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HARDWOOD RECORD 



A. A. Shui-tleff, 89 State Street, Boston, Mass., as town planner, New- 



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S. 1!. l':\liiH'r, Thu.ver Bldg., Norwich, Conn., as engineer, Newport, 



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1 Madison Ave., New York City, as architects, 



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in, 52 Broadway, New York City, as town planner, 



Broadway, New York City, as engineer, Water- 



"pians'for housing projects In the Hampton Roads district have been 

 completed. This Is probably the most congested district in the United 

 States, Including, as it does, great army and navy bases at Norfolk. 

 The war population is estimated at from 50,000 to 70,000. About 500 

 houses of five and six rooms each will be built for white workers. 



The contract for the construction of about 1000 houses adjacent to the 

 navy yard at Portsmouth, constituting the second development, has been 

 awarded to the Ilogaman-IIarris Company of New York City. This project 

 also includes schools, shops, a Are station and a motion picture theater. 



In Portsmouth about 300 houses will be built for the colored workers. 

 These will be a story and a halt in height and will consist of four and 

 five rooms, and will be provided with all modern sanitary conveniences. 

 The plans have been completed and will go out to contractors about the 

 middle of the week. 



In the Newport News section a large group of houses is nearlng com- 

 pletion. These are being built under the direction of the Shipping Board. 

 The homes thus provided will, however, fall short of the actual need, 

 and, a survey is being made to determine the extent of necessary addi- 

 tions. If is expected that housing will have to be provided for a 

 large number of families of colored workers, as well as a considerable 

 addition to the new community already In existence at Hilton. 



Six additional hospital buildings will be erected at Vancouver Bar- 

 racks, Ore., at an estimated cost of .?74,000, under the supervision of the 

 construction division of the army. 



Work has begun on the new field artillery training center at West 

 Point, Ky., near liOuisviUe. The estimated cost for the land and the 

 buildings including a 500 bed hospital and a 500 horse veterinary hos- 

 pital is J3,721,000. The tract of land is approximately 20,000 acres 

 and was purchased for $500,000. 



The cavalry camp at Del Kio, Tex., will be changed from a tent camp 

 to a semi-permanent camp with wooden barracks. The cost is estimated 

 at 1576,000. 



The sum of $2,934,400 has been authorized to cover the cost of en- 

 larging Camp Humphreys, located at Accotlnk, Va., to accommodate 30,000 

 troops. Camp Humphreys is used as a training camp for engineers. 



The estimated cost for storage warehouse and other construction, to 

 facilitate the speedy handling of materials at storage points for the 

 use of the army, already erected and in the course of construction in 

 the United States, is about $218,000,000. When completed these pro- 

 jects will provide approximately 33,800,000 square feet of warehouse 

 space, additional wharves and piers and Improved harbor depths at var- 

 ious points. With few exceptions, they are permanent structures of con- 

 crete, brick and steel. 



Construction is now under way at the following points : New Orleans, 

 Boston, Brooklyn, Chicago, St. Louis, Schenectady, N. Y., New Cum- 

 berland, Pa., Columlnis, Ohio, Charleston, S. C, Norfolk, Va., Newport 

 News, and Little Rock, Ark. 



Warehouses have been completed at Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Balti- 

 more Hoboken, Jeffersonvllle, Ind., Port Newark, N. J., Americus, Ga., 

 San Antonio, Dayton, O., Richmond, Va., Chicago and Mlddletown, Pa. 



Fitted Into the ordnance warehouse space are 75 miles of trackage and 

 9,000 lineal feet of dock and wharf frontage. In addition to this, bar- 

 racks for 20,000 men in the ordnance have been provided and 15 miles 

 of vehicular roadway have been built. All of this has cost in the 

 neighborhood of .$25,000,000. 



In addition there are now under construction .$10,000,000 of ordnance 

 warehouses that will provide 2,500,000 square feet of space. Most of 

 these will lie completed this year. 



Buggies and Trucks for War Work 



Horse drawn buggies and spring vehicles have been standardized by 

 orders of the Government, and full sets of specifleations for all the parts 

 have been worked out and squared up. The tread of all Is 56 Inches, 

 measured from center to center of the tires. 



Cargo trucks have been standardized also, and more than 75,000 

 standardized trucks and passenger cars have been ordered. Four trucks 

 and three passenger cars have been selected as suitable for the various 

 requirements of all branches of the service that have need for motor 

 transportation. 



Of the four trucks selected, two are after designs worked out by 

 special boards of automotive engineers. The other two are commercial 

 trucks which have been changed to meet the special requirements of 

 military work. 



The three-quarter to one ton truck selected after exhaustive tests 

 of a number of cars, including a model devised under the supervision of 

 a special board of engineers, is the "G. M. C." truck, which is now known 

 as Army Type AA. Changes have been made in the model used by the 

 Government, the principal change being superior spring development. 

 The latter is very essential in view of the fact that this model Is to 

 be used not only as a light cargo carrier but also as a heavy ambulance. 



The board of exports decided on this truck because of its light consump- 

 tion of gasoline, its light weight with the consequent saving of ma- 

 terials and the fact that it is well known in the army, having been used 

 heretofore with satisfactory results in France and Mexico. About 7,500 

 of these trucks have been ordered. 



The one and one-half to two-ton truck selected, which after certain 

 modifications is now known as Army Type A, is the White. Trucks were 

 tested in all conditions of weather and roads and by a process of elimina- 

 tion the engineering advisory board was left with three trucks. 



After competing with a number of well known makes in the three to 

 five ton class, the specially constructed army truck of this class, known 

 as Type B, was selected as the standard truck of this class with the recom- 

 mendation that certain minor changes be adopted by the engineering 

 department of the motor transportation service. 



One of the principal reasons for the adoption of this truck was main- 

 tenance. There had been 18,000 of these trucks ordered, the first 10,000 

 to l)e completed by September 1 and the balance by January 1, 1919. 

 The cost of this truck was less than that of any of the others, the cost 

 of the <ombined spare parts being identical with the cost of the chassis 

 complete. This machine had given satisfactory service in a test of ap- 

 proximately 15,000 miles. It was found to have greater strength, more 

 power, more ability, and to be better qualified on rough roads, a factor 

 that weighed heavily because of the necessity of operating it in the 

 zone of flre. 



For about a year the engineering ordnance department has been work- 

 ing on an Improved 4 wheel drive type of truck. Several models were 

 completed and two of these were tested in arriving at the recommenda- 

 tion that the Ordnance model be adopted as the standard for the Army. 

 This truck is known as Army Type TT, as it is really a tractor truck. 

 It is especially suitable for the hauling of great guns over rough stretches 

 of road or over open country. In many ways it has the ability of a tank 

 to go over places generally considered Impassable to vehicles. It is one 

 of the distinct contributions of automotive engineers to the war. 



In rejecting many trucks, the examiners stated that in no way was 

 their act a reflection on the commercial value of these vehicles. The 

 majority of trucks are made for city work, and as army trucks are called 

 upon to do exceptionally heavy, rough work, commercial trucks could 

 not stand up under the strain. 



The Ford chassis (passenger) was adopted as a standard chassis for use 

 of the army as a passenger car, light truck, light ambulance and for 

 whatever else desired. There ai'e already approximately 3,000 ambulances 

 of this type in use in France. Under recent request of General Pershing 

 they will be increased to about 8,000 and the Ford Company is now work- 

 ing on an order for 5,000 light delivery trucks, production of which began 

 July 22 at the rate of 200 per day. The principal reasons for the wide 

 use of this make of car wore the ease of making repairs, cheapness of 

 operation, the possibility of large production in a minimum time and the 

 extremely low initial cost and the fact that it can be used where most 

 other motor vehicles cannot. 



Two other types of passenger cars have been selected for the use of the 

 army. In connection with the adoption of the passenger cars, it was 

 found that the chassis as now being manufactured for the army by the 

 Dodge and Cadillac Companies were best adaptable to army needs. These 

 are not the models now being marketed by these concerns, but a type with 

 certain additions and deductions. These are to be produced in other fac- 

 tories if the needs of the government require. 



The notion is quite common that evergreen trees do not shed 

 their leaves, but that is not the case. The leaves of no tree hang 

 perpetually, though in a few instances they remain on the twigs 

 six or eight years. But in all cases of evergreen trees, the old leaves 

 do not fall until after the new have appeared, and for that reason 

 the branches are never bare, which has led to the belief that the 

 leaves never drop. In a pine forest the ground is covered with dried 

 leaves. They are constantly falling, yet plenty are left on the 

 branches. 



The tallest trees of the United States are the California redwoods 

 or the Douglas fir. Both claim the distinction of being the tallest, 

 and it is an even match between them. A maximum of about 3-50 

 feet is the greatest, though a little more than that has been claimed. 

 There is no question that in trunk diameter the redwood, that 

 siiecies known as sequoia, is the champion. 



The annual consumption of wood for fuel in the Tnited States 

 has been estimated to equal one cord each for every person in 

 the whole country. A cord is equivalent to 600 feet of boards, so 

 that the wood taken yearly as fuel aggregates the equivalent of 

 60,000,000,000 feet of lumber, or considerably more than the output 

 of all the sawmills. 



