Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-02-06

New York. Feb. 6.-The day Of the
factory-mado house is distinctly here,
at least around New York. There Isl
a tremendous demand for IT in all OF
the outlying suburbs, in some OF which
you can now find practically whole
streets that have been shipped I. o. b..
from some factory in tho Middle West.
Some OF the houses sre OF the light,
portable type, and some are OF the
cut-and- fitted kind, which are un-
packed and put together like pieces
Of n Jigsaw puzzle, and some look as
| IL they had been transported whole,
like motor cars, to their destinations.
BY excmpting new homes from tax
alton for a period OF several years.
the state has managed 10 give a
/ tremendous impetus 10 building so
that the building trade, handicapped
/ by Internal dissension. is far behind
on its contracts. Some builders de-
clare that anyone wanting to build
a house costing less than $4,000 can
not even get the foundation dug be-
fore next August. Hence, people who
are impatient for homess are buying
them from the factories or department
stores.
Not long ago. for instance, a New
York business woman. who was ex-
tremely weary of paying what seemed
to her "a be excessive rent. decided tha;
she wanted her own home.
TITS pot only the rent" she ex-
planned, in developing her new idea
ITS the noise. The only way you car
achieve quiet in New York is 20 have
a place Of your own on lot sufti-
ciently far out Of the city and suffi-
lciently isolated 10 avoid near neigh.
bors / am looking for such q spot
land intend to find II and be dwelling
there in great contentment by sprins
when New York opens all Its win
dows."
The real estate agent, who hac
heard Of many such ambitious quests
before. shook his head discouraging
/, lly, and told the woman that she woul'
, have a hard time finding isolation ac
, companied by modern gas and waite
pipes. Yet, two weeks later, he wa
, willing to acknowledge that the i'm
, possible had been accomplished. Tn
, woman had her lonely Tot, which sh
' had bought at a bargain price at
I real estate auction. Then, upon tn
4 strength Of her owDSfship OF the lo'
= she arranged with large Chicag
= mail order house for the purchase {
!. a two-story "cut-and-fitted" hous
: containing eight rooms.
A Rival )f Aladdin.
. I'm a few weeks said the re.
:. estate agent, "the house began 10 al
rive, coming in pieces, the framin
o and other principal parts first. 81
!. Immediately hired a few men TO pl
v it together, and know 1t was n'
z more than ten weeks from the tin
% she bought the lot and ordered Il
Il house until she was living in IL.
These new department store hou
i es are going up on every tract OF lar
I'VE sold this year" continued Il
h agent. There are hundreds OF the
h under way OF completed on Long !
: land and In Westchester Count
IS They're Just as attractive and comfor
n able as those that are built Aow
g. fby hand. and they are, believe. Il
ii greatest remedy that has yet bee
1t found for the housing problem"
IS Statistics indicate that there a.
today IN this country 100000 fam
l. lies who hope TO own their own horl
n as soon as building conditions perm
This Is the large surplus OF would
Id home-owners created by the war VIII
IS private building operations we're e
On tirely at a standstill. To this may
u added a normal shortage af 10000
er houses, as well as the annual dernan
g. OF our multitude Of newly-weds, W
r now average 100000 couples a ye
g. II is a situation that elamoIS for spe
in the production OF houses, and
readymade house appears to ha
arrived just at the right moment.
Fn The building of houses" says
IS New York engineer. -is one of
s. last things TO be industrialized. and
De should have been one Of the fir
80 Home-building today-especially
rs building of small homes-is astonis
ar Ingly wasteful. We are still using I
ct. same methods employed in the I'll
al- OF Marcus Aurelius sor OF Alfred I
v Great. It Is less expert than the ma
IT ing OF pins.
as Quantity Production Aim Now.
Before the Introduction Of mach
ID,