Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-01-10
U. S. MOTOR ~
TRUCK STATION
Wauseon Business Men Will Furnish
Quarters For U. S. Motor Truck
Drivers--WauseOn to be Regular
All Night StOp-Nearly 5000
Trucks In Transit.

Lieutenants Lamb and Plum of
The U. S. Motor Transportation
branch of the Army drove INTO Wau-
seon Monday morning, their business
being to survey and arrange a route
from Detroit to Chicago 1or nearly
six thousand U. S. Army motor
trucks VIII ch are to be moved from
Detroit, Michigan to Chicago. Lieu
tenant Lamb got in touch with L..
M. Mcdonald of the Superior Iron
and Manufacturing Company and
W. B. Harris, president of the Wau-
seon Boosters Cub and put up TO
them the proposition of making
Wauseon a station for all night
stops of the motor truck trains on
their wav to Chicago.
The proposition presented by the
officers involved the furnishing of a
building to serve as quarters for
about seventy-five men each night
IN the week; the parties who arrive
on Saturday evening to remain in
Wauseon over Sunday, Mr.. Nc
Donald offered to vacate the Clinton
Hotel which has been in use as a
boarding house for the Mexican en-
ployees of the Superior Iron and
Manufacturing Company for some
time past. Mr.. Harris, president Of
the Wauseon Boosters Club issued
an emergency call" for a meeting
and within a short space of time
thirty or forty bus ness men had
gathered to take the matter under
advisement.
These business men demonstrated
their patriotism and public spirit by
deciding to accept the proposition Of
the U. s. Army Officers and the
offer of Mr. Macdonald and furnish
the Government with quarters for
the convoy troops. The motives as
expressed by several of those pre-
sent were not so much hope of finan-
cial returns; as that necessarily
would be small and there is no dis
position among the people of Wau-
seon TO exploit the boys who are in
the service of the U. S. Army. but
rather to maintain the reputation Of
the town as progressive and patriotic
and to furnish a comfortable place
for the men in service to spend
their first night out from Detroit.
The estimated cost including rental
Of the building is about $4,000 per
month.
Soliciting committees were chosen
and Immediately got to work Mr..
Charles Mathews was appointed
special agent and treasurer of the
Wauseon Army Motor Tuck Stat on
and later on in response to an appeal,
Scoutmaster, G. ]. Ives promised
the services of Wauseon Boy Scout
Troops to see that fires are started
in the building each day so that it
will be ready for the conveys when
they arrive. A regular schedule
for the entire route will be arranged
so that there will be a specific arriv-
ing and departing time at each sta
ton; the schedule will begin in the
near future and will continue fol-
about six months, Something like
40 or so trucks will be parked on the
streets of Wauseon each night anc
about 70 men will spend every night
and Sunday in Wauseon until the
entire 5000 trucks have been trans.
ferred from Detroit to Chicago.
Wauseon couldn't have a nitrate
plant or munition factory of any kind
or in fact any thing else that would
bTAlk Aily BIcdI dAlOulS VI NONSAh'
ment expenditures into the town
but it could and did furnish a full
quota of splendid men who were will.
ing to consecrate their lives to the
service of the Flag: 1t could anC
did go over the top on Liberty Loans
War Savings Stamps, Red Cross
(work by its women and men to
gether.) War Chest Fund and all the
rest of the activities that called fol
giving, hard work and sacrifice
And now we are TO have the honor q
contributing n little more to the wei
fare of our men in military servic'
and the help of our Government D!
maintaining a motor truck Trans
port Station.
We are proud of our record as ;
town and mighty glad that we are d
the map as a giving radiating cente
rather than as a grating and grab
bing center. We are ready to lool
every one Of the boys straight in tn
eyes when they get home and sa.
"Howdy Buddy, welcome home, gla'
70 see y'back, mighty proud o'ye an,
v'aint got no call to be ashame'
o'usl"