GRE AT NEED OF
BUILDINGS IN
ALLSECTIONS
Seventy-four cities have returned
to the United Staes department of
labor questionnaires on building
needs and obstacles in getting build
ing under way. Fifty-seven of these
cites show a pressing demand for
building and most of these emphasize
the shortage of dwellings and apart
ment houses.
Typical of the representations in
this particular are the following:
Portland, Maine reports a shortage in
dwelling and tenement houses; Hav
erhill, Lawrence, and Salem, Mass.,
report a demand for dwellings amj
tenements; Albany, N. Y., needs flats,
Manhattan needs office, dwelling and
storage buildings; Rochester needs
dwellings and mercantile buildings;
Atlantic City, East Orange and Eliza
beth, New Jersey are short in dwel
lings and apartments and almost all
the towns in Pennsylvania reporting
show a deficinecy in residences.
Ohio, Indiana and Illinois show a
shortage in dwellings with an oc
casional report on demands for
schools and factories, and the major
percentage of shortage in Colorado,
Utah, Washington and California, is
in dwellings. In the south and south
west there is a demand for business
building this being especially notice
able in Texas and Louisiana.
Scranton and Wilkes-Barre, Pa.,
Newark, Ohio, Wheeling W. Va.,
Bloomington and Danville, 111., report
no demand for buildings indicating
present facilities are adequate to cur
Tacoma, Washington, was the only
city reporting no delay on account of
wages, material prices, interest rates
and available capital. Tacoma’s ob
stacle was inclement weather and
subsequent reports from the state of
Washington indicate preparations for
unusual building activity for the
spring season.
The questionnaires, which were
sent out by the division of public
works and construction developments
of the United States department of
labor, were calculated to verify the
results of other investigations into
the building shortage of the country
and to develop what, if any, obstacles
were being encountered by building
intersts. Specific information was
asked on the influence of wages, ma
terial prices, interest rates and avail
able investment capital. Several cities
reported that it was none of these
which w'as delaying building but rath
er the uncertainty of the future labor
and material market. A majority of
tile cities assert that high wages are
a factor in holding back building;
there is almost unanimous concur
rence in the opinion that high prices
of materials are determined obstacles.
There is not much complaint about
interest rates but 14 cities report
builders are having difficulty in ob
taining capital to finance projects.
This latter obstacle appears not to
be a sectional matter but rather one
growing out of local conditions in
widely separated territory. Cam
bridge, Mass., New Haven, Conn., Al
bany, N. Y., Philadelphia, Pa., Terre
Haute, Ind., Wheeling W. Va., Aurora,
111., are among the cities reporting
difficulty in borrowing capital for
building work.
Wherever building industry organi
zations have gone into the subject,
the conclusion has prevailed that no
decrease In labor wages may be ex
pected for some time to come—not
until the general price level on living
necessities drops. The investigations
of the economists in the department
of labor, supported by no less an auth
ority than Prof. Irving Fisher, of Yale
University, assert no marked reduc
tion may be expected in building ma
terial prices. Prof, Fisher asserts
we are on a new and higher price
level from which, in the main, we
shall not recede. "We are on a per
manetly higher price lever,” says
Prof. Fisher, “and the sooner the
business men of the country take this
view and adjust themselves to it, the
sooner will they save themselves and
the nation from the misfortune which
will come, if we persist in our pres
ent false hope.”
After setting out the circumstances
and developments on which this con
clusion is based, Prof. Fisher con
cludes his study of the situation with
this: “Busines men should face the
fact. To talk reverently of 1913-14
prices is to speak a dead language to
day. The buyers of the country, since
the armistice, have made an unexam
pled attack upon prices through their
waiting attitude, and yet price reces
sions have been insignificant. The
reason is that we are on a new high
price level, which will be found a
stuborn reality. Business men are go
ing to find out that the clever man
is not the man who waits, but the one
who finds out the new price facts, and
acts accordingly.”
GREAT BRITAIN TOOK
CARE OF MANY PATIENTS
LONDON, April 14 (by Associated
Press).—The toal number of Ameri
can soldier patients in hospitals in
Great Britain during 1918 was 47,
862. About one-fifth of them were
wounded on injured, the remanider ill.
When the armistice was signed 9,310
Americans ill and wounded were be
ing card for in American hospitals
her, says an American Red Cross
report.
When the United States entered
the war the only hospital beds avail
able for American soldiers were in
two or three American Red Cross hos
pitals which were then being used for
British troops. So rapidly were pro
visions made by the Red Cross that
by the time American troops began
to pour into France and England the
supply of American hospital beds was
ample. It was only during the influ
enza epidemic last fall that the de
mand exceeded the supply. In Octo
ber and Novmeber many cases had to
be sent to British hsopitals, where at
one time the number of Americans
cared for reached 5,584.
The United States army personnel
engaged in American hospitals in
| Great Britain numbered about 3,200,
that of the American Red Cross was
about 400.
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UTAH RAISES ANTE ON
FISHERMEN’S LICENSES
SALT LAKE CITY, April 14 (by
Associated Pres).—Utah’s fishing and
hunting license this year, and here
after until changed, will be $2 for
each man, amendments to the fish
and game laws at the last legislative
session increasing the rate from ?1.50
Changes in the law also provide for a
license fee of $1 for women and for
boys between thq age of 12 and 16
yars.
There is no discrimination between
residents and non-residents in the
new fish and game laws in the mat
ter of ordinary game and fishing, the
tee being the same to all citizens of
the United States. Utah is said to be
the fiivt state where no such distinc
tion is made. Residents of other
states, passing through Utah, who
wished to fish or hunt during their
stay in this stae, formerly had to pay
a license of $6. Non-residents may
not hunt deer in Utah, according to
the latest provisions and the deer sea
son is to be only for 10 days, from
November 1 to 10, inclusive, during
which period only on buck deer may .
be killed by a resident.
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