Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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See it in the steadily in* * Tires. in very definite features ?fists have come to look for tiro mileage, longer life, riving conditions. ihtened motorist you want ense cut down to where gs? i Next timp^-Euy Fisk. iARDWARE CO., | NS. C-- ; .ntvlMTirrC*! ; ?j> 11KE3 jo.it This Out and Take Tt With You. j j A i/ian often forgets the exact name; of the article he wishes to purchase,) j and as a last resort takes something! i else instead. That is always disap-i pointing and unsatisfctory. The safe: j way is to cut this out and taKe it with | 'you so as to make Mire of getting I Chamberlain's Tablets. You will find I nothing quite so satisfactory for constipation and indigestion. It# iliil ... di t ?, Mtmm TVil 1-i-inint- rrmnrwin mi n - wa-w oft* nri 9MCR ^ ies, Oils anc (ore Rooms a ;E WATER JMPH -.exingtoi u- ' P* m 9 ? v ,1 ' / ' / ____________________________________ * By WILBUR FORREST. (In the New York Trfbtfne.) Neuwied, Germany.?In many ways the American soldier, forced to main- j tain a "Wacht am Rhein'' here in Germany is to be envied 5y j those who have hurried back through.the French winter months to home and fireside. The homegoers are pessibly well nleased with their lot, bit the "stay abroads" are beginning tr> come into their own. The American army ani the Y. M. C. A. have combined into i harmonious partnership here at Nrawied-on-the- 1 Rhine, which gives full compensation j for enforced foreign service. It is I called the Third CorpsBecreation Center and is today operating^ full bjigst for the benefit of morale of ?ofne 85,000 o? Uncle Sam's boys composing the Third American army corps, commanded Iby Major General Bines. Eleven hundred from the First, Second and Thirty-second divisions come | from their prescribed villages and; towns of the occupied arear into Neu-1 wied every three days) to rest, recre- 1 ate and see the sights of the Rhine. "The Third Corps Recreation Center, made possible by the folks at home through the Y. M. C. A.," is the slogan i TTrtvi j^ott t*oart in "Npnwied todav. And I ^ VU UlUJ * vwv* ' the doughboys Tre b*fit\nh]g to appreciate it and talk a^out It. American arm/ engineers have boflt the largest Y M. C. A. club and recre- 1 ation hall i* Europe?the home of the recreating doughboy, in which he neither worries about reveille nor salute It is here that he first goes Tvaen he arrives from the area, and he is told to make himself comfortable j by one or all of six comely American j girls who have come from home to cater to John Doughboy and he alone, natty young officers notwithstanding. The boys are invited to make themselves "right at home" and they lose no time in doing so. / How the Idea Works. Folioy Mr. John Doughboy through a three-flay leave in the Neuwied Recreation Center. He packs up his blankets, towels, toothbrush and safety razor and departs from the scene of duty. He arrives in Neuwied by van- [ ous routes?1,100 of him?and is greet- i ed by a brass band at the railway sta- i tion. A guide conducts him to the big recreation hall and turns him loose j among potted palms, and deep nphol- i stored easy chairs, divans and "lazy- j backs" set tastily in a great room < finnk-AfT nn iwn sides bv bisr red brick | fire-places, in which cheery log fires are burning. He is assigned a place; in a double-deck bunk and he throws his blankets aboard and returns to the big room to loaf. Perhaps he sits down at a table and j writes a line or two to the folks back 1 home. Then he meets a friend and j plays a game of billiards or pool on the overhanging baleonv at one end ol i dT<d \J u 5 and FA ! Greases, I n Lexingt< infl Caraorp ? Aiwa} n Brand * the room. Of nc- just loirs artmncr o. those easy chairs and sofas until lunci time. Then some one suggests that he stroll down to "Uncle Sam's Hotel"?the place that jasgd to be the "Hohenzollern house." Here the Uncle SamY. M. C. A. combination serves a meal for him and his 1,099 companions that he has never seen equaled in the. A. E. 'r r.i>n(*t?ru ftuffacc ftarllv v? vvrvvi j wmiivi w wmm%jm This "crockery," as the doughboys j call it, is in reality an excellent grade i or German china, and as Sergeant J. | W. Seidenfelt, "commander in chief1 of Uncle jj&m's hotel, explained, j breakages at the "hands of spm^ scores I of German waitresses run up to 1 per cent a meal, or nearly 100 per cent a month. But it is Uncle Sam's party, and the boys enjoy it. Sergeant Seidenfelt was head waiter at a hotel in Cleveland w?en Uncle Sam drafted him. His home, however, is Hartford, Conn., and he never | dreamed the armistice would bring ( him here to run "the biggest array ho-j tel in Germany," where nearly 8001 ioughboys can "sit" simultaneously at a single meal and 1,600 if necessary. | diop in at two sittings for any meal of the da/. From the hotel the recreating soldier wanders hack to the recreation hall, which now becomes his principal point of orientation. Here he chats with American girls who make him feel at j home and point out the afternoon's en* < tertainment. There is "Uncle Sam's. theater," a pretentions German play* house, with a good bill showing at two o'clock and again at seven. There is the Mittplstrasse theater?continuous ' movies boc,h afternoon and evening? 1 and when a* this does not anneal there are athletics s?f almost every eharac- j ter on a nearb> field. From 3:30 to 1 4:30 there is rausv* and tea or choco- 1 late and cakes in Ke recreation hall, 1 and from that time Onward there are 1 music and games insiao or outside, 1 winding up with ice cream ana coicc at 9 p. m. Thus ends in brief outline the first ! of a three-day leave for the "stay- 1 abroads" here in Neuwied. In addi- ! tion there is a large swimming pool; and plenty of baths for those who wi<h j to take the time. ! i C^loons Lack Popula-ity. ? There are open saloons n Neuwied. 1 Soldiers are not barred frun drinking i and the saloons are open mtil 10 p. m. ' There is also here an icecream, cake and pie factory running fall blast for * tlio Dvnlnclrn linnofif r\-P Am CivJnnn c?a1 ?-* AV- v.lWUOilV, UtilCUL VI 1 IV.<111 Ol'i" diors. ! Neuwied'.s open saloon? are not pat- i ronized much by Amercan soldiers. v Drunkenness has been practically nil. ! f ;nd the conduct generaly of the SO.- i11 <00 is one of the ^reat'St tributes to i'' Anerlcan youth and the wholesome in- f I"' fuence of fine youn^r American women, vho have inspired, with tieir surround- ! i k. r\R vin iepair Work a Vf 1 our tleadqua M ' rs At Your Ser Maria! h Night lugs, association and conversation ana general wholesomeness a desire to make the periodical three-day leave granted the American soldier in Neuwied a 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 breakfast at "Uncle Sam's Hotel"?from 7:30 to.9jl m.?with a steamboat excursion up the Rhine. It ends with a grand costume ball In the evening at the recreation hall. The river excursion, with plenty of food, music'and refreshments aboard, begins with especial att?ntion_ first called thjough megaphone to the village of Weissenthurm, just across the river, the point where fEe French General Hoche crossed the Rhine on April 18, 1797. Immediately behind Neuwied, as the steamboat takgs the Rhine mid-channel, loom fomT the Krup~p~ 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 comes Engers, u Rhine village of 3,000 people, the home of a famous Prussian military school. Then Bendorf, a manufacturing city of 5,000 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 captured Ehrenbreitstein in 1799 some doughboy remarks "some job." Looking across the river they see Coblenz. The boat passes up the river through the Coblenz pontoon bridge to Oberlahnstcin, scene of thirteenth century ruins, and glides below Stolzenfels castle at Capeilen, built in 1252, destroyed by the French in 1833, rebuilt by King Frederick Wilhelm IV, ?.nd owned up to November 11, 1911, by the ex-kaiser. Again upstream is ;he very ancient and picturesque vilagp of Rhems with well-preserved fortifications 700 years old. Braubach, i town first mentioned just 1197 years ago, and Mnksburg castle, the most | imposing cattle on the Rhine peaks, ire next. Lorefei Rock Passed. Past Bornhofen. a village of legend ind pilgrimage; Salzig, a small town, mrrounded by a forest of cherry trees; Ihrenthal. of lead mine fame: Welliiicli. with its famous Gothic church; i ' t. Goar, a village of 1.(500 inhabitants, ontaining a church built in 558 by 'rankish kings, and eventually the anious Lorelei is reached, that impos ng rock overhanging treacherous thine rapids, on which the beautiful romnn of legend used to sit enshroud'd in a veil of mist, sometimes combng her golden hair, and, more often, nticing lovelorn Rhine-Bailors onto he rocks as they drew near to hear lie strains of her gob^h liurp. Passing many other points of Interf A. 1 ' I I I Specialty 1 nSSfl rters I dee I ger I Phone 147 1 maammmmam t est, tne aougiinoy is snown tne nttie 1 church at Cleraenscapelle marking the f spot where Kaiser Rudolph von Hapsburg beheaded 30 robber knights in 1282. And there is usually doughboy comment, "Some kaiser." Finally, he passes the Mouse Tower, built on an Island, and reaches Bingen-on-tlieRhine, 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 prow homeward, racing with the swift Rhine current back to NeuwietL More Ice Cream and Cake. There still remains time for Uncle Sam's theater and the movies before supper time at. Uncle Sam's hotel, where ice cream and cake wind up the evening repast. Then back to the recreation hall for the big dance. Ice cream and cake comes again at 9:30 I p? UK ? ! The third and last day there are all the features of the first and second and a boat trip down the Rhine toward Cologne for those who care to go. Historical sightseeing is repeated, Including the beautiful city of Bonn, seat of Germany's most famous university and once home of Beethoven. Then back up the river to entertainment, 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 somei where in the Coblenz bridgehead. Clean recreation has beaten the Ger| man open salmons in Neuwied, and in | addition to that the ice cream, pie and I cake factory, now producing 100 gal| Ions of cream and 300 cakes of various j kinds each day, soon will double its j preser.t output. As one doughboy re| marked at the end of his leave here toj day, "Some leave!" OIAPTX HIGH SCHOOL C< )MMEX< 'EMITS T Chapin^ S. C?The annual comcnencrnient of Chopin High School } will be held June lstt 2nd and 3rd. The bacalaureate sermon will be preached Sunday morning by Rev Z L Cromer Monday night a play "Home Ties" will be given by the mem hers of the graduating class and the graduating exercises will be held Tues day night with the literary address by; 1-r. W S Currell. .Mr Thomas W Hendrix assistant master machinist of the Lexington Manufacturing Co has been indisposed for the past two weeks He is very much better now and hopes to be on the job in the next few days Subscribe to The Dispatch-News.