Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, July 11, 1919, Page 2

e & s e PAGE TWO THE S8EMIDJI DAILY PIONEER "INTERESTING LETTER T PARENTS FROM WITTING In a letter to his parents, Neil P. Witting, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Witting of Bixby avenue, Bemidji, gives an interesting narrative of his stay abroad in Uncle Sam’s military gervice. The letter was dated at Liffol-le-Grand, France, Sunday, May 25 and says: The' work most of the outfit has been doing is convoying trains to Conflans, Verdun, Romagne, ('rior (or Treves), Coblenz, and other points. From one to six men have been sent through its eteep, narrow valley,|a fine substantial palace in the midst Nancy puts on a lot of style. ~|about two hundred feet deep, with|of Coblenz. But now its front yard rocky walls in places, and occasional |is occupied by & Y. M. C. A. “Victory tunnels. This is where the well- known Moselle wine is raised, and“it was very evident. I must ?.v.h'l“hn on the Rhine. billions of sticks, five or eix feet high, standing on those steep hillsides; Goes to Metz. placed about three feet apart each| Late Monday night we left for way, in straight rows, with a small Metz, arriving there in the morning grape-vine wrapped about .ae lower | Tuesday. Quite a few of our fel. those people cultivate, and by hand, Motz more showed up; until there s stupendous; for miles and miles they seem (o raise little else; and it | must have been over twenty of us at ited. of the Rhine. And such ground! It |and Metz is a dandy city; the people| o see. is 80 steep in most places that it is|are perhaps ome-third German, and work enough to climb there, let alone of valuable supplies, sealed and pad-| o) Gpion still leave it very steep. Jot have been troop trains, consist- ing of a couple of passenger-coaches and a string of box-cars, only one re- quiring guarding, a kitchen car con- taining stoves :nd utkonsll-.’ (ilon\;oy- erg carry a small pack containing two articles, and two| The German women are to be seen 31’,':’::6"1:.3‘.“; ::':)‘(l»:trat:nn we get two | washing clothes at the edge of ggpec::g t:oni(l?le';e:wtfi' d;fll“ Vifl‘; dollars per day for time absent over |streams everywhere, as in France; | '+ 5";‘"" ‘o sreat torts yo?'ea two days, as commutation of Fations. only they beat them with a lghtf ® o to00 ~o thi bl °m°" 1 received $12.00, as I left* Thursday wooden paddle, while here in France Sonbtey; " rhis catha((’l ok ::::nhu‘i‘l% A A the 15t and returned the 23rd. they scrub them with 8 scrub brush- " 515" Around the front end of it, i s Also, as in France, the farms are lations Puzzling, ] about thirty feet from the ground, are Regulati worked from the villages, which are{f S0t o KT T e O hont 1 must tell you something about|thickly scattered; a lone farm-house 3 . iR the regulations here. All cities and [is almost unknown. But in many “;"1“ f:‘;fo kil iherlbghé Since the villages have M. P.s to keep soldiers | ways Germany, what I saw of it, is §e z'ure Of . LAOrra, '"’my :"“‘“{ some from wandering in or out without|different and far ahead of France, in ‘!"h’; yearse *:S‘Z'h" :l shatue 0 )“he authority; besides preserving order, |country, village, or large town. The ;g ,thear ; 1 e higl '":lw?l‘(' a8 etc.; places of any size have American | houses stand separate, instead of be- :e‘t‘hc f;(n%e ot: very g&o 1 h;,-ness Provost Marshal, and Rallway|ing jammed together in solid rows,|° i te" “‘;‘l’r' us ‘t‘“‘ “5}] {,“ 4 Transportation Officers stationed in|as in France, they are built sub- ’;“ ( é) m?]we.verf b "l‘l"wh” elen offices, the latter at the depot; the|stantially and besutifully, there are lcx al‘xlge “”d, E&g: ’;w ey have h A R. T. O, time-stamps your papers,|quarries everywhere, and the German “"i‘ :utfi o € b “zi very muc such as pass or travel-orders, tells|rock is of better quality, but that is ;’“ a8 w° d“":' ut ;t"“’ was fly- you what train to take, and how|mot the only reason. The Germans ngli dw A ednesday; BLLernoon." we long you may stay in the place, aléo|are cleaner and neater, the gardens|PUied out. . issues you transportation. The depot|and yards prefectly kept, and above Arrives in Nancy. is guarded so that you have to pass|all, there is some sanitation; they Arrived at Nancy about four p. m., the R. T. O. office and register both |don’t seem to throw so much dirt intofand spent five hours in-this lively in ‘and out; but if you happen to get|the streets, or Keep a manure-pile in}little university city. Like Metz, by, or there are none, you are all|every front dooryard, as one sees in 4 right, because you mneed no tickets|France right on the edgeé of the main on any trains, from Brest to the|streets, in villages up to pretty good Rhine, just get on. Privates are sup-|size. In fact, there is much more of posed to ride no first or second-class |an air of education and prosperity in compartments, non-coms no first-| Germany, although the people them- class, and officers can ride any. (Puz-|selves do not look any neater, and gle, where do they ride?) coul(]l ltxsot be moxileui;dust‘flog. ‘There : are lo more C. ren in ermany. Good Fortune Smiles. Germans are not any better morally. Fortune surely smiled on my trip.|“Fraternizing” is not allowed in the In the first place, I was lucky to get|occupied territory, although consider- a trip that far, and the weather was|able goes on in spots out of sight of perfect and I felt fine. It camie at the|the M. P.s; you are supposed to talk right time as the restrictions are be-|to Germans on business only. Frat- ing slacked up with the removal of|ernizing! Good word; like charity. troops, and M. P.s leaving, they had| The Germans speak English better been taken off in Metz and Toul. We|than the French do, and treat us very could go when and where we pleased,l well; in fact it is well known that and leave when we got ready . We,they like the Americans the best of had only a kitchen-car to guard, 80|any of their enemies; with many of there were just two of us, and we|them, you would think we were allies got a set of padlocks on the car ,s0|rather than enemies; but we all take did not often need to get off and pa-|this with a little salt. trol the train when it stopped, but| & 5 rode comfortably in a second-class Coblenz Fine City. are women, of ages from about 12 to 110, 1 judge, chopping away with heavy hoes. A Women Great Washers. about five feet through goes up the high tower, and we climbed a spiral iron stairs up this. Some climb! A Pipe Man and Tobbaconist Connection A Refreshing, Satisfying Drink when it is brewed as it should be. In each package is a little book that tells the simple secret. ‘Read it care- fully and follow the directions. There is a delicious FRAGRANCE and RICH AROMA to Brooke Bond Tea that makes it superior to all others. GREEN or BLACK. Choose either. Look for the label on each package. Red Label India Ceylon Tea Blue Label Japan Green Tea AT ALL GROCERS Nancy and Paris were areas closed to leaves, until they began giving three-day Hut,” and sight-seers in khaki are|passes to Paris in response to the tramping through the kaiser’s castle|popular demand. Regarding Nancy, the reason is instantly plain to the visitor there; I have never in any lace seen the women so bold. There s a nice cathedrai here, which I vis- Arrived in Toul late that night, got a good rest, and loafed around there all day Thursday. It is rather a quiet, old-fashioned place for the size.” There is also a very good cathe. 18 the eame thing on the eastern bank | Once. Lorraine is very like Germany, | dral in this place, but not much else everyone seems to speak both French Welt, ;h“,s about all there was 8 € k to the trip, except that leaving Toul 'm“ : :';;n'o’cc%:‘}'"s.wfiol:‘:::l;: having & vinyard there; a large part | and German, also quite a bit of Eng-|that evening, partly through the conisisted of, sQing belnk is so bad it is terraced with stone ::;:éen?sh:::egobalzszh :l;e;; ars mag|tault of the R. T. O., we took the ¥ 3 ops. €| wrong train and landed in Bar-le-Duc locked g8 well as guarded. Lately a| [/ least two-thirds.of the workers |cathredral is the largest and most instead of Neufchateau, to our dis- splendid T have seen. A round hole gust; seven of us. Got a train right back in'a couple of hours, and made another start; result, I spent most of the night on trains, but rode most- fat person could not make it, and I|]y in the comfortable first-class, from would advise the short-winded and|which a French officer tried once to put me out, but in vain. Made a brief visit in Neufchateau, which is a bum town, and got back here Fri- 220 Dozen of nine gent articles 220 A. BROSE 400 Minnesota Ave. First Class Rooms in coach. My companion was Sgt. A. E. Wheeler, a Minneapolis lawyer, and the best fellow in the whole outfit. The night of the 16th we were rid of our “train, had a receipt for it, and were free to enjoy life; we rolled our automatic pistols in our blankets, and would leave our packs while going out to take in the sights. And always were handy stations of the Y. M. C. A. or Red Cross, or both, furnishing eats_and sleeps at very low prices, except Metz, as the Amer- icans are all gone there’ Orders to Coblenz. With travel-orders for Coblenz, we started out, going via St. Mihiel, Ver- dun, Conflans, Thionville, arriving at Trier Friday afternoon. where we stopped several hours in the yards, visited a Red Cross canteen for hot coffee, etc. Arrived at Gerolstein in the afternoon. and later on two of cur other fellows came in with their train, found that the trains would be kept there, as the troops for them were there. So, in the morning, we hopped a passenger train and went on our way rejoicing; had to stop in Mayen for several hours. and a-- rived in Coblenz about 3:00 p. m. In the Conflans and through there and as far down as Metz and Nuaaey 1t was daylight from Lonville on, and 1 enjoyed the scenery; we followed the Moselle into -Trier. win'ting Coblenz is a fine city, with many good streets, great hotels, palaces, and magnificent buildings, many of which have been taken over by Americans for offices, billets, and Y. M. C. Ass, ete. The statue of Wil- helm. First gtanding as it does on tlie point of land where the Moselle joins the Rhine, is a commanding thing. From the horse’s hoof to top of rid- ers plume is forty-six feet; the whole thing must be a hundred feet high. Sunday 1 took the boat trip down the Rhine, as far as Bonn; passed the place where Caesar built his bridge over the Rhine, and saw sev- eral cities and old castles, some in ruins; found the Rhine Scenery quite up to its reputation. Trip furnished free by the Y. M. C. A., also lunch on the bhoat, which was a fine large double-decker, fast, carries several hundred people, even had an orches- tra. They run about three of these hoats every day; would like to take the up-river trip. Monday I climbed the famous Ehrenbreitstein Fortress, which towers nearly four hundred feet above the Rhine. just opposite thie mouth of the Moselle. 1t is gi- gantic heyond description; tue view from the top is magnificent. 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