The literary digest . emost approved modern appliances which keptthem clear of contagion and as comfortable andcosy as home could be. And all of this Wonder-Work was mag-nificently accomplished. The Great Lakes Naval Training Station be-came one of the Eight Wonders of the Worldand of lasting credit to the officers w^ho presidedover it from the beginning to the end of hos-tilities. Yet, of all the serious problems to be solved—and they were legion—the one that stoodhead and shoulders over all the others, was thatof sufficient and sanitary heat. On the very edge of Lake Michigan, withina fev/ h
The literary digest . emost approved modern appliances which keptthem clear of contagion and as comfortable andcosy as home could be. And all of this Wonder-Work was mag-nificently accomplished. The Great Lakes Naval Training Station be-came one of the Eight Wonders of the Worldand of lasting credit to the officers w^ho presidedover it from the beginning to the end of hos-tilities. Yet, of all the serious problems to be solved—and they were legion—the one that stoodhead and shoulders over all the others, was thatof sufficient and sanitary heat. On the very edge of Lake Michigan, withina fev/ hundred yards of the water, in fact, theNaval Station stands on an utterly flat shore, 70feet above the water and entirely exposed to theWintry winds w^hich are often hurricanes andblizzards. During the bitter weather of Decem-ber 1917 and January and February 1918, greatsuffering was entirely obviated because the heatproblem had been satisfactorily and thoroughly_ ved. The Literary Digest for February 22, 1919 113. ,pfi«l*^S^^ KeWanee Boiler Company at Kewaiieejll THE many buildings were distributed overapproximately 1200 acres of ground andthe big problem lay not alone in choosingthe right type of heating plant, but in distributingthe heating plants in such a way that one partof Great Lakes would be as warm as another. The problem was solved In such manner thatGreat Lakes w^lll go down in history as the bestbuilt, the warmest and most comfortable of allthe American Training Camps. Not a solitary item was left to chance. Noinfluence was great enough to have the slightesteffect. The big problem vs^as solved strictly onits merits and this led the Board unerringly tothe Kewanee Steel Firebox Boiler which hasserved this Nation, and the people in it, w^ithsignal success for the past thirty years or more. The Station bought and Installed, either di-rect or through contractors, 190 Kewanee SteelFirebox Boilers and thus, in mechanical equip-ment, the Great Lakes Station became uni
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