OCR Text |
Show MARINES BUILD STADIUM FROM WASTE fi;v;;u vr:;;-;;:... :,' I -- ;s.:.?':S;;r; W. . ; 1 n f . V :..t-.;.-J .....M : t-t ? i .-!,..:. ' A , ; r lit - t'. : V id Air Photograph of Huoo New Athletic Bowl at Quantico. Rullt entirely of waste and donated material und without cost to the taxpayers tax-payers of the country, a stadium w hich will rival any university athletic field la approaching completion at the L'nlted States murine corps base at Quantico, Va., and wna used for the first time November 11. So quietly has work on the big atructure progressed, few persons outside out-side of the murine corps have heard of the unhpie project. Secretary Pen-by Pen-by took occasion to call attention to It. to praise the spirit of the men at the Quantico base, who, under I'.rlg. Gen. Smedley P. Under, are making It a reality, and to point out that the stadium Is being built by the marines In honor of the marine, dead of nil wars. Spurred by Victory. Victory of tho Quantico football tenni In Its first Important game with a university team the contest with Georgctow n Is said to have strengthened strength-ened the determination of the marines to complete the stadium. This Is hoped for by the opening of the lO'J.'t football season, as approximately 7.r per cent of the work lias already been done. The stadium Is being built In a natural nat-ural amphitheater formed by hills along a small stream. The first task of the marines, who are doing the work after the regular duties of the station are completed, consisted In changing the course of the stream. When finished, the atadluin will be over the stream, which will run through a conduit beneath the playlnp field. The ends of the semlamphlthea-ter semlamphlthea-ter have been closed, this task Involving Involv-ing the moving of more thun 150. 0OC ruble yards of earth. The stadium proper will be CIO feet long and .125 feet wide. The Rents, of which there will eventually event-ually be UKIXiO, are being built of concrete upon the sides of the bills. The cement was donated by n number num-ber of large firms dealing In that material, ma-terial, nnd the Iron rails to re-enforce Il were obtained from waste dumps and supplies of condemned war materials. ma-terials. Approximately lio.OCXl of the seats will have Individ mil plates, each bearing the iiHine of a marine who Inst bis life In the line of duty. A memorial memo-rial arch will form the entrance to the stadium. Llttlo Money, Spent. Necessary expenditure of money, which to date has amounted to less than $1,000, has been met through appropriations ap-propriations from the recreation fund of the bnse. Tills fund accumulates from sales at the camp stores. Marine officers estimate that the stndlum, when completed, will represent a cost of $."00,000 hnd the work been done by private contractors. |