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BUSINESS MEN UNDERGOING VOLUNTARY MILITARY TRAINING
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l 's 19lud. Olee ifrom tht, p, t ure drilliii *th , t. .
MACHINE GUNS IN AMBUSH ON THE FRENCH FRONT
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Nut Of the roads in the western war nrea now have I.glr railx Is 1en1 eithr sedc ver which the peculiar little
61 a which is shown here, transport suiplies t"1 t:ne ti,'hhets.
SOLDIERS ENJOYING A SWIM
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Slwateimmlng tank was built by the Zouaves two miles in the rear
S NITED STATES SUBMARINE TENDER
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a submarine tender, a type of the United States navy's
base.
ES IN BRITAIN
SManufacture of War
In In Other Unes
Sre belng made In
ea tbeEdinburghscots
rr"aceture of munitions
pWag. In coal, in mtlpy
'I bees stimaulated to
da by fishermen-by
beesn eft to carry
thawler skippers
are driving their own motorcars and
their wives and daughters ride In them
clad in costly furs. Potato growers
are gaining great wealth by the rise in
"spuds." "A little over two months
ago," says the Scotsman, "a South
Lincolnshire farmer sold his 1,000
acres of growing potatoes at £40 an
acre. on the assumption that the price
would be £5 a ton. He made a profit
of over £20,000, but the purchaser is
In a position to sell today at double
the price he gave, and to make a proi
It en the deal of £40,000. Imagls
WOMAN JOINS THE NAVY
MIss Loretta Wanlsh. :i twenty-year
old I'hiladelphlin girl, has been sworn
in as chief yeoman and thus beenlme
the tirst woman in the United States
navy. She has been assigned to re
cruiting duty.
In 1492.
WVillle--'op. wly (itd the people 'n
Coumnlus' title believe the world was
wou-ad?
1' )-'rincipnlly becaIuse they didl'l
ihink Cilumbllus was on ths -lJii-r:
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I£60,000 from 1,000 acres of potatoes !
So much for the romance of the hum
ble tuber, the staple food of so many
hundreds of thousands of poor people,
who will soon grimly wonder where
the romance comes in, if today's ab
normal prices are not immediately re
adjusted, and potato exploiters taught
that there is a limit to profit monger
ing, even although the nation is in
the throes of a great war."
British Columbia last year Sprtad
O j6e naoads of potamtsm.
FLOATING BRIDGE ACROSS PANAMA CANAL
At 'arnaiso, a point about two mile. northwest of Miratlores. :1 twlri\1n
ponlon bridge carries the Pl'anIi railway rs Gaillrd ut 1,to the \%.'st
Side of the canal where military post anr' situatted. So that they wi\\.oti { ot i
infringe upon the width of the channel. thi :abuminnts fir tht, appr,,thrili
were established in ipockets ,eciavazteed in tilie sit,. of the \\:I wttr'i. Whilie
oni the east hanik a long; re 's, was dug its r,,.,iv ,, the ril:e. hIi.'i i li; Un. -
'1'his harhbtr extiends south of the labutment. Sit e tie bhrige i lt.ld :ti
the inorthenast corner. it a(n tihus (he WIwuti entirely otilt of th,' h:lnnh'l Wiwi',l
opened. 'rThe ponton is :T7 feet in length tanld h ai:i w jilth of ., f, ,. It it
co'lstrluctel (f hIv'y tilll)tmber fitted' with s!x longit linal Illlkilt.:t<. :::nil
.u.lll lied W\lth It pllllpillng systet' for diw(halr 1ný bt rl i , 'r. 'Th.1 1,. k.
w hi,'h h:u a sheathing of 4 by 10 inh tilml -.", r ,al,.,. i" .url l Ii \, i:h
°s . . . .
Swinging Pontoon Bridge-The Picture Above, Taken While the Construction
Work Was Still in Progress. Shows the Long Pontoon and Trestle Drawn
Along One Side of the Canal.
ut-Iphs'it. Anl :I{rnl. ;7. f,..t :,lo a \\w ,!_hinlý 1 -, 0q00 pInu, tdls. is 1:inu:,',l at
,: 1,h e lr l of !!,e tt'p tl, ,to tne'''t i1 rilI ce, ,,,'titlo \with tl. 1i.-1 . T'1 h, (ht
m a1TIt'hlr un ri'." I'.1i', ,' th*' brid,:,e i- Ilnol \'tl. .!nd \\I." Ii h l ':\, r'e, l f,,r tl'e :tr.'
l t !," d in [lumt' ' in ý- h'! :1 otwl ln er that ith y an, l il] :.a;inst vrrti" al ln Etter;il
Ini enl nt. A X1-,, lhd "''\\iil& n " \w, l :l]'d 01h11i1, Ills ltat it Ilh, outll.'r I'ndr|
, 1, I h' I r 't'tr'tu r ' III, tl by lidg h . .t be !,d 1" · rh ii,'l w :hn. l th.
RAILROADS IN WAR
Those of Present Time Construct- e
ed for Peaceful Traffic. II
PRIMITIVE METHODS IN USE
No Organization Ever Developed Bet- "n
ter Plan of Efficient and Rapid t(
Movement by Rail Than Have ti
American Circuses. o
Railroads geared to war are a na- it
tiuual need. Those of the present n
were constructed only for the ways of v
peaceful commerce, with no thought of ,
strategy. Should the call be made up- i
on our transportation facilities to hurl :
a force of hundreds of thousands of ti
imen from the center of the country to p
the Pacific slope or to the Mexican
border to meet invaders from beyond t
Stihe seas the unmilitar,, nature of these
"ioulev:ards of steel" would be at once I
' p :lparent, writes John Walker HIarring- i
tn in New York Sun.
The very genius of railroading is
A\Allmerican and great trallic problemsl
L here and abrioad have beIen solved by
Aiterit'an brains. and yet the methods
used in this country for the transpor
tation of troops are primlitive comn-d
pared with those which are employed
in the European war.
"This is a railroad war," says Gen
eiral von Hlndenburg. and he is right.
The wonderful fluidity of the German C
te forces has been due to the foresight C
displayed in solving the problems of t
speedy transit for years in advance of
military operations. Troops are made
to veritably flow from the western to
the eastern fronts and hack. Although
now after nearly three years of inces
sant strain even the Teutonic rail
roads are lapsing into chaos, the f~act
remains that they have astonished t~he
world by their precise and deadly ef
ficiency of operation.
There had appeared on the box
freight cars on the German lines for
years before the coming of August,
1914, that legend:
Thirty thousand pounds.
Twelve horses.
Twenty-eight men.
It meant that the oapacity of the
car was known long in advance. In
the cars, driven securely into the walls, 1
were staples holding rings of steel,
from which haunmocks or cots could
be suspended. The place of every car
in the event of hostilities was assigned,
and train crews had been duly in
structed what to do.
When the Barnum & Bailey circus
was beginning the tour of the father
land years ago there ;appeared on
board its trains at the border three of
flecers from the general gpaff of the
German army.
"We have come," they said to
brusque Bill Hyatt, master of trans
portation, "to study your methods."
Probably no organization ever de
veloped a better plan of efficient and
rapid movement than have the Ameri
can circuses which travel by rail.
There was no detail which escaped the
ferretlike eyes of tie German military
observers. They made drawings of
appliances which impressed them,
watched the stowing and the unpack
ing of the mass of special appliances
which the Greatest Show on Earth was
-y-ar- carrying and timed the operations with
sworn the seriousness of men to whom no
rieame detail was unimportant.
States As far as Germany is concerned the
to re- prime object for which a railroad is
built is warfare. In the United States
railroads connect populous centers;
they are the arteries through which
pie In commerce flows from factory to mar
d was ket; they are the channels between the
wheat fields and the granarles on the
Atlantic seaboard. According to the
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RallrAads Big Help.
The successes of the British in the I
western theater have been In a large het
measure due to the rapid movement of ree
siege guns and munitions by railroads. tra
Some of the most formidable artillery ryi
in use by Geueral Halg is mounted on by
especially constructed platform cars,
which are drawn over tracks ballasted
to withstand the heavy impact of the opt
firing. These ponderous cannon are thi
often backed against concrete works gel
at various points when they are dis- sal
charged. a'
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i ' ,ft.e \'u \\ h,,it o ,tj,, ' it'. .1h11 ', -
lit" t, , , the n' 14". (,i I,t" ' r r . ' h l,,1"
ilt/s trl'ks \t hi' i it 1i l. L 1 it l .:l, I
t'1 1 ) iit) i h1v1" 111tie r.: .'t ,l fir e xi-t
tnee. When \ar cat e thl y wei the
iihmit:1-, ! "s ,0er ih iti lllt ryui , miiu
itiions and wre n 'le h rried t o tlt
The success of erlmaney' operations
against Rtussia in l'tanii haslil been
largely ue to the neitwork of her rail
roads near the Polish boundary. For
many miles the tussians were not in l
touch with their own borders, while in
the meantime the armies of the cen
tral powers were being quickly moved
over intersecting lines of traffic. The
Germans were able to advance so far
into France because of their seizure
not only of Belgian lines but of the
very heart of the French Northwest
ern railroad. The wonderful defense
made by the French at Verdun was
ilargely an outcome of the efficiency of
the Eastern railroad. whiceh made it
possible to convey ammunition and
supplies. In addition to the main line's
there were back of the fortress scores
of miles of the narrow gauge tracks.,
built of American rails and using
Amerlcan enTines, over which shells
were moved to points where they were
imost needed.
BUILDING BRIDGES OF LOGS
Western Railroads Resort to Primitive
Methods Where Labor is Scarce
and Lumber Plentiful.
The abundance of logs and the scar
city of skilled labor in remote regions
of the West have resulted in the con
tractors for certain pioneer railroad
Crisscross Type of Bridge.
lines resorting to quite primitive meth
ods in the building of many bridges
and viaducts. The logs cut from the
path of the railroad have been rough
ly trimned and piled, crisscross, to
the desired height in the gullies and
ravines, as shown In the accompany
ing illustration. The structures are
held together by their own weight and
by short bracing members which pre
vent the logs from shifting. At the
lower part of the rustic and rather
picturesque bridges te big tree trunks
are so laid as to allow ample room
for water to flow beneath unhindered.
-Popular Mechanics Magazine.
KEEP OFF RAILROAD TRACKS
Not Thoroughfares for Public and to
Avoid Accidents People Should
Be Kept Off.
Railroad tracks are not thorough
fares for pedestrians. If we are are to
consider safety as a precaution that
every citizen should seek. we should
encourage the passage of the pending
legislative bill to keep the public from
walking on the tracks of the railroads,
says the Indianapolis News. Of course,
exception is made where the right-of
way extends across streets, station
grounds, farm crossings, etc. Em
ployees and persons transacting busi
ness with the railroads are not to be
classed as trespassers under the pro
posed law. Railroad accidents have
been vastly reduced in numbers where
the use of rights-of-way to foot traf
fic has been denied. The safety first
committee of the chamber of com
merce has Indorsed the pending bill.
Record for Heavy Train.
The European record for hauling a
heavily-loaded train was established
recently upon a Russian railway, a
train of cars 2,800 feet long and car
rying a load of 4,424 tons being pulled
by an American-built engine.
Door Prevents Accidents.
operating motors are started by the atte
that bridges.the gaps between passen
ger cars and station platforms on the
same level has been adopted by an
eastern railroad to prevent accident,
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