Show I ’ j 'I ? ' ('- - - ' : V V ’ 4 V M fc ' t V'“ - - t v - MAGAZINE SECTION " Wh THE t‘'1 SALT LAKE CITY ‘ UTAH- HERALD-REPUBLICA- N t II - SUNDAY IIILY-- 1 1917 — ‘MAOAaUiS SEC1TC V V r f i1 n 'v i ' ‘f ' J W - '1 i TTJ 'JM - i ' 1 :r ‘ m a - - - ' i w Tv 'T FjI ' ilieelfMofe ? lshters- - r '' 'v' v jv j-i- r — V JT t are f Is motorized and gasoline The vital advantage of putting an ' basis was army on a than gunpowder! ' : s war when motor This ' Is truly a machine-mad- e een early in the on--: MARS array ' infantry and cavalry stand but'a scant show As a result of one self-propell- ed of the lessons learned lnthe hard school of war Uncle Sam’s artillery- vehicles saved France When the war 'In which speed and mo: almost in men who heretofore have ridden nfshing Germans were : are In the bility Imperative making sight ' of Paris the French rushed horseswill hereafter ride on armed most successful mores on the world's troops in motor cars by thd thou- motorcycles some of which will have f r : : - - vast "checker board of death The use of motor vehicles in the present war has taught many useful lessons and suggested many interesting ideas probably one of the most notable among which is the organization of motorcycle squads and motor batteries t Now that the United States is casting in the world-wid- e test of arms the weight of the country’s i tremendous forces of men money and munitions these two new armed motorcycle fighting units motor and batteries innovasquads tions in warfare which must be credited to American ingenuity —are des-tined to play a very important part - 1 - : - sands and turned back' the Teutonic ' a "bathtub" attachment giving each invaders at the battle of the' Marne cycle aV carrying capacity of three which resulted’ in a victory for the “ very efficient lighters the United' States war French The part vehicles played in this battle apartment perfected plghs for the or-Is looked npon as a strategic mover ganization of horseless regiments it‘-that has taught the world a lesson was realized that the motorcycle had out' of 'regarding the- emergency ‘trans---- put the military horseman s kinds for of work :S an many (t running of army portation A ' Each of these a carries motorcycles An Arm MWke1--- 5 machine gun It to true that In IThat American' military experts gted cases armei motorcycles have have fully considered the effects that ' been used in the English armies but the power of moving" troops ‘rapidly only it is said as a protection for has upon' the early fortunes of war Is messengers and men on similar duty clearly scen tin' the organization' of f The idea of a squad of machine-gusquads of fighting cyclists and motor' motorcycles is said to have been batteries against whose formidable broached first In thin country some de-mot- or all-import- ant i V- - - - -- - n - An Armored Motor Battery on a Sham Battle Hikel Arthur Ohapelle Motor Cycle Champion ' ' V Is Seen Piloting the First Machine i r ' Motor Cycle Squad in a Practice Skirmish a time' before the opening of the pres- armed motorcycle squad Is the ar-ent war xnored motor battery These armored What is reported to be the first motor vehicles called "land cruisers” ' United States volunteer motor vehi"battleships on wheels" are cle organization for service7 in the and even painted' a "battleship gray war is known as the "Hundred-Mil- e of them are equipped for War Pilot - Squad" among t Many duties' collapsible whose members are some of the wireless ' masks carrying electric a special most famous American : automobile ' generator of producing a race drivers The plan was conceived current of capable a 110 and volts it is said that electric searchlight "with powerful by Eddie Pullen-ana helionone of : the dare-dev- il drivers has graph shutter attached' for day sigrefused to "do his bit" in this ca-- nalling Some even are equipped pacity with a periscope for observation from behind walls - and other de- ‘A Hundred Miles an Hour ' c 'si fences and also carry range and ele--r CaptJesse McComas of the Cali-- vation finders ' and other technical fornia artillery who had several instruments All of course mount xlfles months service on the Mexican bor- at least two rapid-fir-e to the magnitude of the moOwing der assisted Pullen in the work of vehicle tor Industry in the United perfecting his' organization of drivers States It Is estimated that It would " The Hundred - Mile - an - Hour' be possible for Uncle-Sato trans-says Capt McComas "will port in motor cars an army' of 140 00r Squad render Invaluable servicei These 000' men if necessity for - that prowill be extremely useful as dis- cedure should arise' There are said patch bearers and for whisking offi- to he in this country 500 manufaccers from place to place turers of motor vehicles ‘whose an"in case the war should be practi- nual output Is 1500000 cars of all ’kinds and 1000 concerns devoted to cally a naval one then the Squad! will be turned lines accessory to the motor vehicle over to the secret service for use in industry It Is estimated that there running down spies and in intelli- are now in use in the United States gence work It is more likely how- 3500000 motor vehicles with an ever that the services-o- f these men average carrying capacity of four will be accepted fair the signal corps" persona or a total of 14000000 Mach more formidable than the 1 1 4 all-arou- nd ' an-Ho- ur - : 1 d ‘ r ' ' - ' ?- - ' - - -- ' - ' 'Hundred-MIle-an-Ho- ur ’ ' paa-seve- rs - ' " r ' r‘C‘ l' I I Vi - -- -- fr V r ri Bmk 1817- - |