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Sheldon-Gibson Stage Line
Carrying U. S. Mails
For CHITINA and WAV POINTS
Every Tuesday Morning
Special Auto for parties of four
or more any time.
C. Ha*ry Woodward, agent
Fairbanks
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
All those who are interested in
the study of Christian Science are
cordially invited to attend a meet
ing which will be held at 2 p. m.,
on Sunday at the Healy cabin, on
Secorid street.
If you have saved a slice a day.
eat cornbread and save a loaf.''
! GREAT SALVAGE
PLANT OPERATES!
NEAR JAR ZONE;
American Supply Headquarters, j
| Tours, France.—Two carloads o£
hair brushes abandoned by Ameri
I can soldiers in camps were among'
! the wreckage of battle brought re
cently to the great salvage depot
of the American army here. This
! was only one little^ item in the
j grist of debris and litter from the
j fighting zone which has been care
fully gathered up and sent here j
for restoration.
Five thousand persons are em-1
j ployed in renovating and repairing I
j this wreckage. The material thus j
I saved and restored to use or sold !
I amounted in value last month to j
j $2,500,000. j
| In the big battle around Chateau j
Thierry, as our fighting men went j
| over the top they were followed
j closely by detachments of non- j
j combatant troops to grope amid
| the wreckage and debris and save
i it from complete abandonment and
j loss. Each detachment comprised
j 29 enlisted men and an officer. ;
| They had trucks and derricks and
jail the paraphernalia for gathering'
| broken-down cannon, rifles, cart- ■
j ridge belts, helmets, clothing and j
the vast stores of abandoned arms ^
I and material left in the track of!
I a contest, and to send it back to:
; the salvage depot here.
Strange things have come out
of this war, but none stranger than
this gigantic salvage plant where
i everything from crippled guns and
' cannon to old army shoes and caps
| is saved from total loss and turned
j back to some useful end at the
j front. At first people looked at
| it as a freak. There was nothing
, like it in the Civil War or the more
recent modern wars. It started on
a small scale with 200 hands.
But now, after a few months, it is
ia monster industry, with huge build
; ings and towering stacks. It will
save the government $35,000,000
the first year, and it may reach
$50,000,000. This is no freak; it
is cold, hard saving of millions of
dollars, at a time when material
is scarce and shipping difficult. It
is the anti-waste campaign brought
to its highest developments by a
huge government undertakng.
Going over the plant recently,
says a correspondent for the Asso
ciated Press, there was an oppor
tunity to see the remarkable details
of this salvage. The wreckage of
the battlefield is only one of the
sources of this salvage, explained
our escort, but it is the greatest
source. As men spring into action,
they throw aside everything not ab
solutely essential. There is besides
! the litter of the actual fighting,
]broken and abandoned goods of
every conceivable nature.
It is not only what is left by our
own troops, but what is left by the
j enemy, often great stocks of arms,
i ammunition, bayohets and every
kind of fighting material.
! Even when there is no battle, the!
mere shift of a division of troops i
leaves an enormous stock of aband-!
oned goods. Moved on short orders,
; the men pick up a few fighting
1 essentials—guns, blankets, emer- j
; gency rations—and leave the rest
behind, books, extra clothes, shoes,
j etc. The men arrive from America j
i with an undue amount of clothing;!
; it is trimmed down at the first
| training camp; again it is trimmed
I down as they go to the front, and
I each new trimming of thousands of
j men means another huge stock for
I salvage.
In the main building, a quarter
| of a mile long, there was the roar
t of a vast and diversified industry,
with over 4,000 women workers and
a thousand men, with long batteries j
j of sewing machines, shoe machines, j
i rubber and harness machines »such ]
1 as one sees in the great factory dis
tricts; with the same huge installa-!
; tion of engines, boilers, disinfecting 1
j plants, laundries; and the whirr of j
big metal machines for making over
the many branches of ordnance.
Hundreds of women were sorting
the uniforms and underclothing just
! come from the salvage processes.
There were some 200,000 blouses,
on these towering shelves, and or.
many more of all the other articles
of soldier wear. They were in!
bundles, looking very fresh and
clean, quite like the stock of a well
equipped clothing establishment. The
women were arranging the garments
in three classes:
Class A—Garments in good order
practically the same as new to be
sent back to the front as part of
the supply for fighting troops.
Class B—Garments partly worn
out but fully repaired, to be sent
to the base ports on the coast, for
labor troops and stevedores.
Class C—Garments much worn
but in a fair state of preservation,
to be sent to prison camps for Ger
man prisoners.
This was significant of what the
German prisoners were getting; not
the best, to be sure, and not the
same goods as our own men, but
worn goods in a fair state of pre
servation. It seemed to be an an
swer to the outcry that the German
prisoners were getting the same as
our men.
One could follow the stages of the
huge stacks of hob-nail army shoes
from the time they arrived, covered
with the mud and grime of the
trenches and the battlefied, through
process after process of disinfection,
cleaning, repairing, grading, until
they finally emerged in stocks of
substantial wear. Like the gar
ments, these were classed to go
back to the fighting troops, or to
the stevedores, or to the German
prisoners.
It was the same with the infinite
variety of army equipment going
through the salvage process, rubber
boots and arctics, shelter tents, har
ness for artillery, saddles, bridles,
stirrups. All of it was on a pro
digious scale, 50,000 garments a
day; 1,000 pairs of rubber boots a
day at the armp price of $2.65 a
pair. The salvage of all kinds of
rubber articles was 99 per cent, or
almost a complete saving of every
thing received.
More than a million dollars worth
of clothing was saved last month,
and the magnitude of the work as
a whole can be judged from these
figures of the output: Shoes $325,
! 120; clothing $1,307,026; harness
and leather $57,000; rubber $90,
000; canvas and webbing $35,000.
i There are some curious things
gathered up in this litter. Enough
books and magazines are left be
hind to stock up several libraries.
Pictures and knick-knacks with
; which the tents are decorated be
! fore the rush comes, are abundant.
COOINEY MOTEL
Not Better Than the Best,
But Better than the Rest,9*
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WHEN I IN FAIRBANKS, VISIT THE
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RHEUMATISM, PARALYSIS, NERVOUSNESS. LUMBAGO,
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And have obtained the services of an experienced operator,
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TUB—STEAM—SHOWER—AND TURKISH BATHS
MRS. JACK BAIRD, Proprietress.
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Family pictures and belongings of a
personal character are carefully pre
served in little bags to be returned
to their owner or his family if that
is possible
Besides restoring: articles for use,
every scrap of wool cloth, leather,
metal, hat-bands, is saved to be
turned into some other form of use
ful article or is sold. The sale of
junk, tin cans and scraps last month
netted 18,400 francs.
The women workers are chiefly
French and Belgrian, many of them
refugees from the invaded districts,
so that the work has this further
useful end for some 4,000 women.
They get from 6 to 7 francs a day;
working from 7 to 11:30, and from
j 1:30 to 6. The wages paid last
month were 71 1,400 francs. But
all the cost of wages and new ma
terial was less than ten per cent
of the value produced for army uses,
totaling $2,500,000 for the month—
a tribute to the ingenuity which has
produced the unique establishment
of war economy.
The Copper King, J. P. Whit
ney’s mine at Whitehorse, is work
ing 40 men, while the War Ragle
now has 15 men employed and one
| or two other mines are working
j from 10 to 15 men. Things are
i fairly lively in the Whitehorse dis
I .
; trict.
—
Supplying food is America's prin
cipal part in the war right now;
I Food means first of all Wheat. The
l next two months will tell.
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Soft Drinks — Pool
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FRANK TAYLOR
COLISEUM
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