Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1916-09-07
BASE HOSPITAL
AT LLAN0 GRANDE
New $4,000 Structure Being
Built.

for the construction of the buildings
of the new base hospital at Llano
Grande has been awarded to the
McMurry Lumber Co., of Mercedes.
:, The building will cost $4,000
which includes the plumbing, paint
ing and equipment. Ten acres has
been set aside for the buildings.
There will be an administration and
six ward buildings each 20x102, a
kitchen 20x60, a dining room 20xS0
and two bath houses each 11x32.
Each of the buildings will be en-
tirely surrounded by screened in
porch eight feet wide.
All will be connected by the same
line of plumbing and 1900 feet of
board walks will connect them. In
the center will be a two-acre rectan-
gle court in which sub-tropical
plants and flowers will be planted.
Camera Army Makes Raid.
The camera army is growing big
ger every day, and gradually it is
taking wider and wider territory,
making successful raids in every di-
rection. Especially thorough was the
raid into the Mexican quarter of
Mercedes. Thousands of shots were
fired, and there were not less than
200 or 800 men in the camera bat
teries who made the raid. Women
and children were not spared. Ev-
erybody welcomed the raiders, and
many families came right out doors
and asked to be shot and, after they
had been shot, requested that it be
done all over again, and brought out
grandmother and the babies for the
invaders to snap-shoot. Photo
graphers in the big cities near Mer-
cedes are kept busy day and night
finishing the work of the camera ar
my.
Floors for every tent at Llano
Grande have been ordered and the
lumber is being shipped in. Cots for
all men will be here eventually. In
the meantime the soldiers will sleep
dryer and more comfortably for the
floors. Most of the officers had al
ready had wooden floors installed at
their own expense.
Now some of the men, socially in
clined, are discussing the possibility
of putting all the floors together on
some red letter night and forming
gigantic ball room floor.
There were five women at Llano
Grande yesterday" said one. IF
each man dances one waltz with each
of them, they will have $4,000
waltzes on their programs. That
ought. to satisfy any girl"
The flooring ordered for the tents
is another indication that Llano
Grande camp is not here for day.
The Y. M. c. A. buildings are pop
ular places. The Indiana building
first to be completed, was filled on
the opening night, and the soldiers
throng the room in all leisure hours,
reading, writing, chatting and smok-
ing. Writing paper and envelopes
bearing the American flag are fur
nished by the Army and navy branch
of the association and there is no
charge for the stationery.
The camp cooks are learning their
business. The complaints of mess
were pretty numerous in the first
days Of camp. But there are very
few now. The quality of the rations
is good, and the men in charge of
the stoves know how to prepare it.
Every, week there is an improve
ment. "If some of the grumblers
could have tasted what we had In
the Spanish American war, they
wouldn't be kicking over this
Chow" said a veteran Of the Cuban
There 10 no compari-
ron between cook house conditions
then and now. We are lucky" i