History of the YMCAin the Le Mans area . uya cheap rosary for a brother I do not like. These are a few of thethousands of requests that were received and without exception, allrequests were complied with satisfactorily. The best work was done in the hospitals, whence the sick men wereto be sent directly to the ships. As none of them wanted to leavewithout a gift for the folks at home samples were taken to them ofthe objects in the shops, and the purchasers were helped to selectthings according to the photographs which soldiers would show nurses always reported the men much improved af
History of the YMCAin the Le Mans area . uya cheap rosary for a brother I do not like. These are a few of thethousands of requests that were received and without exception, allrequests were complied with satisfactorily. The best work was done in the hospitals, whence the sick men wereto be sent directly to the ships. As none of them wanted to leavewithout a gift for the folks at home samples were taken to them ofthe objects in the shops, and the purchasers were helped to selectthings according to the photographs which soldiers would show nurses always reported the men much improved after the anxietyof remembering the home folks was off their minds. SIGHT-SEEING AND SHOPPING—LE MANS Shopping Rural City Trips January ; February 225 825 March 650 1875 150 April 725 1750 175 May 750 1680 200 June 650 975 250 Totals 3000 7105 775 Sight-seeing—Walking trips in and about Le Mans. Motor trips into surrounding areas. Shopping Bureau—Experts in art and lace at disposal of officers and men for purchases in local 132 History of the Y. M. C. A. THE STATION CANTEEN T IS true, indeed, that great things often have smallbeginnings. And again it is true that the failure or suc-cess of the Y. M. C. A. in the A. E. F. has dependedupon the initiative and energy of the individual secre-taries. To see the tremendous Y. M. C. A. operations ofdispensing welfare to tired and hungry men at the station or at thearrival or departure of trains in the Le Mans area during the monthswhen hundreds of thousands of troops passed through the A. E. C,one would never guess the humble origin of the scheme, nor theobstacles that had to be cleared before the machinery for the extensivescale could be put into motion. In december of 1918, a Y secretary created his own job of meet-ing trains of troops bound for the ports. The average number of menpassing through Le Mans then was about 3500 a day. The secretary reported conditions to headquarters, recommendingthai a canteen be establish
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