Show t MONUMENT MARKS I. I SW START OF ARMY TRUCK TRAIN Lei s VV y J Ceremony in Washington n at ata 1 a Which Government IneLs Indorses In In- eLs 0 3 1 Good Roads lO 1 ai If At 12 o'clock July 7 1919 the war c department o officials indorsed the good goodr I 51 r roads program and the ship by truck movement in a demonstration q it I a at the dedication of or the zero milestone milestone mile mile- f stone at Washington D. D C. C Ty Those present included officials of of e the war department the national I from the a press club representatives I Latin American republics and men interested in in- I IM M At in auto motive and good i J roads organizations of the United United IJ States The highway marking stone was I geographically located by leading enu en engineers en- en of the army and has a given u to I zV latitude and longitude according Lieutenant William B. B Doron advance v. v agent for the transcontinental army t i f motor train which will arrive in Salt Lake Tuesday The stone has upon Its surface a map of the United States bound in tads j silver across which etched in gold is e the authorized national highway Upon the side of the stone are the words benc 1 r On this day July 7 7 1919 companies Uw K E and F P. P motor supply train ti h at I U U. S. S A A. left Washington for San Sana a Francisco Cal Gal Arrived at San Franc Francisco Francisco Fran- Fran of this occasion occa occa- cisco The portent c rf lion sion was magnified by the final godspeed god god- 51 i. i speed to the men of the train by Seca Secretary Sec Sec- a ed d of War Var Baker Balter Upon the conclusion con con- elusion of Secretary Bakers Baker's speech the marine corps corps' band sounded theist the theO y yo O r C notes of ot The Star-Spangled Star Banner of or the nation o m iH and many great men arr tr representing the new era In good gooda a i roads stood at attention Immediately following this the motor train moved a- a toward G Gettys- Gettys r out over the highway C burg PURPOSE OF TRIP The three main purposes of this trip as defined by the war department department department depart depart- ment according to Lieutenant Doron 1 tIIt are First the government participation It nI I tion in the good roads movement second a studied endurance test of standardized vehicles of the type used J t by the motor transport corps in the recent war and next to to- procure students to enroll for the government motor motol schools which will open on 8 J September 1 at several of the camps in the United States As conditions exist today the government has found difficulty in getting automobile me me- The schools have been es established es- es to train men along this 1 line One of the busiest members of the train personnel has been the recruiting re recruiting re- re officer whose duty it is to 1 t take men skilled and unskilled and andr r r arrange for them to enter one of these schools where they will be taught how to become first class s F mechanics i TRiP Tf IP IS ARDUOUS to Lieutenant Doron V V According who gave a complete resume of the trains train's travels from the time it left ii V Washington to the time it will reach i I. I 1 V Salt Lake the trip has been a hardship hardship hardship hard- hard ship and a strain on both men and j officers as the big train has moved I the well r i Westward Since leaving j paved Lincoln highway of the Eastern East- East r F ern states and arriving west of the rI Mississippi river it has required the I constant attention of every officer I i. i I I and man to keep it moving on schedule sched ached I Ii ule toward its destination The schedule schedule sched sched- I i ule put out by the war department was maintained as far as North W I r Platt where just to the west or of the city the Lincoln highway is ai a asea II i sea of mud and it required hours of h yI I labor on the part of f the men and the J j small tractors accompanying the thet 1 t II i V train to pass over a distance of a ai i 11 few miles There has been times I V when trucks have left the road entirely entirely en en- en sometimes crashing through a Tc i sometimes J poorly constructed bridge capsizing off a very high crowned piece of road Always however the i V I nervy drivers of these making history-making I I I machines lave have patiently and cheerfully cheerful cheerful- ly y labored until the train was again in progress I 11 It is apparent according to Lieu Lieu- Lieutenant j tenant Doron that this train is calling calling calling call call- t ing the attention of the public to two c things most markedly the markedly the need for a r complete and well kept system of government motors highways and the advantage to tage of the motor truck as a means of transportation of lal commodities I LEAVES S. S L. L WEDNESDAY The entrance of err the army 1 I train into Salt Lake City comes most fittingly at the time of the city's big j ship by truck day i. i The t l train will proceed westward from Salt Lake at o'clock i Wednesday morning going to Orrs Orr's ranch for the first stop It will pass through Ely and Carson City Nev near Lake Tahoe Cal Ca going over the I mountain range at this point and andr r finally rolling down through the old niner forty district and the western i slope toward the Pacific ocean In California a great ovation awaits the arrival of the motor train accord- accord to the word Lieutenant Doron t 1 Chas nas received from Mayor Rolph of ofSan ofSan ofSan r San Francisco A combination of the review of the new Pacific fleet by the president and a parade and demonstration demonstration demonstration demon- demon of or Americas America's army and navy by land sea and air has been planned i By the time the train reaches San Sanf i f Francisco it will have traveled 1 miles in crossing the continent |