New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-02-20

This action Is a part of the plan for
the formation of a nationwide Auto
mobile Reserve Corps, which has been
under way for the last few months. In
places where there is no present IN
tention of allying the companies with
the national guard. recruits are actual
~ being asked for, while in those
states where the promoters plan the
corps as an adjunct OF the organized
militia there has been q necessary de-
lay until special act Is passed by the
Legislature. The form of an enlist
ment will practically be a contract TO
charter the vehicles. The schedule 70
pay not only has TO be worked out, but
accurate information is needed as 10
the probable cost to the state OF In
Identifying all vehicles when in active
service !. also, the cost Of wrecking cara,
with repair parts, has yet to DO de-
cided. q,
The first truck company 20 be formed
under the plan recently worked out by
the General staff of tho United states
army has just been completed In TINS
city. IL will serve as model, ana
from certain experiments with TINS
company and others now being formed
will be compiled the data that must be
presented TO the Legislature before the
New York National Guard formally
gets this volunteer transport service
as an adjunct.
IL is a War Department requirement
that every truck in one company be OF
the same make, in order that wreck
ing truck need carry repair parts for
10 MI
each truck be of the same model, in
order that the special war bodies may
be made which will be interchange
able The first company is composed of
twenty-nine Pierce Arrow trucks, do
mated for the service by individual
owners. A company of Macks is now
being formed, and, to start off the list,
the international Motor Company. of
this city, offered five. Three Macks
with military bodies. which were unused
at the Plattsburg encampment last
year, are among the five.
At the meeting on Wednesday night
George II. Pride, of the Heavy Haulagc
Company, offered TO enroll eighteen
trucks owned by his company in the
corps, and with the organization COM
mittee at work il is expected that SINH
ar offers will come from many other
concerns in this city. The personnel
of a motor truck company Of the auto
mobile reserve corps is composed Of
one car or truck master. commits
stoned officer; three assistant car or
truck masters, commissioned officers or
sergeants, first class; twenty-eight
chauffeurs, sergeants; twentyseven
motor cars or trucks. one machlnist,
sergeant; one wrecking car or truck,
one helper, one trumpeter, one cook and
five motorcycles and riders for motor
car companies, corporals.
One of the speakers Wednesday night
was :. Stanwood Menken, president of
the National Security League, which he
said now has a membership of $4,000
men and has established 200 branches
throughout the country. With our long
coast line. the mobility of our forces
is absolutely vital 20 the defence of the
country was the opinion expressed by
Mr.. Menken, who stated that the motor
truck was undoubtedly the solution Of
this problem. He declared that motor
truck mobilization tends toward ma
tional efficiency. and recited the meth
DDS taken by some of the European
countries now at war 70 have their
trucks so constructed that they could
readily be converted into military We
hicles in the least possible time.
Major General Allan l.. Reagan, in
on THE Organization OF Motor Truck
Reserve said that Major General
Organ. commander of the New York
National Guard, was DESTROYS Of CO.
operating TO the fullest extent with