New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-21
Gigantic Depository Of Fight
ing Tools Planned in Eng
land That Posterity May
Understand
Exhibit Will Comprise Liter.
aturc, Camp Kitchens, Sub
marines, Aeroplanes and
Even Bandages
By Frank w. Getty

LONDON. Oct. 90 When Englsnd's
recruiting campaign Vas in full swing,
one Of the most successful and appeal.
ing posters was that depicting little
girl asking her father:
DADDY. What did you do in the
Great War;"
To-day England is making prepss-
tions for an institution which will en-.
able all the daddies, and mothers a,
we'll, to show future generations just
what part, however small, they played
in the war.
A National War Museum. built on
such a gigantic scale as to almost defy
description, will be erected somewhere
near London when the war is over. II
is estimated now that the museum will
cover ten acres of ground. but if the
war goes on much longer il may be
necessary 20 extend even .his tremen-
dous foor-space.
Everything in any way connected
with the war will be depicted in this
vast group of buildings. First of all,
il will be a National War Memorial.
On the walls will be rows and rows Of
tablets, with the name of every man or
woman who gave up his or her life
for England.
Then there will be samples OF mod
els of every engine Of war that was
used by either side in the great .trug.
gle. Unwieldy tanks will be on exhibit
ton. models of all the different types
Of ships, from the super-dresdnought
down 20 the mine sweepers and some
OF the mysterious craft which have
been kept a jealousy guarded secret
by the Admiralty.
There are at present in use by the
British Admiralty no less than three
thousand different types of boats.
This. of course, includes everything
merchantmen and seaplsnes, drifters
and scows. but let any one who fails to
appreciate the magnitude of this try
and see, even with the use OF an en-
cyclopadia how many different types
of boats he can name.
All the literature the war has pro-
duced will be kept in this museum. Sir
Martin Conway, who is in France gath
erirg material for this institution, told
me that there will be at least fifteen
miles of book shelves in the different
buildings.
All those who played a part in the
war, and there's hardly home in Eng
land to-day that doesn't include some
one in this category, will find there
an example OF the kind of work they
did. Even If they only wound a ban
dage, or drove nails into cartridge
ca5es, they'll be able to take their chill
dren 10 the museum and point out the
machine at which they worked.
The museum will naturally not be
confined to Enelsnd's activities alone.
The different colonies will ali have
PLAYED immortslized for future genera
tloHs.
f. IS planned 10 include in tho nu.
scum full sized working model Of
trench. or Of as many different kinds
OF trenches as are necessary. with all
the different stages OF the war ana the
development OF modern warfare de.
picted. All the terrifying implements
of war. most OF which the Germans
invented and the Allies later turned
against them, will be on display. Model
camp Kitchens base camps, harbor de.
fences, aeroplaEes, submarines. all will
be there.
In fact. to grasp the extent 70 which
the National War Museum will cover"
me war, one has only to think OF any.
thing. however remotely il is connect
ed with Britsin's part in the conflict.
and | can assure him it will be found
there.