Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 139 June to November 1919 . e Seine beyond the Pontde Grenelle. Business enterprises hadnot prospered along the Quai de land was used for growing cabbagesand cauliflower. But the quarter was apopulous one, and Citroen was lookingfor labor. He started with one buildingand a hundred 75-cm. shells a years later his plant coveredacres. He was turning out in Paris overten thousand shells a day, and directinganother large plant, almost as importantas the Paris one, at Roanne. In 1918,nearly five thousand people were work-ing on the cabbage-pat
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 139 June to November 1919 . e Seine beyond the Pontde Grenelle. Business enterprises hadnot prospered along the Quai de land was used for growing cabbagesand cauliflower. But the quarter was apopulous one, and Citroen was lookingfor labor. He started with one buildingand a hundred 75-cm. shells a years later his plant coveredacres. He was turning out in Paris overten thousand shells a day, and directinganother large plant, almost as importantas the Paris one, at Roanne. In 1918,nearly five thousand people were work-ing on the cabbage-patch of 1915. WhenI spoke at the Citroen factory at thetime of the last German thrust towa rdParis, I lunched in a great hall with thethree thousand working-men and work-ing-women of the day shift. We wereserved by white - garbed girls whobrought piping-hot food to the tables inmotor-driven wagonettes. MonsieurCitroen has co-operative stores for hishands, and a model creche where hun-dreds of babies are cared for from Mon-day morning until Saturday night. - .7. LE CREUSOT FACTORIES AGAINST A BACKGROUND OF PEACEFUL, ROLLING HILLS All this created out of nothing, in themidst of the war, with the Germans fiftymiles away! How did you do it? I ex-claimed. Had to, answered Monsieur Citroen. The metallurgical industry had otherburdens than those of munitions andcannon imposed upon it. Rifles werenever before manufactured except inarsenals of the state. They were nowcalled for by the million from private Vol. CXXXIX.—No. 829—13 industry. Bayonets and trench dag-gers required tempered steel. The thou-sandfold increase in aviation and inautomobile transport was possible onlyif steel and iron parts were deliveredpromptly. Machinery for shops wasimported, but most of it had to be madein France. The armies could never getenough barbed wire, picks, shovels,crowbars. As trench warfare developed,light railways for feeding ammunition to 98 HARPERS MONTHLY MAGAZINE the batteries all along the
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