South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-08-12
NE " ARMY WILL
TAX RAILROADS
u. s. Lines Must Work Out
Elaborate System to Move
Men in Four Days.

Internadonal Views Service.
WASHTNGTDN. Aug. .- Amer
lean railroads are face 20 face with
their greatest task Between sat
urday. Sept and Wednesday,
sept. 5. $4,000 soldiers Of the ma
tional army must boz modified.
They must be moved from $500
cities and towns % rs cautoumeuts.
Troop trains must have the right
0f-way. and government materials
must move without halt
Half hundred traffic experts are
az @ork today on the plan of trans
portation Twenty eight railway
executives OF the railway committee
Of the council Of national defense
are scheming. Lieut. Col. ChauuCey
r Baker. ~ the quartermaster
CORPS is working on the problem.
Stan experts Of Provost Marshal
Gen. Crowder. are also busy
Railway men today stated that
the movement Of the troops would
he accomplished with minimum OF
Inconvenience to regular passenger
and freight traffic For a period Of
as hours. however. 10 is highly prob
able that there must be some delay
in the maintenance Of schedule time.
Moving the first third of the ma
tonal army 20 the environments Will
take about one-eighth OF the equip
meut OF the 176 railroads of the
United States. II Is estimated that
1857 ears will be needed and I09S
locomotives This means that there
will be .O9S trains OF approximately
Is cars each moving with troops
over 17s different railroads i'm the
United States. simultaneously. This
traffic will require 81 per cent of
the total number Of locomotives In
the country and 12.6 per cent Of the
total number Of passenger cars
Day coaches will be used. with
possibly n few PuIlmans for the use
Of officers and members of the local
boards Traffic experts point out
that there will he no haul which
viii be longer than 10 hours Men
will arrive at cantonements ON the
same day on which they leave their
local district.
Take Direct Route.
To facilitate the movement Of the
troops a railway expert. viii Do" as
signed m every local board. With
the railway expert the local boards
viii devise the scheme OF w"hiIiza-
ton. Orders have beeu issued that
the most direct route be used and
no discrimination between roads Doe
made. In the case Of parallel ~v~-
tens the traffic shall be divided
equally between the two systems.
10 ~ a
10 ration the troops enroute. Pro
vision T. being made for this by or
dering large supplies Of food pre-
parad AZ points where the troop
trims NAV stop.
r. now appears that Sept. and
sent will ne tho two days ON
which the most NJ the traffic viii
fau sent I local boards Will call
for the men 20 MOBILIZE at the
beadouarters Of the board Tn some
districts this viii mean that men
viii have 90 travel several miles 20
the board headquarters. To is eN-
pocted that u viii take two days
for ;be quotas % he made in rcadi-
ness for fnaI movement 90 the can
tonments Until actual arrival at
the cantoumcnt camps The drafted
men will be under the supervision
of the local boards.
StandardizC Costs.
Eacracc cars and baggage trains
win hc PROV ided Local boards have
been instructed 20 be careful Of
proper facilities for drinking water
and other conveniences.
Routes and time of departure will