Arizona republican., 1918-03-17

houses are going up and a great sys- tenn of switches has been laid or is in | the course of being laid.
 Growing by Magic
 T like to come out here once | week." said a colonel of the engineers | to the correspondent, "and see how | different things look from what they | did the week before.
 T almost lose my way"
 This new dockage, with two othsr l new frontages that are being developed in connection with it, will allow forty | large or sixty medium sized steamers 1 to be unloaded simultaneously.
 MT. Bakers questions were freuuent. penetrating and often technical when the engineers were explaining the rail- ways connecting the various ports with the bases in the interior. He asked particularly about grades, so as to es- timate the requirements in engine power and the heaviness of loads. He rather astonished the engineers by the detailed character of his questionings. which touched the very problems that bother them most.
 See Gun Put in Place
 At a heavy artillery training camp secretary Baker saw a battery of long range large caliber guns put
 
 by automobile tractors, and shallow recoil trenches were quickly dug, but with unerring methods. MT. Baker took stand close to one of the great pieces and followed the ex- plantations of the major in command. It was one of the new guns from a French workshop and of a type | with which the American artillerists are already making a reputation on 1 the front.
 The secretary had been told by French officers of the skill of the American gunners in handling this weapon, in the management of which the French artillerists heretofore had considered themselves unexcelled. Baker became so interested that he mounted the chief gunner's stand and looked through the sight and watched the adjustment of the piece to the range markings.
 Ceremony is Simple
 The secretary's train arrived at an important town near the port at 8 o'clock in the morning. The prefect of the department, the French gen. eral commanding the district and numerous American officers were there to welcome him. His reception was simple. The band as Secretary Baker and General Pershing issued from the station, sounded the salute to the colors, and a battalion of American soldiers stood at salute. That was the only ceremony of the day except a small review of the troops at the artillery camp. Official dinners, by the secretary's request, were omitted from his pro- gram. He and General Pershing re- | n ah r1 hn trai nfrh spend most of their travelling days : in business.
 : The French officials said to the correspondent.
 Build Complete Port : The Americans, with the object ] only of winning the war are eX- ! pending in this region on permanent 9 works about s40,000,000. French I ports will be expanded as they prob e ably would not have been for a good : many years, if the war was not go- : ing on.
 n Secretary Baker watched for some time in another yard the assembling and setting up of the parts of Ameri- > can-built locomotives. He saw a e series of them in various stages of completeness. One hundred and
 seventy-two have been put together
 IHuS ldI, DuI IL IS luteuOeQ 10 send from these shops HOO. Take "Bray" From Mules s The secretary visited a remount depot. which for the most part con- e sisted of immense mule stables. It T is here that the Americans have
 taken up French veterinary practice
 extracting the bray" from a mule y by a slight surgical operation on the
 nose, so that the silvery bray, which z can be heard @ mile or two upon f silent nights at the front will become V a harmless wheeze-not enough tc
 awaken the enemy and draw his ', shell fire.
 MT. Baker visited recently wounded e Americans, and talked with them. H5
 listened to some personal accounts l. of the mems experiences. At the end s of the day, back aboard the train q General Pershing, in discussing the a secretary's visit, said:
 Il T had long urged the secretary L. to come to France. Now that he o is here we are delighted that ht l. means to take the time to master
 the details of our situation as oul