The evening world. Newspaper, February 27, 1918, Page 10

Ee } stn 10 THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1918. ‘ U.S. RECONSTRUCT FRENCH RAILWAYS TO MOVE ARMY OF 2, 000, 000 BrOneh i French] stone monuments. plant is about the size of that which| best structural steel workers, boiler-| Warrant the assumption that they were | cavalry, to carry on war. Few civilian iA c na are run’ by This is only @ bare outline ef | wo had taken over in France makers and concrete workers in the|not honestly performing their tasks. | ericang realize the amazing tons , J ere s ) t eventually se = para ond of aire work of has Me was decided to duplicate in [United States. The supervisors are It was decided that as the French) nage of material that must be shipped |; estan a in 7 4 Fill denned Ve a DIAN ioier CAGE, si akilic! in the various branches w Hh in the distr appeared to be| to France to supply the direct and Ime lan lu of big: American freight] working now on the 1,000,000 men | list was made of everything in the/have put up and equipped similar| stronger than the men it might be - bag 47 AND GLOTHIN isla hoes Ireds of great American| basis, but plans have been pri American railroad shops, from the]structures for the great Chicago| well to give them a trial, and they peed ben ena ae ' t heen ordered, In| pared for enlargements and new |great electric cranes and the ateam|packing houses all over the world, |have made good. Many of the older], re , aie aed, aanUstaUiea ¢c , ‘ ‘avelled over it the fur ection of a railroad elose| eonstruction to care for anethor | hammers and complicated machinery| The district covered by the improve-| women take every opportunity to put pes GRU 7 nego si ly Jectiv to the battle front ready equlpped| 1,000,000 as soon as they can be |down to brooms, waste, ojl cans,|Ment is now a stretch of the most|in overtime on nights and Wendays| wetaes soe ee ee ies ye i an ae ebb times dt Mlle st Ui tel ng and sent from the United | matches, lamps, feather dusters, biot-| affectionate mud 1 ever encountered, | for extra pay lar whe biel fit A Gul rariingie ives, Il we did was survey a route | hich were shipped here. Present| States. mt eg Of Which SF¥, thiough SUSSS en a they & ed sine iad Birk i ade t HL : ..[ters, pens, ink, penclis, paper, ree-|ut roads are under way and even| Gradi as the great new depot island engineering rule ; Saaewuah a0 © ar diate Minnie MGR wareey, HES Ty atling an Grey ih the Held MpRIEGE | rae overlooked. in the work to be done. The engineers | bureau will be dropped out of OUF| gasses are food for the soldiers and ae we three sa] MuuRthg to COHRRAL RAEI WITH, || The PCDI TI Seti | Gpuae Wen Cocea up Tacs am CE | Core eerrrer, > he, conceras promise that by the time the buildings | plans. It is a good railroad point from | forage for the horses and mules,whick were beyor 1 to) main line beyond the chief point | cars are playthings compared to ours,| building railroad lines comparable in which had equipped the Pennaylvania|&"@ completed every item of construc-| the standpoint of distribution, Put are moved forward daily; equipment plan to go ' Atay of congestion, With the assist. | Half a dozen of them could be atored| length and equipment with somo of Railroad shope—which are located not |ton Of other classes will alno have/it is in @ section where tho 2 ench | (shoes, blankets, &¢.) which is sent distance down the line abou anes of the Mrench Government [away in one of the big cate much aul the Important ayetena of the United far from New York—to encore the| een finished and that the whole plant | have use for about all the transporta-| ronpward as required: wagons, axe! where the tion t t fight of way wae ebtained, but | We tise Cor the transportation of atito.| States outelde of the great teunk| os st sryty a Lainie tired alr ner esdorseabaelinay nar ton facilities the railroads can give! shovels and working tools, which are felt, they found an old the werk wae slow and exnepers |mobties and furniture, When we pee ition was shortly after we entered the war a Ge Satie in fact, are iba them, Our new depot is off the main| forwarded as fast as new positions railroad but jltt sed. It % ating, for the vested righ re t josomeitiy and before the coal shortage and rail- use and American citizens would be | }ines of travel. Tho nearest estab-| are occupted ate “4 at right angles from our ‘ } Frenshman in his fand are ale and lo heavy on, ra sh isl EQUIPMENT WILL BE KEPT IN {road congestion had become acute: ay te could they but see the tower-| ished rallroad is a couple of miles | and protection ciaabar, Sakvail Uanse out ellged eh a bal it ts e ously protected by the French |anticipation of operating our heavy bola atc Kedolea dal Every : sti called Med Lats and Walch KS hos Lie quuacendintey Our engineers are ta ae al bags, &c.) railroad equipment and ! a ‘awe, and this American railroad [locomotives and tong, heavy trains It is the Intention of the engineers] Most of the equipment ts already on « Ine connecting with this ratiroad and| material and articles necessary for although the rai 1 had w was projected over a route | An Immense amount of reconstruction |!" Charge of the operation of the rail- French soi Much of it Is on the|YPloaded in that remote corner of|q cross country line which touches| replacements and repairs on railroad insof: ' { way ‘ through which no railroad fine | work nts our engineers OM) way end of the line of comuntcation| &round at the plant itself. France. ‘The inhabitants of the coUN-| two otter railroads which have direct | and motor supply systems: cold stor- it was in far bet nape than the| had ever been built and it was |MORSES USED IN PLACE of|‘? Keer the equipment in perfect eor.| | While the work of procuring equips try roundabout are still 1n @ daze over connections with our advancod sup- | age plants and equipment, and, lastly average am Americar 1, be designed to cress several other | ewiren lition all the time, Repairs will be] Ment was under way the contractors the arrival, first, of a small company] iy points, Of course, these places I) what might be called eadipneat trem cause it was built to |-vallteauavand: a WMI at 1h ‘ CHING ENGINES. made an soon as they are needed, Or.| Who had been erecting the building | Of Khaki clad men who roamed over) have described are far back of the] tho home and fireside in the United We took over this ratlroad for our| portant highways. ' There is room on @ turntable in aldinarily this would necessitate the|for the French Government were heed bat and calmly Oe ran Ce firing line Wiatdn, aneh ko lattes, 5abe 4 pies as we had taken over othe rench roundhouse or y F | ered ft val t r ner on eir homes ren of | i Bes ws Seuokes of is gn ee ROAD’ RUNG IN WIDE ARO| ens or tue couse GE one Tetene g sae [apc Gta anenies: cha fee AL al a saaieny. (ay Wook Ours tad hae iver toning: Heraaa et ae en ee IMMENSE REPAIR SHOP FOR|zines, candy and luxuries in general. Seacoast, but the branch road kept, AROUND CONGESTED TOWN. Jor for the drive wheels of the locomo-|a Shon ounabla OF handling re “Te off if we would furnish the material. |'¥ active and more or less rough n who | HSWenl Na) Awa eoeece: aIfarcht: aah Ac CATT Taitag away from our Hine ti Fie read te hovelin prageeas ah | titan, IU WAN fotind. inexbedieht. tol to locomotives a? the largest and Pairs their plans and specifications showed | em to want to work all the In connection with our line of com- | vAIGASlA Calg site cnt Vea a | construction. At one point it |Tebuild theme turntables, which are| powerful type in operation in the| Just what was needed and orders CHAMPION TANGO DANCER AS| munication for subsistence, equipment | pent peiter Se nent atthe home ane a " runs in a wide arc to get around |Cssential in the handling of freight] United States. Fortunately for us| Were sent to the United States for AN ENGINEER OFFICER. and other supplies for the soldiers] fesige, Our soldiers aro well fed o! This Corn Will the town where the congestion | ‘rin units under the French railroad | this necessity was obviated, for our] Such material as was not procurable) 1 had dinner at this point In an en- at the front we are establishing an | stots and the sotnihieaaaey rt ni ee yard em. In many of the rail-! engineers found, at a point along our|!9 France. gineer officers’ mess. There are five| !mmense repair shop for the handling supply them #ith pint iby oat P ff! fina sallee fot At se centres touched by our Hnes|tine of communication, a partially| ‘The contractors were told to hire}of them. ‘The officer tn charge tw aff motortrucks, motorcycles and au-| sury they desire at coat: mt ee ight American] horses are used for the Lasks which|eompleted reinforced concrete and|4% many workmen as could be used|dimpled, rosy cheeked, immaculate tomobiles which will break down in| i. cotdier in the field is not sianeat tmmonse | °° aecomp'l ed in our yards and| tect plant which had been started | and to sparo no expense in hurrying| young man who was, before he went | tbe service and another great depot! iverous reader. He has ni ek ards and warehouse sites, This ia] Krmindis by powerful switching en-|/by one of the railroads and work on|tho Job along. I visited the plant at/into the service, the champion tango| fF the assembling and repairing of! 4, yeag during the day “ry wd ~ Gets-It” Mica Corns Come Off 9 be one of tho distribution points] HD". which had been halted by the war, |4usk of a cold winter day, Every-| dancer of @ certain important city in| *eroplanes ihe gold’ ot the earty Slehtfull’ BET be The “Banana-Peel” Way! fo) ee ee eae thing like 10 Vallee our cars, gome-| ‘Phis plant is on the outskirts of a/ thing was humming. The rattle of|Onio, The other officers are aivo| American engineers noticed WHEN} ined up for me ‘ od DUE Awad Ac Hisvs te Hap’ s mo Bee not destined for points further | 1) 08 dees alls ub and new] gmail city. As I entered this city al compressed air riveting machines|young. ‘They come from Louisville | they first came here many points! cinner his chie thotet ris ee stow AE UP ke the let F I bbl ide hoster Blas TE ee | Phar. We GrWi18 LAGWTouE Wain Polnt,| fow days ago I could aee the ekeleton|edhond through the countryside | Nashvitte, Indianapolis and a metropo- | At which Preneh heroplanes Wilch! he only soldiers who actually have wrinkly knot w? 1 OK : ales 1a amnilak @ 5 te aon aad hotises Our doe: plant and cold 0 ; y hes bulldings looming up Great piles of material were being|lis called Mattoon, 1). The paperaptoral [R nals Capel ie get a bal time for r ng are in the hospitals: the “quick “ " a a ha where the troops are bilteted,|%2FWK® Warshouso—it Is to be the at en her yre we reached them. The| Unloaded from cars, Immense con-|ing officer hag the reputation of Ret- It Na ee theory, ok War | Carloads of old magazines which are 4 - Dlieiest Gold atorage plant Under one main building, which will house an|crete mixing machines were turning|ting more work out of a gang of la- jas pte ad \.. (cluttering up our lines of commust The new line ix the longest wo are} egent cold atomage plan erecting shop capable of picking up| out floods of the mixture, which was|borers than any other officer on the| Department that nothing shall 0) (ion are of no more use to the. dil equired to build, although &t #V-| itch pe ee Pile “y Ae and tossing around by means of elee- | being poured in a steady stream into| job peenedcoes So ee ee ais ‘than so much wi sat best e po 4 £ uo id WN ie we bls for the construction ag Raney i tric cranes the largest locomotive ex-|the timber moulds, which had been For dinner—or supper—we had es motor repair beets are oe alate linia bee, struct branches © OF CPO) iietes and atais Hea Of|tant, a great machine shop and «| erected at the points where great pll-| beans, hominy, fried potatoes, | tree share parts sutticlont to serve tor mites Tong to avold going throurh | “y oqg hee at aes initen of [UOUEE Mop, x 800 feet high and will| lars are to support the Hit if pe cake | very inet dogoye | wee are ep e te Us OUR eae eet WALSH ON LABOR BOARD, Ghinhied in towns and cities] trace have been lad at thie potnt,,24ve & curved roof, the steel frame| Myriad lighta flashed through t ka Weed, Wandertul cation | 424 Seroplene eauipment wilt be mare ie which are alrcady congested, ¢ Due the alll rad aa tt hs Pelnts | work of which 18 already in place, [lowering darkness, It was all auite| and mince and peach pie. Be- Gad the @hope will) be manned by| Missoer! oe ey eoenereree orally speaking our two main lne GARI AHAIZRES Ger LSE Ee When T saw this in’ the Glatanee it| ike a autuid of Pitiabares. The men| (ave ms mince pte in the hence | Amsrioan mechanics, Already there Pete d de troges BAY communication leading from Wo] work of track constriction. fe nome |rominded me of how the great arch) remained at work as long as there| of France tastes better than any | as been necessity for quite extensive | | TV eee wpbteais p< pointa on the seacoant | way 0) sion hand In hand with the work of [it the Fear of the Cathedral of Bt.|was any H«ht in the sky, and as tho| mince pie ever served at home. motortruck repairing, but wo aro stil] Walsh of Kansas Clty. Mo. formerly the westward and the northward, DUt| Warehouse. construction, “When the|2o%® the Divine dominated the Har-| days grow longer thelr hours of labor! The cooks who served up this why of aeroplanes, although we have | iit Commission, was today selector there ure points at which, owlng tO] great warehouses are completed there | kndscape for so many years, Will ab etabes Rid /avaEy HVS Mihlicea || epast. Were WIDKIy wala erties. | WHoBIM Of fyi: meh [A Feangs COMI yy labor ay Ka Feprabentalioe’ 6pot he necessity for using branch ‘ines.} wilt be railroad tracky and toading |,.78*, Mlroad officals and the] spent each day in construction work} in their profession in the United | Dleting their instruction in French] soc on the board framing @ national jwe are obliged to practically oun |and untoading platforms alongaide of |Ptue! Government agreed to turn] will hasten the completion of tho] States, One was the chef of a | 4nd British schools labor policy for the Government. Em- jback on ourselves ail of them, this incompleted plant over to the] building. When the work of repairs to| big hotel in Cleveland. It will be seen that it takes un army | ployers already have selected forme: | In effect we teok over and are Leer oe anitew of track wii| United Staten Government and wel our freight cara and locomotives and| Tn this vicinity I visited anotier of mechanics and engineers behind | President ‘Taft to sent the public | partially operating to-day an | jay be revalianted cand’ many to equip it. But there was nolother railroad equipment becomes | city where are located our warehouses the army of infantry, artillery and at for them, dora: sat Rroneey fond | ineuiey ceva. | bh sna répincod Wy heavier raite trom : of repair opera-ldown to the last and smallest tool, |ar¢ supplied with food. One of thes Rea sei eee atone et eration. the the United States. At certain pointy {Un and it was decided to get the| yoUNG ENGINEERS ENTHUSIAS- | Wa7enouses, 1,000 feet long, 150 feet Corn, put your stock how right on} railroads operated by the Jit will be ne ary to enlarge tun. | Material from tho United States with- 8! vide and two stories high, ix simply snnea’ = m | Srench, nels and raise highway bridges cross. | Ut delay TIC OVER THEIR WORK. mmed with all sorts of food sup- *HiGeiage" nar reyototionind the trent:| Thin latter tine of communication) ing the tracks, The engincern nave WILL DUPLICATE AN AMERICAN! Whilo the work is being executed T walked through it from end art con , pbs ' is not #0 congested as the other and] fount that bridges crossing rivers PLANT IN FRANCE, by French contractors, it is progross- 1 and everything I saw was ot dite of your shen, "and ldo away mith [IM used for the tra ton of listt|and valleys are strong enough to| A committes of French engincera !9® under the supervision of United y highest quality. » ware Goatere aed painful methods, material which ean be quickly han-| carry any load placed upon them be- | visited the United States and in com- States Army engineers, Most of them| houses of New York's great reta We common sense, ja . t ‘ no ocean plers and at the! cause of the solldity of construction] pany with a delegation of American *l¢ep right on the job in @ barracks! grocery concerns could present no 31", Ie eaid by Atl Aruanate (you | points of de ashore employed by French in thia|engineers and railroad shop experts “T0#s the road from the work, whero| greater variety of palatable pro- nt direct by awre & GL time we plan to operate one of | branch of railroad building, The rail- ited of the bigg plants of they have taken up their quarters. | yistons. 1 these al ately w vid bridges of Hrance are generally |the Pennsylvania iiroad. This They are as enthusiastic about this] ‘The officer in charge of tits war | = —— mee kreat structure rising before the'r| house was, up to the opening of the! eyes as college boys over the success] war, confected with Sears-Roebuck, | FULTON STREET BRIDGE STREET of their football game Chicago, He is @ genius for organi- | Corner of The army officer in charge was uP} zation, When he took charge thi | At Subway Station, Brooklyn to the beginning of last summer one}was no warchouse and no syste of the highest paid construction en-|and the supplies were coming in any Bineering officers of one of the great] oid way. With wonderful rapidity, | REMEMBER— There are no others like Murad. 4 Steal Maes pa hu Koby? railways of the United States. He ts working harder than he ever worked in his Mfe, and ts earning from the Government less than one-tenth of his salary as an official of the cor- poration at home. In fact, all through the ranks of the engineers engaged in construction work associated with our railroads and our buildings along our lines of communication In France are found men who were eaming from five to ten to fifteen to twenty thousand dollars a year in the United States. I mot dozens of them. ‘They are the pick of their profession, Many of them are young fellows who were just beginning to climb in their profession back home, Without an instant’s hesitation they stepped down off the ladder of advancement, put on khaki and camo over here to lend their brains and energies to a work just as important if not go risky as the work the men are doing on the front line, Less than 100 miles from the tow in which the great repair plant is lo cated American engineers have gone to the outskirts of a sleepy village and laid out a city { warehouses, storehouses and other Duildings necessary to the subsistence demands of a great army. Six months ago the many square miles they have taken over was a vista of ploughed fiekls, with here and there a red roofed farm house more or less completely sur- rounded by piles of manure, To-day there are arising in 1 directions towering steel skeletons marking the great buildings and on all sides low but commodious houses 4! springing up like ble garages in Flatbush PLANT FOR MANUFACTURE OF ice 18 BEING BUILT. Here is where our main supply de- pot is to be located and where the ice plant and storage plant is going up. The ico plant will turn out more ice every day than the people of France use ina month. This ix not a country in which ice is considered a necessity. The large cities use ice, but most of the inhabitants of the interior never saw it except on the surface of rivers and pools in winter Thousands of workmen are engaged in this {mprovement, most of them wearing the blue uniform of the Ser- vice Corps. The work requires the best class of labor and the working force is composed of many of the outlines of & ware- porta- guided by his business expertence, he | organized a ecries of systems by | which he not only handles, assorts | and packs away hundreds of carloads | of supplics arriving from the sea- | shore every week, but he also sends to the front every day trainloads of supplies requisitioned by various | units in our scattered forces, | Outside of the help furnished by | some non-commissioned officers—ind | valuable help it 1s too—hts working force consists of 100 French wo They handle the boxes and crates 1.4 bags and wheel them on trucks fom the arriving trains to various parts The Last 2 Days OF OUR FAMOUS Automatic eduction Sale of the warehouse, and from these storage sections to the outgoing 7 ; ‘ trains” Rverything is automatically Every Winter SUIT, COAT, DRESS, BLOUSE, SKIRT and FURS must be sold by Friday, March Ist the Day That Makes the Price s Here’s How It Works: Ay Copy of Ticket » ona $12.50 Garment COATS, SUITS ~\ COATS, SUITS and DRESSES and DRESSES Formerly to $30.00 | pastes zi Formerly to $20.00 checked by a system of accounting which does not allow of mistakes, FRENCH WOMEN PAID HUGE | SALARY OF $1 A DAY. The French women are paid a dol- lar a day—a salary regarded as enormous in that part of France. Most of them are strong, vigorous peasants, used to hard work in the flelds, but there are many women) from the town employed also, Twice a day for 15-minute periods, the women knock off work, The periods stretch from 9 to 9.15 A. M. and 3 to 315 P, M. ‘These rest periods are called “soup hours” and they ex- asperate exceedingly the hustiing| Americans in charge. | At the begining of operations our oO Lor. F672, sme rs anes F0, 5. 165 ofiicers abolished the “soup hour.” ) 43 The women promptly quit thelr dol- 1) ¥tgmdtay——$f Ree _— Monday—+*p 9-00 ar-a-day jobs, At the end of each| ee THURSDAY, 42 bid oup hour” FRIDAY it is up to a young man | who married the niece of Alderman | McCann of New York to persuade | the female freight handlers to return | ta work without loss of time and he Ansalaity 80 Lahore Thursday . $42.08 Thursday AM | generally does it, but the exchange $47.00 of repartee between this New York} Friday. alas 11 Friday. see 819-8 officer and his working people 1s All Higher-Priced Garments Marked At Proportionate Reductions something fearful and wonderful | Woman help was adopted in this institution after elderly French men and boys and German prisoners had been tried. The French men and boys were needed in French industries and | AL A wordt Pron iuaon end MUST BE FINAL fatuated with the long hours and 4 steady driving tactica of the Amer- icans in charge. Do not expect to find every size and color in every style, but The German prisoners were 8004 |H] come expecting the biggest bargains your money ever bought workers but it was decided that they were out of place working around None C, 0. D, NO FREE ALTERATIONS No Exchanges food supplies for our army, although! 0" nothing bed actually happened & \______.4) ) 4 FULTON STREET STORE ONLY: Ae