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Directly opposite the administration building is a cafeteria, in which light 

 luncheons are served to the clerks, foremen and any others who may wish to eat 

 there. Across the street from the ship administration building is located one of 

 the best first-aid hospitals in the country. It is manned by an efficient staff of 

 doctors and nurses. It has an operating room, a first-aid room, a modern X-ray 

 outfit, a ward with twenty beds, a dentist's chair, which is in operation 24 hours 

 a day, and four motor-driven ambulances. There is also in this same group of 

 buildings a fireproof telephone plant, which contains a 22-position switchboard and 

 maintains connections with 2,000 stations scattered throughout the island, this 

 plant being equivalent to that used in an ordinary city of 50,000 population. Ad- 

 joining the telephone building is the fireproof reenforced concrete records build- 

 ing. In it all the operating records are kept and the Powers card record system 

 of following all shipments from the time they leave the factory to the time they are 

 placed in position on the ship. Besides the above, there is a guards' barracks, 

 which houses 200 of the guards and also contains a room in which a district mag- 

 istrate holds court each day. Adjoining this is a small jail. A fireproof brick 

 "bank" building, so called, is also found in this group. It is primarily a depos- 

 itory for the pay-roll funds and was found necessary as all employees are paid off 

 in cash each week. In this group, as in all of the other groups of buildings, there 

 is a local central heating plant, which furnishes steam to all the buildings by means 

 of insulated overhead pipes. ' 



Perhaps next of importance are the shop buildings. They are located toward 

 the eastern end of the yard, near the "A" storage yard and back of the shipways. 

 As we approach the shops from the west, we first reach the air tool shop, which 

 is devoted entirely to keeping in repair the 6,500 air tools — riveters, reamers, 

 drills, grinders, etc. — which are used on the job. Next come the galvanizing and 

 pipe shops and then two machine shops. The largest building in the plant is the 

 plate and angle shop, which is 638 feet by 223 feet. This is arranged with three 

 bays, each bay having two traveling cranes. It is equipped with furnaces and 

 bending tables, rolls, punches, shears, etc. Next is the template shop, which needs 

 no particular explanation except the statement that, when building fabricated ships, 

 templates have to be made for every piece of steel entering the ship. The plate 

 and angle correction shop, as its name would imply, was erected more or less as an 

 emergency shop to take care of errors and omissions in fabricating and to act as 

 an insurance against fires, strikes or losses in shipment, which might delay deliv- 

 eries from outside shops. 



The shop plant at Hog Island is comparatively small, as more than 95 per cent 

 of all the material entering the ships is being fabricated in outside shops. There 

 are a few plates which are being taken care of in the plate and angle shop. There 

 are smith shops in the group, one for solid work and another for miscellaneous 

 smith work. 



Besides the buildings already mentioned are two structures called the ship 

 foundation template buildings. In one of these the complete power plant for the 



