The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-04-12
ARMY SUPPLIES IN
1 CHAIN, or CITIES
Three Towns Behind the Lines
W. iia France Hold Great gian
E Stores. e. .siV
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BAKERY SYSTEM A FEATURE
Forty Shipments OF White Bread Made
Daily--AlI Facilities Being En-. ,
larged--one Town Is Stor.
~. age Center. tsss~

Behind the American Front in
FFauce.--Less spectacular than the
continued arrival of American troops
and theie occupation OF definite front
settor set In its way quite as impor-l
'ant for their success, has been the
steady Development Of the system Of
keeping them in the myriad supplies
they must have.
Keeping pace with The increasing
training camps there has grown np
storage, transportation aud distribu-
lion system that not only accurately
nnd efficiently supplies the needs of
all our soldiers but is continually be-
ing enlarged against future needs.
Neither troops nor supplies can come
loo fast for it.
The various functions of the system
bakery, refrlgcrating plant ware
houses for clothing, non-perishablo
foods and similar supplies, aud the
main distributing plant--are located
for convenience sake In three towns
Or cities situated respectively at the
three corners Of an obtuse triangle,
and near enough to the training camps
and front SO that supplies can reach
The furthest points in "A hours.
Bakery ls Great Industry.
No link in the chain between "a port
ia France" and the American front is,
perhaps, more interesting than the bak-
ries.
The supplying Of the American
troops in rance with White bread has
pccome d great Industry and is growing
aIl lhe lime The few bakers orig- |
nally here have grown into companies |
lhe relatively small daily quantity 6t |
prcad turned out III July has increased |
to scores Of thousands Of pounds, and |
rulrc shiploads OF llour are arriving |
weekly and are being stored away ia |
warehouses With capacity Of millions
Of pounds as reserve against the
arrival Of still more troops.
The American army first took pos
session q q huge bakery III q central
french cily formerly opea tc1 by a
,erman, and having a capacity for
storing l500,000 pounds of flour, in ad-
lition to not inconsiderable daily |;
output of bread from its coke ovens.
Those making the arrangements |:
,new that the time would soon come
when The city bakery would be inad-
quatc, 50 tbey went outside of The
1ty aud leased from the French tract
If land consisting Of several thousand
lcres, upon which the conventional mil
uIry wooden shacks soon sprang up
aud where there is room for an in
lcGntc number Of additional field bak-
'ries as The need may arise.
by the time the city bakery had
coached its capacity the shacks We're
iully equipped with the very latest in
Jaking machinery
spur tracks have been constructed
nut TO the field from the city, and over
them carloads Of bread leave each
morning and afternoon for the training
camps and the front.
Forty Shipments Daily.
Each baking company has for some
time been exceeding the limit OF 10000
pounds a day and has been turning
out from $4,000 to $4,000 pounds. The
men, 101 to a company, work in two II
hour shifts. Their product, Chiefly
great resnd, hard-crusted loaves, con-
stitutes about forty separate shipments
that are made daily-by train, motor
truck and horse-drawn vehicles.
The bread is supplemented by bis
cults and rolls at breakfast and sup
per.
In the city itself the Americans
found one of the largest refrigerating
md meat storage warehouses IN
France, and absorbed it last July, /
though it was then many times larger
han their needs. Its capacity is close
o two million pounds, and while it
has at times been nearly full, the sup.
ply is never permitted to fall below
lslf million pounds. There are more
han 100000 pounds there now.
Direct railroad lines lead not only
rom the bakery and the refrigerating
liant TO the camps but also from the
.e9ports and the city.
Several miles westward, at the low
II apex of the triangle, lies another
french town which has been all but
bodily taken over by the Americans
Is a storage center. Here non-perish-
ible foods-cauned goods, salt, sugar
md vegetables other than those bought
'resh from the French peasants-are
'tored.
one OF fhe largest buildings which
he Americans have taken over is de-
roted to equipment. Here are stored
many thousands of uniforms aud ev-
,ry article of clothing from shoes aud
.ups TO buttons and handkerchiefs.
The needs of the troops is estimated
lt several pairs of shoes year and
.hree or four uniforms.