Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-06-29
9NG ARMY TRANSPORT
TRAIN WILL GROSS j. S.
MISUNDERSTANDING Trip Expected
to Take Sixty
Days.
FART TO BIZ MADE ON JULY !
lncoln Highway Will Be Followed
ny Men and War Camp Community
Service Will Care for Them.

NEW YORK. June 2s.-By order OF
war Department., a motor trans
rain three miles long. will leave
asnington on July z, and cross tho
~ .t'9ent 70 the Pacific coast, reach
ishway.
KY days. 1t will serve AS :; test Of
le efficiency Of the army's TRANSPORT
yrsice, but what is considered more
1870 VIII demonstrate to the ma
on the inestiinnblc value of system
national highways.
The plans for the adventure bav.
zen completed by the War Dcpart-
ent. All equipment has been Assem-
Gu ana the personnel detail assign
.v, an's transport train will be the
'aplest In the history of any army.
wiil be oven heavier than any single
NJ OF the huge transport service
ieo 70 Keep the armies Of the allies
.ppned along the French front. No
otor transport train OF any nation
IS ever before attempted a continy.
journey Of 5000 miles In sixty
iys, with full war equipment.
Curry Many Supplies.
Inc motor trucks VIII carry not only
CIR own supplies to last the entire
Grney. but will carry supply and re-.
!" nun UNITS "a, as val as full compliments
GERS call for an average Of seventy
'e miles n day. This schedule necns.
;ates speed of fifteen miles an hour
the way from Washington to the
asst, no matter how unfavorable The
Gather or geographical conditions.
The War Department, through tho
1iet OF the Motor Transport Corps.
SMaoier. General Drake. has officially
rvie me war Camp Community
,rt train and requested it TO care
the men all the way from wash
4 Gton to San Francisco, sending the
inerary OF the line OF march. The
at lamp community Service has been
ithori.ed to make official announce.
ent OF the event for the War Depart
ent, and has already dispatched spc.
Al letters with Instructions To all of
organizers and field workers along
line OF march. Plans for the mems
re and recreation during their brief
enings In each community have al.
ady been perfected.
PINNED by Experts.
e. The decision to send three mile. OF
m! motor trucks across the coun-
was reached several days ago in
ansinGton. after consultations be-
'een General Drake. in command Of
transport service; Colonel owen
aman and Lieutcnant- Colonel !. ST.
tchie. working in close collaboration
Tth tho Lincoln Highway Association
The most picturesque features OF
long journey Will be the manner
which the long snakellke train
motor vehicles viii wind It's heavy.
imp!ng war over the Rocky Noun
ms. 1t will cross By way of tho
influential Divide. The en:incerinr
an OF the army has carefully figured
1t the journey so that no mechanical
engineering obstacles stand in the
~ OF its success.
The start is to be made on the morn.
3 OF July. q, from Lafayette square.
front OF the White House. The
n OF the train will immediately leave
e Capitol. heading for Pittsburgh.
&C. course then followed Will take The
ld!ers' trucks through Ohio. Indiana.
. ino!s. Iowa. Nebraska. Wyoming.
Hah ana Nevada. The transport
PICKS Will! ffnally drop down the West
"a slope OF the Sierra Nevada range
! Sacramento. California. and then on
San Francisco.
For many years the Lincoln Highway