tates. Central
officers' training schools were organized at each of the replacement
camps. Replacement camps and training centers for the various staff
departments were also organized. Development battalions were organized
at all division camps and large posts and camps for the purpose of
developing men of poor physique and the instruction of illiterates and
non-English-speaking men of the draft. During the fiscal year 5,377,468
officers and men were moved by railroad to and from the camps.

The Operations Division has during the year also handled all matters
connected with the adoption of new types of equipment, fixing allowances
for various units, the preparation of tables of equipment for them, and
the distribution and issue of equipment, and the determination of
priorities of such issue.

It has supervised and studied the needs of camps and construction work
therein, and this work in general has been characterized by marked
ability and devotion to duty.

PURCHASE, STORAGE AND TRAFFIC DIVISION

The Division of Purchase, Storage and Traffic is under the charge of
Major-General George W. Goethals, United States army, as Assistant Chief
of Staff and Director of Purchase, Storage and Traffic. This division
was organized by merging divisions previously created, and which had
been called "Storage and Traffic" and "Purchase and Supply." The new
division thus organized was subdivided into Embarkation Service,
Storage, Inland Traffic Service, and Purchase and Supply Branch.

Embarkation.--At the outbreak of the war the Quartermaster's Department
had charge of the transportation of troops and supplies and continued to
exercise these functions until August 4, 1917, when they were
transferred to a separate division of the General Staff, specially
created for the purpose, and designated as the Embarkation Service. As
already noted, this was subsequently merged with the Storage and Traffic
Division.

Two primary ports of embarkation were established, one with headquarters
at Hoboken, N. J., and the other at Newport News, Va., each under the
command of a general officer.

The Quartermaster's Department was operating a service to Panama from
New York, but with the shipment of troops to France a new condition
arose which was met only in part by taking over the Hoboken piers,
formerly owned by the Hamburg-American and North German Lloyd steamship
companies, and the magnitude of the undertaking necessitated additional
facili