The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-12-14
DE YER WARNER PREDICTS FALL
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pIOJeCI us d lOCal dLId1F dL LIldL I1InOS and much effort was spent in secur- ing the interest of the government. Finally after 8 period of several months it was decided to loan Bridge port the necessary sum for the build ing of homes, and the work was to be l done through the Bridgeport Housing company, as its executive equipment | was complete.
 When the question of the type of l houses to be built came up, 1t was l found that the homes erected by local | builders, were unsanitary, unhealthy | and unsafe. The judgement of the l best engineers in the country was ob- tained regarding the sites, and the best architects and the best city plan ners of the world were called into consultation. The objections of To- cal builders regarding the sites and methods of construction are simply the judgment of home talent against the judgment of the world experts. The assumption that the houses being built are not sanitary Is ridiculous. i These homes are the greatest blessing that has ever come to Bridgeport as 1 a city, for the first time a comfort able home at a reasonable rental will 1 be the reward of the working people. MT. Warner also said: "Of course | 1t is to be expected that many houses will be vacant here in the spring. It l is the inevitable result of the recon struction period. But on the other i hand before next fall in our plant alone we expect to place 1000 more employees, and what is true of our business is true of all other Bridge port industries. The city is bound to grow, and while many who were call ed here through the manufacture of | munitions will leave the city, the number of plants engaged in war work was not in the majority, and when the industrial world is again on a peace basis more workers will come, and if we provide good homes for them they will stay and become
 desirable citizens. The good of the
 majority should be considered before
 the welfare of a few disgruntled
 builders.
 George Flames, manager of the
 Singer Manufacturing Co.,, and vice
 president of the Bridgeport Housing
 Company, met the argument of the
 builders regarding the lack of work
 which local men would encounter
 should the government decide to con-
 tinue to build the projects under way,
 by saying:
 From statistics gathered before
 the war, the average number of
 homes built In Bridgeport by local
 contractors was 2,000 per year. When It Is realized that the number of ) homes being built does not exceed 1000 representing only about six l months operations by local builders, l 1t is ridiculous to say that the building
 business of Bridgeport will be ruined
 by the continuation of the develop
 ments.
 Tt would be a calamity if every "a home in the project IS not finished
 The necessity of comfortable homes
 for the factory workers is imperative
 For over four years the families o1 g workmen have been at the mercy oi :. the Shylock type of landlord who has - gobbled up the rentable houses, rais n ed the rents to an exorbltant figure - and upon complaint of the tenants re .- garding necessary repairs told th' 3. long suffering people to move If they y were not satisfied.
 - 'In the government houses is seer the chance to secure cheaper livinl conditions, much more comfortabl
 than was before possible"
 When the thousands of worker " who will be benefited are considered si the small number represented in tn t, building trades Is insignificant Per
 haps when the tenants move out 0 - some of the houses they have bee f1%TyiY 4O 10 A put on little plaster, paper an If paint and clean out the livestock tn - landlord will find the opportunity t ys do the work which he claims he ha Id been unable to do during the grea lla ta influx of workers to the city. F. J. Kingsbury said when aske % for his opinion regarding the COY d. tinuation of the work: ''It would b rs. a crime to abandon the building ys 8 single house the government hs planned to erect. The greatest oI nd portunity that has ever come 1 Is, Bridgeport would be lost. The tyI ial of house which is under constructio a- has been built in many other elite IIHT, and in the opinion of experts the e -- feet has been to raise the buiIdir
 standards. Local builders will I
 obliged to offer tAe public somethir
 Just as good if fIlSy wish to but rc homes. The working man is entitle to pleasant surroundings when he l. not at work, and in the homes whic
 will soon be ready he will have u
 maximum comfort at a ninimu rate"
 . T. J. Pardy, manager of the Part
 Construction cinpany, expressed hir
 self as being in favor of the conti = uation of the building of the hom IT. already under way While I ha: e. been too busy to give the matter mu I GtudB think that these homes shou -u- be finished. In regard to the questi eft of the necessity of the houses . present, cannot say that the need - imperative;, but | do say that { EW plumbing and sanitary requiremer will of the city should be met During t City war many things considered nect 20, sary in peace times were sacrific, ans but now that the war Is over eve re- building erected In the city shot oSs conform to the state laws and 10. 60. ordinances"
 - At the Bridgeport Housing Co
 pany office, the question of the ty tice of plumbing being used was discuss
 by w. H. Ham, under whose SUD
 vision the government houses are
 ing built. ''The plumbing we .
 using" said MT. Ham, lis the ty
 recommended by the government. I9 was the decision of the War Industr said Board that we use the same ty sons which is used in building construct ,oi,, of the War, Navy and Treasury