The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-16
CAMP TRAVIS
NEARLY FINISHED
Big Stone e Webster Cantonment job
Near San Antonio, Texas Rep
idly Nearing Conn.,
pietion.

The big Stone & Webster canton
ment job at Camp Travis, near San
Antonio, Texas, Is nearly completed,
according to newspaper clipping
1 from the San Antonio Light. sent to
The Gate City by ]. j. Miley. formerly
tof this city. A number OF keokuk
men have been employed on the work
| in various capacities. The Lights
article follows:
| Every one of the $50 two-stary
barracks at Camp Travis cantonment
| is finished and ready for occupancy
with the exception of what Thomas A.
| Carr, general superintendent for Stone
| & Webster, characterfzes as "details"
These details include some plumbing
and appurtenances for the kitchens.
The big ranges, one of which will go
into each building have not arrived
| yet, but are understood to be On the
way
The big barracks being finished,
| the labor of 5000 men has been turn
ed toward construction of the one
story buildings and the various equip
ment houses and other small houses
that go to make up the total of the
contract. Plumbing supplies are COM
| ing slowly and are being installed as
men buildings are thus equipped, the
aim being to get the infantry barracks
4 finished first. All these have been
equipped electrically, the wires being
| installed almost as fast as the houses
were completed.
| Fire protection for the cantonment
has been installed throughout the four
infantry divisions. Big water mains
form a loop around the infantry sec
! ton, with laterals radiating, and at
regular distances fire plugs are locat-
| ed ready for business.
! Smoking about the cantonment has
been prohibited, warning signs being
| placed, and two troops of cavalry are
stationed about the work to enforce
the order among workmen as well as
visitors.
vised that the big pumps to handle
the sewage into the city mains will be
shipped August Is by express and
should be here within two days. By
August 20 or q Mr.. Carr believes
they will be installed and connected
up, thus permitting the use of the
sewer system throughout the canton.
ment. A special representative of
Stone & Webster will accompany the
pumps and see that no delay occurs.
Although the hospital unit for
Camp Travis has been authorized and
practically all the lumber is on the
ground, Mr.. Carr said the site has not
been chosen. All other material for
the hospital also has been ordered
and IS enroute. Mr.. Carr said when
the site is selected little time will
elapse before that necessary adjunct
to the cantonment will be constructed
Painting of the buildings composing
the cantonment has not been author
lied as yet, but is expected, according
to Mr. Carr. The first requisite, he
said, is to get the buildings habitable,
after which the identifying and pres
ervation of them can be considered.
"As matter of fact said Mr..
Carr, "some of the 200-men barracks
are now being occupied by the soldier
guards"
Streets throughout the cantonment
have been graded and named and
some Of them have received the first
treatment Of tarvia This is separ-
ate contract given by the government
to the Finley Method company, which
concern has done considerable work
for Bexar county.
The pay roll, as made up for Sat
urday at Camp Travis, shows that
slightly more than $4,000 will be
paid out Saturday evening for the
weeks work. For the week previous,
it was S205,000 and for the week be-
fore that it was s1SO0O0. The ascend
ing scale was caused by the fact that
the number of employees has increased