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Show HARD BLOW IS DEALT BY MILITARY SERVICE Special to The Tribune. OODFX. Nov. 3 In view of the total numl'cr c:" men employed. It Is probable that no institution In this city has been dealt harder blow bv the military service ser-vice than the city engineering department, depart-ment, run-ins the past lew weeks City Engineer Joseph M. Trary has lost six men, or approximately one-half of his :n:ce. With one exception, all of the men have enlisted in the engineering corps of l ie regular army. r. A. Scott left the department sev- ral months asn as a member of B bat-w-ry. l-i5th 1'iah artillery, but the other I've men. who have been released within thr past to weeks are W. S. Craven, "l:it-nee Douglas. Karl Flygare, T. AY. Jones nd P. P. Tracy, the last named ii.;:n being a brother of the city engineer. The loss of io many men is not a serious liandi.-ap at the present lime, according ! City Engineer Tracy, for the department depart-ment is reducing its activities for the winter, but he is not optimistic regarding i he outlook for next sprin:. All of the men were named in engineering work. |