Photograph from Young Men's Christian Association 



A YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION HUT AT THE FRONT 



According to the account of an English officer who has been there, when the young 

 soldier, weary and muddy, first comes out of the trenches "he wants to go home to mother. 

 Of course, he can't; so he goes to the Y. M. C. A. hut." This hut is a sand-bag dugout 

 covered with turf, ten feet long and seven feet wide, with a roof high enough for men to stand 

 upright in the middle. Planks laid on boxes form a counter, where cocoa and biscuits are 

 served; there are writing and reading material and a talking machine. Shrapnel and shells 

 sweep over this refuge constantly. 



floating down the Ohio, his boats loaded 

 with soldiers for the conquest of the Illi- 

 nois country. When he came to the falls 

 he concluded that what was afterward 

 known as Corn Island, but which has 

 since been washed away, would be an 

 ideal cantonment site for the training of 

 his raw recruits, since it was safe from 

 Indian raids and desertion would be 

 difficult. He brought some twenty emi- 



grant families with him and built log 

 cabins for them. After training his men 

 he resumed his voyage down the river, 

 leaving the emigrant families behind. 

 They finally moved off the island and set- 

 tled in a bend of the river on the Ken- 

 tucky side and there founded the city of 

 Louisville. 



Fifty miles away is Hodgenville, where 

 Abraham Lincoln was born. Within three 



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