The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-30
Y. M. C. A. Furnishing Many
Comforts for Returning
Transports
FREE SUPPLIES
ON EVERY BOAT
Everything Possible for Their Enter
tainment and Amusement to Be Pro-
vided-Expect the Boys Will Return
With a Grin.

With Grin.
PARIS, Jan. 30.-In accordance
with a request received from General
Pershing, the Y. NJ. c. A. will estab
lish new and thorough going system
of transport service on each of the
hundreds of transports that carry the
soldiers and sailors of the United States
homeward To send the boys who came
away with a smile back home again
with grin seems to be the purpose of
the Y. M. C. A. Everything possible
will be done for their entertainment
and amusement on the homeward trip.
Free supplies, ranging all the way
from fruit for the seasiek to postcards
already written and ready to be mail
ed the moment the ship comes into port
will be distributed to the boys. But
tons by the gross, needles by the thou.
sand, and khaki thread by the mile will
be on hand, so that the returning war
riors may be at their most presentable
when they get near enough to ogle the
Goddess of Liberty in New York Har-
Tor. Not even fountain pen ink or
telegraph blanks have been forgotten.
A daily paper, in mimeograph sheets,
will be got out ON every transport.
Bouillon cubes and boxing gloves, fold
ing organs and germicidal soap are
among the things that are being got
together for the homeward bound en-
listed men. The Jazz band that will
be organized in each transport will
he at its jazziest when the home shores
are reached.
A free three months membership
card to the Y. NJ. C. A. will be given
to each soldier and sailor.
| The following articles win be given
to each 1000 men:
One motion picture machine, 200
reels. / or 2 victrolas and records, /
folding organ, 800 song sheets, 6 rope
quoits, 70 checkers, 80 dominoes, 5
chess, musical instruments, jazz band,
! stereoptican and slides.
500 sheets writing paper . quarts
fountain pen ink. two gross pens, two
gross pencils, jar paste. 1000 post
cards, four gross germieidal soap, 2
6lackboards, / gross button, IL gross
needles, 1-2 gross thread, General
Foch's message, "Y' banners.
Five cases American Library assoc
citation hooks, 100 magazines, 125
q Stars and Stripes $50 "Associa-
tion Men, Educational pamphlets.
100 song books, New Testaments, 10
Bibles, 10 Jewish Bibles, decision cards,
Y. NJ C. A. membership tickets, re-
ligious pamphlets.
One case fruit each transport, more
on transports for wounded. lemon drops,
3 gross bouillon cubes, chocolate, Gig
arettes, Enos salts, chewing gum.
Four boxing gloves, medicine ball.
Miscellaneous, | hammer, ! screw
driver, / box thumb taeks, paper for
daily paper, mimeograph, wrapping
paper and Irvine.
+. P. Pratt of Colorado Springs, will
be in charge of the transport service
rand Myron Shipment of San Francisco
California will assemble the supplies
at the three main embarkation ports
Brest st. Nasaire, and Bordeaux. L. w
Avery of 3l5 Fourth avenue, New
York. win be in charge at Brest, A. L
Smith of Washington, D. c., at st
: Nasaire and r. f. Watts of Cleveland
Ohio, at Bordeaux. Two Y. NJ. G. A
secretaries will be on each transport.