The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1919-03-07
Yankees Build Great
Military Port at Brest
II Has Become Largest and Most
Modern Of Debarkation
Points.
SANITATION ALMOST PERFECT
Every Facility 10 Provided for Car
Ing for Camp Of 10000 Men Of.
Whom Large Proportion Are
Wounded or siek-Men
Will BE Fed and
Housed.

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Brest. France-Brest, the ancient
town of Finisterre that juts out into
the Atlantic ocean. is destined to live
long in the memory of the American
soldiers that came to save the allied
nations from the iron heel of Ger !,
many. From its ancient ramparts the
people of France will see the last of !
the stalwart doughboys that traversed ;
the Atlantic ocean to aid them in
suppressing the expansion of Teutonic i
nutOcracy, writes Louis SeibOld, New |
York World correspondent.
During the next eight or nine
months more than l,00O0OO of the
100000 fighting men that were sent
by the United States to vindicate the
| principles Of democracy will find their
way through Brest back to their
homes. Consequently. the Brest that
knew the legions of Caesar and the
deeds Of the Phoenicians will always
figure prominently in the historic nar.
ratives Of the soldiers who will en-
bark to recount their deeds on Eu-
rDpean soil.
City Not Much to Look At.
Brest Is not very much to look ut.
The most striking thing about 1t is
Its mud. 1t Is sort of mud that
sticks to ones memory as we'll as to
ones clothes.
There Is no other mud in the world
like that Of Brest. 1t Is always pres
ent, for, with the exception of very
few days during the year, the low
ering skies Of bleak Finisterre are
momentarily freshening up, because it
always seems to rain In Finisterrc.
At first 1t is disagreeable, this mud
OF Brest, but, like other things in life.
familiarity breeds contempt for 1t and
inures one to the disadvantages Of
always having 1t about ones person.
One of the blavest spectacles to be
witnessed, with the mist that nearly
always conceals the sun and fertil-
lies the mud, is that provided by the
American girls, who now number sew.
erai thousand, that have come over
seas to administer to the wants OF
the American boys who have come to
fight for Americas principles. Some
of these girls, gently reared and more
accustomed to luxuries than to pri
walton, have become so accustomed to
the mud that it is difficult to dis
scciate them from memory Of 1t.
Recalls the Golden Gate.
Brest is natural port. This Is
the precise term employed by the
technical men Of the army and navy
! Coming In from the Atlantic, trans
, ports eastern bound enter the grim
rocked harbor. whose outside aspect.
are not dissimilar to those of thu
. Golden Gate at San Francisco. 1t |.
valuable marine terminus, which
I the French have used for many cen
turtles In which to shelter from tn,
depredatiOns Of the hostile fleets tina
9 preyed upon its commerce.
: There is deep water through tn,
gate and in the harbor ITSELF which
spreads fanlike in an almost com
. plete oval, confined by ramparts tina
{ rise from 100 to 800 feet along tn
! shore lines.
The United States engineers an,
i marine experts, after comparing tn
B advantages Of other harbors. decide,
3 that Brest was best suited to the pul
8 pose Of the western democracy aske
B to transport its fighting men to assis
8 In the crushing of Germany. In Al
the population of the venerabl
3 Breton town is about $4,000 The n,
3 essities Of war have doubled thI,
s and at intervals 1t becomes thre
3 times as much. But the influx Z
& population with the restless and In
s patient Americans has exercised II
& tie influence on the ancient burg.
< The city's hotel accommodations ar
s just as primitive as they were Gel
fury ago, with the exception that ther
e are now electric lights instead of ia
low dips In one of the obstetrics an
an elevator which groans under Il
weight OF two persons.
a Other than that things are prett
IS much as they were before. Anciel
n forms and customs prevail general
,e to the inconvenience Of the energet
N American and provide excellent m
e. terial for moving picture artists. II
,e water supply-the one pnralnou
" problem TO be solved by the Americ,
d engineers-is obtained BY anciel
In processes. There is no sewerage sy
ri TEN. The suggestion of making one T,
re Brest as they have provided ut II
~ vana and Manila nearly precipItated
re revolution.
Why Waste Useful MateriaI7
A new sewerage system was ,
right In its way. declared the leaiil
~ citizens of Brest, whose ancestors r,
- back to the time Of the Roman wa,
~ but what was the good Of wastil
:" good fertilizer material through h
~ Introduction Of modern sanitary 4
We vices2
~ Confronted with this problem Will
nc they were not able to answer to d
is satisfaction Of Brest. the Americ,
angineers, holding the advantages