Bisbee daily review., 1918-09-19

soldiers, working in three shifts con
 tinuously for 24 hours"
 To the left big trench mortars
 weighing a hundred tons each were
 b ing picked up by the giant fingers
 of a derrick and landed on their train
 of trucks ready to be moved forward
 to the front To the right another huge crane was bodily picking up a ! locomotive and passing it around to | it's proper place These locomotives come from the United States in parts pscked in crates. Looking at the long | rows of these giant crates they seem | ed tO be streets of cottages or shaeks
 and one wondered how they could ever
 be brought across the ocean with all
 the shifts and storing between docks We watched one of these lOcOmO- ! lives as it was taken from it's seven giant boxes and gradually grew into
 Q massive engine. Soon thereafter
 this locomotive was moving through the yards on it's own steam, and soon
 af:eT hat it vas on its way to re- equip the statr railway of France. which is one of the vital links of the war game Fic [ n@ I'll the American dou5le track road up to the front was equipped. and then the French state railway took its turn. for they are all a pars Of tho network of feeders for the allied war service.
 We turn out six to ten complete locomotives a day ,r said the baron. land by September it will be twenty a day, the largest construction of the kind in the world"
 Now the baron led the way to some of the detailed processes of the huge plant. Here was the boiler testing plant. Steam was up and the big boil CTS were being tested after their Yoy. age across the ocean to see if the sea water had opened any joints or loos. ened any rivets. It was surprising. said the baron. how well they stood the voyage with no loOsening of parts. and practically perfect when they ar rive.
 Besides the industry of such a huge concern, there is besides the equip mCnt of living quarters for the army Cf working soldiers. Thus a good sized city has sprung up. with avenues and streets lined with barracks, mess rOCms canteens, barber shops. dent ists' offices, baths and all the activi- ties of a tlourishing frontier town.
 Beyond the shops and barracks are the great stretches of railway tracks and sidings, for this is the first step in the intricate system Of trans portatiOn by which American troops and supplies are moved to the front When the Americans came here there were two tracks; now there is a net work of twenty-One tracks. Hundreds of American engines and cars were moving over these lines as we went through the yards today and some forty newly completed locomotives just turned out at the nera-by shops were starting on their way. And as these went out long trains were bringing in more of the huge crates with the bodies and wheels and boilers. soon tO he put together in this steady stream of vast war construction
 Passing headquarters. word had just come by telephone that the German offensive had begun on an S0-kilOme% tor front Soon it passed from shop to Op, and the whole establishment was stirred and stimulated. Officers and men bcamed at the thought that the light was on, with a feeling Of confidence that knew no such thing as failure and a feeling also that these in their overalls were doing their part in winning the fight