The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-12-28

and power, conveyance belts, power
rolls, etc. In fact everything that
will speed up production. A Packard
three-ton truck can be torn down,
/ Grated, ready for overseas in one and
a half hours The crate when finish
ed is 8 feet square by 22 feet long.
1 The light car garage is 800 feet by
100 feet and is used entirely for
! overhauling passengers cars, it's
! equipment is the same as any modern
garage. .~y
! Aside from being able to repair any
/ car now in the service, we are able
Ito actually build trucks from the
hundreds of, thousands of dollars
/ worth of material carried in stock at
the Spare Parts Warehouses. There
are two of these buildings each be-
ing 1000 feet by $50 feet. Colonel
/ Leisenring made the statement re-
Gently that trucks eat up parts like
mules eat hay" so it is easy to under
stand the necessity of such large
warehouses.
| To protect this enormous expendi-
ture of money the Government has
erected a Watertower in the center-of
the camp with capacity of 250,000
i +gaHons. 1t 100 feet from the bot
tom Of the tank to the ground, there
I'by creating pressure enough to throw
a stream OF water over any building
! in the camp.
The Baltimore & Ohio railroad have
! built network of tracks all over the
camp making it possible to give
/ prompt service. Then too, Colgate
Creek which bounds the camp on the
southeast side is being dredged and
docks being built to enable freighters
to come right up to our back door.
One of the biggest problems Uncle
Sam has had to deal with was the
roads. Owing to the marshy nature
of the soil something had to be done
to build a road that would stand the
continual hammering of the army
experiments to discover the right ma
terial, but, today we can boast of the
finest highways in the country.
1t is hard to realize how fast this
camp has grown, from few negro
l shacks to one of the finest and best
equipped motor car shops in the Unit
! ed States if not in the world. The
Motor Transport Corps as well as
4 this camp will remain permanent and
one would think to peep into our
little city that Uncle Sam was still in
the war game, from the way things
are booming, instead of preparing for
peace.
The fate of the Motor Transport
4 Corps at Camp Holabird has been an
unlucky one, for comparatively few
of US have been sent overseas to share
in the glory which the returning
heroes will be given when they are
marched through the street of their
} home town. Ours has been the steady
grind from morning until night, not
eight hours a day as some think but
twelve including Sundays, then to
make everything as comfortable as
possible some soldier from another
branch of service often takes the JOY
out of life by saying "why didn't you
join the Army instead of the M. T.
c." OF "Tell your mother to take
down her service flag you are not in
the army yet"
The following is an extract from
the Baltimore Evening Star.
'"The Motor Transport soldier de-
serves a well-earned tribute. In this
service the men of high-class pay
labored in the same grease and CRIME
for the Government pay check. He
had none of the glory of war. 1t was
e not his lot to meet the Hun on Nc
Mans Land. His was the sordi6
work, but each of them shoulderec
$ their burdens and when the history
: of this war is finally written the worl
of the Motor Transport men will oc
Il cupy a large share, and he too, share:
in the glory of the victory that th'
e mobility of movement provided
e through his work made possible in
t fantry and artillery action fina
success"
e SARGEANT PEARLE E. GRIGGS
e Repair Unit. No. 206, NJ. T. C.
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