Show T nn lo 10 V L 0 gall kl 1 i airty 11 1 0 aty of millions ma lor for worked home S government flaps to H house ouse its big new army of shipbuilders Ship builders TO BE DONE IN RECORD TIME community houses equipped like club for single men homes with all modern conveniences for worried men standardization for high speeds speed by JAMES H COLLINS in a hastily remodeled suite of washington offices today sits alts a man who has a war tusk task that appeals to I 1 the imagination between now and july I 1 lie Is to build worth of homes for workers in uncle sams new shipbuilding army which Is being mobilized from the picked mechanics of every state in the union this army will number something like men fifty million dollars invested in houses for a work force of that size gives 11 15 per man that seems rather a limited sum of money with which to provide anybody with warm warin sank sanitary tary living quarters having baths hot and cold water steam heat electric light modern kitchen facilities and all the comforts of home ionic yet this man Is going to make inake ills his per man suffice for the job and carry out ills his construction in record time it Is interesting to figure with him a little if you just remember that present figures must be rough CAI estimates to a certain extent first of all he can eliminate e a large proportion of this shipbuilding army because many of the new shipyards are handy to cities with ample housing slug and all conveniences and uncle sam will solve the housing problem in those places P 1 ces by improving the transportation service fee between a mans work and ills his home but other shipyards have been created in fit undeveloped spots along our wide stretches of seacoast soa coast and in these places it becomes necessary to provide workers with modern living quarters community dwellings thousands Thou gands of these Ship shipbuilders builders will be single men and for thein a special type of community dwelling has been designed on the order of a club house each community dwelling will accommodate men luen each man mail will have leave a r room eon to himself and it will be an outside room each clubhouse moreover 01 r will be divided into five groups or s club of front from 25 9 5 to 80 30 men enell each of these separate clubs will have shower baths and a large com community lounge making it possible for a worker to find a congenial crowd of his ill own and for that little community subdivision to organize its own home life anlu amusements belli ell ta sports social affairs and studies stil d I 1 es E each itch club aliouse will have a community dining with modern kitchen and serving facilities giving board bear on the ineas plan at reasonable rates and with minli nuin labor these community club houses are to uc ito of frame fraine construction but standard type many of th bliem cut will be erected in ill localities which tire are not likely to become permanent shipbuilding centers therefore per manent construction has fins not been tile necessity nevertheless they nill be substantial int ellon enough gil to last 23 25 years if need bo be and where erected in localities with severe winter weather will lack nothing in fit warmth when the plans for such houses were standardized by the shipping board experts they achieved two results in house bouse building that seemed to be new first fir st speed of all the doors windows pipes and other that RO 90 anty a 11 house were put on a basio basia of sizes sires much of the work in building n single house as anyone who lias has paid the bills will know consists in sawing cutting find and fitting the material everything cut to fit with standardization of every possible item most of this cutting and fitting will be done in factories and the material shipped ready to be put together by carpenters and plumbers second the cost of housing an individual was reduced to a most reasonable figure it Is still too early to give totals in dollars and cents but present estimates indicate that the investment in these community homes for single workers will not exceed per man this including living quarters baths community lounges for each club of 25 men kitchen and mess hall facilities heating and lighting everything if all the housing appropriation tion for ship workers were spent on these community dwellings homes would be provided for about men or nearly one third the whole emergency shipbuilding army but many of the new ship workers will be married men with families and for them separate dwellings are being built something like 50 60 types of five alve six and seven room cottages have been studied and reduced to standards in tile the same way everything Is calati fated for quick economical durable 1 construction each fie separate parate dwelling will have its bathroom heating limiting lighting and kitchen equipment 1101 moreover I 1 great pains have been taken to L avold any appearances of oc standardization or monotony in exterior design only the materials material and ln inside IdL appointments point ments havo have been reduced to s standards t andi ads while exterior lines and ornament may inny bo be modified iding to local co conditions to seccie and beauty that Is not all the plans have been drawn for these individual family cottages ith the idea of permanence in so far as possible they will be erected at shipyard sites which tire arc fairly certain to be per manent single men are free to mow to temporary employment for the war and disperse if shipyards are abandoned when peace comes married men with families cannot do of course so BO they will be assigned to tile permanent yards as fast Is as poi rAble with the ex expectation that they way live there for years the plans take into account nut only the provision of homes for them when they tire are shifted into shipbuilding to meet the war emergency but the purchase of their own homes on installment payments equivalent to rent it if they feel that the now new locality Is a suitable one in which to work and live and bring brid up a family present estimates indicate that the family houses can be erected for considerably sider ably less than each this does docs not include the cost of land nor has that been figured in the building of community houses for single men the major part of this great building program will have been completed by the 1st ast of july some idea of its magnitude may be given by comparison with other building operations 0 on a a peace time basis an equal in invest vest ment would build five woolworth rth buildings or two equitable buildings hearing for all comers naturally the magnitude of a building program like that and the promptness with which it must be carried out appeals to the imagination not only of the shipyard workers who are to live in these dwellings and the american nerl citizens who are interested in them as part of our war program but to many persons who wish to assist with advice plans inventions and special schemes and devices for speed ing up the job to the offices where this program Is being carefully laid out have come in the past few weeks men with all sorts of proposals for the wilding building of houses find and dormitories in record time and of many kinds of emergency materials rad ad construction those having the pr project goject in hand have given a hearing ta all comers and moreover gone afield themselves to investigate vesti gate promising new methods in the end however as alie alic outcome of c careful a reful investigation and plans these shipyard dwellings will be erected pretty much on standard lines of tried and proven materials with all elements of speed and economy centered in standardization of materials and large scale building by well equipped contractors with capable organizations |