The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-09-22
LME R|CAN ARMY
IN EUROPE WELL
FED AND CLOTHED

Tours, Central France. - CORES
pondence of The Associated Press.)-
The American army in Europe could
be fed and clothed and all its creature
comforts looked after for three months
IL not another pound OF supplies was
secured. This was the statement made
here by officers Of the army quarter
masters department which directs
this mammoth work Of supplies.
It gives an idea OF the vest stock
Of reserve resources stored in the miles
Of warehouses stretching from the
coast inland to the fighting line, and
1t is a comforting assurance too that
this huge reserve will be kept up
through the coming winter period SO
that the American soldiers warmth,
as well as his food and clothing. will
be fully looked after.
It is a huge undertaking to feed
million men even for a single day-a
million men scattered to a thousand
points, in trenches, on battlef1elds and
camps, along 500 miles of front and
for a depth of 500 miles. And when are
added housing and clothing, and the
period is extended through the winter
months of cold and frost, with the
prospect that another million or two
men may be headed this way before
long-with these elements one gets
some idea of the magnitude of the sup
ply problem for a million or more men.
Here at the center of the system,
where the receipts are regulated and
the distribution made, there was an
opportunity of learning some Of the g.
tails of how the system operates.
he nrI, toly
over four million pounds of food every
day to feed the army. This prodigious
daily consumption Of food embraces
a million pounds of flour baked into a
million pound OF bread every day. S75,-
600 pounds of fresh beef, $4,000
pounds of potatoes, $50, 900 pounds Of
sugar and $4,000 pounds of tomatoes.
The pepper and salt for a single day Is
$4,000 pounds.
Must Have Their Coffee.
Army coffee is roasted at the rate
Of 10000 pounds a day, and it takes
10000 pounds OF solidified alcohol to
cook this coffee through the month.
The beef is the bulsiest product used
each day, and occupies daily space of
$4,000 cubic feet, or about the dimen-
sions of a business block, of solid
meat. Flour comes next, requiring
$4,000 cubic feet of daily space, and
potatoes about the same
These are only a few Of the main
items. But the list runs all through
the many requirement of the oversee
army ration, with vast quantities in
each case. Here are some of the other
daily items:
Bacon 225,000 pounds. beans $4,000
pounds, rice $4,000 pounds. onions
100000 pounds, evaporated fruit TO-.
900 pounds, milk $500 pounds, vinegar
40 900 pounds, lard 10000 pounds, but
ter $1,000 pounds, strip 10000 pounds
These, being included in the over
sea ration, everyone of the million men
is entitled to his full allowance and it
must go forward to him wherever he
is. So that besides the vast daily
stock there is the question of unfail-
ing daily delivery first by railways
and canton trains, and then to the
individual soldier.
Often on the field or in the trenches
he is supplied from marmites, or huge
thermos bottles carrying hot food for
eight men, and often too the delivery
IN the trenches is by the Yukon pack
used in Alaska by the Hudson Bay
voyagers and Indians
Besides this four million pounds of
food moving forward daily to the
troops, each man carreis with him two
days emergency ration. five pounds to
the man, or an additional five million
pounds of food for an army of a mil
lion men. OF the emergency ration,
carried on the back, there is outstand-
ing every day two million pounds Of
corned beef and two million pounds OF
bareback. 100000 pounds of sugar, e.
500 pounds Of coffee, 10000 pounds OF
salt and 100000 pounds of solicited al
cohol for heating and cooking while on
march