Hamilton Field
Worth
Its
Cost
Novato Advance
February
2,
1935
The people of the
bay
districts
bought
the site
of
Marin
Meadows
for $200,000 for the army.
In
return
army
contracts have
dropped
into the laps of business
men
$5,000,000 for which the following figures
show
the
staggering quantities of materials received:
In the construction of the
130 buildings
at
Hamilton Field 3,000 car loads of cement
and
aggregates were
poured
into
the
walls, basements, roads
and
curbs.
If
these 3,000 cars
had
been
made
into a single train, the
brakeman
who
might
begin walking over the top of the train
would
be exhausted before
he
reached the
end,
for
Hamilton Field under construction, September 10, 1934.
this train
would
be
twenty-seven
miles long, reaching from
Hamilton
Field to San Rafael four times. 70,000
cubic
yards
of cement
were
required
for the project
at
the flying field.
The Technical Area
at
Hamilton
Field, which is the flat
around
the
barracks
and
hangers,
needed
re-
inforcing before buildings could
be
constructed
upon
it, for it is
about
one
foot below sea level. Accord-
ingly 4,922 piles
were
driven, which
if
placed
end
to
end
would
extend
41
1/2
miles.
In the building
program
820,000
bricks
were
laid
and
in
addition
thereto
420,670 square feet of build-
ing
tiles
were
used.
The
carpenters
set
down
189,400 face feet of finish
wood
floors.
In
addition they
used
2,682,000
board
feet
of
framing
lumber.
However,
these buildings to be useful
had
to have water, gas, sewers
and
roads.
So
that
you
will
be
amazed
that
Hamilton
Field, which has an area of
928
acres has 8.02 miles of
paved
and
3.22 miles of gravel roads. It has,
moreover, 7.28 miles of sewers, 8.19 miles of
water
mains,
and
6.43 miles
of
gas mains.
Captain
Howard
B.
Nurse,
constructing quartermaster
at
Hamilton Field,
who
directed all of this project,
likens the building
program
to that of a great city whose physical beauty can
only
be
enhanced
by
a well
considered control over its environment as a whole. While the artistic results cannot
be
questioned in the
architectural
triumph
of Hamilton Field, the average
layman
who
is not versed in construction materials, can
now
digest the above statistics
and
marvel
at
the
magnitude
of the
work
which has
been
completed
in
2
1/2
years.
8 NEWS & NOTES
Correction
...
After the last issue of the News
and
Notes, we received a letter from the
Cain
family pointing
out
a few errors
in
our
article. In the interest
of
historical accuracy,
they pointed
out
that the Novato Utilities Company was founded
by
James W. Cain,
and
later a portion
of
it was sold to his brother,
A.J.
Cain.
Contest For
Queen
of
Airbase
Jubilee
Ends
September
14
Our
fault for the error was
in
not reading far enough into
our
source material
Novato Advance 1929
James William Cain
and
in not consulting
our
own
book,
Novato Township.
We certainly want to
thank the Cain fam-
ily for their correction,
and
as they said in
their letter,
we
certainly want to give credit
where credit is due.
Novato, Aug.
31
- The spirited contest
forqueenoftheAiibaseJubileeatNovato
September14thnow in progress will close
at
midnight, Sept. 11th. After the weekly
movies,
an
informal
free
dance will be
given with announcement
of
votes given
hourly during the evening. Attractive
cos-
tumes for the queen and her attendants are being furnished
by
the committee in charge
with
an
airplane ride,
or
its equivalent
for
her majesty and complimentary tickets for the
two next highest in the contest.
An
excellent meeting was held Tuesday evening when all
sorts
of
gcxx:l
things were planned for the jubilee. A magician
of
note will make all kinds
of magic during the evening and just to hear
of
the
barl>ecue
makes one's mouth water.
Headquarters of the best steer beef obtainable with
all proper "trimmings" will be
barbecues
by
a prominent chef and ready to serve at six p.m., the beginning of the jubilee.
CountingofvotesintheJubileeQueencontestafterthemovieshowsshowCarinDeBmba
still in the lead with
1001
votes. Miss Margaret Kenna, popular assistant book.keeperofPini
& Co. jumps to the second place with
636
votes; Ramona Lane,
342;
Mrs. Clara Myers,
273;
Jane Simmons,
186;
Edna Bacaglio,
179;
Rose Soares,
121
; KatyTrabucchi,
120;
Annabelle
Young,
120;
Evelyn Haire, 25. Miss Haire was entered after the period for the
100
complimentary votes offered by the committee had expired.
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Edward &
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We
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We
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