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WASHINGTON, Nov. 12—Major W.
A. Starrett, chief expert adviser In
the building of America's sixteen crn
tonment camps for the draft armies,
today officially denied that exhorbi
tant wages were paid to laborers on
the work.
"Statements have been made" It
was suggested, "that abnormal and
high wages were paid; that water
boys received for instance $5.00 a day
in some places.
"Perfectly absurd,” said the ma
jor. "Look at the situation and see
for yourself. Here are the largest
contractors in the country. Their mar
gin of profit is very small, averaging
about three and one-half percent. Al
so they desire to serve the country.
"Take a certain company as an ex
ample. If they were out to pay big
money or hold up the government
they could have laid down on the job
just as well as not when the terms of
the contract were violated by the U.
S. government. But they didn’t. Not
only that, but the head of the concern
himself put a million dollars of his
own money into the job to keep it go
ing for the government.
“Are people like that going to pay
water boys $5.00 per day?
"The government has a very com
petant organization made up of civil
ian officers, reserve corps men, men
who came out of the big engineering
concerns. Were they likely to pay the
water boys $5,007. It is absurd.
“Were middle men used in buying
supplies?.
“In some instances, yes," said Major
Sterrett. “We dealt with a middleman
in buying plumbing supplies. If we had
bought them direct we would have had
to buy from twenty-five different
manufacturers, one part from each,
bolts, washers, pipes, nickel plates,
and so on.
"We made one compay the assemb
ling agent, the middleman and the
government allowed them five percent,
on the cost. Anybody approaching
this subject intelligently will know
that the middleman was necessary
and that he earned his profit. Gener
ally speaking however, we have dealt
with the manufacturers direct,
“To give some idea of the enormity
of the task Major Starrett said. “We
spent $150,000,000 in three months.
We provided 600 cubic feet of air
space for each man, as compared with
360 feet for each man in the European
cantonments.
“There are 200 buildings in each
cantonment, or 32,000 in all. They are
so built for fire protection that only
one building can burn at a time. “We
saved $12,000,000 on the camps by
building them two stories instead of
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one. Each cantonement occupies two
square miles of territory, roughly and
in addition to the gigantic construc
tion work there is still under our dir
ection $350,000,000 worth more of
building in progress or contemplation.
We used four billion feet of lumber
from 190 mills throughout the country.
We built four thousand miles of fin
ished road surface. Roads approach
ing the camps will add another few
hundred miles.
“We used 2.000 miles of piping for
the water supply systems, and 2,000
miles of drainage and sewerage pipe.
It took a carload of tacks to put the
tar paper on the roofs of the buildings
and railroads delivered from fifty to
one hundred and fifty carloads of ma
terial to each camp every day.
"We took cade of 8,000 to 10,000
workman at each camp every day.
“Some camps had weekly payrolls of
$150,000. The government had about
150 representatives at each camp and
on one job contractors held foreman's
meetings every morning where “00 to
500 foreman gathered to discuss plans
for the day. We had our own tire
protection system. Also a corps of fire
watchers, and a police force to pul
out the fires.”
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