QUARTERMASTER'S DEPARTMENT During the year there was no construction. Nature of repairs other than painting Cottages Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, and 12: Alterations to end porches, changes in water sections, screening, etc.. Treatment hospital, reception hospital, neuropsychiatric-tubercular hospital, Power-house buildings: North portion of old pump house converted into quarters.. Theater and store and restaurant buildings: Painting only. Quartermaster buildings and shops: Repairs to floor, etc.. Laundry building: Installation of ladies' toilet and cloak room Headquarters and guard and employees' quarters buildings: Alterations to lighting fixtures, repairs to porch, etc. Farm group buildings: Corncrib converted into chicken house, etc.. Band stand and lodge gate: Painting only, Fire department building: Open portion closed and converted into auto garage.. Quarters: Repairs to floors, repapering walls, etc. 706. 13 Miscellaneous minor repairs and painting about camp.. 14,000. 45 200.13 2,502.99 Total (general fund). Neuropsychiatric-tubercular hospital and theater buildings: Addition to day room to neuropsychiatric-tubercular hospital and alterations to dressing rooms at theater (paid from post fund). 7, 238. 15 Grand total.. 31, 682.76 11, 714. 41 FARM The appropriation for farm includes expenditures in the upkeep of roads, cemeteries, lawns, parks, greenhouses, flower gardens, tables, dairies, feeds, purchase of all animals, and all supplies used and services required in connection with these places. Stable: Average number of public animals kept during the year, 2 horses and 5 mules. Appraised value, $794. Purchased during the year, 2 horses. Number and kind of public vehicles in use, 1 sprinkling wagon, 2 dump carts, 2 (onehorse) delivery wagons, 5 farm wagons, 1 jigger wagon, and 3 auto trucks (2 Fords and 1 United States Army White) (2 auto and 1 horse-drawn ambulance under hospital). OPERATION OF DAIRY Calves produced and added to the herd are accounted for under the heading Herd;" calves sold, as such, are accounted for under the heading “Production.' Feed raised and consumed, and milk transferred to subsistence or sold, are charged at market prices. No account is taken of pasturage on home grounds, this being offset by the manure. Herd On hand June 30, 1925, 51 cows and 17 other cattle, value.... Production: 43,0655% gallons, at 21.5 cents per gallon, used in commissary and sold__ 40 calves sold.. Total receipts. Profit.. $9, 259. 11 185.75 9, 444. 86 1, 586. 38 Summary Increase in investment... Profit in operation _ - . Net profit_--- $354. 25 1, 586. 38 1,940. 63 In addition to the 43,0655% gallons of milk shown above, 2,793 gallons were used to feed 46 calves. The average daily yield per cow, figured on the average number of cows, was 3,174 gallons. The average daily yield per cow, figured on the average number of cattle kept, was 1.685 gallons. 77,672 gallons of milk were purchased during the year, at 21.5 cents per gallon. The cost of production of milk in commissary and sold was 14.9 cents per gallon. FARM AND GARDEN One hundred and one one-half acres were cultivated, as follows: 40 acres of corn, 72 acres of garden, 6 acres of potatoes, 15 acres of oats and alfalfa, 30 acres of alfalfa hay, and 2 acres of broom corn. HEATING, LIGHTING, AND POWER PLANT, WATER AND GAS The steam plant consists of six 250-horsepower Sterling water-tube boilers, two installed in 1903, two in 1905, one in 1908, and one in 1913; two 150-horsepower horizontal tube steam boilers installed in 1921; one 352-horsepower Badenhausen water-tube boiler installed in 1922; six turbo blowers installed in 1918; four boiler feed pumps, one McGowen installed in 1903, one Coppes centrifugal installed in 1923, one Marsh installed in 1913, one Dean installed in 1923; one Graves sand filter, capacity 6,000 gallons per hour, installed in 1923; one Detrick Hagan steam-jet ash conveyor installed in 1923; one Stillwell feed-water heater No. 5, manufactured about 1900, installed in 1923; one International filter watersoftening system, capacity 6,000 gallons per hour, installed in 1922; live and exhaust steam heaters and three circulating pumps, one De Laval driven by a 35-horsepower General Electric motor installed in 1921, one Lawrence installed in 1904, one Midwest turbine pump installed in 1922, are used in connection with the general hot-water heating system. Pump system consists of one 10-inch, eight 8-inch, and one 6-inch wells 87 feet deep, and one 24-inch well 103 feet deep, pumped direct into standpipe by a Layne & Bowler centrifugal pump driven by a 35-horsepower Westinghouse electric motor installed in 1922. The 10, 8, and 6 inch wells are operated-only in cases of emergency-by an Ingersol-Rand steam-driven air compressor installed in 1900, used to lift the water from the wells into a 150,000-gallon reservoir, from which it is pumped into a 240,000-gallon standpipe with an R. D. Wood & Co. electric driven centrifugal pump installed in 1914. The lighting system consists of one 250-horsepower McEwen simple engine installed in 1900 and one 450-horsepower Hamilton Gorliss engine installed in 1922; one 120-kilowatt Westinghouse generator installed in 1900 and one 375kilowatt Westinghouse generator installed in 1922; one Westinghouse 11-panel switchboard installed in 1923; and one complete electrical substation capable of producing 300 kilowatts; this current obtained from a 33-000-volt transmission line from Indiana General Service Co., a public utility, installed in 1921. The refrigeration and ice plant consists of one 10 by 22 inch Ruemmeli-Dawley ammonia compressor driven by a 100-horsepower Corliss engine installed in 1903, together with tanks, pipe lines, condensers, and other apparatus necessary to produce ice and circulate calcium chloride brine through cold-storage rooms at commissary, hospital, main kitchen, and reception hospital. The ammonia compressor is also driven by an 85-horsepower Westinghouse electric motor installed in 1925. Fuel: 13,344.55 tons bituminous coal were purchased at $4.019 per ton. prior, 10,738.60 tons were purchased at $5.3118 per ton. Year Electric current produced, 678,030 kilowatt hours; cost per kilowatt-hour $0.0234. Purchased, 3,600 kilowatt-hour; cost per kilowatt-hour, $0.04587. Total cost of current, $16,031.26. Gas was used for cooking in all messes and private families, baking at bakery, and heating water in families' private quarters; 11,716,000 cubic feet purchased at $8,832. Year prior, 11,002,000 cubic feet purchased at $8,296. Daily average consumption of water was 390,000 gallons. Capacity of ice plant: 12 tons refrigeration and 6 tons ice; 365.06 tons produced at a cost of $2.96 per ton; 12.7075 tons purchased at a cost of $4 per ton. 100259-2612 LAUNDRY AND DRY CLEANING PLANT One 30-horsepower Westinghouse motor installed in 1899. Five American Laundry Machine Co. washers-one installed in 1894, one in 1898, two in 1922, one in 1923. Three American Laundry Machine Co. extractors-two installed in 1914, one in 1922. One American Laundry Machine Co. dry tumbler installed in 1922. One Ohio Laundry Machine Co. mangle installed in 1914. Two Troy Prosperity garment presses installed in 1921. Two Prosperity Co. garment presses installed in 1922. Dry-cleaning equipment of: Two American Laundry Machine Co. washers installed in 1915. One U. S. Hoffman 7-A pressing machine installed in 1924. Separate messing facilities are provided for the general camp, treatment hospital and N. P.—tuberculosis unit. In addition, one building is equipped with a combination kitchen and dining room and is used as a reception hospital; also for the more disturbed patients five cottages are equipped with diet kitchens and dining rooms. To date only three of these kitchens have been in operation, the patients in the other cottages taking their meals in the general mess hall. In the treatment hospital, in addition to the main dining hall, which will seat 60, there are four diet kitchens with dining rooms attached to accommodate 30 patients each. Only three of these dining rooms are in use, the patients from the fourth ward taking their meals in the main dining hall of the hospital. All food for the diet kitchens in the hospital and those in cottages is prepared in the hospital kitchen and delivered in food conveyers. The mess hall capacity of the branch at one sitting is as follows: General mess hall, 864; combination messes, 112; noncommissioned officers and clerks' mess, 48; hospital general mess, 60; tubercular cottage mess, 60; nurses' mess, 72; total, 1,216. Average number of persons served by waiter at each sitting in above messes is respectively 46, 52, 18, 30, 29, 18. |