The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-07-25

They laid another impost for the same
purpose on the big cit1es OF New Eng
land OF ST6;000. This one levy alcno
Amounted to $d,575.O 600 q week. and y
was Only, one OF many.
They conEscated outright al tho
cash, funds, reaiizabla securities and
notes belonging to the state. city and
local governments. Every bank was
warned under threat OF condign pun
dshment to deliver over everything that
might be considered public property.
In New York city they selsed from q
bank 100000 that was deposited by q
state department to pay draft, ana
they issued warning that ff the hold
er of the draft attempted to collect the
amount or permitted It to pacs from
HIS nosseszton lis house ana lands
would be c0ntinc1ted.
They declared themselves possessed
as absolute owners By right OF con-
quest OF an public property besides
cash. Thus in New York they asserted
ownership OF $0p 0o0,O 600 worth Of sus-
pension bridges. and In Boston they
took bridges to- the value Of ten and
quarter millions They took the New
York city armories. valued at $4,000
600. They declared that they owned
the subways. valued at 500. Ooo. 600
All United States property, comprts-
ing fortiflcations everywhere In the
conquered territory. navy yards, post
Offices, custom houses, lighthouses.
treasury, buildings and courthouseS.
were listed In proclamatfcns through
out tho occupied country as good and
legal prizes OF war. The property SO
seized In the city OF New York alone
amounted to SOC. 100000
The United States was working fu-
riousir for defense. In the steel coun-
try OF Pennsylvania and the west all
the works were being altered to turn
ehem into factories for shells, shrap-
mel. big Rune and gun carriages. At
Wateryliet and Indian Head the ca
Dacfty Of the shops had been enlarged
Immensely, and there was not mo-
ment In tho day or the night when
there. was pause In the headlong la
Dor. Powder was being made In the
middle west, In places safe from any
possible attack by aeropIanes. The n.y.
iI>y machine wofks or Haunmon0spoEt,
and Buffalo, In New York. San Die
90. California. and Overland park in
Kansas were turning out machines at
the rate of one and sometimes two
month. Half n dozen other factories
were being erected.
a group OF automobile factories had
agreed to turn out two ton trucks mt
the rate Of forty. a day, and, indeed
already were producing thirty a day
One concern was workingj under con-
xrsact to produce enough automobiles
- 4 0QNh
machine capable OF making 100 miles
a day with four men and ten days ra-
tions of food and ammunition. Others
.Iad agreed between them to produce
enough motors in every working Gay
70 carry Eve or six regiments.
All the Industrial efficiency on the.
land could not provide 1900 trained
md experienced officers, and that num-
Der was needed If the country was to
put half million volunteers into the
6eld.
All the efficiency Of men and engines
could not correct, except by tedious,
slow training. the defects in any army
system that had made 1t impossible In
peace times to concentrate 10000 men
ana officers at the San Antonio border
Of Texas in less than three months aft
er the order was issued.
All the efficiency could not alter the
fact that of the whole militia force
OF the, United States. enrolled as '.men
armed with the rife" exclusive of the
four divisions already with the army.
there were only 1900, or 80 per cent,
who could shoot well enough to mako
them suitable for bnttle purposes.
There were only 425,00O rides In re-
serve. The volunteers would have to
drill without arms till factories could
be put into operation.
Z Seven militia mobilization camps
were in the territory lost to the United
States. One thousand acres Of powder
works In New Jersey were In the pos
session Of the irivaders.
Continued next Sunday