The evening world. Newspaper, March 12, 1919, Page 18

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 1919 Brest, the French Seaport | 1,700,000 U. S. Soldiers — Will Have Passed Through On Their Way Home Debarkation Port Is Now an American City With American Improvements All Made by Americans. U.S. Engineers Paved Its Streets, Improved Its Wat- erfront Facilities, Built a Railroad and a Cold Storage Plant--U. S. Army Conducts an Electric Light and Power Plant, an Up-to-the-Minute Fire Department and a Police Force. By Martin Green (The New York Wrening World.) 0,000 soldiers in the American Expedi- EW of the approximately 2 F tionary Forces abroad have seen or will see Paris, and the experi- ence of most of them carries but indistinct memories of many towns. ‘There is one French city, however, which will be widely talked about in days to come by our returning soldiers, and that is Brest, the best seaport in France, through which something like 1,700,000 will have passed, home- ward bound, by the time we Lave brought the last of our Copsright, 1919, by the Pres Publishing Co, all right. It wasnt that | was seared | . ‘ ‘ where I sit aint more than ‘alf alhas the power to modify these con- | the other. got out here I heard the Captin say - te “4 t r for worse. “But what 1s temperance for one fighting and auxiliary forces home. A considerable per-| of the infantry. 1 guess you know/“Woll tmeglad were way out in a mile from the shells, If they ever| ditions, either for better or for jjman may be excess for another. centage of tho soldiers now retarning or to return] that I aint scared of anything that) piace like this where we dont run UREA EL Vlas LoL fo ihe athe ached as leaenea | Hetica: the tout Gnpertint aaa - - if 8 enviro: t e as lea d ace he os ant J through Brest were landed at that port when they went! walks on two legs except the mea-|no danger of hittin nothin All |night Willie, I aint scared of ie wa + a - vercome | Protectin againnt degree into the great adventure, ‘and for these the quaint-old| sles, The artillerys really more dan-| .aiq was “I like to see a fello care- purse, 1 ju L nM a rYE i bat you} many of the agencies seeking to de- | Maladies is to have a thorough phys. city has double interest. There is a great deal of differ-| gerous than the infantry cause you| fy) Captin, but if thats all your wouldnt worry tell you more tia {eal examination, such as we give Ac ence between the Brest of to-day and the Brest of the] stand in one place so they can eet! worfyin about you needent have | about pee Uhddiseel as nee eee i: “Already there is sufficient knowl-|Nere at the institute, at least once a ies summer and autumn of 1918 ‘ @ good line on you while in the in-| taken xo much trouble.” ‘The longer [may know more about it myself) soo to transform the health condi. [Yer #0 that life may be regulated Sarue Before the war, Brest had a population of 85,000./ fantry your running round all the|; Know Captins the less I under-/“WeE CAN FIRE ALL WE WaNT| ‘20? tions in this country, if knowledge|*°cording to one’s physical equig®” ‘To-day the French population is probably 100,000, and there are about! time stand them WITHOUT HITTIN’ NOTHIN’.” | Yours till they curve one sould be translated into action, if the|™en* ; 60.000 American soldiers in and about | A in the Captin was so jealous of] Tuis is the rainy season. The \ | BILL. |people would simply lay hold of the| "W wir treat your body at least the city. Also in and about Brest are|fensih. of siangand Kauge Tuninel me I thought a fello with brains| south is a wonderful country for| Of Sending me MIRKIR ERG Sars — jHOSIDS (AiG Sek pts bal tuAd are: thelte |e a Sour Uney tore areal Some 2,000 German prisoners of war cies <6 ts . This| Would ave more chance dver h wether cause everything is divided| Ii! be sittin there thinkin of you anj aiming ’ ake y ‘ je tanezen Camp. involved in struction some tremendous engineer- working on streets and engaged cleaning the in construction the roads, railroad, which its con- I tried to transfer as an officer but the Captin said I better go over as a oven, Mabk’ BY LIEUT. EDWARD STREETER OF THE 27TH (N. Y.) DIVISION (Author of “ Dere Mable’’) Mlustrated by CORP. G. WILLIAM BRECK, Also of the 27th First of a New Series of Letters to “Dere Mable” From “Bill” (Copyristet, 1910, by Frederick A, Moke =| It like Company). | waitin for me cause the day after I 2RE MABLE; |came over they hitched up the I take my pen in hand to) horses and drove the cannons out to tell you what do you think|the range, Its kind of hard to ex- 1 done now? 1) plain to a girl like you what a left the infantry! range is. The the almost seemed they was only way I can ex- an gone back} plain it is’ that it aint nothin like a into the artil-! range, Taere t nothin here but lery. The Captin| mountins and we can fire all we hated to let) want without hittin hin but the me go. He said) mountins and once in a while maybe the Artillery) one of the mountin ears, But they Colonel was 8) say there so tough they don't mind friend of his. Tit a bit. Thats a funny thing about guess thats WhY/ artillery, Mable, The object seems he finally siid) to pe not to hit nothin. Tae day we off so well. ‘There is three seasons. | Wait! The cold season, the hot season and for the American Army. . eee ee ee the docks, in the |i Problems, dors away largely with| private and as soon as they saw! the rainy season. Thats what makes) Mee eee inthe coating of {the trucking diMculty. In the camp] what kind of a fello 1 was theyd fix| the place so cood. It would be awful Pecesorie and the operation of lighf | Proper there is a narrow gauge rail-]me all right. He seemed to wake tiresome if you was always freezin way reaching every kitchen and store- house and connected with the stand- ard giuge ratihea On the arrival of our engineers at Brest they found on the water front a plant for manufacturing ice which had just been completed by an enter- ern 3,000 negro stevedores, whp left ‘their happy homes down South to work in a clime they were told was ‘sunny. They see the sun about once every thirty days, and there are no watermelons in France. Natural those negroes are not superiativ prising corporation engaged in the| Member that the Captin and I didn't bunch of fellos what knows more happy. They have been told the War fishing industry, ‘The plant had been| get along very well. Couldnt seem) than any one else in the camp. 1 sit i over, but they don't belicve tt. in process of construction for aeven|to agree on nothin, I thought it on a hill all day with a little tele- The writer spent ten days in Brest.’ ears We took it over, connected it| would be pleasanter for me an aim prone in a lunch box and take mes. Pr ne mpreenion OF tne olty with a ‘cold storage warehouse and] to if I went to another battery ge They got an awful system which rests in his memory 48 @ Vist® wore enabled, by this almost mirac- | i i“ i i of wet, glistening umbrellas. Rain ulous happening, to care for our meat} fell every day of the ten days, and on | and’ other perishable In our army warehouses on the Brest water front we carry at all| n Brest is aston- tines supples valued at between $6,- | plies, | nine of the ten days rain fell all day and all night. In view of this weather condition # visitor ished by the spectagle of washing 9000 and $7,000,000. For the protec- | hanging out on clothes lines and tion of this property polios' and. fire fences. The person who hangs out gopariin nts are maintained washing to dry in Brest is the cham- department pion optimist of the world fi ‘The fire membership and 4 apparatus equal to that of the! artment of any large American | The army also operates its own | electric light and power plant, ‘The army engineers have just com- | pleted on the wa front a series of t, iron and wooden buildings | which is extensive enough to keep all | has a The influence of American operation | de in Brest is everywhere apparent, ‘The streets are crowded all day and far into the evening by men in American uniforms. Brest is divided from the waterfront in for of about three-quarters of a mile by an iniét) lined by docks, which is to city. # distance she deep enough | troops waiting to embark on trans- accommodate rts under large ocean going) f shelter from the rain ships. A great swinging steel bridge|They also built a large rest house crosses the inlet and it is a novelty) and hospital for th Cross, The to Americans, for it opens in the/rest house, which furnishes a com. middie to let boats pass through, and the bridge when open swings back until éach half is parallel with the ‘ations painted by army Dank. For the protection of the deli- | artists passing through, is in charge | cate machinery controlling the move- i ments of the great mass of steel the bridge is paved with a thick carpet fashioned of rope \, Americans have dubbed that part of Brest lying to the westward of the| fnlet “Brooklyn.” A residential part of the city through which tro 1o and from the Pontan n Camp is} called “Harlem,” and the district im- mediately about the camp is called! “Tea Bronx.” There is also a part of tho city known as “Hell's Kitchen," | but it is surrounded at all hours by} #0 impassable guard of military and naval and no ers oF ‘sailors go there. When Brest was picked as the chief port for the han arriving in France, the harbor factli ties consisted of four small docks, We took over two of them and imme diately extension to one, which has just been completed. This improvement is a cloved pier 900 feet long and 100 feet wide, fortable loungdag-place for officers and men and b va of remarkably clever inte policemen ug of our t began the construction of an | equipped with electrically op. erated hoisting machinery, The ple by our engineering forces was built aterial imported from the United The waterfront streets Jeading up to the city wer @ macadam mixture at the time of the arrival of our advance expedition. This pavement was quickly pulverized by the great army trucks. After long negotiations with the French and the road paved with Goy Up a little when he saw I was goin. | Im going to put in my applicashun ways bakein. Now you get four for an officer as soon as I get a! months of each. It makes a change chance, | for a fello I didnt go back to the same bat-| ‘Theyve put me on the speshul de- tery I was in before cause youll re to death or always soaked or al-| ptail, The speshul detail, able, is a American Motor Trucks at * Brest for lunch and somebody says| San : 8 “Hello” just 1ke| sate at ali bookseller, “Hello” an I 8a Rookie Describing His Further @ Int. Fam ser bluffs that back it © drt. Kim Ser, Adventures in the Army. a regular fone. | “Heres And then they say | a message from mmmmmm.” Its always the same fello. I dont know who he is. And then they say Tell Captin mmmmmmmm to mmm mmmmm at once. Please repeat.” And then I repeat and whoever it is says “No, No” and you dont here any more. I guess its some kind of| a code they have. I dont believe the Captin is on to it cause you ought to have heard what he said the other day. I guess he was talkin about the fello on the other end. I never heard your father do better. Its awful dangérous work cause That's Me Ait ook form, Yor WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 1919 How to Keep Young Third of a Series of Three Interviews With Dr. Eugene Lyman Fisk of the Life Extension Inslitule “The traditional ‘three score years and ten’ are fixed by no natural \iaw,” que: ae) ditions under tor the cld “But why or less broken at All Your Life A “Youngster” at Sixty “@ By Marguerite Mooers Marshall Copyright, 1919, by the Pres Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) at three score years it is not necessary to be actually old. Be cause you are sixty you need not hobble about with a cane, your shoulders stooped, your joints “rheumaticky,” your insides fighting with some almost incurable organic disease, The young old woman who dances, entertains and dresses like her granddaughter instead of subsiding gracefully into the ' corner is a common figure in the life of New York. ‘There is no fixed law of nature against the evolution of the young old man, the man who at sixty keeps his waist-line, his color, his vitality and his health. he normal American, if he takes proper care ot a himself, should live to be 100 or over,” says Dr. Bugene ‘Lyman Fisk, Director of Hygiene of the Life Extension Institute, at No, 25 West 45th Street. 26 the con- Man|On the one hand or to ‘wear eet’ en he continued, “but by which men live. station’ once in a while, and have it looked over? Why be more afraid of such words as ‘calorie,’ ‘protein’ or ” |‘vitamines’ in relation to the care of your body than you of ‘car- | buretor' or ‘ignition,’ when it is a | question of the your car? is the average man more sixty?” I asked Dr. are “The diseases that menace the youth and h th of men of forty, fifty or sixty, do not come on over night, like diphtheria or scarlet fever. It takes time for Bright's disease or | he trouble to devel Tf an inc lent weakness is discovered at an y stage it frequentiy can be cured by suitable health measures, On the other hand, a man or woman may bh suffering from some defect in for mont without self-know great the or years vital machinery ‘Then comes some anxiety, some sudden strain, and the individual ¢ mples. If the sapping disease had n de- P tected in time and mea taken to eradicate or check t, y , might have been added to the nvolved.” ‘ ) made old too soun by overwork?" T d Dr, Fisk “Ha work in which one has an nterest, not carried to the point of undue strain or interference with norma ep, on se, diet, &C., 1g ali not harmful,” he replied: *'Lopsided’ work may be an impor. ‘ tant \ bringing on premature disease he brain worker needs ne physical work and mental play. he manual laborer or mechanic ‘The Inlet which divides the Brest waterfront and | needs some physical play and mental steel bridge which Spans it © Underwood Lunderwwod- | | work —_ — - “There is in the world to-day a | splendid example of how to work EVENING WORL Di sk. “And how can he take care ot d and yet keep young and vigor- | , a himself in order to keep young @Md)/o45 in mind and bod added the PUZZLES vigorous at that age?” doctor, @ note of frank enthusiasm The Market Basket Puzzle Then the doctor explained that the|coloring his quiet voice. “That ex- 4 danger, nd a danger t actually} ample is the man Clemenceau, Look By Sam Loyd as increased in the last thirty years/at him—at seventy-nine! Rightly an increase in t jo-called de-| Lloyd George at the Peace Table CONSUMER went before the) cenerative diseases, It is they which|called hin ‘the grand young old man,’ | A Food Commissioner and com-|take the spar of youth from the]Isn't he an inspiration to every plaine Said he: | “I can't fil the market basket at rates. | Now, let us im- agine it is full, at | these awful prices, I figure then that one- | | third more food : for one-third less money would make To enable automobiles to travel oyer n roads an inventor has ice or eye, the spring of youth from the step. jthe glorious energy and joy of youth from the soul. “The diseases due to faulty ving |habits, to overeating and underexer- cising ate on t over forty lof the heart, blood vessels and kidneys are responsible for the high death rate in middle life. “phe | a square deal, and then I could All the/ aqjustment, Fr rest of his life, When he has attained this amount American who longs for a vigorous and useful youth which shall last all his life? “A good general formula for keep- ing young through and beyond middie age includes a lifelong habit of sane exercise, eating lightly enough after the fortieth birthday to keep the weight down to the standard and even @ few pounds below it, and avoldanee excess. Inerease among men he declared. “Affections underlying cawse 1s lack of 1) forms of man outdoor, mus-| “It is not so much necessary to fight ket for $3 less than it now Costs.” | oe working we are becoming an| disease as to cultivate health for the How much does it cost to fll that! ingoor, brain-working one, This! happiness, contentment and moral gain basket at present prices? [transition often is an individual af-|that it brings. And, speaking from Answer to Which Won This Ra \fair, It is not at all uncommon for/the point of view of society, we Cana? | It would be a tie If it were ajmen to acquire a heavy muscul r/not afford to have a jurge death rate * straightaway race, but in running to|development in early life and subse-|between the ares of forty-five and \ the stake and « (75 yards) cach|quently drift into comparatively| sixty-five. That is the period of life half of the race would be 112% feet,|sedentary work where these muscles |rwi men and women are often land the dog would be compelled tu| become more of a burden than al equipped to make their Rear cotir make 23 leaps to the «take, and the | Prop. bution to civilization.” |same number in returning, which! “Phen we all live at too high ten- — | be 46 leaps of 5 feet each, so the dog|sion, We talk too loud, hurry too TOO SMART. | goes 280 feet in all, a waste of & fect. |hard, worry to much, The American in the city was \'The cat would go over and back in|doesn’t know bow to stop working. direction the 76 leaps, which would call for 228 feet, | In England a man sets before himself other morning. Fle looked so Tabby wins the race by 2 feet, a certain sum which he wishes to] about m and then beckoned to an bh > possess when he's fifty and on which| Italian laborer who was working tn SCIENCE AND INVENTION, he knows he can live comfortably the|a trench nearby. “Hey, Tony!" “how he begins to take life he called i casily, If the American has a fortune do I get to the ernment consent was obtained to pave of Miss Florence Harrison, he has | roy peg | ' nted a spiked steel band to re-|o™ te arlene fortan here Bites the 4 ‘ Dus Uniforms of the French service,| The largest hotel is the Atinental, |heavy tt comes through the roof Of| \jace the rear tire. a y 5 ney all? the waterfront streets and the m thirty-three assistants, who work in! American and French sailors, Jap-|which advert 1 heat and ele- /the cafe and drops.on the stove and “vols eae just the same. Or if, by any chance The workman oad up the htil with Belgian blocks. three eight-hour shifts every day and |anese from a flect of cruisers resting | vator vice steam heat is/tho bored Americans sitting around| Ry simplifying the system of tick. |he tries to stop, he promptly goes to eountered zis The work was accomplished without night in the w supplying hot|in the harbor, English sold in| turned on yur a day, the ele-|t tove, and every time this hap-|cts given to London's: omnibus pas-|Pieces because he doesn't know how question with ame halting of traffic, About four miles of coffee and chocolate and doughnuts |charge of German prisoners who |vator has been operated ns Madame, the proprietress, says s of 100 tons of paper | to Play. | other pavement was laid and (he water- and sandwiches and cigarettes to the | march to and fro through the streets |Aug. 4, 1914, and no water Will have th® roof fixed to-mor- r was effected, “If a man asks, ‘How shall T jive| How do your if front of Urest was transforined from @ soldiers passing through, ‘Tho hos- their picturesque green uniforms | through the pipes above the second |row--but it is a safe bet that the last Cra in order to be healthy and young at ym} \ mudhole to dry territory, pital ls In charge of Matron Lewis, Brest is a cosmopolitan centre the: oldiers the ia band Qn Heb. % our engineering force are crowded with | all day Jong; French territorial troop: white, men from gloomy omen from all over the world, floor in the day time, The only stove black and brown ey little park, and when the rain. American grimy fire- jin the hotel ts located in the cafe on) Brest on the way home and stopping freighters, and |the ground floor, overlooking a muddy | at the Continental Hotel will see rain te) falling through th officer passing @ root of the cafe, through A typewriter desk with numerous pigeonholes and drawers and a chair together and form a trunk, hg sixty’ the general answer is, ‘Tem- perance all along the line—in eating, have been so combined that they fold | drinking, workin _ [im vesting’ It ts s@ ‘rest out’ you guess how far it is to City Hal” ‘ know my name Tony?” he grinned, : ' “Guessed It," “Pretfy smart guesser, eh? Then ing and even wt