Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-01-29
FOR AN il ARMoR PLANT
Proposals epsned9,in the Office Of the Score
r tary Of the Navy.
Twenty-Nine Bids Submitted, Only
1--WE Covering the Ground
Completely.

In accordance with the advertisement is
sued by the Navy Department recently,
proposals We're opened in the office of Sec
rotary Long today for the construction of
government armor plant, for the sale to
Inc government of sites suitable for such
q plant, and for the machinery and build
1ngs. There were Twenty-Five bids. and
tney covered every phase of the advertise
ment Many of these proposals were merely
oilers to donate sites to the government,
conditional upon the location of the plant,
number of others were for the supply of
machinery of one kind or another. There
were but two bids to supply a complete
plant for the making Of armor such as is
contemplated in thu specifications prepared
by the armcr plant board, and only one of
THESE famed figure. The two companies
now engaged in the manufacture of armor
Tor the navy did not submit proposals. The
one proposal to build a complete plant
came from the Huntington, wv Va. cham
Der of commerce, and the offer was to fol-
low the specifications of the board for the
sum of s., 1855 05. including site, buildings
and plant.
Some Other Offers.
Another offer to supply a complete plant
came from the John P. Holland Torpedo
Boat Company of New York, but no figure
was named, the company simply Offering
a period less than estimated by the armor
factory board in it's report This bid was
accompanied by the expression of an. opin
ion that 'armor should be included in the
construction contracts of all vessels, by
which policy Congress and the country
would understand the full cost of ships and
their protection, the price OF armor would
be reduced and its delivery expedited
Another proposal that commanded some at
tention was that of the Rearick Engineer
ing Company of Columbus, Ohio. This was
very complicated proposal to supply each
OF the numer Gus buildings, furnaces, boil
ers, ETC., required, as well as $50 acres of
land at sums specified in each particular
case, and the point of interest about the
hid was ain accompanying offer from the
chamber of commerce of Columbus to do
nate the sum Of S500.000 to the government
II the plant were located in that city.
Offers of sites for a plant nearly gratis,
or for nominal of money, came
from Muskegon, Mich. Youngstown, Ohio:
Escanaba, Mich; Duluth, Mimi; Ensley.
Ala: Lorraine, Ohio; Winthrop Harbor
and Dock Co. of Chicago: Sheffield, Tenn;
Waukegan, ILL.,: Detroit, Mich; Peoria, H.;
Marquette. Mich: Admission. Ala. A Ma
site free II the government would build
100000. dock into the lake. Offers came
from one man in Hampton, Va, to sell
some land and machinery for about $780,,
600. and from Philadelphia man to sup
ply some land and a testing machine for
s4.10O Some of the big western tool con-
Germs came forward with offers to supply
machinery needed for the plant, and in the
list We're the Morgan Engineering Com
pany Of Alliance. Ohio, and the Niles Tool
Works of Hamilton, Ohio In the east
similar offefS came from Bennett, Miles &
Co. and Defterich & Harvey of Maryland
A Marion Co. Ind. corporation offered to
donate forty acres of land and fifty wells o.
It viii take some time to schedule all
of these bids. ana as soon as they can be
arranged they will be sent to Congress
by Secretary Loffg for the information of
government I'm the manufacture of armor.