Yet Treves for the American Red Cross was a far, far more important point than Coblenz. It was the headquarters of all its work in Germany, and boasted in addition to the large American Red Cross canteens in each of the two railroad stations, on either bank of the Moselle, and the recreation huts at the base hospitals--for that matter, there were also recreation huts at the base hospitals in and about Coblenz--well-equipped clubs for both enlisted men and officers. Of these the club for the enlisted men--for the rank and file of doughboy--quite properly was the best equipped. In the beginning it had been one of those large combination beer gardens and music halls that always have been so very dear to the heart of the German. It was the very sort of plant that could be, and was, quickly adapted to the uses of a really big group of men. Its main _bierhalle_ made a corking dining room for the doughboys. The meals kept pace with the apartment. Three times a day they appeared--feeding daily from 600 to 1,600 boys--and they were American meals--in fact, for the most part composed of American food products--meats from Chicago, butter and cheese from New York State, flour from Minnesota, and the like. For each of these a flat charge of two marks--at the rate of exchange then prevailing, about eighteen cents--was made. But if a doughboy could not or would not pay, no questions were asked. The Treves Enlisted Men's Club which the American Red Cross gave the A. E. F. was not a commercial enterprise. It was run by an organization whose funds were the gift of the American people--given and given freely in order that their boys in khaki might have every comfort that money might provide. The great high-ceilinged _halle_ held more than a restaurant. It was a reading room as well, stocked with many hundreds of books and magazines. In fact a branch of the American Library Association operated--and operated very successfully--a small traveling loan library in one of the smaller rooms of the club. Upon the walls of the vast room were pictures and many maps--maps of the valley of the Moselle, of that of the Rhine, of the Saar basin, of the operations in France. These last held much fascination for the doughboys. The most of them were of divisions which had led in the active and hard fighting, and the tiny flags and the blue-chalk marks on the operation maps were in reality placed there by their own efforts--but a few weeks and months before. It was real fun to fight the old actions over and over again--this time with talk and a pointing stick.