The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-25

Lloyd NoIand, superintendent health
 department.
 F. M. Joy. superintendent roads and
 building department.
 J. F. Vance, superintendent central
 labor bureau.
 For the purpose of supplying steel plates and shapes suitable for building ships, the following construction pre- viousIy announced Is now under way at Fairfield works, 4O-ineh blooming mill. A IIO-inch plate mill. 28-inch shape mill. Six hundred houses for employees. In addition, there will be construct cd at Fairfield the following plants for the manufacture of parts and ma ckinery for shipsi
 A plate and angle shop. A forge shop.
 A foundry.
 machine shop. Four hundred. houses for employees. To secure additional steel capacity
 n third converter will he added to the
 converting mill nt Ensley works and an additional open hearth furnace will
 be added of larger size than the exist
 ing furnaces.
 Few recent announcements of an In dustrial character have been of sucf great interest in this country as the above.
 The Chickasaw company, like the Ten nessee company, Is subsidiary of the United States Steel corporation.
 ANOTHER $l1,000,0 900 The shipbuiiding plant. with the addi- tions to be made at the. Ensley and Fair field plants, and other things to be done in that connection, will, it is under stood, call for an expenditure of $ll,-
 100000. This amount was voted by the
 Steel corporation's finance committee a few days ago, making total appropria- tion for expansion work in Alabama since
 the visit of Judge E. H. Gary, H. c. Prick, George w. Perkins and George F. Baker to Birmingham i'll June, last, ot $22, ,000, coo. The plans for the shipyard and collateral development are not only strik- ingly comprehensive, but are remarked as the most self contained ever worked out III a similar CllttI Fl lSC. All ttis technical talent needed will be drawr from the big organization and the great CT part of the material used will bt found within the bounds of the state. MODERN HOUSING As seen from Mr. Crawford's state ment the two large villages to be built for the employees, one for white and one for colored, will be modern in every re- spect. The streets will be paved, the sewers will be sanitary, the water supply will be pure, and the 1900 houses to be built will be attractive in appearance and comfortable. Welfare work and means of recreation will be strongly ir evidence.
 TO BE MOSQUITO FREE The site of the shipyard will be cleared of mosquitoes at once. Dr. Lloyd Noland the Tennessee companys s sanitary expert was with Surgeon General William c Gorgas. United States army, in the Pan anna canal zone. He helped to drive tho | mosquitoes out of that fever-ridden ter ritory and make it as healthy as the mos | favored spots in the temperate climate 1t will not take Dr. Noland long to mak.
 the shipyard and the villages adjacen l thereto mosquito free.
 ARMY OF LABORERS 1 The ChickaSaW company VIII employ ar army of laborers. Most of the workmer at the beginning will be without train l ing, for, in the first place, shipbuildins
 mechanics in the United States are, fol obvious reasons. extremely scarce. La
 bor will be taken from cities and town: and from fields and forests from every
 where. Will unskilled labor be able to ac. complsh much? The answer to that ques ton Is. that with the Tennessee company's training system the raw material will no | remain raw long.
 CHARACTERISTIC MOTTO i If the labor problem looks difficult, said MT. Crawford, it will work itsel out satisfactorily. People who say
 thing cannot be done, should remembe l our moto, It can be done
 :, As to about when the first ship ma, be completed has not been figured out, perhaps, but President Crawford seems t be brimful of enthusiasm over the out look. Certain it is that no time will b | lost.
 CITY WILL EXTEND I EFFORTS OF BUREAU
 TO AID UNEMPLOYED