New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-05
Cantonments Springing Up Like
Mushrooms to Receive New Army
Fifty Thousand Carpenters and Other Artisans Recruited
Each Camp to Comprise 500 Buildings and
Will House So 900 Men

shortest hauls, and also minimum
freight charges.
For instance, in the case OF the
Louisville cantonment, principally Ala
bama, Mississippi and Florida mills
were, given the order. When the Little
Rock, Ark, cantonment order was
filled, it was placed with the Arkansas
mills. Other cantonments which have
so far been provided for by the bureau
include: Chillcothe, Ohio; Des Moines,
San Antonio and Fort Riley, Kansas. All
of this lumber has been delivered N
record time.
When the order for the Louisville
cantonment arrived, it was late Satur-
day afternoon. The bureaus force I'M
mediately brought the long distance
telephone into service, got in touch
personally with the director of every
available mill, worked throughout
Saturday night, all day Sunday and
until late Sunday night, when the last
part of the order was placed. BY early
Monday morning, Notwithstanding the
Sunday holiday, some of the lumber
had been loaded on cars and was be-
ing rushed to Louisville. :,
Normally it would have required
weeks if not months to place volume
of business of this size, especially
when it came almost simultaneously
with orders for a large part of ma
terals for San Antonio and Fort
Riley, not to mention several mlllioh
feet which was sent to Leon Springs,
Tex.
Each cantonment comprises about
1900 implanted timber structures OF
the simplest possible character. A
few buildings used for storage and as
garages and power plants will probably
be metal clad, and possibly corrugated
iron siding and roofing may be en-
ployed for them. Where the buildings
are supported on posts. more than 10
inches above the surface of the ground
and it is possible to keep the ground
below them free from inflammable rub
bish the sides are not boarded down
to the ground, which is done where
the clearance is less than 10 lnches'
except in the South, where it is neces-
sary to omit this precaution against
fire on account of the greater lmpor.
lance from a sanitary viewpoint, OF
permitting a free circulation of air
below the floor.
Barracks Two Stories High
The typical company barracks VIII De
a two story structure, built of wooden
frame, covered with matched boards:
The roofs will be covered with prepared
roofing. They will be well ventilated
with hues, lighted by electricity,
heated in the North by steam, and in
the South by stoves, the latter arrange
ment being similar to that in force in
the housing of Canadian regiments.
Each will have kitchen and mess hall.
1t is proposed to jacket the stoves so
as to increase the circulation of air
and to carry the stove pipes directly
up through the second story and roof.
The barracks for the men are two
story buildings, 43 feet wide and OF
different lengths, depending on the
number of men to be accommodated.
At one end is a single story kitchen,
with a pantry and a sleeping room for
the cooks. A long counter separates
the kitchen from the mess hall, where
all the men living in the barracks will
eat. In the centre Of the first floor is
a company hall, with doors leading out
on each side of the building and
stairway through the floor above. This
company hall separates the kitchen
from the first floor dormitories.-The
Southern Lumberman.