The evening world. Newspaper, June 25, 1918, Page 14

TUESDAY, JUNE 25, 1918 _ Feats of American Engineers In France, 150,000 Strong; ‘Records of Speed and Daring tion Open. On Heels of Allied Advance at Cambrai Laid Eight Miles of Rails Connecting Allied System With Abandoned German Railroad and Kept Connec- Built a Complete Section of Standard Gauge Track Five-Eighths of a Mile in-Length and Had It, Ready for Traffic in Two Hours and Ten Minutes. Ina Flooded District on the Flanders Front, Given! Up as Impossible for Railroad Connections, Solved the Problem by Actually “Floating” a| Railroad. By Marguerite Mooers Marshall ‘ec HE Great War is pre-eminently a conflict of engineers. motive may prove more deadly than @ battery, while the bulld- ing of bridges may decide | That is how Francis A. Collins introduces his interestingly “different” war book, “The Fighting Engineers,” the reading of which will make all | good Americans thrill with justifiable pride and will open | the eyes of many of us to what {s, 90 far, the most tan- gible and the least talked about of American war achieve- ments, the wonderful work of our military engineers in France. the issue of a campaign.” Nine regiments of the most skilled engineers in the United States were recruited by the Government al- most overnight, so eager were they to offer their ser- ‘ vices, and at present there is an American engineering “me army of at least 115,000 men fighting with the Allies. The word “fighting” is used advisedly, for, engineers often face greater Qerils than soldiers in other branches of the ys My. Collins, “the fighting service. Theirs is in no sense a ‘bullet proof’ job. Their losses frequently exceed those of the artillery regiments, tho fatalities in which are, in| turn, greater in number than those in the aviation corps. When other | troops cross an exposed position, for instance, they usually do so at the double-quick, and seek shelter as soon as possibl find themselves under fire at a time until {t is finished.” * Deverved credit has been given to those American engineers at Cambral who, dropping the tools of their ser- vice, seized arms and amm fon and charged beside the british Tommies, under the leadership of Lieut, Paul MecLoud, formerly chief engineer of the New York State Highway Depart- ment, “But,” says Mr. Collins, “when the Ristory of the American engineering fegiments in France comes to be written one of their achievements, which has hitherto passed uncited, will doubtless take a high place, Dur- ing the Allied advance at Cambrai, American engineers quickly extended their track far behind the enemy's trenches, “In the forward rush they suddenly came upon a German railroad that had been left untouched in the panic of retreat. The challenge was in- stantly accepted by the Americans, who connected their own line with the German system, so that trains could pass from the Allied line to the for- mer German railroad without inter- ruption, Our engineers laid alto- gether eight miles of track on the heels of the advancing column. By Briti#h officers this work has been commended as the most daring plece of construction in the war, “The American railroad men havo the credit, therefore, of building the first connecting link in the service between Paris and Berlin since the outbreak of the war, although the sohedule of trains remains to be ad- ed.” yore) we have a new and apt fllus- tration of a familiar phrase from that poet so dear to ali Germuns, William Shakespeare: "Mor ‘tis the sport to have the en- gineer Hotst with his own petard.” ‘A sort of Roman car of triumph was the first American locomotive to reach France, across which, clear to a the castern boundary, it was sent flying an American flag, But first it thad been unloaded and issembled and @ track built for it from the dock to the main linc in a few hours, al- though foreign workers would have taken several days for the task, ‘No activity of the American enginesrs has made so profound an impression upon France,” writes Mr, Collins in “The Fighting Engineers,” “as actual work of the regiments of rail- road men.” They have had to contend against tremendous difficulties, for the sys-| tam, the equipment, the tracks, en- gineering plans, even the units of measurements of the French rail- road are utterly unlike those used in this country. One little “stunt” by the American engineers has been “the construction of main line tra long enough to reach from New York to Chicago,” according to the chront- ler. “A unique record for speed in Tafiroad building has been estab- lished in France, {f not in the worl,” he. adds. section of standaca gauge track, just five-cighths of a mile in length- unit of measurement— built and tmade ready for traffic in two hours anJ ted minutes. * “american ‘Unues, railroad men,” been “Nave especially com- The engineers often when they must stick to their work mended by the British officers for) ther work in the flooded districts near the front in Flanders, Until our men came {t had been found impossi-| ble to establish railroad connections in the inundated sections. The Amer- jean engineers solved this problem and actually ‘floated a railroad’ that keeps the advanced lines in continu- ous communication with the rear. There is a most efficient and valiant road-building regiment among the, fighting engineers, Besides mending, | rebuilding and widening roads con-| stantly worn down by the unending military trafic, or to be flung forward through reconquered, shell-torn coun- try, the Americans have introduced) into France the American novelty of the boardwalk, found most useful in routing traffic through ground pér- forated with trenches and shell-holes, fighters. They boast that four months of their first seven months of service have been spent at the front, and Mr, Collins quotes a story of one man in the regiment who, before he died of bayonet wounds, killed three Germans con- with his railroad pick. American engineers have done re- markable work in the French forests and orchards, On the one hand, the men have cut scientifically much- needed lumber; on the other, they have begun the work of reforestation, and they even have saved @he lives , of many of the orchards, of the ruth- |less destruction of which by the re- | treating Hoghes we have read with “The British staff decided that they could not wait e! en days to begin the drive, and urged greater speed |The construction work was oe jadvance starte The engineer has written home schedule on time. t © A loco- —_, Y HAY \ \ C@ F\ \y \ N HY A “\N \ r \\y Ws \ \\ Y UD i gtert) | , ( Va °F. ] \ \ “, With the American Army in France SIXTH OF A SERIES OF SKETCHES DRAWN ‘OVER THERE” BY P. D. BROWN, U. S. A. Copyright, 1918, Press Ppibtishing Ca ON. Y Evening Wi This game hag n. J | but it he results if you der yemp high, and quick UESDAY, J UNE 25, 1918 Housewives, Win the War With Home Canning Hints! But It’s Not Compulsory There’s No Law Coinpeliing the Patriotic Woman to Follow Chef Baer’s Recipes, Which May Be One Fi Reason Why They Will Not Be Used, Thus Con- ‘ serving the Nation’s Stomach, Even Though the Country’s Non- Essential Products, Such as ; Stewed Cuckoos, Raisinless Seeds and Mexican | ‘Jumping Beans, Are Wasted. By Arthur (‘Bugs’) Baer. Copyright, 1918, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening Wort@). OUSEWIVES who are doing t! concede that the best thing about the following canning hints is heir bit toward winning the war will | that they are not compulsory. Let's go. | MEXICAN JUMPING BEANS—Owing to the fact that ordinary etring times, best results can bo bean. for 11 jumps. the new raisiniess seed. | jarred. | into it. Thi And so will the poor clock in the U. S. “Multiply the pin feathers fall off. Th to get dry. saves a lot of red elbows and see how much food has been wasted to date. remove air bubbles and unpaid instalments. And the road-builders are wondertul| ompleted in less than five days, and the famous! ree of this work| hat he found time! the man on your ¥i Nis old place in it start. gat around the fety leg in a Girls Who Make Munitions Kept Fit by Y. W. C. A. the Veek-End Cam} where the| try," Miss Friedman said. “Their War Service Clubs Provide Week-End Camps, Social]| ¥ouns women can go at a cost of §| work necessarily keeps them busy iy y : : "7 cents carfare and take the needed| every moment of the shift hours and Parties, Physical Drills and Athletic Games | vacation which their work would not| the nature of their work keeps them for 16,500 Members Already Enrolled. otherwise permit. largely in their own departments, By Hazel V. Carter. The “Week-End Camp" is a favor-| “The purpose of these clubs, aside ite haunt for parties which the girls| from keeping the girls physically fit, ave named “Bacon Bats.” Over the] is to pramote a spirit of co-operation HERE are some long, low build-| are part of the big corps of women] campfire, with the bacon broiling and|and to make the life at the war in- ings out “somewhe in Jer-| workers who make every bit of mu-| the coffee bubbling, the girls get to| dustrial centres a pleasant one for the sey”—where Uncle Sam has a} nition used “over there’ from the] know some of the joys as well as the} Workers, habit of sticking away munition fac-| smallest piece of shrapnel to the out-| responsibilities of being war workers.| “It is remarkable how soon girls can is fastened to a base or hung up by a wire, In this test tube are put two drams of camphor, one-half gunpowder cotton When the whistle blows at they laugh and talk over some of the on pla Small stars in winter on bright, clear, sunny days—Snow in a day or 8 for a “tacky party which is to she continues her work until 4 o'clock | tian pens her bundle of lunch in a off the sume evening, dream of potassium nitrate, one-half |W big room with the other girls, eats! These are the members of one of the| dram of ammonium chlorid, two oun . | Jand chats until tho rings and] War Service Clubs which ces of pure alcohol, two ounces of| Lines of White Posts Aid she enters the workroom again, where! Hoard of the Young W 's Chris-| water. If the ingredients do not mix are very easily cooked. Any | | | tide. | PICKLED EYELETS—As the war soled-and-heeled, Peel an old boot and extract | Since it requires no thickenin make. Should taste well over cally useless. fractured stitches in it. A ver dropped stitches to make a p and then drop the pudding. beans are very hysterical and liable to be unstrung during war obtained with the Mexican jumping Very economical, as they jump into the jars themselves,” thus saving the salary of an expert bean herder. Mexican jumping beans with a slight limp are now quoted on Wall Street at 6 cents RAISINLESS SEEDS—Families who have been annoyed by being forced | to bite through a raisin to get at the seed will be delighted with 8 delectable new war fruit is easily fish who tries to sink a mean tooth STEWED CUCKOOS—Since the clocks have been prodded up an hour, there has been one surplus cuckoo in each cuckoo in every cuckoo his by 3,000,000 and you will readily Boil the cuckoo until en paddle with a wooden paddle to Put in a wet place EVAPORATED FREE LUNCH—This is a very simple process. until all the free lunch has evaporated. When the free lunch has evaporated, of course there won't be anything left to can. Wait This the price of preserving jars. SELF-LOWERING PANCAKES—Tig@we toothsome flat-wheeled pancakes old graphanola record can be used as a pattern, which saves the price of costly imported designs. Will wear longer than ordinary stair carpets and are always styl- ish. Owing to their convenient flatness, a stack of these pancakes can be carried under the Brooklyn Bridge without waiting for low Which saves at least eight hours In a transatlantic voyage. fashion ts to have everything half. pickled eyelets are again coming into favor. the eyelets. Add one dozen spoons and multiply by three. Subtract all the calories from the result. g. it is the easiest possible sauce to the telephone, DROPPED STITCH SALAD—For every stitch knitted into a left sock for a soldier, there are at least two dropped stitches which are practi- No soldier wants a sock with second handed and. y nice substitute for asphalt pudding udding, drop them into the pudding | | can be made out of the dropped stitches. When you have enough Homer Pigeons as War Couriers family which has furnished the whole world with a commonly- accepted emblem of peace, has proved | itself really a bird of war, for the | part the pigeon of the homer varioty 1s playing in the battle lines of France is warlike in its effect and of great military value to the armies it serves. For the homer pigeon has proved it- T« PIGEON, of that feathered | pigeons in service; to-day the French and British forces have each about 30,000, writes Norman LeRoc in the Illustrated World, while our own Sig- of men to handle these trusty mes- nal Corps is training a large number| | Prove Swifter Than Wireless They have been the one sure means of communication between raidij ing U boats and their bases, and they are carried by practically every patrol boat in European waters, There ie a case on record of a tiny British scout, sinking after an encounter with a submarine, to which rellet was brought by a pigeon, releasi pi ed teeth of a howling gale. es self a courier that not only can be] Science cannot such indignation. Mr, Collins's de-| tories and not saying much abo put of the big lathe machines, The War Service Clubs include] get acquainted over a lively game of trusted (@ parform its colony tut| ful inate ir a ps the wonder- |Seription of the work of American| Where he put them—set off a li But when the 500 file out, over there} various different corps, all of which} basketball and get their minds of| |, 11. iossages with a speed which|to its home, but it Lapa the pigeon tree-surgeons is heartening, and | Ways from twelve dormitory buildi Jersey, they forget all about shells|are popular with the girls, from the| the serious nature of their work. only the field telephone can excel,| fear or any ethene i rd Stronger than already many of their apparently| Every morning at 7 o'clock a whistle |and war—for a timo at least—and] point of view of keeping in physical] "Many of the girls are college girls, | )° 1 41.4 pigeon is sometimes available }in the face of the aA®, Liberated dead “tree-patients” have bloamed | blows from the long, low buildings and|they turn into healthy, husky girls] trim for the serious side of their.work] some are high school girls, whereas when the telaphone is nob <aent lit circle ra oes a eaviest barrage, egain, out of the dormitories pour $00 young | with @ love of play that makes their] us well as for pure physical enjoy-| others of them have had less oppor- | 1010". 'y putior, Department Pigeon! ings, rises swittiy 1, penta Dea American mining engineers face| Women. They wear a khaki uniform | work endurable. ment. There is the Military Drill] tunity for education, But they are all | orticer, U. re ‘tells of a speed test|a mite, then is ne a height of halt great danger when they extend mines|°f long, loose bloomers and mi‘ty| And this is where the Young Wo-|Corps, the Semaphore Signal Corps,|imbued with the same spirit of ser- | s Gama eases, Mamama were’ bullet, F@® off with the speed of under the front-line trenches for ex-| blouse and around the neck of eve.y | ‘Men's Christian Association comes tn.|}the Gypsy Corps (which includes] vice to their country, and there is a) set ne re atias tv: witer| filles hoy be a distance of thirty plosion beneath German positions,| Worker hangs her photograph—her| “Where's the volley ball?” calls a| Saturday afternoon hikes and even-| spirit of democracy that is one PY bese ae lg oy Tale PR ¥ ine Capable of making two | “In preparing for Gen Ryne's ta paaeport, without which she is for-lyoung werker, as she throws off|ing parties) and the various Red|the finest things I have seen in any | 00m ne Pp - ticle . i and have flown 800 | ve," % cae ee onter*the premise | he . arie: " “| by bir oe aes MAGS @ single thigh. | rive," Mr. Collins tes us in bidden to enter*the premises. | her uniform and dons a pair.of short | 8 auxiliaries for home nursing,| kind of ¥. W. C. A. club | ¥ | ean . of Y. W. C. A. club work. greet ol Years peding |Fighting Engineers,” “it was founa| At the entrance of the build a| bloomers and midday ical dreaging, refugee relief, hos- Ve expect to send out field or- | Sam ago mm Pelleree TORRE) TONE ok breeding for show pur- absolutely essential that a man examines the photograph, cu “It's out in the court,” some one arments, first aid, ete. ganizers to every industrial centre; homers and men from eigh | Poses have ruined the real carrier able amount of oie onaider- | cares it to the wearer—and the <irl] answers, and in less than five mine © unillion and a half women | £0, War work throughout the country | forty years old to bandle them, for/ pigeons for actual flying. ‘The of engineering work be | P eit mealies pin '< - United sare re. | 24 to back up the girls who are! our own lines in France will employ| bird of to-day is the Bel, ‘wan completed before the advance w. munition worker is admitted to the | tites the volley ball teams are lined up| throughout the United § are re-| backing up our men on the other * \y elgian racing | ce was 4 ; u le Gane Dabt of tha onuns | Aine these feathered messengers which our| homer, which is built ¢ ordered. This work was intrusted to| munition factory none part of the big court around | cruited from every part of the side y Eire ied aaron Pare ; ‘or speed and ‘eries 8 et won We akes her stool at the long| which the twelve Cormitories are curopean es ¢ ce, with an . especial American engineers, apmiated py | M9 tense her Fle here she ase | built lg apd ge la Almost every scouting party that|chest to insure lung cap lly deep American workmen, It was decided | Wooden tables perhaps, where Q It—a basket ball game is in full ye M k y fe) B A | Tanta land (@ supplied atrone, alend Pacity, and a that even by working on an Ame, {sorts or varnishes shells, or she ; es] swing at the other end and over In ow to Make Your Own Barometer. crosses no man's arene, slender body. In racing coa- Ml 4 re h i ' 5 cons, veighs from te jean time schedule more than eleven | ot into the packing room, where she’ the shade not far from the buildings, ‘TEST tube about ten inches long] Small dots—Damp weather, fox. mie pene ee of the war the Ger-| ounces. Pi : {rom ten to Swatvs lays would be required, bags the shells, or maybe she dons a 4 dozen or so girla are winding yarn, A nd three-fourths inch in diame-| Rising flakes which remain high—| At the or hae yd oy fogs S. Scattered behind the Allied gas mask and goes to work with the purling and dropping stitches while Wind in upper air, man Army hai a f lines are hundreds of lofts where the pigeons are trained or “settled,"* from these they y to the front, | cially that they t The “pigeon voyager” ig and are taken by motor The French say offie are 97 per cent, em. & model [Ree writen home, Association, under the direction | easily, tube should be put in warm Wounded Soldiers. sengers. Tenis wnleh #0 far aye of patriotism, for it knows but-one ‘or only ¢ and alf hours’ steep! 7 . net ' e te e use o reless,| home. 8 Gaaniean Seay wient and a half hours’ steep! in the afternoon nesting I. Friedman, Sec-| water or shaken thoroughly. After ai 7 INS of heavy wooden posts, | eee eee ie en ne ne oe eae ee vot must be “settled” in the Jor the Job found Mim we egret ght] ‘Then as the 600 girls file out of the) retary for Industrial War Work, Is| cork 18 put in the tuby it is ready for | painted white to sender them | (ni? Mone ® crate of pigeons, and locality, where it Is to be used, Coma |that he lay down beside a h ttany et| factory, 600 more girls the same | establishing throughout the United] work, says the Mlectrical Experimen- conspicuous, are placed acro, they are also carried on airplanes, to) sequently only the men to handle |twelve-ineh guns and even their porm-| uniform file in, And on the face States and abroad, yslae No Man's Land ang threugh ring bring back to artillery observers the) them can be trained in the United jeardinen tana 0. ¢ atur him, The] those who come out, there is a light| Clubs have already been establishod| Hollowing is the weather which the} munication trenches. of the Alliea | cation of Vital enemy eed | States; the birds, all of racing homer ork of the Americ as received | A vag Cea ane pet . be . ei ¥ “ in your guns and pigeons’! stock, se om [most enthusiastic praive rom iced of satisfaction that is not seen on| in Carney's Point, N. J, with a mom-| changes in the liquid denote: battlefront to ald wounded soldiers “DT™® iD ere Rav Hoenig | rock gent from here aro usetul only j offic r | the face of the ordinary plant worker! bership of 600 girls; Hopewell, Va Clear liquid-—Bright weather, in getting to the dressing stationg| U2te? Density of death was the sine) for breeding, When ten weeks old, ace ma,other Items of our engineering) —just as took of” determination | 600; Williamsburg, Va., 60; Nashvitta, | Crystals at bottom—Thick alr, frost | back of their Hines. ‘The posts are set | *#°F Sora tyet Taney rated the “squeckers,” as the young birds | * e War are theglean-| glows from the fac those who| Tenn, 2,800; Charleston 5 5 ver conquered Belgium, for these | are called, are able to fly, ing up of Palestine by Amorican aant.| S088 fom no | Tenn, 2,800; Charleston, W. Va,, 1,009, | in winter ; by mempbors of the Engineer Corps at ale ab pepsnerhe HOMINIS f9r Hees | Are, al 2 are able to fly, and thelr . ng of | £0 In. ranal, Brooklyn Bloom-| Dim liquid~Rain distances which enable a man who is| birds are the sity nelunes Of the spy. training begins. ‘They are taken trom 3 for| For are the privi 1 worker 1., 6,000; Bridge; Conn, pim liquid with small stars—~Thun-| wounded but able to walk to swing| The Belgians defied the order, and sa/ the lofts and left alone to get the nd by|of a great army of a Million and a| 5,000; and Long Island City, 1,000, tart self himself along from one post to to France came invaluable infor first “mental photograph" of thelr ey: nto the engineering regi-| naif women throughout the United| One of the new fea Se icialeertae, Of Heavy eff, overcast| next, says Popular Mechanics. By! tion of the plans and number of the) Surroundings. If frightened at this mente rom American moving pleture gi atos t eld, N. J bp geo oe nier this means thousands of wounded: invaders, together with the story of| time they may become useless, Afters op ; i Idier wiley will be} e6y) BOW. 1 WINE nngy! soldiers have made thelr Way to 110° atrocities in Flanders, N, ward’ come daily flights, beginning The Fighting Engincers" is pub. low-roldiers ut other industrial war Th ian upper part—Windy safety without being compelled to ‘ ‘8. Navies; with ohe mile and gradually tm. lished by the Century Company, [the drst hand work of ¢ ros throughout the country, ist weather wait for assistance, too, make constant use of pigeons. creased €