New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-12
Sumptuous Palaces at Neu-
enahr Resort Serve as
Barracks for Americans
Famous Baths So Popular
Troops Are Restricted
to One Plunge a Day
By Wilbur Forrest
New York Trbunc
Special Gable Service


the lives Of millionaircs, about three
thousand American soldiers, the ma or-
ity of them buck privates, arc sitting
atop the world at this famous European
bath resort to-day.
Neuenahr's sulphur springs, medicinal
baths and sumptuous hotels are known
throughout Europe. E.urope's royalty
and moneyed magnates and scores of
American mllionaires and multi-mill-
ionsires, including John D. Rockefeller,
have tasted the resorts marvellous
"kurbads" which bubble forth here
from the warm bowels of the earth
The Bismarck, West End, Grandfors
and kur hotels, comparing with our
Palm Beach hostleries, are situated in
the valley of the River Abr. near the
Rhine, while the Kaiser Wilhelm Park,
with medicinal springs, colossal glass
Enclosed 'weingarten,' a private the
atre and other features mark this mill
lonaires' bath Mecca. The millionaires
are gone to-day, and our buck privates
are by the grace of fate and war en-
Toying it all to the full, with the Ger
man government footing the BILL
The Neuenahr Weingarten was often
Sraced by the presence of the Kaiser
and his fellow potentates, drinking the
choicest German beers and the most
exquisite Rhine wines. Now one sees
within its transparent walls that
American marvel of this war-the
Missouri mule-who is gaining ever
lasting fame with the buck privates
on many battletields and is content
edly munching his oats. Here he takes
Neuenahr's water cure, for one OF
Neuenahr's sulphur springs gushcs
forth within the weingarten.
Mules Share Luxury
equipment of the 15Oth Field Army
Regiment, composed of men who
hail from Indiana. With the men
of the 18th Sanitary Train from Hi
nois, Tennessee and North Carolina,
they occupy the Neuenahr millionaire
resort-mules, men and all. The great
weingarten has proved the only struc-
ture adequate for winter shelter for
the artillery mules, so like the men,
the mules live in style.
Neuenahr's hotels and appurtenances
were built especially for millionaires,
OF those who had the price, and they
deep velvet carpets, decorated with rich
furnishings and spotless white downy
beds. King Buck Private sleeps and
punches the bell for his morning coffee
before reveille while the German SER
want trots it up. For the army mess
kit has been temporarily abandoned
and the hotel china substituted
The army cooks likewise work lux
uriously, for they have ditched rolling
kitchens for big hotel cuisines where
they concoct the army's rations of bully
beef and beans in style. Each hotel
has kept a full complement of SER
wants. whose duty it is to wait on the
present guests.
The Kur Hotel-the officers head
oGarters--is the largest Of the four
connected with each other. Hundreds
Of luxurious medicinal bathrooms are
doing rushing business. Each bath is
fed by Mother Earth's warm artesian
flow, but if the buck private is 5as-
tdious enough to desire any particular
temperature, the German bath attend
ant-one for every bath regulates the
heat with an electric heater before lay
ing out the Turkish towel, as large as a
bed sheet
Then the attendant leaves the room
to await the press of the electric but
ton. If tired after the bath, the buck
private may lie down between white
sheets on the bed with which every
bath is supplied. Some buck privates
were taking several baths each day be-
fore the officers decreed that one was
the limit, and that certain hours must
apply to certain companies.
The Kur Bath was equipped for
every kind of bath known in science
before the German military authorities
fcquisitioned most of its brass and
copper. But the ordinary kind Of bath
is good enough for the American pri-
Yates, who are giving the bathing game
3 rood show.
Carpets Like Feather Beds
The grand floor of the hotel is COW
cred with rcd velvet carpets, and the
bedroom carpets arc so thick it is diff
cult to walk upon them, according to
the buck private guests. The furniture
IS of real mahogany and the window
draperies are of the richest Turkey red,
while the walls are draped with Or-
entail silks.
At the Bismarck Hotel one top SER
geant distinguishes himself with an
EXQUISITE grand piano in the room. He
has all his meals served upstairs "just
Tor The novelty of the thing" and the
herman Heinie waiter so serves it. ad.
mtSing that he fought the Americans
IN the Argonne.
A. the West End Hotel, where there
Is thick carpcted lobby with wicker
chairs and tea tables, saw many mill
ionaires in other days Some buck pri
Yates are not so lucky here, for there
~ an overflow Of rnen--about 15o-
which extends into the cabaret hall,
where unrestricted cots arc get in
dormitory fashion.
In Kaiser Wilhelm Park there Is an.
other Of Neuenahr's famous sulphur
springs, from which the Kaiser him
self has drunk, while the railing which
leads 20 the efervescing waters has
been touched by the hands of potsf,-
tates, royalties and ordinary million
aires. Hundreds Of crystal glasses re-
pose in the great cupboard for all who
wish to drink, and the American sol
diers are making the best Of their op-
pprtunity.
II life ever pals on any OF these
millionaire priyates," all Of whom be-
long 10 the Rainbow Division, they will
have left q big theatre in Mhich in
ordinary times a private opera com
pauy performed for millionaire "pa-
tents" The Buck Private Opera Com,.
rapy ig now rehearging.
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