New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-05

little valley comes the shrill note OF
the bugle, followed, a moment later. by
the hurried rush of artillery, and then
rs the little puffs of smoke rise over
the green mounds in the distance, from
another direction is heard the measured
tread of 5000 feet as body of khaki
clad men run over a smooth, winding
road toward the point where an attack
is about to be launched.
Back to the rear, drivers are shouting
as the lash is laid to the horses. striv-
ing with might and main to swing the
big guns and their supply wagons in
place to meet the oncoming storm of
metal and fire.
Overhead the droning hum Of the
Gnome motors sounds in a flock of
aeroplsnes as the machines scatter in
all directions in their fight toward the
lines of the enemy
Air Filled with Bursting Bombs
of to the right more men are moving
forward at double quick time to get
Into action, and five minutes later the
air Is shattered with the bursting of
bombs and shells from all types of en-
eines Of destruction, to which is added
the spontaneous roar Of musketry as
the men in the trenches obey the order
to fire.
Still further back to the rear man
with a red cross on his arm turns
field telephone and shouts to his COM
xades a short distance away. In
stantly the party of fifty or more be-
gins making preparations in the-held
hospital for the reception of the
wounded, while ambulance drivers leap
20 their machines and make ready for
the dash to the place where the en-
ragement is now on in all its fury.
Scenes like this will be enacted al
most daily before the wondering eyes
of the peace-loving people of America
when, in September, the new National
Army Of 100000 to 100000 men be-
gins training at score of camps
where now thousands of workmen are
raising a mighty din with hammer and
saw, hurriedly putting together a
multitude of buildings, big and small,
which shall constitute our "war cities"
Cities Spring Up Overnight
Contractors and army engineers esti-
mate that at the present rate Of prog
ress it will be possible to have the
essential portions Of these environments
ready for occupancy early in Septem-
Der, thus completing on schedule time
the greatest building undertaking ever
accomplished by a nation within per-
Tod of two months. Each cantonment
will house 10000 to 10000 men.
The magnitude of the task now in
progress may be understood when IT IS
stated that each major cantonmeht, OF
which there are to be sixteen, In add
ton to a number of smaller camps, tne
latter principally for National Guard
mobilization. necessitates the construc-
tion of 1900 or more buildings, many
of them large, two story barracks quar-
tiers. Practically $4,000 carpenters and
other artisans have been recruited for
This service, and normal building opera
tions in many cities in the vicinity OF
camp sites have been virtually sus-
nended for the time being, workmen
being taken off half-fnished structures
and called into the emergency service
Of the government. In spite OF the
many men now engaged. the constant
crv Is for more and more carpenters
and cantonment contractors are scour-
iny the country to increase their crews.
MANY would double the force now en-
gagged IL they could find men.
twenty buildings a day on an aver
age are being completed at each can
Torment, and IL is hoped TO increase
this number to thirty. Although ouh.
day work has generally been thoughS
unnecessary heretofore, II is eApec'eu
TO be put into effect shortly
Building Erected In Record Time
A. Camp Travis, Fort Sam Houston
TEXAS. the other day big barracks
s+ructnre rose from the ground in ex-
actIv an hour and half by the watch
and similar record was made at camp
TAYLOR. Louisville, KY, in an EMERGENCY
test. ,.
At Louisville one of the administra.
tion buildings is said to have been
built partly of lumber cut from Mis-
sissippi pine forest less than week
before. The trees were felled and went
through the mill Saturday, were KIN
dried Sunday, loaded on special cars
commandeered by the government
rushed to Louisville at almost passen'
ger schedule time, and when the car
renters at Camp Taylor laid down thelr
tools AZ the end of work the following
Saturday men were moving desks and
other Office paraphernalia into a house
which had been part OF the forest SIX
DAYS previously.
Camp Taylor, situated three miles
southeast of Louisville, is pitched IN
the heart of beautiful rolling coun.
try, affording one of the most ideal OF
all the sixteen sites.
Immense Drill Grounds Provided
As the visitor approaches the camp
he is pointed out an immense tract OF
almost level ground more than two
miles square, here and there dotted
with farm houses and a few more pre-
t.ntious structures. Crops are grow
ing along the roadside. Farmers are
still ploughing in the fields. This is TO
be the maneuvre and drill field, and
every house one sees will shortly be
razed or burned, in order that the
whole area may be cleared Of obstruc-
tions and an Enclosure provided OF SUI
fcient size for the maneuyring Of the
entire 5000 men of the cantonment at
one tine.
The railroad cuts its way through
the camp. Here big crews Of workmen
are busy with shoyels, picks and steam