Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1917-04-21
MEN NEEDED FOR
ENGINEER CORPS

Men skilled in civil engineering and
similar work are wanted in the En-
gineer Enlisted Reserve Corps of the
United States Army for war service.
Skilled laborers, mechanics and arti-
sans, miners, survey ors, craftsmen,
photographers, boatmen, electricians,
and others engaged in mechanical
lines in civil life wanted for enlistment
in the Engineer Corps of U. S. Army.
The war Department desires to Sc
cure Immediately large enrolment
OF enlisted men in this corps, and suit
able men are urged to make applica-
ton either by mail or in person to one
of the enlisting Offices
The Engineer Corps in our army
corresponds to the famous Royal En-
gineers of the British army. that
branch of the service which builds
roads and bridges, fortihcatons for
defense and tunnels for offense. and
various other duties To them is due
the wonderful system field forti-
hcations that enabled the British to
withstand the enemy's onslaught dur
ing the last two years and a half
The United States of America is now
at war, and there is no time to train
engineers for such work; the men OF
the Engineer Corps for the new armies
must be taken from the ranks of civil
mining, mechanical, and electrical en-
glneers, as well as machnists. and
other skilled trades.
The Engineer Corps of the army
needs Typographical surveyors, sketch.
ers, and instrument men for the high.
ly important technical work of max
ing contoured military maps OF the
field OF war, laying out battle posi-
tons, roads. highways, syttems of
trenches. and drainage lines.
Typographical craftsmen are want
ed to trace the held-maps of survey
ors. Mechanical craftsmen will find
employment in making drawings of
armored trucks and other mechanical
devices used in war. Photographers
are needed for the reproduction Of
maps in connection with Photographic
surveys.
Lithographers, zincographers, blue
print men. and others skilled in the
various processes of reproducing pho
tographs and drawings are required tc
reproduce and publish engineer-map
OF battleheds and the general theatre
of war operations.
Miners ard quarrymen skilled in
handling explosives and in rnder
ground mining for more OF the
most important elements in the per
sonnel of the Engineer Corps. The
engineers dig the tunnels under the
enemy's trenches and destroy them
with dynamite and other high explo
sives. They dig the underground gal
leries and bombproofs that conceal
and protect the armies occupying their
own trenches.
Military demolitions, such as the
destruction of bridges. bridge piers
railroads and road beds, as, we'll as
land mines are affected by the En-
gneer Corps.
Carpenters and wood workers of
all classes are needed for the timber
work in trenches and bomb proofs.
Mllwrights and bridge carpenters
are especially valuable in the con-
struction of bridges which the En-
gineer Corps must build rapidly and OF
sufficient strength for the passage of
army trains, great guns, and for the
rapid transport of marching troops
over streams and ravines.
Blacksmiths handle the iron work
including the manufacture of forgings
of various kinds in connection with
bridge work, trench work, military
demoltons and also in the repair of
entenching tools, which the Engineer
Corps is called upon to supply to the
fighting army.
Plumbers and pipe filters lay the
pipes in connection with sewage and
water supply systems for the trenches
and field works.
Electricians wire the trenches for
electric lighting operate the electric
light plants and power plants. and op-
crate the great searchlghts and other
electric Illuminating devices used to
light the area in front of the trenches
The electifcation of barbed-wire en-
tanglements forms vital element in
the defense of modern trenches. For
this work electricians are required.
Steam and gas engine operators. FIRE
men, and machinists are needed in con
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