Norwich bulletin., 1919-11-05

moon atfer his land flung into war to l gain France and there to aid the Y. NJ. C. A. work, but hign I officials on this side had other views because or hIs surplus years over 50 and to i enlighten them as to his capahnity required sucn time that it w,is hot :; until the day after the signing oI the aTmsties ban 5e sha5 hls call came, n
 training schools in New York and i Springfield and it was December "A, ! 1918, when he took ship, the Celtic, and stood away on the arc of ! great !. circ.e for the Old Head of Kinsale
 and thea for Liverpool.
 After introduction to bread, meat i and sugar cards in the Imperial Hctel, Russell Square, London, Thayer went
 to Southampton, survived the stom-
 ach- trying trip cross Channel to Havre, and next landed in the Care
 St. Lazare in Paris and made his way to No. 12 Rue d'Aguesseau, Paris
 there to be assigned to a station.
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 It was work in Ferreaires which Thayer of the Y drew. In the town ! with the long spelling and short pro i nunciation he had relations to a1 American Ambulance Corps attached
 
 an assistant to a hut secretary. His labors were in the canteen. lie was
 initiated into the sale of cigarettes
 and chocolate. He relates that he sold no frankfurterS and wienerwurSt : After three months of cigarettes dur ing which time he handed out enougf
 to reach, if ended on end, from the } Municipal Building to Reservoir No.
 he was told that the was terminal.
 ing it's work with the army can,een It had never been desirous of taking i, over that burden and had done st : only upon the especially earnest re- , quest of General Pershinis who wished , additional Ioldfers liberated, fro.ti tht canteen that they might be sent to tht front ~ Hf8 : April the army took hack the can. teen and for fortnight Mr.ssT sTnayel : hung round before called to Paris fol : 1 reassignment.
 ., It was to Beaume that. Thayerz wal sent next. This was near Dion an(
 not far from the. Swiss border. faInil iard to George who, had fought witt the German tongue and with wiener, wurst in that region in an early Jisi last cetury. Beaume was tliniver. : sity" city, where some 5000 American soldiers had gone to study in the edt. cational courses which the laid ; before them Soon the army tool r over this work, -y bending on 7 tn, I American college. professors and t;i- tors the had secured! r ks Mr.. Thayer was sent to a hut ss assistant to the secretary and found that he was making life happier fe 800 coIored soldiers. A the col5ret soldiers were already tolerably happ! and singing plantation tunes and al i the latest popular airs it was no easiel task to make them happier. T The negroes sang. learned songs un,
 til one essayed Bright College Years,
 which happens to have the air of ...Th, Z Watch On the Rhine" He was eff |. fectual1y discouraged. The Rose O i. No Mans Land" was more in har !, mony with the opinions of .ne' lis tenrs.
 Thayer was in Beaume until tn, :, university Gemobilization June i } He remained a part of the life of tn. l deserted city until July l, doing sal l wage work. He was busy in the sal, 2 of books and emblems of learning tt f the French. In this he was handi r capped by unfamiliarity with tn ? tongue of the natives, but he and tn : language survived.
 Il The first man whom he met il Ll Beaume was Captain Watel B. Spen cer of West Hartford. formerly prin