The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1909-07-10

including medical officers houses $4,000.
Since the United States took its place in the
of the world powers following the Scandinavian
the navy has been growing at rapid rate The compile
ton of each batteship meant the employment of least
500 additional seamen and occasionally It necessary
to resort to strong measures to get sufficient recruits
The heads Of the navy department took the problem
hand and recognizing that the greaake district had In
the past furnished large number of the navy
decided to establish vast naval station the
most favorable site that could be obtained Accordingly
after dozen sites had been submitted and examined the
Lake Bluff site selected the most centrally located
and as possessing more natural advantages than any
other
The site of the institution Is about and
halls ride by railroad train from the center of this city
and little by electric line The ride through
the arisocrac suburbs Of Evanston Forest High
land Park Wimette and Winnetka. The station Is 10
Gated about mile and half beyond the station Of Lake
Blur and II marked BY trim little depot Of the electric
ine You rst apprsed Of the fact that Uncle Sam
engaged project from the signs which pen
fully adorn the boundaries of the reservation warning the
passsby that he in the vicinity Of government prop
srty and that he should keep Oh.
The larger buildings Of the station completely
hidden BY trees that the general public passing BY the
trains on the way to Mwaukee or wauksgan would have
idea Of the extent Of the institution were Il not for the
tower Of the administration building which itself
from the lake front The hills and intervening trees of
the neshborhood almost completely screen the large
! buildings from view.
INTENDING from the fence which separates the main
enclosure from the main thoroughfare the smaller
brick buildings in which viii be housed the appcants
qualifications and general health examined into
There are some half dozen neat twostoried brick
buildings, admirably lighted and nnished. in which the
recruit WIN be housed comfortably at any average
Chicago hotel They extend in row toward the lake
front whore the larger buildings located which
win be housed the regularly admitted members Of the
Y Institution.
The nrst structure which approaches at the main
entrance Of the grounds II the general once buildns
which occupied By the government inspectors. CON
tractors and engineers IN charge Of the work This =
compact wostory structure and Il situated in proxihy
70 the edectric trolley line, which built into TIE
grounds 70 facilitate the transportation Of The consto
don materials. s1 IS f.'.S ". q ts n 4 n 81
/ An last sunnss and fall more than 1000 msn wsrs
engaged upon the greatlakes naval station - Il = desi
mated 4 ths ocal reports cf Tie secretary Of the
The result % tlsir ostS = sesA n The practical
eomplstion 81 Tie a buildings a which The station =
now ccmposed end this sDfing md summer VIII see TIE
! completion Of several more large stzuetnses.
1 proceeding toward ne lake from re inspsotors'
ofncss one gradually deep ryine norderpdon
each side by large nses Nature ~ teon
generous 70 ne nsghborhood about IAks Hu and 4 =
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