Windham County Observer
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GEORGE L. PADGETT
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Wednesday, July 25, 018
Wednesday. August 21, 1918
DO.NOT TRAVEL
’LESS]NECESSARY
DIRECTER MCADOO EXPLAINS A
SCARCITY OF PASSENGER CARS
Being Used for Transporting Troops—
Track and Terminal Facilities
Also Overcrowded
To The Public —
i ’om plain 18 have reached me from
time t<» time of overcrowded (rains and
unsatisfactory conditions prevailing
in some sections of tin* country in pas
senger train service I feel certain
that Th*re are grounds for some of
tln*s** - ornplaints. but I am sure the
public will be interested to know that
the reasons an* twofold:
First, the great number of troops
now being handled over the various
railroads b«*f w» en 111 * * homes and the
cant.-nments. between »h• • different
can ton men is and then to the seaboard.
is making extraordinary demands up
on the passenger car and sleeping car
| equipment of the country. This has
| caused a scarcity of day coaches and j
sleeping cars which it is impossible to :
I remedy immediately,
j Secondly, the increased demands up
| on track and terminal facilities for the j
: transportation of the tremendous j
I amounts of coal, food supplies, raw
j materials, and other things, required |
I lor military and naval operations, as
; veil as for the support of the civil.
