Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-07-14
BIG lob OF BUYING
Supplies for Camp at Site of
the New Workhouse.
LIST IS A VARIED ONE
Everything From Salt Cellars to
Handouts Purchased.
MEN WILL LIVE IN TENTS
Streets of Temporary Village to Be
Well Lighted-Care as to
Sanitation.

A huge job of buying and transporting
supplies for small village of men is
being conducted at the District building,
where Marion c. Hargrove, the District
property clerk, is doing the purchas sing
for the transported prisoners. the work.
men, guards and officers who have re-
Gently pitched their tents at Occouuan
Va, the site OF the new workhouse
! The proposition was like this: There
| were several hundred men to take to Oc-
coQuan establish community and have
everything in living and working order
as soon as they got there. So far no one
has heard that there were any serious
bitches in the program. The prisoners
are there. the guards are there, and also
an enormous quantity of everything that
is necessary for life and work seems to
be there.
Lot of Stuff Necessary.
The acquisitions and bills are piled high
on Mr.. Hargrove's desk. A glance at
them shows what a diverse lot of stuff
was necessary for the maintenance of the
tented prison village and the little COM
munity Of guards and workmen.
One of the biggest things Mi. Har-
grove bought is a set of three tents, 10
feet long. Is feet wide and II feet high.
The men sleep under them. Two other
tents one-third as long were purchased
for officers and guards.
Thirty thousand feet of pine went down
with collection Of towels and salt cell
lars. The temporary shacks and flooring
are being built from this lumber Before
the men went down the engineers figured
out exactly what would be needed n
near these facilities as a camp can have,
and Mr.. Hargrove went to work buying
great quantities of iron pipe. traps vents,
stopcocks and an nnumerable number of
little pieces of similar hardware, every
last piece OF which has found its use in
the economy of the camp.
Heavy Blankets Purchased.
The men haven't needed any extra
thick blankets during the past few days,
but just the same Mr.. Harerove found
300 pairs of big blue blankets. With
these went 600 sheets and 300 felt pill
lows. each pillow fitted to a pillow case
Three hundred mattresses completed the
bedding.
Clean faces will be the rule. as a wagon
load of wash rags and towels went
down There will be a rush on shaving
days, as only four shaving mugs and
four shaving brushes appear on the Dis
trict's acquisitions. However, there are
a dozen good raZors of we'll known
make. but for the twelve there are only
four razor strOps and not much soap
The kind of coffee that Supt. lynx han
used to make will be doled out in sew
eral hundred cups. 1t will be made in a
pair of mammoth urns which hold forty
gallons apiece. Not quite SO much tea
can be made at once. for the single tea
urn is a delicate little sixty-gallon affair.
One hundred and sixty loaves of bread
will be turned out at a baking with the
baking apparatus which Mr.. Hargrove
bought. 1t is a wood burner and bakes
good bread, according to the camp baker.
The other food Is cooked on a range
twelve feet long. which has six ovens
baking oven and all, cost almost a thou
sand dollars.
Streets to Be Lighted.
Six fine honses and two big wagons
were bought to do the camps hauling
In addition Mr.. Hargrove bought ten
mules today. The streets of the camp
will be lighted with twenty-five enormous
glObular oil lamps. placed on posts
These lamps were bought today, also.
Thus far one might suppose that this
was a National Guard outfit, as far as
living is concerned, but one is brought
the people in this camp started there
from the Police Court. when one reads
that Mr.. Hargrove went out shopping for
twelve pair of delicately polished leg
irons and twenty-five pairs of polished
handouts. Polished-not plain. This is
no low down camp. If the leg irons
won't hold them, there is one hundred
thousand feet Of barbed wire fence run
ming round the place. Mr. Hargrove
bought that early in the operations. along
with post hole diggers and stake drivers
Also the camp is provided with thirty
revolvers, dozen Winchesters and q
thousand rounds of ammunition
Three hundred blue uniforms were or
uered today. These will gradually take
the place of the old-fashioned prison
stripes. Supt. Whitaker intends to al
low the uniforms to the prisoners who