Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-10-13
STIRRING SCENES
AT FRENCH PORT
Huge Cranes Unload Vast Guam
titles of American Made
Goods.
GREAT DOCKS CONSTRUCTED
Fifty Million Pounds of Material
Required Daily by
Soldiers.
GREAT DOCKS CONSTRUCTED

AMERICAN PORT. SOUTHWEST
Big $, fRANGE. 3cteb heo
goods at the ratio of 10000 tons a day
d daSRs b the three Tns miles of Ameriean
ring scene of activity. Crowds OF en-
listed men assisted at the matches and
manipulated the giant cranes az bis
bodily. along with parts OF locomotives
and railway cars. and all the miscelian-
e9us freight Of an army. while an army
stream Of goods moving hack TO the
nearby warehouses and trains.
/. r naki rs care OF tbs avalanche OF
quite az much Of. problem as taking
care OF the arriving trSops. Hene one
Americans have been compelled to set
up cd 70, this ;, branch Of the expedition.
cession OF big American establishments
was was seen at every port along the west
ern coast. AZ one port were fourteen
port eight. at a third four. another
three. Here at this main port are
american docks each with 1000 feet of
These forty-fve docks at the 1--WE
M ports represent dock frontage
Ing 10000 tons OF army goods every
day. or an average OF about fifty pounds
per man for every one serving in
And yet. great as this present equip
m ,hens Is IT represents, only about a
third of the vast installation which is
moving steadily forward to conpietion
IN order TO meet the needs of an army
Of several million men. The basis OF
ponnds der this huge Tprk Is fifty
average covering the whole range Of
military supplies. individual and gen.
snd ali fGo e;heI aIm am%pn,9n
On this established basis OF fifty
pounds per day per man. an army of a
of goods daily. or $4,000 tons. But as
the American army In Europe has long
exceeded the million mark. the scale
this $4,000 tons day. reaching not
far from the gigantic total OF 100. o0o
tons daily, to be unloaded from ships
stored In warehouses and trains and
started on it's way to the men at the
front. 1t is this colossal daily require
ment which stirs into intense activity
these miles on miles of American docks
where three shifts of soldier workmen
working night and day. are unlsading
scores of steamships.
GIGANTIC WAREHOUSES;
FOR STORING GOODS
Seven miles back from the water
front there is another huge American
installation where goods from the ships
II is gigantic. like everything in this
vast military influx. and when we Wis
Just then been Completed. A Each Wa nso
they stretch along four miles of front.
In the neighboring camp were 1000
negro troops and laborers engaged in
the warehouse work. An American
railway system connects the water
front directly with this storage plant
and inceSSant streams of army goods
keep moving forward to the warehouse
plant. The whole place fairly throbs
with animation. and besides the enor-
nous industry there is the hustle and
activity of countless camps with their
khaki tents dotting the fields for miles
along the railway.
Altogether. on the water front and
receiving plant, the working force in
cludes $4,000 engineer troops 1000
stevedores, 5000 civilian laborers 900
German prisoners and 1000 infantry, in
all 10000 men carrying on the Ameri-
can activities at this one port.