The Sentinel=record., 1917-06-12
LITTLE ROCK GETS
 BIG CONTONMENT
BUSINESS MEMS LEAGUE FIRST TO WIRE HEARTY CONGRATU.
 LATIONS THERE.
Reply Received indicates Little Rock Appreciated Message That Came So Soon After Announcement.

No sooner had the news been re
 ceiyed that Little Rock had been se lected as one of the cities where a
 great cantonement would be located
 by officials of the United States army
 than a telegram. signed by President Gus Strauss, Secretary Ebel and the board If governors of the Business
 Mems League went flashing over the wires to the Chamber of Commerce. Little Rock, extending sincere con. II gratulations on behalf of Hot Springs to the people of the City of Roses" on being thus honored by the army officials
 Last evening reply vas received from President w. B. Smith to the Leagues message, which indicated how deeply the Chamber of Com. merce appreciated the Leagues tele. gram President Smith stated that he invited the cooperation of the League and the people of Hot Springs to make the cantonement for Arkansas a great success.
 Secretary Ebel will leave for Little Rock this morning for a conference with officers in the military training camp and railroad officials there in an effort to bring about weekend excursions to Hot Springs, and it is believed from information that has l reached the League, that the two rail 1 roads running into this city from Lit tie Rock will be glad to arrange such 1 facilities as will bring hundreds of | soldiers to Hot Springs over Sunday | during the time they are located at Little Rock There are other features in connection with the location of the cantonement in Little Rock that may rebound to the great benefit cf this city. and officials of the League are still at work along those lines. Following the designation of Little Rock as the site for the divisional con centration camp a corps of army en- sineers is expected within the next few days 10 begin work of getting the camp site into shape
 This city-for that is practically what the training camp will be-will have population of approximately 30,000 people in he event this is desig mated as a single division camp. In the event it is designated as a double division camp the population of course will be double, or 6O,0OO people
 IL will have a separte waterworks system, a separate pumping station. filters and settling basins It will have a complete sewer system and sewage disposal plant; a separate and complete fire Gepartment lighting plant, in fact every facility of a mod ern up to date city.
 The cost of erecting d divisional camp has been estimated at $2.000,000 where wooden cantonement buildings are constructed l. has not been fin. ally determined whether or not the Little Rock camp will be constructed If wood or canvas The Board of Commerce Monday took up the ques. ton with the war department urging that wooden buildings be erected Inasmuch as the site has been do mated to the government and is to be come government property il is thought probable by members of the committee that the wo. den buildings will be used.
 Transportation facilities will be one of the problems hat the Board of Commerce will assist in meeting It is required that transportation facill- ties with a minimum of 100 cars a day be furnished The roads will also have to be materially improved t1 meet the requirements of the extra heavy traffic, artillery, troops, supply trains. etc, that will be moved over them
 To give some idea of the magnitude of the camp, it is said that if the can tenement buildings should be placed end to end it would make a building l3 miles long That includes officers quarters, supply depots, etc, for the animals that will be quartered at the camp. They probably would make building six miles long. If all the buildings and corrals were placed end to end 1t would make building ap- proximately 20 miles long
 The ideal arrangement of buildings, l 4l. t,roora ,,b,t t,,iII narr,{f ig