Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-08-11
rgies to Be I xed as
Never Before to Trans
fer Troops
my OF EXPERTS BUSY
o6tember Third and Fourth the
Days Upon Which Greatest
Traffic Burden Will Fall
WARRINGTON. Aug. II.


0cptsmber I, and wednesday. September s
4 - mobillxed. They must be moved from
y 800 cities and towns to sixteen canton
5 o11nts Troop trains must have the right
n ox way and Government materials must
novo without halt.
4. Half hundred traffic experts are nj
\ work on the plan Of transportation Twenty
elght railway executives Of the railway COM
mtttee Of the Council OF National Defense
ere scheming. Lieutenant Colonel Chauncey
y. Baker, OF the quartermaster corps Is
working or the problem. STAFF experts Of
Provost Marshal General Enoch Crowder
also are busy.
Railway men today said the movement OF
the troops would be accomplished with
minimum Of inconvenience to regular pas
senser and freight traffic. For period OF
forty.eight hours. however. It is highly prob
able there must be some delay in the main
tenance OF schedule time.
Moving the first third OF the national
army to the cantonments will take about
one-eighth of the equipment of the IT'S rail-
roads of the United states. II Is estimated
that 186S7 cars will be needed and loss
locomotives. This means that there VIII
be 1898 trains Of approximately sixteen cars
each moving with troops over 176 different
raflroad systems In the United states simul-
kt&neously This traffic feat will require 81
per cent Of the total number of locomotives
IN the country and 1876 per cent OF the
total number Of passenger cars
EXERT TO EVERY BOARD
To facilitate the movement OF the troops.
4 railway expert will be assigned to every
local board. with the railway expert the
local boards will devise the scheme or
imobilixation. Orders have been issued that
the most direct route will be used and no
discrimination between roads be made In
fho case of parallel systems the traffic shan
be divided equally between the two sys-
tens In some cases IL will be necessary
70 ration the troops en- route. Provision Is
being made for this by ordering large sup
plies Of food prepared at points where the
troop trains may stop.
1t now appears that September 3 and
viii be the two days on which most OF the
erafic will fall. On September l local boards
will call for the men II mobilize at the head
quarters OF the board In some districts
this will mean that men will have to travel
several miles to the board headquarters.
II is expected that It will take two days for
the quotas to be made In readiness for final
movement to the cantonments. Until actual
arrival at the cantonment camps the drafted
men will be under the supervision OF the
1ocal boards.
WORK BEING FASTENED
q More than 100 900 men are working with
IN haste In the sixteen cantonment camps
ooattered throughout the country. In an ef-
tort to have them as near completion az
possible when the first of Americas new
national army will be mobilized,
With the settlement of differences which
threatened strike troubles In all the camps,
reports from the sixteen cantonments In
aicate that most of them will be ready by
the middle Of September at the latest. The
reports show 114,6is men employed in con-
struction work at the camps.
Sixteen new Cities" with thousands of
buildings. streets carefully laid out. sewage
and water systems, hospitals. garages,
hangers and stables are rising into being.
Tens of thousands Of feet Of lumber are
pouring into these camps daily. Every
man capable of driving a mali or guiding
= saw is being given job. From 5000
20 1900 men are at work today in each
of the camps. Thousands of motortrucks,
teams and wagons are engaged in the work
OF hauling lumber and supplies, Long lines
OF freight trains are carrying the lumber
from mills to the cantonments
Thus one OF the biggest tasks America
ever undertook Is being carried out almost
beyond the notice Of the country at large.
To these camps will go the flower of
night. From them will come trained,
equipped citizen soldiers for service on the
battlefe.ds of France.
From Yaphank. l.. l., Just outside New
York, to Atlanta Ca, in the South Rock
ford, ILL.,. In the Middle West Fort Sam
Houston In the Far Southwest. and Amer
loan Lake, Wash, in the Northwest ths
rlang of hammers the drone Of saws and
creeking of heavily laden wagons are the
most significant war sounds in America II.
~.
IN CAMP IN SIX WEEKS
Within another six weeks the first of
americas $4,000 national army men will
- In camp. Before snow flies all will, he
= the cantonments Here are the reports
Rom the various camps
Y ATLANTA, Ga.-Cantonment 60 ner rant
complete: about 100 buildings in ali. six
men now at work; ready about
5eptember TO-
WRIGHTSTowN, NJ Fifty DER cent
pf work complete; 5000 men employed in
ready the middle of October
4 CHiLLICOTHE. O.-Forty per cent com
piete; 325 buildings including $50 bar
racks, now ready. Infantry division ready
september ! ; camp fully completed Noyem.
per 1; $500 men employed in construction
work.
4 BATTLE CREEK Mich-Forty barracks
now ready; completed latter part Noven-
oer; 5000 men employed; delay in shipment
nenterials hr,uing up work.
y LOUISVILLE. Ky. (Camp TayIor) Now
1,ors than half ready; 5000 men at work
September /.
lREfERSBuRG. Va.-Sixty-fiye ner car,
@onpleted; ready September Il; II 900 man
Wployed; 700 teams. 81 motortrucks. 1000
rpuseg already up.
Z &xER. Mass Ready September 1. KAT
Duloings no.. up; 800 men at work.
= FORT SAM HoUsTON-Ready septem-
~ 1r70 per cent OF work finished s7ss
men at work ''@'
ANNAPOLIS JUNCTION, Md-Reasv.
.Pout October J. handicapped by scarcity Of
labor; 4Sns men now at work; 100 build
lngs now ready.
o>FORT RILEY Kan.--Probably readv
oepplete. September Is; $3.50 men now II
44rk except 1900 next week bakery. re-
Ztrerntion plant. depot and corrals for
|9.eoo horses arrived today.
HQCkFORD. Ill-Ready September 1:
o3 HOO buildings to be built now ready
MD covers 5000 acres; 5000 men now at
MONIES. Ia.--Ready September 4:
1erracks now ready; camp more than
oomplete; 5000 men at work on con-
o1ion -
I$rLE ROCK, Ark.--Forty per cent
Ilote; 1880 men at work on construc-