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Show OVERSEAS PATiEMTS EXPECTED DEC, If First Set of Remodeled Barracks Nearing Completion Com-pletion at Post. Calls Issued for Bids for Plumbing Installation at Fort Douglas. Ketfonstnieiiou patients will he pent tu the arm. general Imsnital at I'ort Oous-las Oous-las just as soon a.s t!'e surgeon -zencrat i.s notified hy the com ma ndi iva nITieer e( ll.e hos: ilal i::at Ihe insijl :Uiin is rcrtdy lo reeeUe lla-m. If present construction plan.s are md up.-el I he first unit of-tlie Im: pi t al will he ready lo receive patients short!., alter the fiit of Peeeuiher. imd i; Is fell certain lhat patients from overseas over-seas will he here hefore the middle oT I 'ecemher. The fh-si set ,,.:' ! .trra.-!:- hoh.; :"ei'iert- eled as a unit of the new hospital in near in;,' com pie t Ion, and it ia expected lhat the second set will he ready to: hospilal service 'hy .ihe middle of next month, at the. latest. Completion of other units is antichnted at the rate of al least one a month and possihlo two. Yesterday a call f.-r Mds on approximately approxi-mately $l i'.mOO wii li of plum him" wui k to he' done- in five sets of douhle barracks bar-racks vet to he "filled for- hospital use was Issued hy .Major A. J. MaeUonald. eons-truei intf fpiuricrmnsier for mniy freu-cral freu-cral hospital Nu. '21 . These ldcls are open to all pei-sous who desire to suhmit figures, fig-ures, and the emistruetiuL . pia rt e:'masl er is miNions lo have as many sets ol hida suhinilted as po.-ih-. Contracts Awarded. Iteeenllv. hids were culled for on Cie plumoink' in 1, and .M hariacUs. ami the contra. as were let to local firms. The amount was approximate' ,- .i-'""1, and on this hayis the conliaet cover; m; the live additional double harraclv.s i.s-'eslhnated at ahr.nt JIM.ilaij. Hpeci fications a nd details as I o tho plumbing' materials and wrk required nude' the projioscd coiiti-aet are on file at tho office of tiie const ruct inn- .u;n -lernlaster at Fort Douglas and aie avnil-able avnil-able to all persons and firms who desire to s'jomiL 'bids. "Wo are anxious to have everyone submit bids." said Tdajor Mjioliuuald, "and the const moling tpmr-lerinasl'M-'s department wants it understood under-stood that e et-v ono is invited to bid. We cannot send personal invitations to bidder p. hut an announeenie.nl in the pi ess that bids are calle.l for is to he construed as an invitation to everyone to submit bids." As' soon us all the bids are in on this contract they will be opened, and the contracts con-tracts will be awarded as soon thereafter as possible, thai the work may he gotten got-ten under way without delay. Major Mao Dnnaid. as const rue tin it rpiai-ter master fr lite hospital, was advised ad-vised by the construction deuartment at Washington yesterday t hat a change in 'v the loea tion of the new iiics-h hall and Ultehen and the double barracks for the ' hospital nurps men has been made. Locations Changed. The original plans called foi location of the mess hall ami kitchen on the circle in front of ihe old barracks bulldhiq.i that are now tu become the units of t'.5 new hospital. To this end some o'd huildinqs that had pieviously occupied this section uf the post were wrecked and removed. Now. however, the mess . hail an l kitchen are to ho located just back ef and between buildim-is Nos. .".7 and .".f. or. in other words, the two sets of doubt; barracks just east of the band barraeks. These buildings will be connected with the hospital building's by means of covered cov-ered i aasaqeways. so that the mess hull and kitchen may be icaehed from the hospital buildings without passing out-of-doors. The two corps barracks are to be loented directly behind buildimr Xo. ."ix. or wimt was formerly K barracks of tlie Twentieth Twen-tieth infantiy. This location brines th': ba r-racks just cast of the mess hall anil kitenen and in convenient proximity to those buildings as well as the hospital. The chance in location of these buildings build-ings is consideiel an improvement over the original plan, as it will leave t i i . circle in front of the hospital buildings unobstructed by temporary buildings and will nfford opportunity' for rarkinc thin circle and cariins" out the qeneral land scapins plan which has leen outlined to convert tlie post into an attractive park. Contracts cove iiif,' construction of thes-new thes-new buildings hav,e already been awarded to the J.yoeh-Omnon l-hiineerins: company com-pany of Halt Lake and wui; on t'rt huiklins's is tu be gotten under- wav possibly pos-sibly this -weeli. This work will eot about $ I "0.000. |