,
clubs for British women (Waac's) working with the American army, and
recreation work for all women employed in any way by the American
Expeditionary Force. In one year its activities spread to twenty-five
cities, and it had forty-three units.

The Hostess Houses were at Paris and Tours. The Hotel Petrograd, on the
Rue Caumartin, was leased in Paris and turned out to be one of the most
interesting centers of American life in France. It was run on the most
liberal lines, in a thoroughly democratic way. The meals were good and
in the big dining-room men were admitted on the same footing as women.
There were two of these Hostess Houses at Tours.

For the girls of the signal corps twenty-two homes were opened and there
were huts for the Waacs at Bourges and Tours. Y. W. C. A. secretaries
were attached to twenty base hospital units and opened fourteen clubs
for nurses.

The most interesting and unique work of the Y. W. C. A. was that of its
foyers for French working women and business girls. There were thirteen
of these in Lyons, Rouen, Bourges, Tours, Ste. Etienne, Paris and Mont
Lucon.

The Salvation Army erected hotels at the various large training camps in
America, and its workers made American doughnuts for the soldiers close
to the battle-lines in France. The work done by the men and women of the
Salvation Army aided materially in bringing the heart of America into
France.

The Jewish Welfare Association not only performed notable service in
following the men from training camps into actual service, but it also
planned and executed a great reconstruction program under the direction
of Felix M. Warburg, chairman of the Joint Distribution Committee.

The American Library Association solved the grave problem of providing
the soldiers and sailors with suitable reading matter. Each of the
cantonments had its special library building in charge of a trained
librarian, and interesting literature followed the men into the field
through the services of this organization.

Some idea of the work of these various organizations is gained by
reading the following order received by Raymond B. Fosdick at his
headquarters in Washington after the steamship Kansas carrying supplies
for the various huts at American field quarters, was sunk:

Send 20 tons plain soap, 20 tons condensed milk, 10 tons chocolate, 5
tons cocoa, 2 tons tea, 5 tons coffee, 5 tons vanilla wafers, 50 tons
sugar, 20 tons flour, 2 tons fruit essences, 2 t