DISEMBARKING MEN f ,JS A MONSTER TASK -> -V i, r Record Time Made In Landing „ 36,000 Soldiers and Get i ting Them to Gamp. ^ i ._ American Port, Western France (by fnail).—Long lines of kaliki Clad men Just emtinrked from American trans ports- and now on the way to their flrst rami>, packed the streets from curb to curb and stretched away for miles. It was four miles and up hill most of the way—through city, suburbs and country lanes, from the. sea front X to ihe great reception camp located outside the town, one of the largest camps In the world and capable of caring for the population of a metro politan city. Hour after hour from 6 in the morning until late in the after noon the steady tramp of marching thousands had. been going on, for this steady stream is the army of 36,000 just arrived on 13 American transports, making the record debarkment from ship to camp within 12 hours. With Major X, the engineer officer of the camp, we skirted alongside this moving stream, from the landing to the camp, amkhad an opportunity of seeing each si age in the huge movement up to the time the tired marchers pitched their shelter tents on the soaked grounds and crgwled inside to sleep. Stirring as it was to see these men come to swell the million men In the American ranks, yet there was a grim ness and grayness to the scene sug gesting the stern reality of war. A steady downpour swept across the ranks and the men were dripping as they trudged through the rain soaked mud. They were at route step, without the regularity of parading troops, and eaclt man carried, beside his rifle, all his belongings on his back", 70 pounds of tent, blankets, clothing, shoes, and • all the miscellaneous equipment of a soldier beaded for the front. Thelr last camp was in the well equipped cantonments In the United States, where they slept 'on cots and had a semblance of modern comfort. Now they were on the war swept soil of "tT France and had seen the last of cots and comforts. It was theif- first glimpse of real war conditions, and anyone who says it ie cheerful shuts his eyes to the grimness of war. “There are more troops arriving," said the major as he led the way, “than tlie total strength of the United States army a short time ago.” And with such an influx we have to provide a very elastic camp, capable of immedi ate expansion from 1,000 up to 100,000 men." The major was we!! qualified to ex plain the magnitude of the work, for he had been chief constructing engi neer of the New York subway qystem, had planned and built a good part of the system, and had made the popula tion figures on which subway construc tion was based. ~ “To get an idea of the camp.” he said, “compare it with Central park. “We have 2,500 acres here, Central park lias *00 acres. Why, the entire area of Nate York city on Manhattan island is oydy 41,00u acres.” On both sides of the road, for mile after mile as we sped along in an army car. a city of tents was rising and there was the hum and bustle of camp activity on a vast scale. This morn ing ail the ground had been stubble field from the newly cut wheat and barley. But now every available foot was being laid off by the army engi neers. working with tripods and in struments like a party of surveyors. Tented etreete end avenuee, headquar ters tents, iness, kitchen and hospital tent*, and vast parks for supplies and artillery and horses, were rising in the fields and spreading for 40 square miles over this huge enclosure. Never Moleit Growing Grain.* “We nevpr take a field of growing grain,” said the major, “but as fast as the grain is cut we take over the fields, and with harvest time well advanced this entire /arming section will soon be turned into an American camp.” In 'one of the fields where we stopped to see the men, two battalions of 800 men each Just marched in and were preparing to pitch their tents. The great stretch of plowed ground, just cleared of grain, was rain soaked, and the storm had set in for the night. The men stood ready, each with a half of a shelter tent, to drive the stakes and last It against the elements, and then crawl in. It semed an endless wait for all the formalities of laying out the camp with engineering exactness, yet all of thi« was essential to the smooth *» running of such a large concern. At last the stakes were driven and soon the great field was dotted with thou sands of little khaki mounds, about as high as a man’s waist, called "pup tent>“ by the soldiers probably be cause they look like dog bouses. Un der the tent there Is Just room for two lying down, and if the ground is soaked, as il is tonight, the rubber poncho keeps out some of the water and kindly nature and the Iron of youth must do the rest. This was only one typical camp of the hundreds lining the roads for miles in thts vast reception camp. Field kitchens and water carts were wheel ing up to all the camps as the tents went up. Filtered water Is brought in hogsheads and each command has its apportioned lot of hogsheads. Later on (here will be a splendid system of water mains for the whole camp. But here are the men, and a water system is net installed in .a day. Sn instead of waiting for 12-inc.h mains, the prini , ttive hogshead is filling the gap. Bach mar. carries his emergency ration for three days. Some of them were nib bling it before climbing into their pup tents, but most of them waited for 'he smoking field kitchen to get into ae ■»" tlon with its cooks, serving out hot coffee and hot soup and meal. The item of feeding an army with precision Is in itself a gigantic task. •‘tV, served 1.800,000 meals last ill.” sold Major X. “or '■ “! “0 ninny rations of three meals to the ration." And besides all the feeding and wat ering arid sanitation there is the im mense “paper work", of such an or ganization. There are 128 separate organizations in the 36,000 men jus! arrived:1 Kach of the 128 must la sorted out and brought together, am! every individual soldier of the 36.0OC must Vie identified and accounted for ao as to guard against losses, and ther each organization and man must hav< Its detail to one of the .sectors of th, fighting front. This “paper work. ’ at It is called. Is prodigious, and like ev erything military it must lie done wit’ absolute precision -Vml the paper work rails for paper, which is very hard to get. imp the other day.” said llieetaoln “IVhen headquarters called for a tnap of the camp the other day," raid the Major, "they got it all rtgjit, on the only paper which could be found which' was brown wrapping paper. Bui it was a good map. and the wrapping paper map of the big American camj will go thto the archives.” When taps sound'd tonight every man of this 35.000 wa, unde: canvas although this morning, e ery men lisi ,s been afloat. It was the record i ccom plishinent in landing tor wlit.o un* body of arrivals. Add beer, large *2.000, F,;' the landing had taken the best part of two days, whereas this huge transfer was In the daylight hours of the first day. "And right on top of It." said the General tonight, "one ship is arriving with lf.OOO more men. and then another flotilla of transports and then an other." flTUys this gigantic influx of armed med goes oasteadily and unceasingly, on record 11meNW 1 th little or no con fusion, each man inld Organization be ing cared for and accounted for as they move forward to the front, and all of the huge enterprise of docking, land ing, transportation and camping, witii all their infinite details, created out of practically nothing within the iaet 10 months. ___ Where Rare Book* Came From. Book collecting is one of the sports of millionaires In this country, and the zest shown in It is one of those few things tiie war hasn't lessened. It is not so in England, although we look to that country for most of the t*$ngs, even Americana, that figure with fabu lous prices. The auction room where i these precious volumes are bartered is a center of romance for many who find that there is something more In the matter than the glamour of high fig ures. Mr. Clement H. Shorter writes In the London Sphere of a little volume recently privately printed, called “Notes On tile History of Sotheby's"—the great book auction room of London. Mr. Shorter, with the enthusiasm of a fre quenter. says that the author of the book, Mr. O. T. Hobson, has "told the story • • • with that dash of ro mance which must always obtain where the book auction is concerned.” Here is some of the romance: "The first book auction held in this country took place in 1676, but the first great book auctioneer was Samuel Baker, whose first sale was held in 1744. There were not regular hook auctioneers or auction houses tintil. his time. In 1778 Baker was Joined by his nephew, John Sotheby, and three gen erations of Sothebys were associated with the firm, the last of whom was an author who wrote 'Ramblings in the Elucidation of the Autograph of Mil ton.’ He died In 1861. A Mr. John Wilkinson became a partner In 1842 and a Mr. William Hodge in 1864, and thus we have the firm of Sotheby. Wilkin son & Hodge, although not one of these names is now in tiie business. • • » "But to return to the real romance of Sotheby's, its wonderful sales of books, connected with which it has is sued no fewer than 7,000 separate cata Jogs. Some of them, beautifully illus trated. are so Interesting that one binds them in one's library, especially when they are concerned with the hooks of noteworthy people. The re cent Morrison sale was a case in point, when the letter of Mary Queen of Scots, probably the most wonderful letter in existence, was privately purchased for the benefit of the nation, and when the Nelson autographs and manu scripts. many of the letters being to Sir AViillam Hamilton, or to liis wife, Lady Hamilton, were knocked down for £2,500. “The most Interesting feature with regard to these sales, as it strikes me, is the large place which the lireek and I.al in classics played in th* sales of the 18th century and the small place they play in the modern world. But the most amazing thing of all is the great enhancement of prices under modern commercial conditions, and largely due. no doubt, to the fact that the American millionaire is frequently a great book buyer. aitLough his brother in England is rarely so. This would account for the fact that one of Shakespeare's first folios sold for £40 19s. [$205] in 1799, and a copy fetched £3,600 [$18,000] in 1907. Mr. Hobson points out that a collection of early quarto plays sold in 1798 for £22 3s [$110.75], and that it would, be con sidered cheap at £5,000 [$25,000] to day, and might easily fetch double or treble that sum. AYhen the sale of Henry Fielding's library took place in 1764, books with his autographed notes fetched only a few shillings, whereas in 1911 the novelist's copyright agree ment with his publisher sold far £1,015 [$*,075], “One of the most interesting things in this book is a facsimile of one of each of tiie love letters of Robert and Elizabeth Browning: a collection of letters which in 1913 sold for £6,550 ($32,150). But the material provided in Mr. Hobson’s interesting book is infinite, and is worthy memento of the firm’s change of address from the ! Strand to the AYest End of London, a change, however, which X personally ' greatly regret. As an inhabitant of Fleet street, an occasional visit to the salesrooms when they were Jn my im mediate neighborhood wns an agree I able pastime, but to me the West End \ of London is usually Inaccessible, and more so than ever now that the 1 taxicab has departed from our streets. Moreover, I greatly regret that these ; sales should be held at the awkward hour of 1 o’clock. X am quite sure that ; it is not a wise decision which keeps 1 up this curious custom. From 1 till 2 1 is the conventional luncheon hour of i tiie English public, and I can imagine 1 that, fortified by a- good lunch, many ; buyers would bid more briskly if the i wales commenced at 2 or even at 3 ! o'clock."_ _ Thint, a War Weapon. From “The Desert Campaigns.” Our troops worked to make it impossible ! for the Turks to cross the desert and , attack the defenses of the Suez canal, j The Turk then drew his water from a | few pools and the cisterns cut into rock by races who peopled the desert many centuries ago. If the sources of water supply were denied the Turk it w’as obT i vious he could not march across the desert : in any force large enough to cause dam age, unless he brought a large camel | transport column, which we knew was j not available. Therefore, it was decided to draw off all water within a radius ol i pome 60 miles from the canal There ; was a big pool at a spot known as Er Rjg'm wherp the winter waters «»f the Wadi Mtiksheib emptiod themselves, and a party of engineer, protected by Aun Uai'an light h < r»e - hi id. j cut trenches round the lake aud drained 5,000,000 gallons from it in four days. Other detachments took out smalt portable pumping sets and lifted the water from innumerable cisterns, adopting this plan rather than that of destroying these underground reservoirs, which will con tinue their usefulness when the world enjoys peace again. Not *n« of them was damaged. The Turk had been engaged on a rather elaborate well boring operation at .Ilfjaffa, east of Er Kigm. for some i months; an Austrian engineer superin tending the work, with an excellent plan Major Scott took a squadron of his i cgi I meat, the Ninth Australian light horse and some men of the Bikaner came! corps, to put an er«l to this attempt t* secure a water supply, and by a well <*on oeived surprise attack captured t'.»e Aus , Irian officer and m >«t of the Turk*;, kill tng and wounding the remainder. Th* i bore hole* anJ plant were destroyed. B June there w.n not a bucket Of wale; available for the Turk In a wide belt o the desert, and. though vig'biiv'e was never relaxed, patrols rarely ha 1 anythin* to report. "Seven persons have b^eo flood hr Jg ; Wrstenhaver for appb« :d'r g ar trial. Among th m v*n VDs. r’a.1 , tor Stokes, who oa. J ~r.-grjr>.— i i,u i.n——— mnwi ■ EXPLAINS INCREASED AIRPLANE LOSSES New York—Steady increase of Ger man airplane losses is admitted by Capt. Otto Lehman in an article pub lished in tlie Berlin Tageb'.att, review ing the progress of aerial warfare dur ing the year 1917-1918. Captain Leh man attributes the growing losses to two causes: Development of the fight ing airplane as a weapon against en emy Infantry and the enhancement of the number of fighting machines due to the transfer of those on the eastern, or Russian front, to tlie west front. "It will be noticed that since Janu ary and February, 191S. our figures, for tosses show a steady increase,” Cap tain Lehman writes. "The reason for that, however, is the increased partici pation of airplanes resulting from the fact that the German flyers who had been operating on tlie eastern front migrated to the western front when fighting ceased in the Russian theater. The increased participation, of course, resulted logically in larger total loss. "The eastern flyer, who had been accustomed to quite different fight ing, conditions, in the beginning, un doubtedly had to pay it bloody appren ticeship in fighting with French and British. Tlie Russian as an aerial op ponent is nowise to he compared with the Frenchman and K.nglishman. — “It would be fundamentally wrong to draw the conclusion from the rise in German losses at the beginning of 1918. that our superiority had waned. Still another factor explains our high er losses. As an infantry plane the aerial weapon is taking part in a con siderably increased measure in fight ing the attackers on land. Entire squadrons of battle planes, so called infantry flyers, accompany the storm ing of the never failing Infantry and by taking full advantage of their speed, attack the enemy reserves at low altitudes with bombs and machine guns. "These attacks are made often at tlie ridiculously low altitudes of ,100 meters and even 10 meters. It Is there fore at first glance clear that these new tasks expose the airplanes to every shot fired from the earth and must increase our loss account." How Germany Treat* Nqgroes. From the St. lamia Post-Dispatch. It is true that the negroes have good cause to fight against world domination by Germany. History has shown that in Africa Germany has treated the natives worse thRii any other government which has invaded that continent. Belgian Individual cruelties in the Congo caused Indignation in Belgium and com pelled the Bj-itish government to Investi gate and put a stop to them. But in Ger many's treatment of the natives, extermi nation of whole tribes was the policy and this policy was not only excused but ex alted as right by German publicists In the case of fhe Hereros, In Southwest Africa, General von Trotha issued this proclamation: T « The Hereros must now quit the soil. If they refuse. I shall force them with the gun. Every Herero. with or without ft weapon, with or without cattle, found In German territory I will have shot. I shall not look after the women and children, but will drive them back to their own people or shoot them. t The German pastor. Sehowalter, wrote In 1907 that as a result of this policy about 15,000 Hereros died of hunger on the desert. Almost the entire Herero tribe was destroyed. And Dr. 11 ohrback, Im perial commissioner for Southwest Africa, reported that "the question is solved. The Hereros have lost their land, but that cannot be regarded as tragic, owing to the splendid fertility of the land, which is now fiscal." That is to say, It paid. This Is the Ger man test. Open the Gate*. Te who so grandly went the way of death, Singing Hosannas with your falling breath. And now look back upon the life you spurned As on a childish trinket overturned. Seeing our globe as but a spinning toy. Too frail and far to longer yield yo» Joy Open the gates for us, that we may hei « Those vaster harmonies that thrill youi ear. J We, too. would gaxe upon that noblet , view'. ( Would breathe the shining air that girdles you. 1 God's remedy for man we, too, would know. To heal the ailing earth of all her woe. Open the gates for us. that we may find, As you. the riddle solved for all man kind. Te who so brightly bridged the great abyss, One of you waits and yearns to answer this; I see the glimmer of your beckoning! Open the gates for me and I will swing Elghtly as you across the enchanted gloom Sprinkled so thickly now with souls : abloom— Seeing the starry path your going made. I shall be unafraid! —Angela Morgan, In Everybody's. No More Hun Toyt. From the New York Tribune. The Hun baby killer of today is not to be toy maker to the babies of tomor row. “Made in Germany” was all very well on children's playthings until four years ago. Germany commanded the toy trade of the world. But now the world knows what the toy makers were. How extensively Teutonic toys were the world’s playthings may be judged from the German trade reports for 1912. Twenty million dollars’ worth of toys were ex ported that year. The United States bought $7,000,000 worth of German toys, and the British empire an equal amount. With the outbreak of the war these ex ports, except in infinitesimal quantities to neutral countries, ceased. Statistic'* show that the war garden rrop is valued at $525,000,000. 4 4 444 * >*- 44 4 44 4 44444 4 44 4 444 4 4 4 TARIFF WALLS AND PEACE. 4 4 --- 4 4 From the Manchester Guard lap. 4 4 What kind of a world do we 4 4 seek to set up as a rhemorial to 4 4 the blood of our best? If it is a 4 4 world of states each 'seeking to 4 4 grab as much territory as It can 4 4 and to close it against the rest of 4 4 the world by Chinese walls, then 4 4 let us have protection preference— 4 4 and a peace which Is like war and 4 4 will generato war. For such a 4 4 world the life of no man should 4 4 have been taken, and it will be 4 4 haunted by the ghosts of a wasted 4 4 generation lured to Us death by 4 4 the false assurance of noble pur- 4 4 pose. If we want a league of na- 4 4 tvoi.s, if wewAnt peace, if we want ♦ 4 right feeling hYwoetg men, then wc 4 4 must have also the commercial 4 4 policy which is necessary to them, 4 4 not tha commercial policy which is 4 4 fatal to them. There are grasping 4 4 groups in all countries who, if al- 4 4 lowed, would sacrifice the future of 4 4 humanity to their own folly or self 4 4 seeking. The democracies of the 4 4 world must conquer in the ecu- 4 4 nomic. as in the military and 4 4 political field* or the democracies 4 4 must die. 4 ♦ ♦ | LOCOMOTIVE NOT TOTAL LOSS Had to Be Abandoned in Face of Hun Advance, but Served a Use ful Purpose. Yankee ingenuity Inis developed a new weapon for use against the Hun. I No; It will not he used very often, .'el there are times— | An American unit of engineers | (railway) was hauling ammunition j and supplies for the French In the | face of one of the Herman drives this your. . Vi the height of things when the Hun was coming over in force nndind I Mincing in a way which meant the loss of anything that could not lie moved pmuipfly a $15)000 locomotive ,|um|»ed the track. ■Sergt. Oeorge Robertson, in charge, watched the battle for a moment, looked at his steam gauge, screwed the safety valve down tight, turned the oil fuel reserve supply Into the liro l*nx, and then effected u solitary and successful retreat. Half an hour Inter some sixty Her mans were standing about (he strand ed locomotive when the holler did llie one llihig which Sergeant Robertson hoped for—blew up. It hail all the effects of n 14-inch shell. Incidentally, Sergeant Roherison is now wearing the crotx de guerro. 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