Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-15

are likewise being destroyed IN the
work of making the camp ready, and
corn that stood six feet tall has been
leveled in the work of laying the adj
ditional railroad tracks and spurs. In
the case of the vegetables 1t Is true
they could not be saved. because OF the
fact that they will not mature until
about the time the camp must be COM
pleted. But the ripe wheat in the
fields might easily have been harvested
and saved before the steam shovels,
grading machines and trucks destroyed
Roughly speaking, the camp Is to be
in the form of a huge U. the open end
of the lying toward the south. The
line Of cantonments is to stretch
northward two miles, make turn one
mile across and then run south an
other two miles. Across the railroad
line that bisects the site a field OF
about $500 acres is to be used as
drill ground and maneuvering field;
while. as has been said, room for more
extended maneuvers will be found out
side the tract. The camps drill field,
however. will be about four miles long.
The fourth division of the national
army to be trained at Camp Admiral
Is to be composed Of ten regiments OF
infantry. three of light artillery. one Of
heavy field artillery, an engineering
and equipment train, an ammunition
train. supply train, two aero squadrons
with four hangers each. division head
quarters ana hospital.
Each regiment is to occupy what may
be compared roughly with a city block.
and each block is to house every man,
animal and bit Of equipment possessed
by the regiment, all within the unit.
Division headquarters will be situated
at the top of the U, down the middle
of which runs Rogue's Harbor branch,
a little stream much given to piling
out of its banks after hard rain. The
stream Is to be crossed by many
bridges, and along it is to be laid the
main sewer of the camp.
Four Big Reservoirs.
On the hills to the southeast of the
camp are to be constructed four reser-
voirs, each of a storage capacity OF
100000 gallons, to furnish the camps
water supply. The water is to come
from deep-driven wells.
Just now work at the camp is being
delayed by the failure Of material to
arrive. Hundreds of thousands OF feet
of lumber for the buildings Is tied up
somewhere in the United States. watt
find cars for 1t. engines to haul the
cars and a chance to deliver 1t.
Meanwhile workmen from every part
Of the east are fiocking to Admiral and
many Of them are being held on wait
ing lists so that they will be available
are paying ordinary labor IS for q ten
hour day and feed the men for 81
day. Carpenters are being paid as
high as $3.50 day for specially skilled
men.
And the little country store is reap
ing the harvest of its lifetime. Work
men. soldiers. guards and visitors
stand around in focks trying to find
something for which to spend money
and usually falling, for the reason that
earlier corners have beaten them to 1t.
Star correspondent visited the place
Wednesday were almost as bare as
those Of old Mother Hubbard's closet.
and a rack that had held dozens Of five
and Aen-cent pies was In about the same
condition. OF cigars, cigarettes. to-
bacco. candy and the like there wasn't
any. it had all been cleaned out and
new stock hadn't arrived. being like
wise tied up somewhere in Maryland.
in their pockets and nothing to spend
1t for.
At the engineers camp the engineers
cussed the contractors: at the con-
tractors Office they were cussing the
railroads: the would-be laborers outside
cussed everybody. including themselves,
and everybody seemed to be having a
morning hate that was lasting over
till late afternoon.
But the steam shovels and graders
went merrily on running perfectly good
ripe wheat: once in a while q car
penter would spy a plank that didn't
seem to belong to anybody in particu-
lar and with a whoop of Joy he would
pounce on it and begin saving; work
men stood around in each others way
or leaped nimbly from under the hoofs