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Show EVENING NEWS, SATURDAY DESERET DECEMBER 22 1917 v'. i , One Million Skilled Machinists and Their Work 'for Unde Cost Efficiency Methods p- la Detroit Factories Hie Truck . Transports, Automobiles 'on the Battlefield Parks for Automobile Ambulances and , "Armored Cax Interesting Facts Repair Work Behind the Trenches War Assets., About. One of Our Biggest t , , n, in (Copyright, r JJ Ri. hit. red read, KUDd 9g ot "state ; 1 x the WISwj it the office iu of eeper a the if the high-pric- here pos-ke- r" ere fo f hie of re for I mcng shose Grey soned h, es i a result, tor in These ed to battle f that and rep. res at Sains- - ' t will ore Is x and ones pair.) a lock lature. idence Italy, po- ised pt Hon-- l each of tha listers. iamufil Diary, h and net on, Henry inysos sen ted of tbe nd his lg the mano- -' 1CH. within Car-- , Pths as streets. Sir Isaac Newton tfieaxo c&rrt&f to b movprepoftfed ed tho rooctionary diocharff o f a the Jot by of ilMi.1 dl rooted from tbo rear, bout a feuedrod yoaro Utor Waiu chief months the factories In the United Statee bars been put to work on war orders. Soma of them ara making motor tracks. ''noma armored ears and others rapid automoMany biles for carrying dispatches. of the shop are making ambulances and some, I doubt not. although I oannot teU where, are manufacturing the mighty tanka or torts upon wheels, which roll over the country crushing gown everything In thetr way. Long before wa mitered the war Detroit eras making automobiles and motor trucks tor the French and tbe One of its Onus supplied Engifcb. cars to the armies in France 190 another 11.600,000 and exported wmth of war ambulances. One of the cars has almetiers of ready shipped 6,000 trucks to Europe, and smother, which makes a $2,600 automobile, has went 1,000 of hts vehicles across the ocean. An establishment making n well known cheep machine recently completed one order for 10.000 ambulances and another company la turning out 160 airplane motors every day. The government la having tbe machinery of many of the factories adapted to special war work. Some are making munitions, others are constructing gas engines for the use of the army and navy, and. in fact, the whole motor ear industry has been brought to the ld of the na tion In our fight with the Germans. 00(1 of acus, a the O. Detroit, tered ibove ently there br Frank llt; pmttr.) ed show you what TOamounts to as n war this Industry asset, I will . ' give some of the laseec figures con-cerntng tt. It grows so fast that it . . is almost impossible, to overestimate It. It amounted to nothing 26 years ago, and It yean aim tt was a bagatelle, In comparison with others of our great industrial forcea Today the government officials admit that im-tt . stands next to steel and ships in portance and they are rapidly mobilizing its machine simps and men. The automobile and motor car es-- , tabUatunenta of the United States are now scattered over 30 states of the Union. There are 55 of them. There are over M in Michigan, 61 hi Illi- nols, 14 in Ohio and 45 in New Tork. Pennsylvania has 12, Minnesota. 20. Massachusetts II, and California, it. with leas numbers scattered throughout other parts of the country. In addition there arw perhaps three times . as many plants making automobile bodies, accessories and parts. . These establishments have In tbelr employ tbe most skilled army of machinists ever gotten together. There are OSSA of them, and added to this . number are double as many men conIndus-trie- s nected witb tbe subordinate which make parts, tires and other things dependent upon tile automobile trade. There are a vast number making gas engines. which nan boats' and veht be need on rles of other kinds and Hie whole force is almost as important to our army s the men in the field. . . motor cars now number more This means one car 4,090,000. to every five families in the United States, and it Is estimated by Logan Waller Page, tbe bead of toe bureu of public roads, that ws bave a motor vehicle of one kind or another tv almost every mile of public and counThe statisttry road In the Union. icians of tbe World Almanao say that ear antesaoblles ran last year the enormous distance of 15.060,606.006 to 00,660 times miles, which is ecu around the earth, or 144 times the distance between the earth and the sum The figures seem incredtnve. but I take them from the almanac which lies before me. During that year wa burned more than 1.066,000,064 gallons of gasoline in our motor cars and wore out more than 112.00a.666 worth of tires This Is truly something of a. business te have grown up in 25 yean. a word about tha AND bowof Just tha motor car. Tha ' attempt at Its Invention is by wo means new. The Idea was conceived long before the inveition of the bicycle, and aa early as 1(16 when Boston was bat a few scattering houses with cow- OUR 4 ... 'if go-ln- g. . ep-wi- th ... sole-vie- four-wheel- er gas-stea- m 45.-00- 0. paddle-wheele- steam engine, however, did not to be practical and it was not until tha explosive gas engine was Invented that the commercial automobile had any chance of success. This was first patented in England about seventy-nin- e years ago. Later on It was attempted In France, and in 1171 Georgs B. Seldon, an American, filed an application at Washington for a patented gas engine. Hia patent wad not granted until 1111, and It formed, to a large extent, the basis of our automobile industry. Since then there have been inventions of many business kinds, and tbe automobile has steadily grown. In IIS there were 67 factories making automobiles, with an annual output oft 1,766 machines. which sold for a Uttla less than 15,066.606, and four years later the production had risen to 11.666 machines. In 1916, fifteen years after the Seldeit patent was granted, the number of cars produced was 117,606, and by 1116 the number of cars in use had grown to more than 2,066,-66In 1911 We had, according to tbe government count, mors than motor cars and 266,060 motor cycles, nearly all of which were run by gas engines As I have raid, the number of cars In use today is probably more than 4.000,100. value ef the motor car In tho of war cannot be overestimated. Tha armies now fighting have several thousand such vehicles. An estimate mads Inct year put the German supply at 80.000 and the French at more than 100,000. Tha Belgian army has more than 0.000 motor vehicles. and the English army more than 60,000. During the war something Ilka 14 060 trucks have tobeen Eushipped from the United States rope. Such trucks are used to transport men, food and ammunition ant) they have proved of enormous value to the force on both aides of the battle line. The Germans used them to rush certain parts of their army into Belgium and they aided tba French greatly at Verdun. About one year after the war in Europe began our War College at Washington made a report to Congress aa to the value ofmotor transports, and gave recommendationa aa to tha Increase of this branch of our army establishment. It advised that auto trucks be used for moving the men and guns, and stated that a single truck would carry twenty men and equipment. It stated that tha trucks could bo supplied withtrailers and showed how a com pars you find that yonr quarter sue a town, where there a town major, be exceedingly polite but firm with him, end in the end he may aSlot you the best billets. If he gives yen 50 tenth .make sure that they are all there, and watch them closely, for they are singularly migratory. At one piece which our battalion visited to the course of its wanderings, tha town major wa a genial and kindly sort of nrkn, but his strong point was certainly not Ha presented our billetarithmetic. oa ing officer with the gendarmerie battalion headquarters, and $0 tents into which to stow away tha rest of ' tbe battalion. It being his first experience of the ways of town mhjors. the billeting officer went on hia way. rejoicing. Having annexed the gendarmerie, he went in search of hia 60 tents, imagining that they would be standing in soma field ready for the arrival of the battalion. But alas! for his optimism, be found them stacked to an outbuilding adjoining the field, and, quarreling vigorously over them, tho billeting officers of- the three other in the brigade. battalions It was eventually discovered that the town out of kindness tlfa of his major, heart, haul net only given ell he poseven sessed but a little more. Out of the $6 odd huts to hia pnmisdlbn he had given d t0 another battalion 56, and had told Hh others (genially) that they might divide whaf rsmatosd. That was a vary trying night far our billeting officer, and one that made him peraufheatly suspicions af genial- If to be In ity. ; 1 TobeWeB Ghrsd Remember to provide a good billet for yonr C. O.. and aae that hot coffee to .watting for him when ha arrives. Ha wlfl then bo Inclined to leek upon little mistakes you may hare committed with a lam critical eye. Tho quartermaster also to a man to bo considered seriously, for a time will certainly come when you will putln a claim for lost kit, or require boots for your platoon, r ammunition for your war work' of today everyIN the is analysed and la tested to tha thing thousandth of an Inch to be sure that it will fit the specifications and needs to which It ia to 'be put-- This great factory tests the steel before it goes Into its furnaces and the materials are tested again and again until they com out to the completed product. Thera is no guess work and the machinery of construction is such that mistakes can exact department and be traced to the man who makes them. Every motor esr that goee to the battlefield of France has I is number and if one breaks down without cause In tbemiosl of a battle, the number of the defective part could be vent back here and r the man who made it be traced. As .far as possible alt sorts of war e a-- D UR1NG my stay at this factory I post. Persistent courage and dogged pluck Vtx needed --here. And tut rise woundedjwent back, those who were unhurt went forward towards the goal. t Forward, forward, through the mud, mire and slime end towards th objective for which thev had set out hours ago. an objective' that eewav ed distant ar.d far away. But one thing was sure, and that wa that they had to get there. And on and on Ihey went, gasping end groaning, but ce'tam. for that wss their way and the spirit and fire wKhin them nerved them to their task. It was written plain that they had to go daring danger and death. It was all m the days work. And away on the left the forest eras clearing and the guns were speaking with re !ou bled violence and in front the Ridge of PaaschenOaele was rbsng clear from the mist. PATRICK MACGIL. Author ef "The Great Push. 1 fast-movi- all-rou- T r D t to mil to remember that there are three other companies in the battad-lotheir officers also are reel and vocal. Above ell. dt everything to your power to get the best billets available for the men. Billets naturally vary tremendously In their quality, but a few words to a farmer will often produce cotudd arable quantities ot dry and clean straw. Rightly approached, these temporary hosts of ours are generally glad to make their visit ora as comfortable aa possible.. Ventilation to the walls of a building does not matter, but a whole roof to eminently desirable. Remember that there will probably be sore feet when Therefore do tbe battalion arrives. not forgot a medical inspection room, and see that a good supply of hot water to on the spot. Even the C. O.'s hot coffee to to the last analysis lees vital than tha matter of securing tbe maximum ot available comfort and shelter for tha men. - Taka care that the company cooks occupy a central position, and are under oover if possible. .Tha orderly men do not rare for carrying dixies half a mile or more, and Gyppo" te not at its best whan half cold. Bear to mind that the regimental sergeant major to a great power in the battalion, and desehrea a good billet. Also, ha very likely knows "Kings' Regs" better than you de. Tbo point la Important. Having disposed of tho battalion Itself, the next thing te to find a suitable park for the transport. Do not place the animals ia wet standings, or far from running water. The transport sffleer kao ws tbe Weight of your valise. Ha vu your billeting party on band outside th town, ami ready to lead their oompaaiee off to thetr billets the battalioa heaves to sight. It doe not matter K th omelette you have ordered at the eetaminet is half eooksd or parboiled. Ner must you believe the staff captain when he tells you that thsg are not da until 1 p.m. Answer, "tori and expect them at nooe. LIEUT J, F. LLOYD. n; - well-chos- . (Special Correspondence.) (heck flung tha water when IN FRANCE, Dee. the shells fell eu them. In front a dull Itt murk. This the pink glow up could glow see, i flared out SOMEWHERE luridly at times and then eyes sought the Idled away like the color of a cloudy . left; the Forest of Houthulst .western sky when tbs sun is sinking. standing there grey and ghostly k) the The glimmering play of color was due thick morning mists. But the eyes of to tbe bsrrage wtfch wss alU'.ng so the Gerrasn trenches In front. . th men in khaki seldom turned that .The sir wss. full of the smell of even and way. the objective to front powder. Tho acrid fumes which caused cam to for very little attention. The the nostrils to smart and the eyes to needs of the moment occupied their i water, refused to rise, and the heavy whole connderation. They wero try-i- j atmosphere pressed It down like d to get fenrard and progression was blanket. The men choked and as they plodded through the difficult jrerement was a task I..r near in and Here slime. the there, anu not for tbe men who were giants a stump of a tree, making their way across the dumb, desolate levels of Flanders towards white as a leper, showed over the rent end and other trees, . riven, jmuck; the enemy-linesIt was reining raining incessantly. I took cm strange shapes. The ruined Tba water from the clouds whipped branches stretching downward to reseemed, down slashing against the proach and despair, as it mackintosh rapes and heating a tattoo pointed st thetr fellows that lay on on tbe steel helmets. These helmets the ground like rotting corpses. . were tilted sideways so that tbe rein Ground Greedy as. the Grave. was thrown off and kept from sliding In front ley tbe enemy Somewhere down the men's bodies. Tha wind s, struck aslant tbs soldiers, beating positions, th, barricaded e eonaret forts, tbe bidden matheir faces, chilling their frame, and the But these flicking tbe. water from the ground chine gun emplacements. against their legs. The whole country could not be- eeen now. the mist hid The cold, eismmy slush was a gigantic pond; the becks were everything. d rising, rising, spUllng their overflow nut down be mens boots end round their heels. They advancon the levels The men had fir probe the ground ia front of them with long ed one step, paused and probed the earth. poles, testing the earth for the next ground to front, testing th step. The sltme for the most pert toy Their feet how weighty they were! stuck in while tbo mud gripped hip-deand a false step might land a man in a ehellhoto which Would them with greater vehemence. They cover him to the chin. When a soldier semed to be slipping down tbe throat r scions mount er th at was tryfell to bis mate pelted him out mad-d- y ef to tbe ears and wet to the ekto. ing to swallow thenv No Man's Land aa He would stand for a moment and wws a treacherous quicksand, Men fought shake himself like an animal out of its greedy as tbs grave. wallow and try the action of hie rifle madly against the embrace of this with fingers out ' of soft stoatve terror, they pulled oue which aU feeling was nigh gone. Then foot out to find that the other sank he would go forward again. deeper to. To snore was ghastly; to The machine guns were busy, hark- remain stm was deadly. ing spitefully from the trees of the One Rasa who had stepped into a forest, tree as Insubstantial aa a shell-hol- e sank to hts waist. To pull dream. Th bullets shipped the seder out on leg, he had to roach forward, rosed tha men and whisked It ahnwt until his face touched the abate, raise in spurts of spray. Her and there the his hind toot clear, bring tt round sky-hig- h' ! ns rplut-jtere- rs a-- 17.-0- or ' ! set-tie- ep With cash in hand a merchant can buy a-v- t t day-encrust-ed cheaper, and therefore sell cheaper. Thus you benefit by paying cash and double your savin gs by receiv-n- g H&C Stamps. Cash trade better p rices and iQfrC Stamps are inseparable, k t ' ' shell-brok- shell-crater- ri profit-sharin- ! pltil-'sel- i ae a circular motion and place it down to the slush again. The asms operation had to be performed several times befor a he got dear. Even as be got out another man got to and frit on bis tide when halfway CSrengh. A rifle was stretched out te him and he grasped it Holding grindy to tho butt, ho was pulled out of danger. When the men walked on ground that wa comparatively firm they shook themselves sad breathed deeply, They .were getting towards their objective. The stretcher-bearewere busy beaind. hard at work helping tha wounded who had fallen. Indifferent te the fire of the enemy, they performed their duties with unflagging seat Nothing was Uo great for them. Indifferent to danger, sid wenrinssa they carried on theli; merciful work, succoring tle woundod and carrying tnem ,n to the first d I H The work being standardised. government wants its supplies to vaM a men numbers, and hundreds of engaged on tie same part, turning it day in and day out, all the year This is so of gas engines, through. of cylinders of various kinds, of magnetos and of all the part that go te make op a car. you some idea of these shops 'which are now being adapted to the work of the war; I will mention some of the things that I saw in going through one ef tbe plants. It is the largest plant in Detroit, and ia typical of the work thatmany of our automobile qstabbshments are now doing for ourselves and facjour allies. The buildings of this tory are 060 feet long and 100 feet iwlde. They are four stories to height land they cover many acres. Every square foot of them is now humming with work, and the machines go on day and nig it all the year through. Standing in one building you can overlook a single room which has 700.000 square feet of floor space. It actually covers more than 10 acres, and this Isi filled with machinery of such a nature that tt looks like a dense forest belts - and whirling ef wheels grinding awey. There are, in 56 ot miles leather belting in the fact, room. It contains 0.066 different machine in actual Operation, and these represent an outlay of $5,006,606. use 2,500 gallons of The machines lubricating oils every 24 hours and they keep busy thousands of men. The machinery reaches as far aa you can see. As you stand to tha center ABOVE Repairing a Motor Truck on the March, ' ot the room the walls are not visible and you ran hardly see the ceiling. BELOW Trucks Used to Transport Men, Food and Munitions. There is e shrieking of the cutting of steel upon steel, a boning of wheels, a "thousand other repair men are under tha cqm--t Cadillac square, and he wilt see trucks like the tively- - few could bring of locusts, and here men-- to The reinforcement of tho mand of a captain and two lieuten- on almost every street carrying loads and thereswarming at Intervals are to be seen trenches within a few minutes. Buck ants. At present uo armies are doing of automobile from plant men to blue overalls directing tbe mamaterials trucks are expected to make twelve aU they ran to hare the trucks and to plant. There are great factories chines. miles per hour and to travel 100 miles , csrs standardized, so that the parts devoted to making motor car parts in a day For service the ot one machine will do for breakages and accessories, end those making of such a factory is motor vehicles are to be found in 'JHB machinery trap k ia the beat, j to others. arranged that it forms one conevery part of the city. Borne were on HERE is no better place te learn the outskirts when they laid their tinuous process of construct Ion. The HE motor transport of tha modern j'J about the automobile but the city has gone be- raw material to tha shape of rough industry of foundationa, army is thoroughly organized. It them. Detroit increases so rapstarts In baa Its officers and its privates, it the United Statee than Detroit. This yond the that idly people ran hardly keep forgings and roogh castings trained chauffeurs and Its machinists. city la the motor car center of tha up with it. They eialra that they at oo end of tho department, and it It has mors than $0,000 have now 050.006 population, and at passes thrqngh machine after maConnected with every army In the country. field is what is known as an automo- men employed in the Industry and its the present rats or growth they will chine until tt comes out ready to be bile park or motor-caassembled Into the car. At the same hospital. This output of rare last year wua about have more than 1,000,600 to 1026. la where the vehiclea are taken for 1.600,600 in number. During tha Ow time other' ports are coming along are road troubles eal a last comyear URING here have I Ordinary repairs. visit through other machines and the result ending my stay July, single remedied by the chauffeurs, who carry pany had sold mom than 760.000 ia that the raw material goes to at one extra parts with them, but other re- cars, and its managers tell me they ers 126 to end of tbo factory and comes out at Some of the the city. these machine are in made have still unfilled 100,060 on orders the other end to ambulances, motor pairs shops, which have power lathes, shap- their hooka The market value of the plants coyer acres, and one has 40.460 trucks and war vehicles of one kind or and blacksmith cars out , ers, vulcanizing shops here last year was or 50,000 men oa its pay roll. I went soother. turned shops. Every park baa Its oxy cetylene more than $600,600,000. Tbe seme methods are used to makthrough one factory which has as welding outfit, by which the Riding through the city, one sees much ground devoted to it aa a 275 ing gas engines which wilt go to the broken parts of steel, brass or alumi- everywhere the evidence of the motor- acre farm, and walked through ma- aviation ramps to be parts of tho flynum raq be Joined together. There car industry. He ran count a half- chine shops which If spread out ing machines made there or to the are usually several hundred care in million dollars' of pleasure au- would more than cover fiva fields of making of 'other parts for the use to each park, and tha machinists and tomobiles at anyworjh hour of tha day in 10 acres each. various kinds of war machinery. . great machine U'-- -- About $0,006 are paid every week and a string of employees, men and women, of a hundred different national!-tie- s go by tlie pay window all day long. Each gets his money aa be passes, and ti at in a little pay envelope, half as big es those used for orOn the outdinary correspondence. side ia marked the man's name, and Inside are bills. I ran over some of the envelopes and saw they were marked "$o9," $60, and upward, I opened one envelope and the bills and exact change wore inside. Tne amount peld out In one day is often as much at $260,000 and it averages more than $150,000 every 24 hoars. During I he month of May last It wa more than $5,600,000. I am told that rea large proportion of t ceive $5 and upward 'per day. g This company bas a system based upon the habits, thrift and work of tbe men and the use they naake of their money. The share of the profits given each employee I distinct from his wages, and the de-- ' sign Is to give the man who gets tbe least wages the largest proportionate share in tha profits. The system is such that most of tbs employees nsaka Ji and upward per day. The officials teH me that this prof- has been a success, that it has doubled the bank deposits of the men, increased the number of homes owned br about 100 per cent, and the value of the houses bought upon contract from a little more than three frdl lion to more than five sad one-ha-lf million dollars. I asked aa to the effect ef this system as a cost efficiency proposition; the manager replied that they thought It was more than paying, fn better work, greater output and to leas change of hands. There ere some-tlun- k like 5.004 women employed ia the plant, who get the same money aa the mdn doing sim tier work. tvOien their wages were rained to sa equality with those of the' men, their efficiency at once Jumped more than 5 per cent. "One of the most important values of this profit-sharisaid system, one of the men at tbe bead of tbe factory, 5 that our employee stay with us, and we do not have to be continually hiring new men. Before we introduced it, to order to keep a continuous force of a little more than men, we had te hire as many as 52.000 new hands , throughout tlie the profit-shariyear. Immediately-aft- er was Introduced srfth a force of men of a' little more than 12,009, the new men employed numbered only 14 000. By a careful study of cost us efficiency, ve find that it cost Jo st $70 to hire a man and fit him-fhis Job. In 1811 we discharged over $.000 men, to 1015 the number discharged was only 27. Multiply 70 by $.000 or $60,000 and you will have the number of dollars we saved by holding rur men FRANK G. CARPENTER. THE THE Hve and six stories. They look Ilka , enormous boxes of brick, They are designed iron and glass. of and built With the of handling the materials, increasing output and with giving sanitary conditions to the employees. ofI' might write pages about the details The buildsaving I law everywhere. - so that the raw ings are arrangedof the in end one come at materials factory and the finished ears go out of waste no at the other. There is wo reduplication of work. energy-an- d In one establishment the buildings are In unite around Jiranewaye, which enable the freight to be taken from the trucks on the railways, and dropped down Just where they arw to be used, fn another the power house is so built that the coal Is put in at the top of the plant, and it falls by gravity heat the lots the furnaces, which boilers that In turn move the great encylinders of the1 , That power gines on tha Door below. and plant develops 14.000 horse-powa combination of Ha engines are " are other There engmes type. which Increase the horsepower to and that force Is used for the machinery of this one motor car establishment alone. The power plant is as clean as a Dutch kitchen. Its floors are of mosaic white tile, and it makes one think of the bathroom - of a milThe electricity is generlionaire. ated there, and there la a great raving in coat by use of gas producers. The company consumes more than $0,606.-00- 4 cubic feet of gas per day, or enough to ligbt a large city. took out patent ydopUng hi toam onalAo to carrtafoo runalnc on tana, and it wa aftor tbo clooo of tbo rov olutiooary war that Ouvor Evaao obtain od a patont In Maryland for tha iclttibt rifht to road atam warona. It wa a mak 1UU beforo tbo Eclaratioa of Indpndnco wa djiaa that a Franchman. Capt. Mchoia -i Joseph Cuanot, invented tba XI rat road vehicle that actually ran, and model of hia etm car riado U ttU to bo soon in ono of ihc muaeama of Parla This ran was tbo father of the automobile. He was re warded for bis invention with a pension of less than $200 a year and ho died poor. His came practicable. invention ,never beThe next advance was an man named Trevithick, bywho Englisha steam automobile which did built better than the ear of Cugnot. and this was followed by the machine patented by Oliver Evans, who mounted an engine on a wagon and drove it around the Circle where the city hall of Philadelphia sow stands, and then down to tho Schuylkill river, where the engine wa taken off and cond nected with a boat, which It made to move down tha stream. About thirty-o- r forty years later an Englishman named Hancock established a coach line run by steam over the ordinary roadwayh? He kept bis car running for twenty weeks and during that time carried more than 12.066 passengers. a (Special Correspondence.) THE WAR ZONK, Dee. 10. If of your desire the good-wi- ll INfellows do not become a bfUettog officer, for he is apt to be unpopular with everybody, and sure of always bring deep to somebody's black books,' If it falls to your lot to seek out and allot billets for your battalion, make ote at all events of hitting tha right village. I ones knew a bright young officer who found some beautiful 1 for his battalion to a certain village, and, having (ound them, sat down complacently to await the arrival of hia unit . Blit ft never came, for tha simple reason that he had blighted hia prospects by going to the wrong village. Take care that yu do not lose your billeting party by the way. you have not had a puncture yourself, .tt does not follow 'that there are.no thorns in tha read. Always let your Party know exactly where you are And precisely how to get there. It verT Improbable that you will all have maps, so it ia well te write the B"na of your destination plainly oo a nee of paper, and a copy to each man of the party. give Their prenuneto-tio- n Ia not Hkaly to be Parisian, and may prove beyond the comprehension of the natives. . The average billeting Party hi one of tbe moat elusive things on the face of tba A friendly shat with tbe brigade interpreter before you set out will renerally not bo wasted: otherwise Often you reach- billeting urea, yon may discover yoor that he has an another battalion of brigade, and that you must rely rnleiy on the Malra or the local Garde to help you out ef year Jhampetr, imcuitiee. Ia which rasa, there may complications. 1 of four, v The Sperry & Hutchinson Co. tf : i |