Arizona republican., 1922-02-10

NEW YORK-The day of the fac
tory made house is distinctly here,
at least around New York. There is
a tremendous demand for ii in all Of
the outlying districts, in some OF
which you can now find practically
whole streets that have been shipped
Z, O. b. from some factory In the mid
die west. Some of the houses are
OF the light, portable type and some
are Of the cut and fitted kind. which
are unpacked and put together like
pieces of a 1igsaw puzzle, and some
look as if they had been transported
whole, like motor cars. TO their des-
tination.
By exemption new homes from tax
alton for a period of several years,
the state has managed to give tre-
mendous impetus to building SO that
the building trade, handicapped by
internal dissention, Is far blind on its
contracts. Some builders declare that
anyone wanting to build house cost
ing less than $4,000 cannot even get
the foundations dug before next Au-
gust. Hence, people who are impa-
tent for homes are buying them from
the factories or the department stores.
Not long ago, for instance. New
York business woman, who was ex-
tremely weary of paying what had
seemed to her to be an excessive rent.
decided that she wanted her own
home.
'It's not only the rent" she ex-
planned in developing her own ideas
'it'sf the noise. The only way you
can achieve quiet in New York is
to have a place of your own on
lot sufficiently far out of the city
and sufficiently isolated to avoid the
7 InOl<fnp for EtICn
a spot and intend to find II and be
dwelling there in great contentment
by spring when New York opens all
it's windows"
The real estate agent who had
heard of many such ambitious quests
before. shook his head discouragingly
and told the woman that she would
have a hard time In finding isolation
accompanied by modern gas and wa
ter pipes. Yet two weeks later ne
was willing TO acknowledge that the
impossible had been accomplished
The woman had her lonely lot which
she had bought at a bargain price
at a real estate auction. Then, upor
the strength OF her ownership OF the
lot. she arranged with a Chicago
mail order house for the purchase OF
two story "cut and fitted" house con-
tanning eight rooms.
A Rival of Aladdin
'Tn a few weeks said the rea
estate agent. "the house began t'
arrive. coming in pieces, and th'
framing and principal parts first. Sh'
Immediately hired a few men to pu
il together and l know II was no
more than 10 weeks from the time sh'
bought the lot and ordered the hous'
until she was living in it.
"These department store houses ar
going up on every tract OF land w
sold this year. continued the aSen'
There are hundreds OF them unde
way or completed on Long Island ant
in Westchester county. They're jus
as attractive and comfortable as thos
that are built slowly by hand. ant
they are l believe. the greatest rem
edy that has yet been found for tn
housing problem"
| Statistics indicate that there are TO
| day in this country 100000 familie
| who hope to own their own home
as soon as building conditions perml'
| This is the large surplus of would b
| homeowners created by the war whe
private building operations were en-
| tirely at a standstill To this may D
added a normal shortage of 1.bO0,0O
| houses. as we'll as the annual de
/ mands Of our multitude OF newly
weds. who now average l.OOO,OOO cou
| pIes a year. 1t is a situation tina
I clarnors for speed in the productio
| of houses and the readymade nous
appears to have arrived just at tn
| right moment.
"The building Of houses" says
| New York engineer, lis one OF tn
last things to be industrialiZed, an
IL should have been one OF the hrs
Home building today, especially IN
| building Of small homes, is aStonish
inrlv wasteful. We are still using tn
same methods employed In the tim
| OF Marcus Aurelius or of Alfred IN
Great It is less expert than tn
making of pins.
Quantity Production Aim Now
Before the introduction OF machin
cry, a single workman, unaided, coul
make only a few pins day, Will
now the daily product Of a workman
assisted by modern machinery,
$4,000, 900 pins, complete and stuck
paper. The same thing can be don
in regard to houses. 1t is being don,
From now on, people can buy the
houses in the same department store
where they buy pins"
This is not quite the case as ye
even in New York where the deman
for the readymade house is so vigor
GUS but you can choose your home b
mail through the lid of catalogue
| Most of the real estate agents haV
these new house catalogues, and II
New York Public Library did have
large collection which has almo
disappeared owing to frequent theft'
The prices of the houses rams
usually from $1,000 up. according
the number of rooms and the elabori