Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-08-11
Sixteen Cities Being Built to
House Soldiers While
in Training
WILL HAVE POPULATION
OF ABOUT $4,000 EACH
This Great Task Being Car
ned Out Almost Without
Notice by Public

New York, Aug. 11.-More than 1OC,
900 men are working with all haste
today in sixteen cantonment camps
scattered throughout the country in an
effort to have them as near completion
as possible by September first, when
the first of Americas new national
army will probably be mobilized.
With the settlement Of differences
which threatened strike troubles in all
the camps, reports to the United Press
from the sixteen cantonments indicates
that most of them will be ready by
the middle of September at the latest.
Reports show 114.646 men employed
in construction WORK at the camps.
Sixteen "new cities - with thous-
ands of buildings, streets carefully laid
out, sewerage and water systems, hos
pitfalls, garages, hangers and stables arc
rising into being
Tens of thousands of feet of lumber
are pouring into these camps daily.
Every man capable of driving a nail or
guiding a saw is being given q job.
An Army Of Workmen
From five thousand to 1900 men
are at work today in each Of the vari-
Ious camps. Thousands Of motor trucks,
teamsa and wagons are engaged in the
work of hauling lumber and supplies
Long lines of freight trains are ear
rying the lumber from mills to the
cantonments
Thus one Of the biggest tasks Amer
lea ever undertook is being carried out
almost beyond the notice of the coun-
try at large
To these camps will 60 the flower Of
American youth, unframed but willing
to fight. From them will come trained.
equipped citizen soldiers for service ON
the battlefields of France.
From Yaphank, L. J., Just outside
New York, to Atlanta, Ga, in the
south, Rockford, H., in the middle
west Fort Sam Houston, in the far
southwest and American Lake, Wash
ington, in the northwest, the clang OF
hammers, the drone Of saws and creak-
ing Of heavily laden wagons are the
most significant war sounds in America
today.
Within another six weeks the first
Of America g 687,000 national army
men will be in camp. Before snow flies
all will be in the cantonments. Here
are the reports from the various can
tonments as received by the United
Press:
Stages Of Completion
Atlanta, Ga.-Cantonment sixty per
cent complete. VIII be about hoo
in ALL Six thousand men now
1T work. Will be ready about Scptem-
Der 10.
Wrightstown, N. Fifty per cent
IF work complete Five thousand men
Nf tho
santonment. Be ready the middle or
October.
Chillicothe. Ohio-Forty per cent
complete; 1926 buildings, including $50
barracks now ready. Infantry division
De ready September l. camp be fully
completed November $500 men em-
1loyed in construction work.
Battle Creek, Mich.-Forty barracks
now ready. be completed latter part
If November; six thousand men en-
Dloyed; DELAY in shipment materials
loldiung up work.
Louisville, Kv.-(Camp Taylor)-
Vow more than half ready; 5000 men
It work; be completed September /.
Petersburg, Va.-Sixty five per cent
be ready September first;
j 900 men employed; ~ teams; 81
motor trucks; 1000 houses already up
Ayers, Mass.-Be ready September
5s7 buildings now up; slO0 men at
york.
Fort Sam Houston-Be ready by Sep
ember l; 20 per cent Of work now fin
shed; 1926 men at work,
Ready by October
Annapolis Junction, Md.-Be ready
bout October l handicapped by scare
ty of labor; 1900 men now at work.
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