Evening star., 1932-02-21
GOSPEL MISSION
TO ERECT HOME
Cost of Building at 810-816
Fifth Street Is Estimated
at $150,0O0.


street yesterday, trustees of the Gospel
Mission, 2l4-216 John Marshall place,
announced plans for the immediate
! construction of a four-story building to
house its religious and social service
activities.
Featuring the construction work,
which will be in the hands Of Col.
Peter M. Anderson. consulting engineer
and architect, Is a plan for employing
all building trades workers direct in
stead of through subcontractorS. They
will be paid the average pre-war wage
scale prevailing in the various groups,
plus the present percentage of increased
cost Of living as reported by the Depart
ment Of Labor due to improved living
standards. This is fixed at about 80
per cent Col. Anderson Is donating
work.
Temporary ofices already have been
erected at the Fifth street address,
where men seeking employment on the
building will be registered at 10 o'clock
Wednesday morning. A. large number
| of men attracted to Washington by re-
| ports of employment to be found on
| Government construction and who are
stranded here, as we'll as local workmen
without employment, will be given work,
| according to Col. Anderson.
! Funds Available.
| Sufficient funds are now available to
purchase necessary material and start
work, it was announced, and volun-
tary contributions as the work pro-
crosses will assure completion Of the
building as rapidly as -workmen can
construct it, The mission is not re-
cipient of Community Chest funds. 1t is
expected it will be ready for occupancy
by July l.
It was stressed by the trustees that
all money contributed will 90 directly
toward construction and relief of un-
employed workers, and that the usual
contractors profits will be eliminated.
Plans to erect a new home for the
mission began to take form about a
year ago, when the present site on
John Marshall place was purchased by
the District government
While Workmen on the new nome
will be paid the wage scale fixed by
the trustees, they will also. in part, be
donating their services. according to the
plan of operation. They will be asked
to contribute the difference between
the scale paid them and the prevailing
| wage scale as voluntary donation, and
| roll inscribed with their names and
| the numbers of days work done by
| each will be established in the building
Brick and Stucco.
The new building will be of brick and
| Stucco construction, with a chapel to
| accommodate 400 persons and sleeping
| quarters for the same number. A
cafeteria in the basement will serve as
many as 1t may be necessary to feed
The floors will be of tile and the build
ing will be fireproof. 1t will stand on
| ground space 80 by 85 feet with full
frontage on Fifth street. The esti-
mated cost is $150000.
| The new building will greatly in
crease the capacity of the present mis-
sion, which is sheltering an average OF
5000 men and serving 5000 meals
monthly. The Gospel Mission was
founded more than rs years ago by the
late Mrs Monroe. Harvey v. Prentice
is superintendent
DR.. M. E. Miller, president of the
board of trustees. is chairman of the
Building Committee. which includes
William L. Clarke, N. K Gardner and
DR.. E. M. Ellison. Other members OF
the board are Dr. John H. Wesler
S. M. Croft, N. A. Mason, Gardner F.
4 Johnson, Dr. F. A. st. Clair, I. H
Linton, Col. P. M Anderson, r. H
Clark. L. P. Allen, Mrs. William
Buckingham, H. P. Caemmerer, r. S
Palmer and A. J. Osgood.
Wage Scale Fixed.
| The wage scale fixed by the trustees
| is as follows:
Bricklayers, 70 cents per hour: car
penters. so cents; hoisting engineers
10 cents; hod carriers, l2h cents
wheelbarrow men, IS cents: electricians
10 cents; electricians helpers, IS cents
marble cutters and settlers, 10 cents
marble settlers helpers. IS cents
| painters, 60 cents: plasterers. 10 cents
! plasterers' laborerS, 422 cents; pulmb-
ers and gas filters, IS cents; plumbers
helpers, 4212 cents: sheet metal workers
60 cents; steam filters, 65 cents; steam
filters helpers, 42l2 cents: stone cut.
ters, go cents: stone masons, 10 cents
structural steel workers. 67H cents
| structural steel workers helpers AZ
| cents; tile layers, 65 cents, and common
/ labor 28la cents.
Labor will be employed, it was an
n0unced, on the basis of an eight t-h0ul
day and five-and-one- halliday week
There will be job foreman in each
trade who will receive 10 cents per hoW
above the scale paid Workmen.