New Britain herald., 1918-02-18
|ORT OF AMERICAN
 ARRIVAL GROWS
lly a Town Six Months Ago, Now Military Center

A Bort in France, Jan. 3l- (Cor- #poL~ence of The Associated Press) #A little more than six months has Bought a mighty change in the base . which, last June, the first division N American troops landed to go into @aining for their fight with the Ger
 ans.
 AThe docks have been and are be- Sg enlarged, storage warehouses @ve been and are being built, the #rboF has been dredged out to ac- &mmodate more and larger~ ships, Nd the railroad facilities have been Early doubled and are being in- #eased day by day.
 &The enlargement of the port has #eated a somewhat anomalous situ- @on. For whereas up to about the #d rs1 last year troops landed more #su1arly and quickly then supplies, H that it was sometimes feared it Buld be necessary to draw tempor- Arily on the French for their sup @rt, the base is now in the position # being able to handle more tonnage "a. sS at present coming to it, either
 form Of supply or troop ships.
 capacity of the port, would,
 r, be almost reached with the
 Zion of the docks and store
 8Sgs now under construction if it Mre not for far-reaching engineering
 ans that are underway.
 N Americans Look Far Ahead. #rhe American authorities early #resaw that even comprehensive Sek enlargements would inevita bly ~IlN in congestion and confusion if #he outlet were not arranged for @ increasing supplies expected to |gSSive when they are needed, and Mich even increased storage space 8 Id not be expected to accommo- |e. The problem resolved itself Mo one of transportation.
 S#7herefore, while the railroad #cks~ at the port itself are vastly BSre numerous than they were six bnths ago, the American engineers Eve conceived a plan whereby a vast of land three or four miles bact M the port has been taken over, and # being developed coincidently with @ port itself.
 ## On either side of huge basin Mso wh%&h ships can if necessary be MEed and unloaded, dozens of par Eel spur tracks are being laid. They
 serve a dual purpose, for cars @her can be filled from barges and
 ssels brought into the basin, or aSAss loaded at the port itself can
 Ekly and easily be hauled to the # ITS and there made up into trains. N9rho American already have taken br on lease from the French ccr- &sn IAes of railroad which will be XVI from the yards of the port and " it's complementary station in the 8@r They are increasing constantly M efficiency and c6 pacity of the port WeIf by helping the French to econ @ize in dock and transportation
 ce.
 #&The American plan which enviS-
 s caring for vastly more volume 8n t-% port would normally accom- @date, even with the enlargement 2docks and storehouses, is not orlr
 l with them but is more or less a @v of what the English have done @another port, where they have in- A&ased the daily output of merchant
 M from about 200 cars or less to Mre than 700. This they have been
 Ra te, do by laying out huge yards NS8the Frear of the actual port to Mid congestion and to facilitate Ml<ing up trains.
 @ New Transportation Bureau. he steady development of the @erican port has made it necessary 3 rearrangc the manner Tn which @ work is done. Last July a com @ratively small branch of the quar- @master's department was amply #la to superintend and manage the @ioas$sng and distribution of sup #esA Teday the work has grown so Ri it has had to be entrusted to a