Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-09-05

There are 1,400 men at work here" explained the Baron, "all of them skilled American mechanics enlisted as soldiers, working in three shifts continuously for 24 hours"
 GOING TO THE FRONT.
 To the left big tr ench mortars weighing a hundred tons each were being picked up by the giant fingers of 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 its proper place. These locomotives come from the United States in parts packed in crates. Looking at the long rows of these giant crates, they seemed to be streets of cottages or shacks, 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- tives as it was taken from it's seven giant boxes, and gradually grew into a massive engine. Soon thereafter this locomotive was moving through the yards on it's own steam, and soon after that it was on it's way to re- equip the State Railway of France, which is one of the vital links of the war game. First of all the American double track road up to the front was equipped, and then the French State railway took it's turn, for they are oil part of the network of feeders for the allied War service
 10 ENGINES A DAY.
 "We turn out siXe to ten complete locomotives a day." said the Baron, land by September it Y be 20 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 boi- lers wee being tested after their voy- age across the ocean to see if the sea water had opened any joints or loos- ened rjyesS. It was surprising, said the Baron, how we'll they stood the voyage with no loosening of parts, and practically perfect when they ar rive.
 Besides the industry of such huge concern, there is besides, the equip ment of living quarters for the army of workmen-soldiers. Thus good sized city has sprung up, with ave- nues and streets lined with barracks, mess hooms, canteens, barber shops, dentists office, baths, and all the ac- tivities of a flourishing frontier town.
 AMERICAN WAYS.
 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 transporta- tion by which American troops and supplies are moved to the front. When the Americans came here there were two tracks; now there is network of 21 tracks. Hundreds of American engines and cars were moving over these lines as we went through the yards today, and some 40 newly com pleted locomotives just turned out at the nearby 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 be put to- gether in this steady stream of vast war construction.
 Passing headquarters, word had just come by telephone that the Ger man offensive had begun on an 8O-kil- ometre front. Soon it passed from shop to shop, and the whole estab- lishment was stirred and stimulated. Officers and men beamed at the thought that the fight was on, with feeling of confidence that knew no such thing as failure, and feeling also that these soldier -workmen in their overalls were doing their part in winning the fight.