. Electric railway journal . rty men were carried per car in orderthat there might be plenty of extra seats in the fifty-passenger cars for the luggage and equipment of thetroops. The troops were paid off in the quartermasters de-partment at Fort Sheridan and released a company at atime. They marched by companies out to the stationand boarded the cars, and as fast as a three-car trainwas loaded, it was pulled away and dispatched to Mil-waukee. This eliminated all delay, so far as the electricline was concerned, for the soldiers were carried ontheir way as rapidly as released. But three cars to
. Electric railway journal . rty men were carried per car in orderthat there might be plenty of extra seats in the fifty-passenger cars for the luggage and equipment of thetroops. The troops were paid off in the quartermasters de-partment at Fort Sheridan and released a company at atime. They marched by companies out to the stationand boarded the cars, and as fast as a three-car trainwas loaded, it was pulled away and dispatched to Mil-waukee. This eliminated all delay, so far as the electricline was concerned, for the soldiers were carried ontheir way as rapidly as released. But three cars to thetrain were run, since this number could be taken to theunloading point in Milwaukee without breaking up intosections. The troops were unloaded from the cars onthe sidewalk only one-half block from the St. Paul depotin Milwaukee and the cars were removed as rapidly asunloaded so that no delay resulted to following trainsor regular traffic. That the movement was prompt andconveniently suited to the rate of mustering out of. A COMPANY OF THE THIRD WISCONSIN INFANTRY MARCHING TOSTATION TO BOARD ELECTRIC TRAINS FOR MILWAUKEE service is indicated by the following table giving thetime the various three-car sections left Fort Sheridanand arrived at Milwaukee: Left Port Sheridan Arrived at Milwaukee 10 :02 11 :30 10 :35 11 :51 10 :54 12 :36 11 :35 12 :47 12 :30 1:59 12 :54 2 :20 1 :54 3 :35 The handling of baggage was facilitated at FortSheridan by the use of two motor-truck moving vanssupplied by the electric railway company to transportthe baggage from the fort to the railroad. The basisof competition to the railway company for the trans-portation was $ per capita less 8 per cent, and thedistance from Fort Sheridan to Milwaukee was ap-proximately 60 miles. This represented a substantialsaving to the government over the lowest bid of thesteam railroads. Negotiations between the electric line and the WarDepartment were conducted by F. W. Shappert, trafficand industrial agent. Pa
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