Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-05-05

manure and dead animals. A dead
horse is valued at SIS. Bread unit for
further table use after each meal viii
be collected, dried and sold for chicken
food. Cooked meat. raw fats. trim.
mings. scraps. discarded cooked grease.
bones. trap greases and other garbage
must be collected and rendered.
From the grease and fats the rem.
derers extract glycerin. one Of the
important ingredients used in muni-
lions. 1t is valued at 1890 q ton: the
grease Is worth SO . ton in the mar
garbage will give up fats, alcohol and
fertilizer to the value Of 1870. ana
that the net saving Of this waste alone
on the basis Of q million men viii
amount to the large sum Of nearly
10000 900 a year.
The orders and regulations will pre.
vide to the last detail for the conssr.
walton and reclamation OF everything
that can be saved, and the attempt
will be made to prove that the Army
win respond quite as promptly to this
form of patriotism as any body or
class of citizens.
In order to have a more practical
knowled &c of the new duties devolvinG
on him as assistant secretary of war
in charge of the non-military actfvi.
ties of the enlisted personnel. Fred
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bia College. New York city. il visiting
the large camps In various parts Of the
country and living with the soldiers
as self-constituted rookie. While
visiting Camp Grant at Rockford, Ill,
he messed with the soldiers and said
that the food served to him WAS better
than he could AFFORD to buy in Wash
ington city. He added that he found
conditions the same at other camps
Maj. Gen. Willard A. Holbrook has
been detached by the War Department
to relieve Brig. Gen. John w. Ruck.
man as commander OF the Southern
Department. Gen. Holbrook has been
in charge at Camp Sherman, Ohio.
Gen. Ruckman will be ordered to
! Boston to assume command Of the
Northeastern Department, relieving
Brig. Gen. John A. johnson, who. win
become commander at Camp Cody, New
Mexico.
Coils. NJ. W. Ireland and Francis A.
Winter of the Medical Corps. have been
| nominated to be brigadier generals in
the National Army.
Oswald A. Greager of Hyattsvills,
I Md. has been appointed a captain in
the Quartermaster Reserve Corps Of
the Army.
Forty-two second lieutenants at the
engineer officers training camp At
Camp Lee. Petersburg. Va. have been
ordered to the engineer replacement
station at Camp A. A. Humphreys,
Accotink. Va. for duty. as follows.
Brant S. Derr. Irwin E. Gaylord.
leaf. Cleu B. Greenlese. Cecil B. Grigg.
Arthur H. Hammond. Henry H. Hart.
Carl G. Howe. Harry v. Hume. James
J. jackson. James Fl. Jeans. Elmer A.
Jones, Dudley H. Jones. Harry E. ODeal.
George f. Reichelderfer. Robert H.
Roesen. Harmon D. Rosenkrans. WILL
liam c. Rosenthal. George J. Schmidt,
Arthur Scott. Horace W. Shaw. Byron
H. Smith. Charles A; Smith; Franklir
Stang. George A Streicher. Clarence II.
Schwartz. John A. B. Tompkins. r.,
Silas NJ. Trumbo. Edward r. Walter.
Russell A.. Roberts. Norman B. Patton.
jr.. George A. Patterson: Thomas n
Martin c. Reimer. Roy L. Replinger
and Dibble NJ. Rickenbaker. f-
The following named second heuten.
ants at the same camp have been or.
in this city for assignment to duty:
Roscoe r. stoltz. Herbert E. Fostsr.
William E. Hoyt, William G. Owens.
Albin Pearson, Frederick J. Pease.
Raymond E. Hoyt. William g. Owens,
ten. Frank J. Prindiville. and George
|C. Provost.
The following named second lieuten-
ants at the same camp are assigned to
duty at Camp Laurel. Nd:
All Wesey podd Iho Gsorre Ed
wards. Albert L. Ferris. William p.
-Findlater. Harry r. Frankie, Reginald
s. Fraser, Herman E. Froelfch, ana
Robert L. Gangwisch.