Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-26
Demand for Mechanics.

difficulty Of securing labor.
Demand for Mechanics.
Five thousand laborers and mechanics
are needed in Phoenix this day. Carpen-
tiers receive from 81 and S. for eight
hours work: bricklayers from SO to 50.
and other trades in proportion. Ordinary
labor is paid $3.50 and 50 day; farm
hands receive from $35 to $50 a month,
with board. and household servants can
command almost any wages. The pow
happiness of human beings are at fault
IN permitting so many millions to re-
main in the slums of the cities while the
people out here are deprived Of the help
they need. There is an unlimited de-
mand for every kind Of labor; there is
job for every man and woman who seeks
employment in Arizona. where wages are
higher than In any other spot on earth
except. perhaps. Alaska, and where
climate that is a specific for all diseases
is thrown in.
[ notice that citizens OF Phoenix shrug
their shoulders when strangers refer to
that city as health resort. They don't
like to have their town advertised in that
way. They do not encourage ''lungers"
to come here. although there isn't the
slightest doubt that this climate is spe-
cific for tuberculosis IL the afflicted will
come here in time. The great complaint
colt and other places has been inflated
by tie mortality of strangers who have
come out here in the last stages of con-
sumption. The generosity Of permanent
residents has been taxed to take care Of
invalids who have been able to raise Just
money enough to pay their railroad fare
from the damp climates Of the east and
nave become burden upon the commu-
nifty as soon as they arrive.
1nvalids Are Excluded.
There are no accommodations here for
invalids. The hotels will not admit tu-
berculosis patients. There is not a va
cant house in town. and nothing is done
to encourage invalids to come here
There are cured 'lungers" among bust
ness men and others who naturally feel
sympathy Tor others who are aff1icted in
the same way, and people from the east
who buy lots and building houses make
preparations for permanent residence
who are suspected of being health seek
cities of Arizona in that respect The
publications Of the board Of trade the
Commercial Club and private real estate
dealers gush under a heavy pressure of
enthusiasm on every other feature, but
never allude to the soothing effect Of this
climate upon ragged lung.
The capitol OF Arizona is fine building
but l do not understand why everybody
who writes about this town feels called
upon to say that 1T was erected with
out dollar Of graft Such assertions
seem to invite the inference that other
buildings were not. Congress recently
appropriated $4,000 for building to &C
commodate the post office. the land office,
the reclamation service, the United States
courts. and other official representatives
OF the nation, and an attractive pan has
been adopted.
There is a stately courthouse and city
t,,, hut y,
OF all the architecture in Phoenix is the
new Y. NJ. c. A. building, completed at
cost of $4,000 and furnished at a cost
of $4,000. 1t is monument to the taste
as well as the philanthropy Of the people
Of this city, and it Is the center of social
life. There is swimming pool, GYM
nasium, bowling alleys and billiard
rooms. roof garden and restaurant. and
every convenience and attraction of the
best arranged club. No city in the coun-
try furnishes its young men a more at
tractive home. The building Is in charge
of Mr.. J. NJ. Davis. who was formerly
general secretary Of the Y. NJ. G.. A. at
KankalSee and Jacksonville, Ill. Mr.. E.
G. Fitzgerald is physical director. Mr..
S. r. Steele is educational director. Mr..
J. W. Doris was the first president of
the association, and frost & frost of Ell
Paso We're the architects.
Water Users Combine.
Inc w dIcT Users ASSOCldIlOn Wnlcn Is
to control and own the great irrigation
system now being constructed by the
government, is erecting a corresponding
building upon the adjoining corner, which
will also contribute to the beauty of the
town. The board OF trade has an ex-
cellent building; there Is a Carnegie H.
brary, and a three-hundred- tn usand-do-
lar hotel is in process of erection to re-
place one that was burned a year ago.
There are several notable bank buildings
and a conservatory Of music, built after
the mission style of architecture. that
looks like a club. If the livery stables
and garages on the main street were torn