Bisbee daily review., 1919-06-29

switches in this yard and the rails are all American with the ties from Portugal.
 Rail Terminal Built In Six Months
 The work of construction at Mon. toir began on Jan. 1st, 1918, and was practically completed in June, so 1t can be seen that this greatest of all terminals was placed in operation but six months after construction began and the greatest French engineers said it was impossible.
 Until June 18th, 1918, no attempt had been made to operate trains with American crews, but on this date the 31st Engineers with 1750 men made up of the most highly efficient oper- ators of the States were ready for duty, and operation of trains by all. American crews began at this time. . Inasmuch as train movements were governed by the French who have no centralized control of train move ments, but place their handling en- tirely with the Chef de Care at each station, it was impossible to regulate the movements of trains. Too much cannot be said of the efficient man. ner in which the railroad trainmenn did their work under such trying con- ditions. Every time train reached station you had to stop the train and call on the Chef de Care, smoke cigarette and drink a glass of wine with him, then maybe he would tell you whether or not you could pro. ceed to the next station.
 Yanks Play Trick on Chef de Care remember one trip the 18th reg iment took from Paris to Bordeaux in, the famous 40 hommes and s chaveaux" in the month of December when the weather was more than chilly and there were cracks in the bottom of the cars large enough to throw a cat through, and the train stopped at some junction about 2 o'clock one evening at the same time as a freight train going the other way. This freight train had three cars of baled hay among other cars and the nien immediately came forth from their cramped quarters at the prospect of getting some hay to ease up the hard places on the floor of the cars. But as luck would have 1t one of our old trusty M. P.'s was present and prevented the men from taking the hay from this train, so after few minutes conference a fight started at another part of our train and while the M. P. was look ing it over two of these cars of hay were very quickly and efficiently un- loaded into about twenty other cars. As soon as the Frog" brakeman dis covered the shortage he ran for the engineer and they both got the Chef de Care, then the three got the sta tion agent and the last I saw of the empty cars there were sixteen Frenchmen holding a very excited conference over the great efficiency of the German spy system.
 Camps Denounced in Kansas Paper
 While I was in St. Nazaire I not iced an article in a paper from Wich- ita, Kans., of March 10. 1919, which appeared to be a concentrated denun- citation of the three authorization camps of France. Under the caption. Declares Brest Like Cattle Pen" a returned soldier stated thats the men were forced to play base ball to keep up appearances. Had this arti- cle by Pvt Leonard Davis of the Seth Division dealt simply with one camp it might have been overlooked, but his arraignment touched all the camps in France and I knew the av- craze private could not possibly have been so fortunate as to have been honored by the A, E. F. as a guest Of