The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-08-18

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under arms in Europe. representing
nations the areas of whose countries
exceed One-half of the area OF the
globe, StatiSticianS are figuring out va
riouS complex, yet interesting, condl-
tons which the mobilization of so
vast a body Of men in time Of war
necessarily creates, says the New
York Herald. The war now in prog
ress being one of the greatest in his
tory, it follows naturally that in COM
parison with the data Of the past the
present computations rise to heights
beyond the comprehension of the aver
age person, whose talents for mathe-
mates are, perhaps, directed in other
and more useful channels.
After making various calculations,
based upon facts and figures connected
with the current war. a downtown
statistician said to the Herald yester-
day that if the armies of Germany,
France, Austria, Russia, England, Ser
via, Montenegro, Belgium, and Italy,
numbering 20AO0,000 men, were to be
deposited upon the island of Manhat-
can there would be little room for the
millions now occupying this island.
Manhattan a an area of 21.93
square miles, he said. This repre-
sents roughly, based upon an area of
twenty-five square miles, sos, 524, 500
square feet Of territory. Allowing a
space of four square feet for each SOL
der, the European armies now in the
field would take up every inch Of Man
haitian from the Battery to a point
beyond 15Oth street.
SHOULD they lie at full length, al
lowing six feet for each man, the line
Of sleeping soldiers would extend a
distance of 12O, 600, 900 feet, or 22,728
miles. Such a line Of human beings
would almost encircle the globe"
Would Fill 585 Vateriands.
The statistician said further that
the transportation Of such an army Of
men. across the Atlantic would require
5S5 steamships the size Of the Water
land, Of the Hamburg-American line.
The ordinary man of sound appetite
consumes about two and One-half
pounds Of food every day, SO that the
men under arms in Europe consume
so, 900, 900 pounds, or $4,000 tons daily.
This amount of food, if stacked up in
boxes, would equal in size the Wool
worth building. To transport this
vast food supply, allowing thirty tons
for each freight car, a train Of S33
cars would be required. Allowing
sixty feet for each car this train would
have a length Of nearly ten miles and
approximately twenty locomotives
would be required to move it.
The clothing for 10000, 900 men, al
lowing three yards for each mans
uUl1OT1H, WOulO represent OU, UUU, UUU
yards of cloth. SeWed end for end
together this strip Of cloth would COW
er a distance Of $4,000 miles or one
and one-half times the circumference
Of the earth. The buttons for these
uniforms would weigh about 1000
tons, n would require more thar
one thousand horses to draw the load
comfortably.
Each soldier about one
n one-half pounds Of meat a day,
= provided 1t Is apportiOned on this lib
eral basis by the various commissary
! departments of the respective armies
: This would mean the consumption OF
! 30,000,O 600 pounds, or $4,000 tons. TIC
= supply this food more than 25, 00(
: cattle would be required. The hides
so obtained would, if converted into
shoes for this vast army, provide
Q shoes for fewer than 500, 600 men fol
one year, and shoes for 10000, OO(
: would take more cattle than could b.
housed in the stock yards in Chicago
4 their present size.
Would Make Vast Parade.
Few realize what a tremendous
spectacle 20,00o.o 900 men would max,
if they were to parade" "a the sta
tistician. a regiment Of 1000 troops
marching four abreast, occupies
space ten feet wide and 1000 feet i,
A length. Twenty million men march
g ing in the same order, would cover
line of march 1887 miles in length
st If the men marched four feet apart
this distance would be doubled, an,
at six feet, it would be trebled. Jus
tt fancy q parade reaching from Ney
York to San Francisco. The head O
% the line counter-marching and reach
S. ing Ogden, Utah, on its return befor
it the last men an * motion ct Ne1
q. York.
d All parades ever held in the worl
Ill would BE Insignificant In size com
ID pared with the monster procession
re The Sound Money parade in Ne,
ly York in 1891, showed 99,195 marcher;
le A parade of the armies Of Europe
1e marching as the Sound Money" par
i'd tisans did in-1S?1. would have bee
re twenty-five hundred times as Ions
ct There were besides this great parad,
six Others at various times in tn