The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-09-11
GEORGE cox ON GUARD
Former Bennington Man Now Resi-
dent OF Brooklyn.

dent OF Brooklyn.
George Cox and daughter OF New
York are guests at the Putnam house
for few days. Mr. Cox is for
mer resident of Bennington and was
for years employed at the Valentine
plant. He is now chief guard at the
big Busch terminal in Brooklyn In
describing a big transfer of war ma
terial at the terminal a short time
ago. The New York Evening Mail
speaks OF Mr.. Cox as follows:
When the matter OF moving is con-
sidered it might be observed that the
United States has saved Russia from
moving some Of its materials by taking
over, in an amicable way and one en-
tirely pleasing to Russia, quantity OF
railroad equipment chiefly rails
1t is said also, but unoificially, that
the government likewise took over n
few other things this before they left
American factories.
Getting on to Pier is only shade
less difficult than riding camel
through a needles eye. Besides pas
sing Uncle Sans rifiemen, one has to
satisfy George Cox, chief centurion of
/ the 100 cerebuses American citizens
all-who guard the pier and II con
/ tents.
( George has an eagle eye for an
enemy alien and has been known to
! even turn down the bearer of q
pass from Mr. Medzikhovsky. Also.
/ during the two and a half years he
has been on the job, there have been
I no fires of conquences and less than
/ 800 worth of theft. some of the rea-
sons why he got gold watch from
/ Russia and praise from War Secretary
Baker when the latter, with Irving T.
Bush. head of the Port War Board,
visited Pier 8.
Anyway, today Chief Guard Cox es-
corted a reporter for the Evening Mail
over the pier and explained how the
wheels went around.
The huge piles of merchandise are
impressive although, as Mr. Medzik
hovsky has explained, there is in fact
cries much more material waiting
Russias order than there is on the
docks.
I Heaped twenty feet high on every
side, leaving only narrow canyonlike
lanes down which sturdy electric
tractors grind are vast quantities oil
munitions TERED to the ceiling \
commercial dictionary would be need
ed to catalogue 1t all.
One outstanding feature is rifles
Here is a giant pile, twenty rifles in
each ironbound box Fifty feet far
Their on is another pile of rifles. equally
big; 100 feet away is third pile
And so it goes down the whole quar-
ter-mile of the piers ground floor
and so, too. it goes on the quarter
mile of the piers top deck.
Miniature milestones likewise are
formed by titanic piles of barbed wire
and pyramids of leather They alter
nate with the piles of rifles
II is Il safe bet there is enough
barbed wire to enmesh the legs Of
every one OF EIindenburgs gray.clat
soldiers If put to its proper use.
As for the leather, there is enough
Of it to make the great pier smell like
a flock of young tanneries.
Introducing YOU says Mr. Cox, "tC
the gas gigs.
There is no chance to see whether
Russia's taste runs TO Fords of Lo
comobiles for each car is boxed
The boxes look like adolescent freight
cars, of size to test the big winches
and the heavy hosting tackle on the
worlds most mastodonic pier.
And there's the dollies de
clares Mr. Cox, pointing with hi,
cane.
what do you mean dolls, for ma
ton at war?'
That's what we call them. but
they're only bundles of twine for har
yesters,' replies MIR Cox.
Then came the farm machinery, re
apers and mowers and binders and a
the complicated paraphernalia needed
to harvest the Russian crop,
"Underclothes in those good thcl
stuifs, like the red wooens we used tC
wear on the farm when we were
boys says Mr.. Cox, asked the con
tents of many big cases.
Then came the material for buidinl
Russias new railroad from Kola Bay
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