The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1917-11-29
American Engineers Install Entire
Railways in French War Theatre.

American Engineers Install Entire
Railways in French War Theatre
The Corps of Engineers of the Am
erican Army since April has not only
been supplying the Engineer equip
ment for more than 100000 men,
but the members of the railway sec
tion have undertaken to transport
and install and put in operation over
seas complete railway equipment
The cost of materials ordered to
date is approximately $4,000, 900,
including some hundreds of locomo-
tives, more than 10000 tons of steel
rails, more than 5000 complete turn
outs, 100000 ties, $4,000 freight
cars, 500 fill and ballast cars, 500
miles of telephone wire and appara-
tvs, and vast quantities of construc-
tion and repair equipment.
A duty imposed upon the engineers
has been the purchase of the neces-
sary Engineer equipment for more
than 100000 men. Within Is days
after the declaration of war. advertis-
ed for equipment, awards had been
made covering the requirements for
this vast force-a total of 100000
articles, including among other items
miles of pontoon bridge.
The Engineers have also underta-
ken the work Of organizing and
equipping troops for special services,
such as lumber supply, road con-
struction, sanitary construction, cam
outage service, gas and flame SER
vice, mining work and mapping.
Thirty-four different races of per-
sons bought bonds of the second Lib
erty Loan issue.
Young Mems Christian Association
plans for work in France include the
establishment of IS libraries.
Express companies are concentra-
ting their efforts to issue prompt and
safe handling of all food products of
a perishable nature.
In the United States Armies, No
vember 7, there were 7,815,000 men,
in the navy 27l,571. OF the total of
2,087,391, approximately 100000
voluntarily enlisted.
Furloughs for Yuletide week will
be granted all men at Army canton
ments whose absence can be permit
ted in the opinions of the division
commanders, to enable them to spend
Christmas at their homes.
| The sugar used for making candy
in the United States, according to the
/ Food Administrator, is sufficient to
meet all the sugar requirements of
England under the rationing system
adopted there.
Since the war insurance plan be-
came operative in October more than
$4,000 soldiers have applied for in
surance, amounting in all to nearly
half a billion dollars and averaging
about $4,000 man.
The 1917 potato crop is estimated
to consist of 453,O00, 900, 900 bushels,
or half again as much as last year.
Reports from the commission on car
service indicate that more than 75O,-
600 cars will be needed to handle it.
The Illinois College of Agriculture
Urbana, ILL.,, has published pamph-
let giving recipes for making various
kinds of war bread, most of which
require no wheat -four. The list in
cludes several varieties of corn bread
barley bread, rye bread. Oatmea
bread,etc.
Newton D. Baker, Secretary OF
!, War, estimates the losses up to JUNE
| of the British expeditionary forces
, in deaths naction from wounds at
per cent of the total of all men sem
to France since the beginning of the
war. He adds that the ratio of losses
of this character today because Of i'm
proved tactics and swiftly mounting
allied superiority in artillery, is les
than to every 100 men.