Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-09-25

twenty seven days from the time the
keel was laid. Ten days later the YES
sci was completed, a feat which has not
been equalled for a ship of this. type.
Transportation has been problem,
with the majority of workers forced TO
travel long distances to and from the
plant. To overcome this difficulty the
company is erecting the town Of York
ship, mile from the works, with a
connecting trolley line. The communi-
ty, which will be without saloons, will
be made part of Camden.
Neighboring Gloucester is another
shipbuilding center. When the glory
of the old race track days faded under
the ban of New Jersey legislative en-
actment., the town went to sleep. IL
has been awakened. The Pussy q
Jones Company operates two yards.
The pennsylvania" plant two years
old, has launched seven ships OF as
sorted types within "a year and the
newly completed New Jersey shops
have four vessels on the ways. Launch
ings here are made sidewise into a
basin, a process said to be much sim
pier than the stern foremost slide
which has been practiced thru ceh-
turtles of shipbiulding. The company
| Is erecting $50 homes for its workers
| near the two yards.
Recently both the Gloucester and
Wilmington yards Of the Pusey X
| ones Company have beeh complnen
under emergency fleet management ana
4 stanford type of 12,OoH-ton steel
vessels will be built.
Creation in less than year or a
great fabricated steel shinYard with
one vessel launched and three others
about ready to take the water. is the
| feat accomplished by the Merchant
Shipbuilding Corporation. whose
| twelve way plant is situated on the
west bank of the Delaware at Bristol.
The company and it's 10000 employees
have pledged themselves to deliver
sixteen completed S,S00-ton cargo car
| riers by the end of 1918. Contracts
call for sivty vessels of $4,000 aggre-
rate onnage kmodel town covering l7o
acres, built simultaneously with the
yards, has eliminated housing Difficult
! ties.
With a park about which centers its
educational and recreational life this
community, Hartman, presents ad-
| vanced ideas in townsite development
The 400 to 500 buildings, completed or
under construction. include bachelor
houses, single houses and modern
300 room hotel. The town also boasts
public school, high school, auditorl-
UNI. Athletic field and its own flre de-
partment and postoffice.
At Chester, where the Sun Ship
building Company's 5000 workers have
completed four cargo ship and launch
ed two others, $6.000,000 model com
munity is being built. Another tous-
| ing project is that of the Traylor Ship
Building Corporation at Cornwells,
where nearly 100 homes. in addition to
barracks, are being erected The Tray
lor company has trained virtually all
| its 3,40O men. who are building wooden
ships. It's management claims nation
al RECORD in planking hull in eleven
days.
Wilmington, shipbuilding town fos
generations quickly responded r. the
nations demand for cargo carriers.
With 5000 workers the Harlan & Hol-
lingsworth plant Of the Bethlehem
Shipbuilding Corporation has complet-
ed six steel vessels and launched an
other. The Pussy & Jones Company
has another steel ship plant here, EN-
l;ploying 5000 men on four ways, and
1.-THE American Car and Foundry Com
pany, with 1000 persons on its pay
| roll, is building wooden hulls. WIZ
mington has commended with serious
housing problem which the plant man
ayers say will be overcome when 500
houses, now in construction. are COM
| rIat al F..