The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-05-27
DOUCADOYS' THREE DAYS OFF IN
HEUWIED IS ONE RIOT OF JOY
Smiles OF Six Jolly American Girls and Ice Cream and Cake Galore
Give Homesick Soldiers New Spirit to Keep the "Wacht
am Rhen'-visit Points of Interest and
Are Royalty Entertained.

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There Is also here an ice cream, cake
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 80.
o is one Of the greatest tributes to
American youth and the wholesome In
fiuence of fine young American women.
who have inspired with their surround
ings, association and conversation and
general wh0lesomeness a desire to
make the periodical three-day leave
granted the American soldier In Neu-
WED a memory that leaves nothing but
clean thought In the minds of the boys.
The second day of John D~oughboy's
three-day leave begins just after break
fast at "Uncle Sans Hotel"-from 1880
to o n. m.-with a steamboat excursion
up the Rhine. 1t ends with a grand
costume bali In the 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 across the river, the point where
the French General Hoche crossed the
Rhine on April Is, 1907. Immediately
behind Neuwled, as the steamboat
takes the Rhine mid-channel, loom
forth the Krupp gun works. Soon the
island UrmitZ Worth, on which the
Romans once camped during the period
when bronze a first used by these
a%ncients, appears. Next comes 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 ZAP
tured Ehrenbreitstein In 1899 some
doughboy remarks "some job" Look
Ing acros 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
1862, destroyed by the French In 1888,
rebuilt by King Frederick Wilhelm Nv.
and owned up to November IL, 1911,
by the ex-kaiser. Again upstream Is
the very ancient and picturesque vii
lage of RHEIMS with well-preserved
Notifications 700 years old. Braubach,
a town first mentioned just 1897 years
ago, and Maksburg castle. the most
imposing castle on the Rhine peaks.
are next.
Loreiel Rock Passed.
Past Bornhofen. a village Of legend
and pilgrimage; Salzig. a small town.
surrounded by a forest Of cherry trees;
Ehrenthal, Of lead mine fame: Well
mich, with Its famous Gothic church /;
st. Goar. a village OF 1900 inhabitants.
containing a church built in 55S by
Frankish kings, and eventually the
famous Lorelei Is reached. that impos-
ing rock o~verhanging t~reacherous
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 near 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 von 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 Bin~gen-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
Seuwied.
More Ice 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 $50
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.
Historical sightseeing Is repeated. In
Guiding the beautiful city Of Bonn,
seat Of Germany's most famous uni
versity and once home of Beethoven.
Then back up the river to entertain
ment, Ice cream and cake, athletics.
sports, games and recreation, winding
up 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 b~ridgchead.
Clean recreation has beaten the Ger
man open saloons In Neuwied, and In
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