New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-02-07
lace Largely Due TO
sjch Speed Under
Rad Conditions.
|.rpvCAN TRUCKS
! SMASHED ON SHIP
:, Procure a Chassis, Off
saws. from Supply Intend
o., Ambulance Corps.

q =, for Ambulance IoIPS'
,,us. was expressed " few
-, that the average period OF
~ ". motor car or motor truck
! -, service at the front in hu-
-. -. Il. than two weeks 10
-, men it seemed impossible
-, in the hardest kind q ser
..r, could ne such heavy losses,
sspsh fer proportion should
,,,s5 useless through getting IN
T., q shells,
! ,,.ima;e, however has not oeen
Inv -eeen, reports, which 90 to
g., the roads are Uttered with
~ lars OF one Kind or another
say. .a-.e,tace Of these, Of course
rsoaired for further duty
y 49, conditions. but IN the
-, PRESSURE Of war a s''Ght ms.
- Al. that IS necessary 10 point
70 the scrap heap.
- = ,,sed. whether necessary or Ho-
90 coupled with e%ecra9Ie
. e, ,vD's,r. mcst Of the losses.
~, ~. sro The Tribune printed
II 'I s.sm New York AUTOMOBILE
-. now at the front, IN which ne
- Mentioned that his car was
n -! ,;v.y.-wo miles an hour.
4 - %,-s sre no speed regulations
- death in the ar every minute
law the probability IS mat lNe
ia crops out 10 the hmit.
p. -s,orist who considers forty
=. bonr pretty fair gong on d
\ - can easily imagine the CT
n .Ht,,.irr a bad spot while max
7 -. -', riles And when these bad
80 liable TO be encountered
s-sr.er OF half mile the eteet
md Of a few days can easily DC
,ss such handling means the
-; possible depreciation II ho'
-, large number Of the trucks
-. - from American factories TO
A t,fss were rendered useless pc
49, we're even urloaded from the
~, owing 20 rough weather ana
-, ia. thew were placed on the
;-,,ssd Of In the hold, Of one OF
,,ys vessels docking a. havre.
i. tenders. motors and other
we're smashed beyond repair, so
,ss ronsiCnees were able 70 re,
~ Nv some OF the small parts and
~ he remainder thrown into q
+ ior future removal.
belgian officer who paid q lying
:, london last week tells me that
n,,sge Of cars in this war mas
/, ;peredible," writes Max Pemoer-
/, aTbe FIELD Of London. "He
=. "a, arriving recently from Furnes
/. NIX he saw no fewer than seven
500 classes wrecked by the road
=. o. II the bitches; while lur'heI
,sva,d the front the ROADS are
,,o,g,sly strewn with the fragments
Z t,s1slrd Founders.
sTfs oAeer himself has used up
~, au since the first week IN Au-
Id AID expects 20 use as many more
~. W,rtb comes. The truth Is, OF
~, hat reckless driving IS oiten
,s,,lu,e necessity in war, and that
!, v.!, Of France and Belgium nave
n ..i.s unsuited 10 reckless driving
~ many weeks. -.
i'm, are collisions, side slips, ca.
s-,,hes ga.ore-to say nothing OF
, Back Narias, the Jack Johnsons
{. ,.her implements Of slaughter
lr1 car, too. has gone through
lys br.dqe Which ought 10 have been
y. but was not. Altogether a pleas
T r1,e Of things, especially for the
u,siic;urer, who believed that me
s1nng world had become rather du!l;
r,s thing the soldier told ne l
s,.g.t quite remarkable, though II
~ be said that there Is no yerInca-
& q the statement He declares
Ir 80 many GLASSES for ambulances
l been provided that there IS an
F,-ous unused surplus IN furnes.
) DBrkirk, and that he knows OF
.l,ti where practically any one with
b IND Of authority whatever can go
h she'd and take away q car that
.r 1850.
Tbs oilers inviting prospects lot
ssi-sad excursion OF an unusua! KIND
's hsy, only 70 90 over 10 the ancient
ID pisiurssque town OF Calais, II aP-
ears, thence proceed TO a shed where
M. ihiry or forty unused GLASSES
y stored. and to drive of with the
|, We fancy. There is just posi-
liy Of getting shot in the venture
iksse are adventurous times, and
tpert will make light Of that.
% get back 10 realities, my Belgian
msnt was. as might be expected,
ne blue admirer of the dispatch
>, and he declared that the skill
DARING shown upon these mud
d roads defes all description. Men
gone al fifty and sixty miles an
= over eXecrable pave, when the
has been Of the consistency OF
F and the holes were often like
+ graves OF course, the casualty
has been terrible, while the spills
beyond all reckoning.
Ken smash UP motorcycles with
Indifference that other men break
points Of pencils. They trapse for
10 until they can be mounted again
their journeys resumed. Their
e:nsys in dealing with breakdowns
',si less significant.
Voc betide the dainty amateur who
lever changed tube for himself
Z Goes not know a magnetic from a
s'.re.or. France has no use for him
i Belgium does not sigh for him.
7 lind took an early train back to
i'',one and breathed again. But the
,sare remaining are among the
y narvels Of the war"
aGES ROAD EFFORTS