Show UNCLE SAffS SOLDIERS Machinery by Which the Army Would Be Handed in WarTime War-Time I is related of Von Molke that when awakened in the dead of night with the announcement that France had declared de-clared war against Germany he only remarked Look in my cabinet file V A drawer 23 send off the telegrams you find Then he turned over and went to sleep again General Miles would not find everything so ready I I war came suddenly upon this country I An army is i like a snake I has great V V length of body and a small head The V V i head is the lighting part and one of I 1 its most important duties is to protect I I the body which consists of wagon I trains and lines of supplies for If the j 1 V 1 body be Injured the head becomes 1 powerless I is well to bear this simile I in mind in considering the plan of i army organization and the steps which I i are being taken to make I effective Fortunately for the success of these I 1 steps there is no other country in the 1 world whose resources can respond as V promptly and as generously to an Imperative i prompty peratlve call as those of the United I States I ARMY EQUIPMENTS I i I In completing its military equipment I < the government depends partly upon its own armories and arsenals and I partly upon private factories All i 1 leather materials used in the service 1 are manufactured In the arsenal at i Rock Island Ills The armory at i i i Springfield Mass turns out the small arms the KragJorgensen and Springfield Spring-field riles and the ammunition for I these rifles is made in the FraiiKfo I arsenal at Philadelphia The arsenal at Watervlifet N Y turns out high i power guns howitzers mortars and I I field pieces while the disappearing I carriages for the new highpower seacoast sea-coast defense guns and the carriages for highpower mortars are manufactured i manu-factured in the arsenal at Watertown Mass Here also are made the conical shot which are used for practice firing II I and for determining ranges in battle before the more costly steel projectiles I are brought lrto play I I Forgings for the great guns are supplied i sup-plied by contract by the Bethlehem 1 steel company at Bethlehem Penn I 1 and the Milvale steel company at Philadelphia The Bethlehem company also makes ordnance complete and Is i now engaged in the manufacture of 100 highpower steel seacoast defense j guns which will cost 3500OCO There I is also under construction by the company com-pany a 16inch brcechJoading rile the I largest highpower gun ever built in the United States the projectile of which I will weigh 2100 pounds and the propelling I pro-pelling force of which will be a powder charge weighing 1000 pounds On the I completion of the guns either by the I government or private contractors I they are sent to Sandy Hook for testing test-Ing and then they are shipped by rail I or sea for the point along the coast for i which they are intended I COMMISSARY GENERAL To supply an army with weapons is t only a small part of the work oC I equipment The army must be fed and clothed and provision must be made j for countless contingencies Wagons V light battery carriage ambulances i and forges are now built by contract j and they can be turned out quickly I I Clothing shoes hats and like furnishings furnish-ings for the army come under the I supervision of the quartermaster general gen-eral and his assistants and are supplied I by contract and stored at the different I quartermasters department store I houses throughout the country Food j supplies are under the supervision of j the commissar general of subsistence and are likewise secured by contract I In time of war or in preparing an I army to take the field a vast amount of supplies forage and equipment must be constantly on hand or in easy reach While the provisioning of a i company battalion or regiment of a thousand men is perhaps not a difficult task the supplying of a meal for 100 000 men is a far different matter and I Is absolutely essential that transportation trans-portation from the base of supplies should at all times be uninterrupted and subject to no delays For this reason the government would assume control of such railroads and vessels as might be necessary and they would V be run temporarily as an adjunct of the army private busiiyv being per mltted only so far as it did not con I filet with mililary necessities I war should be suddenly declared and it became necessary to put an army in condition to take the Held the i general in command upon an order from the secretary of war would at once recruit the regular military establishment es-tablishment up to its full limit of efficiency ef-ficiency These men together with the volunteers who had been requisitioned from the governors of the various states or had been raised by direct enlistment would be assembled at some convenient point where they would be formed into regiments brigades and divisions under officers V of sufficIent rank in the regular army Most of the volunteers when they reached the rendezvous would be found to be imperfectly clothed and shod and also in many cases entirely Ignorant of the simplest features of the life of a soldier in the field These men must be taught to know what is expected of them on the march and In camp and what they must do to preserve pre-serve their health ONE DAYS FIGHTING IN THIRTY With an army in the field hardly one Ida i-da in SO is given to fighting The other 29 days of waiting must be lived through in order that everything maybe may-be in readiness for the one dzty of work I is not the one day of fighting which turns the hair of an officer gray but the 2tf days of anxiety for his men the supply of their food and clothing and I the maintenance of health and good I spirits among them Men do not fight wellMn battle on empty stomachs and yet the ordinary soldier rarely takes Ito I care of the provisions which are issued to him for forced marches He eats i them all at once or throws them away Ion I-on account of their weight and at the I end of a long days march he Is hungry I hun-gry with nothing to appease his hunger I hun-ger Then come the trouble He does I not reason ht grumbles and expects I tOT be supplied with more u UULULUU5 au ULUL J I must be looked to besides the men Horses and mules for carting artillery and transport service have to be supplied sup-plied and trained A cavalry horse differs in weight and general character from one which is to serve with the artillery and as much knowledge is required re-quired in choosing animals for military service a in selecting men MEDICAL SUPPLIES Medical officers also have to be commissioned com-missioned and instructed in the peculiar pe-culiar duties which will devolve upon L them and supplies of drugs medicines hospital equipment and tents must be arranged for Where many new and unseasoned men are gathered there Is sure to he more or less call for the services of a doctor All that pertains to the medical department of the army is under the charge of the surgeon general gen-eral The drugs are all supplied by contractS contract-S ldlers expect to be paid no matter how much they are fired by patriotism so the paymaster general and the officers of-ficers of his department must through requisition on the treasurer of the United States see that the private soldier receives his 13 every month In short every department and every officer fulfils certain duties and it is on the prompt and accurate adjustment adjust-ment of all the wheels of the complicated compli-cated machine that i goes and performs created per-forms the duties for which it was |