The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1919-02-07
Ten Thousand Soldiers Toll at
Turning Out Shells to Rout
Germans.
MANY Are INJURED AT WORK
Edgewood Arsenal in Maryland Won
Place of Leadership Over Allies in
Scientific Progress and Dead
illness of output-Gas Fac
tory City in Itself.

Baltimore, Md.-While the men who
have been working in shipyards and
munition plants have received just
praise for their fulfillment of patriotic
duty, there is an army of men 1O,OOO
strong who have worked faithfully,
carefully screened from public notice,
performing some Of the most fmpor-
tant work of the war, work which was
largely responsible for the early sign
ing of the armistice, who have re-
ceived no recognition at all.
Day after day they have secretly
worked in the manufacture of the poi
sonous gases which routed the Huns
and impressed upon the Germans the
ingenuity and resourcefulness Of the
American brain.
These men of the Edgewood arsenal
stayed on American soil, never had the
excitement of an ocean voyage or ad-
venture in a foreign country or the
hero-worship of those who have been
overseas, and yet while staying right
in this country they ran greater risks
than many of the men on the firing
line.
| 500 at One Time in Hospital.
The hospital at Edgewood is now
occupied by 300 men who have been
gassed or burned while about their
country's work. There have been as
| greac heroes at EdgewOod as on the
battlefield. There is in the hospital
blue-eyed boy in early manhood
/ smiling bravely through scars which
| are today as vivid as the first day
months ago, when they brought him
a writhing bit of humanity, to the
! hospital. Nor is he the only one. There
are others, some of whom have beer
gassed twice and thrice and are today
! invalided in Colorado, having devel
oped tuberculosis.
Hundreds of others are MANNED ant
will always bear the marks of theil
sacrifice for Uncle Sam, which the!
gave so gladly without any Of tht
. glory, stripes, promotion or encourage
ment given to the men in the camp.
and trenches.
The signing of the armistice ha!
made it possible for the public to hav'
the first insight into the vast worl
which has been accomplished at th'
Edgewood arsenal, where has beer
manufactured and shipped safel,
"over there" more gas than has beer
made by England and France com
bined. Far removed from prying eyes
these thousands of men have produce'
gases which will go down in histor.
as among the greatest achievements o
the war.
Gas Factory a City in Itself.
Where on October "a, 1917, stood
bare waste of forest, now stands wha
is a small manufacturing town and
city in its activities. Great chemica
plants have risen with lightning rapid
ity. There are the chlorine, phosgene
chloralin and mustard gas plants, an
then down near the water the larg
filling plant where the big shells wer
filled with deadly poisons and sent OF
their errand Of freeing humanity.
Edgewood arsenal covers tract O
300 acres, adjoining its companion
unit, the great Aberdeen provin
grounds, where the biggest of the bi
guns We're tried out that were dc
signed to smash the strongest Of Gel
man f0rtifications. At the arsena
these results, it was confidently pre-
dicted, would be more effectively 81
cured, and certainly at smaller hu
man cost, by the gas products whic