Pueblo chieftain., 1922-02-06
By FREDERIC j. HAsK1N

/ NEW 1oFth ClIf, rep. sine day
OF the factory made house is distinct
ly here, at least around New York.
There is tremendous demand for. 1t
in all of the outlying suburbs, in some
OF which you can now find practically
whole streets that have been shipped
t. 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-f fitted kind, which
are unpacked and put together like
pieces OF 1tEsaw puzzle, and some
look as If they had been transported
whole. like motor cars. to their des-
tinationS.
By exempting new homes from taxa
tion for a period of several years, the
state has managed to give a tremen-
dous impetus to building so that the
building trade, handicapped by inter
nal dissensfon, is far behind on its
contracts. Some builders declare that
anyone wanting to build house cost
ing less than $4,000 cannot even get
the foundation dug before next August.
Hence. people who are impatient for
homes are buying them from the fac
tories or department stores.
Not long ago, for instance, a New
ork business woman, who was eN-
tremely weary of paying what seemed
to her to be excessive rent, decided
that she wanted her own home.
planned, in developing her new idea.
its the noise. The only way you
can achieve quiet in New York is to
have Il place of your own on lot
sufficiently far out of the city and
sufficiently isolated TO avoid near
neighbors. 1 am looking for such a
spot, and 1 intend to find it and be
dwelling there In great coutentment
b. spring when New York opens all its
Windows"
A real estate agent. who had heard
of many such ambitious guests before.
shook his head discoura Sinsly. and
told the woman that she would have
hard time finding isolation accom-
panied by modern gas and water pipes.
Yet, two weeks later. he was willing to
acknowledge that the impossible had
been accomplished. The woman had
her lonely lot. which she had bought
AT bargain price at a real estate auc-
ton. Then. upon the strength OF her
ownership of the lot, she arranged
with a large Chicago mail order houee
for the purchase of two-story cut
and-fitted" house containing eight
rooms.
A RIVAL OF ALADDIN
In a few weeks" said the real es-
tate agent, 'the house began TO arrive.
coming in pieces. the framing and
other principal parts first. She i'm
mcdiately hired a few men TO put IL
together. and 1 know it was not more
than ten weeks from the time she
bought the lot and ordered the house
until she was living in IL.
These new department store
houses are going UP on every tract OF
land I've sold this year continued
the agent. There are hundreds OF
them under way or completed on Long
Island and in westchester county.
ThpV'rN inst attractive "a and
Portable as those that are built slowly
by hand, and they are, l believe. the
greatest remedy that has yet been
found for the housing problem
Statistics indicate that there are to-
day in this country 100000 families
who hope to own their own homes as
soon as building conditions permit.
This is in the large surplus OF would
be home-owners created by the war
when private building operations were
entirely at n standstill. To this may
be added normal shortage OF i.5op, 900
houses, as well as the annual demands
OF our multitude OF newly -wods, who
now average 10000 couples a year.
1t Is situation that ciamors for
speed In the production OF houses, and
the rcadymade house appears to have
arrived jurt mt the right moment.
The building of houses" says n New
York engineer. .'is one OF the last
should have been one OF the first
Home-buildinE today-especiaily the
building Of small homcs-is astonish-
inEly wasteful. We are stili using the
samc methods employed in the time OF
Marcus Aureiius or OF Alfred the
Groat. It is less expert than the maxi
ing OF pins.
QUANTITY PRODUCTION AIM NOW
Before the introduction OF machin-
cry. a single workman, unaidcd. could
make only a few pins day. while now
the daily product OF workman, as
sisted by modern machinery. is 1900
600 pins. complete and stuck in paper.
Tho same thing can be done in regard
TO houses. 1t is being done. From now
on, people can buy their houses in the
buy pins
This is no. quite the case as yet,
OF n Graham Brothers school bus with