El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-08-23
Roundabout Town
Classifying All Uncle SamuePs
Motor Car Trucks on the Border
Trains of Same Type Being Collected at Same Place
to Save Cost of Repairs Rickety Express
Wagon on the County Road-G Gossip, Military,
Civil and Otherwise, About Town.
By G. A. MARTIN.

Uncle SAM is collecting all his
automobile trucks Of q particu
~ lar type for service at some par
ticular point along the border-getting
some sort of order. as it were. out of
his automobile transportation class.
When Villa raided Columbus, the army
Of the worlds greatest nation did not
possess a hundred motor cars, and
what it had formed a conglomerate
collection little better than junk. To-
day Uncle Sammie has fifty-five COM
panies of motor trucks. of 80 cars to
a company. or a total OF I7IO trucks.
in addition to this there are two
passenger cars, mostly Dodges. for
each train. one for the captain, who is
an army officer, and one for the truck
master, who is in most cases a civilian.
However, these civilians are being re-
placed by sergeants first class in the
duartermaster department as fast as
such men qualify Out at Columbus
all the civilians are being pulled off
the trucks and quartermaster men are
being placed in charge, as il is the
ultimate intention to have all truck
trains manned by enlisted men.
AS a result Of the decision to gather
all trucks Of a certain type into a
certain territory, all the PacIards in
to San Antonio and the lower Browns
vile country. The Whites and the
four wheel-drive F ". D" trucks
are being kept at FL Paso, while
Whites, F W DIS and Jefferys are
being retained at Columbus The re
distribution is being made in the inter
est of economy in repairs. With all
Packards in the San Antonio district
only Packard parts and Packard mech
anicians viii have to be kept there.
rrr1-e In
trict limited to +. ". DIS and Whites.
only parts for these cars and experts
versed in their mechanical mysteries
will need be kept here.
The last Packard train left in the
general service Of the Ell Paso patrol
district. at FL Paso will be taken east
tomorrow in command of Capt. o. L.
Brunzeu who viii take it through by
way of Maria. AlDine. Fort Stockton.
Ozona and 1errville, to san Antonio.
This viii leave three companies of
Whites and two of the F W D. four
wheel-drive machines in the camp here
on Cotton and Grant avenues. in the
General service of the FL Paso patrol
district one Packard company will
still be left in the service of the
Pennsylvania infantry. but this will
soon be sent to San Antonio and re-
placed here with a company OF trucks
corresponding to the type Of those as
signed to the FL Paso district
NutH lllE AtAlGdu AEOuD4t DEOhe ana
IL was necessary TO have the trucks.
machines of every available type were
purchased and rushed to any point on
the border. regardless of their type.
Now that the rush is over and calmer
consideration is possible. they are be
ing regrouped- Repair shops are to
be set up at San Antonio and FL Paso.
Big supplies of parts are to be carried
for the trucks in each of these shops.
BY collecting cars of a particular type
At given point the necessary amount
of stock necessary 10 be carried is re-
duced largely and it is not necessary
TO have mechanicians versed in the
repair of cars of such a variety Of
maker Columbus already has a re-
pair shop for the cars operating out
Of there to the base in Mexico
One of the trials OF the automobiles
Of Fl Paso continues TO be the Mexican
express wagons that once were; ram