Base Hospital “Y” House is Practically Completed

Contractor W. W. Barracks reports the practical completion of the new Y. M. C. A. building at the base hospital, which is the finest “Y” building at any camp in the southwest. It would be an ornament to any city.

The main building is 38×96 feet with a wind 30×30 feet. In one end of the main building a fine stage has been erected, the moving picture machine being in the opposite end. The social room, with its attractive fireplace and appropriate furniture, is one of the beauty spots in camp. There are two class rooms, two bedrooms and a comfortable ladies’ rest room with lavatory and toilet. There is also a house toilet, lavatory and shower.

The big building is painted in a most becoming manner and the inside furnishings and fixings are something “swell.” The reading and writing tables are of the very latest design and are comfortable and lounge enough to make the boys all thing of “home, sweet home.”

The structure will be formally dedicated in the course of a short time. It will “set the Y back” $10,000 in round numbers, but will set it ahead in human esteem $100,000. – Camp Cody, Trench and Camp Newspaper – September 26, 1918

                          Camp Cody YMCA – Deming, New Mexico – Jan 1917