The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-08-21
PLANS
FOR MOVEMENTS
OF OUR TROOPS
687, 900 Men Must Be Trans
ported to Cantonment
Camp Next Month

Fairfax Harrison. chairman Of the
Railroads War Board. authorizes the
following:
Plans for the largest troop move
ment ever scheduled in the history of
this country are now being perfected
by the American Railway assoc1a-
ton at the request of the United
States government. Altogether, $751;
900 men will have to be transported
to the various environments that the
government is building to house the
new national army. The movement
will start Sept. 5. Between that date
and Sept. 9 the railroads will COM
plete the entrainment of 100000 men
or approximately 80 per cent. OF the
total number scheduled to be moved
to the various training camps.
1t is expected that second move
ment Of approximately 100000 men
will begin on Sept. 10, continuing for
four days thereafter, and third
movement OF the same size on Oct. 8.
Some conception of the magnitude
of the task confronting the American
Railway association in preparing
schedules that will assure the safe
and prompt transportation of these
armies without interfering with regu-
lar traffic may be cleaned from the
fact that to move merely one field
army of $4,000 men requires 6,229
cars made up into 366 trains with as
| many locomotives and train crews.
+ Meanwhile, in addition to moving
| the $4,000 recruits for the national
| Army, the railroads have been asked
| to supply transportation for the $780,
| 0O6 members of the National Guard
to their training camps. This Ma
tional Guard movement has already
started and will continue in increasing
valume until all have been moved.
| A bulletin, covering the movement
of the national Army to the training
camps and explaining the plans which
\ the government wants carried out,
has just been issued for distribution
| to the various railroad fficials of the
country. The Bulletin reads as fol-
lows:
| 1.-THE citizens selected to form the
National Army will begin to move
to their respective training camps on
September 5th. The number to be
selected stands at present at $4,000
| men.
-Four thousand, five hundred and
thirty-one points in the United States
have been designated by the Pro-
vost Marshal General as points of To-
cal concentration, at one of which
1 at a stated time and from which the
parties will proceed by railroad to the
cantonment to which they have been
assigned.
'sThe Provost Marshal General,
| through the state authorities, (The
Governor, Adjutant General. etc.)
will retain control of these men until
they are placed upon the trains desig
4 mated, and will designate a man in
each party. to be in charge of 1t from
each local concentration point to des-
tination.
| "The American Railway Associa-
ton has been directed to prepare
schedules for the movement of each
of these parties from originating
points to destination. These are be-
ing prepared by the Passenger Assoc
Citations in. conference with represen-
tatives of the Operating Departments.
They will show the date and hour at
which trains, either regular or special,
may be expected at each point of 10
cal concentration to receive the men
departing from such point, together
with schedule through to destination
in each case.
when these schedules have been
approved by the Quartermaster Gen
eral, they will be furnished from this
office to all railroads and others in
terested in the movement.
The first movement will consist
approximately, of 80 per cent. from
each local concentration point. a to-
tai of about zoe, 900 men. It will be-
gin on Wednesday, September 9Th
and entertainment is to be completed
lon Sunday, September 9Th.
THE individual in charge of each
party will hold tickets for each mem
/ - r,,f, o,-+xr or,6 xrriT oil, ~
furnished with meal tickets, each
having the face value Of sixty cents
sufficient in number to provide fol
the food of all men under his charge
Tin preparing schedules, due regard
will be paid to the necessity for pro-
sviding for the feeding of these mer
at convenient points, either by use OF
eating houses, dining cars, or by fur
nishing box lunches on the train. Thu
meal tickets are redeenable at theil
face value on presentation to the De
partment Quartermaster at the head
Iquarters of the department in which
lsthey are used.
Eating house proprietors at des
ignated points, dining car emp1oye.
and others concerned should be full1
informed.
1.-The American Railway Associa
ton will place qualified official o.
the Passenger Department in the of
flee either of the Governor, or of tn,
Adjutant General, as may be deemet
] most suitable by the state authori
ties in each state. This official will
keep in touch with the state authori
ties in any emergency which ma.
> arise and will assist them in carrying
= out the schedule.
"It is expected that a second move
! ment of 40 per cent will take MA r.
I beginning September 10Th, continuin,
u for four days thereafter; and a thirt
movement of 80 per cent. will begi1
. on October 3rd, to continue for fou
Q days thereafter.
: THE schedules which are used 70
y the first movement will also be use,
9 for the second and third movemen
with such notifications as may b
essential these to be decided later.
, Woman Who Fell