the beautiful
woman of legend used to sit enshroud-
ed in a veil of mist, sometimes comb
ing her golden hair, and, more often.
enticing lovelorn Rhine sailors onto
the rocks as they drew neal to hear
the strains of her golden harp.
Passing many other points of inter
est, the doughboy is shown the little
church at Clemenscapelle marking the
spot where Kaiser Rudolph Won Haps-
burg beheaded 80 robber knights In
1882. And there is usually doughboy
comment, "Some kaiser" Finally, he
passes the Mouse Tower. built on an
island, and reaches Bingen-on-the-
Rhine, that famous Roman town said
to have been built by Drusus thirteen
years before Christ. A trip beyond
Bingen to Rudesheim and the excursion
boat turns Its prov homeward. racing
with the swift Rhine current back to
Neuwied.
More leo Cream and Cake.
There still remains time for Uncle
Sans theater and the movies before
supper time at Uncle Sans hotel.
where ice cream and cake wind up the
evening repast. Then back to the rec
reation hall for the big dance. Ice
cream and cake comes again at 9:80
p. m.
The third and last day there are all
the features Of the first and second
and a boat trip down the Rhine to-
ward Cologne for those who care to 60.
sightseeing is repeated. in
GLIDING the beautiful city Of Bonn,
seat of Germany's most famous unt
versity and once home Of Beethoven.
Then back up the river to entertain
ment, ice cream and cake, athletics, |
sports. games and recreation, winding
with the grand tug-of-war In Re
creation hall between picked teams.
Then more ice cream and cake and to
bed. ready for duty again back some
where In the Coblenz bridgehead.
Clean recreation has beaten the Ger
open saloons In Neuwied, and In
addition to that the ice cream. pie and
cake factory. now producing 100 gal
Ions of cream and 800 cakes of various
kinds each day, soon will double Its
present output. As one doughboy re-
marked at the end Of his leave here to-
day, "Some leavei"
Chinese Sweetmeats.
The Chinese are very skiliful in max