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he added, the hotel would be avail
able for Offices of Federal agencies
that occupy even in peacetime an
equivalent amount of space.
Attached to Mr. Patterson's letter
was list of eight other hotels pur-
chased instead of being leased be-
cause, he said, they are to be used as
permanent hospital installations and
may be transferred to the Veterans
Administration This list follows:
Miami i-Biltmore, Miami Beach,
Fla, 400 rooms: purchase price,
$895.0O0: appraisal, s1,000,0OO.
Nautilus, Miami Beach - 200
rooms; purchase price, $500, 900; ap-
praisal, $700,000
Cesar, St, Petersburg. Fla.
-263 rooms; purchase price, s440,-
900; appraisal, s440000.
Ell Mirador, Palm Springs, Calf
$50 rooms; purchase price, $425,-
900; appraisal, s430o00.
$4,000 900 for Greenbrier.
Greenbrier, White Sulph ur
Springs, w. Va.-700 rooms; pur-
chase price. s3,3oo,ooo; appraisal
So, 500, 900.
Eastman Hotel, Hot Springs, Ark.
500 rooms; purchase price, s5l0,-
900; appraisal. $6000 900.
Forest Hills, Augusta, Ga.-30O
rooms condemnation proceedings
pending); appraisal. 100000.
Chicago Beach Hotel. Illinois
800 rooms condemnation proceed
ings pending; appraisal, 100000
Mr.. Patterson also reported the
purchase of the Shark River Hotel,
Neptune, N. j., with At rooms, for
$50 $40, to be used like the Stevens,
for troop training. 1t was ap-
praised at s44600.
Three school purchases were list
ed as follows: National Park Semi
nary, Forest Glen, Md-500 rooms;
purchase price, 1856 900; appraisal,
$4,000.
Arlington Hall College. Airing
ton. Va.-100 rooms; purchase price,
$3.50 900: appraisal. s604,O0
Harrisburg Academy, Harrisburg,
fd.-1OO lOOlllo, qua SAlo~'S paw
$500 900; appraisal, $426964.
Schools Altered Extensively.
In discussing these schools, Mr..
Patterson's report stated:
Three schools have been acquired
in fee by the War Department. The
National Park Seminary at Forest
Glen, Md, was purchased 'for con-
version to permanent hospital.
The Arlington Hall College at Ar
lington, Va. is to be used as a
permanent Army installation in con-
nection with the War Department
headquarters at Washington. The
Harrisburg academy at Harrisburg
Pa, is being used by the Army Afr
Force as q training school. In all
three instances 1t has been necessary,
to install highly specialized equip
ment- and effect extensive alterations
in the buildings. For these reasons
1t was clearly to the Governments
advantage to obtain fee title to the
premises"
Mr.. Patterson reported that the
Battle Greek Sanatorium, Battle
Creek, Mich, was purchased rather
than leased for the same reasons
that the hotels already referred to
were bought. The Battle Creek In
stitution contained SIS rooms. The
purchase price was S2.250,000, and
the appraisal, $2.400 900.
I'm addition to the purchase Of the
Battle Creek Sanatorium, the War
Department has leased the following
establishments for use as temporary
hospitals In several instances it
was possible to negotiate leases for
purely nominal sums and in the
other cases the nature and duration
of the use was not such as to justify
purchase of the facilities:
"Rockland State Hospital, Orange
burg. N. Y; Willowbrook School,
Long Island, N Y; Butler Hospital
Butler, Pa; st. Louis University,
Hawaii; Carr's Hotel, st. Petersburg,
Fla; Pancoast Annex, Miami Beach.
Fla; Pancoast Hotel, Miami Beach,
Fla; Tower Hotel, Miami Beach,
Fla; Gulf Stream Hotel, Miami
Beach, Fla; Miami Battle Creek,
Miami Springs, Fla; Floridian,