Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-10-06
rn the Entire World After Being Builded in Less
 Than a Year.
FORTY VESSELS NOW ABOUT COMPEL ETED
Have Been Launch ed and Others Reels Are Being Rapidly Laid.
,v The Associated Press.

By The Associated Press.
 Philadelphia, Sept. 30.-Transform- ed in less than a year from deso- late waste, practically inaccessible, Into the greatest ship yard in the world is the story in brierf. of Hog Island. It was hardly more than ten months after the first surveyor ran line through the length of the is land that Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, wife bf the President, christened the first Bhip to be launched at the big plant. From it's fifty ways, very soon, three Fabricated steel cargo carriers a week will slide into the Delaware riv- er with splash that soon must swell Into tidal wave rolling in the dir bction of Germany.
 With two vessels already launched bnd forty now on the ways in pro- kressive stages of construction, the yard today virtually is complete. Be lore the end of the year, according to officials of the American Information hl Shipbuilding Corporation, there will be fifty ships on the ways and twenty eight more, already launched In the finishing basins, or seventy bight under construction at one time more than two miles of ships.
 Heels Follow Launching.
 As fast as the vessels are launched other keels are laid and as fast as hey are delivered others will pass b the outfitting piers. In twenty-two md a half months from the time the eontract was signed on September 13. 917, Hog Island, these officials say, kill deliver to the government 1.S5.- D0O tons carrying capacity of ships t cost considerably in excess of 2O0O00,O00. When the yard is in |ull operation it will have a capacity If 1.5OO,OOO tons year, more than hree times the entire yearly output bf America before the war. About hirty-one thousand men are engaged n the work.
 The fifty ways at the yard, which located on the Delaware just out ide of Philadelphia. extend for nile and quarter along the river ront and the completely equipped vith highly flexible system of der icks for assembling the fabricated arts. These ways are operated in en groups of five and each, with aux. liary buildings and tool shops, is an Independent ship assembling unit. .Ad- oining them and Awning a cOntinu- JUS water front of another mile and quarter are the ship outfitting bas- ns With seven piers. each 1000 feet ong and outfitting berths. to accom- nodate twenty eight vessels at one me during the period between laun- hing and completion.
 s0 Buildings in Yards.
 Tn all there are about 250 perman- mt buildings in the yard. They cover pproximately twenty-five acres and aclude central administration |uilding housing 1850 persons and
 engineers building for 750 en- lneers and draughtsmen. There are arracks for 5000 workmen. three nards barracks. handsome Y. M. A. building, a large hotel a central aleterla. mess halls, a model emer- ency hospital and innumerable aux iary buildings which make up a ny within itself. There is also a ainlng school for shipbuilders with oo instructors. New men are rapid tralned. 500 at time and most of nem. officials say, are becomin g (uepts m the new trade of ship erect Dn and assembly.
 Ine army of 32,0OO workers at the .eat plant include men of all na- onaiitles and all occupations. Near
 l.ooo girls are also employed and laAy or them are doing work form ny done by men. Most of the com .on iaoor was obtained in and round this city. but the skilled me- aanlcs and office employees hail from .'ual!y every section of the coun- "; ooo Ine payroll averages close to zoo 900 week.
 virtually no labor trouble has been Hpellehced at Hog Island, the few a.u .aor grievances of the employees e.ns quickly adjusted. After recent i'pectlon tour of the yard. Charles
 ocnwao. director general of the ,nt ,mntersency Fleet Corporation, said 'at everything was "most harmon ,as. ss., The only thing needed, he Sueu' aa was additional experienced '.ung gangs and these soon would turned out at the training school. noo "me or the most serious problems %;Sountered ,;s in the development ol a. s great city of shipbuilders was mployes. '"o vast army o' tt,o vor brief period this caused nc s,,e Ilv anxiety. but the situation was ooss 1sed by the construction of bar. ooh housing 5000 persons and snelor cous apartments for 2.0OO more lsn.lhooations lso for thousands were iii itb round at boarding houses and Na th, private families in all sections ,on, sne clty Later 1000 four and six
 m houses were constructed neal snn nsnnipyard at an average cost ol ,vvv m~ ana rented to the employees al n.t.,, Details Interesting.
 t.siis ts.aiis of the yards progress art ,s r. rrsung. On September 13. 1917 ss 11,nereencv Fleet Corporation O SarSan S4u'teo States Shipping Boari ts ssaed the contract to the Americar on ta'sonal N Shipbuilding Corpora si,a :" u.. construct the plant and tt rtchaa @ my 7.500-ton cargo ships. Or
 z an additional order wal