Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1919-02-27
Il Has Become Largest and Most
Modern of Debarkation
Points.
SANITATION ALMOST PERFECT
Every Facility Is Provided for Car
ina for Camp of 10000 Men OF
Whom Large Proportion Are
Wounded or Sick-Men
Will Be Fed and
Housed.

the Atlantic ocean, is ueSIIlcu " 1--WE
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 ranparts the
people of France will see the last of
the staIwart doughboys that traversed
the Atlantic ocean to aid them in
supprcSsing the expansion of Teulonie
aulocracy, writes Louis Seibold, New
York World correspondent.
During the next eight or nine
months more than l,OOO,OoO of the
100000 fighting men that were sent
by the United States to vindirale 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 mar.
rativcs of the soldiers who will EN-
bnrk to recount their deeds Oh Eu
ropcnn soil,
City Not Much to Look At.
Rrcst Is not very much to look ut
The most striking thing about il Is
It's mud. II Is ii sort of mud that
sticks to ones memory as well as t.
ones clothes.
There is no other mud in the world
like that of BreSt. 1t Is always pres.
ent, for, with the exception Of a very
few days during the year, the low
ering skies of bleak FiniStcrre are
momenlarily frcShening up, because II
always seems to rain in FiniSterre
AT first il is disagreeable, this mu0
of BrpSt. but, like other things in life
familiarity breeds contempt for ii and
inures one to the disadvantages of
always having it about ones person
One of the brilveSt sp"clacle> to h
Witnessed. with the mist that nearly
always c0ncralS the sun and feril
ICES The mud. is that provided 10y III,
American girls, who now number sev
eral thousand, that have come over
seas to administer to The wants ~
the American boys who have come Il
fight for Americas principles. Some
of these girls gently reared and more
accustomed to Injuries than To prl
walton, have become So accustomed t
the mud that 1T is difficult 10 dis
soclate them from memory Of II.
Recalls the Golden Gate.
Brcst is natural port. This IL
the. precise term employed by The
technical urn of the army and navy
Coming in from the Atlantic, trans
ports eastern bound enter the grim
rocked haibor, whose outside ASPECTS
are not dissinIlar to those of thu
Golden Gate mt San Francisco. 1t i!
valuable marine terminus, which
the French have used for many cen
turtles in which to shelter from The
Expectations of the hostile fleets til,
preyed upon its commerce.
There is deep water through tn,
gate and In the harbor Itself, which
spreads ianItke in an almost com
pIete oval, confined by rampartS tina
rise from 100 TO 800 feet along tn,
shore lines.
The United States engineers ani
marine experts, after comparing thu
advantages of other harbOrS decided
that Brest was best suited to the pur
pose of the western democracy asked
to transport its fighting men to asSis
In the crushing of Germany. In al
the population of the venerable
Breton town is about ~, 600. The ne
ceSsitics of war have doubled this
and at intervals it becomes tire,
times as much. But the influx o
population with the restless and i'm
patient Americans has exercised lit
tie influence on the ancient burg.
The citys hotel accommodations ar,
just as primitive as they were cen
, fury ago, with the exception that Their,
are now electric lights instead of tai
low dips in one of the hosteIries an,
an elevator which groans under tn,
weight of two persons.
Other than that things are prett,
much as they were before. Ancien
forms and customs prevail general!
to the Inconvenience of the energeti
American and provide excellent ma
terial for moving picture artists. Tn,
water supply-the one paramount
problem to be solved by the American
engineers-is obtained by ancien
processes. There is no sewerage sys
TEN. The suggestion of making one 70,
Brest as they have provided at Ha
vana and Manila nearly precipitated 4
revolution.
Why Waste Useful Material1 y
A new sewerage system was al
right In its way, declared the leading
citizens of Brest, whose ancestors run
back to the time of the Roman wars
but what was the. good of wasting
good fertilizer material through tn,
Introduction of modern sanitary de
vices?
Confronted with this problem which
they were not able to answer to thu
satisfaction of Brest, the American
engineers, holding the advantages Of
the harbOr TO be of commanding i'm
pOrtance, decided to establish the en-
barkatiOn and rest camps outside Of
the town.
They worked wonders In doing so,
and despite the manifest discomforts
of daily rains and perpetual mud
they have in Pountanezen provided a
halfway station between the battle
front and home which Is second to
none in tha world. PountaneZen N