Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 283, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1917 — ARMY BATHING TRAIN USED BY GERMANS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ARMY BATHING TRAIN USED BY GERMANS

The difficulty of keeping the German soldiers physically fit through cleanliness was solved by the Bavarian pioneers who evolved this “Water Nymph” on wheels from old discarded railroad stock. Behind the tender of the locomotive is water tank which supplies the bathing cars with water heated by the fires'in the locomotive and pumped into the cars through an automatic contrivance working in conjunction with the locomotive pistons. There are also a number of cars attached to this train utilized by medical officers and their staff who periodically examine the German soldiers who utilize the “baths.” ■

"WATER NYMPH" ON WHEELS IN GERMANY.