Photograph by Paul Thompson 



SEVENTH NEW YORK REGIMENT BOARDING THE FERRY TO GO TO SPARTANBURG 



The National Guard forces have been mobilized in 16 tented cities (see pages 467-475), 

 where all is canvas except mess-halls, Y. M. C. A. buildings, etc. Long before the present war 

 was dreamed of, these men believed that America's safety lay in the direction of prepared- 

 ness, and undertook to give a share of their time to putting their opinions into practice. And 

 the account the National Guard troops in France have given of themselves shows that the 

 time they sacrificed at home is turned to Uncle Sam's benefit abroad. 



ing of the wastes. Had it been decided 

 to burn the garbage and other refuse of 

 the camps, the installation of huge in- 

 cinerators would have been necessary ; but 

 happily the idea of the salvage of wastes, 

 something of which armies never thought 

 before this war, was conceived by a Na- 

 tional Guard officer from Delaware. 



This officer wrote the War Department 

 saying that from his experience in hand- 

 ling troops he believed a great saving 



could be accomplished by collecting and 

 selling all garbage and refuse. 



The suggestion appealed to the Quar- 

 termaster General, and the Delaware offi- 

 cer was called to Washington and as- 

 signed the work of developing a plan to 

 conserve the waste materials at the sev- 

 eral cantonments. 



Under his plan all such materials are 

 sorted and placed in separate cans — one 

 for garbage, one for bones, another for 



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