Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-03-28
MILITARY STORES IN PARIS.
The French Capital Could Not Again Be
Starved Into capitalization.

starved Into Capituiation.
Should the fortunes of war ever
again expose the city of Paris to the
hardship of siege the besieger would
find the reduction of the French capt.
tai to be a far more difficult under
taking than did the German armies in
the winter of 1901. 1t may, ac-
cording to the Philadelphia Record, be
doubted whether the city could ever
again be compelled to capitulate. The
fall of Paris, as is well known, was
not accomplished by the German siege
batteries, but the city was starved
into submission. A recurrence OF
such an emergency is made practi-
cally impossible by the development of
the art of preserving and COMPRISING
a great variety of nutritious foods into
the smallest possible space. Thus, for
example, 10000 rations Of preserved
vegetables can be placed in a cubic
space measuring only forty inches each
way. and millions of these rations,
together with solid soups and pre-
served meats, are constantly kept
ready for the eventual necessity of
the military provisioning of Paris.
An enormous stock of flour and
biscuits is always maintained by the
war department, while the introduce
ton of compressed fodder and the
silo system have facilitated the stor-
age of sufficient food for the horses
required for the cavalry as well as
by the omnibus and street railway
companies. One of the gravest causes
of distress during the last siege of
Paris was the scarcity and poor
quantity of milk. Such quantities OF
this indispensable article as could then
be procured were worth their weight
in gold, and the mortality among in
fants resulting from their deprivation
of this necessary food reached fright
full rate. In the next siege, however,
milk will not only be plentiful, but
very good, thanks to DIR. Autefage's
process Of 'pasteurizing" milk, which
has been adopted by the French gov
eminent, and by which milk can be
preserved almost Indefinitely absolute
ly pure and unaltered.
Twenty years ago the art OF pre-
serving meat by means of cold stor-
age was in its infancy, but the French
government has fully availed itself of
every improvement that has been
made in this direction, and at the first
sign OF impending danger the author
tiles would be prepared to store hun
dreds Of thousands OF carcasses of
beeves and mutton. The military
magazines are always kept filed, but
at the approach of war the numerous
warehouses and buildings which have
been indicated for the purpose and
prepared for the storage OF provisions
would be Immediately brought into
requisition. BY means of .he Fixary
process dressed beef and other meats
can be kept sweet and fresh for many
months, and by new chemical methods
the storage-rooms can be kept cool
without the use of ice. In its careful
preparation for the dire emergency OF
hostile attack the French government
seems to have overlooked nothing:
even coal, wood, petroleum, chemicals
and thousand other things have
been provided in ample quantities
1t seems almost impossible to believe
that any future siege of Paris could
be prolonged until the war de
partment should have exhausted 1t,
fabulous accumulations of provisions
which are constantly maintained a.
their proper level by renewals of stock
as fast as they are used up. 1.-THE
best laid plans o. mice and men,
however "gang aft a-glee."