The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1912-1921, 1918-09-20

ordnance, and all the requirements |
along the fighting front which have
to be kept up day after day with uD
failing regularity.
With the eommandant OF the depot
The Associated Press correspondent
made tour over the plant, some 20i
miles by automobile through the maze
of activity and vast material resour-
ces. AT one point a remount station
begun three days ago and was well
along toward completion, and it will
soon be one of the main supplies for
horses.
One whole depot was devoted to
the new devices for gas attacks, de-
fensive and offensive, with great
stocks of gas masks, and the gas it.
self, and quantities of phosphorus
and disiusectants to sprinkle trenches
and camps after the deadly mustard
gas has been in the air.
Medical supplies require the entire
buildings for cots, filters, mattresses,
oxygen tanks and the great stocks of
hospital and medical supplies.
The signal service has two large
buildings and much open storage, with
huge stocks of telegraph and tele-
phone wire for the army communica-
ton system which now spreads all
over France.
The warehouses for food, clothing,
and all quartermaster's supplies ex-
tend along a frontage of several
miles, all the buildings uniform, 500
by so feet. Uniforms, clothing -four
and what are called sack goods are
kept under cover in the warehouses,
I but much of the stock in crates.
boxes and barrels is stacked along
the depot streets for miles.
The one item of gasoline is a huge
thing owing to the part motor trac-
| ton takes in warfare. In one month
our army used five million gallons, on
an average df five gallons man for
an army of a million men. This
means a steady movement of 10000
barrels month.
F., 10 step into the army refrigerator
on hot midsummer day is rather a
novel experience. The thermometer
was about 80 as weswent through the
yards, but as the Colonel opened a
door of the big refrigerating plant we
were struck with an Arctic chill of 5
below zero-a drop of 95 degrees as
we crossed the threshold. Inside. the
Worknen were bundled in fur coats
wrapped around their ears. The
floors were slippery with frost and
the long ammonia pipes above drip
ped frosted icicles like stalactites in
cave. Frost an inch deep covered
the lburlap coverings of the big sides
and quarters of beef, and the beef it.
self was frozen as solid as stone.
Many Of the workers in this place
are from the big packing houses of
Nhlcago. Besides more than a mil
lion pounds of frozen meat always on
hand there is oleomargarine, butter.
lard and all kinds of fats. 1t is ar
ranged like a ship TEtn water-tight
| compartments, except that these are
cold compartments, SO that the freez-
ing is carried only to those compart-
ments required. No ice is used. as
the freezing process is carried out by
the forcing of ammonia through pines
at highpressure.
The German prisoners stockade
was not far beyond. Here some 1000
Germans are housed and fed while
they take part in the constr,1ction
ana warehouse work. Around the
stockade runs wire netting Is feet
hlgh, with a number of armed guards
Inc prisoners show no desire to
get away, and when an exchange OF
prisoners was being carried out not
long ago two of them actually broke
uowh IN tears at the thought of 60
ing back to their native land. They
steep on cots and their rations are
ABOUT the same as those furnished the
AMOR troops. The German officers
nave their own barracks inside the
seockade, wear their uniforms and
medals, and have rather conssortablo
equipment with spring cots.
lAAtogether it takes some 1900 la
hor troops, besides $500 Chinese
i,Voo German prisoners. and CON /
SIDERABLE number of French Anna
ini'es TO run this mammoth army eg-
tapilshment and keep the streams of |
supplies moving seadily to the fight.
ing front