Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1918-06-20

1 the truck companies able TO travel en-
tirely independent of the countryside
| Camps are made at the regular hour
| no matter where the company is 10
Gated, except that open country is Civ.
en- preference over cities.
Delivery of the first of the 1.O2s
locomotives ordered by the railroad
| administration will start in July, and
deliveries will continue monthly during
the rest of the year. The locomotives
are of six standard types, with one
heavy and one light style in each type.
They vary in weight from 10000
pounds to $4,000 pounds, and the en-
tire order will cost about $60,00O,0O0
The six standard types are expected
to eventually supersede the many
kinds now in service, which embrace
engines built according to 500 or more
specifications. According to the rail-
road administration, this is the first
real step ever taken toward the wide
Standardization of locomotives.
An order has also been placed for
100000 freight cars of standard type
to cost between $250,0OO,000 and $780,
100000. Negotiations for the construc-
tion of many thousand additional steel
freight cars are still pending The five
types Of cars ordered represent the
standard forms of freight cars adopted
by the railroad administration.
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types, it is believed, will eventually
substitute few scientifically worked
out designs for the numerous miscel-
laneous varieties of cars, representing
probably more than thousand differ
ent old styles and specifications now
in use, the accumulations Of the mast
One of the interesting developments
Of the war, according to statement
authorized by the war department. Is
the rapid expansion Of the various bu-
reaus of the war department. At the
outbreak Of the war there we're less
than 5000 employees on duty. The
number now is approximately $4,000,
an increase of 300 per cent. While this
represents a tremendous expansion,
the increase In the army itself has been
more than 1900 per cent.
Only four out of every 100 officers
in the service were In the army at the
time the war began.
The gas defense service Is now manu-
featuring about 5000 horse gas masks
per day. These are being sent to
France, and it is expected that within
short time every horse connected
with the American expeditiOnary
forces will be equipped with the new
masks.
The gas defense service has COM
pletely equipped factory for the manu-
facture of the masks. In less than
three weeks building was selected
and the factory was producing masks.
The introduction of riveting machinery
has done away with the heavy hand
sewing of the frame which supports
the masks on the faces of the horses.
The masks are so constructed that no
metal or chemically impregnated parts
can chafe the horse.
In Bavaria the monthly meat ration
has been cut 20 per cent-from 1000
to 800 grams-according to German
newspapers. The monthly meat ration
In Saxony has been reduced from 800
to 700 grams. Public officials are re-
ported in the Prussian press as discus
sing the possibility Of further reduc-
ton Of the bread ration In Prussia.
A Munich paper reports that from
the beginning of the war to March l,
1918, Bavarian hog stocks have de-
creased from 2,106,312 to 766,391 head.
The Danish hog census shows a de-
crease from 1851, 600 hogs July IL,
1917, to $4,000 December 5, 1917, or
decrease of one-third the number at
the beginning of the war.
The restriction on the importation Of
crude rubber has been followed by re-
strictions on importation of four COM
modities possessing some of the char
acteristics Of rubber, and capable un-
der some circumstances of being used |
as substitutes for natural rubber. ,
Acting on suggestion of General
Pershing an order has been issued in
creasing each regiments band from 26 |
to SO members. Band leaders having |
had more than five years military ex-
perience as band leaders will be made
first lieutenants; those with less than
Eve years experience will be made Sec
ond lieutenants.
Beside enlarging the bands bugle
and drum corps will be added to each
regiment. Each corps will include the
ee7hpany buglers Of its regiment. and
not ulore than II drlunmers- +
The United States government is
ooking for men who can take charge
If branch offices of the bureau Of for
,ign and domestic commerce, depart
nent OF commerce, and men to act as
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