The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-07-25
FOB GREATER GROWTH.

States Emergency Fleet Corporation
Not in single instance has rain
marred a launching, in Pensacola, the
| nearest to bad weather having been
the showers of the morning when The
Hastings took the sea, the rain ceas-
ing and the sun coming out, however,
in time for the great vessel to take
the. water without wetting except the
baptism which Neptune gave.
The Pensacola building plant
Twill have a period of general over
hauling and will then devote it's ener-
gies to contracts already secured. Sew
eral private contracts have already
been landed and considerable con-
struction and fabrication work has
been contracted for.
During the entire period Of work ON
the ten great 5000 ton steel Vessels,
the Pensacola shipbuilding company
! has done record work, accomplishing
wonderful results. The labor difficult
ties which threatened the plant for a
while were handled with credit to the
corporation and the work of the plant,
as a whole, has been such as fey
ship building plants in the country can
claim. For months last winter the
construction department of the Pen
sacola company broke every record in
the United States for construction.
| The success of the shipbuilding
plant has set a new mark for indus
| trial work in Pensacola, and the fact
that such a high plane of efficiency
was attained is believed by the COM
pany to be largely due to the splen-
did climate of this part of the state,
making it possible for the force to
work almost continuously, winter and
summer.
Besides the depth of the basin and
the fact that the water is land locked,
the open weather of the winter and
the breezes from the gulf in the sum-
| mertime make Pensacola an ideal city
for manufacturing. This has been
proven by the successful termination
of the contract of the Pensacola SHIP
building plant and the work of the
Aberthaw construction COMPANY, on
the great 5000 ton Bruce Dry Dock.
The Pensacola ship building COM
pany, and the Aberthaw compa nv, are
united in their praise of the climate
of Pensacola for construction work.
Given deep water, climate unsur-
passed, and a social environment
and we have here a combination that
is hard to beat. -.-s-
The success of the federal author
tiles in rounding up profiteers in
Pensacola, makes this city compare
most favorably with other cites in the
country and particularly in Florida, in
regard to prices. The fact that Pen
sacola offers to the family man an
TUho
diversion may be had with practically
no cost and that the educational facili-
ties of the town are taking on de-
c.ded improvement added to natural
advantages, would make Pensacola
one of the most desirable cities in the
country for the location of industries
There is just one drawback, and one
only, as we see it. And that is that
Pensacola, along with many other
cities in this country, does not offer
adequate housing facilities. This is
a draw back that is proving a serious
handicap to every industrial center
which has not had the foresight to
keep its housing problem in hand
along with it's industrial growth The
cities that settle this problem right
are the cities which will appeal not
the investor seeking a site for indus
try. It has come to the pass where
the man seeking an investment is
wary of the town which does not offer
housing facilities adequate to the de-
mand. Some of the manufacturers
settle the problem by building their
own homes for their workman, but
this is not always possible for the
r. IEybn iS
capital.
: A number of cities in the United
States are now taking commendable
steps towards working out the housing
puzzle, each in such a way as to fit
community needs. New York in ats
cooperative apartment houses has
found one way 10 meet it's need. The
little city of Barlow has found an
other way, one which seems to be
entirely practicable.
Pensacola needs more than any
thing else just now, perhaps, to work
out some way to make the rental sit
uation less series and to induce home
building and home owning
Pensacola through shipbuilding. dry
docks, pine products, fish, cotton seed.
fertilizer and other great industries,
al
try to this section of the South as a
location of industrial plants, but I'M
tile we come nearer solving the prob
lem of creating good homes at rea-
sonable rates for the workers we shall
not make that appeal to industry ar
manufacturers that our climate and
location would justify, provided that
we could advertise the fact that Pen
sacola is not only a good town to !
work in. all the year round, but |
good town for men, women and chill |
dren to make their homes, all the year |
round. If we could advertise that /
fact to the world and back our adver-
Using with facts, Pensacola would be- |
come one of the greatest industrial !
centers of the world.
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