Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-11-19 | Page 12 | Delay in Shipments Hinders Carpenters

GKOIUjE t. odell of ji Sail Lakf, who signifies ' willingness to take htamp sale ( j directorship. OCIZZICOOC X I ' I I' - 4' ' i ' . 'I U t 1 -I A HI f 8 8 1 rr j8 r - ' ,)- j r j f " rv -xxrry )0 OEUY-IN SHIPMENTS H!fiOfiSCfRPEfiIEIS Construction Work on 20th Regiment Cantonment to Begin Monday. On account of delay in getting lumber, lum-ber, carpenter work, on the cantonment buildings' that aro to house one battalion of the Twentieth infantry for the winter will not bo gotten under way before Wednesday morning, according lo announcement an-nouncement made by the regimental fiuurtennaster yesterday. It had been expected thai, enough lumber lum-ber wool 1 be on tho ground for the soldier sol-dier carne.ntors to start work this morning, morn-ing, hut the lumber concerns will not he ahio to make deliveries before this afternoon after-noon and tomorrow, so that tho carpenters carpen-ters will not have, material to work with befoi o Wednesday morning. A largA force of soldiers from tho various vari-ous company organizations of the regiment regi-ment will be put. to work Wednesday morning on the first of tho six buildings that aro to be lifted for winter use. F.nch building Is to be rellned with lumber, so It will he made tight against the weather and Flo rn is of w i n t or. Stoves for heating the buildings have already been delivered to the post tiuar-tcrmasfer tiuar-tcrmasfer and as soon as the ca'penter work progresses to the proper stage tho stoves will bo installed. The same method of heating these buildings as that used in the barracks of Die war prison camp at the fort is to be made use of. Tills system consists in cutting a hole through the floor of the building directly beneath the stove, which will serve as a. vent for the cold, fresh air of the outside to enter the building. As tho eold nlr enters tt is drawn up around the elove through a. radiation envelope and then distributed tnrough the entire building. A vent pipe installed in-stalled Just behind I he stove, with an opening a. hove the roof serves to carry off the vitiated air of tho barracks, thus keeping a, constant oircma tion of fresh air through the building:. The whole ventilating ven-tilating system Is operate. by the heat of the stove it self and the air is kept at a uniform temperature with a in illinium illi-nium of oal used in th stoves. This simple system of heating and ventilating ven-tilating is the design of Captain A. J. McIXmald, quartermaster of the war prison camp company, and it is operating operat-ing wilh such success in the prison camp barracks that Colonel Alfred Hashrouek. post commander, decided to emnloy it in the wooden barracks that are to be used by one battalion of the Twentieth during dur-ing the winter.