The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1898-01-30
THeD|y-KIDe Proposals Covering Every
PlQSe OF Ile Advertisement.
ONLY TWO BIDS FOR 4 COMPLETE PLANT
Sites offered Grntis or for Nominal
Prices Some Proposals Remarks
ably Liberni-AtI tho BIDS VIII
He Scheduled nnd Submitted &c
Congress.
washington, Jan. 90, 1898.

"hSilllSNsn, Jan. 1913.
I'm accordance with thc advertlse-
mcnts issued by the Navy Department
recently, proposals wcrS opEned in the
Office of Secretary Long day for the
construction of a Government armor
plant, for the sale 40 the Government Of
sites suitable for such Il p,ant, and for
ths machinery and buildings necessary
If lthe Government decides ITO make
Its own arnor There were itwenlsy-nine
bids. and they covered cNsry phase
of the advertisement. Many of the pro-
posals were merely offers to donate
sites to the Government conditional
upon the location of rthe plant, u num-
machinery. Thcr$ w~re only two bids
TO furnish n complete plant, and only
one Hf thesn named IL figure. The two
companies now engaged in the manu-
faoture of armnr for the navy did not
submit proposals. The Huntington, W.
Va, Chamber of Commerce offered to
follow hhe specifications of the board
and build II compltlte plant for the sum
OF $3.325,905, including site, buildings
and plant
Another offer to supply n complete
plant came from thc John p. Holland
Torpedo Boat Company, OF New York,
but no figure was named, the company
simply offering TO do this for sum of
money, and within n period less than
estimated by the srmor factory board
| in it's report
| This bid WAS accompanied lby the
expression of an opinion that "ar-
NOR should be included in the COM
snrutla!on Contracts of all vessels, by
which policy Congress and the country
| Lowe, IA Il q a
and thcir protection. and tlle prlce
or armor would be reduced and it's de-
| livery expedited"
Afcthcr proposal that commanded
some a'itcntion was that of the Rearicl1
ltpT!nlE ring company, of Columbus, O.
This was very complicated proposal
no supply each of the numerous build
| lneS, furnaces, boilers, etc, required, as
well as 30 acres II land at sums speci-
fled in each particular case. A spscial
poirii of int'.Test about the bid was an
accompanying offer from the Chamber
OF Commerce of Columbus to dnnr,te
fhe sum OF $780, 900 to tie Government IL
the plnii. were located in that city
Offers of sites for plaEI.. gratis, or
for n nominal sum cf money, cams from
MuslSC c'-m. Mich; Youn estown. O.: rs
canada, Mich; Duluth, Mimi; Ensley
Ala; Morlr,ine. O.; Winthrcpe Hatraor
and Dock Company, cf Chicago: shsf-
ned, Tenn; WaukeGan, H.; Detroit,
Mich; Peoria, Ill.,; Marquette, Mich. ard
Admission, Ala.
il Marion Cte. Wis, man offered 10
donate q site free If lthe Governrnent
would build a 100000 dock into the lake
onerS came frfm one man In Iianp-
ton Va. Ito sell some land and ma-
nA5nFry for about 100000. and from a.
PHILADELPHIA man to supply some land
ana a Il sting machine for $4.10O some
OF fhc big Western tool concerns came
Forward with offers TO supply ma
chinery needed for the plant In this
list were the Morgan Engineering com
pany, cf Alliance. O., and the Nil.Ss
'F@ol Works Of Hamilton, o.; Bennett,
Miles IL Co, and DeSterich and Harney,
OF Maryland. a Marion county. Ind.
corporation offered Ito donate fonty
acres 'of land and fifty wells of natural
gas.
1T will take some time ITO schedule
all of these bids. but as soon as they
can be arranged they will be sent to
Congress by Secretary Long for the in
h1rmtion of that body, in case it desires
to embark THE Government in the man.
ufacture of armor