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Record Time Made In Landing
„ 36,000 Soldiers and Get
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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.
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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.
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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
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| 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.
Lives 200 Years!
*• •
For more than 200 years, Haarlem Oil,
tbe famous national remedy of Holland,
has been recognized as an infallible relief
from all forms of kidney and bladder dis
orders. Its very age is proof that it must
hare unusual m-srit.
If yon are troubled with pains or aches (
m the back, feel tired in the morning,
headaches, indigestion, insomnia, painful
or too frequent passage of urine, irritation
or stone in the bladder, you will almost
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ruaivtity and convenient form to take,
t ie imported! direct from Holland lab
oratories, and1 you: can get it at any
drug store1, ft if* a standard, old-time
home remedy and1 needs no introduction.
Each capsule contains one dose of five
drops and1 is pleasant and easy to take.
They will quickly relieve those stiffened
joints-, that backache, rheumatism, lum
bago. sciatic*, gall1 stones, gravel, “brick
dust. " etc. Your money promptly refund
ed if they do not relieve you. Rut ho sure
to get the genuine GOLD MIDAIR brand,
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The Kid Wan. Right.
Igimlz tolls us of a Youngstown
couple who are very fund' of Chinese
dishes—or ill least the sort of dishes
tlifll are made I'll: Chinese icslitrrrnnts.
Their four-yenr-<del daughter shares
their taste, unit likes to have her fa
ther bring some oriental! mess home
with him when, hi- comes to dinner in
the evening.
The oilier niglil be called: up from
ihe ojjlee and the little girt answered
the phone.
"Oh, |iiip*i.“ she- said;, “plea--*** bring
home some ptimiame.
Stie meant cfiaxw mein. b«m maybe
she wasn't fur off.
Pimply Kathy Skint
Qttiekly soothed aud healed by Cuti
cura often when all else fails. The
Soap to cleanse and pwrify, the Oint
ment to soothe and heal. For free
samples address, "Cntlcnra, Dept. X,
Boston.’’ At druggists and by mall.
Soap 25, Ointment 25 and 50.—Adv.
At Current Rates.
“Is she very rich?”
“She must lie. She takes a glass
of milk at every meal.”
If you want to get up with the lark
go to bed without one.
Those that lions) most full most.
Pays to Hustle.
“All things cram' to him who waits.”
“Seems to me. though, you’d «nve(
time by going after them."—Louis*
vllle (‘ourler-Journnl.
A man van make Ills wife believe
almost, anything during their court
ship.
Calf . ]
Enemies
WHITE SCOURS
BLACKLEG
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Ask him about tham. If ho
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