© Underwood & Underwood 



THE SIXTY-NINTH REGIMENT GOING TO A SERVICE AT ST. PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL, 



NEW YORK CITY 



Whatever may be the sacrifices, however bitter the sufferings that await our country on 

 the path of war which she has so unwillingly yet so resolutely taken, one compensation can- 

 not fail to result from the experience of seeing her bravest and best dedicating their lives 

 to the Great Cause. That compensation will be a refined and ennobled American soul. 



you imagine several thousand Virginia 

 negroes, in the midst of the watermelon 

 season, with the Hanover crop in all its 

 luscious luxuriance hard by, and not a 

 rind to be found on a camp site thousands 

 of acres in extent? It may have tried 

 their souls to abstain, and yet the site of 

 Camp Lee was as free from watermelon 

 rinds as it was free from polar bears or 

 African lions. 



one camp bakery's capacity 80,000 

 pounds oe bread a day 



With such a spirit as this pervading 

 every cantonment, little is the wonder that 

 in less than four months enough buildings 

 were erected to make, if placed end to 

 end, a continuous structure reaching from 

 Washington to Detroit. 



To appreciate the dimensions of the 

 cantonments they must be considered in 

 their units. Camp Devens, for instance, 

 with one exception the smallest of the 16, 



has a refrigerator plant capable of mak- 

 ing 20 tons of ice a day, besides keeping 

 many tons of food chilled to the freezing 

 point. Its beef cooler will hold 120 cat- 

 tle. The bakery has a capacity of 40,000 

 2-pound loaves of bread every 24 hours. 

 The auditorium of the Y. M. C. A. has a 

 seating capacity of 2,800 men — nearly 

 one and a half times as many as any 

 theater in the nation's capital. 



In small things as well as large the 

 story of the military cities runs into 

 amazing proportions. The 16 canton- 

 ments required 350 carloads of cooking 

 ranges for their equipment, 2,500 car- 

 loads of heating stoves, and 112,000 kegs 

 of nails. Sold at ordinary retail price, 

 the total product of their bakeries would 

 amount to something like $125,000 a day. 



MAKING WASTE PAY 



A problem which early arose in plan- 

 ning the cantonments was that of dispos- 



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