Popular Science Monihhj 



A Gasoline Field Kitchen 



AMUXG the useful and interesting 

 devices of which the origin is di- 

 rectly traceable to the war, the automo- 

 bile field kitchen in the illustrations is 

 one that is made necessary by the swift- 

 ness with which armies in the field are 

 transported and l)y the promptness with 

 which these armies must be supplied 

 with food. In this field kitchen the 

 army cook raises the canopy on the rear 

 end. Behold ! A kitchen of the most 

 compact, yet of the most complete kind, 

 is revealed. 



Four liigh-pressure burners furnish 



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The Longest Pipe Line in America 

 One of the greatest pipe-laying proj- 

 ects ever brought to a successful conclu- 

 sion in the western part of this countn,-, 

 and possibly in this entire land, was the 

 laying of one hundred and fifty-three 

 miles of eight-inch steel pipe from the 

 Midway oil fields to \'ernon, California, 

 at the expense of three million, five hun- 

 dred thousand dollars. This line has a 

 daily capacity of between twenty and 

 thirty thousand barrels of oil and rep- 

 resents capital of three nations. 



The actual route of the pipe line is 

 as follows : Beginning at Pentland and 

 passing through the southern part 

 of the Midway district, the line 

 enters the Tejon pass. After 

 leaving the pass its course lies through 

 the Castaic country, then through the 

 Xewhall tunnel and the San Fernando 

 vallev, until it meets the Santa Fe tracks. 



The army — and the circus — field kitchen, sprawUng over rods of ground, and using its 

 coal out of a load dumped hastily in a pile, is a thing of the past. The modern equip- 

 ment travels by automobile, and its stoves are all inside, fed by gas at high pressure 



tlic lieat ; cleverly concealed pumps force 

 water from the fifty-gallon tank in 

 front of the car to the enamelled sink 

 in the kitchen ; and a variety of uten- 

 sils, such as jugs, plates, meat-choppers 

 and fish-sHcers are provided for the rap- 

 ifl and clean prci)aration of food. Like 

 most modern kitchens, too, this one 

 boasts of ventilators, both at the sides 

 and in the roof of the car. Indeed, it 

 would seem as if the English firm which 

 invented this motor-kitchen simply made 

 a i)ractical, miniature edition of a most 

 approved and modern type of hotel 

 kitchen. 



Thence it proceeds to \^ernon, where 

 there is a double topping plant capable 

 of treating about twenty thousand bar- 

 rels a day, and finally on to the sea. 

 Along the route there are eleven high- 

 pressure and one low-pressure pumping 

 stations, and beside these there are three 

 chief storage stations and two loading 

 stations. One of the storage stations, 

 consisting of four fifty-five thousand-bar- 

 rel tanks, is at Pentland, another made 

 up of the same number of tanks is at San 

 I-Vrnando. and a third, consisting of six 

 fifty-five thousand-barrel tanks, is beside 

 the ocean. 



