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HANDBOOK OF TRANSPORTATION
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BY UEUT, COL, C. 3. BAKER.
C|. 1M. C., L'l. m. A.
Handbook of Transportation
by
Rail and Commercial Vessels
Printed by permission of the Quartermaster
General of the U. S. Army and prepared
in his office under the direction of
Lieut. Col. C. B. Baker, Q. M. C, I.'. S. A.
Published by
George U. Harvey
109 Lafayette Street, New York
Price, $1.00
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Printed by THE HARVEY PRESS
109 Lafayette Street, N. Y. City
CONTENTS
GENERAL PROVISION 1
PAGE PAGE
Distribution of traffic 3 List of stations and posts... 3
Duty of furnishing transpor- Military railways 1
tation 1 Preference to military traffic 1
Equalization lines 2 Ouartermaster should study
General average on house- traffic conditions 1
hold goods Shipments of alcoholic liquors
General Average on water to prohibition states 4
shipments Special routing instructions. . 3
Land-grant lines 2 Water routes 2
TRANSPORTATION REQUESTS 4
Action in case of no trans- Receipting requests and pro-
portation request 14 curing tickets 11
Action in case of loss or Requests 4
theft Requests for other depart-
Additional information 8 ments 12
Affidavit 14 Requests must not cover pub-
Bond-aided railroads 4 lie property or checkable
Cancellation baggage 13
Circuitous route 12 Requests lost by carriers ... 13
( ollection from traveler .... 12 Requests for parlor and sleep-
Delay en route 12 ing car accommodation ... 9
Disposing of original and Requisitions for transporta-
memorandum 11 tion 4
Disposition of travel orders Responsibility 6
of individuals Round trip transportation.. . . 12
Duplicate requests must not Route 9
be issued 13 Specific kind of transporta-
How transportation is secured 4 tion to be shown 9
Information to be shown on Stub of request 10
transportation request Transfer on memorandum re-
Iiivoices ceipt 6
Lost ticket 13 Transportation improperly fur-
Memorandum request 10 nished 8
Mixed class transportation... 15 Transportation requests should
No change to be made in body always be on hand 14
of request .. . . 11 Travel of civilians 4
Officer must sign request ... 13 Travel over Canadian roads 13
Orders Through requests to be issued
Receipts and issues 5 Unused request and unused
tickets 12
BILLS OP LADING 15
Accomplishment. Notation of Classification of o r d n a n c e
loss 18 stores 20
Action in case of.no Govern- Certificate ot shipment 23
ment bill of lading ... . . Contract rates 21
ex'act facls 1 ^ ""^ 25 Description of articles 19
Bills of lading must show Disposition of copies 17
name of issuing office .... 17 Erasures, etc 22
Car number to be shown ..'21 Explanation of terms, con-
Classification . / J9 f x ignee and consignor 17
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Contents Continued
Bills of Lading- Continued
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Government bill of lading to
be used 16
Invoices 16
Issuance and number of copies . 17
Loss of bills of lading 23
Loss of damage 23
Memorandum 18
No duplicate bills of lading
should be issued 23
Numbering 17
Original 18
Oversea shipments 22
Payment of account when bill
of lading is lost 24
Payment of bill of lading . . 23
Property received copy 18
DIMENSIONS AND CAPACITY
Arms palace horse cars .... 27
Automobile cars 27
Baggage and freight cars ... 26
Kitchen cars 28
Loads for ordinary cars .... 29
Number of rations to an or-
dinary 36 ft. car 29
TRANSPORTATION REPORTS
If in doubt as to proper dis-
bursing officer 30
Monthly report of bills of
lading and through trans-
portation requests issued. . 30
Offices settling transportation
accounts 30
Transportation of memo, bills
of lading and copies of
transportation requests ... 29
Transportation of Troops
"by Rail 35
Action in case of delay en
route 69
Additional occupancy of sleep-
ing cars 69
Advice to commanding of-
ficers as to placing cars . 53
An officer to supervise loading 55
Attendants for live stock . . 58
Additional equipment neces-
sary 49
Advice to commanding officer 43
Advice to train quartermaster 43
Basis for furnishing cookers. 50
By Quartermaster department
By Quartermaster General .. . 37
By local quartermaster . . 41
Breaking of military units to
be avoided 42
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Property for other depart-
ments 24
Property shipped copy 19
Receipt by other than con-
signee 18
Receipt for property 18
Shipped by Government con-
veyance . 23
Shipping order 17
Shipments of bread 22
Show carrier from whom re-
ceived 18
Show full history 19
Supply 16
Temporary receipt to carrier
Through bills of lading to be 19
OP RAILROAD CARS ... 26
Number of tourist_ and kit-
chen cars in service 28
Passenger cars
Side doors 27
Sleeping cars
Steel cars
Trackage 26
AND STATEMENTS 29
Basis for furnishing cookers. 50
Commander of troops sole in-
termediary 69
Coal and ice used in kitchen
cars 68
Cleaning mess kits 53
Certificates 47
Cookers to be kept in stock at
recruit depots 50
Cautionary directions
Car capacities . 41
Commeivcial and military rail-
ways 36
Detailed list of command to
be furnished 36
Delay in furnishing equip-
ment 42
Directions for use 50
Detail of yardmaster
Duties of yardmaster 54
Duties of officer supervising
loading 55
Dispositions of transportation
requests 67
Disposition of transportation
request
Detraining and unloading . . .
Entraining troops 65
Expediting lists
Emergency kitchen equipment 48
Contents Continued
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Example of placing officers
and men 45
Excess berth furnished
charged against officer .... 45
Equipment used for prepara-
tion of food en route ... 46
Execution of contracts 38
Field service 37
Guarding cars 56
Household goods of officers
and others 64
If less men on train than
called for by transportation
request 67
If more men on train than
called for by transportation
request 67
It tickets are used 68
If two or more sections .... 55
Installing field range 49
Installing stovepipe 49
If box car is used 50
Issue and return of cookers. 52
Issue bills of lading 65
Informal award 39
Issuing transportation request 66
Kitchen cars, description of. 46
Kitchen cars, employees .... 47
Kitchen car, ice and fuel . . 47
Kitchen car, damage to equip-
ment 47
Loading ambulances 61
Loading animals 63
Loading engineers and signal
corps 60
Loading field artillery 59
Loading harness and wagon
parts 62
Loading property 54
Loading motor vehicles .... 62
Loading vehicles set up .... 59
Loading wagons 61
Loading the impedimenta ... 58
Lists of per-sonnel 58
Local quartermaster to be ad-
vised 40
Movement by commercial rail-
ways is function of Q.M.C. 36
Minimum number for whom
special car will be furn-
nished 44
Marking cars 53
N.C.O. to be assigned to each
car 56
N.C.O. to act if in charge of
party 47
Notice of movements 36
Orders 36
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Order of loading 54
Organizations to load and un-
load 5,6
Preference to military traffic 35
Placing equipment , 42
Portable gas cooker 50
Packing and crating 53
Quartermaster should work
out movements in advance
of orders 36
Quartermaster to be present
at entraining 53
Railroad should be furnished
full information 42
Report of journey 69
Requisition for gas cooker . . 52
Regular kitchen car equip-
ment 48
Reimbursement for sleeping
or parlor cars fares paid. . 45
Record of movement 43
Request for freight equip-
ment must show length de-
sired 41
Routing and equipment .... 37
Sample letter of informal
award* 39
Should list cars in his train. . 68
Standard sleepers for officers 45
Should see that no excess ac-
commodations are used . . 69
Suggestions as to numbering
property 57
Size of trains 41
Trunk lockers 58
Train quartermaster should
have copy of contract.... 68
Tourist sleepers for troops
and officers 44
Tourist berths for officers . . 44
Tourist cars for troops .... 45
Units should be kept together 41
Use of kitchen cars 46
Unloading in emergencies . . 70
Where kitchen tourist cars
are not used 48
Where bids will not be in-
vited 38
Transportation of Troops
Iby Commercial Vessels 70
Arrangements for transporta-
tion 70
Transports and chartered ves-
sels 71
Transportation requests and
bills of lading 71
Use of water lines 70
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Contents Continued
TRANSPORTATION OF INDIVIDUALS 71
Endorsing transportation or-
der
Erroneous a c c o m modations
furnished
Excess space of lower class .
Sleeping and parlor car ac-
commodations
Sleeping car accommodations
for N.C.O. below grade 16
Travel not with troops ....
Officers .
Officer traveling by sea . . .
Transportation requests for
officers on mileage basis ..
N. C. O. Above Grade 17
N. C. O. Below G-rade 16.
N. C. O. as attendant
Reserve and discharged
N. C. O's
Enlisted Men on Change
of Station
Enlisted Men on Retire-
ment
Period during which trans-
portation can be granted .
Residence retired enlisted
men
Retired enlisted men
Enlisted Men on Dis-
charge or Furlough to
the Reserve
Deferred transportation ....
Distance not cost controls . .
How distance is determined. .
Inaccessible places
Isolated case where there is
no disbursing officer
Notation of point on request
Order not required
Route
Sleeping car accommodations
Soldiers beyond limit of
U. S
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Subsistence 77
Transportation f r om point
other than place of dis-
charge not authorized ....
Travel by water 78
Invalid Soldiers and At-
tendants 80
Insane Soldiers 80
Insane soldier and escort. . . 80
Return transportation 80
Discharged Military
Prisoners 81
Cost, not distance, governs. . 81
Determine cost 81
No sleeping accommodations. 81
Enlisted Men on Furlough
or Absent Without
Leave 82
Charge for transportation and
subsistence 82
Change of station while
soldier is on furlough .... 83
Enlisted men on furlough . . 83
Method of reporting to com-
manding officer 82
Deserters and Guard .... 84
Recruits 84
Applicants
nient and
plicauts .
Civilian Employees
Army Nurses
Witnesses
Transportation to
Soldiers' Home
Transportation for Pur-
pose of Procuring Arti-
ficial Iiinibs 86
Transportation for Other
Departments 86
for Enlist-
Rejected Ap-
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TRANSPORTATION OF SUPPLIES AND PROPERTY.. 86
Supplies for the Army ... 86
Cardling carload shipments . 92
Exception to standard sizes.. 88
Express, authority to be.
shown 94
Express, delicate instruments;
officers papers
Express, insurance 94
Express, letters or packages
that can be sent by mail 94
Express shipments
Express, small packages .... 93
Fibre board boxes 88
Invoicing ordnance stores for
shipment
Invoicing Q. M. stores for
shipment
Marking
Marking funds
Marking household goods . .
Contents Continued
Transportation Reports and Statements Continued
Marking ordnance property
Marking Q. M. supplies . .
Packing
Parcel Post shipments ....
Responsibility
Sacking and baling
Standard packing boxes . .
Stencil plates
Vehicles >
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Transportation of Ani-
mals 95
28 hour law 98
Attendants accompanying ani-
mals 98
Disinfecting stock cars 97
Expense incident to shipment
of animals 100
Excess over authorized num-
ber 104
Loading animals 97
Payment of fees 97
State Sanitary requirements. 95
Transportation of Mounts 100
Certificates 103
Descriptive card 103
Change of status 104
Horse shows and hore races. 105
Medical reserve corps 105
Officers taking test rides . . . 105
Officers on military duty . . . 106
Oversea shipments 104
Private mounts returned
from abroad Customs
regulations 106
Regulations governing 100
Resigned officers 105
Retired officer on recruiting
duty ' 105
Stalling cars 106
To remount depots 102
To service schools 104
Transport surgeon 105
Transportation of Bag-
gage, Household Goods,
Personal Effects and
Professional Books .... 107
Allowance for each grade . . 107
Assignment to transports . . . 116
Baggage accompanying officers 112
Baggage what is included . . 115
Certificates Ill
Change of station 116
Dental outfits accompanying
dental surgeons 112
Enlisted men 110
PAGE
Excess over allowances .... 108
Excess over authorized allow-
ance of baggage or mounts 112
Graduates of military academy 110
Hauling baggage 117
Honorably discharged officers 109
Honorably discharged officers
and officers who resign . . 117
Invoices 108
Medical reserve corps 109
Medical reserve corps officers 116
Military attaches 109
"Officers Ill
Officers promoted from ranks 110
Oversea service 110
Professional books and papers 111
Professional books, non-com-
commissioned officers Ill
Regulations governing trans-
portation of baggage .... 107
Reimbursement cannot be
made for charges paid for
transportation of baggage. 114
Released shipments 109
Retirement or death 109
Shipment on retirement or
decease 116
Shipments to service schools. 115
Transfer of property with
hospital corps 116
Unauthorized shipments ....
Wholly retired officers 116
Packing and Crating Bag-
gage 117
Apportionment of funds for
packing and crating 119
Estimate of funds for packing
and crating
Hire of expert packers '.
Maximum cost 118
Maximum tare weight, burlap
and excelsior 117
Methods of providing for
packing and crating 119
Officers stationed at points
where no quartermaster is
available 120
Packing and crating by ord-
nance or engineer depart-
ments 120
Packing and crating should
be anticipated 120
Packing material is public
property 121
Packing only authorized on
change of station 118
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Contents Continued
Transportation of Supplies and Property Continued
PAGE
Packing professional books.. 118
Regulations governing pack-
ing and crating 117
Requisitions for supplies .... 119
Transportation of Funds 121
Transportation of Athletic
and Gymnastic Appa-
ratus 121
Transfer of Moving 1 Pic-
ture Outfits and Sup-
plies 121
Transportation of Read-
ing* Matter and Musical
Instruments 122
Articles donated to U. S.
Military Academy, and
other institutions 122
Books, reading matter and
musical instruments 122
Exchanged books 123
Medical publications 122
PAGE
Transportation of Sup-
plies for Post Ex-
changes 123
Transportation of Sup-
plies Purchased from
Hospital Funds 123
Transportation of Sup-
plies for the Militia . . . 123
Condemned army horses . . . 124
Supplies for arming and
^equipping 123
Unserviceable and unsuitable
property 123
Transportation of Sup-
plies for Other Govern-
ment Departments and
Bureaus 124
Law governing 124
Packing and marking 124
Personal effects coast guard 124
DEMURRAGE AND STORAGE 124
Car loads 124 Prompt notification of arrival 125
Less than car loads 125
TRANSPORTATION OF REMAINS 125
STREET CAR AND FERRY TICKETS 125
TOLL BRIDGES, FERRIES AND TURNPIKES 126
DRAYAGE AND HAULING .
Action to be taken where no
Q. M. available 127
Class 1 estimates 126
Economy 126
Excess hauling 127
TRANSPORTATION CLAIMS
Claims for Reimburse-
ment Account Trans-
portation 128
Baggage 128
Persons 128
Claims Against Carriers. 128
Notification of loss or damage 128
Personal property 130
Public property 129
Surveying officer 130
Time within which claim may
be filed 129
126
Hauling baggage 126
Reimbursement unauthoried when
cost of hauling is paid by
owner 127
128
Claims Against the Gov-
ernment for Loss or
Damage to Personal
Property in Transit 131
Amount collected from carrier
must be deducted from
claims 131
Board of officers to investi-
gate loss or damage 13
When allowed 131
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Duty of furnishing transportation
1. The duty of furnishing transportation at any post,
station, or depot will be intrusted to one officer of the Quarter-
master Corps, on whom requisitions will be made therefor.
In the performance of their official and military duties officers
of the Army are authorized to use the means of transportation
provided by the Quartermaster Corps in accordance with law.
(Paragraph 1108, A. R. 1913.)
Preference to military traffic
2. In time of war or threatened war preference and pre-
cedence shall, upon the demand of the President of the United
States, be given, over all other traffic, to the transportation
of troops and material of war, and carriers shall adopt every
means within their control to facilitate and expedite the
military traffic. (34 Stat. 587.)
Military railways
3. In time of war, within the theatre of operations, the
Corps of Engineers has charge of the construction, mainten-
ance, and repair of roads, ferries, bridges, and incidental
structures; and of the construction, maintenance, and opera-
tion of railroads under military control, including the con-
struction and operation of armored trains. (A. R. 1493,
1913.)
Quartermaster should study traffic conditions
4. A quartermaster, charged with the duty of furnishing
transportation, should familiarize himself with traffic con-
ditions out of his post or station in order that passenger and
freight may be forwarded by the most economical routes. He
should keep advised as to any special rates that may be per-
manently or temporarily in effect, such as party, colonist, or
other excursion fares, and should ascertain the territory to
which second class fares are in effect from his post or station,
and the lines over which tourist cars are operated. The for-
mer information can be secured from the local agent of the
carrier, and the latter froim a study of the Official Railway
Guide, furnished monthly to each post and station. Should
additional information be desired or should any doubt arise
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as to the application of rates or any other point connected
with transportation, advice should be sought from higher
authority.
Water routes
5. Particular attention is invited to the fact that where
water lines can be used, the rates charged by such lines are,
as a rule, considerably lower than those charged by all-rail
carriers, and quartermasters stationed at a p'ost that is on, or
contiguous to, a sea-port should ascertain, and compare, the
rates charged by all-rail, rail-and-water, or all-water routes,
in order that the most economical route may be used, but
where the use of rail-and-water routes necessitates the issu-
ance of two transportation requests or bills of lading, instruc-
tions will be requested from the Quartermaster General. (See
Transportation of Troops by Commercial Vessels, paragraphs
216 to 219.)
Land-grant lines
6. Certain of the railroads of the United States, a complete
list of which, together with reference to the laws covering,
is shown in Circular 16, Q. M. G. O. 1912, were granted lands
to aid in their construction, and the laV requires these lines
to carry property and troops of the United States at certain
reduced rates. These roads are known as Land-Grant Lines.
Equalization lines
7. In order to participate in this traffic, practically all
carriers in the United States have agreed to charge the same
rates on passenger and freight traffic for the War Depart-
ment as could be secured by the use of land-grant lines ;
these carriers are known as "Equalization lines." There are
a few roads, however, that will not participate in the pro-
tection of land-grant rates and certain of the equalization
lines have exceptions as to traffic that is considered unre-
munerative. These equalization agreements and a list of
equalization lines are fully shown in Circular 6, O. C. Q. M. C.
1913, and officers and others charged with issuance of trans-
portation requests and bills of lading should familiarize them-
selves with the information shown therein. Tables of land-
grant and bond-aided railroads, containing the instructions
concerning the settlement of accounts over, and references
to all other legislation affecting, such roads are published
from time to time in circulars from the office of the Quarter-
master General. Schedules of land-grant, indebted, and
bond-aided mileages and net percentages of land-grant de-
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ductions for freight and passenger traffic are similarly pub-
lished.
Distribution of traffic
8. When the bids of competing lines of Government
freight and passenger traffic are equal, the award will be made
in such a manner as will give, so far as practicable, an equal
division of the business among the lines interested ; when bids
are unequal, award will be made to the lowest bidder, con-
ditions in other respects being equal. (Circular 2, Q. M.
G. O., 1909.)
List of stations and posts
9. A schedule showing posts and stations of the U. S.
Army and data relative to issuance of bills of lading and
transportation requests, in connection with transportation of
freight and passengers, thereto, is contained in Circular 16,
Q. M. G. O., (1915). The information as to transportation
conditions at the various posts and stations and the instruc-
tions as to routing, which are contained therein, are necessary
for the proper guidance of officers in the issuance of trans-
portation requests and bills of lading.
Special routing instructions
10. From time to time as conditions may warrant, special
instructions to cover some particular, general, or local condi-
tions will be issued by the Quartermaster .General. Local
quartermasters will carefully file, for convenient reference,
such routing instructions as pertain to their respective post,
or station.
General average on water shipments
11. Vessel owners are not liable for losses resulting from
dangers of the sea, provided the owner of any vessel suffering
such loss exercised due diligence to make the vessel in all
respects seaworthy and properly manned, equipped and sup-
plied. Statutes limiting the liability of vessel owners for
losses incident to navigation being for the public good, the
Government is bound by them although not expressly named
therein. (J. A. G. Op. June 21, 1915.)
General average on household goods
12. The doctrine of general average is founded on the
princople that what is sacrificed for the benefit of all should
be made good by the contribution of all. * * * I am of
the opinion that the Quartermaster's department is acting
entirely in accordance with the law and regulations when it
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decides to ship an officer's baggage by sea rather than by rail
and that if, due to such shipment by sea, a general average
is declared covering the property of the officer, the latter and
not the government is responsible for the payment of the con-
tribution. (J. A. G. Op. January 16, 1907.)
Shipments of alcoholic liquors to prohibition states
13. A state Law forbidding the sale of liquor or its im-
portation into the State does not apply to a sale to the United
States or to the transportation of alcoholic liquors going into
the State as property of the United States and intended as
Medical supplies for the treatment of the troops and the
animals pertaining to the Ar,my. (J. A. G. Op. May 17, 1915.)
Bills of lading for shipments of alcoholic liquors to pro-
hibition states should be indorsed : "Intended as Medical
Supplies for the treatment of troops (or animals) pertaining
to the Army."
TRANSPORTATION REQUESTS
How transportation is secured
14. Transportation for persons in, or over, the lines of any
common carrier will be obtained by the issuance of a trans-
portation request.
Travel of civilians
For authorized journeys of civilian employees of any branch
of the military service transportation requests will be ob-
tained when practicable, but will be obtained in every case
for travel over-bond-aided railroads. (A. R. 732, 1913.)
Bond-aided railroads
Note: The only bond-aided railroad now in existence is
the Central Branch of the Missouri Pacific Railway between
Atchison and Waterville, Kan., a distance of 100 miles. The
location of this branch is such that it is not on any of the
through lines to Colorado or California.
Requisitions for transportation
15. Requisitions for supply of transportation requests will
be made as follows :
Requests
(a) Upon the depot quartermaster, Washington, D. C,
directly for all posts, recruiting stations, and depots in the
Eastern Department.
(>) Upon the depot quartermaster, San Francisco, Cal.,
directly for all posts, recruiting stations, and depots in the
Handbook of Transportation
Western and Hawaiian Departments. (G. O. 92, \Y. D.,
1914.)
(c ) Upon the depot quartermaster, St. Louis, Mo., directly
for all posts, recruiting stations, and depots in the Central
and Southern Departments.
These depot quartermasters will also be the source of sup-
ply within the military departments above named, for trans-
portation requests required for the official use of quarter-
imasters, who are not serving as a post, recruiting station or
depot. Requisitions for transportation requests will be sub-
mitted directly on Q. M. C. Form 160 Requisition (1 copy
only) if on hand; otherwise, by letter. The transportation
requests are issued in books of 10, 25, 50 and 100 requests
each, respectively.
Invoices
16. Transportation requests will, except as shown in the
succeeding paragraph, be invoiced to the quartermasters to
whom supplied, who will receipt for them and take them up
on Q. M. C. Form 200 Property Account. The invoices will
show the serial numbers, as "No. 1001 to 1100, inclusive/' and
the physical number of requests transferred; but they will be
taken up on property return as (the physical number
of transportation requests, omitting reference to serial num-
bers. Monthly report Q. M. C. Form 151 Report of bills of
lading and transportation requests issued) will be prepared
and forwarded as prescribed in paragraph 105.
Receipts and issues
17. The serial numbers of all requests received, issued,
cancelled, transferred, lost or destroyed will be stated on the
proper voucher (invoice, receipt, or monthly list of quarter-
master's supplies expended, as the case may be), and all can-
celled requests will accompany the Monthly List of Quarter-
master's Supplies Expended Q. M. C. Form 203.
Cancellation
18. The concellation of a request is effected by writing the
word "Cancelled" across the face of it in ink. In case a
memorandum copy of a transportation request is furnished
the disbursing officer charged with the settlement of the trans-
portation charges, and the original copy is subsequently can-
celled, the cancelled request will be promptly reported to such
disbursing officer in order to enable him to dispose of the
memorandum copy on file in his office. In case it becomes
necessary to cancel a request for which the issuing officer has
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previously taken credit, he will forward such cancelled request
to the Quartermaster General stating the number of voucher
on which credit was taken, but will not again enter it on
monthly list of quartermaster supplies expended.
19. An officer relieved from duty as a quartermaster or
who is transferred to another station, will invoice and turn
over to his successor all blank requests in his possession,
unless otherwise directed, taking a receipt therefor, which
Kvill show the blank requests turned over and their serial
numbers. In case no successor is detailed, he will, unless
otherwise directed, turn over the blank requests to the nearest
quartermaster. Blank requests will not be removed from the
military department to which they have been furnished, nor
will they be transferred to officers not authorized to receive
them.
20. Transportation requests will not be invoiced to officers
who are not accountable for quartermaster's supplies, but will
be furnished to such officers on memorandum receipt.
Transfer on memorandum receipt
21. Officers to whom transportation requests are supplied
on memorandum receipt will, when they issue such requests
for transportation purposes, sign them in their own name.
At the end of each month, or at the expiration of the par-
ticular duty, if not exceeding one month, the responsible officer
will sign and deliver to the accountable officer a properly
prepared Form 151, and a certificate showing by 'serial num-
bers the transportation requests issued by him and proper
credit for the requests reported as used will be given the
responsible officer on his mmorandum receipt. The account-
able officer may then use the certificate referred to as a
voucher to his property account, and will transmit the Form
151 to the Quartermaster General's Office at the end of the
month.
Requests unused remaining in the hands of the responsible
officer on the termination of the particular duty, will be re-
turned to the accountable officer and the memorandum receipt
given by the responsible officer, adjusted and returned to him.
(Cir. 1, Q. M. G., 1916.)
Responsibility
22. The same care must be exercised in safe-guarding of
transportation requests as would be given to actual cash.
Should these requests, through loss or theft, get into un-
authorized hands and tickets be procured thereon, the carrier
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would be entitled to payment and it will be incumbent upon
the officer charged with the requests to prove that every
precaution was taken to prevent such loss or theft.
Action in case of loss or theft
23. If a quartermaster discovers that a request or requests
have been lost or stolen, the local carriers will be notified
immediately and a report, giving the numbers and series of
those missing and circumstances attending the loss, will be
made at once through the department quartermaster to the
Quartermaster General, the former will notify the transporta-
tion lines in his department and vicinity not to honor them.
Orders
24. In any movements of troops, whether in large numbers,
few, or as individuals, the basis for furnishing transportation
is the other providing for it. Acting under this order the
quartermaster issues the transportation request. When troops
are moved, proper orders and an exact return of the command
will be furnished to the quartermaster who is to provide the
transportation.
Disposition of travel orders of individuals
25. A person requiring transportation will exhibit an order
from competent authority. The quartermaster will indorse
on the original order, over his signature, the fact that trans-
portation has been provided, its kind, the places from and to
which it has been furnished, and the number of pounds of
extra baggage transported, if any. The original order will be
retained by the person who receives the transportation, and,
in case of a soldier entitled to commutation of rations while
traveling, will be disposed of as directed in A. R. 1232. (A.
R. 1111, 1913.)
Information to be shown on transportation request
26. Transportation for persons over the lines of any com-
mon carrier will be obtained by the issuance of a transporta-
tion request, a separate request being issued_ for the rail
transportation involved, another for the sleeping or parlor
car accommodations to be furnished, another for the travel
on commercial steamer, and still another for the transporta-
tion of excess baggage, where authorized.
A request for transportation issued by a quartermaster, or
by an officer to whom transportation requests are supplied on
memorandum receipt, should set forth the following informa-
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tion, the entries pertaining thereto being made by the officer
issuing the request:
On the face thereof, date and place of issue ; time for
which it will be valid; name of company required to furnish
transportation ; name of the person, or, if a party, of the
person in charge and the number of others in the party;
organization to which the person belongs, if an officer or
enlisted man ; the points between which transportation is to
be furnished ; the initial letters of each road or line to be
used on the journey; class or character of the transportation
to be furnished; authority; nature of journey; officer desig-
nated to settle the account ; and the appropriation. The trans-
portation requested should be specifically and fully described
in the spaces provided therefor in the block at the right of
the request, and, if the travel is by commercial steamer, the
request should further show whether meals, or meals and,
berth, are included.
On the back thereof the name, rank, and organization of
the soldier, if any, to whom the cost of transportation should
be charged; the number of officers, enlisted men, and civilians,
when two or more travel on the same request ; and the organi-
zation, if any. (A. R. 1116.)
Additional information
27. Under "nature of journey," the request should show
the following specific information as indicated : "changing
station;" "deserters" (giving name, rank, company and regi-
ment) ; "return from furlough, proper officer notified" (giv-
ing name, rank, company and regiment) ; "discharged
soldier;" "insane soldier with escort;" "invalid soldier;"'
"guard and prisoner;" "enroute to (or returning from) civil
court;" "clerk, or agent (showing the corps or
bureau of the Department). Where a discharged soldier is
furnished transportation in kind, notation will be made of the
place of the enlistment to which he is entitled to transporta-
tion and subsistence under the Act of Congress approved
August 24, 1912. If the settlement of the request is to be
made under the terms of a contract, that fact will be stated
and the contract designated. Where the request is payable
from an appropriation of the Quartermaster Corps the item
or subitem, if any, of the analysis will be shown in the space
for "Appropriation," as "S. S. & T., 202-a." These entries
are all made by the officers issuing the request.
Transportation improperly furnished
28. All facts necessary to enable the paying officer to de-
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cide as to the regularity or propriety of the proceedings will
be stated upon the request. Should it appear to the paying
officer that transportation has been improperly furnished by
the issuing officer, he will make payment to the carrier for
the service actually rendered, and will send to the Quarter-
master General a statement of all the facts, with a certified
copy of the request.
Specific kind of transportation to be shown
29. An officer issuing a transportation request must ac-
quaint himself with the different classes of passenger rates
in effect between the points of contemplated travel, and the
transportation requested, viz., first class, limited, party, second
class, or colonist, as the case may be, should be specifically
and fully described in the spaces provided there to be^ shown
for in the block at the right side of the 'request, using the
blank spaces for description of service not specially indicated :
Proved, That a request shall not be used to obtain transporta-
tion or accommodations of a class of greater value than
first-class limited by land or minimum first-class by water.
In the same manner, the sleeping car or parlor car accom-
modations to be furnished should be described, a separate
request therefor being issued.
Through requests to be issued
30. Through transportation requests will be issiued for all
continuous journeys, including service over bond-aided and
land-grant lines, except where specific instructions to the
contrary have been given.
Route
31. When transportation is furnished for the _entire jour-
ney, the route, if not designated in the order, will be deter-
mined by the Quartermaster Corps, in accordance with ex-
isting rules. (A. R. 1112, 1913.)
Requests for parlor and sleeping car accommodation
32. Quartermaster providing parlor and sleeping car ac-
comodations will issue requests therefor, and state therein
the number of berths or seats required. (A. R. 1129, 1913.)
Requests for parlor or sleeping car accommodations must
be issued separately from those for rail transportation.
All officers of the Army who issue transportation requests
for sleeping car accommodations will specify thereon the
actual number of officers and enlisted men, each separately,
for which the accommodations are required, showing the
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number of berths, standard and tourist separately and lower
and upper separately.
All officers of the Army and others who receipt for sleeping
car accommodations will state in the receipt the number of
lower and upper berths separately, and standard and tourist
berths separately, occupied. (G. O. 23, W. D. 1911.)
When a journey is to be performed covering a route requir-
ing change of sleeping or parlor car, through requests will be
issued. (A. R. 1130, 1913.)
Persons holding requests for sleeping or parlor car accom-
modations will, whenever practicable, present them to the
proper agent and obtain tickets for the number of berths or
seats required before commencing the journey. When not
practicable to do so, berths or seats will be secured from the
conductor on the car. They will receipt for the number of
berths or seats furnished, naming the points between which
they were furnished. (A. R. 1131, 1913.)
When it is impracticable for agents or conductors to furnish
berths or seats in sleeping or parlor cars, the holder of the
request will, on the termination of his journey, return it to the
issuing officer, with a statement of the reasons why it has
not been used, and that officer will account for it on his return.
Stub of request
(A. R. 1133, 1913.)
The furnishing of a seat in a parlor car on requests calling
for berths is not authorized. (366175-QMGO, May 13, 1912.)
If an order calling for space in tourist cars is presented for
accommodations between points where there is no tourist car
service, there is no objection to furnishing standard sleeping
car accommodations to the holder of the request provided he
pays the Pullman Company the difference in rates from his
personal funds ; but in no case will a transportation request
issued by the Quartermaster Corps for tourist car accommo-
dations be paid for on the basis of standard sleeping car
accommodations. The holder of the request should receipt
it for the actual accommodations it calls for. ( 380921 -QMGO,
Aug. 26, 1912.)
Memorandum request
33. The books of transportation requests are printed with
original and memorandum copies so arranged that they will
register in the proper place by the use of carbon paper, and
the memorandum should be filled out at the same time as the
original and show, all the information called for above on the
original.
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Disposing of original and memorandum
34. The original request will be turned over to the traveler,
or person in charge of the party, and the memorandum will
be detached by the issuing quartermaster and mailed at the
close of the day, together with all other memorandum trans-
portation requests and bills of lading issued during the day,
to the Depot Quartermaster charged with the settlement of
accounts of the carrier concerned, as shown in paragraphs
106 to 108 hereof. Transportation requests are payable to
the initial carrier.
35. The stub of the request, containing its substance, and
showing by what authority and for what purpose issued, will
be preserved as part of the permanent record of the post or
office from which the issue was made.
Receipting requests and procuring tickets
36. Requests should be properly receipted by the party
named therein, and tickets procured before commencing the
journey, as conductors are not, in all cases, authorized to
accept transportation requests. In those instances where it
becomes necessary, owing to unforseen conditions, to obtain
transportation varying from that called for on the face of
the request, a notation should be made by the traveler, in
the space provided for this purpose on the back of the request,
showing the actual transportation furnished and explaining
the variation, and should be signed by him ; in such cases,
the receipt on the face of the request will have added thereto
the words "except as stated on back hereof." The trans-
portation furnished must not, in any case, be in excess of that
called for on the face of the request, unless the difference is
collected from the traveler. In no case will a receipt be given
for transportation of more persons or extra baggage than the
request calls for. A receipt for transportation furnished,
including signature of the traveler, will be filled in with ink,
and names and places will be written in full. If the person
receipting cannot write his name he will make his mark,
which will be witnessed.
No change to be made in body of request
37. No portion of a request above the signature of the
issuing officer will be changed in any particular. If explana-
tions are required, they will be made on the back of the
request. (Paragraph 1119, A. R. 1913.)
Unused request and unused tickets
38. All unused transportation requests will be returned
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without delay to the officer issuing same for cancellation, (see
paragraph 18 hereof). All unused tickets or parts of tickets
procured on a transportation request will be returned to the
officer who issued them, and by him forwarded to the officer
who pays the account for the service. The value of such
tickets or parts of tickets will be deducted 'from any money
due or to become due the company for transportation over
whose line they are obtained. On the collection of the value
of such unusued tickets they will be returned to the company
by which they were issued. (Paragraph 1120, A. R. 1913.)
Round-trip transportation
39. When transportation to any given point and return is
required, the request for return transportation should be
obtained at the destination, provided it can be there procured,
except in cases where round-trip tickets can be obtained at
reduced rates and made available for the journey; otherwise
the quartermaster will issue two sets of requests, one to the
place of destination and the other for return transportation.
(Paragraph 1121, A. R. 1913.)
Requests for other departments
40. Requests for travel of officers or employees of any
Department or Bureau of the Government, other than the
War Department, will not be issued, except upon specific
authority of the Quartermaster General. In such cases, the
original, memorandum and stub of the request will show the
Department concerned under "Appropriation" as "Treasury
Department" and will also be indorsed to show the Bureau by
which payable, as : "Payable by Public Health Service."
Delay enroute
41. When delay enroute is authorized for the soldier's own
convenience, the excess cost of transportation will be charged
against and collected from the soldier.
Circuitous route
42. When,. under orders from the War Department involv-
ing stop-over privileges for enlisted men, for their own
convenience, transportation is furnished via circuitous route,
or when the cost with stop-over via direct route is in excess
of a limited ticket via direct route, the excess will be charged
against and collected from the enlisted man before trans-
portation is issued.
Collection from traveler
43. In cases such as those referred to in the two preced-
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ing paragraphs, where excess cost of transportation is to be
collected from the traveler, this collection should be made
before the transportation request is issued. A proper in-
dorsement should be made on the original and memorandum
requests and the amount of the collection remitted to the offi-
cer by whom the transportation request is to be settled.
Travel over Canadian roads
44. If tickets over Canadian routes can be purchased for
individual soldiers on furlough or similar satus, at lower
rates than by other lines, they may be furnished over such
routes ; such travel to be by any passenger route accessible
to the general public, limited to unarmed individual soldiers,
and not to include organized forces under command. (De-
cision, Sec. War, letter Feb. 9, 876649, A. G. O., 1886.)
Requests must not cover public property or checkable
baggage
45. Quartermasters, in issuing requests for transportation
of officers and others traveling under orders, will not include
therein public property of any tlescription, nor the allowance
of personal baggage carried free by the various transporta-
tion lines. (A. R. 1125, .1913.) For exceptions to this rule,
see paragraphs 167 and 346 hereof.
Lost ticket
46. Where the passenger has lost the ticket issued on a
transportation request, no refund can be secured from the
carrier, nor can a new transportation request be issued for
the same journey. The loss must fall on the person to whom
the ticket was furnished. (See Comp. Dec. April 30, 1915).
Officer must sign request
47. A request for transportation issued fro,m the office of
a quartermaster was countersigned in the name of the quar-
termaster sergeant in charge of the office in his absence, the
post quartermaster sergeant adding his name: Advised that
the practice be discontinued for the future. (94-201, J. A. G.,
Dec. 10, 1913).
Duplicate requests must not be issued
48. Duplicate requests for . transportation will not be is-
sued, nor will a request be issued after the transportation
service been performed.
Requests lost by carriers
49. In case of transportation requests being lost by a
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carrier after the service has been performed, the issuing
officer will advise the agent of the carrier that the Auditor of
said carrier should submit to the disbursing officer who settles
the accounts' of his road and affidavit showing:
Affidavit
(a) That Request No. was honored for passage
of between
and
() That ticket; No. , Form No. , was
furnished on this request.
(c) That the request has been lost or mislaid.
(d} That if it is afterwards found it will be surrendered
to the proper disbursing officer of the United States and
no claim made thereon.
Upon receipt of this affidavit, the disbursing officer will
take the proper action relative to 'payment of the account
involved.
Transportation requests should always be on hand
50. A quartermaster, or acting quartermaster, should at
all times have a supply of the standard form of Government
transportation requests in his possession. For use of parties
that may be sent from his post on special details, eacR post
quartermaster should keep in stock two or three books of
request, as the carriers are only expected to honor the
memorandum receipts to the officer in charge of the party.
(See paragraphs 20 and 21.)
Action in case of no transportation request
51. If the officer in charge of the party has failed to pro-
vide for a supply of transportation requests he may, as an
emergency measure only, issue a written request on the agent
of the carrier to furnish the transportation desired. This
can be done where the agent has agreed to accept such written
request, as the carriers are only expected to honor the
standard form of request and the agent accepts any other
form at his personal risk. In such cases the requests will
be numbered "Certificate ," and a copy will be
made and transmitted to the proper disbursing officer, as
shown in paragraph 106, with explanation as to reasons for
issuing the written request.
If the agent will not honor the written request, the officer
in charge of the party may pay for the transportation from
his personal funds and file claim for reimbursement.
If neither of the actions outlined above can be taken, the
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only other alternative is for the officer in charge of the
party to wire his post commander requesting that a trans-
portation request be issued to cover the desired travel, de-
posited with the railroad agent at the post and that official
requested to wire the agent at the station from which the
travel is to be performed that he has transportation request
to cover and to furnish the ticket.
Mixed class transportation
52. Attention is invited to the fact that first-class trans-
portation is honored in coaches, parlor cars, tourist sleepers,
or standard sleepers, but second-class transportation is good
only in coaches or tourist sleepers, and can not be used .for
travel in parlor cars or standard sleepers. The following
rules should, therefore, be observed in issuing transportation
where parlor or sleeping car accommodations are also furn-
ished :
(a) Where standard sleeper, or parlor car requests are
furnished for the entire journey, issue first-class rail trans-
portation request;
(6) Where standard sleeper request is furnished for a
part of the journey and tourist for the balance, issue first-
class rail transportation, except as shown in (c) ;
(c) Where travel is from points in the states of Calif-
ornia, Oregon or Washington, to points east of Chicago, St.
Louis, Memphis, or New Orleans, and vice versa, and tourist
sleeper request is furnished west of these gateways, and
standard sleeper car request east thereof, rail request should
call for "mixed class" ;
(d) Where tourist sleeping car request is furnished for
the entire journey, rail request should call for second class
transportation ;
(e) Where tourist sleeper request is issued for a part of
the journey and the balance is to be made in a coach, issue
second-class rail transportation ;
(/) Where the entire journey is to be made in a coach,
issue second class rail request.
BILLS OF LADING
Government bill of lading to be used
53. Public property, or other property transported at public
expense, will be transported on the prescribed form of
Government bill of lading. This bill of lading has three
parts; the original (QMC Form 153), the memorandum (QMC
Form 154), and the shipping order (QMC Form 156). There
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is ^also an additional sheet to the original, memorandum or
shipping order when the shipment is so extensive as to re-
quire more than one sheet.
Supply
54. These forms will be secured on semi-annual requisi-
tions from the Quartermaster General of the Army in the
same manner as other blank forms.
Invoices
55. Property for shipment will be turned over on invoices
(Q.M.C. Form 201) in triplicate, one copy of which will be
receipted by the quartermaster and returned to the person
making the shipment, one copy forwarded with the Property
Received copy of memorandum bill of lading (Q.M.C. Form
154).
Similarly property for storage will be turned over on in-
voice (Q.M.C. Form 201), and receipted copy of invoice will
be given to the person requesting storage. The other two
copies of the invoices will be retained by the quartermaster
for use, as indicated above, in case he subsequently ships
the property.
Shipping and storage invoices will show whether the
property being turned over is for shipment or for storage,
and will give the following information:
(a) Name and place of person turning over the property.
(b) Designation of quartermaster to make shipment or to
store.
(r) To whom and where property is to be delivered.
(d) Physical and shipping numbers each of boxes, chests,
crates, barrels and bundles.
(e) Weights of boxes, chests, etc., as grouped on invoice
and total weight.
(/) Cubic contents of boxes, chests, etc., as grouped on
the invoice and total cubic contents for oversea shipments
only.
(</) Authority for making the shipment or storage will
be indicated on invoice.
(/O If property is for storage, invoice will be altered to
show that fact.
(') Shipping invoices for change of station allowance of
baggage must be accompanied by certificates on Q.M.C. Form
468, and, if authorized mounts are shipped, certificates on
Q.M.C. Form 470.
(;) Property listed on shipping invoices must be listed as
indicated in par, 184. Change of station allowance of bag-
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gage goes under the classification "Household Goods" but
professional books and papers, and automobiles must be
listed separately and have weights (and cubic contents for
oversea shipments) shown separately. Authorized private
mounts must also be listed separately.
Issuance and number of copies
56. The property being ready for shipment the quarter-
master issues the bill of lading. One copy each of the
original and shipping order and three copies of the memor-
andum will be used, and these, five copies should be made
simultaneously by the use of carbon paper. One of the three
memorandum copies will be plainly stamped or indorsed
"Property received copy," and another "Property shipped
copy." The shipping order will be signed by the officer
making the shipment.
Bills of lading must show name of issuing office
57. Hereafter in issuing Government bills of lading the
name as well as the official designation of the issuing officer
or agent will be stated on the forms (Q.M.C Nos. 153, 154,
and 156) in the space provided for "Consignor", and the prac-
" tice of stating only the official designation, heretofore ob-
taining in many instances, will be discontinued. Circ. 3,
Q.M.G.O., 1916)
Numbering
58. The bills of lading as issued will be identified by serial
numbers beginning with each fiscal year.
Disposition of copies
59. Three copies, original, unstamped memorandum and
shipping order (but not the "Property received" and "Property
shipped" copies) should accompany the shipment when de-
livered to the carrier.
Shipping order
60. The agent of the carrier will retain the shipping order,
receipt the original and memorandum, and return them to
the shipping officer.
Explanation of terms, consignee and consignor
61. The consignor is the officer who issues the original
bill of lading. The consignee, as the word is used herein
and, in general, as understood by transportation companies,
is the person to whom the last carrier turns over the ship-
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ment, and, therefore, is not necessarily the person for whom
the property shipped is intended.
Original
62. The original bill of lading when receipted by the agent
of the receiving carrier and returned to the consignor will
be mailed by him to the consignee, or quartermaster in
whose care the property is shipped.
Accomplishment. Notation of loss
63. The consignee, upon receipt of the shipment, will ac-
complish and surrender the bill of lading to the carrier who
makes the delivery, being particular to note on the reverse
side of the bill of lading any loss or damage that may exist.
This bill of lading then becomes the evidence upon which
settlement for the service will be made.
Receipt by other than consignee
64. In the absence of the consignee, or on his failure to
receipt, the person receipting will certify that he is duly au-
thorized to do so, reciting such authority.
Show carrier from whom received
65. Where there is more than one carrier at the point of
destination, the receiving officer should see that his certifi-
cate of receipt shown the carrier from whom property was
actually received.
Memorandum
66. The unstamped memorandum copy, together with all
other memorandum bills of lading and memorandum trans-
portation requests issued during the day will be listed on
letter of transmittal (Q.M.C. Form 169), and mailed to the
Depot Quartermaster charged with the settlement of accounts
of the carrier concerned, as shown in paragraphs 103 to 108.
Bills of lading are payable to the last carrier.
Property received copy
67. The memorandum marked "Property received copy" will
be mailed to the consignee, as soon as prepared, in an
envelope separate from that in which the original bill of
lading is mailed. Upon receipt of this copy in the consignee's
office, it will be filed as a record of property received.
Receipts for property
68. Proper receipts (Q.M.C. Form ) will be ob-
tained by the receiving quartermaster from the person to
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whom the property shown on each bill of lading is shipped,
and will be attached to and made a part of this property
received copy.
Show full history
69. Proper care should be taken by the quartermasters re-
ceiving property that "Property received" copies of bills of
lading and receipts for property shown thereon are carefully
filled, and that all notations as to shortage, damage, or other
unusual condition, are entered on the "Property received"
copy, in order to afford ready reference to same in connection
with inquiries that may be made on his office for information
in regard thereto.
Property shipped copy
70. The memorandum marked "Property shipped copy"
will be retained by the consignor as an office file, and will
take the place of a press copy of the bill of lading.
Through bills of lading to be
71. Through bills of lading will be issued in all instances
between initial and ultimate points of shipment including
those for service over bond-aide and land-grant lines, except
where specific instructions to the contrary have been given.
Description of articles
72. A bill of lading should describe the articles to be
shipped by their commercial names, giving separately such
weights, dimensions 1 or values, and manner of packing, as may
be necessary to ascertain classification and rates and to enable
recovery on loss.
Classification
73. As instances illustrating the use of commercial names :
"Canvas clothing," should be billed as "duck trousers" or
"duck clothing" ; "undershirts" which should be billed as
"cotton undershirts" or "merino undershirts", as the case may
be, instead of "undershirts". The same method should be
applied in the shipment of all quartermaster or other property
shipped by the Quartermaster Corps on Government bill of
lading, in order that the benefit of the lowest* commercial rate
of transportation may be obtained. The term "Merchandise"
should never be used, as the carrier will assess double first-
class freight rates on a box of "merchandise."
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Classification of ordnance store
74. The following instruction s concerning the descrip-
tion certain ordnance stores must be observed in the prepara-
tion of bills of lading:
Names By Which Articles
Are Known to Ordnance
Department
Names By Which Articles
Should Be Described On
Bills Of Lading
Cartridges, metallic, loaded,
(Small-arms ammunition).
Cartridges, ball loaded
guard
gallery
revolver
sub-caliber
carbine
" reduced range
rifle ball .
dummy
Cartridges, blank, rifle (and
revolver)
Cartridges, shells, empty, be-
ing the shells of cartridges
enumerated above that
have been fired and are
being returned to Frank-
ford Arsenal for reloading.
Cartridge shells, empty, as
above when useless and
being returned as scra\p in
carload lots only.
Cases, brass or metallic ; for ~j
guns. (Not small-arms) (Cartridge cases for ordn-
empty, returned for reload- | ance ; empty.
ing. )
Cases, as above, when use- 1 $ craD i Drass
less and returned as scrap. /
Cartridge clips, empty (use- j
less)
Powder barrels and kegs. Empty kegs, powder (iron).
Powder barrels and kegs ") Empty kegs, powder (iron) ;
when returned. ) returned.
Blank cartridges. (Small-
arms-ammunition).
Cartridge shells for small-
arms, Metallic, empty, re-
turned.
Junk-scrap brass.
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Names By Which Articles
Are Known to Ordnance
Department Continued.
Bullets.
Rifles.
Revolvers.
Sub-caliber outfits.
Percussion caps.
Primers (all kinds).
Fixed ammunition (being
ammunition assembled and
ready for instant use ; only
for guns using projectiles
weighing, one pound or
more).
Names By Which Articles Should
Be Described On Bills Of
Lading Continued.
Bullets.
Fire arms (rifles).
Fire arms (revolvers).
Sub-caliber shells, brass.
Percussion caps.
Primers (naming kind).
"Fixed ammunition (for
cannon-explosive p r o j e c-
tiles)" or "Fixed ammuni-
tion ( for cannon-e m p t y
projectiles)" according to
whether projectiles do or
do not contain a bursting
charge.
Shrapnel; empty (containing | Projectil cast iron un _
neither a projectile nor a >- loaded
bursting charge). J
Shrapnel (when loaded with ) Fixed ammunition (for
bursting charge with fuse r cannon-explosive projec-
on either base or point). ) tiles).
} Fuses (naming kind) as
"detonating", "percussion",
"time or combination", or
"combination", or "safety".
i^cLUiiauuia.
Note: A dummy cartridge consists of a shell and steel
bullet assembled, and contain no explosives. Such cartridges
are not specifically named in the Western classification, and
are included in the above list with "cartridge, metallic,
loaded," that being the nearest analogous term used in the
Western Classification. (Q.M.G.O. 195867 Nov. 28, 1908
and March 22, 1910).
Car numbers to be shown
75. A bill of lading covering the shipment of property in
carload lots will have noted thereon the initials and numbers
of cars in which the property is loaded.
Contract rates
76. When a shipment is made under contract or special
rates, notation of such fact will be made on the face of the
bill of lading.
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Over-sea shipments
77. Bills of lading covering shipments to Alaska, the
Panama Canal Zone, Porto Rico, Hawaiian Islands, or
Philippine Islands must show consignee and final destination
in these possessions and value of the entire shipment, except
that the value of household goods shipped at a limited valu-
ation or the value of the property handled with troops should
not be indicated on bill of lading. The cubic measurement
in cubic feet must also be shown on all shipments except
those forwarded for reshipment from New York City to
Hawaii. Value may be shown in one amount for the entire
shipment ; but measurements should be in detail, not showing
the three dimensions (except of some extraordinary pieces),
but the number of cubic feet, or decimals thereof, for each
item. Bills of lading must not be issued through,- but to port
of embarkation, in care of the depot quartermaster, and
mailed to him. For names of ports of embarkation and other
information as to marking and shipment, see Circular 16,
O.Q.M.G., 1915.
Shipments of bread
78. Bills of lading issued for the shipment of bread by
express will show both the gross weight of package and
net weight of bread which it contains and package will be
marked accordingly. This data to enable settlement of ex-
press charges at net weight as authorized by Official Express
Classification No. 22, page 15, item 9, which provides as
follows :
The billing weight of a shipment of bread must be ascer-
tained by deducting from the actual gross weight at time of
shipment the weight of the basket, box, or barrel in which
shipped, which weight must be marked on the package by the
shipper. If not so marked, charges must be made upon the
gross weight, except that if shippers declare the net weight
at time of shipment, charges must be made upon net weight.
Agents must verify the tare marked on the package by
weighing periodically the empty packages. (Circular 6,
O.Q.M.G., 1914).
Erasures, etc.
79. Erasures, interlineations or alterations in a bill of
lading will be authenticated and explained by the person
making them, preferably on the margin.
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Payment of bill of lading
80. Payment for trasportation will be made to the last
carrier, unless other provided in the bill of lading, and only
for the quantity of stores delivered at destination, except
that in case of loss. of weight from natural shrinkage enroute
the weight shipped as shown in the bill of lading will be
paid for, provided the packages are delivered intact. The
payee will be held responsible for all loss or damage to
stores while in transit unless released by a surveying officer,
and such loss or damage will be deducted in making settle-
ment for service. A bill of lading will be made payable by
the depot quartermaster by whom the accounts of the last
carrier are settled, as shown in paragraphs 106 to 108.
Shipped by Government conveyance
81. A bill of lading issued for supplies to be forwarded by
conveyance owned or leased by the Government should show
that no payment is to be made for the service.
Loss or damage
82. For information as to action to be taken in case of
loss or damage to shipments covered by Government bills
No duplicate bills of lading should be issued
83. In no case will a second bill of lading be issued for
any shipment, nor will a bill of lading be issued after the
transportation has been performed.
Loss of bills of lading
84. In case the bill of lading has been lost or destroyed
the carrier will furnish with its freight account, to the officer
charged with the settlement of the accounts, a certificate, in
duplicate (Q.M.C. Form 178), certifying over the signature
of the proper officer of the carrier, usually the Auditor, the
weight and description of the property transported, giving
number, date, and place of issue of the bill of lading there-
for, and that said bill of lading is not in possession of the
carrier, or cannot be located, and that if same should later
be found it will be surrendered at once to the proper officer
of the United States and no claim made thereon.
Certificate of shipment
85. On receipt of such certificate of loss of bill of lading
from the carrier, the officer settling the account will, if his
records show that payment of the transportation charges have
not been made, forward papers to the Quartermaster General
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of the Army enclosing two copies, in blank, of certificate of
shipment Q.M.C Form 179). If the records in the Office
of the Quartermaster General indicate that payment of the
bill of lading in question has not been made, papers will be
transmitted to the office issuing the bill of lading with re-
quest that certificate of shipment be made, and the papers
forwarded to the receiving office for completion of certificate
to show delivery; the latter office, when this action has been
taken, will return papers to the disbursing officer with whom
the correspondence originated, and settlement will be made on
the certificates of loss of bill of lading and certificates of
shipment, in lieu of the original bill of lading. Should the
original bill of lading be afterwards located it will be for-
warded to the disbursing officer concerned who will make
the proper record and transmit the original bill of lading to
the Auditor for the War Department for file with the original
voucher.
Payment of account where bill of lading is lost
86. Payment in case of loss of a bill of lading will be
promptly reported to the Quartermaster General by the dis-
bursing officer, who will give a description of the bill of
lading, if practicable, and of the certificate and voucher on
which payment was made.
Temporary receipt to carrier
87. To insure the prompt delivery of property, in the ab-
sence of the bill of lading, the consignee may give the
carrier a receipt for the property actually delivered, which
will state that it is given because the bill of lading has not
come to hand. On the recovery of the bill of lading, or
when the certificate provided for in paragraph 85 has been
given, a statement will be indorsed on said bill of lading or
certificate of the fact of the delivery as per said temporary
receipt, and the temporary receipt will be indorsed with
reference to the bill of lading or certificate sufficient to identify
the same, and both papers attached and forwarded with the
claim for payment thereon.
Property for other departments
88 Where property of other branches of the Government
is turned over to quartermasters for shipment, as shown in
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paragraph 378, separate bills of lading will be issued for
property of each Department or Bureau, and the same pro-
cedure taken as in the case of Quartermaster shipments, ex-
cept that no "Property received" copy will be made. In ad-
dition ; the bills of lading must be plainly endorsed to show
the Department ; and where possible, the Bureau, by whom
the charges are to be paid, as : "Payable by Indian Bureau,
Interior Department ;" or, "Payable by Coast Guard, Treasury
Department," etc.
Bill of lading must show exact facts
89. Bills of lading should show the exact facts. If the
delivery was made on October 27, the bill of lading should
show that fact with the actual condition as revealed at the
time, the exact or full nature of the loss or damage if not
then known to be furnished the company thereafter as soon
as possible. If for any reason the bill of lading is not de-
livered to the. carrier upon receipt of shipment, a receipt for
the goods actually received should be given to the carrier
and the bill of lading when delivered should show the date
of its delivery as well as the date of delivery of shipment,
and any other facts pertinent thereto, so as to furnish a
corrct statement of the transaction with no fictitious pre-
sumptions to be corrected later by outside evidence. (Compt.
Dec. Apr. 27, 1915.)
Action in case of no Government bill of lading
90. A quartermaster, or acting quartermaster, should at
all times have a supply of the standard form of Government
bill of lading in his possession. If, however, a quartermaster,
or acting quartermaster, is without Government bills of lading-
he may, as an emergency measure only, make a shipment on
the regular commercial bill of lading, noting thereon that
the shipment is for the Government, taking the same number
of copies, and disposing of them, as prescribed for the
Government bill of lading, and advising the receiving quarter-
master and also the disbursing officer by whom the trans-
portation account will be settled of his action and the reason
therefor in full. The consignee will, on receipt of the
property, attach to the commercial bill of lading a con-
signee's certificate of delivery in the same form as shown on
the original Government bill of lading.
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DIMENSIONS AND CAPACITY OF RAILROAD
CARS
91. Passenger Cars
Seating capacity (maximum) at
Day
Standard
Tourist
2 persons to each double seat
Coach
Sleeper
Sleeper
Seating capacity at 3 person to
60
56
48
every 2 double seats
70
64
64
Sleeping capacity (maximum) at
45
42
36
2 person per berth
48
48
48
Sleeping capacity at 3 persons
56
48
per section
64
64
Sleeping capacity at one person
42 to 48
36 to 48
per berth
28 to 32
24 to 32
Number of sections
14 to 16
12 to 16
Length in feet
65 to 75
65 to 80
65 to 75
92. Baggage and Freight Cars
Flat Ordin-
Baggage Box and Refrig- Palace
Gon- erator Stock ct O Mr
dola
Average freight or baggage
in tons 30 30 30 20 25
Average capacity in cubic
feet 4000 2400 2000 2200
Number of animals, horses 18 16 20
or mules, accommodated 20 20 24
Length in feet, inside 65 34 34 32 40 30
measurement 75 40 40 36 48 40
Width in feet, inside
measurement 8^/2 8*/ 2 & l / 2 8 l / 2
Height in feet, inside
measurement 6 to 8 6 to 7 7*/ 2
Trackage
93. In calculating trackage, use the figures in above table
giving lengths of the different cars, adding thereto 4 feet per
car for oversills and cooplers, and allowing 70 feet for loco-
motive and tender.
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Steel cars
94. The dimensions before stated cover the ordinary cars
usually furnished. Steel coaches, some of which have a
length of 70 feet and over and a maximum seating capacity
of 86, are in use to a limited extent. Steel flat cars of lengths
up to 42 feet and widths to 9 feet are also in limited use.
Box cars with steel underframes are, in some instances, as
long as 40 feet, and a few special box cars, such as furniture
and automombile cars, are from 40 to 50 feet in length.
Automobile cars
95. The automobile car is a box car, but has larger side
doors (varying from 7 x iy 2 to 12 x 8^2) to facilitate the
loading of automobiles or other vehicles. They vary from
36 to 40 feet in length and have a capacity of 60,000 pounds
and 2400 to 3000 cubic feet. These cars usually have large
end doors also.
Side doors
96. The side doors on the older box-cars are 5^2 feet wide
by 6^4 feet high, but in the newer cars the size of the door-
ways has been increased to 6 x 7y 2 feet,
Arms palace horse cars
97. Some of the Arms palace horse-cars are cross-wise
stalled; others are length-wise stalled; each kind is provided
with water tanks, and with feed mangers for hay and grain.
The cross-wise stalled car, series 30 to 2500, is the best ; this
car is 48 feet long inside, has 18 stall with room in center
aisle for 1 or 2 extra animals, and has a small door at either
car end through which attendants can enter or get out at any
time, the manger serving as a passage way. The length-wise
stalled car is 44 feet long inside, has 16 stalls, and is divided
into two compartments with doorway allowing free passage
from one compartment to the other. There is also a stalless
Arms car accommodating 24 to 28 horses. No water tanks,
feed mangers nor fixtures of any kind, aside from sliding
gates for dividing each car into three compartments, are pro-
vided in the stalless car except that some of the cars have
improvised feed racks overhead.
Sleeping cars
98. The standard sleeper usually provided has 12 to 14
sections, and in addition a drawing room ; the drawing room
has one full section, one single lower berth and a toilet annex.
The sleepers having 16 sections are without a drawing room.
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Anothr type of standard sleeper is divided into compartments,
either 10 or 12, each having one full section and toilet con-
veniences. The tourist sleeper has either 14 to 16 sections.
Kitchen cars
99. The dimensions and cooking capacity of the kitchen
tourist car are given in paragraph 146 ; and a method for in-
stalling an emergency kitchen equipment, when kitchen cars
are not available, is described in paragraphs 154 to 167.
Number of tourist and kitchen cars in service
100. There are 790 tourist cars and 14 kitchen tourist cars
in service in the United States. Of the former a bout 385
are used for extra travel and could be' furnished on short
notice for transportation of troops. These cars are held at
various stations from which they can be used, or moved into
position for prospective service, their location depending al-
together upon conditions of travel at the various seasons of*
the year. When transcontinental colonist movements occur
in the spring and fall, about 200 of these cars are operated to
California over the various roads. The localities where
tourist cars are usually kept when not in use are as follows :
I
San Francisco and vicinity
Chicago and vicinity
Denver and vicinity
Texas (Dallas, Fort Worth, and Houston)
St. Louis Kansas City and vicinity
Southeastern points (Principally Atlanta)
New York Buffalo and vicinity, and
Washington and vicinity.
The kitchen cars are generally available at Chicago, St.
Louis, San Francisco, Denver, Houston, Atlanta and Wash-
ington.
The location of the tourist cars is constantly changing with
the requirements of travel. Before arranging for any move-
ment of troops sufficient advance notice should be given ^ in
which to move cars into position as the assignment above in-
dicated is only approximate, and therefore cannot be depended
upon with any degree of accuracy.
In addition to the tourist cars there are about 400 emer-
gency standard cars, with average capacity of about thirteen
sections, which could be temporarily converted into tourist
cars to meet any emergency that might arise in case all the
regular tourist cars were in use or could not be made avail-
able for transportation of troops.
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Loads for ordinary cars
101. For heavy freight, 25 tons is an average load for a
freight car; and for light freight, ordinarily 12 to 15 tons;
but of household goods, an average of about 10 tons. 13,000
pounds of timothy hay, as commercially baled, will fill a small
freight car (34' x 8' x 8'). 30 tons is a good car load of
ordinary merchandise and 40 tons is about the maximum,
except for special cars. Freight cars should be loaded to
their full capacity, as inscribed upon them.
Number of rations to an ordinary 36 ft. box car
Kind of ration Gross weight of ration Number that can
be loaded in
each car.
Forage
Oats
Horse 12 3,333
Mule 9 4,444
Hay
Horse 14 1,571
Mule 14 1,571
Barley
Horse 12 3,333
Mule 9 4,444
Corn
Horse 12 3,333
Mule 9 4,444
Bran
Horse 12 2,500
Mule 9 3,333
Subsistence
Garrison 4.9 8,226
Travel 4.1 9,818
Field 3.0 13,428
Reserve 2.0 20,142
TRANSPORTATION REPORTS AND
STATEMENTS
Transportation of memo, bills of lading and copies of
transportation requests
103. Every officer issuing transportation requests or bills
of lading will transmit daily to the officer, designated to settle
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the accounts of the particular road involved, as shown in
paragraph 106, all memorandum bills of lading and copies
of all requests for transportation by rail, commercial vessel,
parlor or sleeping cars issued during the day. These will be
accompanied by a letter of transmittal (Q.M.C. Form 169)
on which will be shown the serial number of each memoran-
dum bill of lading or transportation requests so transmitted.
If in doubt as to proper disbursing officer
104. If an officer issuing a bill of lading, transportation,
sleeping car, or parlor car request is in doubt as to the office
which should settle the transportation charges thereon, he
will send the memorandum bill of lading or copy of trans-
portation request to the Quartermaster General by letter of
transmittal, in which, in addition to the data specified in para-
graph 103 hereof, will be given the reason for his action. The
office of the Quartermaster General will forward them to the
office designated to settle the accounts of the carriers con-
cerned.
Monthly report of bills of lading and transportation re-
quests issued
105. Every officer who issues bills of lading or transporta-
tion requests will keep a monthly report of such issues
(Q.M.C Form 151). This form must be kept up currently
and with this end in view proper entry will be made upon
form 151 immediately upon issuance of bills of lading or
transportation requests. If transportation charges are to be
paid by some other Department or Bureau of the Government,
the name of such Department or Bureau will be entered in
the column headed "Remarks." This report must not include
bills of lading and transportation requests issued during dif-
ferent months, but a separate report must be made for each
and every month. Report of bills of lading and transporta-
tion requests issued (Q.M.C. Form 151) will be mailed im-
mediately after the close of each month direct to the Quarter-
master General.
Offices settling transportation accounts
106. Transportation accounts will be settled at offices named
below for the respective transportation lines given under each
office, namely:
(a) Depot Quartermaster, Boston, Mass. :
Accounts for transportation of headstones for soldiers'
graves (see paragraph 107).
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(b) Depot Quartermaster, Washington, D. C.I
Atlanta & West Point Railroad.
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad.
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad.
Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railroad.
Baltimore Steam Packet Company.
Boston & Albany Railroad.
Boston & Maine Railroad.
Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh Railway.
Canadian Pacific Railway.
Central New England Railway.
Central of Georgia Railway.
Central Railroad of New Jersey.
Central Vermont Railway.
Charleston & Western Carolina Railway.
Chesapeake & Ohio Railway.
Chesapeake & Ohio Railway of Indiana.
Chesapeake Steamship Company.
Clyde Steamship Company.
Cumberland Valley Railroad.
Delaware & Hudson Company.
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad.
Erie Railroad.
Florida East Coast Railway.
Georgia Railroad.
Georgia Southern & Florida Railway.
Grand Trunk Railway System.
Jamestown, Chautauqua & Lake Erie Railway.
Lehigh & New England Railroad.
Lehigh Valley Railroad.
Long Island Railroad.
Maine Central Railroad.
Mallory Steamship Company.
Merchants' & Miners' Transportation Company.
Morgan Line Steamers.
New York Central & Hudson River Railroad.
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad.
New York, Ontario & Western Railway.
New York, Philadelphia & Norfolk Railroad.
Norfolk Southern Railroad.
Norfolk & Western Railway.
Norfolk & Washington Steamboat Company.
Northern Central Railway.
Peninsular & Occidental Steamship Company.
Pennsylvania Company.
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Pennsylvania Railroad.
Philadelphia, Baltimore & Washington Railroad.
Philadelphia & Reading Railway.
Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railway.
Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway.
Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Railroad.
Rutland Railroad.
Seaboard Air Line Railway.
Southern Railway.
Washington, Baltimore & Annapolis Electric Railway Com-
pany.
Washington Southern Railway.
Western Maryland Railway.
Western Railway of Alabama.
West Shore Railroad.
All Atlantic Ocean water transportation.
All Gulf of Mexico water transportation.
All other transportation lines not otherwise assigned whose
accounting offices are in the States of Connecticut, Delaware,
Florida, Georgia, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New
Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia and
West Virginia, and the District f Columbia.
(c} Depot Quartermaster, 115-123 Ontario St., Chicago, 111.
Alabama Great Southern Railway.
Ann Arbor Railroad.
Canadian Northern Railway.
Chicago & Alton Railroad.
Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad.
Chicago & Northwestern Railway.
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad (lines east of the
Missouri River).
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad (lines west of the
Missouri River).
Chicago Great Western Railroad.
Chicago, Indiana & Southern Railroad.
Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville Railway.
Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound Railway.
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway.
Chicago, Peoria & St. Louis Railway.
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway.
Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway.
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton Railway.
Cincinnati, New Orleans & Texas Pacific Railway.
Cincinnati Northern Railroad.
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Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway.
Colorado & Southern Railway.
Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic Railway.
Grand Rapids & Indiana Railway.
Great Northern Railway.
Goodrich Transit Co.
Hocking Valley Railway.
Illinois Central Railroad.
Kanawha & Michigan Railway.
Lake Erie & Western Railroad.
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway.
Louisville & Nashville Railroad.
Louisville, Henderson & St. Louis Railway.
Michigan Central Railroad.
Minneapolis & St. Louis Railroad.
Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railway.
New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad.
Northern Pacific Railway.
Pere Marquette Railroad.
St. Paul & Kansas City Short Line Railroad.
Toledo & Ohio Central Railway.
L T nion Pacific Railroad.
Vandalia Railroad.
Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad.
All Great Lakes water transportation.
All Pullman Company transportation.
All other transportation lines not otherwise assigned whose
accounting offices are in the State of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa,
Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota,
Ohio, South Dakota, Wisconsin and Wyoming.
(d) Depot Quartermaster. St. Louis, Mo.
Alabama & Vicksburg Railway.
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway (lines north, south,
and east of Albuquerque and Belen).
Colorado Midland Railway.
Denver & Rio Grande Railroad.
El Paso & Southwestern System.
Fort Worth & Denver City Railway.
Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway.
Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway.
Houston & Texas Central Railroad.
International & Great Northren Railroad.
Kansas City, Mexico & Orient Railway.
Kansas City Southern Railway.
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Leavenworth & Topeka Railway.
Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway.
Missouri Pacific Railway.
Mobile & Ohio Railroad.
Morgan's Louisiana & Texas Railroad and Steamship Com-
pany.
Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway.
New Orleans & Northwestern Railroad.
Quincy, Omaha & Kansas City Railroad.
Rio Grande Southern Railway.
St. Joseph & Grand Island Railway.
St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad.
St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway.
St. Louis Southwestern Railway.
San Antonio & Arkansas Pass Railway.
Southern Kansas Railway of Texas.
Texas & Pacific Railway.
Texas Central Railroad.
Texas Mexican Railway.
Trinity & Brazos Valley Railway.
Uintah Railway and Stage Line.
Wabash Railroad.
Wichita Railroad.
All Mississippi and Ohio River water transportation.
All other transportation lines not otherwise assigned whose
accounting offices are in the States of Alabama, Arkansas,
Colorado, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, New
Mexico, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas.
(<?) Depot Quartermaster, San Francisco, Cal. :
Arizona Eastern Railroad.
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Coast Lines (lines
west of Albuquerque and Belen).
Corvallis & Eastern Railroad.
Northwestern Pacific Railroad.
Oregon Short Line Railroad.
Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation Company.
Portland Railway, Light & Power Company.
Puget Sound Electric Railway.
San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad.
Santa Fe, Prescott & Phoenix Railway.
Southern Pacific Company Pacific System (lines west of
but not including El Paso.)
Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway.
Tacoma Railway & Power Company.
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Tonapah Goldfield Railroad.
Western Pacific Railroad.
All Columbia River water transportation.
All Puget Sound water transportation.
All Pacific Ocean water transportation either coastwise or
trans-Pacific.
All other transportation lines not otherwise assigned whose
accounting offices are in the States of Arizona, California,
Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, and Washington and
the Territory of Alaska. (Circ. 1, O. C. Q. M. C. 1912.)
107. Accounts payable by the Depot Quartermaster. Bos-
ton, for transportation of headstones for soldiers' graves will
be presented by the railroad company to the disbursing
quartermaster designated herein for the settlement of its ac-
counts, be properly stated on voucher to be certified by the
disbursing quartermaster, the receipt of the proper railroad
official obtained, and the account forwarded to the depot
quartermaster, Boston, for payment from the headstone ap-
propriation. (Cir. 1, O.C.Q.M.C, 1912.)
108. The accounts of express companies for shipments con-
signed to posts or stations, including all independent stations
and supply depots, will be settled by the depot quartermasters
indicated below, over the State in which the post or station
is located :
Depot Quartermaster, Washington, D. C. Alabama, Con-
necticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Maine, Massa-
chusetts, Maryland, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New Jersey,
New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island,
South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont, West Virginia, and Dis-
trict of Columbia.
Depot Quartermaster, St. Louis, Mo. Arkansas, Colorado,
Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Minne-
sota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Okla-
homa, South Dakota, Texas, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.
Depot Quartermaster, San Francisco, Cal. Alaska, Arizona,
California, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, and
Washington. (Cir. 1, O.C.Q.M.C, 1912.)
TRANSPORTATION OF TROOPS BY RAIL
Preference to military traffic
109. "In time of war or threatened war preference and
precedence shall, upon the demand of the President of the
United States, be given, "over all other traffic, to the trans-
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portation of troops and material of war, and carriers shall
adopt every means within their control to facilitate and ex-
pedite the military traffic." (34 Stat. 587.)
Commercial and military railways
110. Troops may be moved by rail over commercial rail-
ways or over military railways. The former condition will
obtain in all movements in time of peace, and for most con-
centration movements in time of w.ar. The latter condition
will always obtain in the theatre of military operations, and
may obtain in concentration movements in our own territory.
(F. S. R. 386, 1914.)
Movement by commercial railways is function of Q. M.
Corps
111. The movement of troops and their equipment over
commercial railways is the function of the Quartermaster
Corps, who plan and prepare for the move in conformity
with regulations and orders from competent authority. (F.
S. R. 388, 1914.)
Quartermaster should work out movements in advance of
orders
112. In order to have complete data available at all times
for expeditions rail movements, every quartermaster should
maintain on file in his office the consist of equipment neces-
sary to move the entire command at his station as a whole
as well as the separate units. He should consult his com-
manding officer in reference to the arrangement of train sec-
tions and should complete his files by listing the supplies and
equipage to accompany the troops under varying conditions.
Notice of movements
113. Commanding officers will give timely notice to the
proper officers of the Quartermaster Corps of all contemplated
movements of troops and supplies that proper and sufficient
transportation may be in readiness. (A. R. 1107.)
Orders
114. When troops are moved, suitable transportation will
be provided; proper orders and an exact return of the com-
mand will be furnished to the quartermaster who is to provide
the same. (A. R. 1110, 1913.)
Detailed list of command to be furnished
115. Two estimates for rail transportation (Q.M.C. Form
469), will ordinarily be required when organizations are
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moved by rail. The first is a preliminary estimate giving the
shipping quartermaster the data to enable him to order the
necessary cars and have them properly placed, and the final
one is an exact return of the officers, enlisted men, civilian
employees, animals, and vehicles. Separate estimates are
necessarily required for each train section. They should give,
in each instance, the following data :
(a) Organizations and headquarters.
(b) The number of the train section (No. 1 being the
first to depart, No. 2 the second, etc.).
(c) Destination.
(d) Name of train quartermaster.
(e) Authority for the movement.
(/) The number of officers and enlisted men, separately
for each arm and corps and omitting live stock attendants.
(g) The number of civilian employees, omitting live stock
attendants.
(//) The number of live stock attendants.
(i) The number of public mules, public horses, and au-
thorized private horses, separately for each.
(/) The number of wagons, ambulances, guns, caissons,
and other vehicles, separately for each.
(k) The approximate total weight of organization pro-
perty, household goods, and checkable baggage, separately for
each of the three items, should also be shown in the pre-
liminary estimate; but not in the final one, such information
being then given in the shipping lists and invoices (paragraphs
182 and 183). The data of entraining and the approximate
hour of departure should be stated in the preliminary estimate
in case the order, or other instructions, directing the move-
ment of the troops fails to give that information.
Field service
116. If the command is to take the field, the orders of the
commanding officer will state the letter designation of the
equipment to be taken, as "Equipment A." (See G.O. 85,
1914, and G.O. 39, 1915.)
Routing and equipment
117. Unless the orders direct otherwise, the local quarter-
master will designate the routing and arrange for the neces-
sary equipment.
By Quartermaster General
118. In inter-departmental journeys the routing and pre-
liminary arrangements for railroad equipment will usually be
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made direct by the Quartermaster General. The railroads and
department and post quartermaster will be advised of his
action. This actipn will be taken with a view to expediting
the supply of equipment and the local quartermaster will fol-
low the matter to its conclusion, and see that the equipment
is furnished and placed at the desired point for loading.
By quartermaster department
119. If the arrangements for transportation are made by
the department quartermaster, that officer will, if there is
sufficient time available and the number involved large enough
to warrant such action, invite bids for the movement, sending
a copy of the proposal to each of the initial lines, and also one
copy as follows : In the territory north of the State of Vir-
ginia and east of the Ohio-Pennsylvania State Line to Agent,
Trunk Lines, 143 Liberty St., New York City; the States of
Indiana and Ohio and the lower peninsula of Michigan to
Commissioner, Central Passenger Association, 608 S. Dear-
born St., Chicago, 111. ; and, in the territory west of Chicago
and the Mississippi River, to the Chairman, Military Com-
mittee, Western Lines, 608 S. Dearborn St., Chicago, 111.
Execution of contracts
120. Upon receipt of bids, they will be opened at the speci-
fied time, and award will be made. The department quarter-
master will advise the carrier concerned and prepare the
articles of agreement (transportation of troops and equipment,
Q.M.C. Form 114). Those contracts will be executed in
triplicate. One of the numbers will be given to the contractor ;
the other two will be forwarded to the Office of the Quarter-
master General, one being for file in that office and one for
the Auditor for the War Department. Four exact copies will
be made, one will be retained by the contracting officer, one,
to which will be attached the affidavit and additional papers
indicated by paragraph 563, A. R. 1913, will be forwarded to
the Returns Office of the Interior Department, one will be
sent to the commanding officer of the pos't or station from
which the troops are to be transported, and the other will be
forwarded to the officer by whom the account of the carrier
for the transportation will be settled.
When bids will not be invited
121. When the time is limited, when no competition is to
be had, or the number to be transported is small, bids need
not be invited, but the troops will be forwarded by the most
available route.
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Informal award
122. In expedited movements bids need not be invited.
Preliminary advice should be furnished the carrier orally, or
by telephone, or telegraph, but in any event, a letter of advice
will be furnished the carrier.
Sample letter of informal award
123. The following sample letter covers the general case :
OFFICE OF THE QUARTERMASTER
Fort 1916.
From : Quartermaster.
To: (Superintendent or Agent), Railroad
Company,
Subject: Transportation.
1. It is requested that the Railroad Company
furnish transportation from to via
for approximately the following:
officers.
enlisted men.
pounds of freight.
animals.
vehicles.
Officers to be furnished one berth each in standard sleeper;
the enlisted men to be accommodated three to a section in
tourist sleeper.
2. It is estimated that the following equipment will be
required :
Pullman sleepers, sections each.
Tourist sleepers, sections each.
Baggage cars, with end doors.
Kitchen cars.
Box cars feet long.
Stock cars, feet long.
Gondola cars, feet long, with drop end.
If tourist sleepers are not readily available, coaches should
be substituted on the basis of one man to each double seat,
and an endeavor made to secure the tourist sleepers and
transfer the men thereto at a convenient place enroute. (See
* below.)
* When the approximate time required for the journey is 24 hours or less
substitute the following:
If tourist sleepers are not readily available, coaches should be substituted
on the basis of three men to each two double seats.
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If end-door baggage cars are not readily available substitute
an equal number of solid end baggage cars.
If kitchen cars are not readily available, an extra tourist
car should be supplied.
If drop end gondolas are not readily available, solid end
gondolas will not answer, but art equal number of flat cars
should be supplied.
3. It is desired to get the troops under way as soon as
practicable, and it is therefore requested that delivery of the
equipment be expedited. It is estimated that the first train
section will be ready to leave about o'clock, .......
1916, and will be followed as rapidly as possible by the other
sections.
4. It is understood that 150 pounds of personal checkable
property per capita belonging to officers and men will be
carried free.
Sufficient space to be reserved in baggage cars free of
charge for subsistence en route. The men to be allowed to
take their arms and necessary hand baggage for the journey
with them in the passenger cars without charge.
All cars to be of standard quality and in good order and
sanitary conditions ; passenger cars to be properly watered,
lighted, and heated ; stock cars thoroughly cleaned and bedded
with clean earth, sand preferred ; all equipment to be placed
at point of embarkation in time for inspection before move-
ment, freight cars to be placed in readiness at the most con-
venient points sufficiently in advance of passenger cars to
admit of the loading of freight and preparation of bills of
lading prior to the embarkation of troops.
5. It is requested that this office be notified promptly as to
whether or not your company will furnish the above described
transportation.
In case your company can furnish the transportation, in-
formation is also desired as to date and hour equipment will
arrive and be ready for use. Upon receipt of this information
you will be furnished instructions as to placing of cars and
make up of trains.
Local quartermaster to be advised
124. The local quartermaster will be advised of the routing
as early as practicable, and will be furnished a copy of the
contract or agreement.
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By local quartermaster
125. If the local quartermaster is to make all arrangements
for the transportation, he will take the action outlined above
for the department quartermaster as shown, in paragraphs
119 to 124.
Request for freight equipment must show length desired
126. Attention is invited to the fact that an additional
charge is assessed in some cases for freight cars (including
stock cars), in excess of 36 feet in length, unless such cars
are furnished for the convenience of the carrier. In ordering
freight equipment the quartermaster should, therefore, specify
the length of cars desired and should not order a 40 foot car
when a 36 foot car will answer the purpose.
Car capacities
127. Under paragraphs 91 to 102 is a table showing the size
and capacity of the various classes of passenger and freight
equipment. This table will be found of value in determining
the number of cars required for troop movements.
Units should be kept together
128. Whenever organizations are moved by rail, with their
animals, equipment, and material, it is desirable that complete
jinits be kept together in trains divided into convenient train
sections. It is preferable to have trains of moderate size
with good speed rather than long trains with slow speed. If
it is necessary to divide a train, some officers and men will
accompany each section. The troops should not be separated
from the animals if it can be avoided ; but if the animals are
shipped in separate sections selected detachments under
officers accompany them, and such sections will precede the
troops. (F. S. R. 390.)
Size of trains
129. For commands of four companies of infantry, for one
field battery, for a troop of cavalry, or larger movenfents, it
is always better to arrange for special trains made up to
include the freight cars carrying the command's freight. This
insures the arrival together at destination of the troops and
property of the command, but will retard the movement of
the troops themselves, as trains carrying freight cars cannot
make the same rate of speed as those composed wholly of
passenger equipment.
Under the most favorable conditions, a single section of a
troop train should not consist of more than twenty cars.
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The number of engines available, the kind and capacity of
cars, the condition of the road-bed especially as to curves,
grades, and physical condition, the strength of the command
in officers, -men, animals and vehicles, and whether the freight
taken is incidental to change of station or is limited to field
allowances, are all determining factors in ascertaining the
size of train sections.
Under ordinary conditions a section of a railway train will
carry the following organizations at war strength :
1 battalion of infantry, or
2 troops of cavalry, or
1 battery of artillery, or
1 company of engineers with bridge train.
Breaking of military units to be avoided
130. As far as practicable, the breaking of military units
should be avoided, but, as the size of the trains will be left
to a great extent, to the railroad officials, it will not always
be possible to prevent it, and in case units are to be broken,
it is essential that the commanding officers know in advance
how their troops are to be carried, in order that arrangements
can be made for provisioning and caring for the troops in
each section.
Railroad should be furnished full information
131. In furnishing the consist of trains, and sections
thereof, the fullest possible information should be furnished
the railroad authorities in order to avoid unnecessary shifting
of cars or reversing of their relative positions after the cars
have been delivered for loading.
Delay in furnishing equipment
132. If there is any delay, either in the furnishing of the
equipment or in its placing at the proper point for loading,
the quartermaster should at once wire the general manager
of the railroad, stating the facts and asking that action be
taken by him to expedite the movement. The address of this
official can be secured from the Official Railway Guide or the
railroad agent.
Placing equipment
133. The freight and baggage equipment should be called
for in ample time in advance to permit of a thorough inspec-
tion, careful and methodical loading without hurry or con-
fusion, and to allow time for assembling the fatigue details
between the conclusion of the loading of freight and baggage
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and the time fixed for the entraining of the troops. As a
rule, railroads will have little difficulty in furnishing the freight
and baggage equipment in advance of the passenger equip-
ment, though when the command is small or the amount of
freight and baggage is small, it will be found simpler to set
in the entire equipment at one time. Where there are several
trains to be moved, however, this is undesirable, as they
occupy too much trackage, and if made up entire, the freight
and baggage cars are likely to be inconveniently placed for
loading. In such cases the freight, baggage, and stock cars
should be set in advance and conveniently placed for loading.
Advice to commanding officer
134. A quartermaster supplying transportation for troops
will furnish the commanding officer of each train section
thereof a copy of the contract, if any, for the transportation
of the command. If no written contract is made, he will
furnish a copy- of the letter confirming the agreement with
the railroad company undertaking to transport the troops, as
shown in paragraph 123.
Advice to train quartermaster
135. The quartermaster or acting quartermaster of each
train or section thereof will be furnished at once a copy of
Q.M.C. Form 471 (Memorandum concerning the movement
of troops). This form shows the information that should be
furnished to the shipping quartermaster ; instructions as to
invoices, marking and loading ; certificates to be furnished and
other information relative to the movement. The information
called for therein should be furnished to the shipping quarter-
master promptly, and the circular retained by each quarter-
master of the train or section for his information and guid-
ance, as it contains much of the information shown herein
applicable to other than the shipping quartermaster.
Record of movement
136. The local quartermaster should keep complete data
covering each movement of troops, such as hour cars were
ordered; hour cars were placed ready for loading; condition
of cars upon inspection ; hour loading was completed ; hour
each train section was made up ready to move ; hour of de-
parture and number and kinds of cars in each section ; cause
of delay if any; and any other circumstances affecting the
movement, so that any question coming up in connection with
the preparation for departure can be readily explained.
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Tourists sleepers for troops and officers
137. Tourist sleeping cars will be provided for troops on
the basis of three men to a section when the journey involves
spending a night on the train ; but when the number of troops
is too small to justify the hiring of tourist sleepers, tourist
sleeping car accommodations on the s"ame basis, if available,
may be furnished. When the number of officers traveling
with troops is too small to justify the hire by the Quarter-
master Corps of a standard sleeping car for their accommo-
dation, they will be furnished with such part of a tourist
sleeping car, or other suitable sleeping car, properly curtained
off for their accommodation, as the Quartermaster Corps may
provide for their use during the journey, one lower berth to
be furnished to each officer if practicable. (A. R. 1128, 1913.)
Special sleeping or parlor cars will not be chartered when the
expense exceeds the cost of the berths or seats authorized to
be furnished. (A. R. 1132, 1913.)
Minimum number for whom special car will be furnished
138. The provisions of these clauses of Army Regulations
1128 and Army Regulations 1132 are often misconstrued. All
railroads require the equivalent of a certain fixed number of
fares if a special car is furnished, and the term "special car"
includes either a standard or tourist sleeper if used exclu-
sively by a party. This minimum varies from 18 to 25 fares,
and quartermaster should not therefore arrange for the hiring
of tourist or standard sleeper for parties of less than 25,
unless the carrier specifically agrees to charge only for the
number actually in the party, without regard to any require-
ment as to a minimum number of fares. This rule does not
apply in movements of more than 25, provided the number of
persons transported averages 25 to the car, for example : If
a party of 60 is traveling, and two cars are used, there is no
objection to placing 20 in one car and 40 in the other.
Tourist berths for officers
139. If a movemen-t consists of only one or two troops, or
companies, the number of officers would be too small to justify
the hire of a standard sleeper, and the regulations are explicit
in stating that a lower berth in tourist sleeper, only, will be
furnished each officer under such circumstances. If an officer
desires an entire section, he must pay for the difference from
personal funds, as no payment will be authorized for an un-
occupied upper berth of a section, even though the lower
berth of this section is occupied by an officer.
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Standard sleepers for officers
140. Under the provisions of paragraph 1128, A. R. 1913,
an officer traveling with troops is entitled to and should be
furnished with standard sleeping car accommodations, when
Standard sleeping car accommodations are available and can
be used by him in connection with his orders directing him
to travel with troops, the troops in such cases being accommo-
dated in a tourist car attached to a regular train to which is
also attached a standard sleeping car for the accommodation
of the general public. In movements of a battalion, squadron,
or larger unit, standard sleepers will be furnished for the
officers on the basis of one berth for each officer, a lower if
practicable, otherwise an upper.
Tourist cars for troops
141. In all cases where tourist cars are used for troops,
berths will be provided for the 4nen on the basis of three
men to a section, the men in excess of this multiple being
given an upper berth each.
Example of placing officers and men
142. For example: If two officers and 65 enlisted men
are traveling, the officers should be given a lower berth each,
and the men should be given 21 sections plus two upper berths,
and the request should call for 23 upper berths and 23 lower
berths.
Excess berth furnished charged against officer
143. The number of berths authorized by Regulations only
can be paid for from public funds. If an excess number of
berths are called for and furnished on a request, the cost of
such excess will be charged against the officer issuing the
request. If an excess number of berths, not called for by
the request, or tickets, are used in transit, the officer in charge
of the train will be called upon for a remittance to cover the
cost of the unauthorized berths.
Reimbursement for sleeping or parlor car fares paid
144. An officer, traveling with troops, who incurs expense
for authorized sleeping or parlor car accommodations when
it is impracticable to obtain a request therefor, will be reim-
bursed by the Quartermaster Corps, upon application sup-
ported by a receipt for the amount paid by him and a copy
of the orders under which the journey was performed, A,
R. 1134, 1913.)
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Equipment used for preparation of food en route
145. In movements by rail kitchen cars are provided, if
practicable, and the length of the journey warrants; otherwise,
baggage cars are fitted up by the troops or arrangements are
made for procuring meals, or at least liquid coffee, at stations
en route.
Careful attention is paid to the messing of the men, whether
in kitchen cars or in the coaches where the men ride. A mess
officer supervises the preparation and serving of the meals
and requires the men to keep their mess kits scrupulously
clean. (F. S. R. 397.)
The different equipments used for the preparation of food
for recruits and organizations in movements by rail are,:
(a) The kitchen tourist car, furnished by the Pullman
Company.
(b) The regular kitchen car equipment, furnished by the
Quartermaster Corps.
(c) The emergency kitchen car equipment, furnished by
the Quartermaster Corps.
(d) The portable gas cooker, furnished by the Quarter-
master Corps.
Note: The detachment mess car is no longer furnished.
Kitchen cars, description of
146. The Pullman Company have in service certain cars
that are known as kitchen tourist cars. These are sixteen
section tourist cars with two sections removed, in which the
company has installed a range and cooking equipment. With
the cook and cook's helper provided by the Pullman Company,
who are familiar with the use of the cooking appliances and
the storage of food supplies, one of these cars is capable of
preparing meals for as many as two hundred men, and with
an additional cook for as many as three hundred men. The
fourteen sections remaining in the car can be used the same
as any other tourist car and will, therefore, accommodate
forty-two men on th e basis of three men to a section.
Use of kitchen cars
147 In the movement by rail of recruits or organizations,
when special train service is provided and the time required
for the journey will exceed forty-eight hours (with troop
trains this will usually mean a journey of about 800 miles),
and the number of men to be transported is thirty or more,
kitchen tourist cars will be provided for the journey, when-
ever practicable, at the rate of one for each two hundred men
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or fraction thereof, and arrangements made with carriers to
furnish a sufficient number of tables for each troop car. The
kitchens will be completely equipped by the contractor for the
preparation of meals, and a sufficient number of deep en-
ameled plates to properly serv'e the troops will be provided
as a part of the kitchen equipment.
Kitchen cars, employees
148. The contractor will also provide a cook and a cook's
helper foreach kitchen and will be reimbursed for the wages
of these men from the time of their departure from their
home stations to the time of their return thereto. When
sufficient cars are not obtainable to provide one car for each
two hundred men, one additional cook may be allowed when
more than two hundred men are traveling.
Kitchen car, ice and fuel
149. The contractor will also provide the ice necessary for
the preservation of stores en route and fuel for the range,
and will submit bills therefor for payment.
Kitchen car, damage to equipment
150. A mess officer designated by the commanding officer
will report to the commanding officer any loss of, or damage
to, any portion of the kitchen equipment and the names of
the persons or organizations responsible for such loss or
damage, in order that the money value may be collected
at once from company funds or other source and charged
against such persons or organizations.
Noncommissioned officer to act if in charge of party
151. When it is impracticable to send an officer with the
troops, the noncommissioned officer in charge will perform
the duties herein prescribed for the mess officer. (G. O. 218,
1909.)
Certificates
152. When kitchen tourist cars are used, a certificate (Q.
M. C. Form 157) will be prepared by the quartermaster who
furnishes the transportation. This certificate is in two parts,
the upper certifying that the kitchen tourist car, with the
necessary attendants, has been furnished, and the lower a
certificate as to the ice and coal used in transit. The upper
part of this certificate will be filled in and signed by the
quartermaster who furnishes the transportation, and will be
turned over by him or by the commanding officer of the troops
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to the representative of the Pullman Company when the
troops entrain. On arrival at destination, or point where the
troops detrain from the kitchen car, the Pullman Company
representative will have the lower certificate filled in and
signed by the officer, or noncommissioned officer, in charge
of the troops. This certificate will be retained by the Pullman
representative and afterwards attached to their bill for the
service.
Where kitchen tourist cars are not used
153. The number of kitchen tourist cars is limited, there
being only fourteen of these cars in service in the United
States. When a long journey is involved and kitchen tourist
cars cannot be procured or wher e such cars are not author-
ized, sufficient space will Be provided in a baggage or other
car for use by the command as a kitchen and the quarter-
master will arrange with the carrier to furnish a sufficient
number of tables for each troop car. In the baggage, or
other car furnished will be installed the regular kitchen car
equipment or a field range No. 1.
Regular kitchen car equipment
154. When not in use kitchen car equipment will be stored
in depots designated by the Quartermaster General, from
which they will be obtained for organizations requiring them
by requisition submitted to the department quartermaster.
The mess officer designated by the commanding officer will
give a memorandum receipt for the equipment. The issuing
officer will invoice the articles to the depot quartermaster
nearest the point at which the troops will detrain, forwarding
with the invoices one copy of Certificate of Supplies Trans-
ferred (Form Q.M.C. 232). The mess officer will install the
equipment in the kitchen car, supervise its use en route, arid
ship at the end of the rail journey to the officer to whom it
is invoiced. In case of loss or damage to any portion of the
equipment the money value will be charged to the person or
organization responsible for such loss or damage. For list
of this kitchen car equipment and instructions as to requi-
sition, see Subsistence Section.
Emergency kitchen equipment
155. If time will not admit of securing the regular kitchen
equipment, a field range No. 1 may be installed in the baggage,
or other car, as an emergency kitchen car equipment.
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Installing field range
156. The method of installing this range in a baggage car
will be as follows :
Construct a box 6 feet 8 inches long by 2<\ l / 2 inches wide
and about 12 inches deep, inside measurement, using \ l / 2 or
2 inch material if available. Line the sides, ends, and top
edge of box with galvanized iron or zinc. Place box in car
running lengthwise on one side of the car, about 2 feet from
the side. Fill the box with dirt up to about 2 inches of the
top. Place a brick flush with top of dirt at each of the four
corners where the range will set. Place range in box, front
and oven end close up against end of box, and deep enough
in box so that when oven door is opened it will lay flat on
edge of box. Place boiling plate in box, the end resting on
top of angle iron on rear of range. Place a brick under each
front corner of boiling plate, flush with top of dirt. The
alamo attachment is not used when range No. 1 is installed
in the above manner. Fasten range and boiling plate firmly
to box by means of strap iron, or two or three strands of
telegraph or telephone wire. Fill space between range, boiling
plate, and side of box with soft mud to prevent heat from
escaping. Three and even four field ranges may be installed
in a car.
Box can be held firmly in position on floor of car by nail-
ing 2 by 4 inch strips around sides and ends of box. This
is important and must not be neglected.
Installing stovepipe
157. Remove one of the top ventilating windows from car ;
tack tent guards, furnished with each range, over the open-
ing one on the outside of the car and one on the inside.
Carry stovepipe up and out through the opening. End of
pipe should extend about 6 inches outside of the ventilator
opening. Elbow should be placed on end of pipe facing up,
and wired firmly to car. Wire stove pipe firmly to both sides
of car.
Additional equipment necessary
158. The following additional equipment to that supplied
with each range is necessary.
2 G. I. water cans.
2 G. I. buckets.
1 Elbow, stovepipe.
100 feet wire.
Water cans should be filled on every possible occasion
where stops are made.
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If box car is used
159. If the equipment is to be set up in a freight car, a.
hole would have to be cut in the top of car for the stove-
pipe, using tent guards, as explained in paragraph 157, to
cover the opening. A freight car should not be used, unless
absolutely necessary, as the Government will be compelled to
pay for the repairs necessary to replace car in proper con-
dition.
Portable gas cooker
160. When small bodies of troops are traveling, or when it
is impracticable to furnish kitchen cars or field ranges for
large bodies, a portable gas cooker will be supplied when
possible. This cooker mayt be used in any car equipped with
the Pintsch gas lighting system, and has a capacity for pro-
viding hot coffee and hot food for 48 men.
Cookers to be kept in stock at recruit depots
161. A sufficient number of these cookers should be kept
in stock at Recruit Depots to take care of movements of
recruits where kitchen tourist cars are not authorized or
are not available.
162. The cooker can be used as follows:
/. When traveling by Pullman tourist or Standard sleeping
cars.
//. When traveling in ordinary day coaches.
///. When troops accompany horse trains, one baggage car
lighted with Pintsch gas should be supplied each section. A
small space can be reserved to set up the cooker, which in-
sures hot coffee and meals for the attendants and guard.
The remainder of the car can be utilized for baggage, equip-
ments, and supplies needed enroute.
IV. For use in cars composing hospital or Red Cross
trains, to heat water and prepare soups, broths, and other
special diet.
Basis for furnishing cookers
163. One cooker is supplied to each Pullman tourist or
Standard sleeping car or day coach composing the train and
one cooker to each section of horse trains.
Directions for use
164. In setting up the gas cooker, the work should be
supervised by a commissioned officer. If none is present, then
by the noncommissioned officer in charge.
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1. Unlock trunk, take out tray, remove covers, and take
out bucket, boilers, and burner and stand.
2. Set burner and stand in men's wash room or other suit-
able place and connect same with the nearest four-tip burner,
as follows : Remove glass bowl and turn over to porter.
Unscrew four-flame cluster, being careful not to unscrew the
cluster stem. Screw short piece of gas tubing to cluster stem
where four-cluster flame was removed by the coupling at one
end of tubing. Tnen attach long piece of tubing to short
piece and connect with the burner of the cooker. After the
meal has been prepared, disconnect long piece of tubing and
allow short end to remain attached to cluster stem. When it
is desired to operate the cooker, connect long piece of tubing
to short piece.
If it is not practicable to make connections with a four-
flame cluster, connect burner of cooker with a one-burner
bracket lamp, as follows : With pliers remove gas tip, and
loosen governing screw so as to insure a free flow of gas.
If the governing screw sticks, tap lightly with the handle of
the screwdriver until it can be easily removed. Do not en-
tirely unscrew the governing screw. Slip rubber end of
tubing over pillar, and connect other end to the burner of
the cooker.
3. The connections having been made, turn on the gas at
the lamp and burner of the cooker, and light with a wax
taper. The greatest heat is obtained by having a strong blue
flame.
4. The burner being lighted, set on the largest copper
boiler if it is desired to make coffee. The boiler should be
filled about two-thirds full, additional water being added
when coffee has come to a boil. After coffee has been made,
remove and set boiler on one of the asbestos mats to prevent
damage to the floor of the car. The second boiler is then set
on the burner, with such food as may be desired to cook.
Water must be added to prevent burning of food and melting
the boilers. Stirring is also necessary when preparing certain
foods. It requires about one hour and twenty minutes to
prepare coffee and cook one hot dish for 48 men. After the
meal is prepared, set the galvanized-iron boiler with handles
on the burner with water for washing the mess kits and
utensils.
Cautionary directions
165. Caution :
1. Do not put boilers on without water in them.
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2. Always add a little water, about 1 quart to every 10
pounds of food, to prevent burning.
3. Remove the coffee and hot water from the copper
vessels as soon as practicable to preserve the tinning on in-
side.
4. Look at gas flame occasionally to see that it has not
blown out.
5. To reduce gas consumption and save time, get hot water
for washing dishes from locomotive.
6. Never light the gas with boiler set on heater.
7. If the roadbed is rough and there is considerable motion
to the train, secure the stand and burner by the two leather
straps furnished with the cooker. To prevent the splashing
of water when coffee is being made or water heated, place
round slop board in the boilers so as to counteract the motion
of the car.
8. In case of leaks in the gas tubing, cut at leak with
sharp knife and connect the two pieces of tubing with a
coupler, wrapping ends of tubing with wire.
9. Handle the equipment intelligently and carefully. Never
pack any article unless clean and dry. When returned to a
depot or post the equipment should be completely overhauled,
cleaned, and tested.
Requisition for gas cooker, etc.
166. For composition of the Gas cooker, instructions as to
requisitions and suggestions as to menus, see Subsistence
Manual.
Issue and return of cookers
167. Portable gas cookers that are sent with recruits from
recruit depots should be returned to the recruit depots as
baggage in all cases where practicable. They will be checked
back to the recruit depots on the return transportation of the
noncommissioned officers in all cases where the carriers will
accept them as baggage without assessing excess baggage
charges, and in all such cases where they are to be returned
to Jefferson Barracks, Mo., transportation of the noncom-
missioned officers should read through to Jefferson Barracks,
with the St. Louis Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Com-
pany as the final carrier. If the carriers refuse to accept the
portable gas cookers as baggage without assessing excess
baggage charges, the cookers will be turned over to the
quartermaster for shipment back to the recruit depot by or-
dinary freight on Government bill of lading. The provisions
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of paragraph 255 and 256, Subsistence Manual, 1910, will
govern in the issuance and return of these portable gas
cookers. (G. O., 11, 1915).
Cleaning mess kits
168. Each troop car will have a sufficient number of kettles
or boilers and clean dish towels to enable the men to wash
their individual mess kits. Company commanders are re-
sponsible for the providing of these articles and for the
details of their use.
Packing and crating
169. Empty boxes, crates, and barrels kept on hand for rail
movements of troops should be equitably and promtply dis-
tributed, and lumber, nails, and packing materials procured
and services engaged, within the limits of regulations, to
facilitate the preparation of property for shipment. Owing to
the limited time within which troops usually prepare for
departure by rail, the work of packing, crating, and marking
property is necessarily done by the troops themselves, but the
quartermaster has his share of it to do. The duties of a
shipping quartermaster before the departure of the troops are
so multitudinous that he must proceed along the lines of a
well thought out scheme.
Advice to commanding officer as to placing of cars
170. When the number of trains, or sections, is determined,
the commanding officer will be advised by the quartermaster
where the freight and passenger equipment for each section
will be placed, and the time when the equipment will be in
position for loading.
Marking cars
171. As soon as freight cars are placed, the quartermaster
will mark the cars in chalk with the letters of the organization
to which they are assigned. Passenger cars will not be
marked until after train sections are made up.
Quartermaster to be present at entraining
172. The quartermaster who provides the transportation,
or a duly authorized representative, will be present at the
embarkation of the troops, and will see that the accommoda-
tions contracted for have been provided. A similar course
will be pursued, where practicable, at places where changes
of route or important connections are to be made. If delay
is necessary in either case in order to complete the arrange-
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ments for transportation, the commanding officer of the
troops will be fully notified. (A. R., 1114, 1913).
In accordance with the above paragraph of Regulations, the
quartermaster furnishing the transportation, if practicable,
and if not his agent should be present at the loading of
freight and troops. He should examine the train and its
equipment and see that the railroad company has complied
fully with its agreement. His presence is necessary also to
adjust matters in case of controversy between the agents of
the railroad and the commanding officer of the troops.
Detail of yardmaster
173. The Quartermaster will detail a competent enlisted
man or employee to act as a yardmaster to watch progress of
loading, keep track of location of cars, make lists of cars in
each train section and to keep the shipping quartermaster
generally informed as to progress of loading so that he can
take prompt steps to prevent any undue delay and give prompt
and timely Qrders to railroad company for other equipment
needed.
Duties of yardmaster
174. The Quartermaster will instruct the wagonmaster
when and where to send the wagons to haul the freight ; to
see that such wagons are not kept unnecessarily idle ; to
expedite the loading of animals and vehicles by hauling the
freight, whenever practicable and particularly just before
loading of a train section is completed, with teams and
wagons that are to remain behind ; and to be present and
assist in loading wagon transportation on the cars.
Loading property
175. The general rule for loading property is to put in first
such articles as will not be immediately needed on arrival des-
tination.
Order of loading
176. The following order should be generally observed* in
loading :
1. Company property, equipment and supplies, not needed
in transit (in box cars locked and sealed by railroad em-
ployees prior to departure of train) ; viz. :
Company property.
Property of officers and men.
Ammunition.
Rations.
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Sanitary stores.
Tentage.
Cooking utensils.
2. Transportation (on gondola or flat cars), viz.:
Guns and artillery carriages.
Pontons.
Wagons.
Ambulances.
Other vehicles.
3. Forage (in box cars).
4. Checkable baggage, rations for use enroute and arms
(in baggage and kitchen cars under guard).
5. Animals (in stock cars).
6. Men (in coaches or sleepers).
By this arrangement the articles needed first will be un-
loaded first. The cars should be allotted, marked, and loaded
as prescribed in paragraphs 179 to 196.
If two or more sections
177. If the organization is to be shipped in two or more
sections, see -that the proper baggage cars accompany each
section, so that when an organization arrives in camp its
baggage will be with it. At least two men should be in
each unsealed car containing baggage or rations.
An officer to supervise loading
178. When the rail estimates (see paragraph 115) are re-
quested, the quartermaster should arrange with the command-
ing officer to designate a battalion (or squadron) quarter-
master, or other officer, to superintend the loading of each
train section and collect the lists of property put in each car.
From this officer the shipping quartermaster receives the lists
of contents of each car, as stated in paragraph 186. Should
it be known beforehand what the contents of a car \vill be,
for example; when a battalion of Infantry is moved utilizing
a single freight car only, the shipping quartermaster should
obtain in advance from the organization quartermaster the list
and weight of the property to be shipped.
Duties of officer supervising loading
179. The officer designated to superintend the loading of
each train section should keep a list showing the initials,
number and contents of the cars loaded under his super-
vision ; should see that there is no unnecessary delay in
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placing the freight in the cars ; that the cars are fully loaded ;
and that the work is properly done. He should also see that
household goods are loaded in separate cars (provided there
is a sufficient quantity to make one or more carloads), and
that all checkable baggage (the 150 Ibs. per passenger each
carried free) is likewise in separate cars provided for the
purpose. As far as practicable the property of each organiza-
tion should be kept by itself, and the property should be
placed in cars in the order indicated in paragraph 176. He
should see that cars are, as far as practicable, loaded to their
full capacity, as the railroad tariffs provide a minimum weight
(usually 30,000 Ibs.) for each car used, and the charge for
this weight is assessed even though the car may contain only
18,000 or 20,000 Ibs., or a less number of pounds.
Guarding cars
180. In case the loading is temporarily stopped, he should
see that the freight cars are securely locked or placed under
suitable guard. Upon the completion of loading, he should
likewise see that the freight cars are securely locked, or kept
under suitable guard, until sealed by the railroad authorities.
Organization to load and unload
181. At the proper time loading is begun and is carried
on, by the troops, pursuant to the orders of the commander.
Heavy property may be loaded by details before the arrival
of the troops (F.S.R. No.' 393). Where the organization takes
its property with it on the same train or other conveyance,
the property is only constructively turned over to the shipping
quartermaster. The organization commander, or organization
quartermaster, supervises and checks the loading of it upon
the cars, also supervises and checks the property from the
cars at destination. The shipping quartermaster makes up
the transportation requests and bills of lading from the data
furnished to him on the shipping list or shipping invoices and
the list of personnel.
N. C. O. to be assigned to each car
182. The kind and weight of all property loaded in each
car must be shown. To accomplish this, when organizations
take their property with them, the commanding officer should
assign a competent non-commissioned officer or enlisted men
to each car with instructions to make a list of boxes, barrels,
crates, bundles, and other packages, and the weight of each.
Separate lists of property should be made for each organiza-
tion and the number of the car and the initials of the line
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to which it belongs must be sho\vn on each list. The property
is thus checked into the cars, and in the same manner it
should be checked from them at destination, in each case
the organization commander exercising such supervisions as
to insure that the checking is properly, done.
Expediting lists
183. The lists showing the contents of each car are neces-
sary in the preparation of the bill of lading, and the latter
must be made out and in the hands of the train quartermaster
before departure of the train. Every effort should be made
to expedite this information to furnish it to the shipping-
quartermaster as soon as possible, and, in any event, before
loading is completed. If time admits, and, in any event, be-
fore loading is completed. If time admits, the organization
quartermaster shoifld consolidate the lists and make up a
shipping invoice in duplicate on Form No. 201, Q.M.C., for
each train section. The shipping invoice should contain lists
of property of each organization, separately stated, the total
weight of the property, the number of vehicles and the num-
ber of animals, and must show the number and initials of the
car into which the property of each organization and that of
the officers has been loaded. The list or shipping invoice
should be complete in every detail, so that the shipping
quartermaster can make up his bill of lading without delay.
The organization commander or organization quartermaster
must also submit a list giving the names of owners of au-
thorized private horses, the number owned by each, and also
the Humber of horses in excess of the authorized number, if
any.
Suggestions as to numbering property
184. The following system will greatly simplify the mak-
ing up the shipping invoices by the officer and the bill of
lading by the quartermaster. Do not begin to number con-
tainers until everything is packed. Then put all the boxes
in one place, all barrels in another, and pursue the same
practice with other parcels, and number. All containers of
the same kind will then have consecutive numbers. Then
make up shipping invoice in the following manner.
Nos. 1 to 60 Sixty boxes company property Wt. ,
cu. ft. .
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Nos. 61 to 75 Fifteen crates company property Wt. -,
cu. ft. .
Nos. 75 to 80 Five bundles clothing, etc., company prop-
erty, etc., Wt.- -, cu. ft.- .
If shipping invoices are made up in this way, it makes
much less work for all concerned. The number of cubic feet
is necessary only for over-sea shipment.
Trunk lockers
185. Lockers are classed as checkable baggage and are
carried free. They must be loaded in baggage car or in box~
car assigned as baggage cars. Baggage should not be loaded
in cars with other freight. Checkable baggage not exceeding
150 pounds per passenger is carried free by the railroads, and
therefore the weight should not be included with weight of
other baggage. %
Lists of personnel
186. The quartermaster of the entire command should sub-
mit a list to the shipping quartermaster on Q. M. C. Form
469, giving the following information for each section.
(1) Number of officers (including medical officers.}
(2) Number of enlisted men (including Hospital Corps
and Quartermaster Corps men.)
(3) Number of civilians traveling on government trans-
portation.
(4) Number of animals.
(5) Number of stock attendants.
Attendants for live stock
187. The number of attendants for animals is placed on
the bill of lading, and, therefore, should not be included in
the number called for on the transportation request. If this
is not carefully looked after, the government will be paying
double fares for these attendants.
Loading the impedimenta
188. The impedimenta, baggage, and rations should be so
loaded that no difficulty will be had in unloading and separat-
ing them and distributing them to the proper owners. The
same noncommissioned officers who superintend the loading
should be assigned the same duty in unloading. All such
property, except the light hand baggage of officers and blanket
roll of enlisted men, should be placed in the cars prior to
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entraining the troops, leaving nothing to go into the passenger
coaches and sleepers except that which will be carried on the
hacks of the men and in the hand, so that as the troops are
detrained the coaches will be left entirely free of any form of
impedimenta, and can at once be taken away by the railroad
company. The property and baggage of each company will
be stored separately as far as possible. Every article of bag-
gage and property should be plainly marked or labeled. It is
not practicable to furnish checks t for this class of property.
The travel rations for the journey, unless distributed to the
troops, should be placed in an open end baggage or freight
car, next the leading coach.
Loading vehicles set up
189. The most suitable car for lading vehicles, shipped on
their own wheels, of all kinds (except motor vehicles), in-
cluding Artillery, Engineer and Signal Corps organizations is
the 36 foot, drop-end, gondola (coal) car. Where there are
a large number of vehicles to load, the entire number of cars
necessary can be placed at one time, coupled together, a ramp
placed at the end of the string of cars and the vehicles run
on the end car and pushed to the other end of the line of
cars until all are loaded. After the loading is completed,
2x4 scantlings should be spike to the floor, outside of the
wheels, to prevent lateral movements. Chocks, at least three
inches high and of sufficient width, or suitable skids, should
be spiked in place in front and in the rear of the wheels to
prevent longitudinal movements. Five inch spikes, or 40
penny nails, should be used for the nailing. The drop-ends
should be raised and secured. If drop-end gondolas cannot
be secured, the solid and gondola will not answer the purpose
but an equal number of 36 foot flat cars should be substituted
in lieu of the drop-end gondolas. These should be loaded as
outlined above and, after the loading is completed, should be
chocked and blocked as described above. A further pre-
caution may be taken to prevent shifting by using gunny
sacks, doubling them twice, and passing over the felloe next
the floor and spiking down on each side.
Loading field artillery
190. Field Artillery is loaded by the organizations them-
selves, the 36-ft. gondola or flat car being used. Six of such
cars are required for the transportation of the carriages of
a Battery on a war footing and five for a battery on a peace-
footing.
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Cars 1, 2, 3, and 4 each carry a gun section complete and 1
extra caisson with its limber.
Cars 5 and 6 each carry two caissons and limbers, and
either the store wagon or battery wagon with its limber.
If there are but eight caissons only five cars are required,
the fifth car carrying only the store and battery wagons with
their limbers.
If cars of from 38 to 42 feet in length are used, an extra
carriage with its limber may be loaded on each car carrying a
gun section.
Field wagons and reel carts should be placed end to and,
three to a car, wheels chocked, the poles of wagons being de-
tached, if necessary, and reel carts unlimbered.
Loading engineer and signal corps
191. Engineer and. Signal Corps organizations will also be
loaded on cars by the organizations themselves, gondola or
flat cars being used for the vehicles.
To transport the bridge equipage of engineer organizations
by rail will require the following number of cars :
A division of heavy equipage Ten 40-ft. cars; or thirteen
36-ft. cars ; or five 40-ft. and five 36-ft. cars.
A division of light equipage Seven 40-ft. cars ; or ten 36-
ft cars.
Where mixed lengths of cars are furnished the number^of
cars required may be determined from the table showing
what each car will accommodate :
HEAVY EQUIPAGE.
40 foot cars.
One ponton wagon and one chess wagon, or
One ponton wagon and one tool wagon, or
One trstle wagon and one chess wagon, or
One trestle wagon and one chess wagon, or
Two chess wagons, or
Two tool wagons,. or
One chess wagon and one tool wagon
36 foot cars.
One ponton wagon, or
One trestle wagon, or
Two chess wagons, or
Two tool wagons, or
One chess wagon and one tool wagon
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LIGHT EQUIPAGE.
40 foot cars.
One tool wagon and one trestle wagon, or
One ponton wagon and one chess wagon, or
Two ponton wagons, or
One trestle wagon.-
36 foot cars.
One tool wagon and one chess wagon, of
One trestle wagon, or
One ponton wagon, or
One chess wagon.
Loading ambulances
192. Except for short journeys, ambulances should be
knocked down before loading. Use a flat car 36 feet long
Take the beds off the running gears by unscrewing nuts from
the bolts that hold the sills of the beds to the running gears.
Also take off the rear steps. Six beds can" now be placed on
the car by taking the first bed and placing it in one corner of
the car (its length parallel to the car), the side of the bed
coming out to the stakes, or the places for stakes on side of
car. Place the second bed alongside of the first, allowing it
to slip back 2 inches on account of the sills. Arrange the
other four beds behind the first pair, well closed up; then
put in stout stakes and coyer ambulance tops with paulins
or old canvas, as a protection to the tops from sparks. It
is very important that the nuts should be put back in their
proper places. Secure the water tanks on ambulances, and
place the running gears in a box car and number them cor-
responding to the ambulances, if the ambulances are of dif-
ferent makes. For short journeys take off wheels and rear
steps and unyoke axles from springs. For the axles sub-
stitute a piece of hard wood, which should not be longer
than the width of ambulance. Crate wheels and put inside of
ambulance, bracing same, so there will be no liability of in-
jury to sides.
Loading wagons
193. Remove the beds from the running gears and take off
the rear gates. Get a 36-foot flat car, or even a longer one.
Place the first bed in one corner of the car (its length par-
allel to the car), so that its side will come out to the stakes
or places for stakes on side of car. Take the second bed,
reverse it so that the front end shall be opposite rear end of
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first wagon, turn it bottom up, and place it partly inside and
partly outside of the first bed, the inner sides being close
together. This arrangement forms a box, with closed ends,
which can be filled with parts of the body and running gear.
Place the third and fourth beds, similarly arranged, along-
side of the first and second, and continue the same arrange-
ment to the other end of the car. In this way, 12 beds can
be put in first layer on car.
Arrange the second, third, and fourth layers similarly, and
secure the beds by stout stakes and wire. Forty-eight beds,
with parts, can thus be shipped on one flat car, the running
gears being placed in a box car. Put back all nuts in proper
place. Wagons that have been used should never have the
bodies knocked down and loaded in box cars, because in en-
deavoring to take off the nuts, which are sure to be rusted,
the outside braces and inside straps are twisted and the bolt
ends broken off, rendering the wagons unserviceable. By
loading as above described, no damage is done the bed or
running gear and the wagons are easily set up when destina-
tion is reached. It is not necessary to number the beds, run-
ning gear, etc., except when wagons of different patterns are
shipped. If tunnels are on the line of road or clearance is
limited for any other reason, load only three layers, or 36
wagons on each car.
Loading motor vehicles
194. Automobile cars should be provided if possible, but
whenever impracticable to obtain them motor vehicles may
be loaded on flat cars or coal cars from which one end has
been removed. The best type of automobile car is similar
to a furniture car with a large door at each end. Others are
provided with an extra wide door at side. When not loaded
in box cars they will be securely fastened to prevent shifting
of position and be properly protected by paulins. All loose
and detachable articles must be placed in strong boxes and
securely attached to vehicles or floor of car. Water tanks on
vehicles operated by gasoline or naptha will be emptied when
shipments are made during freezing weather. Gasoline tanks
will be emptied, and batteries of electrically propelled vehicles
discharged, before shipment.
Loading harness and wagon parts
195. The harness is carried in a box car. When sacks are
available, the harness of each pair is sacked, plainly marked,
and stored in the box car. If sacks are not available, the
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wagon cover may be used to wrap the harness pertaining to
a single wagon. Tongues, spare reaches and double-trees
should be placed in wagon bed. The wagon whip, mule
blankets, and small accessories that can not be locked into the
tool and jockey boxes, should be loaded into the harness car.
For long journeys an extra car may be required for forage.
Loading animals
196. Except in hot weather, pack as many animals in the
car as you can, as they will ride better than if loosely packed.
If an animal happens to fall down in the car it will be almost
impossible for it to get up and the probabilities are it will be
trampled to death. For this reason load sick or injured
animals in car by themselves, and build separate stalls for
each animal, if practicable, unless palace cars are furnished.
Before loading, examine car carefully to see that the floor
boards are not rotten or broken, that the sides are secure,
and that there are no projecting nails or splinters. The car
should be clean and the floor covered with sand or sawdust.
The man in charge should be provided with a standard
lantern, bucket, and a hatchet. Where the boards on sides
of car are not close together an animal is liable to get his
hoof between the boards, and when other means fail to dis-
engage it a hatchet is useful in cutting away a part of the
board. Where cars contain hayracks and water troughs, see
that they are in good condition.
"Animals can be conveniently loaded through chutes of
stock yards, or from freight platforms level with the car
floors. In other cases portable or improvised ramps will have
to be used. * * * The loading should proceed without noise
or confusion, the animals being led quietly to the car door
and turned over to the four men, two for each end, who do
the loading. * * * Gentle animals should be placed opposite
the doors, and are therefore loaded last." (F. S. R. 393, 1914).
The ordinary method in loading animals is to use the rail-
road platform, or the loading ramp found at railroad stations,
or, if necessary, make a ramp, well supported and with strong
sides. In the field much time and labor may be saved by
carrying material for ramps ready prepared on the flat cars
with the wagons. Lead the animals by halters and straps up
the ramp in single file and into the car, and take off the halter
straps. The first animal should be led into one end of the
car and the second to the other end, leaving the center of
the car for the last animals loaded. Arrange the animals so
that trie alternate ones shall face in the same direction.
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Teams of mules should be loaded and should stand in the
cars as they are driven together in the team. Mules should
be tagged with numbers, so as to be quickly identified. Horses
used to service together should be loaded together into the
cars. If necessary for indentification, they should be tagged.
Do the loading quietly, and have the animals follow one an-
other promptly, so as to avoid delay, and to keep the animals
moving otherwise they may be disposed to balk. In some
cases it may be necessary to blindfold an animal before he
can be led into the car. An obstinate animal can be made to
enter by holding its head up, twisting its tail, and pushing it
by main force into the car. A rope or strap passed in rear
of the haunches and drawn forward by a man at each end is
often effective in urging an animal along the ramp. Before
loading see- that door on farther side of car is closed and
fastened, and after loading is complete fasten the second door.
In shipments of less than carload lots a barrel of water,
with a block of wood to prevent splashing, should be sup-,
plied.
"On account of danger from fire, neither hay nor straw is
carried in stock cars. A short ration of grain (about 6
pounds) is sufficient to supply animals while traveling by rail."
(F. S. R. 339, 1914).
"Smoking is prohibited in cars loaded with animals or
forage." (F. S. R., 396, 1914).
Animals carried in ordinary stock cars should be unloaded
and exercised as a rule once in twenty-eight hours.
"When the stock cars provided are such that the animals
can be fed and watered on the trains, it is unnecessary to
unload them for exercise or recuperation unless the weather
is very hot and the journey long." (F. S. R. 398, 1914).
When unloading animals, the door should not be opened
until the car is opposite the unloading point.
"Animals are unloaded quietly, each one being led to the
opening so that his body will be athwart the car before leav-
ing it." (F. S. R. 401).
For further information relative to shipments of animals,
see Transportation of Animals, Paragraphs 298 to 321.
Household goods of officers and others
197. All officers and noncommissioned officers shipping
household goods must submit to the shipping quartermaster:
office at the earliest practicable moment an accurate list or
shipping invoice of such property. The household goods
officers and others that accompany troops on a change oi
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station, will, if there is a sufficient quantity to make one or
more carloads, be loaded in separate cars from other property
and be described on bill of lading as "Household Goods."
All the instructions shown under "'Transportation of Baggage,
Household Goods and Personal Effects," paragraphs 322 to
351, are applicable to shipments made in connection with the
movement of troops as well as those made individually.
Issue bills of lading
198. The quartermaster should begin the preparation of
the bills of lading as soon as the necessary preliminary in-
formation is received and they should be completed as rapidly
as possible. One bill of lading may include all the freight
for one section, other than animals, but the better way is
to issue one bill of lading for the vehicles, one for the house-
hold goods, one for guns and one for the impedimenta, of
each section. Care should be taken that bills of lading do
not include cars of two different sections, the bills of lading
must show the car numbers and initials and the property
loaded in, or on, each car in order that it may be checked at
destination. Separate bills of lading for each car of live
stock are advisable for the reasons shown in paragraph 303.
Disposition of transportation request
199. In order to prevent delay in delivering the bills of
lading to the last carrier at destination, they should be handed
to the train quartermaster who should not fail to properly
accomplish and deliver them to the railroad agent at the point
of destination, except that where there is an established
quartermaster at destination, the bills of lading will be turned
over to the latter for accomplishment, together with a state-
ment by the train quartermaster that all property has been
received in good condition, or, if there is any shortage or
damage, with a statement of articles damaged, cause of
damage, and the money value.
Entraining troops
200. The commanding officer of the troops should detail
an officer as entraining officer, to proceed to the point of
entraining in advance of the arrival of the command, to ar-
range, in conjunction with the quartermaster, for the proper
assignment of the cars to the command. The quartermaster
should cause all cars to be marked w r ith chalk, designating the
organization to occupy each, and the number of men for each
car. These marks should be placed on the side of the car
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near the steps. He will furnish each organization with a
written memorandum, showing the number of the train,
number and kind of cars, the direction headed, the point
where located on the tracks, the point for entraining, and the
hour for entraining and dispatch.
The commanding officer, unless he performs this duty in
person, should cause the entraining officer to make a recon-
naissance of the approaches, so that the entraining can take
place without confusion or delay and without interrupting
other traffic.
The troops should be marched to the entraining point, not
more than fifteen minutes before the time fixed for the de-
parture of the train.
If necessary, a guard will be established in the vicinity of
the point of entraining, the necessity of which will be deter-
mined, under direction of the commanding officer, by the staff
officer sent to reconnoiter the route. If a guard is required
about the approaches, it will precede the troops ; and as soon
as the latter are entrained, it will quickly follow.
The entraining officer will, as the command approaches,
indicate to each company commander the car or cars he is
to occupy, and the company commander will march his com-
mand directly aboard, using but one end of the car when he
is to occupy the entire car or a part thereof. The men in the
lead should be directed to proceed at once to their places in
the car, so as not to block the aisles.
The men as soon as entrained will at once be cautioned in
the economical use of water, as few cars are equipped to
furnish more than a meagre supply. A supplementary supply
should be provided by arranging with the railroad company
to place a barrel filled with water on the platform of each
coach. Such provision should be made a part of the agree-
ment.
Commanding officers will be held responsible that no un-
authorized person or baggage is permitted on board the train.
All movements of the troops in loading, entraining, and de-
training, feeding and watering, and exercising men and horses
are made, as a rule, in military formation pursuant to com-
mand, thus avoiding confusion and saving time. (F.S.R. 395,
1914.)
Issuing transportation request
201. When the quartermaster receives the list of personnel
referred to in paragraph 186, he will issue two transportation
requests for each train section, one for the rail transportation
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and the other for the sleeping car transportation, care being
taken that each request includes only the officers and men of
that particular section and that it does not include the at-
tendants for animals, who will be shown on bill of lading.
A quartermaster who provides the transportation for troops
will notify, by mail or telegraph, the quartermasters at places
where changes of route are to be made, or means of trans-
portation are to be changed, of the day on which the troops
will start, their route, destination, the number of officers, en-
listed men, and animals, and the quantity of public property
and baggage for which transportation will be required. (A.
R., 1113, 1913.)
Disposition of transportation requests
202. The transportation request for each section will be
turned over to the quartermaster of that section who should
take a record of the serial number, number of persons, date
and name of quartermaster issuing the transportation re-
quests given to him for both the rail and sleeping car requests.
The train quartermaster will, if possible, arrange with the
conductor, or railroad representative on the train, to take up
the request after the passengers have been counted and veri-
fied, which should be done by the train quartermaster and
conductor, jointly, as early as practicable after the Journey
begins.
If less men on train than called for by transportation re-
quest
203. If it is found that the number of men for whom
tickets should be furnished is less than that called for on the
request, a proper notation to that effect should be made on
the back of the request by the train quartermaster over his
initials before delivery to the railroad representative.
If more men on train than called for by transportation
request
204. In case more men are found on the train than the
transportation request called for or for whom tickets were
obtained, the commanding officer of the train should make out
a certificate in this form and deliver it to the conductor of
the train for both the excess rail and sleeping-car transpor-
tation.
Copy of certificate should be sent to disbursing quarter-
master settling the accounts, or, if his address is not known,
to the shipping quartermaster to be forwarded by him.
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"I certify that .
(Rail or sleeper transportation state class.)
has been furnished by
(State initial carrier or sleeping-car company.)
for .- in addition to the
(Enlisted men or officers.)
called for on Transportation Request No.
(State number.)
issued by
for enroute from
(State command.)
to per
date , 191 .
Commanding.
If tickets are used
205. If the train quartermaster is unable to arrange for the
transportation requests being taken up after departure of the
train, he will present transportation request to station agent
and obtain tickets in such a manner that he can deliver to
the conductor the exact number of tickets for the men on the
train. For example : Supposing the command consisted of
300 and transportation request has been obtained for that
number, the quartermaster of the section should get one rail-
road ticket calling for 290 men and 10 single tickets. The
necessary number of single tickets can be withheld for any
men who fail to get on the train. In case any single tickets
are withheld they should be returned promptly to the shipping
quartermaster in order that he may forward them to the dis-
bursing quartermaster to be deducted from the amount to be
paid on the transportation request.
Train quartermaster should have copy of contract
206. The train quartermaster should obtain from the ship-
ping quartermaster a copy of the contract or agreement to
enable him to know what is required of the railroad enroute.
Should list cars in his train
207. Before leaving the initial point he should make a
careful list of all the freight cars in the train, showing the
car number and the initials of the cars. This for use in case
any cars should go astray. Cars should be verified frequently
enroute.
Coal and ice used in kitchen cars
208. Where a kitchen car is used the quartermaster of the
train must keep an account of the ice used for the preserva-
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tion of stores and coal used for cooking in the car, in order
that he may be in a position to furnish the certificates re-
quired by paragraph 152.
Commander of troops sole intermediary
209. The commander is the sole intermediary between the
troops and the railroad personnel. In cases of deficiencies
and other matters requiring correction, he addresses himself
to the official in charge only (F.S.R. 396).
Action in case of delay en route
210. The commanding officer of ea'ch train section, if there
is any unusual delay enroute, should first take up the matter
with the conductor, or special agent aboard; but if the delay
still continues after a reasonable time has elapsed, he should
communicate by wire with the division superintendent of the
railroad company advising him of the delay and requesting
prompt action, as to forwarding.
Should see that no excess accommodations are used
211. He should bear in mind that the contract, or agree-
ment, with the railroad company is the basis for payment for
the accommodations furnished ; and insofar as the military
passengers aboard are concerned, he should therefore see that
no seats, berths, or other accommodations, in excess of those
authorized by regulations or provided for in the contract or
agreement are used when it can be avoided. He should keep
data regarding such delays enroute and other matters as com-
pel his command to unavoidably use the railway equipment
beyond the scheduled time for arrival, including a reasonable
time for detraining and unloading.
Additional occupancy of sleeping cars
212. If the command arrives at its destination before mid-
night and the sleeping cars are not vacated on arrival, there
will be an extra charge for such additional occupancy of $1.80
for each standard section and $0.90 for each tourist section.
It is therefore important that the command vacate all sleepers
promptly on arrival at destination if hour of arrival is earlier
than midnight. Where the command reaches its destination
after midnight the sleeping cars may be occupied until 7 :00
a. m. without additional charge.
Report of journey
213. Upon completion of the journey, the quartermaster in
charge of each train section should submit a brief report by
letter to the Quartermaster General showing the character of
the service rendered by the railroad companies.
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Unloading in emergencies
214. On account of accidents, freight blockades, or action
of the enemy, it may be necessary -to unload in the open
country. In such cases portable or improvised ramps will
have to be used. Lacking these, the train may be stopped in
a low cut, and cross ties, baled hay, car doors, and turf utilized
for the rapid construction of ramps of sufficient height to
permit unloading of animals. (F.S.R. 402, 1914).
Detraining and unloading
215. The train schedule is arranged, when practicable, for.
arrival at destination by day light. The troops are notified
in time to prepare for detraining. The officers and guard are
the first to leave the cars. The commander meets the staff
officer sent to the train to deliver the instructions of the local
commander, gets his bearing, and orders the troops to detrain.
As soon as the passenger coaches or sleeping cars are empty,
the quartermaster, or a specially designated officer, accom-
panied by the conductor, if practicable, makes an inspection
of the cars and notes their condition ; the result is reported
to the commander. The troops procure their field kits and
march to camp without delay, leaving suitable details to un-
load and bring up the property. If the camp is distant, arms
are^ stacked and a part or all of the command unloads the
train.
TRANSPORTATION OF TROOPS BY COM-
MERCIAL VESSELS
Use of water lines
216. Where steamship lines are in operation between points
of origin and destination, arrangements can often be made
for transportation of troops and their impedimenta at rates
lower than those charged by rail lines and in cases of troop
movements, where haste is not an essential, commercial water
lines should be given consideration. The accommodations for
troops, animals, impedimenta and other freight vary greatly
on different vessels and no general rule can be laid down as
to the use or non-use of such vessels. The local quarter-
master must ascertain whether the facilities of any particular
vessel are sufficient to accommodate the organization for
which transportation is to be furnished.
Arrangements for transportation
217. In contracting, or arranging, for transportation by
commercial vessel the quartermaster must ascertain whether
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the rates quoted by water lines include meals, or meals and
sleeping accommodations, and if the latter whether the men
will be accommodated in state rooms, bunks, or standees, and
this data should be made of record by contract, unless covered
by published tariff.
Transportation requests and bills of lading
218. Transportation requests and bills of lading will be is-
sued for transportation by commercial vessels the same as for
transportation by rail, but transportation requests must show
whether meals, or meals and berths are included.
Transports and chartered vessels
219. For transportation of troops on Army transportation,
or chartered vessels, see Army Transport Regulations.
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TRANSPORTATION OF INDIVIDUALS
Travel not with troops
220. The following instructions travel of individuals or
small parties not traveling as troops. For transportation with
troops see paragraphs 109 and 219.
Paragraph 1281, A. R., defines "traveling with troops" so
far as pertains to officers, but there is no corresponding
definition in the Regulations as to what constitutes "traveling
with troops" in the case of enlisted men, but it has been held
by the Judge Advocate General that: "In order to constitute
'traveling with troops' in the case of enlisted men, the travel
must be performed as an organization under proper command.
Otherwise, the travel should be regarded as 'travel without
troops' within the meaning of paragraph 1128, A. R." (A.G.O.
2323441).
Indorsing transportation order
221. A person requiring transportation will exhibit an
order from competent authority. The quartermaster will in-
dorse on the original order, over his signature, the fact that
transportation has been provided, its kind, the place from and
to which it has been furnished, and the number of pounds of
extra baggage transported, if any. The original order will
be retained by the person who receives the transportation,
and, in case of a soldier entitled to commutation of rations
while traveling, will be disposed of as directed in paragraph
1232. (Par. 1111, A. R. 1913).
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Sleeping and parlor car accommodations
222. The following-named persons, when traveling under
orders, are entitled at public expense to a lower berth in a
standard sleeping car, seat in a parlor car, or to the customary
stateroom accommodations on steamers where extra charge is
made for the same: (1) Officers of the Army when traveling
on duty with troops. (2) Noncommissioned officers above
grade 17, paragraph 9, when traveling on duty without troops.
(3) Army nurses. (4) Civilian employees _ in the military
service, viz., architects, marine engineers, assistant engineers,
chief packer, chief cutter, clerks, civil engineers, draftsmen,
electricians, electrical engineers, examiners, inspectors, station-
ary engineers, stenographers, superintendents of construc-
tion, typewriters, veterinarians, and employees of similar
character. (5) Licensed officers of the transport service and
masters, mates, engineers, assistant engineers, and pilots. (6J
Invalid soldiers when traveling under orders without troops,
on the certificate of a medical officer showing the necessity
therefor. (7) The enlisted attendants accompanying invalid
soldiers are entitled to accommodations equal to those herein
allowed to invalid soldiers.
Sleeping car accommodations for NCO's below grade 16
223. Noncommissioned officers below grade 16, paragraph
9, when traveling under orders without troops, when the
journey exceeds 12 hours and is scheduled to terminate after
midnight, are entitled to a berth in a tourist sleeping car,
upper if available, or to the customary stateroom accommo-
dations on steamers where extra charge is made for the same.
When tourist sleeping car accommodations are not available
and the journey exceeds 12 hours, and is scheduled to termi-
nate after midnight, an upper berth in a standard sleeping
car may be furnished for that portion of the journey for
which tourist sleeping cars are not available.
Enlisted men, other than noncommissioned officers, and
civilians employees in the military service, not specified
above, when traveling under orders without troops, when the
journey exceeds 12 hours, and is scheduled to terminate after
midnight, are entitled to a berth in a tourist sleeping car,
upper if available, but, when the number is three or more,
tourist car accommodations will be furnished on the basis of
three men to a section. Standard sleeping car accommoda-
tions will not be furnished in any instant. (Paragraph 1128,
A. R. 1913).
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Excess space of lower class
224. Persons entitled at public expense to a double berth
in a sleeping car, seat in a parlor car, or to the customary
stateroom accommodations on steamers where extra charge
is made for the same, under the provisions of paragraph 1136,
Army Regulations, as amended by General Orders, No. 194,
War Department, December 3, 1908, are not authorized to
secure from the transportation companies, in lieu thereof,
excess space of a lower class, although no additional cost is
involved. The allowance authorized by paragraph 1136 Army
Regulations, are on a space basis, and persons holding a
Quartermaster's Department transportation request for a
double berth in a standard sleeping car are not authorized to
secure therefor two berths in a tourist sleeping car. (Cir.
35, W. D. 1909).
Erroneous accommodations furnished
If sleeping car accommodations, to which a soldier may not
be entitled, are actually furnished to and used by him the cost
thereof cannot be charged against the soldier (J.A.G. Op.
Bulletin 20, W.D. 1912). The cost of sleeping car transporta-
tion erroneously furnished should be charged to the officer
responsible for furnishing the same. (J.A.G. Op. Bulletin 8,
W.D. 1913).
OFFICERS
Transportation requests for officers on mileage basis
225. Officers who so desire may, upon application to the
Quartermaster Corps, be furnished under their orders trans-
portation requests for the entire journey by land, exclusive
of sleeping and parlor car accommodations, or by water, and
the transportation so furnished shall, if the travel was per-
formed under a mileage status, be a charge against the of-
ficer's mileage account to be deducted at the rate of three
cents per mile by the paymaster paying the account. (P.O. 115
1906).
Officer traveling by sea
226. A transportation request for sea travel on behalf of
an officer traveling without troops on a vessel other than a
Government transport can not be issued by the Quartermaster
Corps in the operation of the laws governing transportation
and mileage. An officer traveling by sea and not on a Govern-
ment transport must pay for his transportation, subject to
subsequent reimbursement by the Quartermaster Corps, for
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the expenses actually incurred by him in the performance of
the journey. (Cir. 93, W.D. 1908).
227. An officer traveling on a mileage status is not entitled
to transportation at public expense of any baggage which may
accompany him on the journey. (A.R. 112, 1913). (See para-
graph 338).
NONCOMMISSIONED OFFICERS ABOVE
GRADE 17
N.C.O.'s above grade 17
228. Noncommissioned officers above grade 17, paragraph
9, Army Regulations, should be furnished second-class trans-
lower berth in standard sleeper, seat in parlor car or state-
room accommodations on steamer, as may be necessary for
their journey. When these accommodations cannot be pro-
cured at the time the journey is to be made, the best avail-
able accommodations should be procured.
NONCOMMISSIONED OFFICERS BELOW
GRADE 16
N.C.O.'s below grade 16
229. Noncommissioned officers below grade 16, paragraph
9, Army Regulations, should be furnished second class trans-
portation, and if the journey exceeds 12 hours and is
scheduled to terminate after midnight, be furnished a berth
in a tourist sleeper, upper if available, or customary state-
room accommodations on steamers. When tourist sleepers
are not available and the journey exceeds 12 hours, and is
scheduled to terminate after midnight, an upper berth in a
standard sleeper will be furnished for that portion of the
journey for which tourist sleeping cars are not available. (See
paragraph 52).
N.C.O. as attendant
230. Under the provisions of paragraph 1128, A. R. 1913,
all noncommissioned officers when traveling under orders
without troops are entitled to sleeping car accommodations.
The fact that a noncommissioned officer is traveling as an
attendant with private horses does not deprive him of his
right to sleeping car accommodations, for return travel. (3736
56 Q.M.G.O. Aug. 26, 1912).
Reserve and discharged N.C.O.'s
231. Particular attention is invited to the fact that in
furnishing transportation to noncommissioned officers on dis-
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charge, or furlough to the reserve, they are entitled only to
the travel allowances shown in paragraph 239, regardless of
the grade they may have held previous to discharge.
ENLISTED MEN ON CHANGE OF STATION
Enlisted men
232. Enlisted men, other than noncommissioned officer,
will be furnished second-class transportation, and if the
journey exceeds 12 hours and- is scheduled to terminate after
midnight, a berth in tourist sleeper will be furnished, upper
if available, but when the number is three or more, tourist
sleeper accommodations will be furnished on basis of three
men to a section, the men in excess of this multiple being
given an upper berth each. Standard sleeping car accommo-
dations must not be furnished in any instances.
233. In travel by water where the journey involves spend-
ing an entire night on the boat, staterooms may be furnished
to enlisted men on basis of the full capacity of the stateroom,
that is, where same contains one double lower and one single
upper berth, three men should be placed in the room ; where
the -staterooms are not available, sufficient sleeping space,
properly curtained off and with mattresses, should be sup-
plied. (Q.M.G.O. 46 6070).
234. For enlisted men and applicants for enlistment travel-
ing under orders without troops, each ticket furnished by the
Quartermaster Corps will usually cover 150 pounds of bag-
gage free. Where this is not the case, as on stage lines, the
Quartermaster Corps will provide for the transportation of
sufficient excess baggage to make a total of free and excess
as follows :
Pounds.
Noncommissioned officers 100
Privates of the Hospital Corps 100
Other privates 50
ENLISTED MEN ON RETIREMENT
Retired enlisted men
235. When an enlisted man of the Army shall have served
as such for 30 years, either in the Arm}-, Navy, or Marine
Corps or in all, he may apply to the Adjutant General of the
Army for retirement, the application to be forwarded directly
by the post commander. Upon the approval of the applica-
tion an order will be issued from the War Department trans-
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ferring him to the retired list and directing that transporta-
tion in kind to his home and commutation of subsistence dur-
ing necessary travel be given to him. (Par. 134, A. R. 1913).
A retired enlisted man will be furnished the same class of
transportation to his home on retirement as specified for his
grade in preceding paragraphs.
Residence retired enlisted man
236. An enlisted man upon retirement cannot select his
residence in a foreign country and receive transportation and
subsistence thereto. To reside abroad a retired enlisted man
must obtain permission from the War Department, which
permission under existing practice is granted for a period of
not to exceed one year, but may be extended for an additional
period upon application made before the year expires. (A.
G. O. 2131750.)
Period during which transportation can be granted
237. A period of one year from date of retirement is fixed
as the time during which transportation may be furnished to
retired enlisted men, but this will not operate to prevent con-
sideration by the War Department of meritorious cases.
(Circ. 33, W. D. 1909.)
ENLISTED MEN ON DISCHARGE OR FURLOUGH
TO THE RESERVE
238. When an enlisted man is discharged from the service,
except by way of punishment for an offense, or is furloughed
to the reserve, he shall be entitled to transportation in kind
and subsistence from the place of his discharge or furlough
to the place of his enlistment, or to such other place within
the continental limits of the United States as he may select,
to which the distance is no greater than that from the place
of discharge or furlough to place of enlistment ; but if the
distance be greater he may be furnished with transportation
in kind and subsistence for a distance equal to that from place
of discharge or furlough to place of enlistment, or in lieu of
such transportation and subsistence, he shall, if he so elects,
receive 2 cents a mile, except for sea travel, from the place
of his discharge to the place of his enlistment : Provided,
that for sea travel on discharge or furlough transportation
and subsistence only shall be furnished to enlisted men : And
provided further, that for the purpose of determining allow-
ances for all travel of enlisted men on discharge or furlough,
travel in the Philippine Archipelago, the Hawaiian Archi-
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pelago, the home Caters of the United States, and between the
United States and Alaska shall not be regarded as sea travel
and shall be paid for at the rates established by law for land
travel within the boundaries of the United States.
Officers furnishing transportation in kind and subsistence
to an enlisted man on discharge or furlough to the reserve
will indorse such fact on his final statement, showing points
between which furnished and cost of subsistence. (Par. 1378
A. R.)
Sleeping car accommodations
239. When discharged soldiers elect to take transportation
in kind and subsistence to place of acceptance for enlistment,
they will be entitled to the following allowances to such place,
viz :
(a) Transportation; second-class if available; if second-
class not available, first-class.
(/;) Sleeping car accommodations: Tourist car berth if
available, and upper berth if practicable; if not, a lower berth
(see paragraph 52). If tourist ear not available, an upper
berth in standard sleeper may be furnished if practicable; if
not, a lower berth. Sleeping car accommodations will only
be furnished where the journey exceeds 12 hours and is
scheduled to terminate after midnight.
Subsistence
(c) Subsistence. When it is impracticable to furnish
rations in kind, they may be commuted at the rate of 50 cents
per meal ($1.50 per day) based upon the time via the official
route.
How distance is determined
240. When discharged soldiers elect to take transportation
in kind and subsistence to a place other than the place of
enlistment, they will be entitled to the allowances shown
above, but care will be taken that the distances from place of
discharge to the place to which transportation is desired,
based on the official route, does not exceed the official distance
from place of discharge to place of enlistment. \Vhen the
distance between these points is shown in the official Table
of Distances published, by the War Department, such distance
will govern. Where distance is not shown in the Official Table
of Distances, the short line distance determined from the
Official Railway Guide or railroad schedules will be used.
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Route
241. Transportation as authorized above may be furnished
over any route, provided the cost does not exceed the cost
over the shorter route in respect to which the official distance
is figured, but subsistence can only be commuted on _the basis
of the time usually consumed in travel via the official route.
Officers issuing transportation to discharged enlisted men
will inform them that subsistence can only be commuted on
the basis of the time of travel via the official route.
Inaccessible places
242. Transportation will not be furnished in kind to places
that are inaccessible by means of common carriers, i. e., rail-
roads, steamboats, and stage lines operating in connection
with other common carriers and over which rates for passage
are published.
Notation of point on request
243. In issuing transportation requests for transportation
arid sleeping car accommodations, issuing officers _ will note
on the back thereof the place of acceptance for enlistment of
the discharged soldier to which he is entitled to transportation
and subsistence under the act of Congress approved August
24, 1912.
Isolated case where there is no disbursing officer
244. An enlisted man entitled to travel allowances on dis-
charge who is stationed at a place where there is no available
officer provided with funds to pay commutation of rations,
or to provide transportation or 2 cents per mile, will be sent
for discharge, sufficiently in advance of the expiration of his
term of enlistment, to a place where there is stationed an
officer provided with funds to adjust his travel allowance or
furnish transportation. The cost of transportation and sub-
sistence in such cases will be a proper charge against public
funds, and the discharge of the enlisted man will be ac-
complished after he reaches the place where his travel allow-
ance can be paid. (See paragraph 158 A. R.)
Travel by water
245. Enlisted men discharged while serving in places out-
side of the States composing the Union will be provided free
transportation to the said States on Government transports
upon direction of the commanding officers in the several locali-
ties, and will be substituted by the Quartermaster Corps to
the port of destination. They will not be entitled to travel
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pay from port of embarkation to the United States, nor to
commutation of rations for the time so subsisted on the trans-
ports. The fact that such transportation and subsistence have
been furnished must be noted on the final statements. In
view of the provisions of paragraph 1378, the foreging is not
to be construed as precluding the furnishing of transportation
at Government expense, via commercial vessels in cases where
the Government maintains no regular transport service be-
tween the localities of discharge and the United States.
Deferred transportation
246. The law fixes no time within which the soldier must
claim his travel allowance in kind, but the Secretary of War
has ruled "( a ) That a re-enlisted man can claim his right to
transportation at any time during his enlistment that a fur-
lough is authorized for him or at the termination of such
enlistment." "() That in case a soldier remains out of the
service, the time limit within which the soldier must claim his
travel allowances in kind is fixed as one year."
Distance, not cost controls
247. Particular attention is called to the fact that the option
given a discharged soldier of transportation and subsistence
in kind to the place other than the place of his enlistment is
one of distance and not of cost, and transportation must not,
therefore, be furnished from the place of discharge to a point
to which the distance is greater, even though the cost may
be less. The Comptroller of the Treasury in a decision of
August 4, 1914, held.
Transportation from point other than place of discharge
not authorized
"(a) That the issuance of transportation from a place
other than the place of a soldier's discharge is not authorized.
(&) That the issuance of transportation to a point to which
the distance is greater than to the place of enlistment is not
authorized."
Order not required
248. The issuance of a post order directing the quarter-
master to furnish transportation in the case of a discharged
enlisted man, who elects to take transportation in kind and
subsistence, is not necessary. Proper indorsement will be
made on final statements.
Soldiers beyond limit of United States
249. A soldier serving in Alaska or outside the continental
limits of the United States who is to be discharged by way
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of punishment, or after confinement, and is a citizen of the
United States, should be sent to the United States sufficiently
in advance of the time of his discharge to enable the discharge
to take effect immediately after arrival. Those from Alaska
should be sent to Fort Lawton, Wash., from Hawaii and the
Philippines to Fort McDowell, Cal., and from the Canal Zone
to Fort Jay, N. Y., or Jackson Barracks, La. If the Govern-
ment maintains no regular transport service between the
United States and the locality where the man has been serv-
ing, he should be sent by commercial line at public expense.
INVALID SOLDIERS AND ATTENDANTS
Invalid soldier and attendant
250. Invalid soldiers, and their attendants, may be fur-
nished first-class transportation and lower berths, each, in
standard sleeper, on the certificate of a medical officer show-
ing the necessity therefor. If this certificate is not furnished,
second-class transportation and lower tourist berth, each, -will
be furnished. Invalid soldiers, and their attendants, should
be forwarded by routes involving the least changes of cars.
INSANE SOLDIERS
Insane soldier and escort
251. An insane soldier ordered by the War Department to
be sent to the Government Hospital for the Insane will be
escorted by a noncommissioned officer. When a number are
sent at one time or when the patient or patients require re-
straint, the department commander may order such addition
to the escort as may be necessary. The noncommissioned
officer will report to the Adjutant General of the Army, by
telegraph, at least 24 hours in advance, the probable time and
place of arrival in Washington. After leaving the patient at
the hospital the noncommissioned officer will report to the
Adjutant General of the Army for further instructions. (Par.
467, A. R.)
Return transportation
On the departure of the patient from his station the com-
manding officer will give such orders to the person in charge
as will provide for transportation of the necessary attendants
to the institution and returning to their posts, also subsistence
during their absence. When payment of commutation, in lieu
of subsistence in kind, is permissible under paragraph 1223,
the commanding officer may, in writing, order commutation
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for the patient to be paid in advance to and receipted for by,
the noncommissioned officer to whose charge the patient is
committed. (Par. 468, A. R.)
Insane soldiers and their attendants should be furnished
second-class transportation and tourist sleeping car accom-
modations. If there are no tourist cars operated over all, or
a part of the route used, first-class transportation and stand-
ard sleeping car accommodations should be furnished. (See
par. 52).
DISCHARGED MILITARY PRISONERS
252. The authority for the transportation of military
prisoners on discharge is carried in the Annual Army Appro-
priation Acts in a clause reading :
"for transportation * * * of persons on their discharge
from the United States military prison or from any place in
which they have been held under a sentence of dishonorable
discharge and confinement for more than six months, or from
the Government Hospital for the Insane after transfer thereto
from such prison or place, to their homes (or elsewhere as
they may elect), provided the cost in each case shall not be
greater than to the place of last enlistment."
Cost not distance governs
253. It will be noted that the option here given is one of
cost, and not of distance. The Judge Advocate General has
also held :
"the legislative provision here under consideration should
be construed as authorizing the transportation of a released
general prisoner to the place of his last enlistment, or else-
where within the same transportation cost limit, only when
he shall have been confined for more than sir months under a
sentence of dishonorable discharge and confinement."
Determine cost
254. The. quartermaster furnishing transportation for this
class of travel, should ascertain, sufficiently in advance, the
point to which the man desires to go on discharge and the
place of his last enlistment, and communicate with the officer
settling transportation accounts from his territory (see par.
106), in order to determine whether transportation desired will
be within the limitation of cost.
No sleeping accommodations
255. Discharged prisoners will be furnished second-class
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rail, or steamer transportation and will not be furnished sleep-
ing car accommodations of any character.
ENLISTED MEN ON FURLOUGH OR ABSENT
WITHOUT LEAVE
256. When an enlisted man who is absent on furlough or
absent without leave from his station and is without means to
return thereto reports at a station that is under the control
of a department commander, such department commander is
authorized to furnish necessary transportation and subsistence
for the return of the soldier to his proper station after satisfy-
ing himself that the soldier can be intrusted therewith, or in
the case of absence without leave, to return him under guard
if necessary. In the case of an enlisted man reporting under
similar circumstances at a place excepted by regulations from
the control of a department commander, a request for orders
concerning the disposal of such enlisted man will be addressed
by the commanding officer of such an excepted place directly
to the Adjutant General of the Army, by whom the necessary
orders will be issued.
Charge for transportation and subsistence
257. The company commander will charge the cost of such
transportation and subsistence against the soldier's pay on the
next pay roll, in accordance with -paragraphs 1111 and 1236.
In case of a soldier absent on furlough, the date on which he
reports at the station will be entered on the furlough, (Par.
110, A. R.)
Method of reporting to commanding officer
258. When transportation is issued to a soldier under con-
ditions which require that the whole or any part of the cost
of such transportation is to be charged against the soldier,
the officer issuing the transportation will report, by letter, in
duplicate, to the soldier's immediate commander through the
disbursing officers who are designated to pay the accounts for
rail, sleeping car or steamer transportation, giving the name,
rank and organization of the soldier, the serial number of
transportation requests issued, together with any other ex-
penditures that may have been incurred which should be
charged against the soldier. The, disbursing officers will for-
ward these letters to the soldier's immediate commander, in-
dorsing thereon the actual amount that will be paid for rail,
sleeping car, or steamer transportation. On receipt of this
information, the commanding officer will enter the charge
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against the soldier and return one copy of the letter immedi-
ately to the disbursing officer from whom received stating
thereon, by indorsement, the month and year of the pay rolls
on which the charge has been or will be made. When trans-
portation is issued under the provisions of paragraphs 110 or
127, the officer issuing the request will ' take the action out-
lined above and in the case of a soldier on furlough will enter
on the furlough a statement showing the transportation that
has been furnished.
Enlisted men on furlough
259. Enlisted men on furlough, or absent without leave,
will, under the conditions shown above, be furnished the
transportation authorized for their grade, as shown in para-
graphs 228 to 233. The quartermaster, furnishing the trans-
portation will, as directed above, notify the soldier's immediate
commander, by letter. This letter will be made in triplicate
and will show all expenses that are to be paid by the soldier,
together with the serial number of all transportation requests
issued for the journey. One copy will be .retained by the
issuing officer and the other two forwarded to the soldier's
commander, through the disbursing officer designated to settle
the account for rail (or steamer) transportation (see par.
106), the latter officer will insert on each copy of letter the
actual amount that will be paid for rail (or steamer), trans-
portation, and if there be sleeping car charges involved that
are not settled by him, will forward the letter to the officer
designated to settle such accounts, who will insert the actual
amount that will be paid for sleeping car accommodations and
forward to the soldier's commanding officer. The command-
ing officer should charge the total of amounts shown on letter
against the soldier, retaining one copy of the letter as authority
for the charge and returning the other copy, through the same
channels as received, to the officer designated to settle the
account for rail (or steamer) transportation, who will attach
this copy to his voucher covering the transportation charges.
Change of station while soldier is on furlough
260. When the station of an enlisted man is changed while,
he is on furlough, he will, on joining his new station, be
entitled to travel allowances for the excess of distance from
the place of receipt of the order to the new station over the
distance to his old station. A soldier who has returned to
the station from which furloughed, his company having
changed station during his absence, is entitled to transporta-
tion at the expense of the Government from the old to the
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new station of his company. Charges for transportation fur-
nished to enlisted men on furlough, in pursuance of paragraph
110, will be adjusted in accordance with the requirements of
this regulation. (Par. 112, A. R.)
261. When a furloughed soldier reports at a post or other
station for transportation (his station having been changed
while he is on leave), and costs of transportation to his new
station is not in excess of the amount that it would have cost
him to return to his old station, the total cost of transporta-
tion to the hew station should be charged against the soldier.
DESERTERS AND GUARD
262. Where proper orders are issued transportation for
deserters and guards will be furnished in accordance with the
provisions of paragraph 127, A. R. The same action will be
taken as outlined in the case of furloughed soldiers in pre-
ceding paragraphs.
RECRUITS
263. Recruits forwarded to organizations are entitled to
the same travel accommodations as those given enlisted men
on change of station as shown in paragraphs 232 and 233.
APPLICANTS FOR ENLISTMENT AND REJECTED
APPLICANTS
264. The Quartermaster Corps will furnish transportation
to accepted applicants for enlistment from general recruiting
stations to designated recruiting depots (including recruit
depot posts) and return transportation to such of the appli-
cants as are rejected on final examination (A. R. 1115, 1913).
Applicants for enlistment and rejected applicants shown
above should be furnished second-class rail (or steamer)
transportation requests and will not be furnished sleeping car
accommodations of any character.
CIVILIAN EMPLOYEES
265. Civilian employees shown under classes 4 and 5, para-
graph 222 should be furnished first-class transportation, lower
berth in standard sleeper, seat in parlor car or stateroom ac-
commodations on steamer, as may be necessary' for their
journey. Mechanics, laborers, teamsters and employees of
similar character, will be furnished the same class of trans-
portation as provided for enlisted men, paragraphs 232 and
233.
The provisions of Army Regulations, paragraph 112, apply
in the case of civilian employees whose stations are changed
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while on leave, or who take advantage of leave while under
orders to change station. (A.G.O. 2365525,).
ARMY NURSES
266. Army nurses should be furnished first-class trans-
portation, lower berth in standard sleeper, seat in parlor car
or stateroom accommodations on steamer as may be neces-
^ary for their journey.
2(F?. Transportation for 250 pounds of baggage, including
150 pounds usually carried free "bv railroads, is authorized
for Army nurses when the}- join for duty under the first
order, upon permanent change of station, and on return to
their homes upon annulment of contract. Receipts covering
an excess of baggage will contain certificates as to -whether
transportation for such excess has been furnished. (Par.
1123, A. R. 1913.)
WITNESSES
268. Officers and enlisted men reporting as witnesses before
a civil court should receive from, the civil authorities the
necessary expenses incurred in travel and attendance ; neither
mileage nor travel allowance will be paid in such cases by the
War Department. If, however, it is absolutely necessary to
furnish them transportation in kind to enable them to appear,
as witnesses for the Government, before a civil court of the
United States, an account of such expenditure, together with
the evidence that they were properly subpoened and did attend
the court, will be forwarded to the War Department for
presentation to the Department of Jnstice. Officers providing
such transportation will notify the marshal of the court that
it was furnished, specifying points between which furnished,
whether one way or round trip, and that it was furnished to
enable the witnesses to perform the requisite journeys in
obedience to the summons. (A. R. 75, 1913.)
Transportation requests issued under above authorit}' will
be indorsed : "Payable by Department of Justice."
TRANSPORTATION TO THE SOLDIERS' HOME
269. Transportation to the Soldiers' Home will not be fur-
nished except by authority of the War Department, on the
application of the board of commissioners. The account will
be presented by the carrier to the disbursing officer of the
Quartermaster Corps that pays such accounts, by whom it
will be properly stated and certified. It will then be receipted
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by the carrier and forwarded by the disbursing officer to the
treasurer, United States Soldiers' Home, Washington, D. C,
for payment from funds pertaining to the Soldiers' Home.
(A. R." 180, 1913).
A soldier furnished transportation to the Soldiers' Home
under authority outlined above, will be given accommodations
specified for his gra.de under paragraphs 228 to 233. Trans-
portation requests will be indorsed: ''Payable by Treasurer,
U. S. Soldiers' Home," and will show reference to authority
for the transportation.
TRANSPORTATION FOR PURPOSE OF PROCUR-
ING ARTIFICIAL LIMBS
270. Necessary transportation, including sleeping car ac-
commodations, required for travel to place where artificial
limbs may be fitted, will be furnished by the Quartermaster
Corps, the cost to be refunded from any money appropriated
for the purchase of artificial limbs. (A. R. 1491, 1913.)
Transportation and sleeping car accommodations for above
purpose will be furnished on request of the Surgeon General
of the Army. Transportation requests will be indorsed:
"Payable from appropriation for Artificial Limbs."
TRANSPORTATION FOR OTHER DEPARTMENTS
271. Transportation requests for travel of officers or em-
ployees of any Department or Bureau of the Government
other than the War Department, will only be issued upon
specific authority of the Quartermaster General which will
state the class of transportation to be furnished. (See par.
40.)
TRANSPORTATION OF SUPPLIES AND
PROPERTY
SUPPLIES FOR THE ARMY
Invoicing Q. M. stores for shipment
272. Every shipment involving a transfer of quartermaster
supplies must be covered by an invoice to correspond exactly
to the supplies transferred, and will be forwarded the same
date the property is shipped. In no case will invoices be held
and consolidated with a view of making out one set of in-
voices to cover several shipments.
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All box, crate and package numbers will be carefully and
plainly noted on the invoices.
Every invoice must be given a number, which invoice num-
ber will be placed on every barrel, box, crate or bundle
covered by the invoice.
The transfer of property to an officer usually involves its
shipment to another station. In this case invoices and receipts
should be forwarded with the property or by mail not later
than the date of shipment. Date of shipment should be noted
on invoices.
Invoicing ordnance stores for shipment
273. When ordnance stores are turned over to the Quarter-
master Corps for transportation they will be accompanied by
triplicate invoices, one of which will be receipted and returned
by the shipping quartermaster to the invoicing officer. Dupli-
cate invoices with duplicate receipts to be signed by the re-
ceiving officer, and a shipping list describing the contents of
each box or package, will be sent direct to the receiving
officer by mail, to reach him, if practicable, before the receipts
of the stores. Materials procured for current use at ordnance
establishments will be transported at the expense of the
Ordnance Department. (A. R. 1548, 1913.)
Packing
274. Quartermasters will, prior to shipment, securely pack,
seal, and if practicable weigh all quartermaster's supplies.
Standard packing boxes
275. The following instructions prescribing standard pack-
ing boxes for shipment of quartermaster supplies between
depots, posts and stations, and from depots, posts, or stations
to troops in the field are published for the information and
guidance of all concerned :
Packing boxes, 38 by 19 by 15 inches outside measurement,
meet nearly all requirements for escort wagons, motor truck,
pack animal, or water transport, and accordingly all quarter-
master supplies intended for field service will, when practic-
able, be packed in boxes of such dimensions, constructed of
suitable light but durable material (ordinarily not exceeding
Yz inch sides and 1 inch ends), and bound around ends and
center when necessary with suitable hoop in iron or wire,
weight not to exceed 150 pounds gross.
Sacking and baling
278. Sacking or baling will be substituted for boxes when-
ever practicable, and when necessary to use smaller boxes
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same should be exact subdivisions of corresponding dimen-
sions of the standard box.
By reducing the number of articles the standard size and
gross weight limit of box adapts itself J:o most quartermaster
supplies.
Exception to standard sizes
277. (a) In exceptional cases where conformity to the
standard weight limit would destroy the unity of equipment
and separate component parts, the loss of any one of which
would render the others useless, the gross weight of the stand-
ard size box may exceed 150 pounds.
(b) In exceptional cases, where supplies are now packed
in boxes or bales of less than 150 pounds gross weight, and
the dimensions of which, determined by the nature of the
supplies and the number of units necessarily carried, are
within the standard dimensions, same may be packed as here-
tofore.
(c) In other exceptional cases the height of the standard
box may be slightly varied, the length and breadth being
adhered to.
278. Subsistence stores. Unless otherwise directed, sub-
sistence stores will, when practicable, be shipped in containers
in which received or containers of similar dimensions. The
weight of any one box of subsistence stores prepared for
shipment to posts should not exceed 100 pounds gross. The
gross weight or barrels may, however, exceed 100 pounds.
279. These instructions are not to be construed as pro-
hibiting the use by supply depots of crates of suitable dimen-
sions in the shipment of tentage and other supplies which ex-
perience has shown can be more advantageously and economic-
ally transported in that form of container (G. O. 10, W. D.
1914).
Fibre board boxes
280. Fibre board packing boxes will be 28 x 19 x 13
inches outside measurements, this size completely fills the
space in escort wagon bodies when properly loaded. They
will be of solid fibre board, not less than .100 inch in thickness,
waterproof, each case bearing on one end the certificate of
the maker showing that it conforms to the requirements of
the rules of the Southern, Western and Official Classifications,
the gross weight of any box being limited to 90 pounds.
281. With a view to economy in the cost of packing cloth-
ing and uniformity in material and methods, all goods, whether
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for shipment to points in the United States, the Philippines,
Cuba, Porto Rico, or elsewhere,' shall be packed in boxes or
cases, using "interlining" paper and one thickness of manila
paper, the latter to be between the "interlining" paper and the
goods. The manila paper prevents the possible discoloration
of the goods by the "interlining" paper.
The "interlining" paper being more or. less waterprooof,
helps to exclude moisture from the contents, and in case of
shipments to tropical countries may prevent the ravages of
white ants.
Care should be taken that the paper wrappings be smooth
and make a perfect covering for the contents of the box.
In addition to the above, when woolen goods are* packed the
bottom, sides, and top of the bulk of the contents should be
sprinkled with naphthaline. The sprinkling of naphthaline
through the layers of the bulk is unnecessary, as it has no
deterrent effect upon the eggs of the moth. (Cir. 7, Q. M.
G. O., 1908.)
Responsibility
282. An officer who turns over supplies to another for
transportation in the best condition in which it is possible to
put them is relieved from any further responsibility therefor
by the receipt of the officer to whom they are intrusted for
transportation. Procedure in case of loss, damage, or de-
ficiency found on arrival at destination will be as prescribed
in paragraphs 425 to 428 hereof. (A. R. 1141, 1913.)
Marking
283. Each package (box, crate, bundle, or loose piece) of
property shipped on Government bill of lading must be plainly,
legibly and durably, marked as follows :
When consigned to a place of which there are two or more
of the same name in the same state, the name of the place and
of the County also must be shown. When consigned to a
place not located on the line of a carrier, it must also be
marked with the name of the station of the last carrier at
which the consignee will accept delivery. If labels are used,
they must be securely attached with glue or equally good ad-
hesive. If tags are used, they must be sufficiently strong and
durable to withstand the wear and tear incident to transporta-
tion ; and, when tied to a package of any kind, must be
securely attached through a reinforced eyelet. Tags used to
mark wooden pieces or wooden containers must be fastened
at all corners and center with large headed tacks or tag
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fasteners; or may be tied to wooden pieces when the freight
would be injured by the use *of tacks or tag fasteners. Tags
tied to bags, bales, bundles or pieces must be securely attached
by strong cord or wire, except that when tied to bundles or
pieces of metal, they must be securely attached by a strong
wire or strong tarred cord. Old consignment marks must be
removed or effected. (From Standard Rules and Conditions
of Freight Classification, adopted by U. S. Railroads.)
Stencil plates
284. For marking property for shipment, a complete set of
stencil plates consists of two full alphabets, Roman capitals
(including 'the usual mark for "and"), and two series of
numbers from 1 to 0. One set of numbers and letters is 1
inch, the other ^ inch high. They are cut on plates of sheet
brass, No. 28, the larger 2)4 by 2 inches; the smaller 1^4
by \]/2 inches. The upper edge of each plate is turned us so
as to form a rim about l / 2 inch high. These plates are issued
in japanned tin boxes, 8 l / 2 inches long, 4 inches wide, and 1^4
inches high, with hinged lids. Each box contains, besides the
full set of stencils, a cake of marking paste in a tin box, a
sponge, and a stencil brush. Printed directions for the use
of the latter materials are attached to the inside of the lid.
The requirements herein as to the use of stencil plate sets
do not apply to supply depots and other points equipped with
stencil cutting machines.
Marking household goods
285. In changing station, each package of authorized allow-
ance of baggage (household effects or other articles entitled
to transportation at Government expense) referred to in A. R.
1135 of 1913, should be marked, by the quartermaster, with
its number, weight, owner's name, station to which shipped,
and quartermaster in whose care shipped, if any.
The numbers on the packages belonging to an officer, en-
listed man, employee, or organization, which are received by
a quartermaster and immediately reshipped or are kept in
storage by him and subsequently reshipped, should not be
changed, as the old numbers may be necessary, or at least of
great convenience, to the owners of the property in identify-
ing certain packages.
"Officers turning over public property to a quartermaster
for shipment will mark each package with the name and ad-
dress of consignee, a list of .its ''contents, its weight and
'U. S.'" (A. R. 1140, 1913.) The numbering of packages is
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ordinarily done by the officer turning over the property for
shipment
Marking quartermaster supplies
286. Quartermaster supplies for shipment between depots,
posts and stations, and from depots to troops in the field, will
have the U. S. number, weight, name of consignee and ad-
dress, and number of 'the invoice covering shipment marked
on top surface of each package ; and on one end, contents and
name of seller or contractor, or, if packed or repacked by
Quartermaster Corps, date packed and initials of packers;
and, when practicable, the insignia of the Quartermaster
Corps will be stamped on both ends of each package, and in
addition, to readily distinguish subsistence stores, a crescent
3 inches in height and two inches in width will be stamped
in red or other conspicuous color on both ends of all pack-
ages containing subsistence stores. If it is impracticable to
mark the contents of the package with stencil or brush, they
will be listed on heavy paper by use of typewriter, or pen,
the list being attached by means of tacks or paste and then
given a light coat of varnish to prevent obliteration by rain
or moisture.
Packages of Quartermaster supplies should, so far as prac-
ticable, bear consecutive numbers, to be preceded or followed
by the numbers given to packages of other property shipped
at the same time.
In cases of reshipment of property, packages will be re-
marked, if necessary, by the officer required to reship them.
For oversea shipments, except from New York City to
Hawaii, each package should be marked to show its number
of cubic feet, or decimals thereof.
In connection with the marks showing consignee and final
destination, shipments to Alaska should be marked care depot
quartermaster, Seattle; those to Porto Rico or Panama Canal
Zone, care depot quartermaster at the port through which
shipments are to pass; and those to Hawaii or the Philippine
Islands, care of depot quartermaster, New York City, San
Francisco, or Seattle, as the case may be. See, also, Routing
Circular, No. 16, O.Q.M.G., 1915.
The foregoing instructions do not apply to shipments of
grain in sacks, or bales of hay or straw, in carload lots for
delivery to one consignee at one station.
Marking funds
287. When funds for the payment of troops are to be sent
by express, the package prepared for shipment as directed in
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A.R. 1322 of 1913 will be marked on the outside with the
name and address of the post or other command and the
names of the subordinate organizations for which pay is
therein remitted, and the quartermaster will append thereto
his signature, for specimen marking, see Pay Manual.
Marking ordnance property
288. In preparing Ordnance property for shipment, the
name of the invoicing officer, or of the arsenal or depot, the
date of the invoice, the number, gross weight, and general
contents of each box or package, and the name or designation
of the receiving officer, will be distinctly marked thereon prior
to delivery for shipment. Each quartermaster who ships or
receives ordnance stores will satisfy himself that the seals on
the packages are unbroken. If the seals should be broken
and any stores lost, he will cause the value of the lost stores
to be charged to the carrier. (A.R. 1547, 1913).
Carding carload shipments
289. A series of cards has been prepared covering the vari-
ous classes of supplies usually shipped. . These cards are 8 by
5 inches and are of distinctive colors indicating the bureau to
whom the supplies belong, those for the Quartermaster Corps
also having a band across the middle indicating the particular
class of supplies.
The form numbers of these cards with the color and de-
scription are as follows :
Q.M.C. Form 475 (maroon) Medical Supplies.
Q.M.C. Form 476 (orange), Signal Supplies.
Q.M.C. Form 477 (scarlet), Engineer Supplies.
Q.M.C. Form 478 (buff with green band) Q.M. Supplies
subsistence.
Q.M.C. Form 479 (buff with blue band), Q.M. Supplies-
forage.
Q.M.C. Form 480 (buff with red band), Q.M. Supplies-
clothing and equipage.
Q.M.C Form 481 (buff with white band), Q.M. Supplies-
general.
Q.M.C. Form 482 (white), Ordnance and Ordnance Stores.
For use of railroad employees in tracing or expediting
movements of cars, the next supply of these cards that are
printed will also have alarge numeral (1 to 8) placed in up-
ner right hand corner, so that any particular class of supplies
in carloads can be readily located en route and given prefer-
ence if desired.
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Supply of these cards will be furnished all depots and ar-
senals. One card should be placed on each side of every
carload shipment, properly filled in and securely tacked to
the car door. Future supplies needed will be secured by
requisition in the usual manner. (Cir. 4, Q.M.G.O., 1916).
Express shipments
290. Transportation by express, when in excess of cost by
ordinary freight, must be limited to emergencies and ship-
ments of delicate instruments, and vouchers in payment must
show the erjiergency or the character of the instruments
transported and authority for such transportation. Upon ap-
plication approved by the department commander, a quarter-
master may transport public funds by express. In such cases
he will receipt only for so many sealed packages said to con-
tain so much public money. When an absent disbursing
officer sends his check to the order of the quartermaster, re-
questing him to express the amount named therein, the latter
will receipt for the actual amount to be transported. In case
of loss of funds by unavoidable accident the shipping officer
will not be held responsible, and the officer accountable for
the funds must seek relief through application to the Court
of Claims or to Congress. (A.R. 1142, 1913).
Express small packages
291. Under existing instructions, shipping quartermasters
are authorized to forward small packages by express without
obtaining authority therefor in advance when the express
charges are less than the cost of shipment by ordinary freight.
Shipping quartermaster are authorized, in figuring the com-
parative cost of shipment by express as compared with the
cost by ordinary freight, to include in the estimated cost of
shipment by freight a charge of 25 cents for hauling, and
should the cost of expressage be less than the cost by ordi-
nary "freight so figured, shipment may be made by express, as
the express companies make delivery at point where required
without an additional charge for hauling. (218498 Q.M.G.O.
Sept. 28, 1906).
Express delicate instruments; officers* papers
292. Authority is hereby given to officers of the Quarter-
master Corps to ship by express, when called upon to furnish
such transportation, delicate instruments and such other public
property of small weight or dimensions as is likely to be
damaged or lost when shipped by ordinary freight ; also an
officer's official papers, accounts, and returns, to Chief of
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Bureau, Washington, District of Columbia, when too bulky
to be forwarded by mail.
This authority will not be extended to shipments of
property .other than that herein specified or authorized by ex-
isting regulations without the sanction of the Quartermaster
General, nor will it in any instance cover shipments to secure
quick delivery which becomes necessary owing to delay in
making timely requisitions. (Circ. 28, Q.M.G.O., 1905).
Voltmeters of all types, ammeters, electrical instruments
cases, time interval clocks, mercurial barometers, and all other
electrical apparatus of delicate construction wjiich are sus-
ceptible to injury by rough handling in shipment will in every
instance be shipped by express. (G.O. 86, W.D., 1912).
Express, insurance
293. The insurance of public money or property is pro-
hibited by A.R. 596, 1913. This regulation prohibits any
reference to the value of packages shipped by express, ex-
cept that in shipment of moneys the amount should be shown.
Express; authority to be shown
294. In cases where special authority is obtained to make
shipment by express, copy of authority will be attached to
bill of lading. (187577 Q.M.G.O., May 5, 1903).
Express; letters or packages that can be sent by mail
295. The use of freight or express lines for transmitting
official letters or packages that can be sent by mail is for-
bidden. (A.R. 838, 1913).
Parcel post shipments
296. Packages of public property partaking of the charac-
teristics of 4th class mail matter, weighing not more than 11
pounds and not greater in size than 72 inches, in length and
girth combined, may be sent through the mails under cover
of the penalty envelope. Within the first and second 'parcel
post zones the weight may be 20 pounds or less. Penalty
envelopes with return address may be furnished to any person
from whom official information is desired, but will not be
furnished to merchants or other dealers to cover the trans-
mission of public property, or the return of official vouchers.
(A.R. 837, 1913).
Vehicles
297. For instructions as to shipment of vehicles, see para-
graphs 189 to 194.
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TRANSPORTATION OF ANIMALS
State sanitary requirements
298. The following arc the State sanitary requirements
governing the admission of horses and mules :
ALABAMA : Health certificate, and if exposed to glanders,
mallein test chart must accompany same. Designate each
animal as mare, gelding, stallion, horse mule or mare mule.
No ticky horses or mules shall be brought into Alabama.
ARIZONA : Health certificate, perf erably including mallein
test.
ARKANSAS AND CALIFORNIA: Health certificate.
COLORADO : Health certificate, including mallein test.
CONNECTICUT, DELAWARE, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, FLORIDA
and GEORGIA: None.
HAWAII AND IDAHOS Health certificate, including mallein
test chart.
ILLINOIS : None.
INDIANA : Certificate of soundness for stallions along with
affidavit showing them to be free from contagious, infectious,
or communicable diseases.
IOWA AND KANSAS : Health certificate, including mallein
test.
KENTUCKY : Health certificate issued within four days
prior to date of shipment showing animals to be free from
contagious and infectious diseases communicable to man.
LOUISIANA : Health certificate showing freedom from all
contagious, infectious, and communicable diseases.
MAINE: Any person or persons bringing horses or mules
into the State must have a permit and shall notify the live-
stock sanitary commissioner," Waterville, Maine, within 48
hours after their arrival, who shall at once cause the same to
be examined either by a physical examination or to be tested*
with mallein, or the blood test used, at the expense of the
owner, and if an animal is found to be glandered no com-
pensation shall be allowed.
MARYLANDS Health certificate.
MASSACHUSETTS AND MICHIGAN : None.
MINNESOTA : All branded horses, or mules imported into
the State must be accompanied by a health certificate, includ-
ing mallein test, certifying that animals have been examined
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and mallein tested within 30 days prior to date of shipment
and found free from glanders.
MISSISSIPPI : Health certificate.
MISSOURI : Health certificate showing freedom from all
contagious, infectious or communicable diseases.
MONTANA : Health certificate, including mallein test.
NEBRASKA : Health certificate.
NEVADA : Health certificate, including mallein-test certifi-
cate. Physical examination of stallions for dourine. Certifi-
cate and record of mallein test mailed to State Quarantine
Board, veterinary division, University of Nevada, Reno,
Nevada, on date of shipment.
NEW HAMPSHIRE AND NEW JERSEY : None.
NEW MEXICO: Health certificate.
NEW YORK: Must be free from contagious or infectious
disease.
NORTH CAROLINA: Health certificate when horses are for
breeding purposes.
NORTH DAKOTA : Health certificate, including mallein test
made within 30 days prior to entry into State. Certificate for
stallions should, in addition, show the animals free from in-
fectious; contagious or transmissible diseases or unsoundness.
OHIO: None.
OKLAHOMA : Health certificate, stating particularly that
stock is free from ticks .
OREGON : Health certificate including the mallein, comple-
ment-fixtation, or other officially accepted test.
PENNSYLVANIA: Must be free from transmissible diseases.
RHODE ISLAND : None.
SOUTH CAROLINA : Health certificate. Mallein test of any
exposed animals.
TENNESSEE: Must be free from equine scabies, Texas
fever ticks, glanders, or other contagious, infectious, or
communicable diseases. Horses and mules originating in a
quarantined area, quarantined on account of existance of
Southern, splenic or Texas fever outside of the State of
Tennessee, shall not at any time be transported, driven, or al-
lowed to drift there from into any portion of Tennessee, un-
less they are dipped in a standard arsenical solution either at
point of origin, in transit, or on arrival at destination.
TEXAS : Health certificate.
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UTAH : Health certificate, including mallein-test chart. For
stallions, certificate that they are not afflicted with dourinc,
and, for mares, that the}- are free from contagious abortion.
The tests to have been made not more than 20 days next prior
to date of shipment from State of origin.
VERMONT: Must be accompanied by (a) permit from Ver-
mont livestock commissioner, White River Junction, Vermont,
specifying the number of head and the state or country from
which shipment is made, and destination in Vermont, of (b),
certificate of inspection by a competent and reliable veter-
inarian, or (c) certificate of inspection and mallein test
signed by an In-spector in the employ of the Bureau of
Animal Industry.
VIRGINIA : None.
WASHINGTON : Physical inspection.
WEST VIRGINIA : None.
WISCONSIN : Health certificates, giving description of each
animal. Those animals known to have been exposed to
glanders should be mallein tested.
WYOMING: Health certificate.
The various requirements, of the various States are in the
interests of the general public and should be observed on
shipments of horses or mules for the Army into said States
under normal conditions. In time of war, or other public
emergency, authority of the War Department should be ob-
tained for waiving these requirements. The inspection neces-
sary should be made before shipment and copy of certificate
furnished the attendant accompanying the animals. The
original certificate should be mailed, wiih the original bill of
lading, to the consignee.
Payment of fees
299. The payment of a fee to State authorities for inspec-
tion is unauthorized and reimbursement for any payments of
this nature by railroad companies or the attendant accompany-
ing the animals can not be made.
Disinfecting stock cars
300. To disinfect a stock car, spray with cloride of lime 2
per cent solution; or creolin solution, 6Q c.c. (4 tablespoons)
in a bucket of water; or clean thoroughly and whitewash with
freshly prepared whitewash.
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Loading animals
301. For instructions as to loading animals, see paragraph
196.
28-hour law
302. The Act of June 29, 1906 (34 Stat. 607), provides in
brief that during shipment by common carriers animals shall
not be confined in cars, boats, or vessels of any description
for a longer period than twenty-eight consecutive hours with-
out unloading the same into properly equipped pens for rest-
ing, watering and feeding for a period of at least five
consecutive hours, unless prevented by storm or other acci-
dental or unavoidable causes which cannot "be anticipated or
avoided by the exercise of due diligence and foresight ; pro-
viding, that upon the written request of the owner or person
in custody of that particular shipment the time of confine-
ment may be extended to thirty-six hours.
There is nothing in this statute which expressly exempts
shipment of Government animals but the Judge Advocate
General of the Army has held : "The statute does not apply
to the shipment of Government animals, particularly those be-
longing to the Army." (A.G.O. 2389310). Where the neces-
sity for expeditious movement is such as to warrant disregard
of the provisions of the above s.tatute relative to unloading
for resting, the commanding officer of each train, or section
thereof, should furnish the representative of the railroad a
certificate stating that it is necessary in the military service
for such animals, to be forwarded through to destination in
the shortest possible time without stopping to unload.
Attendants accompanying animals
303. The following instructions relative to transportation
of attendants accompanying shipments of live stock must be
complied with literally by all shipping quartermasters :
(1) Free transportation, carload shipments: An attend-
ant is in most cases furnished free transportation to destina-
tion of live stock with one car of horse or mules, but no free
return transportation is furnished except as provided in sub-
paragraph (3-) below.
(2) Free transportation, less carload shipments'. In Of-
ficial Classification Territory, i.e., territory east of Chicago
or St. Louis, and north of the Ohio and Potomac Rivers (in-
cluding Front Royal, Va., when destined to this territory),
an attendant is furnished free transportation to destination,
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but in all other territory, western and southern, free trans-
portation is not furnished to attendants with less than car-
load shipments.
(3) Free return transportation for attendants traveling to
place of hire after conducting live stock: In the territory
west of Chicago and the Mississippi River (including the
States of Illinois and Wisconsin), but not including the
States of California, Oregon, or Washington, or local stations
on the Southern Pacific Co. in Arizona, free return trans-
portation will be furnished an attendant who has accompanied
a carload of horses or mules .
Note : On carload shipments of horses or mules from
location station of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul,
Great Northern, or Northern Pacific Railroads to a destina-
tion located on same railroad in Oregon or Washington, free
return transportation will also be furnished to an attendant.
(4) Method of securing transportation for attendants ac-
companying live stock : In cases where an attendant or at-
tendants, accompany shipments of animals in carload or less
carload lots, no separate transportation request will be drawn
by shipping quartermasters for their transportation, but bill
of lading which is issued for the shipment of live stock will
be indorsed "Transportation required, for or
attendants," (giving names and addresses in each case, if
practicable), and shipping officers will immediately arrange
with agents of common carriers to issue transportation for
attendants on this authority. The fare of attendants, when
not carried free, will be paid by the disbursing quartermaster
in connection with the freight charges on the live stock when
settlement is made on bill of lading.
(5) Method of securing return transportation for attend-
ants: (a) Where as shown in sub-paragraph (3), free
return transportation is authorized under the regulations of
the carriers concerned, no return transportation request will be
issued by the Quartermaster Corps, but attendants will be in-
structed to present their stock contracts to agents at destina-
tion and secure transportation without cost to the Govern-
ment in accordance with the rules noted above.
(b) When it is necessary to furnish return transportation,
to enable the attendants to return to their proper stations,
and where no free transportation is authorized under railroad
rules, transportation requests will be issued for the return
journey of the class and under the conditions shown below.
This transportation will preferably be issued by the shipping
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officer at originating point, but if not practicable to do so,
may be issued by the quartermaster to whom consigned at
destination. In cases of shipments to points in Oregon and
Washington, from points east of St. Paul, Minn., transporta-
tion at one-half first-class limited fare is furnished the re-
turning attendant and transportation request issued for such
travel will be indorse*} "One-half first-class limited, return-
ing attendant, Trans-Continental Freight Bureau Regulations."
Class of transportation to be furnished for attendants re-
turning :
Attendants returning from accompanying shipments of
animals will be furnished the same class of transportation
as is provided under their grade in paragraph 228 to 232.
The transportation requests issued for this class of travel
must be indorsed under "Nature of Journey" "Stock At-
tendant Returning Private Animals," or "Stock Attendant
Returning Public Animals," as the case may be.
Expenses incident to shipment of animals
304. It is the intention of the Quartermaster Corps that
shipments of public animals on Government bill of lading
shall be fully foraged by the Quartermaster Corps from
originating point of destination, but for other expenses, such
as loading, unloading, resting, watering, and for occasional
emergency feeding charges that may have to be incurred en
route, attendants in charge of live stock will be furnished by
the shipping quartermasters in all cases with a form of cer-
tificate indicating number and date of bill of lading, issuing
officer, shipping point, destination, and routing, to be used by
them in calling for services of the character referred to above
when in transit. These certificates to be signed in duplicate
by the attendant in charge. One copy to be given to the
agent of the carrier at the point where the services are per-
formed and one copy delivered by him to the consignee, to
be forwarded by the latter to the disbursing officer, who will
settle the charges on bill of lading, as shown by paragraph
106 hereof. (Circ. 30, Q.M.G.O., 1913).
Transportation of mounts Regulations governing
305. The Quartermaster Corps will transport for officers
changing station, and for graduates of the United States Mili-
tary Academy assigned to mounted organizations upon first
assignment to station, the number of horses for which they
are legally entitled to forage and an attendant to accompany
the horses when necessary, subject to the following restric-
tions :
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1. That the expense to the United States shall not exceed
$100 for each horse transported. The entire cost of such
shipment may be paid by the Quartermaster Corps, but if the
entire cost exceed $100 for each horse, including transporta-
tion of attendant, if any, the excess must be refunded to the
Quartermaster Corps by the owner. The expenses of the
attendant other than his transportation will not be paid by
the Quartermaster Corps, except that when. an enlisted man
is ordered to be such attendant there may be paid also com-
mutation of rations when necessary.
2. That the shipment shall be made at a valuation of not
to exceed $100 per animal, unless the owner pays, under the
regulations of the Quartermaster Corps, the cost incident to
increased valuation.
3. That the horses are owned by the officer and are in-
tended to be used by him at his new station in the public
service.
4. The horses of deceased or retired officers or officers
ordered to their homes to await retirement, or of officers ef-
fecting a voluntary transfer, will not be transported at public
expense.
5. When horses are purchased by officers at points other
than their station the Quartermaster Corps will transport
them from points of purchase to the station of the officer,
provided the officer is entitled to have and has not had his
authorized private mounts shipped from his old to his new
station, and provided, when the cost of shipment from point
of purchase to new station exceeds the cost from the old to
the new station on last change of station, the officer will
deposit the excess cost with the shipping officer when ship-
ment is made by the Quartermaster Corps.
6. Officers ordered for extended service over the seas or
to Alaska, if they so desire, may have their authorized mounts
transported from their old station to any designated point in
the United States for safe-keeping,and upon their return
transported to their new stations in the United States.
7. Private mounts of officers in excess of the authorized
number of mounts may be shipped on the same Government
bill of lading with authorized mounts, upon deposit with the
shipping officers, prior to shipment, of a sum equal to the com-
mercial freight charges on the excess mount or mounts, to
be ascertained from or through the agent of the carrier at
point of shipment, and cost of exchange for remittance to
the officer who will settle the transportation charges. The
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excess mounts will not be shipped on Government bill o/
lading unless such deposit be first made.
8. Officers making application for shipment of mounts will
in all cases specify the last change of station, referring to
orders under which it was made, and also the number of
private mounts previously transported, if any, on last change
of station.
Officers* detailed on service in a foreign country and re-
quired to be mounted should furnish their own mounts, such
mounts to be transported to and from their foreign stations
at the expense of the United States, the limitation in the cost
of transportation, as prescribed in section 1 of this paragraph,
being waived in such cases. However, if an officer below the
rank of major so desired, a public mount may be assigned to
him and transported as hereinbefore provided, or, if it be to
the interest of the United States, a mount may be purchased
for him in the vicinity of his foreign station. Such officers
should advise the War Department by which method they
desire to be furnished mounts. (Under present regulations
of the Department of Agriculture, animals cannot be returned
from the Philippine Islands to the United States.) (A. R.
1098, 1913.)
Transportation of mounts to remount depots
306. 1. An officer of the Army will be permitted to have
his authorized private mounts (stallions excepted), for which
forage is allowed, shipped to and cared for at a remount
depot during his absence on foreign service or while on duty
in Alaska.
2. The officer will make written application for permission
to send his mount to a designated remount depot, upon receipt
of which the post or regimental commander will cause the
horse to be examined by a veterinarian as to soundness and
will make a personal examination as to fitness as an officer's
mount, and the post commander will indorse on the applica-
tion the result of the examination and then forward the ap-
plication directly to the Adjutant General of the Army for
the decision of the Secretary of War. No horses will be
shipped to a remount depot that does not pass both inspec-
tions, above provided for, and indicate prospective suitability
for military service at probable termination of the officer's
foreign service.
3. The horses will be shipped to and from the remount
depot and kept there entirely at the risk of the owner. An
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officer in charge of a remount depot shall have the right to
destroy a horse belonging to an officer \vhen necessary to pre-
vent contagion or to terminate suffering; and neither the
Government nor the authorities at a remount depot will be
held responsible in case of accident or disease. In case of
death or destruction of an officer's horse at a remount depot
the affidavit of the veterinarian and the certificate of the
officer in charge or his assistant will be forwarded to the
owner, and will operate to relieve the officer in charge of
further responsibility.
4. An officer's mount, upon arrival at a remount depot,
will be lip-branded and an accurate descriptive card, showing
the owner's name, will be prepared. The same care and
attention as regards handling, stabling, grooming and feeding
will be given the mount as is accorded a horse purchased by
the Government for military service and will include turning
out to pasture during six or eight months in the year and
feeding in open sheds in pasture during the remainder of the
year.
5. On account of climatic conditions shipments of officers'
horses to and from Fort Keogh Remount Depot should be
avoided between November 1 and April 1. (A. R. 1099,
1913.)
Transportation of mounts. Descriptive card
307. When private mounts of officers are shipped on change
of station under the provision of Par. 1098, A. R. f 1913, a
descriptive card of each mount will accompany the invoice
covering the shipment so as to enable the receiving officer
readily to identify the animal upon arrival at destination.
(Par. 11, G. O., 6, W. D., 1915.) Officers.
Transportation of mounts. Certificates
308. All private mounts turned over to the Quartermaster
Corps for transportation must be accompanied by a certificate,
in duplicate (Q. M. C. Form 470), signed by the owner of
the mounts, stating that they are authorized mounts and in-
tended for use in the public service at the new station, and
giving reference to the order for the change of station. These
certificates should be attached to the memorandum bill of
lading. Officers desiring to ship their private mounts to the
Philippine Islands should, before they leave the United States,
execute certificate showing that it is proposed to use them in
the discharge of their official duties, the certificate to ac-
company other papers pertaining to the animals transported
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to the Philippine Islands. (Bui. 2, W. D., 1913.) Q. M. C.
Form 470 can be used for this purpose.
Excess mounts over authorized number
309. For instructions relative to disposition of the amount
collected under section 7, Par. 1098, A. R., see Par. 340
hereof.
Transportation of mounts. Over-sea shipments
310. Where private mounts are to be shipped to any point
over-sea, or in Alaska, instructions should be requested from
the Quartermaster General before shipments are made.
Transportation of mounts. To service schools
311. The duly authorized private mounts will be trans-
ported at public expense to and from their proper stations for
student officers detailed for the courses at the following
schools :
(a) The Army War College, Washington, D. C.
(b) The Army School of the Line, Ft. Leavenworth, Kan.
(c) The Army Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kan.
(d) The Army Signal School, Fort Leavenworth, Kan.
(e) The Army Field Engineer School, Fort Leavenworth,
Kan.
(/) The Mounted Service School, Fort Riley, Kan.
(Second year course.)
(g) The Coast Artillery School, Fort Monroe, Va.
(h) The Engineer School, Washington Barracks, D. C.
Private mounts will not be transported at public expense for
student officers detailed for the following courses :
(a) The Mounted Service School, Fort Riley, Kan. (Field
Officers course.)
(b) The Mounted Service School, Fort Riley, Kan. (First
year course.)
(c} The Army Medical School, Washington, D. C.
(d) The School of Fire for Field Artillery, Fort Sill, Okla.
(e) The School of Musketry, Fort Sill, Okla.
Transportation of mounts. Change of status
312. An officer stationed at point where he is on mounted
status and who is transferred to another station as an un-
mounted officer will be furnished transportation at public
expense for his authorized mounts. (A. G. O. No. 1716007.)
An officer on change of station from a point where he is
on a dismounted status to a station where his duties require
him to be mounted will be furnished transportation for his
Handbook of Transportation 105
authorized private mounts at public expense. (A. G. O. No.
1789773, A. G. O. No. 2297849.)
An officer who is on a dismounted status and changes
station as an unmounted officer, but after arrival at his new
station is assigned to duty which requires him to be mounted
is not entitled to transportation at public expense of his pri-
vate mounts from his old station. (A. G. O. No. 1706935.)
Transportation of mounts. Retired officer on recruiting
duty
313. Circular 81, W. D., 1908, provides that "Officers of
the Army on the Retired List who may be detailed to -active
duty in the recruiting service * * * are not officers re-
quired to be mounted." Shipment of mounts of retired
officers ordered on recruiting service should, therefore, not
be made at public expense.
Transportation of mounts. Horse shows and horse races
314. The transportation at public expense of officers, en-
listed men or horses for the purpose of participating in
horse shows or horse races is unauthorized, unless the troop,
battery, or company to which the officers, enlisted men or
horses belong is ordered by the Secretary of War to attend.
(Act of April 27, 1914.)
Transportation' of mounts. Resigned officers
315. An officer who resigns from the service is not en-
titled to transportation, at public expense, to his last station,
of his private mounts, unless such transportation was begun
before the tender of his resignation. (A. G. O. No. 2338263.)
Transportation of mounts. Medical reserve corps
316. Medical Reserve Corps officers ordered to active duty
are entitled to transportation of their mounts at public ex-
pense. (Circular 13, W. D. 1909.)
Transportation of mounts. Transport surgeon
317. An officer of the Medical Corps assigned to duty as
Transport Surgeon cannot- have his mounts transported at
public expense to the home port of the transport. (A. G. O.
No. 1771734.)
Transportation of mounts. Officers taking test rides
318. The horses of officers taking riding tests will not be
sent to the place where the test is held except when it can
be done without cost to the United States. (Circular 59,
W. D., 1909.)
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Transportation of mounts. Officers on militia duty
319. Duty with the organized militia of officers of the
active list and of retired officers does not require them to be
mounted in the sense contemplated in paragraph 1272, A. R.
1913 (G. O. 121, 1911).
The above order is not to be construed as prohibiting trans-
portation of horses of mounted officers. The Secretary of
War has held that the following classes of officers on the
active list detailed upon duty in connection with the Organized
Militia are required to be mounted, and are entitled to trans-
portation at public expense for their authorized private mounts
when joining, or being relieved, from such duty:
(a) Officers of cavalry and field artillery.
(b) Officers above the grade of captain. (A. G. O. No.
1818396.)
Transportation of mounts. Stalling cars
320. There is no authority under which the cost of build-
ing stalls in box cars for transportation of private mounts
can be paid from public funds. If stalls are desired by the
officers concerned, the expenses of installation must be paid
by the officers from personal funds. (Q. M. G. O. 431245.)
Private Mounts Returned from abroad Customs regula-
tions
321. The following information will be found of value to
officers ordered abroad who take with them their private
mounts, and who desire their mounts returned upon their
change of station back to the United States. In order to
facilitate prompt admittance of private mounts at port of
entry, the following instructions should be complied with:
1st. Certificates in duplicate are required from the owner
of the horse to the effect that he had the horse in his
possession for at least 6 months, and to the best of his know-
ledge and belief it has not been exposed to contagious disease.
2nd. From the Agent in charge of the district of the
foreign country in which the horse had been, to the effect
that to the best of his knowledge and belief there is no con-
tagious disease existing in the said district to which said
horse had been exposed .
3rd. A certificate of a local veterinarian that he had made
examination of the horse, and found it to be free from
disease.
All of these certificates should, of course, show details as
to the ownership of the horse, age, sex, and full description.
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v
In accordance with tariff laws and regulations of the Secre-
tary of the Treasury, in order to secure entry without pay-
ment of import duties, a formal entry must be made of the
horse at the port of entry, by the owner, or his agent, in
writing. With the entry must be filed a declaration by the
foreign exporter of the horse made before a U. S. Consul,
stating that the horse was exported from the United States.
The entry should be accompanied by evidence of exportation,
which in the event the horse was returned to the original port
of exportation, will be on the records of the Custom House
at that port. The person making entry must verify same by
oath. In the event that the horse does not come in at the
port of original exportation, a certificate of exportation must
be furnished or a bond for its production may be given in the
sum equal to the duties which may be assessed if the horse
were of foreign origin. The Collector may waive the pro-
duction of evidence of outward shipment when satisfied from
an examination of the horse that it is of American origin,
and an affidavit of the owner shows that it is impracticable
to obtain such evidence. Where horses are purchased by
officers in foreign countries, free entry can not be secured,
and the officer owning the horse must pay from personal fund
the amount of import duties imposed.
TRANSPORTATION OF BAGGAGE, HOUSEHOLD
GOODS, PERSONAL EFFECTS AND PROFES-
SIONAL BOOKS
Regulations governing transportation of baggage
322. In changing station authorized allowances of baggage
will be turned over to the quartermaster to be packed, crated,
weighed and marked for transportation as freight by ordi-
nary freight lines. When the necessary packing, crating,
weighing and marking may be done by the Ordnance Depart-
ment at arsenals, armories, or ordnance depots, or it may be
done by the Engineer Department at places where labor and
supplies are available, in which cases settlement will be made
as provided in paragraph 619, A. R.
Allowance for each grade
323. The baggage to be transported at public expense, in-
cluding mess chests and personal baggage, upon change of
station, will not exceed when packed and crated the follow-
ing gross weights:
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In the field or Permanent
RANK. temporary Change of
Change of Station Station
Pounds Pounds
Lieutenant General 1,500 15,000
Major General 1,000 10,500
Brigadier General 700 8,400
Field Officer 400 7,200
Captain 200 6,000
First Lieutenant, Contract Surgeon
and Acting Dental Surgeon ... 150 5,100
Second Lieutenant and Veterinarian 150 4,500
Noncommissioned officers above
grade 17, paragraph 9 .... 3,000
Noncommissioned officers, grade
17, paragraph 9, upon change of
station without troops .. . .... 1,500
Pay Clerk, Quartermaster Corps.. 3,000
Civilian employees of the classified
service transferred for the good
of the service .... 3,000
These allowances are in excess of the weights transported
free of charge under the regular fare by public carriers. They
may be reduced pro rata by the commanding officer, if neces-
sary, and may in special cases be increased by the War De-
partment on transports by water.
Invoices
324. Invoices of household goods or personal effects turned
over to the shipping officer will be accompanied by a certificate
showing that the goods are property of the officer, noncom-
missioned officer, or civilian employee requesting the ship-
ment.
Excess over allowances
325. Baggage in excess of the foregoing allowances will be.
shipped upon the same bill of lading with the regulation
allowance upon deposit with the shipping officer, prior to
issue of the bill of lading, of a sum equal to the commercial
freight charges on the same, to be ascertained from or through
the agent of the carrier at point of shipment, and cost of
exchange for remittance to the officer who will settle the
transportation charges. The excess will not be shipped on
Government bill of lading unless such deposit be first made.
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Released shipments
326. Bills of lading covering shipments of baggage will in
all cases carry notation "Released Valuation $10 per 100
pounds," unless the owner files written authority with the
shipping quartermaster to ship his entire baggage unreleased.
In the latter case bills of lading must carry the notation "un-
limited valuation," provided the owner deposits with the
shipping quartermaster a sum equal to the additional com-
mercial cost of shipment at "unlimited valuation."
Military attaches
327. An officer detailed for duty in a foreign country as
a military attache is entitled to packing, crating, and trans-
portation of professional books and papers and the number
of pounds of personal baggage specified in the table above.
Retirement or death
328. The Quartermaster Corps will pack, crate and trans-
port the authorized change of station allowance of baggage
and professional books and papers for officers or enlisted men
upon retirement, or who die in the service, from their last
duty stations to such places within the limits of the United
States as may be the homes of their families, or as may be
designated by their legal representatives or executors ; also
150 pounds of baggage, inclusive of the quantity carried free
by transportation companies, for enlisted men below grade
17, paragraph 9, Army Regulations, who die in the service,
from their last duty stations to such places within the limits
of the United States as may be the homes of their families,
or as may be designated by their legal representatives or ex-
ecutors.
Honorably .discharged officers
329. An honorably discharged officer is not entitled to the
transportation allowance mentioned in this paragraph, but he
will receive 4 cents a mile for travel allowance from the place
of his discharge to the place of his residence at the time of
his appointment, or to the place of his original muster into
the service. (A. R. 1137, 1913.)
Medical reserve corps
330. Packing, crating and transportation of the authorized
allowance of baggage for permanent change of station is
authorized for officers of the Medical Reserve Corps when
joining for duty under the order placing them upon active
duty in the service of the United States, for officers of the
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Medical Corps appointed from officers of the Medical Reserve
Corps on active duty in the service of the United States, from
the place of their appointment to their first stations on joining
for duty, and for such contract surgeons and acting dental
surgeons as may be employed when they join for duty under
the first order, and also on return to their home on the termi-
nation of their contracts, if provided for in the contracts.
(A. R. 1138.)
Graduates of military academy
Officers promoted from the ranks
331. Packing, crating and transportation for 1,500 pounds
of baggage will be furnished to graduates of the United
States Military Academy and officers promoted from the
ranks on their first assignment to duty as commissioned
officers (from their homes or former stations). With these
exceptions, transportation of baggage at public expense is not
authorized when joining for duty on first appointment to the
military or civil service, nor upon reinstatement or reappoint-
ment, nor to effect transfers from one station to another, at
the request of those transferred. Officers on temporary duty
are entitled only to the allowance for temporary change of
station as authorized in paragraph 353. (A. R. 1138.)
Over-sea service
332. In lieu of the allowance authorized for permanent
change of station, and officer detailed as an attache of an
officer, noncommissioned officer, or civilian employee entitled
to an allowance of baggage under the provisions of paragraph
353 under orders for extended service over the sea or for
duty in Alaska is entitled to have his full allowance trans-
ported from the station he leaves to his home or to the
nearest convenient place of storage, and, upon resuming duty
in the United States, from such places to his post of duty,
or, if he so desired, a portion of his allowance may be shipped
abroad and the balance to such point as he may designate in
the United States for storage. Officers, noncommissioned
officers, and civilian employees desiring to make shipment ^ of
baggage under the preceding clause will furnish shipping
officers with a certificate showing whether ^other shipments
have been made or are contemplated at public expense to or
from other points, and if so the weight of such property.
(A. R. 1138.)
Enlisted men
333. In case of either permanent or temporary change of
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station of enlisted men under conditions that rendered it im-
practicable or inadvisable to take their personal effects with
them at the time, subsequent transportation of the personal
effects of such enlisted men, not to exceed 150 pounds for
a man, is authorized, upon approval by Department Com-
manders, or by commanding officers of posts, stations, or com-
mands that are exempted from the control of Department
Commanders. (A. R. 1138, 1913.)
Unauthorized shipments
334. Except as shown in "paragraphs 358 to 361 hereof,
transportation of baggage from a point other than former
station or to a point other than new station is not authorized.
Professional books and papers
Officers
335. The Quartermaster Corps will pack, crate, and fur-
nish transportation for the prescribed regimental and company
desks, for the books, papers, and instruments of staff officers
necessary to the performance of their duties, and for the
medical chests of medical officers ; also for the professional
books, including standard works of fiction, of officers chang-
ing station, officers ordered home for retirement, graduates of
the United States Military Academy, and officers joining on
first appointment, which they certify belong to them and per-
tain to their official duties. Invoices of packages turned over
to the shipping officer will be accompanied by the certificate
of the officer as to character of books, and a certified copy
will be attached to the bill of lading issued at the initial point
of shipment.
Shipment of professional books will be made at released
valuation except as provided for the baggage allowance in
paragraph 326 hereof. (A. R. 1139, 1913.)
Professional books, noncommissioned officers
336. In addition to the baggage allowance shown in para-
graph 323, not to exceed 500 pounds of professional books
will be transported at public expense for noncommissioned
officers above grade 17, paragraph 9, A. R., upon the certificate
of the noncommissioned officer as provided in paragraph 337.
Certificates
337. All officers, noncommissioned officers, and civilian
employees, shipping household goods must submit to the ship-
ping quartermaster at the earliest practicable moment an
accurate list or shipping, invoice on Q. M. C. Form 201 of
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all property turned over by them for shipment. The same
system for numbering containers should be followed as out*
lined in paragraph 184 for property of organizations. Ship-
ping invoices should then be prepared. These invoices must
be accompanied by a certificate, in duplicate (Q. M. C. Form
468), showing that the goods are the personal property of the
person for whom they are to be shipped, and also any other
shipments made, or contemplated, on the same change of
station. Shipments of professional books or pap'ers must be
accompanied by a certificate, in duplicate (Q. M. C. Form
454), that the packages contain professional books or papers
necessary in the performance of official duties.
When an officer goes on foreign service, he should carefully
preserve and take with him all data concerning property he
has stored. This data will be needed on transport returning
to the United States, in order that he can furnish proper
certificates to the quartermaster at the port of entry as to
weight of property he will ship from point of storage to his
new station. This will enable the shipping quartermaster
to determine whether there is any excess to be paid.
Baggage accompanying officers
338. When an officer under orders for temporary duty or
permanent change of station certifies that it is necessary for
his field allowance of baggage to be transported to his tempo-
rary or permanent station, the Quartermaster Corps will fur-
nish transportation for the same by freight, unless in cases
of emergency transportation by express is authorized by the
Secretary of War. The total amount of baggage transported
at public expense will in no instance exceed the allowance
provided by paragraph 323 hereof (A. R. 1123, 1913).
Dental outfits accompanying dental surgeons
339. Dental chairs and dental outfits that accompany dental
surgeons or acting dental surgeons on their temporary changes
of station, will be forwarded by express at public expense.
(A. G. O. 2136284.)
Excess over authorized allowance of baggage or mounts
340. The following instructions governing shipments on
Government bills of lading of excess baggage under the pro-
visions of paragraph 1136, A. R., 1913, and of private mounts
of officers in excess of the authorized mounts under t^ie pro-
visions of paragraph 10:98, A. R., 1913, are published for the
information and guidance of all officers of the Army on duty
in the Quartermaster Corps.
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1. Officers, enlisted men, or civilian employees desiring to
ship excess baggage on Government bill of lading under the
provisions of paragraph 1136, A. R., will confine such excess
shipments to articles of personal or household application,
owned by themselves or members of their own families,
similar to those heretofore considered as properly part of the
regulation change of station baggage allowance, and in no
case to include animals of any kind, other than private mounts
of officers actually owned by them, which are provided for in
paragraph 1098, Army Regulations.
2. The deposit to guarantee freight charges on the excess
shipment will be in an amount sufficient to cover the com-
mercial charges, and may be in cash, in which case it will
include the cost of exchange to be purchased, or registered
mail charges, and will be receipted for by the officer with
whom deposited, or negotiable bank draft or similar instru-
ment of exchange, payable to "order," except uncertified per-
sonal bank checks. Should the deposit be in cash, the officer
with whom deposited will, without delay, convert it into the
most convenient and safe form of exchange, for remittance
to the settling officer, and transmit same with the copy of the
memorandum bill of lading, noting thereon the amount and
nature of the remittance, with name and new station of the
depositor, and data as to service and employment. Remit-
tances will be made payable to the order of the officer to
whom sent, by his official designation and not to him by name,
in order to avoid delays and complications in case the settling
officer should be changed while the remittance is en route.
Postal or express money orders which can be cashed only at
a certain designated post office or express office should not
be used for these remittances, except where the office trans-
mitting them is absolutely certain that the officer at the place
where made payable is the settling officer.
3. ^Upon receipt of a copy of a memorandum bill of lading
pertaining to a shipment of excess baggage or private mounts
of officers, with accompanying remittances to pay charges on
excess shipment, the settling officer will deposit the amount
to his official credit as a special deposit, taking up the gross
amount as shown by the memorandum bill of lading accom-
panying it. The amount of the charges on a shipment of
baggage, including charges on the excess, will be paid by the
Government.
The remittance received by a settling officer will not be
taken up in his regular account, but will be made the basis
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of a special account, for which purpose a special account-
current has been prepared, known as War Department Form
No. 30.
Similarly, this fund should be kept in a separate account
in the cash book.
All remittances received will be scheduled on War Depart-
ment Form No. 31, and the amount of the schedule will be
carried to the special deposit account-current.
When payment is made on a bill of lading on which a
deposit was made, the amount of the deposit, if any, over
the excess baggage charges will be refunded to the owner of
the baggage, an official check with a special symbal number
assigned by the Treasury Department for the purpose being
used.
The refundments made during a month will be scheduled
on War Department Form No. 33 and carried to the special
deposit account-current as "Refunds as per schedule."
At the end of the month the various amounts deposited to
cover excess shipments that pertain to bills of lading paid dur-
ing that month, will after deducting the amounts of the refund-
ments, be dropped from the special account-current on the
line "Transfer to General Account" and taken up in the
regular account under "Transportation of the Army" and be
deposited to the credit of the Treasurer of the United States
for credit of that appropriation.
4. If copy of memorandum bill of lading is received by
the wrong officer for settlement, it will be at once transmitted,
with the remittance properly indorsed, to the proper settling
officer in accordance with existing rules of the Quartermaster
Corps for the disposition of copies of memorandum bills of
lading wrongly sent. (Cir. 15, Q. M. G. O. 1914.)
Reimbursement cannot be made for charges paid for trans-
portation of baggage
341. The regulations provide that baggage must be turned
over to the Quartermaster Corps for shipment, and the Comp-
troller of the Treasury has consistently held that there is no
authority for the reimbursement of officers or other who
make shipments of baggage at their own expense. Officers
stationed at points where there is no quartermaster, ^ should
call upon the Department Quartermaster for authority for
such transportation.
If conditions are such that there is not sufficient time to
await Government bills of lading, the shipment may be made
on a commercial bill of lading collect, and the charges guar-
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anteed by the shipper, and action will be taken as outlined
in paragraph 90.
Baggage what is included
342. The term "personal baggage" referred to in para-
graph 1136, Army Regulations, 1913, is interpreted to include
the horse equipments issued under the provisions of para-
graph 1520, Army Regulations, 1913 (Cir. 47, W. D., 1909).
Groceries and provisions are in no proper sense to be
classed as baggage or household goods. (J. A. G., June 22,
1912; 361 Q. M. G. O., June 26, 1912.)
Automobiles, or other vehicles, may be included as part 'of
an officer's change of station allowance of baggage, but in
case there is an excess over authorized allowances, the Comp-
troller of the Treasury has held that the automobile must be
considered as the excess and the officer pay the amount
charged for its transportation or the proportionate cost there-
of, if the excess weight is less than the total weight of the
automobiles.
Shipments to service schools
343. Personal effects within the change of station allow-
ance will be transported at Government expense to and from
their proper stations for student officers detailed for the
courses at:
(a) The Army War College, Washington, D. C.
(b) The Army School of the Line, Fort Leavenworth, Kan.
(c) The Army Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kan.
*(d) The Army Signal School, Fort Leavenworth, Kan.
(<?) The Army Field Engineer School, Fort Leavenworth,
Kan.
(/) Th e Mounted Service School, Fort Riley, Kan.
(either first or second year course).
(gr) The Coast Artillery School, Fort Monroe, Va.
(Ji) The Engineer School, Washington Barracks, D. C.
(t) The Army Medical School, Washington, D. C.
Personal effects will not be transported at Government ex-
pense to and from their proper stations for student officers
detailed for the courses at:
(a) The Mounted Service School, Fort Leavenworth, Kan.
(Field Officer's course).
' (&) The School of Fire for Field Artillery, Fort Sill.
Okla.
(c} The School of Musketry, Fort Sill, Okla. (Bulletin
No. 4, W. D., 1916).
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Change of station
344. An officer detailed in the Ordnance Department with
higher rank than that held by him in the line of the Army on
relief from such detail assumes his former rank and is only
entitled to transportation at public expense of the amount of
baggage authorized for the lower grade (Bulletin No. 29,
W. D., 1913).
Assignment to transports
345. The assignment of officers and noncommissioned
officers to the transport service on the Pacific Coast has been
construed as entitling them to shipment of personal effects,
within their allowance if they so desire, to a point of storage
in the United States, under the provisions of paragraph 1138,
A. R., 1913. (376982 Q. M. G. O., July 24, 1912.)
Transfer of property with hospital corps
346. In cases where the Army Regulations, General Orders,
and other authorized manuals are silent on the subject and it
is considered necessary to transfer with a member of the
Hospital Corps changing station any articles of public pro-
perty, the order directing the travel of the soldier should in
each instance specify the articles of this character which the
soldier should carry. (Circular No. 56, W. D., 1905.)
Medical reserve corps officers
347. Upon the transfer of an officer of the Medical Re-
serve Corps from the active to the inactive list, shipment of
authorized allowance of baggage to point other than fris
former home may be made, provided that the officer presents
his application for the shipment approved by the Quarter-
master General, and deposits the difference in cost with the
shipping quartermaster. (385606 Q. M. G. O., Oct. 3, 1912.)
Shipment on retirement or decease
348. A limit of one year from date of retirement or decease
is fixed during which the change of station allowance of the
personal effects, professional books and papers may be trans-
ported at public expense to the homes of retired officers or
to such points within the limits of the United States as the
relatives or friends of deceased officers may designate.
All property shipped after the time limit herein fixed will
not be at public expense. (Cir. No. 63, W. D., 1905.)
Wholly retired officers
349. The shipment to their homes of property of wholly
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retired officers cannot be made at public expense. (See Sees.
1252 and 1275 R. S.)
Honorably discharged officers and officers who resign
350. The property of honorably discharged officers, or of
officers who resign from the service, cannot be transported to
their homes at public expense on such discharge or resigna-
tion.
Hauling baggage
351. For information relative to hauling household goods
and other baggage, see paragraphs 389 to 392.
PACKING AND CRATING BAGGAGE
Regulations governing packing and crating
352. The maximum money allowance for packing and
crating for each grade, exclusive of professional books and
papers, will be as follows, and will not be exceeded. When
less than the maximum allowance for each grade is trans-
ported a proportionate decrease in the cost of packing and
crating will be made.
Permanent
RANK. Change of
Station
Lieutenant General $90.00
Major General 63.00
Brigadier General 50.40
Field Officer 43.20
Captain 36.00
First Lieutenant, Contract Surgeon, and Acting
Dental Surgeon 30.60
Second Lieutenant and Veterinarian 27.00 ^
Noncommissioned Officers above grade 17, para-
graph 9 18.00
Noncommissioned Officers, grade 17, paragraph 9,
upon change of station without troops
Pay Clerk, Quartermaster Corps 18.00
Civilian employees of the classified service trans-
ferred for the good of the service 18.00
Maximum tare weight
Burlap and excelsior
353. The maximum tare weight of any of the foregoing
allowances will not exceed one-fifth of the gross weight. Any
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saying in tare weight affects an increase in net weight. With
this end in view, burlap and excelsior should be used as much
as possible as a substitute for crating and the use of lumber
should be limited as much as possible. Should the owner de-
sire lighter packing or crating than the quartermaster deems
sufficient, the lighter crating or packing will be used only
upon written request of the owner. (A.R. 1136, 1913).
Packing professional books
354. The cost of packing professional books and papers,
including standard works of fiction, for officers changing
station, is not included in the allowance for packing house-
hold goods, but it is thought that the material required for
packing books and papers should be of such a character as
not to require any expense, boxes and packing cases being
usually available for such purposes. (318924 Q.M.G.O., June
13, 1911; 450923 O.C.Q.M.G., April 2, 1913).
Packing only authorized on change of station
355. Authority for packing and crating does not include a
temporary absence or detached service from the post, but
there must be an order for an actual change of station.
Hire of expert packers
356. It will not be the policy of the Quartermaster Corps
to hire expert packers, except when necessary on account of
lack of labor at the post or station. Civilian packers will,
therefore, not be paid, nor will they be permitted to furnish
any materials at Government expense, except on written au-
thority from the shipping quartermaster. The necessary
barrels, burlap, excelsior, lumber, and other packing materials,
should ordinarily be furnished by the shipping quartermaster.
'When the quartermaster gives permission for the employ-
ment of an expert packer, the officer whose property is being
shipped, or his agent, should submit a signed statement show-
ing the exact number of hours said packer worked.
Maximum cost
357. The maximum cost of packing and crating of change
of station allowance of baggage is fixed in paragraph 1136,
Army Regulations, 1913, and the actual cost for the respective
grades should be well within and will in no case exceed the
amounts so established. The allowance for packing and
crating household goods covers both material and labor and
cannot be exceeded.
Handbook of Transportation 119
Methods of providing for packing and crating
358. There will be, as a rule, five methods, under one of
which the supplies and services incident to the packing and
crating of baggage may be provided, viz :
First : By the use of Class A supplies on hand and Class 1
services available.
Second : By the use of Class A supplies on hand and em-
ployment of Class II services where no Class 1 services are
available.
Third : By the purchase of Class A supplies where none
are on hand and Class 1 services available.
Fourth : By purchase of Class A supplies and employment
of Class II services, personal, where there are no Class A
supplies on hand and no Class 1 services available.
Fifth : By securing both supplies and services as a Class
II non-personal service.
The first three methods shown above will be used at garri-
soned posts or stations at which both Class A supplies and
Class 1 services, or either, are available. The fourth and
fifth methods apply when neither Class A supplies not Class 1
services are available.
Apportionment of funds for packing and crating
359. Supplies and services incident to the packing and
crating of baggage should be provided under item 205, "Sup-
plies, Services and Transportation," the supplies as Class A,
and the service as a personal service of Class 1 or Class II,
or both supplies and services as a non-personal service of
Class II.
Class 1 services are provided for by regular annual ap-
portionment. The procuring of additional Class A supplies
and Class II services will be provided for by additional ap-
portionments under item 205, "Supplies, Services and Trans-
portation," to department and depot quartermasters and quar-
termasters of independent stations to be held as a reserve
from which to make additional allotments to cover the pur-
chase or supply on requisitions of Class A supplies for pack-
ing and crating baggage exclusively, or to replace such sup-
plies as were used for this purpose but supplies are required
for some other purpose.
Requisitions for supplies
360. Where there are no Class A supplies for packing and
crating ^ baggage on hand and Class 1 services are available,
requisitions for the supplies required will be forwarded to
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the department or depot quartermaster concerned. Where .
neither Class A supplies nor Class 1 services are available,
the procurement of the material and labor necessary for the
packing and crating of baggage will be considered as Class II
services, non-personal, and the request for funds for services
will include the cost of both supplies and services to complete
the job.
Upon receipt of such requisitions or requests, department
and depot quartermasters will, on requisitions for Class A
supplies take such action as may be necessary, increasing the
allotment to the post, if necessary, to cover the cost of the
supplies, and on requests for services, making .the necessary
allotment for Class II services.
Officers stationed at points where no quartermaster is
available
361. Officers stationed at points where no quartermaster
is available should when requiring packing and crating of
their allowance of baggage, make application in writing to
the nearest department or depot quartermaster, stating the
approximate cost of the service at their station. Department
or depot quartermasters receiving such applications will
authorize the work done as a Class II service, non-personal,
cost not to exceed the maximum cost for the grade of the
officer making the application as authorized in Army Regula-
tions.
Packing and crating by ordnance or engineer departments
362. When necessary the packing, crating, and weighing,
and marking of the authorized allowance of baggage of
officers in changing station may be done by the Ordnance
Department at arsenals, armories, or ordnance depots, or it
may be done by the Engineer Department at places where
labor and supplies are available, as authorized by paragraph
1135, Army Regulations, 1913.
Packing and crating should be anticipated
363. The packing and crating of baggage should be antici-
pated as much as practicable, and to this end the local quarter-
master should, as soon as orders are issued or received,
directing changes of stations of officers, enlisted men, or
civilian employees entitled to an allowance of baggage, make
requisition for such Class A supplies as are required, but not
on hand, or if on hand, must be replaced, noting on the
requisition the number and date of the orders directing the
change and forward same as provided for other requisitions.
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If there are no Class 1 services available the usual request
for Class II services will be made, indicating thereon the
number and rank of the officers or enlisted men and the
designation of employees, quoting number of order or orders
directing the change of station.
Estimate of funds for packing and crating
364. Department quartermasters, depot quartermasters and
quartermasters of independent stations will submit to the
Quartermaster General, not later than the first day of the
month preceding the quarter for which services or supplies
are required, estimates of the amounts required for the pro-
curement of Class A supplies and Class II services in con-
nection with packing and crating of baggage.
Packing material is public property
365. All crates, boxes, barrels, and packing materials sup-
plied by the Quartermaster Corps for packing and crating
baggage are public property, will be cared for as such, and so
long as serviceable will be continued in use for packing and
crating. (G. Q. 52, W. D., 1909.)
TRANSPORTATION OF FUNDS
366. The transportation of money should always be by
express. See paragraph 290.
TRANSPORTATION OF ATHLETIC AND GYM-
NASTIC APPLIANCES
367. The Quartermaster Corps is authorized to transport
gymnastic and athletic appliances ; purchased with regimental
or company funds, for the use of troops, from the nearest
market to the post or station of the troops. In all cases_ of
necessary removal the articles supplied for use - in bakeries,
'libraries, reading rooms, schools, and gymnasiums will also
be transported by the Quartermaster Corps. (A. R. 340,
1913.)
TRANSPORTATION OF MOVING PICTURE OUT-
FITS AND SUPPLIES
368. Moving picture machines, films and supplies, pur-
chased from public funds will be transported on Government
bill of lading.
Lantern slides, for stereopticons, belonging to Army officers
on college detail, used for the purpose of illustrating their
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lectures, constitute a part of their progressional library and
will be transported at public expense. (A. G. O. 2136299.)
TRANSPORTATION OF READING MATTER AND
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
Books, reading matter, and musical instruments
369. A quartermaster is authorized to transport books and
musical instruments purchased for, or donated to, post chapels
or to post or company libraries, and gymnastic and athletic
appliances purchased with regimental, exchange, or company
funds, for the use of troops, from the nearest market to the
post or station of the troops. Also to furnish transportation
at public expense for reading matter donated for use of the
enlisted men of the Army, or the United States Military
Prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, such transportation to
be furnished from place of donation to the post, hospital, or
prison where intended for use. All such packages will be
impersonally addressed and consigned to the proper com-
manding officer of troops or hospitals, or the commandant of
the prison. (A. R. 1144, 1913.)
Articles donated to U. S. Military Academy, and other
institutions
370. The Quartermaster Corps is authorized to ship (under
the regulations governing the transportation of military pro-
perty, and on the same forms of bills of lading) articles
donated to the Medical Museum at Washington, the library
and museum of the Military Service institution at Governor's
Island, N. Y., or the United States Military Academy at West
Point, N. Y. Packages will be marked with the name of the
institution, and sent in care of the depot quartermaster at
Washington or New York, or the quartermaster at West-
Point. (A. R. 1145, 1913.)
Medical publications
371. Medical and official publications furnished from the
Surgeon General's Office to surgeons in charge of hospitals
will be properly filed and preserved in the hospital library.
The expense of binding these publications and those issued
to department or division surgeons will be defrayed by the
Medical Department, and they will be transported to and
from the medical supply depots by the Quartermaster Corps.
(A. R. 1463, 1913.)
Handbook of Transportation 123
Exchanged books
372. When the exchange of duplicate volumes in the
libraries of the several military posts and service schools for
other volumes for use in such libraries is to the advantage
of the public service, transportation to the place where the
contemplated exchange is to be made and the return trans-
portation of the exchanged volumes are a proper charge
against public funds, and shipments may be made on Govern-
ment bill of lading. (Bulletin 16, W. D., 1914.)
TRANSPORTATION OF SUPPLIES FOR POST
EXCHANGES
373. The transportation of supplies for post exchanges will
not be procured by use of a Government bill of lading, but
the charges for such transportation must be met from post
exchange funds.
TRANSPORTATION OF SUPPLIES PURCHASED
FROM HOSPITAL FUNDS
374. The cost of transportation of any article purchased
out of the hospital funds for the Army General Hospital at
Fort Bayard, N. M., or of any military hospital, should be
paid for out of such hospital fund. (20th Xomp., Dec. 72.)
TRANSPORTATION OF SUPPLIES FOR THE
MILITIA
Supplies for arming and equipping
375. Supplies issued to the several states and territories
under the laws for arming and equipping the militia will be
turned over to the Quartermaster Corps for transportation
and delivery at the railroad depot or steamboat dock nearest
to the point within the State or Territory designated by the
Governor thereof. Separate bills of lading will be used in
shipping this property. (A. R. 1143, 1913.)
Unserviceable and unsuitable property
376. The cost of transportation of unserviceable and un-
suitable property turned into a United States Arsenal or
depot is a proper charge against the appropriation "Trans-
portation of the Army and its Supplies." (109 Militia Regu-
lations.)
124 Handbook of Transportation
Condemned army horses
377. Government bill of lading will be issued to cover
transportation of condemned Army horses issued to the
militia, but the bill of lading will be indorsed: "Payable
from Militia funds, State of ."
TRANSPORTATION OF SUPPLIES FOR OTHER
GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS
AND BUREAUS
Law governing
378. Hereafter the Quartermaster General and his officers,
under his instructions, wherever stationed, shall receive,
transport, and be responsible for all property turned over to
them, or any one of them, by the officers or agents of any
Government survey, for the National Museum, or for the
civil or naval departments of the Government, in Washington
or elsewhere, under the regulations governing the transporta-
tion of Army supplies, the amount paid for such transporta-
tion to be refunded or paid by the bureau to which such
property or stores pertain. Act of July 5, 1885. (23 State.
111.)
Packing and marking
379. Under authority shown in paragraph 378 the Quarter-
master Gorps will ship all property that may be delivered to
it by any Department or Bureau of the Government, but the
property must be securely packed and marked with consignee
and destination before delivery to the Quartermaster Corps.
Government bills of lading will be issued as provided in para-
graph 88.
Personal effects coast guard
380. The personal effects of officers of the United States
Coast Guard, where shipment is to be made through the
Quartermaster Corps of the Army, are to be properly packed
and crated prior to delivery to that Corps. (Cir. Letter
Treasury Dept, Feb. 20, 1912.)
DEMURRAGE AND STORAGE
Car loads
381. The tariffs of all railroads provide that carload ship-
ments must be unloaded promptly and that cars placed for
loading must be loaded within a reasonable time. The time
usually allowed is 48 hours after cars are placed for unload-
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ing or loading, and if not released within this time an ad-
ditional charge (demurrage; is assessed. The "free time"
given is ordinarily ample for loading or unloading and de-
murrage should not be incurred except under extraordinary
conditions. In such cases the quartermaster will furnish a
statement to the agent of the carrier showing the actual time
each car was held and an explanation as to the cause of
delay. The explanation should be full and complete, as it
will be attached by the agent to his bill as authority for
payment.
Less than carloads
382. Where less than carload shipments are not removed
from the freight house within a reasonable time (usually 48
hours) a storage charge is assessed by the carriers for each
day the property is left in the freight house. Quartermasters
will see that shipments are removed from freight houses
promptly in order that additional expense may not be in-
curred for storage.
Prompt notification of arrival
383. The relations between the local quartermaster's office
and the local office of the carriers should be such as to" insure
prompt notification of the arrival of any freight.
TRANSPORTATION OF REMAINS
384. For regulations governing the shipment of the remains
of a deceased officer or enlisted man, see paragraphs 87 and
167, A. R.
Corpses must be placed in such coffins or cases as will pre-
vent the escape of offensive odors. A certificate of a physician
or health officer, stating cause of death, and that it was not
from infectious or contagious disease, must be attached to
waybill and duplicate pasted on top of case.
The outside case or box should be provided with at least
four handles. (Official Express Rules.)
STREET CAR AND FERRY TICKETS
385. For the transportation of officers, enlisted men, ap-
plicants or rejected applicants for enlistment, and employees
of the United States in the transaction of public business,
street car, electric railway or ferry tickets will be supplied
by the Quartermaster Corps, when this form of transportation
is preferable in convenience and cost to other forms of trans-
portation. This will not apply to an officer traveling under
126 Handbook of Transportation,
orders covering mileage. Travel between place of residence
and office or place of employment is not travel in the trans-
action of public business within the meaning of this para-
graph. The tickets when purchased will be taken up on the
property account and expended solely in the performance of
public duty. (A. R. 1127, 1913). See also paragraph ^238
hereof, for transportation furnished discharged soldiers.
Street car and ferry tickets will be purchased from the allot-
ment made for Class A supplies.
TOLL BRIDGES, FERRIES AND TURNPIKES
386. Whenever it shall be necessary for troops, teams, or
employees in the military service to pass on public duty over
a legally constituted toll bridge, ferry, or turnpike, the officer
or person in charge of the party will apply to the nearest
quartermaster for a request for such passage. If he cannot
obtain it, he will give to the keeper of the bridge, ferry, or
turnpike a certificate stating the number of persons and
whether mounted or on foot, number of loose animals, teams
and animals to each team for which toll or ferriage is due, and
showing that the travel is on public duty. Accounts for such
service, accompanied by the request, or certificates duly re-
ceipted, will be presented to the nearest disbursing quarter-
master for settlement, who, before payment, will satisfy him-
self that the rates charged do not exceed those authorized,
or paid by private individuals, and that the indebtedness was
necessarily incurred for the public service. Payment will be
made at the authorized or usual rates, unless more favorable
terms can be obtained. (A. R. 1126, 1913.)
DRAY AGE AND HAULING
Class 1 estimates
387. Hauling by other than owned transportation^ is a Class
1 non-personal service and estimates for such hauling should
be .submitted annually.
Economy
388. Drayage and hauling by commercial means should be
restricted as much as possible, and every effort made to per-
form the hauling with owned means of transportation.
Hauling baggage
389. The hauling of baggage, household _ goods and per-
sonal effects as an incident to its transportation is authorized
Handbook of Transportation 127
at public expense, and such hauling as may be necessary will
be furnished by the Quartermaster Corps.
Reimbursement unauthorized when cost of hauling is paid
by owner
390. There is no authority for reimbursement where the
cost of hauling is paid from personal funds, the Comptroller
of the Treasury having held:
"There is no law, or regulations having the force of law,
which makes provision for the reimbursement of a person
who hauls his baggage upon his own responsibility at his own
expense. This hauling was voluntary on the part of the per-
son concerned, and under the circumstances appearing, re-
imbursement of the cost of the hauling is not authorized."
(Comp. Dec. Feb. 26, 1916.)
Action to be taken where no quartermaster available
391. An officer under orders to change station to, or from,
a point where no quartermaster is available will communicate
with the Department Quartermaster, requesting instructions
as to hauling. If there is not sufficient time available to com-
municate with the Department Quartermaster, the officer will
arrange for the hauling in the most economical manner and
will forward the bill to the Department Quartermaster for
payment, certifying thereon that the service was actually per-
formed and secured after competition, and that the amount
charged is fair and reasonable.
Excess hauling
392. If an officer, for his own convenience, elects to fix his
residence at a point not in the city in which he is stationed
under orders, and such action results in increased charges for
hauling his personal effects on his change of station to or
from the point at which he is stationed, the excess cost of
hauling over what it would have cost to have hauled the
property in the city in which he is stationed, by Government
team or commercial service, will be charged against and col-
lected from the officer concerned. (296332 Q. M. G. O., Feb.
27, 1911.)
An Army officer ordered on duty without troops at a post
or station where there are no public quarters, whose baggage
upon arrival is hauled to a storage house at public expense,
is not entitled to reimbursement of cost of hauling baggage
from storage to quarters. (20 Comp. 702.)
128 Handbook of Transportation
TRANSPORTATION CLAIMS
CLAIMS FOR REIMBURSEMENT ACCOUNT
TRANSPORTATION
Persons
393. Travel at public expense should be on tickets pro-
cured on transportation requests. In such instances as may
occur where it has been necessary to pay the transportation
from personal funds, through being unable to secure trans-
portation request, conductor declining to honor ticket, or other
reason, the traveler will file claim, through proper channels,
with the Quartermaster General.
Baggage
394. As shown in paragraph 341 hereof, the Comptroller
of the Treasury has refused to sanction the reimbursement
of persons who have had their baggage transported at per-
sonal expense. If through unusual circumstances instances of
this kind should occur, claim for reimbursement may be made,
through channels, to the Auditor for the War Department.
CLAIMS AGAINST CARRIERS
Notification of loss or damage
395. The attention of all concerned is invited to the follow-
ing provisions of the Government bill of lading.
Unless otherwise specifically provided hereon, this bill of
lading is subject to the same rules and conditions as govern
commercial shipments made on the usual forms provided
therefor by the carrier.
In case of loss or damage to property while in the posses-
sion of the carrier, such loss or damage shall, when practic-
able, be noted on the bill of lading before^its accomplishment.
All practicable steps shall be taken at that time to determine
the loss or damage and the liability therefor, and to collect
and transmit to the proper officer, without delay, all evidence
as to the same. Should the loss or damage not be discovered
until after the bill of lading has been accomplished, the proper
officer shall be notified as soon as the loss or damage is dis-
covered, and the agent of the carrier advised immediately of
such loss or damage, extending privilege of examination of
shipment. (Note: The "proper officer" is the officer desig-
nated to settle the account for transportation.)
Handbook of Transportation 129
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Time within which claim may be filed
396. Attention is also invited to the following extract from
section 6 of the uniform commercial bill of lading :
Claims for loss, damage, or delay must be made in writing
to the carrier at point of delivery or at the point of origin
within four months after delivery of the property, or in case
of failure to make delivery, then within four months after a
reasonable time for delivery has elapsed. Unless claims are
so made the carrier shall not be liable.
Quartermasters must comply fully with these rules in the
case of loss or damage to public property, and so far as prac-
ticable in cases of loss or damage to personal property or
baggage transported on Government bills of lading; in the
latter cases notifying the agent of the carrier in writing that
claim wall probably be filed by the owner, and also advising
the owner of the property that it is incumbent upon him to
file claim with the carrier within four months after delivery,
and that if such action is not taken within the time specified
the carrier will, under the provisions of the uniform bin of
lading and rulings of the Interstate Commerce Commission,
decline to entertain any claim. (Circular No. 24, O. Q. M. G.,
1915.)
Public property
397. * * Public property that has been in transit will
be carefully checked upon arrival at its destination by the
receiving quartermaster with the bill of lading or manifest
in order to ascertain whether the carrier has fully carried
out all obligations imposed upon him. Should any discrepancy,
loss, or damage be found, the receiving quartermaster will at
once make application for a surveying officer by whom the
facts will be fully investigated (unless the carrier voluntarily
assumes liability for the loss) and the money value of the
damage or deficiency will be charged to the party responsible
therefor, whether it be the invoicing officer or the carrier.
The property will be delivered by the receiving quartermaster
to the officer to whom it is invoiced or to other proper con-
signee with a statement of the deficiency or damage and that
action by a surveying officer has been requested. * * * In
case the responsibility is fixed upon the carrier the receiving
quartermaster will note on the bill of lading the deductions
which shall be made for such loss or damage by the quarter-
master who pays the account, and will attach to the bill of
lading 2 copies of the approved report of the surveying officer.
130 Handbook of Transportation
The quartermaster -who pays the account will make the de-
duction and refund the amount stopped to the proper depart-
ment in the following manner, for example: If from an
account of $100 for transportation services there is a deduc-
tion of $25 for ordnance stores lost, the quartermaster will
take credit under the head "Transportation of the Army"
for $75 paid to the carrier, and also for $25 deposited to the
credit of the Treasurer of the United States on account of
"Replacing ordnance and ordnance stores ;" but if the deduc-
tion is on account of forage lost by the carrier, he will take
credit on his account current, under transportation, for $25
as carried to "Regular Supplies," under which head he will
charge himself with that amount. If, in any instance, col-
lection cannot be made, that fact, together with reasons there-
for, will be reported tc the proper chief of bureau.
Surveying officer
398. Should the omcer to whom the property is invoiced on
receipt of the same discover loss, damage, or discrepancy
not noted by the receiving quartermaster, he will at once
make application for a surveying officer, notifying the re-
ceiving quartermaster of the action.
In the case of shipments to the Philippine Islands via com-
mercial lines, the receiving quartermaster is authorized to
accomplish bills of lading on the receipt of stores, noting
thereon the value of the stores lost or damaged, as shown by
the invoices, plus the cost of transportation, settlement to be
made with the carriers with proper deduction to cover the
value of the stores and the cost of transportation, final set-
tlement to await the action of a surveying officer, to be called
for immediately by the receiving officer. (721 A. R., 1913.)
Personal property
399. In case of loss or damage to private property of
officers, or other persons connected with the military service,
that has been shipped on Government bill of lading, the
Comptroller of the Treasury has decided that any claim for
loss or damage to the property by the carrier is a matter
between the owner of the property and the carrier, and that
there is no authority of law for the withholding of money
due by the Government to the carrier to reimburse the owner
for the loss of his property.
The proper officer of the Quartermaster Corps will, how-
ever, exhaust every proper means to have a satisfactory ad-
justment made. (Cir. 14, W. D., 1910.)
Handbook of Transportation 131
The owner of the property must file claim with the carrier
for any loss or damage, but the claim may be filed through
the quartermaster designated to settle the account, and that
officer will, in such cases, endeavor to effect a prompt and
equitable settlement.
CLAIMS AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT FOR LOSS
OR DAMAGE TO PERSONAL PROPERTY
IN TRANSIT
When allowed
400. Under the provisions of paragraph 726, A. R., com-
pensation may be made :
* * * For the loss of or damage to the regulation allow-
ance of baggage of officers and enlisted men sustained in
shipment under orders, to the extent of such loss or damage
over and above the amount recoverable from the earner fur-
nishing the transportation, provided such loss or damage oc-
curred on or after March 4, 1915.
Board of officers to investigate loss or damage
401. Each claim for compensation will be for-
warded, through military channels, to the Auditor for the
\Yar Department and will, if possible, be accompanied by the
proceedings of a board of officers showing fully the circum-
stances of the loss. All personal property for the loss or
destruction of which payment is claimed must be enumerated
and described in the proceedings of the board of officers, but
the board will recommend payment for only such articles as
in the opinion of the board were reasonable, useful, necessary,
and proper for the claimant to have in the public service in
the line of duty.
As in most cases the property for which compensation is
claimed has been more or less worn, the board will determine
the value of each particular article and recommend the
amount to which claimants may be entitled.
Amount collected from carrier must be deducted from
claims
402. The board should show in their proceedings the
amount collected from the carrier, and this amount should be
deducted from the total amount allowed.
Notes
Notes
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