The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-07-09
LOCOMOBILE co.
 TRAINING YALE
 UNIT MEMBERS
Mechanical Engineering Stu dents Learning How Rik-
 CT Truck Is Made.
FAMOUS ATHLETES
 AMONG VOLUNTEERS
Collegians, Three From This City, to be at French Front
 In Short Time.

Fifteen members of the Yale hos pital unit, which probably will go to France the last week of this month, are at the Locomobile Co. of. America plant in this city, learning details of the manufacturing process, and op- eration of Locomobile products, par- ticulsrly the Riker truck.
 The Yale unit will take to France 15 three-ton >Locomobile trucks and one Locomobile passenger car. The efficiency of these vehicles for war time use. is being demonstrated every day in Europe and was shown in the work of the Mexican punitive expedi- ton.
 Three Bridgeport young men will accompany the Yale unit, Stewart Fos- ter, Russell Ayres and Louis Middle brook All are graduates of the Bridgeport High school, where both Foster and Ayres were prominent basketball players and Middlebrook distinguished himself in baseball The latter has since been captain of the Yale baseball team. All three att tended the Sheffield Scientific school and are competent in mechanical en- gineering. <
 The Yale unit is going to see ac- ton. The Made-in Bridgeport truck will carry portable base hospitals as close toS the firing lines as possible, so that all hauls will be as short as possible. X-ray outfits, operating tables instruments and other equip ment of war hospitals will be hauled ia the trucks. If the battle line shifts toward the German territory, the Riker trucks will be right be- hind 1t. carrying the hospitals. the equipment and staff.
 The entire medical staff of Yale uni versity will go to France. it is under stood, headed by Dr. Joseph Marshall Flint The passenger Locomobile will be for Dr. Flint's use. He will have entire charge of the Yale unit, in his capacity of head of the Yale medical faculty. sss .5 l.
 The men who are studying at the Locomobi1e plant are taking a two weeks course. It began with shop courses, work in the engine assembly room, ebe., and will conclude with a few days road work in which the Yale men will receive experience driving the trucks under varying conditions When they conclude they will have received a thorough working knowledge of the IAOcOllOu1ic P1'C%S5SsSs dllu VIII Ue Ada1iAl- far with the Riker truck as a whole and in its component parts.
 Every man who is studying at the Locomobile plant was selected for his fitness. and ability, to accompany the Yale unit The Loconobile Co. fnvit- ed tl1em to the factory, and the invi- tation was accepted with alacrity.
 r Included i'm the group at the Loco mobile plant is Mick Carter, who attained laurels in football and track; W. P. Arnold, commonly designated Dutch, ''captain of the basketball team and one of the best athletes ever turn. ed out at Yale; Alarics Man, who ranks the second 10 in the National Lawn Tennis association; Tom Cornell, win ner of the 100 yard intercollegiate; William Moore, the track athlete, and M AldTich, member of the exclusive EIizabethal club. Then there are Will liam Clark, J. Alsop, s. R. M- Hove c. H. Wilson, B. D. Hubbard, w. H Covey and G. Baibcock-