The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1914-08-21
Half Of the World at War In the
European Conflict.

With approximately 20,000,0O0
men under arms in Europe, repre-
senting nations the areas of whose
countries exceed one-half Of the
area of the globe, staticians are fig
uring out various complex yet inter
esting conditions which the mo5ili-
cation of so vast a body of men in
time of war necessarily creates. The
war now in progress being one of
the greatest in history, it follows ma
turally that in comparison with the
data of the past the present compu-
ations rise to heights beyond the
comprehension of the average per-
son whose talents for mathematics
are. perhaps. directed in other and
more useful channels.
After making various calculations
based upon facts and figures con-
nected with the current war, a
downtown statistican said to the
Herald that If the armies of Germa-
ny, France, Austria, Russia, Eng
land, Servia. Montenegro. Belgium
and Italy, numbering 10000 900
men. were to be deposited upon the
island of Manhattan there would be
little room for the millions now oc-
cupying this island.
Manhattan has an area of ,93
square miles," he said. This rep
resents roughly, based upon an area
of twenty-five square miles, $685.
524,SO0 snuare feet of territory. AL
lowing space of four square feet
for each soldier, the European ar
mics now in the field would take up
every inch of Manhattan from the
Battery to point beyond One Hun
dred and Fiftieth street.
Should they lie at full length, al
lowing six feet for each man, the
line of sleeping soldiers would ex-
tend a distance of 100000 feet.
or 22,72S miles. Such a line of
human beings would almost encir-
Gle the globe"
The statistician said further that
the transportation of such an army
of men across the Atlantic would re-
quire SIS steamships the size of the
Vaterland, of the HamburgAmeri-
can Line. The ordinary man Of
sound appetite consumes tbout two
and one-half pounds of food every
day, so that the men under arms in
Europe consume 100000 pounds,
or $4,000 tons daily. This amount
of food If stacked up in boxes would
equal in size the Woolworth build
ing. To transport this vast food sup
ply, allowing thirty tons for each
freight car, train of S33 cars
would be required. Allowing sixty
feet for each car, this train would
have length of nearly ten miles
and approximately twenty locomo-
tivestives would be required to move
it.
The clothing or 20,000,0O men.
allowing three yards or each mans
uniform, would represent 60,000,0O0
yards of cloth. Sewed end for end
together this strip of cloth would
cover a distance of 24,O90 miles, or
one and one-fourth times the cir
conference of the earth. The but
tons for these uniforms would weigh
about 2,100 tons, and would re-
quire more than 1000 horses to
draw the load comfortably.
Each soldier consumes about one
and one-half pounds of meat day,
provided it is apportioned on this
liberal basis by the various commits
sary departments of the respective
armies. This would mean the con-
sumption of 100000, 900 pounds, or
$1,000 tons. To supply this food
more than $4,000 cattle would be
would. If converted into shoes for
. this vast army, provide shoes for
" fewer than 100000 men for one
year, and shoes for 100000
would take more cattle than could
be housed in the stockyards in Chi.
+. cago if they wee twenty times as big
as their present size.
Few realize what a tremendous
spectacle 2O,0O0,00O men would
make if they were to parade" said
the statistician. "A regiment of l.
900 troops. marching four abreast
occupies space ten feet wide and
1000 feet in length. Twenty mil
lion men marching in the same order
would cover a line of march 1887
miles in length. If the men marched
four feet apart. this distance would
be doubled. and at six feet II would
be trebled. Just fancy parade
reaching from New York to Sal
Eranoioan the haad Of tho lin.