The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-04-01

! %frN va NiAANt' H~AkAN NAANA WV Nt-.tesAN
ed at putting up a blacksmith shop
close at the head Of the landing jetty.
and some Of the carpenters started
work laying a cheated wooden runway
up the rough stone landing pier to IA
cilitate the landing Of horses and artil-
lery.
The medical corps Of 800 men came
ashore in charge Of the supplies for
their own department, small trunks Of
about 100 pounds each containing
first aid to the wounded" necessities,
sterilizers, stretehers, cases Of medi-
cinos, bales of bandages, heating
stoves, small boilers and everything
that a well equipped hospital corps
would have need Of. These supplies
were landed and handled only by the
medical corps men and were carried
from the landing jetty as fast as
brought. disappearing 70 places al
ready prepared to receive them.
In the meantime the coolies We're en-
gagged in landing, asserting and piling
up lumber, poles suitable for temporary
bridges, barracks in sections for quick
erection, telegraph poles, galvanized
iron sheeting, iron kettles, cIeated gang
ways for use in places less adapted for
landing, a wooden pier in sections,
pack saddles, bundles Of tents and tall
poles, handcarts, coils of rope, pom
toons and anchors, bundles Of picks
and shovels, cases upon cases Of sup
plies and ammunition and, last, but by
no means least, cases of silver money
for use in the interior: not thing for
gotten, everything figured out to a nice
ty, put up In packages Of a size suit
able for handling, tagged and marked
The army authorities depended upon
local supplies and facilities for abso-
lutely not a thing. They brought with
them everything that the training OF
years for this very contingency could
foresee.
These transports also brought four
steam launches, several hundred fiat
bottomed boats for landing horses and
troops and six tank water boats rugged
with hand pumps. While a portion OF
the army coolies were engaged in land
ing and storing these supplies more
were detailed to repack rice already
stored in warehouses in Chemulpo) III
smaller packages OF about 100 pounds
each, suitable size for carrying by
cody or pack animal into the interior.
During the next ten days, under the
direction Of the army engineers, two
temporary pontoon landing piers were
erected adjoining the permanent stone
jetty. Korean junks were comman-
deered and used as pontoons, cleated
gangways being placed across and be
tween them, forming continuous
wooden door, with ratings from the
channel to the edge Of the band on
this flooring was placed empty rice
mats to deaden the noise and prevent
wear.
Wooden floats, which had arrived in
sections on the transports, were also
put together and connected with the
shore by similar cleated gangways for
use ia landing horses. During this
time the supplies had been coming
ashore almost continuously, and the
Of cases, tents, saddles and
other army paraphernalia had been
carried away as fast as accumulated
either to load on the train for Seoul or
to store in ChemuIpo warehouses.
Some Of the difficulties attending the |
landing at Chemulpo can be appreciate
ed when it is remembered that tie /
meah rise and fan Of tide twice daily !
IS thirty feet and that for a good por.
ton OF each twenty-four hours mud /
Oats, in many places miles in extent. /
lie On either side Of the narrow chan. |
lel available FOR lighters ana launches.
With this tide racing in tue opposite
direction, it is only with difficulty and (
hen with 3 scarcely percepuble move
nent, that a good launch can make
Roadway against It. From the anchor
lge where the transports lay to tie
anding ietty is some two miles. which
an only be covered with lighters eli
her sculled by coolies or lowed III
man launches.
But in spite Of the difficulties 10 con
end with the transport department Of
he japanese army landed in one week
10000 tons of supplies, 1880 cavalry
lorses and some 10000 men. This was
ecomplished without noise, confusion.
ccident or congestion in the streets
eading to the landing jetty, with far
ess noise and confusion than attend
be discharglng Of the cargo OF an 500
on eoasting steamer, with no brawling
r drunkenness and everything brought
shore and men, horses and cargo dis
osed Of and housed without delay.
On Feb. 10, three days after the ar.
iYal Of the army coolies and the sup
lies, seven transports anchored in the
arbor and Immediately proceeded ID
md men and horses The flat bottom
q boats, previously bought, were tax.
n alongside, the horses raised in
lings and lowered into them. each ,
oat carrying five animals and bear
lg a transport department flag giving
3 number and the number of the
lnding float to which it was TO 90
n arrival at the float the boat was
rought up hroadside on; the troopers,
gliding the horses heads leaped up
. the floats, and the horses made the
lree to four foot jump from the bot
I'M Of the boat TO the floor Of the
Dat without hesitation or accident.
he manner IN which these dumb =
rutes took this landing showed that