Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1916-07-28
FEEDING ARMY
IN MEXICO IS
GIGANTIC TASK
Motor Trains and Mule Wagons
Deliver Vast Stock of Sup
plies at Front.
use OPEN AIR KITCHENS
Stores Form Village Which Is Busting
PIace-order Is Soon Brought Out
Of chaos-Army Makes New
Roads as Il Moves Forward.
By JUNlUS 3. WOOD.

Correspondent of the Chicago Daily
News)
In the game Of hide and seek be-
tween Villa and the American forces
there is the important factor of "eats. 4"
There is considerable difference be-
tween the needs of Villa, who is 1T"
and our soldier boys. who are doing
the hunting. Just for comparison.
It is:
Villas day supply-A roll OF tortillas
and few scraps of meat picked up of
the country.
Punitive expedition Rations for
men, 22.750 pounds, and 148.800 pounds
a day for horses and mules packed
over q 350-mile line.
Make Roads az They Go.
Even in the Civil war, American
army officers say that keeping open
such long line of supply communities
lions was unusual. The record has
never been even approached in this
country. More than that. the line OF
communication. just like building a
new railroad, has been perfected as
the army moved forward. That means
much more than leveling roads and
stringing culverts over once impass
able bitches and river beds. 1t means
supplying rolling stock and equipment
and organizing a force of men to man
the supply trains and bases. 1t was q
blg fob, but II has been accomplished
by the army officers in the quartermas
ter's department and is now working
smoothly.
II has been said 30 many times that
everybody believes 1t. that the Ameri
can army fights on q full stomach
That Ii not fair statement. Several
days at the start of this campaign the
stomachs Of men and horses were moi
fHli. but they did not relax the man
hunt either under the broiling sun BY
day OF the freezing blasts by night
The aim Of the officers is that the
army shall have full stomachs. but
sometimes. there are insurmountablt
difficulties In filling them when q cav
airy column Is dashing forward at 4
rate Of so miles o day. and all the
army has u slow-moving mule traini
to carry supplies for the several thou
sand men and horses.
Motor Train 10 Innovation.
Carrying supplies by high-poweret
motor trucks was started for the frs
time In America in the present cam
paign. The aviation section had III
trucks and there were half dozen II
the ordnance branch. The army start
ed before any other trucks had left thu
factories. They finally arrived in Co
lumbus on long trains Of nat cars II
groups Of q from factories in differen
parts of the country. The first tina
were rushed to the base were stripped
chassis. The army mechanics worked
all night and the next morning regula
ton army wagon boxes had beer
mounted on them and they were load
ed and started for the front. Nov
seven trains of q trucks each are IL
operation and eventually the numbel
will be increased to more than 800.
Mule Trains Are Feature.
The trucks are not the only mean
of transport. There are three trains o
% wagons each, with four mules Il
each wagon. Sometimes they are rul
together and q mule team train will
its shouting driver-"mule SINNERS.
rs they are called-and the dusty guart