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The Huron Expositor, 1918-01-18, Page 1"wrommilseliNIMMINIMMININIMENEMIP 1918 A43159911•161g. _NPIlasimmam,wwww • !imimeammmolmwomm Store etINCOND TRAIL I MI" MINDER 2614 r4$4Pc•*eic..e.co•eo<>eoo•oc00000•oeo4ZN>4K>iooeo4o reig CiothingCo'y • alue hether - J ey or ood Value. We use offerings in our gore. y us by make-believe ppreciate our way of 4.1 ile -ached great efficiency xpect to excel that re - ie part to a.chieve thie t. If at any time you so. We want you to Vemen &Girls -Skirts e—we doubt if.you can salne garment offerings drith what you simply sine te the store and see Garment e price Of furs of every low successful the Mac - every season and -what &Ted like to show: you Rugs ttid-Winter if the value tavish Store and inspect floor in the house that covering- We will be e our values are. I well, wear well. This exercised in glove buy - tiers. We exercise that ear durability, ventilation, it over -weight of fabric. tse features, and right elerwear suited to your &erns alue help make any article ie a SI.antlard pattern. Standard Patternfit thitr go, d succeee ev- •••••130.0•10.11=1...••••••••••••••••••••••• Eggs Wanted ish mow miussoommionimoiwit • "Second to .74/One " 11 FurPrices Re uced Making Unusual Opportunities. for Buyers of Fur Garments. 411.1.111119110 For the purpose of making a complete clearing of all fur garments, such as Coats, Fur Sets, Neck Pieces, Shoulder Pieces, Muffs, Collarettes, Fur Caps, etc. We have placed the Price on eiery article at such a low figure that purchasers will make a very substantial saving of cash. A saving worth while, in fact, which everyone will realize who- investigates and takes ad- vantage of this great Fur Sale Black Wolf Sets Natural Grey Wolf Sets Red Fox Sets . .. . ........... . Japanese Coon Sets • Nateral GreyLynx Sets Grey Wolf Sets Sable Muffs • *. $25.00 to $40.60 .$16.00 to $28.00 ..$35.00 to $50.00 $20.00 to $30.00 $25.00 to $35.00 $15.00 to $30.00 $15.00 to $20,00. $12.00 to $20.00 $15.00 to $20.00 $50.00 to $75.00 $20.00 to $25.00 Oppossum Sets Black Siberian Fox Sets' Persian Lamb Sets • Mink Marmot Sets . MEN'S COATS Canadian Coon China Beaver Russian Wolf All reduced in Price 31eLliAlq Biwa, Publishers) $1.50 /I Year' in Advance - et --- THE SALVAGE'OF WAR (By Isaac F. Mareosson) Whatever designation the great war dna.y hare in history reo one yeill ever . deny that emong other things it is a er war of corre.sts. It provides the amazing sctacle oGerman and Turk lying ;down together; of ancient' foes like England ad France lined up on a conurion battle front of free- dhan of Arican treops under arms marching through the streets of Lon - den; of industry reborn and aociety transformed. But no contrast, not even the flowering of thrift amid the ruins of coiossal war expenditures, is so striking as the welding of -waste -and conservation, Of all the strange bed- fellows of war, these are the strangest. From time immemorial war hals spelled destruction. Yet out of the vest vortex that today 'engulfs mere money and materials, there is coming a tremendous lesson in economy that will make, peace mare efficient and more orderly. , The salvage of war has been reduced to a precise science and is a definite and inseparable part of army operations in the field. The hand that destroys is the first to renew. Here you touch the least known of the -many activities that go to make up the stupendous business of war. Again, your get the example, of a -powerful war machine that began with ahnost nothing. The -first salvage I was casual arid 'depended in the inain . upon the initiative or enterprise of individual officers Now it is a full fledged war-offiee department, with a complete and farreaching organization all its own and dedicated solely to re- habilitation. It saves the British Goverament millions of dollars every year, and 'points .at the same time a moral that no hing else could so forc- ibly impedes. ,It ts another Cinderella of the serviceonce rejected, even a- bused—that hes developed into one. a the permanent benefits of the huge conflict. - i In former 'wars the human. being was about tie- only thing regarded as i redeemable. While there was life there was alwayst e proverbial hope that the fighting man could be saved and possibly restored to some usefulness. As to arms, 'ammunition 'equipment, food and stores of all kinds, the atti- tude was different. Why waste time on supplies that could be renewed? Everything spoiled or damaged went intothe, junk heap and was buried or turned. This is one reason why war became the one real synonym for waste. To preach reclamation on any kind of scale was almost unsoldierly Your *Friends are. invited to attend Vie Old litnes,Danee, in Gardirbo's Opera Hall orb l'uesday Evening, January 22nd ui aid of the Bed Cr083 MUSICIANS—H. M. Chesney, Jr., P. M. Chesney, James A. Chesney, Abe Ftersyth, Henry Forsyth, Thomas Rands, Harry Stewart, Herbert Fowler, joseph Storey, Earl VanEgmond. • s FLOOR MANAC-ERS-4farri Charters; Peter Cameron, JO' Seph Kale, *= William 1VlacljUrtaldi:Ndp Rowland, Garnet Habkirk, William or n. COMMITTEE—Hib • McKillop, Vim William Charters T. DeLaceSTI Dan. ‘:§1*sth iTetteph Murphy; Hullett, Scott Hawthorne; er and Robert Dodds, Jr.; Tuckersmith, • 9 Robert Geminell; Sea.forth John Beattie L. and Charles Stewart. for the. Collie Collection • donated, by en, Mich., in aid of The Red Cross. Ihring jIanniteerins coissirietit Ittootyz4:in fr pawing, comtnences at half past eight o'clock - Ladies please'brine cake or sandwiches Gentleuien, $1.00 Gallery open to spehta.torsi 25e. A.. D. Sutherland, Aecretary. restore them." • -I se As a result' only actual, rags *Tit to the ragman. and the neap-rago, were sent to Paris to be restored,' t Out of this grew the great Paris Ordnance Depot, which to -lay elliPlOrsetnearly four thousand women .on salvage and saves the Government* actin' money more than $ig,000,ow,a year. Suchwas the beginning of the Brit- ish array sithmge on any kind of or- ganized scale.' Long before ,1915 had rounded -out it twelve months :er _blood and disaster there was a salintge Squad in every. army unit. The: work ,has grown steadily in Scone- and energy, Today, , almost before the Ilstme and fury of battle sucliide theseioniads are on the battle ground,. gathering up abandoned steel ! helmets, .rifles,.. belts, haversacks, bayonets, shell case, un- exploded bombs and grenedeiteclothes, leggings, shoes; in .faet,' ever/ -scrap of stuff that can be trensioeted. this equipment is thretiatt into moter trucks or wagons t arr- hauled 'behind the lines, where itis aimed out, by indiyid al. items; leaded Mile freight cars and sent off to the varitilis bases, to be reclaimed there ses, leent 'Atte, Eng° and 11 be. salvagpid. —it sank to the basely coinniercial, must be redeeined.or*eld O.British tliongii neglect 11 'L4 ,the *vital* Goverimtent soMes;ret 4 or • poSt-belltinT kali& ‘'''-' - , -: ' - - :-1-4--.' raw. material Thilie i4e eilli Black Dog • But that state Of [mind existed adienn „hero they , n,• .„ , .. 0. ,iso -the wa a.s compared With present-day r, '•- '-' l'fii - ' - 1.-iir unsaivaged. Forimmily. 411 the. shoes , .operations, was on a' pygmy: seale. to.be' salvaged Were ,shipped to 4, car?, With a host' equal to half the entire tam port in the north of France; the- ft ur 'Ltued population of the United States called uniforms blankets, kilts, • Underwear and rubber boots were overhauled in to the colors in all the nationsinvolved Paris, and most of the ordnance went and with an average daily outlay' of $160,000,060, governments are inclined to England. As the litter of battle r Men's i and Boys' Overcoats Big Clearfng Sale of a very large stock. Coats made from the good old substantial cloths selling at LESS THAN ONE HALF PRESENT ACTUAL VALUE. • There will be no overcoats like these offer- ed for sale in the Fall of this year---manulacturers can not get the cloth to make them. Prices $12 $15 $18 to $20 Greig Mitring Co to try to snatch a few fagets:erein the grew in volu e it become necessary to 1 increase the alvage depots, until there titanic fires. The ritish efforts in I were three Shoe -saving stations and this direction have c eated an agency half a dozen ordnance-reclarnation eel - of reconsteuction th is a marvel of • administration. The!' 'legend of the tablishments in France and England. pig squel plionographed in Chicago's A small army t had to be recruited for this work. Packingtoom to Prove that the pork barons waste nothing -has a real par- With the development of the salvage • allel in the econornies now practiced idea naturally came a definite organ - with army food alone. . . iation ' for ,ite conduct. The physical During the first .six month e of the -end is under the immediate direction • war or even longer—there was ter- of Army 'Service Corps officers who in civil life were engaged in some rific waste. In the circusmtances this • was a very natural occurrence. With kind. of business. The rank and file food and equipment the whole effort are enlisted men invalided out of ac- tive sercive • or unfit for fighting by • of the War Office was concentrated on one ambition—to fill stomachs, to reason of nhysical disability or over - clothe bodies and to arm hands; hi age. For two years each army in the • the mud rush to stem the German ad- field had a salvage head and the entire vance there was no time to think of work was supervised by the quarter- • Master general_ to the forces, who economy. had rank' representative t G You had only to go, to any one of a rankinga Gen - the Headquarters in France. the mobilization depots in England * when Kitchener's first hundred thous- The scope of salvage reached such and were being raised to find out that a point—its financial turnover repre- the British Government was looked _seated many Millions of dollars mid upon by both the civil and military the number of articels retrieved greiv population . as the Lady Bountiful. • When battalio,ns moved away from • Salisbury Plain, or one of the other great training Camps, nearly every house within a raidius of fifteen. miles was equipped with not only one or more army ,blankets but army food and stores of all descriptions. When scorces of men went home on leave their rations were drawn by the quar- termaster sergeants .just the same. This food. went to the garbage heap or to the camp followers. When an 'econenticelly disposed officer remon- strated with his men about the ungod- ly waste the 'invariably reply was: "The government is rich and can af- ford it. Why worry?" , 1 • SE:A.FORTII g>+<>41.040.0.0IK>604K>*04**O*0*Co•Coso~•Co0.04o9e0* Curiously enough, the first sense of saving 'manifested itself where there was the greatest. destruction. This , means that it began in France. It is not surprising also that it istarted with the Scotch, whose hereisin under fire is eel:tailed oniy by thee/. thrift behind the lines. Instinct mede the High- lander shy at the immense Waste. He was not si keen as his English ma to discard a slightly : soiled kilt or damaged coat. His example was con- tagioud because, when, a11 is said and done, thrift is- a habit easily acquired. Originally only guns and rifles were salvaged. The time-hoitored method of disposing, i of the debris of battle was to assemble it in huge piles and set fire tto them. They proved to be costly bonfires. Along in 1915 began the practise of isegregating the, wreckage of the batt efields and 'hauling it back i to so -call d dumps. The uniforms vvere takei. Out and sold for rags at $250 a ton. Ohly the brass buttons were , retained. Practically all the other refuse was destroyed. One day the quartermaster general to the -issrc s, Lieutenant General Sir John - S. C wans, had an inspiration. He said to imself: "If these ;uniforms : are worth $250 a ton to the junk man ''-sets on the British reclamation. pro - they ought to be 'Worth a good deal gram. inure .to the army. Lit us try to The first and rnost sepctatular de - to an almost incr has developed in sfficers -would cal ible total—that it what the British a separate show; that iis, a comp ete self-sustainine branch of the 'army. - The whole salvage institution now under the control of a salvage board somposce of the qu= ...master gene eral to the forces; the surveyor gale eraI of supply. whose acquaintance pm made in the first article of this • series and who is the general provider of the British 'armies; the master general of ordnance; the minister of munitions; and two commercial TAM - get the inevitable - link with practicl' , through bees. Hero, as elsewhere put the whole army organization, you, business. This board is the' supreme comitsof salvage and sits on all matters of policy and adminietration. With the excepton of the two commercial members every rrtan on it is a direct and extensive beneficiary of its oper- ations. • You can see the whole scheme of salvage set forth on one of the huge charts similar to those that outline the strategy of supply and transport and their allied activities. Once more you have the helpful pyramid indicat- ing every step of a vast business sys- tem. • The apex of the pyramid is the salvage board, whose voice -and inter- preter is a director of salvage install- ed at the War Office. In the nature of his executiye duties he min -responds with the director of supply and trans- port, who is housed under the same roof. Under him are five deputy di- rectors of salvage in England, each • one in charge of a separate depart- ment. Their opposite numbers in the field are called controllers of salvage. There is one with every army unit overseas, whether it •be in France, Salo/1.11d, Egypt, Africa or Mesopo- tamia. tin other words the sun never pertinent in the general torganizatioff deals with collection and field sorting. This is the unit that hovers on 'the • fringe of battle and gets on the job before the smoke lifts, front the hard- fought field. Its fumdion therefore is battle salvage. In order to under- stand the whole reciamation process it might be well to explain here that there, are two separate and distinct kinds of salvage: One is battle salvage '—which deals with the debris of actual fighting and includes'all trench inate- riale, -such as wood and iron, shell cases, guns, rifles, equipment, clothing, tools.and. other stores that have been dansaged in actual. fighting; the other • is the so-called, normal salvage, which is materials such as em.pty packing miser, gasoline cans and other articles that never reach the battlefield. • As you examine this salvage system you find it reverses the procedure of supply and transp'ort With food and • motoe trucks, for example, you begin at the point of production and follow the commodity streight to the Front, where it is destreyed - or consumed. With salvage, on the other hand, 3fou begin with destruction or damage and retrace' your -steps to, restoration. - All advitaced salvage% depots—here Again yon find the, parallel with tl.! ,434Pp1eraed-tranipart .organiztitioii have -a duuble funetion.; The`undam- aged equipment is cleaned on the spot and returned immediately teethe issue stores. - The damaged goods are sent back to the base depots- for renewal. This comprises what -might be called the field -salvage organization., The next departMent deals with se- cond sorting.. A dansaied belt or hav- ersack easily repairable might be dis- cardedadvanced base and thrown into the •thousands of women streamed forth to as useless ie the routine at the 1 Junk heap. In order to put a check get their dejeuner. I could not help on carelessness the stuff is submitteed ped establishment, vibratin.g wttii realizing that this completely equip - to a secend inspection, If there is the slightest chance for salvage ft goes to a home repair shop located in Eng- land, where if classed as absolutely hopeless it lands among the scrap and is distributed by the controller who _deals with 'raw materials. You can see from the work of this depart- ment that the salvage organization lets no possible piece of salvageable mate- rial escape. = The work of the third section is concerned with transport, classification and distribution of articles to be re- paired and of the scrap metal and ma- terials. It sderns that all the goods to be salvaged land in England and are distributed to the proper facteries and depots. It is in constant com- munication -with the War Office as to -- because all army shipping is constant- Paris depot. There are two stages its needs and as to available ports; ly up against the eternal problem of sorting: The stuff is first dumped into tionnag.e. huge open. sheds, where a motley as- , Here, however, there is not the us- hauling. Practically all the labor is eortment of Frenchwomen do the over- ual hectic scramble for space, because recruited from the immediate neigh- to have them shipped there. The next phase in the organization in the all important wing dealing with statistics, overhead cost and Account- ing.' A Complete set of books is kept on every group of items eedyaged. It , must yield a profit in re- newal or it is sold as junk or em- ployed as raw material. - The word "profit" in connection with salvage has a more or less elastic definition. It may mean an actual money margin or its equivalent in time or labor saved. in getting the article fresh from a fimtory. When you reach the fifth and final sub -pyramid in the salvage organiza- tion you are in contact with - one of, the most significant of all its ramified' activities i for. here you reach the plans for demobilization. •You find outlined on paper the stages by, which the enormous armanment of war will be transferred to the uses of peace in the shortest and most efficient fashion. To look it only one angle when the war,depot Is- snore animated than the re - end e . :England will find herself owning' i nieteei on Isf fur and sheepskin coats hundreds of thousands of cannon, large `-----li and leather jerkins won't by the motor - and meal land many millions of rifles. transport. cha.ffeurs. During the first ' How to convert all this metal into plow winter of the war thousands of these shares will be the gretttest problem. sheepskin coats were used They soil- MUch of this procedure is secret, of ed so easily and became infested with course. For one thing, however, it so much vermin' thee the i leather jer- is planned to utilize - the ieturning kin_ was substitaeed and hats been armies to bring this immense mass' of - fmmd to be muclfmore *mai-earl and material home with them. These coate and jerkins The reason is obvious. Just as soon eesaneit'arjai- i e as peace comes the average British we-iicPli"‘ eTwdinusutrigeis thAvroitiv9deengdeirerosu, generously Tommy is likely to throw away his The drums are rolled by 'machiaerer gun and-aay to himself: "This war is and 'the dirt end other impurities liter - evert The ,devil take the equipment ally elashe ' out of the garments. It I am going to beat it back to Blighty!" mixes -witls the sawdust and is removed Blighty, as most people know, ie the with it, The sawdust is then used soldiers' slang term for England. for fuel. Five thousand of these gar - The big Meaning of this de,mobiliza- ments can be cleaned every day. The tion salvage plan is .that salvage will niimber of leather jerkins cleaned -net end with the even during six months last year was ex - As a matter of fact it •will just be- actly 298„612, 'which repeesented a servation of all resources that wit, gin. It is a hint of that mighty eoiri more than d500,000. Sipce the depot saying to the British Government of make Great Britain. a new world' in- was established 700,000 jerkins and dustrial power. Having peen the outline of the sal- deemed and restored I might add that 300,000 sheepskin, coats have . been 'wage system you can now go into the the renovated jerkin and fur coat are field and watCh it at work. No branch neuele aought after by the British of it is more imposing than the Paris Toneny .because they are softer and Ordnance Depot. Here you get a more wearable than new garments. very etriking illustratiosi of the growth Overcoats or greatcoats as the British of salvage as well as soine idea of the can. therm are a big item at the Paris inunense financial profit that accrues denot. During the six months pre - to the British Government. eatimeit my visit exa.ctly 304,193 had This depot began as a1chnnp for mud been -*deemed. If • the. government and blood spattered overcoats, ricling breeches, blankets and kilts. To -day first hand and at the -army vocabulary had been compelled to bur these at it reclaims millions of articles of or catalogue ;price they would have wearing apparel and equipment every cost $2,,.375,000, i These coats, turned ayrdrisaisvoergs , ajtiornedi3liukiel aatgraebgurseinateesrs. price, repregented a net money Saving !lack, to the army at one-half this than the net proas of a full-fledged therefore, of nionednritn $1,000,000,, sentlieledria6aei leti.:447aittuirint4' I went treti-jii4pdarepeel *Ilheall 'Ilrlarilelld -ivilt-d1411Wite6.1d - When an overcoat is beond repair through its caretulli guarded gates fer a soldier' it is dyed grey, or black , thewhirlof hundred § of sewing ma - and served eut to the Chine* East chines smote 'in:y - ear. The place lit- 'Indian- or Egyptian` Inbar battalion% pray hummed with industry. . or to the prisoners of war. Frieght cars were being - shunted At this depot I saw a pile id German back and forth' in the yards. Amy topcoats; captured during a 1)4 ad - trucks loaded with cleideng rattled in and out. next best thing to their proverbial godliness but because the many folds in a kilti provide a rale and snug re- treat /4 the pesta. Aside rosel the war on vermin— they are steamed out—the whole kilt renovation is a picturesque perforrte ance. Every Scotch. regiment has its own particular tartanewhich has some distinguishing stripe, check or color arranvements. After the skirts are overhauled they are sorted out by plaids. The sergeant in charge—a battle -scarred veteran of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders—knows every one of the many Scotch tartans, and piles them up by regiments as they come in. To get down to facts. A new kilt costs, on an average, $5.50. It is re— paired, renewed and sent back as good as Lew for exactly fifty cents. When a kilt IF, not redeemable it is cut up in pieces and used to line overcoats. No , feature of work at the Paris - vance, whiA were being salyaged. Eventually they will cover the backs When the luncheon Whistle blew of Hun prisopers who will get the surprise of their lives when perhaps their own garments will be issued to them by their foes; Such is the irony of war! 'e The retrieving bf clothes—the so- called service dress, which. includes jackets, trousers and riding breeches —opens up a fresh vista of whil-or- gameed salvage. All garments are di- vided into three classes: The first whith is designated A, is for garments of the first class—that is, uniforms that can be worn by soldiers in train- ing or behind the lines; the second class, catalogued as B, includes gar- ments notso desirbale which are to be used by Men in the trenches; and the third - class--G---dornprisea the work clothes for men engaged in banding ergy grew out of a pile of battle sal- vage and dealt with the by-products ef war. - The Paris depot, and in organization it is typical of all the other large salvage stations is in charge of a once -retired colonel—a dtehut, as such a man is called—who had es:Jane back into the sot' ice, like thousands a 'his comrades.- Too old to fight, he is doing his part amid the din and dust of the waste of war. Having enepuntered the stench of ,more t an ,one reclamat tion depot rican. tru fUlly attest ,the fact that it requir More courage certainly a stronger s tidng power, t,t; ,roads. or in'any of the numerous man - work there than to go 'ver the top. All•the articles to be salvaged are ' Ual lator jobs in' field • ortcampe sent in special trains straight from the The supervision of thie work re- quires skill af • a very high, order. In base depots behind the lines to the charge of the whole job is a Scotch civilian 'who in civil life was head of a huge ,clothing 'establishment in Lon -- don. Under him is a corps of trained French forewomen who classify the garments. With very -deft fingers they Stitch the, class labels on the gar- ments -as they came by for inspection, In this clothing departnitent literally thosuamds of needles fly every day. The *omen are paid by piecework and, be- ing. French, and therefore -thrifty, they are in a constant contest with -time. In order to speed .each otheru hese (set models of industry work in friendly but highly profitable rivalry The wo- man with the the fattest check for the week is indeed the envy of all her co-workers. the quartermaster -general's ships, which go over laden with food and ordnance stores, are employed to bring the salvage material back to England. There are ne empty hauls. The task therefore is to fit the returning ship to the port nearest the reclamation depot to be used. Here is the way it works: The 'deputy, director of sal- vage in charge of the third section is informed by wire from France for example, that fifty eighteen patm7ders are to be salvaged and await shipment. The deputy immediately gets in touch with the master general of ord- nance, who naturally asks if they are worth repairing. If he is told that they ale he then consults the state of work at ordnance depots. He may find that he can squeeze the guns into Woolwich Arsenal, and therefore in- structs the depute,- director of salvage Firewood Good gardwood Fuel for Sale N. Cluff &Sons SEAFORTH 1 = borhood of the depot; it mcludes the Wives, sisters, mothers, grandmothers and sometimes the great-grandmothers —for the Frenchwoman's labors end only with the grave—of soldiers: The scene in one of these great sorting houses is as an -lasing as the air ' is stuffy. You can see a wrinkled French :woman, with her _head done up in a shawl and wearing the tunic of a ser- geant in the RoyaleMedical Corps. The old lady is ushilly very proud of the Red Cross on her sleeve. Another ancient dame is swathed in the folds of an army overcoat, still spattered with the mud of Flanderse while the tided may be seen attired tn the dose- ly buttoned -up coat of a raernber of the Royal Flying Corps, which she has exhumed from some -• foul-smelling heap of soiled uniforms. 'These women throw the repairable articles into portable -bins, which are trundled off to the cleaning room, whence they go, to the various recla- mation divisions. As I have already intimate& the articles . come straight from the battlefields and, like the wreckage in a mechanie,al-transport casualty park, are eloquent, if ordor- ous, evidence of the life -and -death struggle in which they' have figured. • Every article has a separate depart- ment in charge of a subordinate offi- cer who has an adequate staff. The Paris depot is unique in the fact that it is the one salvage place where every square inch of material that comes in is reclaimed or used in some way. The only things not salvaged are the body vermin, which are slaughtered. I speak of vermin—no well -regulated salvage station is complete without them be- cause the Paris depot specializes in ikilts which are the favorite stamping ground for the little travelers. This lin no sense a commentary on the Scotch, who regard cleanliness, as the The clothing output is in keeping with the production of the, ,other de- partments. The average number of tunics or jackets overhauled during a six months' period has been approx- imately 202,000. If John iBull bad bought these in the operi 'market at the regulation vocabulary price they would have cost !din $729,000. By turning them over to the .government on a basis of half this 'Pride the saving is $364,500. With riding breeches and trousers the saving is correspondingly large. , Another huge item of salvage relates to army blankets a all kinds. During one peried of six months, 1,555.803 blankets of all kinds were salvaged. Originally teh yrepresented a cost to the army of $3,889,505. Turned into the government on usual half-price sehedule§ they 'showed a saving of 11,944,702, Horse blankets renovated at the rate of 160,000 every six months, and repreeenting' a saving of more than $300,00ti during that peroid alone'are mer1y en incident in the in bilanIcet depa eat. Each year ,'of the past two ears the Paris dept has salvaged an average of 20,009e Pairs of gloves, 60 000 cardigans, 130,- 0ne Dairg of woollen drawers, 120,000 shirts, 41,000 towels and 200,000 wool- len undervests. 1 (Continud Next Week.)