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Show WE5TEM MILWJW5 - 11LE1WH Extra Traffic Accommodated Accommo-dated Without Interrupting Interrupt-ing Other Activities. Burdens of western railroads, already heavy because of the enornous movement of war time supplies and freight traffic, were augmented last week when the task of moving IS, 500 members of the new national na-tional arm' to the great mobilization camp ' at American Lake, Wash., was undertaken, i The gigantic movement represents for:y ' per cent of the draft army and the men come from every section of the western department, which comprises tight uct- , ern states and the territory of Alaska., and the movement is to be completed in five days. Without curtailing passenger, service or i interfering with the movement of freight, traffic, which is twenty-six per .-cnt : greater than at any time in American r;id- road history, t hirt een railroads in he j western department operated approx- I ImatPly fifty special trains devoted solely ! to handling recruits to Camp Lewis at American Lake. Western traffic nfflcMls assert that such a feat is unparalleled f, nd point out Ilia t the mobilization of troops In Lurope wa accompanied . hy serious 1 delay to rcpriilar freight and passenger movements. : . Tiie problem of supplying tha necessary, equipment, furnishing more than Siumo. meals while the men were in transit and, the arrangement, of schedules which expedited ex-pedited troop movements with due regard' to convenient arrivals and departures al all import a nt centers were worked out to the minutest detail with a view in forestalling the possibility of the slightest confusion or mis understand Ins:. A veritable army of train employees ami officials gave l heir exclusive ai trillion tril-lion to the safe conduct of the second, quota of the draft army to American LiJic, ! The movement from LI Ccnlro, Cal., for- example, necessitated eight chances of 'trainmen and twelve changes of locomo-' .live crews. Three railroa(h the Great I Northern, tho Northern Pacific Jind the : Oregon-Washington Ra ilrotid & .hv1l:ii-tion .hv1l:ii-tion com pa ny are serving Camp i ,ewl. The .Southein Pacific handled approximately approxi-mately fifty per cent of the entire move-I move-I merit in t lie western department. Th I terminal facilities at ("amp Lewis nm larger than at any pasuncr terminal west of Kansas City, ami will permit tin placing of twenty-three trains, each 11100 feet long, for loading and unloading simultaneously. |