Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1917-09-23
Forty Special
Trains tOH. RILEY

age of 10 cars each will be supplied
by the Union Pacific railroad for the
purpose of taking the 40 per cent con
tingent of the new national army tC
Camp Funston, Kansas
The Union Pacific will handle all
told 10. 500 troops, of which $4,000 vii
travel in special trains. The balance
will go on regular trains. This move
ment will begin on the morning OF
"Wednesday, September 10, and will
continue until September %, which
means an average of eight special
trains a day.
/ Out of the total number of special
trains to be run, four of them will pass
Through Omaha, two of them through
Lincoln, one by way of Beatrice, one
by way of Marysville, Kans., and an.
other by way of Fremont. Fourteen
special trains will pass through Kan
sas City, Mo-, five through Junction
City, and five of them through Abb
lene, Kans., and five at Denver, Colo
Most of the special trains will be
made up of day coaches and chair
cars, but in all instances where the
trains will be on the road more than
"a hours, sleeping cars will be pro-
vided. The men who come from the
extreme western part of Nebraska,
and the men from North Dakota and
Nnxr Mnxinn xn-hn forflncf
Camp Funston, will therefore travel
in sleepers.
/ While the men are on their way to
the camp, full preparations have been
made to insure that they will be serv-
ed meals promptly. 1t will be a square
meal, too, the government having al
lowed Coo per meal to each man.
Tickets have been given to every man
for as many meals as he will require
while on the journey Eight thous-
and, four hundred meals all told will
be served at Union Pacific hotels and
eating houses. Many of the men, how
ever, will be furnished meals from
specially prepared dining cars, which
will be attached to many OF the trains.
All of the men from Missouri will
be turned over to the Union Pacific
at Kansas City Those from southern
Kansas will travel by way of the NJ
X. & T. and turned over to the Union
Pacific at Junction City, Kans. The
five special trains which will reach
the Union Pacific at Abilene will car
ry men from southern Colorado, New
Mexico and Arizona via the Santa Fe.
Those who come by way of Omaha,
Lincoln, Beatrice, Marysville and Ere
mont will be very largely made up
of the Nebraska contingent, but a
great many of them win be from
North Dakota and South Dakota.
OF the total number of men to make
up the 40 per cent to be sent to Comp
Funston the various states will sup
ply quotas as follows:
Arizona, 1890; Colorado, 1901:
Kansas, 1876; Missouri, 1854; Ne
braska. 1924; New Mexico, 917;
South Dakota, 1857.
A representative of the Union Paci-
fic railroad will accompany each train
until it arrives at its destination for
the purpose of making sure that all
of the wants of the men are supplied
and that nothing is left undone, to
to their comfort while they
are in the custody and care of the rail
road.
The Union Pacific railroad is taking
special pride in the arrangements
which have been made for the trans
port of these troops for the reason
that the executives of the road feel
that special duty is incumbent up
on them, in view of the fact that the
Union Pacific railroad was the first
and only line constructed in America
as a purely war railroad. Construc-
tion of the Union Pacific was launch
ed in the days of the Civil war at the
special direction of Abraham Lincoln
and the war congress of those days.
Mr.. W. S. Basinger, general pas
senger agent of the Union Pacific, is
now at Camp Funston for the purpose
of preparing the final details in con-
nection with the receiving of the Uni
on Pacific contingent of the troops at
that cantonment.
I'VE want all the boys who come By
way of the Union Pacific to arrive
with smiles on their faces" said Mr.
Basinger, in speaking of the prepar-
alton that has been made. I'VE want
them to feel that Americas war rail
road has made good
Everything at Camp Funston is in
Major General Leonard
Wood. in charge of the cantonment,
is especially delighted with the plans