The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-10-30
|SUPPLY BASE IS
CURIOSITY SHOP
80. Malcolm F. Mcfarland Who is
il charge Of One In France,
Tells What It
contains.
MOUNTAINS OF STUFF
.,,L Man Who Went Over With
engineers Sees Lots Of Inter-
estins Thinss Across
the Water.

lieutenant Malcolm F. Mcfarland,
,s IN charge of supply base in
wiz nort In France, has written very
ssso. n of the mountains OF sup
me- me- which are coming In every day
phe his base. There is everything
y, ,uo, ~, Ford cars, shipped two in box
liz ..,,,-, ~ nails. In a recent letter.
e i..ad october 8, and written to Mr..
u und Mrs. c. F. Mcfarland. Lieuten-
ant Mcfarland says:
anear Father and Mother:
az told YOU about our work here In
~ ,ast letter. 1t is going on in the
came way, nothing new. We are re-
oaiuinp worlds Of material all the
.;ne II ia marvellous to see what
.,r great nation can do in emergency
Whv ! believe they intend to give
very soldier Ford car. At least
they will have enough here before
,ong They ship them two in a box,
anS drove along road near the
motor base the other day where there
orc over a thousand boxes Of them
wing IN the ground. The soldiers
orc working as fast as they can to
sci them up, but they come in faster
Than they can be put together.
aThe conglomeration of things in
tho ships is something astounding
Thev pack Cadillacs, crackers, shoes,
bacon hay and nails all in the same
hatch. The next hatch pay contain
coIole of boilers for an so or 80
tom locomotive, and tons of roofing
naner and thousands of sacks OF
flour flour or oats. / think they must just
load things into ships just as it is
fn
get it across.
Some Fine Helpers.
Being located as l am has made
II impossible for me to get any idea
of what the real work Of the Y. nj.
g. A. or Red Cross is. There are not
many soldiers permanently located
here. The hospital is a regular army
ORGANIZATION, and not very large at
fair vet. The Y. M. G. A. have two
buildings here, one for enlisted men,
where they have writing room and
loafing place, and also make ice
cream sodas, which the boys say are
pretty poor but they are glad to get
any kind Of ice cream here The
other building is run by the Y M. G..
A. as an officers club. don't know
WldI luty nave lllCd W w hOA Y e' =
haven't been here long enough. l
think the best work of the Y is be-
ing done among the soldiers. The
officers have chance to live in fair
ly good quarters, and get along pref
ty we'll, but the men would have no
sociable place to loaf In, and get good
reading matter and music, If 1t
wasn't for the Y. / went through a
construction camp at Bassens, near
Bordeaux. They had big circus
| tent with lot of reading tables,
writing tables and piano. They
also kept store. The secretary
was a fine fellow, and got up CON
certs, lectures, and lots Of that sort
of thing to keep the boys from get,
| ting lonesome. They also ran the
athletic events. Had ball games
Sundays, and kept things alive gen.
orally.
II have nine boys under me check
ing material and taking care of the
warehouse. Five of them are gradu-
ates from good schools, and they are
all older than I am. One is gradu
ate of Chicago u and knows lot OF
my friends. Two are graduates OF