Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-11-17


"a zauox SYSTEM WHICH WILL
distributed among fifteen dinersnt
plants has been 20 standardized that
the government can now have its
Army trucks made BY the tens OF
thousands. II 10 estimated that We
shall b able 70 supply not only our
Eliza eMn troops - w. Put some OF those OF our
-. The liberty truck 10 the most efn-
Client Of all trucks for the purpose. II
10 made In three. types, ranging in
carrying weight from three fourths
OF ton to hvo tons. Without the
BODY the largest truck weighs almost
trucks Will each make from twelve to
fourteen miles an hour. ana each has
q oapacity"of more than nifty horse
power. The fuel 10 gasoline. fed by
gravity from q ffteen gallon tank on
the dashboard. with q nfteen-gallon
ton truck that lie like to have large
part In our Army work Is being made
In addition to tho demands from
abroad are the increasing demands
Tor motor trucks in the various war
Of the wonders Of the environments.
Since the war began we have created
thfrty-two military cities and sixteen
or these went up like Aladdin's Pal
ace-almost in a night Some of them
covered as much az 100 or more quar-.
Ar~0A "a nvN@ &haxR {N 1SvA
military buildings Of every descrip-
tion. They were made in accordance
with modern sanitation. and each had
its houses for the officers and men,
Its hospitals. its drill and parade
sr shspa It's sa igs ana ws
a. sewers, lighting facilities and ar
rangements for water supplies. Some
Dodge, were devoted to the training
OF cavalry, and connected with them
s.nS. u D Dtn th s
uated near Des Moines, was . CORN
field when the Secretary Of War
picked 1t out as the site for a camp.
Ve sent forth his orders. and tho
caravans Of war trucks vent to work.
In = short time five miles Of wooden
streets were created. A concrete res
ervoir. with q capacity OF 22,000 900
gallons. was built, and twenty-five
miles Of sewers were dug. Among
the buildings were bakery, iaun-
dry, hosni n, terminating .,.at plant mt
commodations were made for some
thing like 10000 horses. All Of the
transportation Of tho camp was done
by motor trucks, and that to even
hauling in the food for the horses
and taking away such horses as died.
The motor truck is doing an enor-
nous work in hauling the material
for all kinds Of war industries and in
carrying the finished products from
the factories to tho seaboard. Fleets
OF trucks are in the service all along
the Atlantic coast, and caravans of
them have been moving back and
forth over the Appalachian mountains.
The loads carried are Of every descrip-
ton. Some have rubber tires, gas
masks made Of rubber and other such
things from Akron on the way to the
east. Others carry munitions and mu-
nition-msking machinery, and some
have picric acid and other explosives,
which are so deadly that the railroads
fear to transport them on account Of
IHS danger. MS WdS tUc Ct6c WltU
q cargo of picric acid which was
taken from New Jersey to eastern
Pennsylvania. The distance was sixty
miles. and a feet Of trucks delivered
tho goods. Not long ago the copper
stills for a chemical company In
New Jersey were brought there from
Philadelphia. Each still was big
enough 70 form scald,nR vat for
It was eight feet high,
seven feet In diameter and weighed
s 900 pounds Nevertheless one truck
took two Of those stills as a load and
hauled them to the plant in less than
twelve hours
The need for speedy transportation,
Independent Of the railroads, has been
SO great that motor truck routes have
been established from many Of the
cities to New York. There Is
one known as the Akron and Boston
express. which has heen taking rubber
goods from Akron to Boston. It's
trucks have twelve-inch tires and they
run on express schedule. They leave
Akron daily Mt 6 O'Clock in the morn
ing. get to Pittsburgh about 8 In the
evening, and at noon the third day
are at Philadelphia. They reach New
York by 10 o'clock that evening, and
are due in Boston twenty-four hours
later Two men 60 with each truck