Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-06-12

wheels and ridd;ed steel shields 10 worn
out bores and broken muEzles.
shop for Repairs.
In q carpenter shop French wOrkmen.
aided and supcrintended by Germans.
remake the wheels. In another part ma
chine guns are made whole. oftontimes
by using the unchanged parts OF two,
three or more weapons In still another
building new muzzles are moulded and
put onto unchanged trucks.
Here also are prepared the great
hoops OF wire that can be stretched in
front OF a trench in an emergency at a
moments notice. and can be made fast
by stakes OF steel that are screwed into
the ground. Thus attackers whose ar
tiIlery has demolished the usual entan-
clements of barbed wire can stin be
checked for time at least.
Quantities of English cable wagons
have been captured at one time or an
other. These wagons are nothing more
than square wooden boxes mounted on
wheeler. from which telephone wire
can be paid out. They have. however.
/ been found to make excellent machine
gun ammunition wagons and are turned
Of being fitted with pigeon-hoie COM
partments.
In conjunction with the machine shop
there is a shoe shop and a leather shop.
whore broken saddles are mended. and
where the straps for artillery wagons.
rifles and knapsacks are put into order
once more. II is the exception rather
than the rule that any piece OF apparatus
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that It cannot be mended here or that II
has TO be sent back to Germany.
Junk Pile sorted.
| In point OF interest to the casual Wis
itor. the prize of the division hesdquar-
tiers Is the "SanMnelsteele" or collection
point--the junk pile containing the sweep
ings OF the battle field would be a better
nsme-where every conceivable object
from bits OF rubber to broken bayonets
and cartridge shells is collected end
sorted out.
The knapsack Of every wounded soldier
first or last finds its way to this build
Ing and there is subjected to the scrutiny
Of Junk experts" The cartridges that
remain are laid to one side. to be re-
apportioned to some other fighter. The
drinking TASKS or bottles are similarly
Wttu6u OUT anu the ClOLhCS tnAN sui
are fit TO wear are placed in piles &C
cording to their character.
The bayonets go 10 one department,
where they are carefully cleaned and
put in shape for use again. The rifles
they include not only German but French.
English. Belgian and Russian guns are
thoroughly overhauled and oiled, and
come out looking like new. Every piecs
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vatod.
After every battle In which the Ger
mans have been victorious the field ia
literally secured, and all the junk Is
transported to headquarters. Scores Of
ripped and torn auto tires are collected
and sent to an establishment where TIN
rubber can be utilized in the making o
new tubes.
A big laundry establishment with
capacity Of over 10000 garments in les
than a month cleans old clothes afte
they have been repaired and puts then
into shape for further use by new soldier
or by old troops whose supply has beei
exhausted.
A spur OF the railroad track runs di
rectiy to the end of the "Sammelstelle'
and carts away to Germany huge quaint
! ties OIL scrap lnht mas every appearance
of being worthless, but which later Is L
appear in newly manufactured form. No
one thing with any possible value q
wasted.
Btg Drug EstabIiah ment.
The division headquarters very naturally
has not only the hospital facilities that
are common to most German cities. bu
also a medicament headquarters. In
wholesale drug establishment OF almos
staggering size there are stored SOM
4,oO000o marks worth of medicine ant
medical instruments for use In the nelC
hospitals.
Volunteer and professional nurses pre-
pare some 1900 yards OF bandages
day, which are shipped off TO the from
in compact packages. The establishment
maintains fifteen mounted flltering plant
that are shifted from point to point alonl
the front and prepare daily some 1000
liters of water for the soldiers.
There are also movable Roentgen Ra.
machines which can be taken to tn
front for use in desperate cases. Toxin