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fit every man that comes there; but, of course, he has his own shoes, which he could wear temporarily.

Mr. SHERLEY. You are not figuring on supplying shoes for a given number of men, but you are figuring on the basis of having an allotment of sizes which, judging by previous records of the Quartermaster's Department, would be sufficient to take care of the situation? Maj. WONSON. That is correct. They have what they call a tariff of sizes which every manufacturer follows, and that is based on long experience in actually delivering shoes to the men. It was revised recently on the basis of the figures that were available from the mobilization last summer on the Mexican border, where, of course, they issued very much larger quantities than they ever had issued before. We get daily reports from Col. Hirsh, of the Philadelphia depot, of this nature [indicating].

Mr. SHERLEY. Is he in charge of all the depots and do they report through him?

Maj. WONSON. All the depots at the present time are supposed to report through the Philadelphia depot, which is really a clearing house.

Mr. SHERLEY. That is what I mean.

Maj. WONSON. Yes, sir.

Mr. SHERLEY. So that in getting a report from him you have embodied in it a report from all the other depots?

Maj. WONSON. Yes; in fact, the other depots are supposed to take up with him, or with the committee, through him, any recommendations that are made. If they have a very large offer on a certain article they take it up with him and find out whether it is agreeable that they purchase those particular articles. In my books I list, or my assistants list, every sample contract that is placed as soon as we get this notification from Col. Hirsh; this includes the name of the concern, the name of the place at which the goods are to be delivered, the price at which the goods are placed, the date of the contract, and the deliveries which are promised on the contract. As soon as a contract is placed a card is made out which gives in red at the right the deliveries which the contractor promises to make; we enter in this column the deliveries that he reports each week and carry the total forward here. If a man is delinquent from week to week we immediately get in touch with him and endeavor to ascertain why he is delinquent and what steps he is taking to remedy his delinquency.

Mr. SHERLEY. Have you had any delays incident to difficulties in agreeing on prices?

Maj. WONSON. No; because by the time the matter comes to my attention there is no question of price; the price has been actually determined.

Mr. SHERLEY. Perhaps you are not in a position to answer my inquiry. Here is a manufacturer who is capable of producing a certain quantity of goods. Has there been a delay in getting him started in making the goods over a difficulty as to the price he should receive?

Mr. ROSENWALD. Not of any consequence. There have been isolated cases of that kind where the delay may have been a day, a week, or two weeks, but in very, very rare cases has there been any delay.

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