Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-03-06
Where We Are At--The. Greatest
Transportation Job World Euer> Salu,

FeftUn personality assisted hide
signing the new type locomotives and
cars we are using In France, and In
recruiting the first nine regiments OF
constructing and operating engineers
for service abroad. One, Of is,sons
is now in France with the 18th En-
gineers. an operating regiment which
left Chicago July 10, in two trains of
10 cars each and marched through
ust 10. They're theaLucky thirteenth
FELTON, says. s s5ssssEgx
Operation Of the road ttsFrance ID
directed by w. w. Atterbury. former
vice president of the Pennsylvania.
now Brigadier General Atterbury,
Operation has been simplified by es-
tablishing a system whereby all trains
move at a uniform speed, with GER
tain fixed Roadway. For instance; ia
handle the 10000 tons OF supplies
necessary each day.,for an Army OF
each daily will be- required. Five hun.
dred tons, on the grades Of the French
roads. is the nlaximum that; can be
depended upon per train. (.
This means one train each "a min
utcs. ~ y.
Instead Of rushing through some
trains at fast speed-passenser Q,
troop trains, for instance--all trains
will proceed at the$uniform speed Of
1S miles an hour, a new train starting
out on its run for the front>each "a
minutes. ~
War was declared on April 8. 1917.
On April Z. the purchasing once of
the engineer department advertised
for the procurement of equipment for
20 infantry divisions. Within $50
| hr1Nrc o$kn. nv hot tA4~ A~ntn ~
awards had been made covering the
requirements OF 1900. 900 men-a
total OF some s.7oo,6D0. items-includ-
ing six miles of pontoon bridge. Or
! ders nave since,besnf placed for equip
ment of II total Of ITO infantry di-
visions.
All engineer organizations that have
lett for France have had 4 issued to
them before leaving their full engineer
unit equipment.
On August, "a. 1917. orders were
issued to ship engineer equipment to
the various national guard and ma
ttonal army camp and. environments
Two weeks later all this equipment
totaling $4,000 tons, had been shipped
General engineer depots tor the re.
ceipt, storage and shipment Of ensi.
neer materials have been established
at Washington and at the ports Of eni.
barkation. at Hoboken. n. 3.,ts and
Norfolk. Va. :
The depot at Hoboken covers S;
acres. with s~torehouses having a flool
space of $4,000 square feet. railway
tracks, wharves, docks. cranes AND
trucks for handling materials. The
Norfolk depot overs 125 acres with
storage houses OF 100000 square fee
floor space and equipment similar It
that at Hoboken.
Smaller depots to assist in the
handling and forwarding of supplies
have been established al Philadelphia
Baltimore. Jacksonville, Mobile ant
New Orleans: -
p,, rss f sef~ssa Ap Rqfe + 1877, 0; ss;
ders, Of which 4,6Ss have been com
pletely filled, .2,S10 partially filled ant
1889 remain in whole to he filled
The value Of materials bought aggre
gates $17s,l03.357.92. OF this sun
moro. than $4,000 900 is chareeabl,
to the construction and operation o
our terminals and line of communica
ton In France.
Despite all the work that has bee,
accomplished. however, both on thi
side and in France, operations hav'
been hampered by lack OF ships. o
a total tonnage in engineer equipmen
Of 392,5O4 tons that had been deltv
cred at the docks for shipment t,
France, by February 1, 165.476 ton
had been shipped abroad and 227.o2I
tons were awaiting shipment. OF tn
tonnage shipped. $4,000 tons were 0
supplies for the director general. o
military railroads.