The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-02-26
Bills Pending Appropriate
About One Hundred Mil
lion for the Purpose.
WORK HELD UP BY
LACK OF HOUSES
General Plan of Proposed
Houses Given in Special
Washington Despatch.

Washington, Feb. 25-(Special)-
Great Britain, since the beginning OF
the war, has spent 500, 200. 900 TO pro-
vide proper housing for war industry
workers.
The United States has not yet spen-
cent
But two bills now pending appro-
pirate $4,000, 900 each.
One, providing that sum for the
shipping board, is now practically
through Congress, and will soon be
! a law.
The other is designed to permit the
department Of labor to provide hous-
ing for those engaged in war indus
tries other than shipbuilding.
The shipping board claims its pro-
gram has been materially held up by
| delay in passing its housing bill. At
Sparrows Point, near Baltimore, only
$500 men are at work, when the plant
can easily use 1000.
To double the force would mea n
shipping output, but the men can't
be obtained until there are homes
for them.
The plan 10 be largely used by th7
shipping board follows: The shi--
! building concern. will be require I,
wherever possible. TO furnish the Ian !
and 10 invest one fifth of the money
needed to build houses: the govern
ment will furnish the other four -fifths
at per cent interest A separate
holding company. whose directors will
be named by the Emergency Fleet
Corpora tion, will also hold a mort
gage on the property.
As the houses in many cases will be
built in places where, after the war,
there will not be so great a demand
for them. loss is expected, and al
ready discounted This loss is held
rart of the expenditure necessary to
win the war
The places where the first houses
will probably be erected are at Spar
rows Point at Hog Island, near Phil
adelphia, and at Newport News.
The housing plan will be under the
direction CT J Rogers FTannery. man
rfacturer of Pittsburg. His idea is to
use local labor in building the houses,
and to get the material through the
government, because Uncle Sam in so
many places has already comman-
deered sand. gravel and lumber.
Homes for married men will be of
the tWG-Idr0liN mousse OF -ueldCH'Su
tyne Attractive Gotta ges will be built.
In most instances ro rooms will bs
smaller than 1912 feet.
If possible, the houses will have
mall Yards The houses will he main
" Of frame
Tn towns whore frame h,:ildings are
forbidden substantial brick or con-
~-ete bones will he erected Commit
tees of architects and builders have
designed about thirty different types.
The shipping board officials were
icath to go into details about their
mans until thev were enabled 70 ro
ahead with actual construction. How
ever one foreign place held un as a
model is CIretna. EroIand. vher. a
vast war industrial city has. sprung
I'D.
II Is over 12 miles long The gov
ernn1ent built school theaters. well
as homes There were tremendous
decrea ses there in the rrnher of men
who ol-it work 70 20 elsewhere after
these pIsrs were nut throueh.
In some American shjnbui1ding
plants at nresent II is said the turn
over of labor is 500 per cent mean
ing the avera se time man snent at
the plant was about 80 davs
In Gretna. after homes were bulls,
the turnover was about per cent.
In ENGLAND provision is made To-
unmarried rcen nv having hiG board
followed by the shipping board.