The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-08-19
TEUTONS FIGHTING
HARD TO RFCAPTURE
GROUND ATHENS
HOUSE BUILDING T
PLAN MAY FAIL
BOARD OF TRADE HAS BEEN IN
ABLE TO GET CAMPAIGN
STARTED.

STARTED.
Though the Housing Committee Of
the Board Of Trade, at session held
two weeks ago, named committee
to handle a campaign 70" die organ
ization of a corporation to Duili
houses in Brunswick attempts to get
the campaign committee together to
organize and plan the work and get
it started have SO far failed.
Various reasons are given by the
Board Of Trade officers and members
of the Housing Committee for their
failure TO get action from the cam
paign committee. Several Of those
who would serve actively on this
committee have been away, one, II
is said, has declined to serve because
of lack of time, and one or .wo have
been ill.,
4,
planned campaign started for build
ing large number of houses is dis
appointing to the many newcomers
and considerable dissatisfaction is
being expressed, especially by the of
ficials and higher-paid employees Of
shipbuilding concerns, who are un-
able to find houses and cannot bring
their families here to live. Several
Of this type have approached owners
| of land recently urging them to build
houses to rent to them, and offering
| to buy the houses, or to build houses
| if they will sell them lots on which
| to build
1t is rumored that the closing of a
deal by which Brunswick would Sc
cure mammoth plant is being delay
/ ed by the fear that this city will be
| utterly unable to take care of the
| several thousand men who will be
| employed, even though the proposed
company itself builds many houses
for its employees, which it is stated
| has been agreed to by its officials.
A gentleman who has many inter
ests OF various kinds in Brunswick
stated yesterday to a News repre-
sentative that the condition is criti-
cal and that, unless the people of
this city wake up to the seriousness
OF the situation, the city will begin
to go backward; that plants will be
lost instead of acquired, and the town
Will lapse again into a state of mac
tivity and stagnation which for years
has prevailed while other cities, less
fortunate in natural advantages, but
whose people had faith in their town,
have grown enormously. This gentle
man, who is probably as we'll ac-
qualnted with conditions affecting
real estate here as anyone, stated
that, while excessive raises in rents
are particularly undesirable, the rates
IN Brunswick were reduced during
the period of utter stagnation a few
years ago, and, with the exception Of
few instances, have never been nut
up to even the rates that prevailed
before that time, and that q fair in.
crease would not be objected to by
the new people who are here without
their families, by those who are daily
coming to Brunswick, or by the hun
dreds, and probably thousands, of
families who will move here during
the next few months if places to live
are provided. for them. Hercalled at
tention to the fact that, oflthe. four
ship-building plants now here, three
are going into steel construction as
rapidly as possible, and are to be per.
manent, while one that is expected to
begin operations here shortly will
build steel vessels entirely and will
continue as long as steel shipbuilding
is sufficiently profitable. He added
that present construction is" on gov
ernment orders, which will not pay
as much profit as would private con
tracts that will be obtainable, prob
ably for many years after the war,
in unlimited numbers. Furthermore,
he said, while there may not be much
profit from building houses to rent,
under present rates Of rent, the rates
are bound to increase some, and the
chances of making a good round prof
1t from increased value of the prop
erty will give an investor a return