New-York tribune., 1918-07-13

LaZing coffee wagons and lunch stands be-
came centres of rush hour trade
The munition workers were coming home!
Hundreds after hundreds of them poured
through the station from incoming trains
They threw bursts of laughter into the
teeth of night. They joked and rollicked.
They capered and jostled The second shift
was coming home with zip and g bang!
No tired, dragging, lettering body of
workers was this. The fire and dash of
this midnight armymost of them girls
and women-was amazing.
They had ridden nearly two hours by
rail-they were doing that trip twice
day, and here they come, bursting out OF
the trains, through the station and into
the street. like school children out for
playtime. Of course, not every one came
by with high-speed spirit in face or gait;
but that was the crowd effect; it was the
spirit of the mass, with the dull, tired face
rare exception. Seldom have | seen such
an army.
The policeman had been right. He was a
friendly chap and generous with his friend
llness The sight had been worth waiting
up for-well worth it, indeed
Next day we went to the great plant
where this army, with other armies, worked
making high explosives. This plant covers
acre after acre. Everything is clean and
airy and bright
Here we saw material 90 through
marvellous processes, emerging in various
forms of condensed devilishness for use
in moving the frontier of democracy to the
other side of Berlin. From many corners
OF the earth the stuff is gathered that goes
into the product Of this great plant a
plant, by the way, that is composed of hun
dreds of small isolated structures for
safety's sake.
We put on rubber boots and rambled
around in this home Of high explosives.
We chatted with women who fondled
bundles of cordite tresses - nice. brown
tresses, soft and glossy in their newness.
1t might have been brown macaroni. for
shape and size
But this place and its work can't be de-
scribed, anyhow. It's big, and it's busy
busy as an inferno. And it is one of
hrltain's biggest factors in pilng up mu
nltlons faster than the guns can heave
them at the Huns
The impressive thing about the place was
that after seeing it we could understand
why those trainloads of young women could
come home gay and rollickinr AZ 1920
a. m. Two reasons: They worked in
splendid work place of light and room and
comfort; they were doing wonders toward
beating the Boche! Reasons enough for
joy, to be sure
ME American Officers Club in London
Is one OF the real comforts of that
big town It's where an American
officer can go and stick his feet under
table that looks like home and where he
can wind himself up in big easv chair
that feels like home
Tins club is popular with American of-
hcers, ard there's every reason possihIe wh,,
1t should be. We spent happy evening
there, with Admiral Sims and a iollv crowd
OF American army and navy officers.
snappy, happy lot of chaps in the dasb;ro
uniform of the American aviation sar,,;.a
were havlng go at the billiard and pool
tables Other groups were enjoying the
pig reading room, the writing room and
various loatng corners.
The man most responsible for this snIer.
did club is Harry Britain live wire
II ever there was one. Britain has been
10 America SO many times that he's half
American, like his partner in plotting
Lieutenant Colonel Sir Campbell Stuart,
born in Canada and permeated with love
for America.
Britain, aside from being the creator
OF the American Officers Club, is tho
founder of the Pilgrims Club, where Brit
ons and Americans are let into the secret
OF each others good qualities.