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Show WWW : PACIFIC COAST Secretary Taft Wants Appropriation of Five and a Half Million for Coast Artillery Service. Increase In Coast Artillery Will Necef-altate Necef-altate the Expenditure of Enormous Sums by tho Government In Providing Quarters For the. Men. Washington. The annual report of Secretary Taft, to bo submitted to congress 'nt Its convening In December, Decem-ber, will contain estimates aggregating aggregat-ing $5,525,920 for construction and othor work In tho const artillery Her-vlco Her-vlco during tho fiscal year 1909. This construction work Is to provide In part for shelter for tho coast nrtlllory troops authorized by tho net of January Janu-ary 25 Inst, for whloh It Is ncceBsnry to erect thirty company barracks, six band barracks, 178 set of ofll'cors' quarters quar-ters and 218 sets of non-commlssloncd titnff oincors' quarters. By tho legis lation of tho Inst congress the const artillery received an Increnso of forty-four forty-four companies, With a corresponding number of officers, In accordance with tho decision of Secretary Taft last Novomber, No-vomber, ft concentration scheme Is ho-lng ho-lng worked out in the const artillery Ron'lco by which somo of the seventy-eight seventy-eight scparnto forts where modern artillery ar-tillery const defenses are Installed or In progress of Instnllntlon aro to bo completely mnnncd nnd tho roinnlnder plnred In tho hands of caretnkers. Tho posts nt which work Is to bo dono nnd for which appropriations will bo nskod Include tho following nmounts nsked for, being given In round numbers: Baker, California,' $185,000: Stovcns, Oregon, $107,000; Winflold Scott, Cnllfornlu. $392,000, nnd Ward, Washington, $334,000. |
