SEPTEMBER 23,1918.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
University Sends Profs. As Scouts to Obtain Workmen For Barracks
Carpenters Being Obtained in Neighboring Towns to Rush Construction Work
“Y” Finds Quarters for Mer
Material Arriving on Time and Delays Are Expected to be Made Up
"With the exception of a shortage of nearly 150 skilled carpenters, causing the greatest delay in the construction of the S. A. T. C. and vocational student section harracks, the construction is progressing as rapidly as can be expected. There is little doubt but that they will be ready for occupancy by the middle of next month."
Prof. C. C. Williams, general supervisor in charge of construction, gave the foregoing in speaking of the barracks as fast as possible.
SCOTTS WOLFE AND WHEELER "In the last week one harbors has been inclosed and the second one is in frame," said Professor Williams. "The work will go on along much more time than we could, likely everything will be operating almost on schedule by the latter part of the week."
In an effort to obtain as many carpenters as possible, Professors B. L. Wolfe and J. J. Wheeler are now visiting many small towns throughout the state. Reports from them indicate it will be only a matter of a few days before the necessary men will be on hand.
THE "Y" ON THE JOB
THE Y ON THE JOB
THE Y. M. C. A. is co-operating in the work not only by obtaining student laborers, but is looking after the housing of the carpenters who are arriving daily from neighboring towns.
"As soon as more carpenters arrive," said Professor Williams. "We will need more students to help in the construction of a building that we can use at an advantage."
Materials used in the construction of the barracks, lumber, cement, roofing, are arriving regularly and there is no fear of a shortage of materials. Although the beds and other fixtures for the inside of the barracks have not arrived, they have been shipped and should be here before the building starts. Materials used in the construction of a large wage and water systems is also progressing satisfactorily.
FIRST BARRACKS ASSIGNED Of the eight buildings being built on Mississippi Street, the first two, barracks Nos. 1 and 2, are for the vo- lence of the school house 450 men, and will have a separate building for a mess hall.
Six other barracks, numbering from the north, Nos. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8, which will house 200 men each will be for the S. A. T. C. Each building will have its own mess hall on the first floor.
Prof. Goldwin Goldsmith, architect, has made a very interesting and economical plan in the construction of the S. A. T. C. barracks. They are to be grouped, three in each group, so that the building will contain lavatories in the basement, and Nos. 4 and 7 will contain showers and lavatories. This plan is so arranged so that it will necessitate the piping of hot water in but two buildings, as the men housed in barracks 3 and 5 will use the showers in 4 and those in 7 will use the showers in 7. Only barracks 4 and 7 will contain hot water.
BARRACKS WILL FACE SOUTH The buildings will face south having the main entrance on that side. The kitchens will be in the east and a partition running the length of the building on the first floor will divide half of the room into a mess hall and the other half into a dormitory.
Construction of the five similar barracks for engineering students, which are situated on the hill above vin and Haworth halls, will not be begun until the others are finished.
"Peg" Vaughn Blows In Now a Yeoman in Navy
The University and the Daily Kansan both are well represented at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station, according to M. W. "Peg" Vaughn, c15, a former editor of the Daily Kansan. Mr. Vaughn, now a yeoman in the naval publicity department, said more than a dozen K. U. men were on the training station when he left there July 1.
Vernon Moore and Robert Reed, both graduates of the college, are making good in the rural school and Harvard University for final training.
Mr. Vaughn is traveling through the Middle West with the Great Lakes Band Battallion which has been sent out to boost the coming Liberty Loan. The band is now in Ketchikan, Alaska, at Attichison, Hutchinson and Ottawa. Next week it will go to Wichita for the International Wheat Show.
New Men May Obtain
K Books at Myers Hall
"K' book, students' handbook of the University, have been published and are being issued by the K. U. Y. M. C. A. at the office in Myers Hall. Enough have been printed, according to Prof. W. J. Baumgartner, acting secretary of the Y. M. C. A., to support Baugratter for cosor Baugratter asks all men who copies of the book to call at Myers Hall for them.
The "K" book, as it is popularly known, is a vest-pocket size directory of general information about the University, giving space to facts about athletics songs and yells, organizations, and other student activities. It contains for a diary, an expense account, identification, and programs. The editor for the 1918-19 issue was Lawson May, a junior in the College last year, now in the service.
Jayhawkers In Camp
Earl W. Shinn, '18, is serving an government inspector to D.Ehavland a bridge
Lieut Charles E. Hart, e1S, to the 13th cavalry at McAllen Tenn.
Lieut. Ernest Blincoe is an instructor in the Fifth Officers' Training Camp at Camp Arthur, Tex. Text of letter to the Signal Corps at McAllen, Tex.
Lieut. Chauancey Hunter, e17, has assigned to artistry Hunter, e15.
Official notification of the death in action of Lieut. Robert S. Heizer was received by Judge Robert C. Heizer of Osage City September 5. Lieutenant Heizer was a well known University basketball player.
Lieut. Milton Nigg, e'17, is in France
Two Thousand Uniforms Are on Way Here For Members of S. A. T. C
Men Probably Will Don Khaki Soon After Induction Into Service
The two thousand uniforms to be worn by the men of the S. A. T. C. here already have been shipped by the quartermasters' department, according to advices received late last week by Capt. B. T. Scher. This means that the student soldiers will don the khaki soon after they are in service. You will not find it necessary to wear old clothes and union attest about the camp.
The uniforms on arriving here will be issued and fitted by men skilled in this work. So large a range of shape and sizes will be covered in the lot that every man will have well-fitting clothing.
Only the uniforms and a few much-needed accessories are being sent at this time, but it is expected that blankets, rifles and other necessary equipment will arrive before the opening of school. Each man will receive two blankets, one light and one heavy, as at the army canton-
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None but regulation service uniforms of the type issued by the War Department to all enlisted men will be worn by the members of the student army here, according to an order issued by Captain Scher. The commanding officer has instructed the down town clothiers that no serge or wool uniforms or other equipment not in accordance with the regulations should be issued to the soldier. Regulation O. D. suits are offered by the local dealers, and their purchase is permitted. Accessories of all kinds will be kept in stock and it seems to be the belief of the clothing men that their trade along these lines will make up for the business in civilian clothing that they will lose.
Hostess House Serves Coffee and Doughnuts
The University. Y, W. Hostess House is only one week old but is probably the best known and most popular place in Lawrence.
Mrs. B. N, Wilmot, official hostess and Miss Kate Duffed, secretary of the University Y. W, C. A., with some assistants, have answered thousands of questions, placed many visitors in desirable and convenient rooms and welcomed hundreds of soldiers and their relatives and friends
Perhaps the largest and pleasantest task of the week was the serving of sandwiches and coffee to the hundreds of men who stood in line for S. A. T. C. registration Monday. In contrast to this was the running of
an errand for a uniform service man who could not leave the campus but felt that a roll of films had to be developed before night.
The Hostess house is open from 8 o'clock in the morning until 9:30 o'clock at night. Current magazines, newspapers, and stationery are there for the use of S. A. T. C., soldiers and their relatives and friends. The room is a living room, bureau of information and office, the first floor. An assembly room with a piano is above. The serving rooms of the cafeteria, directed by the department of home economics, will be on the second floor.
Sergt. George Fair, e'18, is in France "just without the walls of the castle in which Charles VII imprisoned Joan of Arc."
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