New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-08-11
TO MAKE HIGH-POWER GUNS
THE CONTRACT AWARDED TO THE BETH.
LEHEM IRON COMPANY.
ONE HUNDRED BREEcH.LoADING RIFLES CALLED
FoR-REoUIREMENTs AND TESTS
TO BE FULFILLED.


FoR-REoUIREMENTs AND TESTS
TO BE FULFILLED.
rBY TELEGRAPH TO THE rKrBUNE.I
washington Aug. 1O.-The STIR sought to be made
yer the aceeptapce Of the bid of the Bethlehem iron
company for the construction Of 100 new hgh-power
Opns fell rather nat to-day when General Grant, the
acting Secretary Of War; approved the report OF the
Board OF Ordnance and Fertilization, recommending
an acceptance .St the Bethlehem Company's terms
These had been criticised as much higher tian tic
cost OF similar work done in the Government gun
shops The Experts Board Of Ordnance decided now
ever that with one slight modification the BIDS OF te
Bethlehem Company were reasonable and proper anu
as the policy both OF Congress and OF the war ana
NAVY peparnents has been to foster as far as posi-
HE pryate military and naval construction, the Ache
Secretary found it easy 10 give mai approVa " o
Pennsylvania firms bids. 1t is, OF course poss'oo
that the company may not deem 1t good poncs "
accept the contract as slightly altered but the chances
are that ID will take no such STEP but that 1t VIII sign
contract with the Government on the terms specheo
by the Board.
The contract with the Bethlehem Iron Company cans
for the manufacture OF 100 breech-loadlng' sinsio
charge built up forged steel nnea suhs uipu0l
Schedule Z OF its proposal OF July IL, Iooi-aN.''
TWENTY-FIVE eightinoh breechloading rlfes' esch lo
ST. 246 So including ten rounds OF ammuni.ioh I'm
nlete the first gun manufactured to DO the type su'
u,hch shall be subjected TO such tests as the Boau Oh
Ordnance and Fertilization shall hereafter presence
that the ammunition required for these tests over anu
ahove TEN rounds supplied with the gun snail DC iur
nsed by the company at the price OF 81 w per rouu
eftv ten-inch breechoadng rifles, each Tor SSo'4' oo
including ten rounds Of ammunition complete eAurA
ammunition to be supplied at S13l 90 per rounu
twenty-five twelveinch breechloadins rihes' each i
R54473 %, extra ammunition at SZl' 10 per r0uiiN
The total cost is S3,5S0373 50.
The contract was awarded at a rate some"na'
nSerent from that submitted in the bid. THIS di1-
ference is in the price for the three type guns lho
ria was for type gun i'm each class at much lhreer
0oune than for each succeeding gun OF the same Grass
The higher price included the cost of the ammuhluon
reou,rrd for the testing of guns as follows 1iice
hundred rounds for eightinch gun 2oo rouhos ioi
a tenLnch gun, and 200 for twelve+nch gun oucl
tests usuaIy weaken and nearly destroy the gun ~
was thought that ten rounds would be suinclenV lor
tbe type guns thus testing them SATISFACTORILY We
leaving them fit for future use. on that pass Inere
,. the cost of the type gun IN each case scaled
en- as To be equal TO that Of the other guns. Inc
hoard then reserves the right 10 make fuiter tesUs
thew should be thought necessary
According to the proposals Of the company the rnus
ara 70 he fnrnished as follows. Eightinch type gun
e. 7ao dovs: the other guns in such regular PERIODS
that he tventy-fth shall be delivered IN 2433 uays
after information Of the acceptance OF the pe gun.
Tsn-inch type gun in $50 days; the others ~
1erods so that the fftieth shall be ready IN o;4o
DAYS after the acceptance OF the WPe T repiIar
tssods that the twenty fifth shall be completed N
y