Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-10-14
Work to be Given to Many
More Men Of City
Soon
226 SHIPS TO COME
Alexandria Takes Long Step
Toward Realization of
Greatness
26 SHIPS TO COME

PROSPERITY, spelled with big
letters, loOmed brightly on the hori-
zon of Industrial Alexandria In the
announcement that the Western SAL
wage Company had definitely DECIDED
to dismantle the 226 wooden shlpS
i'm the plant of what was formerly the
Virginia Shipbuilding Corporation,
The merchants were overjoyed and
each and every AleXandrlan seems to
believe that this is something that IS
being done that will be for his own
personal benefit. Whether the new
corporation adds $50 or 1000 to the
lists of those who live in this city and
earn their living here, 1t Will be one
of the greatest steps Alexandria has
ever taken toward that coveted goal
of Greater Alexandria, IS the gem
eral consensus Of opinion. it IS re-
ported that , ships are on the way
and will reach here Monday and Z
more will follow later in the week.
News that the savagIng of the
fleet of 226 wooden ships will be done
in Alexandria at the plant of the Flr-
ginia Shipbuilding Corporation was
MANY of the merchants who were IN
terviewed TO-DAY on the subject eX-
pressed themselves as highly graft
fled that Alexandria will have an
other enterprise added to its already
bio list and that it will give en-
plOyment to a large number of hands.
Two ships are expected here Monday.
The opinion was expressed by many
that the coming of this enterprise TO
the city may mean the coming OF
others, it being pointed out that
Alexandria with its excellent water
and rail facilities compares faVOrab-
" to any city in the United States
as a manufacturing center and If
the necessary capital can become IN
tereSted in Alexandria their is abb
solutely no reason why the city should
not take on other new industries and
make strides of progress.
The business men Of the city re-
Gently have taken on new life and the
merchants are doing everything with
in their power to help build up Alex
andria and the predicatiOn IS made
that the city is now destined to go for
ward and there is no room left for
the pessemist in this city.
Good streets are being laid, white
way is under course of construction,
q new form of government is in the
saddle and all things point to the fact
that before long Alexandria will have
other manufacturing enterprises. The
chamber of commerce is a strong viz
lie organization which is taking steps
i'm the right direction to put the city
ahead as a manufacturing center and
make it the workship of the nations
capital,
As heretofore stated in the Gazette
the Federal Storage and Battery
I Company has leased from Joseph L..
4 Crupper, receiver for the Virginia
Smpbuilding Corporation, the build
#ug west of the Shipyard formerly
a Used as 4 commissary, and now the
NTork Of dismanteling the ships is to
be done here and already the Trent
Amalgam Company, another new
enterprise is in operation. things are
on the forward move and indications
Epont 10 a most successful year de-
8fplte the advertised that the business
&lntereStS have had to contend with
&iue to strikes and labor troubles
~ drly during the wear