THE 8EMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE. NORTH PLATTE, NEBRA8KA.
RAILWAYS OF THE UNITED STATES IN SINGLE SYSTEM FOR WAR
Under Government Direction and With European Lessons in View,
They Are Preparing to Handle Armies and Supplies Mis
takes of the Spanish-American War Will Not Be Repeat
edEfficiency the Watchword.
Washington. Transportation Is nn
essential of tho nutlonul service In
wnr time. Itullwnys move the troops,
feed the troops, equip the troops ; rail
ways feed the nuvy, equip and coal the
navy, and build the ships. N'o plant
can perform Its government task with
out prompt movement of material,
parts, supplies and fuel. Hallways are
the very arteries of war. Magnlllcent
armies of highly disciplined men
equipped with tho most Ingenious In
struments of destruction would he ren
dered Inelllclent hy a luck of railroads.
Never, perhnps, was the importance
of the railroad so exemplified as in the
European war. When the llrst shad
ow of u war cloud was cast over the
peace-loving United .States, Instant
consideration of the railroads as u
means of defense came from the gov
ernment, and railroad odlcluls patrioti
cally took the Initiative hi placing at
the disposal of the nation every mile
of track and every wheel. When the
history of the war Is written, one of
the most dramatic chapters may have
to do with the part the railroads
played.
If the American railways were called
upon to move large bodies of troops
and gave the same accommodation as
supplied hi Europe, said George Hury,
vice president of the CanaHlan I'uelllc
railway, the other dny, they would ho
In a position to move a vastly greater
number in u shorter time. In warring
Europo troops are moved In freight
cars when passenger equipment Is not
available. In Europo the passenger
service has been curtailed, the remain
ing trains slowed up, and the running
of fast freights discontinued.
Efficient Plan Worked Out.
Tho country has been assured hy the
highest railroad authorities that tho
fullure.s of our transportation system
in tho Spanish war will not bo repeat
ed, hut that, on tho contrary, as n re
sult of n system which tho war depart
ment has worked out with tho rail
roads, confusion such as was Incident
to 3808 will bd avoided. The conduct
of that c'ampulgu was llttlo better than
tho llasco of the French empire at tho
opening of tho Franco-Prussian war.
To get rid of tho confusion which at
tended tho attempted mobilization at
Tutnpa, when was disclosed an un
paralleled lack of executive ability, the
will' department took tip tho question
with tho railroads and worked out a
plun which has been accepted by all
linos iii tho country.
' During tho Spanish wnr, for' exam
ple, supplleg for 70,66o inert hntl been
ordered lo Tuiiipa. In tho effort of tho
railroads to put theso supplies Into
that port 1,000 freight cars were side
tracked mid tho whole lines congested
up as far as Columbia, H. C. In ac
cordance with tho understanding that
today exists between tho war depart
ment and all the railroads, a placard
will bo placed on every freight car,
marked "United Stntes Army" In large
letters at tho head, stating the depart
ment to which tho supplies are con
signed, tho enr initial, the car number,
point of shipment, contents, consignee,
destination, route, dato shipped, and
Consignor. When they nrrlvo at tho
front thoy will nt onco bo put Into
position, unloaded, and released with
out waiting for bills of lading or other
railroad papors. Tho placards placed
on the cars will he considered sulllclcnt
for all purposes.
Must Never Be Sidetracked.
It will be a rule of tho railroad, olll
clals conducting the mobilization that
h car' thus marked shall never be side
tracked or laid over In a yard. If It
Is damaged In any manner, repairs on
It will havo precedenco over other
work. If theso repairs cannot bo Im
mediately made, or are serious In char
acter, tho car will bo at onco unloaded
FUNERAL OF RUSSIAN MARTYRS
Above. Premier LvofT (t) and :orelgn Minister MlllukolY (2) attending
(ho funeral of those who fell during th" Ihwliui revolution. Helow, one of the
foui 1 Ms. euch of wh'ch conl allied -15 coffins.
and another car substituted and sent
on through, with the same placuFd.
One of the chief troubles at Tampa
was that tho freight was not labeled.
Nobody knew what the cars contained
or where any speclllc supplies were
along the line.
For months before diplomatic rela
tions were broken with Germany the
committee on transportation and
communication of the advisory com
mission of the Council for National
Defense, headed by Daniel Wlllnrd,
President or the Hnltlmore & Ohio
railroad, had been In close communl
cation with the odlclals of the war
department. When the danger became
nn actual menace tho work of prompt
ly organizing tho railroads for defense
fell upon Um executive committee of
the American Hallway association.
Col. John L, Taylor of the bureau
of explosives of tho American Railway
association said last week that In the
whole world there was no such broad
nnd highly developed system ns that
possessed by Undo Sam. It was ere
ated, however, for tho pursuits of
peace; It made no claims to elllclency
on special military linos comparable
with tho transportation of Germany,
for Instance.
System In Germany.
Hy tho end of 1007 the normal
tracks In Germany constituted more
than one-sixth of tho whole of Europo
a system larger than that of nny
other Europcuu country with ono ex
ception, Russia. Tho knlser has been
ox ofllclo tho chief of the Imperial
railway olllce. lie has appointed its
members. Ho has had tho power to
demand nnd to prescribe lower than
tho normal rates for tho transporta
tion of provisions In case of emer
gency. He, In connection with the up
per houso of parliament, may call for
tho conveyance of soldiers and tho ma
terials of war.
Not long ufter the war began Ger
many called to tho colors every avail
ablo man. This gave a total of 4,000,
000 men In the held to be supplied with
food, clothing, ammunition, and every
thing needed for actual service. There
were probably 800,000 horses also In
tho Held, and they too had to bo fed.
Tho ammunition and tho guns hud to
bo carried to tho front by rail, and
much of It was transported back und
forth several times. Germany's rail
road arrangements had been complete
even before tho wnr started. A war
time-table, revised as occasion de
manded, hag from tho llrst been In tho
possession of railway olHcefs through
out tho country, capable of being put
Into force at the shortest notice. Short
strategic lines built hy Germany on
tho French and Ilclglmi frontiers have
been of tho greatest importance, nnd,
lu addition, most of tho mnln Hues are
so located as to havo tho greatest of
llclcncy for military purposes.
Every railroad car lu Germany has
stenciled on it the number of men or
horses It Is expected to accommodate.
In Germany tho world has Its most
complete examplo of tho state-owned
railway. Hismarclc worked for Impe
rial ownership. Tho foundation of
such a net as wo now seo In operation
was laid In 1871, when tho lines of
Alsace-Lorraine came to tho empire as
a result of tho Franco-Prussian war.
In that war Germany used her seven
railway lines In tho north and three
In tho south, only ono buvlng a doublo
track, to transport 10 army corps,
numbering 'l&O.OOO men. to the frontier,
and accomplished the strategic feat in
11 days," Today Germany has 1'2 double-track
lines grilling her broad sur
face, and tho manner in which nho has
made use of them to prosecute the
world war lias bcon a striking exam
ple of the railroad as a weapon for
DORE'S FAMOUS VASE
Copy of Gustnve Dorc's famous
vase, tho only ono In America, now val
ued at $2.r)0,000, may increase in value
many times If, ns Is thought, tho orig
inal, which Is "somewhere In France,"
has been destroyed or mutilated.
Tho masterpiece of bronze stands
nine feet high and for tho Inst 22 years
has been exposed to the elements out
side tho public museum In San Fran
cisco, Oil. It has stood there since
tho famous Midwinter fair.
It cost the city of San Frnnclsco
.$11,000 and Is now estimated to bo
worth over 20 times that sum. Word
has been received that tho original,
which was "somewhere In France," has
been discovered In Helms, having suf
fered bad mutilation during the vurl
ous bomhnrdments. If tho original is
beyond repair this copy will bo utmost
Invaluable.
offensive us well ns defensive opera
tion. Cut Passenger Service.
Ono of tho first changes necessnry
for American railroads to make, ac
cording to men who have given most of
their thought to the situation since our
trouble with Germany threatened, Is
tho curtailing of tho passenger serv
ice. Probably no other means avail
able, says out' authority, can bo used
more effectively to conserve the re
sources of the railways' of tho United
States.
The committee Issued nn order a few
days ago which said In effect: "In nil
cases keep freight cars moving nnd set
tlo differences of opinion afterward."
This was tho first Important step of
tho railroads lu carrying out their
pledge of April 11 thnt during tho war
with Germany they would co-ordinate
their operations in a continental rail
way system lu tho effort to produce a
maximum of national transportation
elllclency.
Already the roads are operating ns
n unit In the interest of national de
fense, nnd tho detnlled recommenda
tions of tho board, worked out after
exhaustive conference, from the pro
gram by which tho administration ex
pects to bring to a basis of war ef
ficiency every portion of the 202,000
miles-of railways' which make up the
greatest national transportation sys
tem In tho world.
UNUSUAL FOOD SUPPLY
SOURCES ARE TAPPED
Chicago. Tho woods and wa
ters ore being Invaded In tho na-tlon-wldo
drive for food.
In Michigan potatoes have
been planted in the forest re
serves under orders of the state
public domain commission. Ev
ery available acre has been put
to use.
In Wisconsin rivers and lakes
are being seined fur coarse fish
that can be put on tho market
at a low price to offset tho ris
ing price of staple foodstuffs.
Tho state conservation commis
sion, which ordered tho seining,
did so under Instructions from
Governor Phlllpp.
COURT DOOMS NOISY BIRDS
Judge In Pennsylvania Clears Man
Who Killed Them Despite the
Game Laws.
Norrlstown, Pa. "No statute can
compel us to resign our homes to the
gnme birds, nt least not without com
pensation," declnres Judge Swnrt In
reversing tho Judgment of Magistrate
McCIolhui of Lower Morion, lu fining
Chnrles Hall, caretaker of the Ard
moro police station, $S0 for "hunting
and killing" a robin, n blackbird and
a dicker in n crusade made against
thousands of blackbirds which huvo In
fested Ardmore for several yenrs. Hall
killed tho birds at tho direction or
chluf of Police Donughy of Lower Me
rlou. Donaghy got Hall to shoot up
into trees in which blackbirds flocked
In swarmr after all other methods of
ridding the community had been tried
and failed.
Very Much Worse Than the Mere Fear of Death
WASHINGTON. Looking at them, caRunlly, ono would have described them
us stern-faced, grim-mouthed, ami afraid of nothing on earth. And they
looked Just that. Hut as a mutter of fact, they were Just literally "scared to
death."
In tho first place they were very,
very masculine. In the second place
they wore sergeant's stripes. Finally,
they came from Fort Myer. They
inarched Into the camp of tho Nation
nl Service school, and for more than
two hours essayed to teach the
khakl-clad, sllk-stocklnged, feminine
ly military members of that camp how
to cook I Everybody enjoyed the les
sons except the teachers. The girl
soldiers were Just as attentive ns tln.v
could be. Every now and then, though, one of them would nsk an apparently
perfectly Innocent question, and then turn toward the class with beckoning
words nnd wink.
And while one of tho soldiers attempted to answer that question, put In
phraseology that no mere man could ever hope to understand, the other soldier
girls would smooth back their hair, or something like that, and smile.
After tho lesson was over one of the soldier girls told one of the reporters
ull about it.
"We baked a lot of pies here last week they really were mighty good,"
she said, remlnlscently. "And I recall that last summer I went out to visit
a brother of mine In the Third Infantry. It wns on Sunday, and I stayed for
dinner. They had pie, too. I wish but never mind.
"Hut who ever heurd of a mere man telling 11 girl haw to cook?"
One of Uncle Sam's Best Recruiting Sergeants
MISS DORA RODRIQUES will get you If you don't look out. Who Is she?
Why, she Is 11 pretty llttlo girl In a natty soldier uniform who Is walking
ull over tho country inducing young men to do their bit for their Uncle Samuel
and protect Miss Hodrlnuos nnd others
of her sex who must stay at home.
Miss Rodriques is on her way
from New York to Snn Francisco,
spending u few days in each town nnd
walking the dlstunco between them.
She hns a purpose in walking, for she
Is recruiting, too, for the ngrlcultimil
service. As she passes through the
country districts she gathers 'round
her the young men of the farms who
havo the military service In their
minds, and tell them tn stnv fit tinmn
and raise food for the army and the navy and the people at home. She says
they can do more good there than nboard ship or In the training camp.
"There ore too mauy boys In the cities who should go before the country
boys aro called," said the pretty little miss. "You see them In every city,
standing In groups on street corners with nothing to do but make remarks
about some pretty girl ns she passes. Those are the boys I am after, and I
am going to get them."
Moral: Place for Maps Is in the Inside Pocket
TU. FREDERICK G. GRIFFITHS of Philadelphia wanted to take a little
J trip on some of the Inland wnterways of the country. So ho asked Rep
resentative J. Hampton Moore of the City of Brotherly Love for some map?
showing tho canals und rivers to fol
low, and In course of time Doctor
Griffiths found himself uvuy down In
the vicinity of St. Phillips, La.
There happens to be n govern
ment establishment of some sort near
St. Phillips un arsenal or camp, per
haps and it is guarded very closely
by a line lot of Loulsiuna homo
guards. All this was unknown to
Doctor Griffiths; nnd even If he had
known of tho establishment ho prob
ably would not have quailed at' tho
tnougnt.
Somewhere in St. Phillips Doctor Grlfllths unrolled the series of mnp
which Representative Moore gnve him and began to study them. All he
wanted was to find water In which to navigate his boat, but the home guard
arrested him nnd Interned him under the general charge of lielng a German
spy. Tho guard argued that no ono but a Germnn spy would have so many
maps.
Doctor Griffiths protested. He said ho was 0 Philadelphia physician: that,
llko nil other Phllodelphlnns, his folks arrived here with William Penn and
that he resented this rude treatment. '
None of which nvalled him n thing. They locked him up In n St. Phllllpa
calaboose and doubled tho guard. According to Information reaching Repre
sentative Moore ho was there for ten dnys, during which time he sent tele
grams to nearly every descendant of William Penn now ullve. Representative
Moore had to spend most of his time on the trail of the attorney general und
It wns only after the most strenuous efforts that he was ablo to Induce St
Phillips to relinquish their llrst war captive.
Seeks to Enroll Fair Sex in Agricultural Classes
WOMEN tillers of tho fields around Washington may become a war reality
following u conference between Mrs. Flora M. Thompson, advocate of
farming for women, nnd officials of Maryland Agricultural college.
I WISH I KIW '
WHICH WERE 'ljS&nA
veeds ah'- ij&zJMism
work of two farm meu," declared
Mrs. Thompson. Tho history of England nnd Cannda encourages us to be
lieve we can worh out some plan to give women of the District practical les
sons In farming.
"By next year, at the longest, labor on farms nenr the nation's capital
will bo a reality, unless present signs are deceptive."
In nn address boforo the Young Women's Christian association Mrs.
Thompson declared women are Inelllclent In war housekeeping; that waste
ought to dlsuppeui from tho American home und frugality and thrift take Its
place.
The scarcity of male labor on tho farms, Mrs. Thompson said, makes It
certain that women must do their bharo of funu work beforo the war It, over.
Dark Blind Substitute.
Cut n largo sheet of brown paper
tho length and width of tho blind;
tack along tho top and bottom of
blind so that it goes up and down
with tho blind. No light can be seen
outfalde, and your window blind will
look tho same from outsido as before.
Real Welcome.
"By exercisin' n llttlo judgment,"
said Undo Ebon, "a wan dat chops
wood an' shovels snow kin bo ns wel
come as n regular Santa Claua."
, f&l (
HUB .ipf
Airs. Tiiompson laid before the
faculty of the college a draft of plans
for enrolling Washington women in
agricultural classes this summer. She
pointed out thnt made farming stu
dents arc lenvlng schools for more
practical work In the fields, nnd that
tho teaching machinery of ngrlcul
tural schools ought not to lie Idle dur
ing the mobilization of the nation's
resources to conservo ihc food supply.
"Three farm women can do tin!
Annlltt an Rarnm.t...
Keeping a snnll to tell you if It is
goiug to rain. Snails aro excellent
barometers. If there. Is ruin in tho ulr
snails will seek shelter uuder leaves, In
tho bark of a tree or any other handy
place.
Waste by Coke Ovens.
Government officials havo estimated
that 1,1)50,000 horso power In tho form
of gas alono is wasted overy day by
tho old fashloued coke ovens of tho
United Stntes.
Symptoms of More Serioua
Sickness.
Washington rone, 111. j.
mother of four children and havo Buf
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trouble, backache,
nervous spells and
tho blues. Mychil
drcn's loud talking
and romping would
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I could just tear
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Be vaccinated NOW by your phyilclan, you and
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A toilet preparation of merit.
Help to eradicate dandruff.
FnrD.iMtfni. .!
Beauty to Cray or Faded Hair.
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Sure Enourjh.
"I see the surfuce of ronds Is nlunek
scarified, rolled and made reudy for
use In a sincle trio over them of n.
machine that a Pennsylvnniun has In
vented."
"That's all richt. hut what I'd ilk-.
to know is, how the hens know the
roads nre rendy for use first?"
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No Rest tor Him.
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Doesn't sho over susnnnr thnt
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Oh, no. Accordlnir to hor
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m,n .. "" wiuou rioiuiers-
Hoarding the city library?"
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