Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-07

lOultctH pouiuS VI nay per diSs WAN
bedding as for mule.
Ten thousand mules and horses
eat seventy tons or 100000 pounds
of hay day and 2,100 tons month.
Five thousand horses and the same
number of mules eat 1.575 tons OF
grain a month.
The quartermaster depot also is
sues fuel.
The wood allowance per tent is a
cord month. There are 1000 tents
at Camp Logan. Each mess is al
lowed a quarter of a cord a day.
There are 210 mess kitchens oper-
ated at Camp Logan, and these burn
fifty cords of wood daily.
Up to the last of October as fuel
for cooking and incinerator fires
4,600 cords of wood had been is
sued. For November it will be near
! er 5000 cords. At IS the cord 4,600
cords cost $4,000.
Coal Costs $3,25O a Month
To heat shower baths and water
for the baths the camp is allowed
500 tons month of bituminous coal.
This coal costs $3.50 a ton delivered.
The monthly bill is therefore $3,250.
Water for the camp is costing
about $1,400 month. 1t is supplied
by the city of Houston.
Electric light for the camp varies
in cost with the weather and the
| season. 1t is just now about $4,000
a month.
Motor cars and trucks belonging
to the division and used in its busi-
ness burn up 10000 gallons of gaso-
line a month. At % cents that gas is
worth $2,640.
The division burns up 1000 gal
Ions of kerosene a month. This costs
ten cents a gallon or 500 a month.
Crude oil used for disinfecting pur-
poses, is purchased on the open mar
ket The camp is using $4,000 gal
Ions a month at S1s cents, or $2,125
worth.
Besides these, there are gear and
transmission oils and other sorts of
lube" used. All oils, up to date,
have been purchased on the Houston
market.
All these are "eXendable" sup
plies-stuff that is used up rapidly
and replaced. Taken all together it
mounts up and it is never ceasing.
But the first cost of Quitting SOL
dier is as heavy as the cost of keep
ing him for a couple of months.
Plan of Issuing Clothing Explained
Whatever does not come under
the head of subsistence or forage,
that is all supplies that are not eX-
pended, including all equipment,
from squad tents to belt buckles,
that goes to rig out a division in
the field, falls into the bailiwick OF
Captain O. ID. Wead, property otfl-
Ger, who is accountable for millions
of dollars worth of property issued
at Camp Logan. A plan similar to
that of the commiSSary is used in Is
suing clothing. The soldier is given
certain allowance, is charged for
what he buys, and gets the differ
ence, if any, in cash at the end OF
the year.
Captain Weed has given out SO
much equipment that he has no
ready way of finding out just what
the total is.
Captain Stanley Tappen, assistant
to the property officer, who has had
seventeen years service in the
Army, obligingly figured out what it
costs the nation to equip a fighting
man for the field
He found that it took $3.50
worth of quartermaster equipment
and $35.40 worth of ordnance prop
erty to outfit one infantryman. a
mounted man is far more costly.
Horse, saddle, bride and fittings at
present prices total nearly $500 a
man.
Ordnance property has been slang
| lily defined as anything that shoots,
stabs or explodes." 1t is not issued
| by the quartermaster corps; the
camp ordnance Office has to do with
all ordnance business.
| If it takes $50 worth of quarter
master equipment to outfit the ordi-
nary soldier the nation has $2,SSO,-
600 tied up in personal equipment of
the men at Camp Logan, much of
which Catain Weed has issued.
When it comes to ordnance it is inn
possible to deal in values-besides,
that is another story.
Captain Blair lin Charge of Utilities
Captain Robert A. Blair handles
one phase of the camp quartermaster
work that shows how varied the big
job really is. He is officer in charge
of public utilities, construction and
repair He looks after lights, water,
supervises new construction work,
and keeps everything from roads to
street lights in camp in repair.
The center of all this activity (the
real head of the Office" Major
| Schell gracefully calls him) is Chief
Clerk j. l.. Douglas.
Douglas is an indispensable man.
He served thirty years in the quar-
termaster corps of the Regular
Army, in the Northwest, the East,
Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, and
| for the last eleven years in Texas.
Six years ago he retired from the
Army after thirty years service, but
civilian clerk. When the present
emergency came up and Camp Logan
| had to be created to train men for
the new Army Douglas was sent
here to whip paint-new executive
force into shape. He has it in shape
such shape that the thirty men
handle the supplying of the varied
wants of the $4,000 men and get al
most no complaints.
The man who wears the wheel
crossed with the saber and key. and
surmounted by the spread eagle as
his corps insignia, and the buff cord
on his service hat, is the man be-
| hind the gun-the armY quarter