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Show CANTONMENTS ARE READY FOR TROOPS WASHINGTON. Sept. 1. The six- : teen national army cantonments, each representing a small city, for the housing hous-ing of forty thousand soldier inhabitants, inhabi-tants, will be ready for occupancy as rapidly as the troops are called to the training oamp, Secretory Baker announced an-nounced today. Eight of the cantonments are practically practi-cally completed nnd at others construction construc-tion work has reached the point where ample accommodations are assured for the various increments as they arrive. Among those completed is the cantonment canton-ment at American Lake. Wash. Camps at Dps Moines, Iowa.; Fort Riley, Kan., and Columbia, S. C., will be ready on September 5 to accommodate 60 per cent of the full quota assigned. At an expenditure of approximately $150,000,000 the war department has under un-der construction sixteen cities with sewage, sew-age, wnter, light, power, telephone, paving pav-ing and fire protection systems. |