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hundred feet from the water plant, there were four electric pumps and two gasoline pumps, there was a 16 inch cast iron pipe which ran to Franks disposal plant about four or five miles to Hempstead near the Southern State Parkway, Dad and Tom West were two of his engineers. The water mains were all ceder wood some of these pipes were 12 inches this was an embarking camp for Europe world war one, there was temporary hospital built at the camp, to heat the buildings they used two Long Island Railroad locomotives, when the war they was over the used the camp to discharge the boys that came back home from Europe, we were here until March 11, 1920 when the camp closed Frank and I got $175 per month (no tax) engineers $150 assistant engineers $125 all the engineers had to do was to read