Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-10-26
Ne VI SHIP YARD
NEAR TACOMA IS
PRODUCING GOODS
-Four Vessels Already Have
Been Launched and Six
More Now On Ways in Vad-
GUS Stages of Completion,

ter MORNING JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED wlHfl
Tacoma, Wash, oct. 25-Four
ships have been launched, six more
are in various stages of construction
on its ways, and the Todd Dry Dock
and Shipbuilding company bid fair to
fulfill it's watchowrd of a standard
steel merchant ship of $500 tons ev-
cry two weeks its ambitious pro
gram in the campaign for democracy
as against autocracy.
Fifteen months ago the site of the
Todd yards was nearly all under wa
ter at high tide. Then came the de-
cision to build ships there. Dredges
were set to work an dthe sand they
brought from the bottom CT Com
mencement bay was used to build up
the 100 acres of land the yards occu-
py.
Every foot Of these 100 acres is
tecming today in activity. Buildings
have risen, ways been built and 5000
men find employment in the Yards.
Within three more months 10,500
men viii be employed.
Building ships is not the only task
of the management. One of its great
est problems is the welfare of the
men. Most of the workers were OBJ
taine1 from distant points. Proba-
bly, haf of them have families. SO
the Todd company built a hotel with
IN the shipvards, one with 615 rooms
all with hot and cold water, and
every room occupied. The dining
room of the hotel seats 1,4OO at a
time, and at noon two sittings are re-
| quired.
The hotel was satisfactory for the
| single men, but it didn't help the
married worker. SO the company
with the aid of the government
bought building lots and contracts
are to, be let immediately for the con
struCtion of IT'S dwellings. These
wilH be increased to coo if present
| plans work out.
Unlike many yards the Todd estab-
lishment turns its ships over to the
| government ready for immediate ser
| vice. Even the camouflage painting
| is done here and the anti-submarine
guns mounted on decks especially
! built for them.
"The Reverend Jim Osborne" Thus
| do they Introduce a former minister
| Of the gospel at the Todd yards tc
visitors.
Until the United States declared
| Nhl pS'plnt WIS an lllncTHnJ NPtnO-
| dist minister in western Montana. Tr
the Misscula Valley. the Bitter Root
| and in the Blackfoot Osborne was
known as "'rhe Lumberiack Preach.
err Beloved he was, and famed for
his work in the interest of the Y. NJ
c. A.
And now he's hossinc rivetirf
Gang and eXempifying muscular anG
militant Christianity.
I There is another horn handed sor
| of toll in these yards-an ATTORNEY
who gave nm lucrative practice ir
an eastern WASHINGTON county tn heir
the game along. Another is a doctor
from 4 small Utah town.
Speed with which wooden ships are
| being constructed for the government
in the northwest is shown bv n ron.
trast possible at the Seaborn Shin.
wards Companv's plant here. Ada.
cent to the Seaborn yards "The GLORY
! of the Seas" a wooden schooner
launched almost sixty years AGO i,
locked, This ship took eighteen
months to build and it is smaller thar
| the wooden vessels being construct
| al at tho Seaborn Yards which go into
| the water in less than three months
from the time the keel is laid
| 1t is the same story-speed. Ma.
| "hinery and modern methods have
! done and are doing what Just. every
| day hand labor used to do but in a
far less time.
me Seaborn yard was the first to
launch wooden ship of the Ferris
! type for the government after the
war was declared Since that time
| nine others have been launched and
four are being constructed.