The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-09-25

construction promises to become another
worlds wonder.
In this region the Emergency Fleet cor
poratlon, through the companies carrying
On Its work, has undertaken an extensive
housing project. At Bristol, Chester
Cornwells and Hog Island in Pennsylva-
ma. at Camden and Gloucester on the New
Jersey side and at Wilmington in Della
ware, homes, bachelor apartments. bar
racks, boarding houses and even hote'
have been erected, with the hope of solv.
ing the problem of inadequate labor grow.
ing out OF poor accommodations
How the yards on the Delaware have
expanded in the past eleven months and
what this influx of labor means to the
communities along the river is indicated
by comparison with the census of last Dc
tober, when the aggregate of men engaged
was less than $4,000 Excluding Cramps
and the New York Shipbuildng CORPORA.
tion, which were then working rs com
pleted yards, the nine other plants on the
Delaware then reported 1900 workers
More than half the present force of
shipbailders has been recruited from out
side the district, so that the population
growth from this source alone has been
a
tol. % miles above PHILADELPHIA and he
Fond the confines of the previously accept
cd shlpbullding zone, workers at the Mer-
chant plant now exceed the entire popu-
iatlon of the borough in 1910. Chester
where John b. Roach built American war
ships fifty years ago. has trebled in a yea,
It's population gain between 1900 and 1910.
Except the great Hog Island plant, to he
treated IN later article, that of the New
York shipbuilding corporation at Cam
den, employing 1850 men, is the largest
IN the Philadelphia district When work
under way is completed there will be %
shlpways, most of them able to accom-
modate at one time two ships of ordinary
size The yard set a new worlds record
when it launched the collier Tuckahoe
in y days from the time the keel was laid.
Ten days later the vessel was completed
\ feat which has not been eOualled for n
ship of this type Transportation has been
a problem, with the majority of workers
forced to travel long distances to and
from the plant To overcome this Difficult,
", the company is erecting the town OF
Norkship mile from the works, with a
connecting trolley line. The community.
which will be without saloons. will be
made part of Camden.
Nelghboring Gloucester is another ship
building center. When the glory of the
old race track days faded under the ban
OF New Jersey legislative enactment, the
town went to sleep. 1t has been awak-
ened. The Pussy & Jones company oper-
ates two yards. The PENNSYLVANIA
plant, two years old, has launched seven
ships OF assorted types within year.
and the newly completed New Jersey
shops have four vessels on the WAYS.
launchings here are made sidewise into a
basin, process said to be much simpler
than the sternforemost slide which has
been practised through centuries OF snip
building The company il erecting $50
homes for its workers near the two yards
Recently both the Gloucester and vii
mington Yards of the Pussy & Jones com
pany have been combined under Emergen.
cy Fleet management and a standard type
Of l2,000-ton steel vessels will be built
Creation in less than year o. a great
fabricated steel shipyard, with ne vessel
launched and three others about ready to
take thu water. is the feat accomplished
by the Merchant Shipbuilding corpora
| ton, whose l2way plant is situated on
the west bank Of the Delaware az Bristol.
The company and its 1900 employees have
pledged themselves to deliver sixteen com
| pieted S,SOO-ton cargo carriers by the end
Of 1918 Contracts call for sixty vessels OF
| 52o,OOO aggregate tonnage A model town
covering Us acres, built simultaneously
with the yards, has eliminated HOUSING
difficulties
With a park about which ccnters its cd
ucational and recreational life, this com.
munlty, Hartman, presents advanced
ideas IN townsite development The 400
TO QUO buildings, completed or under con.
| structlon, include bachelor houses. single
houses and a modern 3O0-room hotel The
town also boasts a public school high
school, auditorium, gymnasium and athlct-
&c field and its own fire department and
:! postofiice.
AT Chester, whore the sun >hipbui' ding
company's 5000 workers have completed
Tour cargo ships and launched two others.
a 6000,000 model community is being
| built. Another housing project is that OF
the Travlor Shipbuiding corporation At
ornweIls. where nearly 100 homes. in adj.
dition to barracks, arc being erected The
rraylor company has trained virtually all
its 3,400 men, who ar, building wooden
ships. Its management claims a national
record in planking hull in eleven DAYS.
Wilmington. a shipbuiIdne town for
generations quickly responded to the ma
tons demand for cargo carriers. With
5000 workers. the Harlan & Uollincs.
worth plant of the Bethlehem Saipbnld.
ing corporation has COMPLETED six steel
vessels and launched another Tho Ruscv
Jones company has another steel shin
plant here employing 5000 mon on four
ways, and the American Car and Foundry
company, with 1880 persons on It's pqy-
roll. is building wooden hulls Whining
ten has contended with Z. serious housing
rr"bIem which tn" plant manager, say
viii be overcome when 600 houses, now in
construction, are completed.