Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-03-10

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 One of the first concerns of the officers in charge of the bakery was i to provide with railroad facilities, and ! to this end spur tracks have been constructed out to the field from the city. Over these tracks whole car 1 loads of bread leave each morning and afttrnoon for the training camps and the front.
 Each baking company, though SUD- posed only to have an output of 30,- 900 pounds a dap has for some time been exceeding this limit and has been turning out from 33,O00 to 35,- 900 pounds. The men, 101 to a com- pany, work in two F hour shifts, al- telnating week by week in day and night work. Their product, chiefly great, round, hard-crusted loaves, constitutes about 40 separate ship ments that are made daily-by train, motor truck and horse drawn vehic- les. The loaves are very hard on the outside. to protect the bread as it is transported, but are soft inside. No soldiers bread is more than 24, in rare instances 36, hours old when he gets it.
 The brand is supplemented by bis- cults and rolls to vary the monotony at breakfast and supper, rolls that please the taste of one who has been months or years in Europe without his favorite American white bread. All the product of the bakery is made as in ordinary times at home except hot pounds to 100 pounds of flour-is new omitted The ingredients here are flour, water. salt and yeast. : Shipments of these ingredients are arriving very regularly and satisfact- fly. the commandment of the bakery told the correspondent as he opened the door of a reserve magazine or shack where considerable more than a half million pounds of flour, most of it the high grade product that quality and clever advertising have made popular, is stored
 In the city itself the American ] found one of the largest refrigerating and meat storage warehouses in France, and absorbed it last July even though it was then may times larger than their needs. It's capacity is close to two million pounds. and while it has at times been full or nearly full, the supply is never permitted to fall below half million pounds. There are more than 600,000 pounds there now.
 Direct railroad lines lead not only l from the bakery and the refrigerat- ing plant to the camps, but also from the seaports and the city so that there is constant and uninterrupted flow of material into town as we'll as out.
 Several miles westward, at the low CT apex of the triangle, lies another French town which has been all but bodily taken over by the Americans as storage center. Here everything that comes under the head of non- perishable foods-canned goods, salt, sugar, vegetables other than those bought fresh from the French peas ants-is stored in huge quantities against the time of need.
 One of the largest buildings which the Americans have taken over is de- voted to- equipment. Here are stored thousands upon thousands of uni forms and every article of clothing from shoes and caps down to but tons. In these stores the sup. ply is not only large enough to meet all the reequipment needs of the troops, estimated at several pairs of shoes a year and at least three or four uniforms, but also to outfit all the newcomers who may arrive.
 The bakery and cold storage plants at one apex of the triangle and the storage houses for clothing and non- perishable goods at another apex are all permanent sources of supply, wherto materials and goods come in huge quantities and whence they leave in bulk. At the third and upper apex is the Separator" into which every thing flows, where it is split up and parcelled out and from which it is sent in large and small lots accord ing to the needs of this or that camp. Here a complicated organization has grown up which, with endless freight cars, motor trucks and horse drawn vehicles at it's disposal, seizes the bulk goods as they arrive, di- vides it into the requisite shipments, and responsible for tehir arrval at camp behnd the front.
 The men who are doing all this ] work have long hours--none of them is on duty less than 12 hours and most of them work longer-and what 1 they do lacks the zest of the spectac- ular without being entirely free from the dangerous features of warfare. Minus the popular acclaim which the lighting soldiers gets. they are stead- ily and earnestly making the latter's task possible. and in their own way GOlnn thQIr che fn uyiN