The Alaska daily empire., 1918-09-13
SPORTS

AMERICAN PORT, WESTERN FRANCE, Sept. 1.-(Correspondence of the Associated Press) = There are all kinds of armies these war days, and today we saw. an army of automobiles drawn up in brigades and regiments. every conceivable kind of motor vehicle for carrying on the many war activities. There were intuition cars, tank cars for carrying gasoline, steel trucks by the hundred, ambulance cars for the wounded, signal service cars with complete wireless outfit and all the equipment for field signalling, rec 6gnizance cars on which IS men can make a recognizance into enemy country, battalion after battalion of touring cars for headquarters and other bfahches. of the service, and motorcycles for dispatch bearers. It was like half dozen big automo- bile expositions rolled into one, and all devoted to the one business of carrying on the war.
 AO 4COInAu6hOdhI lCu huO Way Out through Wilson avenue of the huge plant and then turned into Roosevelt avenue. On one side stretched away a half mile of motor vehicles in such vast army as to be fairly bewil- dering, but all lined up in regular formation like soldiers ready to move forward to the front. On the other side stretched away, acre after acre of buildings for the innumerable branches of this work, and between them on the open spaces armies of workmen in overalls setting up. all kinds of motor cars. Everywhere were stacked masses of knock down parts just arrived from the United States mountains of wheels and sides, motors, batteries, radia- tors. and block after block of huge crates containing the big chassies of the many types of war cars.
 AS the commandant passed along he summed up the magnitude of the work. Sixty-two complete trucks and cars have been turned out in one day. This is the record at the start, with a monthly output of. 1900 cars and 800 motorcycles, and a much greater. production when the organiza tion ket under way. In theory, these afe all standard parts which need only to be fitted together, an easy task Apparently as most of the pre- vt-~t...-., o<x,, .t -t, nx g<,,, t. ,1cna ,r tbo factories in America. But in fact, so say say those who do. the work. these parts do not fit: they have to be shaped and fitted after arrival Then there are, many factories sending many sizes of parts. Some factories send complete equipment, such al bolts and the heavy wooden sills for trucks. But other factories do not send the bolts or siils.
 There is no time 10 wait for these missing parts. for war is going on and cars are being mobilized like men. What is not here must be made. And from this has grown a huge industry of government war production. with biz workshops and machinery for making bolts and all the various parts. and for testing and making over dynamos and gener ators, and even for constructing the trim bodies and frames and thus turning out practically an entire car A long line of ovens was passed in which we saw some of the deli cate parts of the mechanism being baked and dried to cure them from the dampness of the sea Journey. The sea air plays many tricks on these parts We saw the field windings of generators covered with sea crust and green mould. All of these have to be baked and made over Fibre is considered in America as one of the best -pon-conductors for automo. bile construction. But on the sea Journey this fibre swells and be-