The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1912-1921, 1918-09-25
Philadelphia Boasts Proud
Distinction OF The Nations
Largest Group OF Shipyards
aole Than 100000 Workers Build of All Types From
3,50CTon Wooden Steamers to 12,5OO-Ton Steel Ships

! lance 70 and from the plant. TIC
overcome this difficulty the company
is erecting the town of Yorkship .
mile from the works, with a connect.
ing trolley line. The community
which will be without saloons, will
be made a part of Camden.
shipbuilding center When the glory
of the old race track days faded un.
der the ban of New Jersey legislative
enactment, the town went to sleep
1t has been awakened The Pussy &
Jones Company operates two yards.
The "Pennsy.vA lia' plant, two years
old, has launched seven ships of as
sorted types within year, and the
newly completed New Jersey" shops
have -Four vessels ON the ways
Gaunchings here are made sidewise
into basin, a process said to be
much simpler than the sternforemost
Slide which has been practiced
through centuries of shipbuilding
The company is erecting $50 homes
for its workers near the two yards
Recently both the Gloucester and
Wilmington yards of the Pussy &
Jones Company have been combined
under Emergency Fleet Management
and a standard type of 12,000-ton
steel vessels will be built.
Creation in less than a year of a
great fabricated steel shipyard, with
sone vessel launched and three Others
about ready to take the water, is the
'seat accomplished by the, Merchant
Shipbuilding Corporation. whose IL
way plant is situated on the west
bank of the Delaware at Bristol The
company and its $4,000 employees
have pledged themselves to deliver
sixteen completed S,S00-ton cargo car
iriers by the end of 1918. Contracts
call for sixty vessels of 52S. 900 ag
gregate tonnage IA model town GOV
ering 175 acres, built simultaneously
with the yards, has eliminated hous
ing difficulties.
With park about which centers
its educational and recreational life
, this community, Hartman, presents
advanced ideas in townsite develop
ment. The 400 to 500 buildings, com
pleted or under construction, include
bachelor houses, single houses and s
modern 300-room. hotel. The towr
Ealso boasts a public school, high
school, auditorium, gymnasium ant
athletic field and it's own fire depart
ment and postoffice
| At Chester, where the Sun Ship
building Company's 5000 workers
! have completed four cargo ships ant
| launched two others, $4,000, O0t
model community is being built. An
other housing project is that of the
'fray-or Shipbuilding Corporation a
Cornwells, where nearly 100 homes
in addition to barracks, are beins
erected. The Traylor company has
trained virtually all its 3,40O men
who are building wooden ships. Hf
management claims a national record
in planking hull in eleven DAYS.
Wilmington, a shipbuilding town O
generations, quickly responded to thu
nations demand for cargo carriers
With 5000 workers, the Harlan &
fiollingsworth pant of the Bethle
hem Shipbuilding Corporation ha.
completed six steel vessels and laun
ched another The Pussy & Jone.
company has another steel ship plan
here, employing 5000 men on foul
ways, and the American Car anf
Foundry Company, with 1000 per
sons on its payroll, is building wood
en- hulls. Wilmington has commended
with serious housing problem which
the plant managers say will be over
come when 900 houses, now in con
struction, are completed,