Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-23
$3,OOO,OOO CAMP
FOR CITY TROOPS
New York Concern Gets
Contract for Cantonment
at Annapolis Junction
SPEEDING UP DUCK MILLS
Bv a star Correspondent
WASHINGTON. June 25.


Construction Of the cantonment at Ann
! apolie Junction Md, where all Of the Phila-
delphla and Pittsburgh men VINO are drafted
! into the military service Of the United
States will be trained is to begin within
the next few days The war Department
today announced the award Of the contract
for building the cantonment to Smith
Hauser, and NJ. F. Isaac. Of New York,
thereby turning down local contractors who
had attempted to get the work
The construction Of more than 100 build
ings the laying Of miles Of sewer and the
building Of roads in the cantonment will
cost more than $4,000 900. The contractor
will receive per cent profit on the cost of
labor and materials. making profit OF
100000 on a $4,000. 900 contract II IL
estimated that the net profit will he only
half that the other $685. 900 going for over
head expenses. Between 5000 and 5000
men will be employed In constructing the
barracks.
Most Of the barracks will be two stories
high housing 200 soldiers each There will
be thirty-three men to room in these
buildings Unlike the one-story tunnel
shaped barracks constructed At the officers
training camps the kitchen and mess hall
will be attached to the sleeping quarters.
At the officers training camps the com
pauy kitchens are separated.
Another change IL that the soldiers are
not to sleep on double-deck beds, one man
sleeping above the other, the Surgeon GEN
erals office maintaing that such a housing
arrangement is inSanitary. All Of the men
will sleep on the same level ON individual
iron beds.
The last step in a long series Of negotia
tiuus directed toward speeding mp the
Il,..r.
has been completed by the Committee on
Supplies, Of the Council Of National De-
fcnsc.
Six weeks ago. it is made known. fifty
million yards of duck for tents, motortruCk
coverings, loggings, hayersacks and other
equipment were needed at once by the
Government The duck mills Of the entire
country We're unable to produce more than
twenty million yards before the first Of
next January. The remaining thirty million
Yards needed the Committee of Supplies
undertook to get by encouraging manu-
faCturers who were making carpets and
other kinds Of cotton textiles to turn their
plants to making duck. Hundreds Of looms
were changed and builders stocks were
altered 50 extensively that many mills
without facilities for making yarns en-
countered serious shortage Of them. 1t
therefore became necessary to obtain the
cooperation Of the makers Of yarn.
In order to avoid sharp rises in prices
and the disarrangement of existing Govern
ment prices for duck, which would occur if
the Government went into the market for
the sixteen million pounds of hard cotton
yarn needed, the Committee on Supplies
asked the yarn makers to mobilize their
forces to help the mills yarn committee
has been organized at a meeting Of rep
resentatives of twenty major spinning
manufacturers and dealers. This COM
mittee, composed Of Andrew 5. Webb, of
Philadelphia, chairman; w. p. Moore, OF
Yorkville, S. c., and J. A. Vaudeville. of
Carrollton, Ga, with offices in New York
city. will be charged with the entire respon-
siblity of adjusting the yarn supply to the
needs of the mills