Evening star., 1918-09-08

old clothes. and making new clothes
Of them; all old equipment of every
those not flt for front-line service to
work in the gardens (the 9. NJ.
Corps has vast and numerous kitchen
s,erdens s,ar' everywhere in EIrance9: OF, as
warehousemen' in ports and bases.
IL has taken foreigners, enlisted
OF drafted In the United States. but
VINO cannot speak English we'll
enough s' to serve in the front Of bat
wage service.
By its salvage service the Q. N. q.
makes new the rusted, battered feld
ranges, cook pans, pannikins. helmets,
bayonets, ETC., which In other wars
were taken by stragglers and sold
for old iron. Soldiers are taught to
pick up horseshoes and nails ON tho
high road and deposit them in boxes
placed at intervals. .,.. 70.
The salvage pays cash to company
meeses for saving table and kitchen
leavings. From such and from gar.
bego, butcher refuse, etc. Ito the
sktnning. Of dead mule). they res
cover fats. in their own reduction
factories for the manufacture Of
While impossible even to mention q
hundred of Its details, 1t IL foreseen
that this one service will have taught
q lesson Of saving and economy which
10 bound to be enormously beneficial
routine and comprehended lesson Of
experience which strikes American
common sense, they are learning the
value Of small things. for the return
to normal life after the war. Ono
general remarked that he almost
feared to throw away cigar stump,
because the salvage, gathering It UP.
might measure it and accuse him Of
wasting tobacco.
BY the salvage entire regiments are
periodically refttted earlier than would
otherwise be deemed necessary. BY
companies the men drop every stitch
in disrobing hall, are given baths
and then dressed completely in new
underwear, socks, shirts, shoes. uni.
forms-an new or new issued, as good
the salvage. The clothes they drop
tregularly new and not much worn)
are disinfected, washed, repaired, re-
tailored and sorted.
1T is like going to the laundry, PEI
riodlcally. with everything. The
handles equally all laundry work
proper, not only for combating
troops and men in camps and depots,
but hospital laundry work as we'll.
It is all no small thing, as any laun-
100000 Of men to keep clean.
Also the Quartermaster Corps fitted
UP these services. AS far as building
and construction is concerned. all
done in the United States is handled
but here, in France, 1t is the engl-
neers who attend to actual up-put-
ting. while the Quartermasters take
over the maintenance and upkeep OF
the buildings and camps after their
construction is completed.
N.1 X X
The supply of all horses and mules.
both cavalry and artillery. ana all
draught animals 10 another large
proposition. The Quartermaster
Corps attends to it. We have re.
mount depots and veterinary hos
pitfalls throughout all France. Horses
and mules are shipped from homo,
bought in France, in Spain and Eng
land. and the supply and care Of all
these animals until they reach the
combating troops Is in itself a huge
task.
In the old days motor transportas
tlon was equally under the Quarter
master Corps. Now the Motor Trans
port Corps has grown so great that It
10 . separate service. with its own
general In charge: but the motor vehi-
cles themselves and most of the Of
hcers and men who operate them are
furnished from the Quartermaster
Corps.
It handles the entire supply of gas
olfne, oil and lubricants. Not only
does the Quartermaster Corps do this
for our Army, but most Of the supply
for our allies comes through 1t. Such
Is not only the case Of the French,
British and italian armies, but at this
hour no French duke or grocer can
motor in country or in town without
permission of this powerful, careful
and all-seeing American Quartermas-
ter Corps.
The same is true of great stocks of
American shipped coal being consti-
tuted in France, for coal is grand
affair. for European armies. nations
and CIVILIANS. .rt
So. too, while the Army transporta-
tion service itself is no longer under
the Quartermaster Corps directly, the
ofacers and men handling It are. with
very few exceptions. members OF the
famous body, and large number OF