The evening world. Newspaper, October 3, 1918, Page 18

AWAY \ \ ‘ SA if THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1918 “ ‘ , cee eat SS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, | 1 ‘Eight Months at the Front | |Your “Man” Been Drafted? . With the American Army , Try a Woman “Valette” |! ! AMERICAN INGENUITY FIGHTING WAR WASTE. | H OW an A rt i l l ery B arrage I. S ¥ a i d Like Richard Bennett’s | Biggest Salvage Plant in the World, Employing « Panorama of a Section of the Western Battle Front Showing How American Troops Nearly 9,000 Workers, Saves $2,000,000 a Month Advance Behind a Creeping Barrage Which It Has Taken Weeks to Prepare. 4 Through Reclamation of Army Waste at a Net . ’ ‘ - : " j Aside From Some Slight Difficulties Which Have Been t roug “A “4 y 4 From a Drawing Published in the Electrical Experimenter.) . Solved by a Door, Is Proving Eminently Satisfactory, and Cost of Sixteen Per Cent. of Amount Saved. KEY TO PANORAMA: A—Advanced Artillery Observers, including “Flash Spotters” and “Range Sounders;” B—Observation Balloons; C—Aero- — | May Teach Other Women How to Enter This “*Profession.’” B Martin Green plane Observers; O—Telephone Line From Infantry Commanders; E—Meteorclogical Balloon; F—Ammunition Dumps. y By Bide Dudley Copyright, 1918, by The Prese Publishing Co, (The New York Rrening World), ! ENTLEMEN, attention! \ Here's good news for you. The valet question, which un@ouste edly has been troubling you sorely since the United States entered the war, has been solved. If you want a valet who won't wear your clothes, smoke your clgare and cigarettes, drink your liquor and who won't be subject to the draft and will be on the job at all timex, it 18 possible to have one. Engage a wom Richard Bennett, star of he Unknown Purple,” has one, and she is proving so eminently satisfactory that he vows he'll never have another man as long a® he liv war or no war. His valet is Mme. Alpbh Bar- reyre, a Frenchwoman in her late thirties, married and the mother of four children. She likes her worls and he likes the way she performs her duties. <crc fy oon 1918 She Don't Smoke His Cigars, Can’t Wear His Clothes and‘ (Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) geht, 1918, by The Press Poblishing ¢ (The New York gvening Word) A PHILADELVPHIAN named DOlier, aolding a commission in our PRRERES Se army, is the executive head, in a down in France, of the biggest | reclamation and salvage plant in the world. He employs between | 6,000 and 7,000 French women, about 1,500 mechanics | and skilled tradesmen who have been invalided from | the French Army, and 400 American enlisted men, who | act as bis representatives in directing the work of they various departments. Before he joined tae army this! busy officer earned $50,000 a year or more’ reorganizing! pled business concerns on bebalf of banks holding ‘as in the directorate of half Se ee anne ne mer mortgages or notes, and he a dozen Philadelphia banks, A picture of his wife and children on his desk in his office is tae only reminder he has of his civilian life, He hasn't had a chance to think about anything but eee ay. simon iy } work for the army since he landed at a French port “1'll bet,” said Mr. Bennett in his dressing room at \4 | expecting to be assigned to a regiment at the front, and found that | : ‘ t the Lyric Theatre last night, “that you're wondering why I engaged a he had been picked to organize and run the business of reclaiming and re- | ace) Po a woman. I'll tell you. First of all, competent men valets always were t pairing the numerous articles whica the men of the army wear out or My ‘ searce, and now that we are in the war and England and France are too, ry they are almost an unknown quantity. “L had a couple of young men, one after the other, but I discovered they heir work was in the 1 class and I refused to stand | for slackeriam. I discharged them | and saw to it that they were made to ake up work of an essential nature. Having done this, I was complaining to Mrs, Bennett about not having a valet “"Why not get a woman?’ she ed. ‘Of course,’ she added, ‘you don’t want a frivolous young thing. Get a sensible, middle-aged woman who understands men and will work hard. ) | “I liked the idea. I advertised in several of the newspapers for a woman valet and some twenty or {twenty-five applicants called. I in-| terviewed every sort of female from He opened up ina little shed with a & working staff of six French women | chines skilfully repairing uniforms who had worked in a French reciam- | Many of these women own the'r ma ation plant and knew something | ob nes and the y pays them & ‘anes @ month for the use of them | about how things should be done. l Gradually the ‘i pa a a Bt | This was in February. In May he/ with machines operated by electric | had increased his force to 3,500 wo- | power uch as used in uniform and men and 500 men and was saving the | Clothing factories in New York Government a million dollars a} Everything that comes in is ut in some Way. About per at month. The salvage now amounts | /), thing, 70 per cent, of the she to probably $2,000,000 ® month and | ang 9; cent, of “abbe + saves far more important transport |out of the workrooms to be utilize ‘space for about 200 ship tons a day,|again. Take shoes, for instance. which would be required but for the! Shoes worn beyond hope of repair a of reclamation. The net cost {PT cut Up for patches und leather wor! re adr shoe strings. The soles are utiliza of the work is about 15 per cent. of | roy jeather disks, No shoe is thrown!) the amount saved |away, Rubber boots nearly ai-? “You have a better ordered and] Mays found susceptible of repair, New ‘ Soles and bh for old rubber boots more efficient plant here than the) ire manufactured out of éiscarded British plant in the North of France,” | automobile tires the officer was told by a visitor re-! About the saddest looking p: cently, “and the British plant has| wreckage that co is the |battered soldier's campaign hat—the oo ees mee | | 1) | ae oF Vacndguaesens re of old ox it washerwoman to matinee girl. Tho long been held up as a model.” 3 “In that #0?" replied the ex-PhIlAa- ‘hrm. “These ure uot used in tie Rel, ba uu right one was not among them, Miss | I step into my closet and reach deiphia bank director. “Well, I never but they find their uses in the salvage | 5 ye | \ FE afc ons Ses aU apeag te mae Gute rear te aw 0 British plant, althourh f know. | Tier, slippers for hospital” natlents - 7 Was delng iNstructed in French by &/ Wi00i0 than @ man would be and ¢ slippers for hospital patients Of course, that they have sewral. Tai. made, ‘The campaign hats are cut ay ar apy an it ? haven't been out of this town but into soles. © upper parts of the . “Are her duties all performed iW once aince I lit here, and on that oc-|slippern are fastioned from, eonda cut ° Sh ° E; 1 h We Fr h 9 9|chance and brought the mother, Mme. | jour drensing room?" cation T went to Pars and pu up a of eeereais for he purnow or or: Dagram Showing Barrages Employed When We Go “Over the Top? | =r: om stones, wnere sie Ac present ae 1am living in To e he r army overcoats ra tie “ep (ee. . i ns 2. KEY TO DIAGRAM—FIRST STAGE: A—Light Gun Creeping Barrage Fire: B—Heavy (or light) Gun “Standing Barrage” Pounding Enemy was living with two minor sons. She| ers, But I intend to move to Man4 fight for things I needed. This com originally supp! ere so long Rese ail Araerican.” . Beded” inn ahes Aap D long t Ay filled the bill at once and my problem | hatt onth and ¢ . Trenches; C—Preparatory “Searching Barrage.” SIXTH STAGE: A—Light Gun Barrage; B—Heavy Gun Barrage to Silence Enemy Artillery. waa solved.” [enero earn sec een Ses ass come to my home and look after ma. NO SCRAP POSSIBLE TO SAVE IS “Pd as fast as possible {) girl of eighteen. She said her mother would like to work for me, I took a| consi eat! iy pen - < : FECOMTEARES LOR AON ar ee oe ee f the me y are being shortened at the salvage plant. Se “ ” at i f OVERLOOKED. letArehi picbaes Gaba Ande oil cane | IG ce ¢ But," was suggested, “there are|there also, It really isn’t so stransa , The reciamation plant occupies 8€¥-! and jard cans ire cut up, rolled out certain duties a man valet performs | that I have a woman valet. My wif® eral immense buildings which were and made imo dives which 4 ied ent OOM, for his employer that appear to be| and tliree daughters comprise my fam- built for factory purposes, and it is for marking soldiers’ grav pe Bane ‘ out of the question where the valet] jly and (here Mr, Bennett smile) ¢ fashioned into sash weights Saas hey sod : 1 being continually extended. Back to ong god, rhe American army U is a woman they are all women. Why not con “I know—you mean in connection | tinue the female line on down to my, with dressing me. I'll tell you how 1| valet?” handle that. I step in my closet and| Mr. Bennett was actuated to a cers call for my underwear, sticking my | t#in extent in his selection of Mma, hand through a crack In the door-| Barreyre for the place by the fac way. Mme, Barreyre gives the arti-| that ber husband, an automobile me4 cles to me, Then I ask for my trous. | Chanic, had to leave his little family. ors and get them, and so it goes, She| '" Montreal and return to France ty the plant from the -camps and the front come the soldiers’ shoes and) 4 socks and underwear, uniforms, kuap- poe Bh onl ogi eat vag acks, blankets, cartridge belts, mess, ible mountains of them pil up along kita, campaign hats and caps, rubber the railroad tracks boots and slickers, overcoats—every-| The harness ir department. is in | charge of an officer who in civil life wears or uses, Har- i ase thing the soldier a | ran @ big harness shop in St. Louis. nove Uh Cans than al the ot mies in Hurope combined and ¢ ness, saddies and horse equipment, | jig saves and sends back to the front alee RaTaY, grantee: Wark and inchiding old horseshoes, also come about everything that comes to him invariably knows where everything | {07 the army, She needed work a1 ‘ back. Tin food cans, oil cans andl What that department can do to a is and has it ready for me when Ij cause a by engaging the w ] garbage cans find thelr way to the) crazement to aoldiers who do. not call.” of a soldier, Asked, through an interpreter, if she enjoyed’ her work, Mme, Barreyra said she di reclamation plant and are put through | kn the process of salvage. Up to June) be “Do you speak French?" ‘ery little, and she doesn't speak what study and system have n applied to reclamation work ‘ thia plant also Yandled disubled/ HYGIENIC FEATURES NEW TO! English. However, I have a smatter- ‘Some she said, “I may and discarded revolvers, rifles and} FRENCH WORKERS. ing of her language, and this, aided) st rt 8 seb F we sel MK Ae V8 ordnarce generally, including shell) A feature about the plant which dis by signs, makes everything all right. |! LGA thus Ay! ome the female valet, cases, but all ordnance is now sal-| finguishes it from the average French ther plant, which waa| factory is the attention that has been vaged at anoth: i ry geal | paid to hygiene, ‘The workrooms are completed and put into operation 1D) an jignt and well ventilated, Clean July. toile facilities with a surplus of water grip 1 Serie Nid ay the most oncerned in a barrage. And yet, . ° The stuff comes in by the traintoad, | have been provided for the thousands interesting aa well as iim a _ practically the only danger the at- R ht A all mixed up. In one carlot rec! ved | OF ramee employees Few of the, portant development in war iene ~ > 1] | tacking troops incur is from faulty U ere in ew or the day I visited the plant were) fing und on the: American toilet) fare im! 7 “ : | shells that fall short or explode pre- | sw... facilities and on the first day a long maturely, or from a necessity of SPANISH INFLUENZA. everything in the way of Uniforms, | line of toilet rooms was opened for use shifting @ barrage at the sacrifice of several hundred riffes, every sort of | every woman on the job knocked off|9F curtain fire, It has proved a great | horee equipment, some ordnance, a| Work and took half a day for inspec-| factor in Allied advances, and is fa- | the troops. By Hazel V. Carter. | | There is, of course, a “counter bar- tion, So proud Were the women in t li 0 i atest : | woman's powder puff box, two cor- » miliar to all Americans as the | Incremen Wengen cheher? peteot: @ nod eT Bas’clercachmitiey SOE She is exactly like a man's house-|pry her, gentlemen. Richard Beuw keeper would b you cannot lose, a m. And sho is more during the present great conflict is the artillery barrage fire, hots, eeveral bugles, a parlor organ! aud so widespread waa their boasting | core, of our boys In going “over the tage” laid by the artillery of the de- gk eels hung on a subway strap yesterday morning—which retrieved from aome French farm-| that 2,00 women employed In a taunt. | tOP-" " fenders to cut off the assaulting isn't any news. ‘The man hung on a subway strap every morning house, several disubled talking ma | tions plant close to the American cn-b ‘This now tise of the artillery a Aa # < troops and to prevent the bringing} ven sy you and I. And also every evening, Ditto, iiiy carriages. Fee after batisying themselves! nade temporary structures of what | Se TH 5 |up of the second and third waves of Wut yesterday morning the straphanger sneezed--a loud and Spanish that the stories they had heard w Barrace. Fon ah i attack Influenza sneeze. And right away the whole carful of straphangers ‘The cars are unloaded at long plat true, threatened to strike unless they} were formerly impregnable trench 4 forms, where 300 women sorters work | were granted similar conveniences, and | systems. Properly handled it is irre <€a took notice. It was a handkerchief-less sneeze of the variety which the all night separating the various ele-|the puzzied French officers in charge! «js Re areas Gksraaaee ln) RIMS FIT AUTOS TO RAILS. Hoard of Health calls a germ-gyrating sneeze. The straps on each aide ments and wheeling them to sectio: of the munitions works had to comply | Be bs fae of the Influenza suspect became vacant from which they can be most exped*- | with the demands of their employees, |!" th To enable automobiles to be run on aaulting forces and Increase Unsuspecting, the Suspect read three more lines of Sport Speculation | fiously moved through the process@| ‘The women are paid a minimum of {them among the defenders | |railroad tracks flanged steel rims a anenans ina louder and more influential Spanish sneeze of reclamation, The operations are | 6% francs francs a day--approx-| It is, properly speaking, a curtain | have been invented that are at-| nd toe Tis Shen See Nilo Pp “ e lose attent ate! ey be- | t , 5 ‘ ~ '§ ore straps a a . eere ne With cloee Atteniien be ine mpately ee te 91-40 vey ‘be-Jof exploding shells laid about an |t0 prevent escape in those directions. |:an the difference ta shells, Each of | tached by deflating the tires and then More yawn,” said a fat man, nudging a leah wife, “Ho's got it” fund labor saving aystems, There Is|abiity in certain directions their tay (Chemy for preventing an advance or |The’ advancing “creeping barrage" | the points and others must be taken | inflating them until they grip the “He's got it! echoed the word down the ais no lost motion. The plant handles | iy raised, but few get more than 10 | cutting or to prevent t serves all practical purposes of | into consideration in firing each piece rims. Just then the Suspect snivelled—a snuffling, sniffling, suspicious from forty to sixty carloads of ma | fran sa day, although many, judged | bringing up of reinforcements or screen, while the “vox barrage” keeps | “ure, re re ee ee ee snivel terial a day. | by the excellent services they perform, | plies. For convenience such fire is |it a sort of private fight F f h All : d N . A pretty girl on the seat facing him looked up from her volume of All clothing, blankets and personal |are entitled to more, Our army is re | Pv tog sata five kinds-"searehing |p . e ags of the 1e ations wroned in Lave.” Bhe leered at the Buspect and the Suspect snoered at 4 ent is placed in great retorts | quired to keep ita pay for women, “Vided nto Bye Kine earching | These barrages require the absolute Pe Ks } and steamed and subjected to terrific pretty close to the andard set by | barrage tanding barra preep- | synchronization of the artillery and} " : The symbols of Masonry supplied " aneaah th ge to Ch Fo! ot Susi f heat for the purpose of Killing «erm |the French, else all the French women ing barrage,” “box barra and lintantry, An artillery officer must By T. L. Sanborn to the designers of the Cuban fag], as she turned the yas apter Four, while the Suspect specu and insect life, Countless billions of employed in munitions works and! «aerial t oe" aha a CU the idea of the equilateral t oy ated three Ii Bn SR Ingtive and immature cooties are de-| other essential enterprises would| °°" . he with the infantry, The officers) No. 4 U BA MAO Ly GARB ayregs ‘al triangle, ‘Suddenly he bent forward and sneezed again stroyed daily. Shoes are subjected to| flock to the American works {or | The “searching and “standing” | of co-operating artillery and infantry {ONG all the world's national | While they adopted the lone star from ‘The Pretty Girl jumped up and ran for the door. Other pastengere é J the same treatment, After disinfec- | higher wages, Fr ymen work- | barrages In reality nothine but |must carry spl cond watches ex- | flags that of Cubs is unique in the old national banner of Texas, first] gasped for the open windows 5 meer giething and blankets are Moshed| ing ip one cola lon plant are al wel) known artillery “hammer- | actly timed, Then a schedule of ad that it makes use of the tri lathe tae nesetean prong il pas ‘The Suspect sat down. He spread himself over the wide range of be thom inte three names erviteatic| A amail extra allowance ‘for foach| ing’ that precedes an attack. The|vance, that often deals with seconds angle as part of/ Anna, that commonwealth joined the} @mpty seats. Then ne looked be Ploeg the face of a terrified conductor 7 é and sightly, fit to be repaired and|child, They work forty-nine hours Hs earching barrage” combs the entire |of time, is carnied by all officers and its design, ‘“La| brotherhood of nations as a free re- “It's enough Hl d HyS nyary oe gh OF ae car, isn't it,” he growled, , sont back to the front line; service-| week, putting in five days of nine) territory to be attacked, while the | the advance timed by it, The “creep- Estrella 0] lr| Bubs only tater se become. ane of the “the way that girl put on sachet and powde le but not sightly, fit to be re; | hours each and four hours on Satur and marrage! probably Aedes teu8 ia? | States of o . The Cuban flag es ie brit ne tight ¥, fit to be repaired | aeee enee Abe Tour 2au rs Sn Masur ‘standing, barruge” probably at the |ing barrage” starts within a few yards taria,” an the! was omolally adopted on May aor 108 Tm most populan Lawionaira/in Maw Sork was he who entarea the } labor units: unsightly, but repairable, | the morning. * ‘9 }aame time keeps up & steady fire on | of the trenches holding the assaulting banner of the Isl-| Grateful to the United States for! | lobby of the Equitable building at lunch hour the other day. Some Mit to be dyed green and served to| The employment of so many women | {he ehemy first and second front line | troops and advances @ certain num- and Republic is] the gifts of freedom and protection, dozen or more girls approached him German prisoners. Junder labor conditions as to health trenches. ber of yards every minute or every called, has been | Fuee sirenely SFmpAES ned with us Do you know Bill, I wonder?" said one timidly, “You know, he {s Hundreds of uniforms come in blood | and convenience auch us were un-| The “creeping barrage” Is really the | certain number of seconds, the in- CUBA familiar to most| treacherous agents of Germany, ana| in France, and I thought possibly"— ' meeeed 0nd pyed Pp suns, A trag-| dreamed of in France before the ar- | most important, scientific work of the | fantry following blindly per schedule Americans since/on April 7, 1917, the day after our ‘The gallant Legionaire nodded bis head and smiled knowingly. iy, o each of those Many/|rival of our army has had a wonder- | grtitiory, It 1s a wall of bursting shells | in . he Spanish-American | declaration of war on the Germans, “Oh, then, you must know John errupted another girl of ‘the uniforms have been slashed| fully stimulating effect in the | hg | What such perfect timing of fire|'he days of the Spanish \ q is , : rs with knives in order to hasten the munity in which our salvag that advances a few yurds ahead of} means is not appreciated until one | War in 1898, It displays a large red| the Island Republic made our cause ‘And Ed,” said another, “And Ernest," said another, “And"'—= her own, Her entry into the struggle ‘The Legionaire continued nod his head and smile a knowin, {has put an effectual damper on 5 smile while all the names in the back of the dictionary were recited, Word of removing them from wound id several other large war enter-|the assaulting troo 04 or dead men, prises are located. Destruction at the objective, when it bec till it passes the thinks that there are, perhaps, a|cauilateral triangle with its base rest- 1r-|thousand guns with many different|ing on the staff and bearing in its| machinations of German agents in the en a “box ‘0 " reached the offices upstairs that below was a Mrenc “ GALVAGE OF CLOTHING EQUALS] {ion work at the soar, bringing abeat |ZEe:" Here it remains between the |and divevsilled factors entering into| centre @ white star, while ¢rom the] Caribbean Sea, and her vigiance 1 Americans in France—and the lobby w was a Frenchman who knew a q 75 PER CENT. industrial conditions which will have {obective and the enemy reinforce- | the firing of euch, There are prob-| triangle extend five stripes, blue at eee ired AO SeENErO SueiDE. eee Ap a third contingent advanced, the Legionaire retreated, ‘Throw; one room in Plant 1,000 beneficial effects in Krance after the | ments, and at the same time a “cut-oft | lems of wind velocity, umidily, Wom 3 lop, hen wiiie, dius, while, aad) short striking distance ef our south}. UF Rit hands wildly he called : tol bo seid mming me war is over, Curtaip of Gre" de created ai each and | perature, fog and gua exoaign, aa welh| ue, Lo that oder, as “Charmast) Vue pm chormaai—mala—pasles vous Wrancaset” yen a ae On i 2 nkAMa Ws ea mae ere