Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-10-23
SALVAGE COMPANY
| STARTS OPERATIONS
employ Eighty White Men and Begin TO Rae
and MOjaye"-MOre Employees to BE Added
Each Day.
LONG IDLEPLANT TAKES ON NEW LIFE
hjps to BE Completely Torn DOwn-Superintenden Sug
gests plan" to Use Old Huls in Building "oass
in Ocean Desert"

/ Active operations were begun a;
H. ualpt Of the Virginia Shipbulld-
Corporation this morning when
Western Salvage and Marine
&ompany which has leased a portio~
NJ the ward for use in dismantling
h. 22G wooden ships recently par
&ased from the United States ShlD-
Nm Board, employed eighty whi;e
4 hen and started the work of wreck
y g. The "Atlanthus" and the Mo
ve" " the first two ships TO arrive,
4nd started the work OF wrecklne
tod putting the long abandoned yare
I'D its machinery into WORKING OF
~. More ner will be employed eacA
~ it was stated by superintendent
~ derson in charge Of the work.
4 With eighty hustling workers run
Nh about getting things in order
I'D the creaking and screechmg OF
! @ RUSTY cranes and locomotives
le plant presentes q scene on mus
R,l activity today Hammers we're
4eard resounding from abroad the
&ssels and the old time activity
{eened TO have been resumed. Inc
karchants of Alexandria see IN TINS
aw plant the prospects OF much bet
Y business in the future and wei
&bycc its coming warmly. The num-
pr of employees viii be gradually m
8eased until some 500 TO 200 are en'-
Moved it is stated, thus will II g'Vc
4 the business Of Alexandria great
anpetus.
SThc big steel hull of the George
I Morse. which ship was not com
Beted when the Virginia Shlpbmld-
ID Cooperation suspended activities
I'M be removed from the local yard
I is said but it's destination nor the
! te of the leaving have OF yet oeeH
E,tled upon.
! The next contingent of wooden
}eet which is to be brought from
klermont bv piece-meal, will arrive
r. latter part of this week and
&rk upon them will be started at
&re. Ii is the plan of the superin-
~ dent to work on eight o fthese big
= ts at the same time. The wharf
owned by the plant is ample to
#om:nodate only about this num-
IN buildings on the grounds viii
used for the storage Of the par'>
3 tbev are removed from the ships
h as store room available Is not OF
kHcient capacity to entertain 2li
part that are to be stored 1t is
IL tied tha many additional buildings
a be erected.
#The ships will be completely Strip-
Xd and much of the hull torn away
"A sold either as secondhand lu'n-
y b or as fire wood.
NH. Anderson has a novel plan
Herebv he thinks someone couH
IS pss 2 vast fortune. His plan, as
&efly stated IS something like this;
f$rhese ships may be torn down
81 1rlv to the waters edge. There
enough of them when lined up
II form circle with ewcumfcr-
q of about two miles. They may
a towed 10 some shoal outside tie
.lile limit ZOne-OuC "HStV t"N
Nan is wet-and there be joined to-
&her with the wire netting that IS
= Fl of their equipment. This net
= would form foundation and
h the space between the oo8'S
hid be pumped full OF sand and
70 island formed.
= Now here's the money part OF IN
{Sknosition. Erect a nice hotel. Ihe
he would say no more-Seem'
evident
This project. he said. would Re
he the outlay of something hEe
Million dollars but would pay
PERCENTAGE on the principal
year.
~ is also might be made coailnng
Iather. a stocking place for the
+ which are to be excluded from
accommodations under the recent
kherty rulings. In other words
build erect q little oasis" in the
~ dry" ocean.