The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-23
YANKEE FIRELESS
 COOKERSAREUSED ON BATTLE FRONT

The fireless cooker is in the first line trench. No longer Is 1t g. first aid only to the dainty bride and the moving picture devotee. It supplies stealn;rIg hash and hot soup to the boys in khaki.
 Today. miniature fireless cookersl nrc1 at the front in quantity. They are 5-gallon pails, cork-acketed, or with some other non-conductor be- tween the walls. Swung on poles, they are borne by soldiers through the communication trenches. The pas sageways are SO narrow that only small containers can pass between the : walls. And how those cans are vel comed when they reach the boys!
 Behind the lines, the kitchens are of different types. Huge steam kitch- ems cater to the men in the big train ing camps, and in the French and British prison camps But men pre- fer their company kitchens, run by their own mess sergeants. So there are the old field stoves and ovens, which fold up and load on trucks. Where troops are in permanent quar- ters, stationary ranges are used.
 This war has developed the rolling kitchen. The first was an improvised affair used by & French company. It was a pail in a wagon, under which a fire was built. The French and the British improved this idea, until they achieved results which rival the most widely advertised kitchen cabinets for convenience. American manufactu- rers had been making them for the allies and were expert in this line, when the United States entered the war.
 The liberty TraiI-Mobile.
 The War Department has standard ized a rolling kitchen, for use in the aero service. This is the Liberty TraiI-Mobile. It is a. kitchen on wheels, drawn by a motor truck. The equipment of this trail-mobile has been standardized after careful study
 One June 22 some 40 manufacturers were in Washington to pass final Judgment on the sample kitchen. They had already co-operated in the plans for it, and in testing it out practically Bids for contracts were opened or July 8.
 A 10-day camping expedition devel oped some good points which the pa per plans had not promised. Test CTS proved that the firebox of tht Kitchen will burn coal, wood or re fuse.
 This fire box is low, in the rear O the body. Above 1t Is an oven, whicI will bake successfully in any sort O weather, no matter whether the kitch en is stationary or jolting along thu road. The stovepipe folds back ove the oven, like a neat little tail Thi pipe points back, making the kitche1 look more like a gun carriage thai ever. On either side of the oven ar long iron boxes, with holes in then for great cylindrical kettes, or mar mites. Tn the front of the carriag are four vessels of the same size which are cork Jacketed, and serve a fireless cookers. Between the rear or range half, and the fireless cooke front section, are chests and boxe for storing food, utensils, and tools.
 Dustproo6 and Waterproof.
 The covers of all containers clam tight, making the kitchen dustproo and waterproof No cover is provid ed tor the entire kitchen.
 1he Trail-Motor is stocked wit utensils and accessories, all planne and purchased by experts. At tn War Department the Hardware an saLstals 'Dtviaon turns over control c