The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-04-29
ERAOF HOME
BUILDINGS
PREDICTED
thrush of Workers to
Detroit Will Influence
Construction
NEW ARRIVALS
FAST ABSORBED
Seventy-five Per Cent
Will Locate Outside
City Limits

Indicative OF the prosperity OF
Michigan's metropolis is state
ment only recently sent out by the
United States census bureau. II
states that so per cent of the money
paid to employees In the motor car
industries is in the form of wages.
and that the remaining 20 per cent
was paid out in monthly amounts as
salaries. These payrolls are playing
big part in influencing the growth
Of the city, and are destined to still
Influence the expansion of Detroit.
The statistics present the informa.
ton that in all other industries. me
chanics and laborers obtained bul
CS per cent of the total payrollS
This report OF the census bureau
has been generously distributed
throughout the country, and its pub
LEGATION and advertisement will
doubtless result in stream of new.
corners to Detroit TO share In the
oity's wealth. II is heralding the
prosperity of Greater Detroit far
and wide, and can do none other
wise than attract the attention OF
The country-at-large to the industrial
progress here.
New homes and more workers is
, the cry now heard on every side,
and il seems that the manufacture
ing industries are not able TO obtain
the men that they need. AS fast as
tie new arrivals come, they are alb.
sorbed into the big industries. La
Dor has never been so scarce nor
wages so high in the lifetime of De-
troit.
The scarcity OF freight cars due
10 the eastern congestion, which rap
idly is being cleared up, alone is ex.
crting depressing effect. When
the freight embargoes are lifted
within short time. there will be a
squirt in all business and industrial
activity that will be beyond the
scope OF ordinary imagination.
On every hand there are evidences
Of an era of home building to care
for the large army of workers that
are daily arriving. The pressing
need OF houses is everywhere seen,
and there is on foot move to pro.
vide adequate accommodations in
| the industrial districts.
Latest information concerns a new
railway that probably will be known
as the Detroit, Pontiac & Owosso
line. The township Of Royal Oak
has voted a franchise for 80 years
to Dr. Oliver NJ. Lau. OF Detroit,
making II reasonably certain that
new line will run into the city from
the north within short time.
Work on the line from Pontiac to
Owosso will be started within two
| weeks, II Is said. The talk was that
the line near the city would run
down the Ridge-rd. and enter the
city through Livernois-ave. An ar.
rangement is said to have been
made with the Detroit United lines
to run the cars over the tracks Of
that railway to Pontiac. but no con-
firmation OF this has come from the
railway Offices.
Predictions based on the recen,
inflow OF new residents are that rs
per cent OF those who now come
here will locate outside the city's
boundaries. This has Influenced
building to an extent. Detroit has
prospered In so many ways that the
erection OF new homes for It's new.
corners has been overlooked. The
city seemingly has just awakened TO
the fact. This accounts for the
forecast that the city shortly will
mark an epoch in honse building
that will surpass anything in It's his
tory.
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