Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-11-26

Russian soldier and the French soldier. but thew
are nothing like the e, and doubt whether in
all the world there has been at any time such
an organization as this
THE ARMY MACHINE.
Speaking of the German army we have had
here until within short time ago one Of the
best of our military attaches. You know the
War Department sends officers as attaches to
our different legations with instructions to re-
port from time TO time upon the condition Of
their army and to inform us whether any new
military inventions are made. We have an ex-
cellent man of this kind in st. Petersburg in
the person of Capt. Allen and for the past few
years the German army has been the study Of
Capt. Bingham, who was lately removed from
Berlin to Rome. l talked with him before he
left and he gave me some interesting inside
matter regarding the constitution Of the troops
here. Said he: You can have no idea Of the
wonderful machine that this German army is
and how well they are prepared for war. They
have a chart made out which shows Just what
they must do in the case of wars with the diff
ferent nations. And every officers place In the
scheme is laid out beforehand. There is q
schedule of trains which will supercede all
other schedules the moment war is declared, and
this is so arranged that the commander OF the
army here could 60 and telegraph to any officer
to take such a train and to go to such place
at moments notice. When the Frsnco-Prus-
sian war was declared, it ia said that Won
Moltke was awakened at midnight and told Of the
fact. He said coolly to the official who aroused
him, Go to pigeon hole No. blank in my safe
and take paper from it and telegraph as there
directed TO the different troops of the empire
lie then turned over and went to sleep and
awoke at his usual hour in the morning
Every one in Berlin was excited about the war,
but Won Moltke took his morning walk as usual
and friend who met him said: General. you
seem to be taking 1t very easy. Aren't you
afraid of the situation9 L should think you
would be busy 'Ah,' replied Won Moltke, all
Of my work for this time has been done long
beforehand and everything that can be done
now has been DONE"
THE ARMY STORES.
The army has stores at various points,"
Capt. Bingham went on. ''and they are ready
for every emergency, and every company and
every officer is down in the scheme for every
situation that might come up, and the whole
works like clockwork. Germany is ready for
war with almost any nation here at any time
II the emperor presses the button the army will
do The rest
The improvements in army methods are won
derful. and the German government here is ex-
perlmentIug all the time on powders, balls and
guns. 1t keeps its chemical experts at work
upon the food for the army. and it has been
perimonting on potatoes and peanuts and corn
as meal for bread Horse food ia quite as i'm
rortaut as human food. and they have here con-
densed food for horses. They have balls OF
horse food SO small that n man can carry enough
IN his pocket to feed horse for O week, and
they are studying the concentrated essence Of
food for horses. Upon such food the horses
OF course will run down, but they can march q
week and live. The constituents of these foods
are kept secret, and in 1870 the army was sup
Piled with pea sausage, which formed first
class food. and Of which the rest of Europe
had not read prior to this time. Germany has