The Press., 1918-01-17
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Nearly twenty square miles of new army blankets have been ordered by the quartermaster general since war was declared. Some four thousand acres of them--5, 900, ,238 blankets--bAd been delivered up to Decembc l. H, the blankets were evenly distributed there would be enough to give three to every man in the army.
 Overcoats contracted for number 5,69l ,350. If half Of the entire num- per of men of draft age in the country should be called to the colors these contracts would supply them with an ovcrcoat apiece. Deliveries Of over coats amounted on Decembe. l to 2O2G.340. Included in the total nre some hundreds of thousands of deliv. cries at army supply stations, Instead of at the camps and cantonments. Otherwise no man ln any of the camps would have had to go without an over coat during the unprecedentedly cold weather of last month.
 The army is particularly well sup. piled with shoes, about 2l,ll7,OO0 pairs having been contracted for and S,52S,' POS pairs delivered. Every soldier can use up four pairs before the supply on hand is exhausted. Over 3,55i,00O hats have been delivered on contracts call. ing for. S,092,02l.
 Thlrty-five million yards of woolen cloth for olive drab shirts has been contracted for To call 1t l9,g74 miles of cloth will perhaps give clearer idea of the size of the order. Nearly eleven million yards of this material has been made up Into 5,670,444 shirts.
 The contracts for woolen uniform cloth reach the somewhat smaller hg- ure of 2s056,95s yards. Over eleven million yards have been delivered md have been made Into 2,37s,511 com. plete winter uniforms and 4h5,s50 extra pairs of brooches.
 Over 10,s4S,500 pieces of winter un- derwear have been delivered, out of 2s,275,S45 pieces contracted for.
 Other articles that have had Co be supplied to the camps in great Quan' titles are bed sacks, comforters, leg gins and socks. Of the four camps visited hy Surgeon General GOrRas, in hIs recent tour of inspection, none re. ported shortage of bed sacks. There were leggins enough to gc around, md the supply of light woolen socks was large enough tp give each man three pairs. Camp Sevier reported only two pairs of the lightweight socks per man. but had in addition 10000 pairs of heavy wooden socks,
 None of the camps reporting had quite enough comforters. Camp Fun. ston, for Instance, was short about 5000 It, however, had more than three blankets per man.
 In this war the quartermastcr dc. pertinent is feeding Ave times as many troops as in the war with Spain with food costing three times what it cost in 1898, and hard to get at any price.
 Keeping a million llen for a year on the United States garrison ration means the provision of 225,000 tons i50,000000 pounds-of fresh beef This figure is reduced somewhat hy the substitution of other fresh meats as turkey, on Thanksgiving Day end Christmas, and occasionally mutton or fish, ..a...
 Three hundred million pounds of flour must be supplied for the bread ration, not including the flour used in making hard bread. Other Items of food supply are 29,8OO,OOO pounds of coffee, 25,000 tons of sugar and 888o00 gallons of cucumber pickles.
 Besides the articles of the regular ration, the quartermaster department keeps on hand 105 Items of stock for sale at cost. Many of these Items ara things 10 eat. Others are shoe black Ing, writing paper, talcuIn powder l4S,SO0 cans--Rnd few bottles of toilet water.