Evening star., 1924-12-01
FUNDS FOR ARMY
POSTS HERE ASKED
Walter Reed and Boiling Field
Aid Plea Made by Weeks
in House.

a construction program for the
various Army posts In the United
states, Hawaii and the Panama Canal
Zone, estimated to cost slI5,sa8.OoO
and including $3,s2O,0o0 for Walter
Reed Hospital and s3ss, 500 for Boil
ling Field, Anacostia, D. c., was out
lined in a report submitted TO the
House today by Secretary OF War
Weeks
II the funds asked for to under
take new construction projects at
waiter Reed Hospital are granted.
three permanent wards, housing $50
oeos, permanent quarters for non
commissioned officers and quarters
Tor the hospital nurses would be
erected within the reservation.
Boiling Fields dilapidated wartime
barracks that house the enlisted men
and the uninposfng officers quarters
together with other r-time estab-
iishments at the field. would be re-
placed BY structures Of permanent
and efficient type. This Improvement
would place Boiling Field on a par
with many other modernized fields
throughout the country.
Would Sell Holdings.
The War Department also seeks
authority TO sell real estate it owns
and now of little value to it in order
to begin the much needed work
throughout the country. So far only
Sls,0oo,e0o could be realized from the
sale Of this real estate and Sis
93s.0c0 Is needed to eliminate ther
wartime structures. Since the war
it is said At the department today
10000 men have been living in tents
and temporary barracks and the stu
alton has now reached serious pro-
portions.
AS Boiling Field stands far down
on the priority list, 1t was explained
in the Air Service headquarters to-
day, there stands little chance OF the
construction program going into Of
feet, IL the appropriation is granted,
within the next Ave years Walter
Reed Hospital, however. stands a
little better chance of realizing its
much needed inprovemen but at
present It is all up to Congress just
how much to appropriate and how
much to spend on each project
recommended.
$s4,65s,Soo Asked for L. :.
OF the total. ss4,s5s. 500 would be
expended in continental United
States, $11,74s,5oo in Hawaii and
1850, 900 In the Canal Zone.
In addition, it was set forth that
new construction. classed as deferred
and totaling s37,705,0G0, would be
needed some time in the future, OF
which S27,600.00 would be utilized TO
provide Army storage and shelter in
the Philippines.
New construction suggested in the
report, which was requested by Con-
gress, and the rough estimate OF total
cost included:
New Air Service fields at Boston,
Mass. s555.5oo; Camp Devens. Mass,
81 ass, 600; Camp Dix, n. J., $1,029.0 600:
Fort Jay, y. Y, s1,269.000; Mitchell
Field, n. Y. s1,055,e00: Plattsburg,
". Y. s4S2.OO0; Fort Totten, y. Y.
s301,50o: Fort Wadsworth, \. Y.
1917, 900. Camp Vail. y. j.. SIZES, ,oov:
Aberdeen Proving Grounds. Md. $685.
900: Edgewood Arsenal. Md, s4Sl, SEQ;
Fort Eustis, Ga, s2.463.500; Fort
Humphreys. Va. s2.053,o0O; Langley
Field, Va, s1,5l5.0oo.
Camp Meade, Nd. so,S05, 900; Fort
Bragg, n. c.. S4.117,0 900: Fort Benning,
Ca, SIC, o,33s, 500. Camp MCPHERSON. Ga.
1851, 900; Camp Mcclellan. Ala. $2,217,-
600; Maxwell Field. Ala, s3s0.oo0;
Fairfield Air intermediate Depot,
Ohio, $5s2,0o0: Fort Benjamin Har-
rison, Ind. sl,434.000: Scott Field. H..
ii, 1000; SehridSe fieId, Mlch., sG'-
255,000: Chanute Field, ILL.,, S2.725,0oO:
jefferson Barracks, No, Sls2,000;
Army and Navy General Hospital.
Ark, s1s1.0o0; Fort Riley. kane, ST.
1900; Fort Bliss, Tex, sl,15s.060:
Brooks Field, Tex, s2,2S3 600; Kelly
Field. Tex, sa,02s.00o: Camp Nor
moyle, Tex, sS33,000; Fort Sam Hous-
ton. Tex, s7,342,0oo; Fort Sill. Okla,
$s,594, 900: Letterman General Hosp!-
tai. Calf, s1.055.o0o; Camp Lewis
Wash, s4,S84, 900.