The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-06-13
ROCKENBACHER MAKES
GOOD OVER In FRANCE
NOVEL IDEA TO EooNoMIZE
FOR UNCLE SAM.
Maj. Fyffe Writes Interesting
Letter From Over
in France,

In a letter 10 a personal friend 4
Chattanooga Maj. J. p. Fyffe write
some real news from France. III
sees numbers OF Chattanooga boy
at Is-sur-T Tile, an army supply de
pot. The letter is as follows:
Somewhere In France. May 10Th,
Chicago stocSyards used TO boast tina
they saved all the hog except th'
squeal. II s. d. Rockenbach, now ma.
jor- generating down about ST. Nazaire
had been of the stockyard variety they
could have saved the squeal and put Il
| to some practical use. For has he moi
! found that he can actually save money
for the government by music? Nothing
very extraordinary about that. either
just the application OF art to usefu
science.
There are about $4,000 troops at st.
Nazaire, where Gen. r. Is commander
OF the base port. There are troops en-
route home, except the men that oper-
ate the plant. He cares for them in five
rationed at one Kitchen. Five thou
sand men eat under one roof in one
hour II is some sight to see the
process, but that Is another story. The
other day they fed 5000 in one hour
and forty minutes.
In the center OF the big mess hall
seating some thousands there Is a
bandstand, and Gen. r. stations a band
there to play during meals, and all are
permitted to be served as long as they
can eat. A big sign reads, "All the
Seconds You Want Served Here" Now
the general found that the men home
ward bound" were In a merry mood
and had brought their appetites along,
so that, with nothing to hurry them,
they stayed In the mess hall and talked
and ate until they were more than sat
isfied. taking UP time the X. P.'s needed
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in the mess hall during meals and found
that IL cut down the time the men re-
manned there by nearly half. In place
of talking they listened to the music.
eating the while. A man can listen and
eat, but he cannot talk and eat. Most
whether any one listens or not. so all
talked and consumed too much OF both
time and food. sBy keeping count he
found that the music was an economy
both OF time and food. II he ever goes
into the packing-house business he win
doubtless find a way to utilize even the
squeal of the pig.
Just here the whistle OF the execu-
tive officer summoned us to tumble
out. II was 1880 o'clock as they
reckin time here. We went to a cor
rugated iron building that seats 2,500
persons. 1t was crowded. There 10 q
stage forty feet wide. A troup Of fiye
show lasting two hours. They were Y.
M. G. A. entertainers. This was at the
advance storage depot at Is-sur- Tile.
They made 100000 pounds Of bread
daily here for the front line. Every
other army supply from here was on
the same scale.
Speaking OF bread. saw this morn
ing at Verneuil the big truck repair
shop. employing 5000 men. the best
mess hall arrangement have seen in
Ill France. They feed the whole force
n about forty-five minutes and the
ness line Is done away with Every
nan takes his seat and Is served and
ais dishes are washed for him. And,
What Is more unusual, the men brag
IN the meals they get, and believe
,ightfully claim they are the best in the
army. Now the mess officer who has
all this signs himself
capt. Emmett Cook, being from Chatta-
iooga and a son OF the late DR.. S. 4. |
cook. Archie Willingham is also To- |
.ated there. but did not get to see |
lin.
Tomorrow we viii be at Chaumont, |
where for two days we will listen to |
lome interesting lectures by the various