The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1918-02-23
6 MONTHS CAUSE BIG
CHANGE IN THE BASE
USED BY AMERICANS
Docks Are Being Enlarged, stor.
age Warehouses Are Being
Built, Harbor Dredged and
Place Is Beehive of Activity.

~ Assoeisrro Psrss
Port boz France. Feb. 2S.-A little
more than ,iN months have wrought "a
mighty change in the base NJ which.
last June, the first division 1T American
troops landed 90 90 into Training for
their light with the Germans.
The docks have been aud utr being
enlarged. 'torugc warehouses hn,c been
and are being built. the hurhur has been
dr"dgod out 90 accommodate more aud
larger ships, and the railroad facilities
have been nearly doubled mud ARE be-
ms increased day by duv.
The enlargement of the port has ere.
uicd "a somewhat anomalous situation.
For whereas up 10 about the end nf last
year troops landed more regularly aud
quickly than supplies, So that it was
sometimes feared il would bc necessary
10 draw temporarily on the French for
their support, the base il now in the
position OF being able 20 handle more
tonnage than il M present coming ~ H..
either IN the form of troop ar supply
ships.
The capacity Of the port would. how
ever he almost reached With the compile.
tion Of the docks and s~torchouscs now
under construction IL 10 were not for
fnrreaching engineering plans that prc
under way.
The American authorities early forr
saw that even comprehensive dock en-.
latgcmcntS would invariably re.uIr ip
congestion aud confusion II .om. ou,I.,
were not arranged for the in,re,.rr
supplies expected 10 arrive when ,b,v
are needed and which ,,,, in.r..
| storage space could not be- cypcrted q,
accommodate. The problem resolved Il,
self into one eff trnnspnrtatiop
Therefore. while the roil,onJ ,,.,t-
NJ the port itself are vastly NOR. ms.
mrrous than they were ,iv month. ,r,
the American engineers hay. conceived
q plan whereby "a vas, troet al l,rI
three or -four miles hock of ,b, NOR, bo.
been taken over. aud IL. b.,pr lc,,,
opcd coinridruily with the mort ITSELF
On either side of "A hup. hpsi, i,,,
which sbips rau II necessary Ia, ,,ycJ
and urlood,d J,y.r. 80 LII,
tracks nrr being laid They win .,,,,
q dual PURPOSE. FOR ears either can 4.
filled from hurrrs and ,g..,l. br,p,L,
into the hrsiu. OF ear, loaded M tb, nor,
itself rau quickly and easily b.. bp,I.J
~ the spurs and thor. mad. M int.
trains.
The Americans already bp,, ,,L.,
over ON lease from m, French .cy,,i,
lines Of uil7ond which uiIl be- tod from
the wards of the port and of IFS com
Elementary station lu the roar Tb,y
are increasing constantly m, cget.c.,
uf the port itself bv h,lpiry IA, p,c,.b
10 cronomiye In dock and t-r9rsrortoti,r
space.
The American plan which .pviso,,.
caring for vastly moro volume ,b,, n,
| port would normally accommodate ey.p
| with the cnlarrcmru, of docl. ,rJ -.
houses. j. moi original with them I'm,
more or less "a copv nf ,,hn, m. English
have done NJ another mort. whore ~
have Increased the daily outpu, of NOR
chaudiso from about POO ,ar. ar los.
10 more than goa. This tho, have bc,o
able 10 do bv LAYING ON, hito. vo,I. o.,
TIE rear OF the aetua! uort to ny,iJ
congestion and 20 facilitate mixing an
trains.
The steady development of the Amer
lean port has made IL necessary 10 70.
arrange the name in which the work
IL done. Last july "a rompnrntiy,l,
small branch Of The quartrrmastcr's de-.
pnftmeut was amply able To- snrerintcnd
mud mauHg" the unloading and disttihu.
tion Of supplies. Today the work Inns
grown So that It has to be entrusted To-
% railway transportation department
thnt il growing iu size every week and
which now merely turns over To the
qunrtcrmnster. rs it does % the cnpin.
cering, the aviation aud all the other dc.
partmruis such material "a, belong. "a
each.
To keep pace with the increasing val
une of supplies that arrive % hug. force
Of wotkmcn has been found necessary
| Two regiments 81 c0lorrd soldiers. mum.
| boring three thousand men and mos, nf
them husky ~steyedares and lurpsbor,
mon from New York and southern ports
In times of penre. now do the buik ~