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...hundred of them from the American Youth Hostel, Inc. had sailed from New York in June on the Ernie Pyle. They carried plenty of food because they didn't want to be a burden. They took few clothes, because they were going over to work. They were setting out to help rebuild Europe's youth hostels, damaged...
When they weren't building, plastering or painting, the Americans cycled around the countryside, doing odd jobs wherever they stopped. In Paris 30 hostelers were invited to Schiaparelli's for tea, showed up unabashed in seersucker dresses and dungarees. At Scotland's Loch Lomond (they took the low road) some of them met the German founder of the Hostel movement, 73-year-old Richard Schirrmann. He had been almost blinded when the Nazis tied him to a cross and sprayed his face with tear gas for defying them...
Schoolteacher Schirrmann set up the first hostel in an old castle in Altena, Germany, in 1910. By 1930 Germany had 2,000 hostels (one aboard a ship in Hamburg's harbor). When war came, there were 5,000 hostels in 20 nations...
Monroe and Isabel Smith, two U.S. schoolteachers shepherding a student tour of Europe, brought the idea home with them in 1933 and a year later opened the first U.S. hostel at Northfield, Mass. By its twelfth birthday last week the A.Y.H. boasted 250 hostels, scattered from New England to California...
...Each hostel has a house "mother" and "father" but the travelers do their own . cooking and cleaning up. Sleeping quarters are divided by sex, but not by color. Lights go out at 10 p.m. and no smoking or drinking is allowed...