The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1914-10-22
RUSHED TO FILL
WAR Orders
Manufacturers in U. S, Forc..
to Enlarge Plants
WORK NIGHT AND DAY
European Governments Contract 70,
Many Classes of Goods While F.,
mer Importers, Now Look to Ma,
ket Here for Their Necessari.s

New York.-Foreign purchases .,
American products have grown Ga
rapidly in the last two weeks tb,t
many manufacturers are now work
ing their plants overtime.
Others are wondering how thew ~,
take care of the tremendous adda1
volume of business. In some mart,
of the country manufacturing plants
are being enlarged.
Specific instances of the geper,
trade boom are found in all section,
of the country.
Twelve large motor trucks each
capable Of carrying from three to 6y.
tons burden, were placed on board
the steamship Rochambeau Of the
French Line for shipment to Havre,
The trucks are part of an order
for 100 given to the South Bethlehem
Steel Company and distributed by it
among different motor car manufac
turers.
An order for 100000 blue blanket,
for the French Government was plac
ed In Philadelphia with John & James
Dobson, Inc, who started their In
perial Mill to produce the goods. II
is understood orders for many hun.
dred thousands more blankets, both
blue and gray, will be placed if salts
factory arrangements can be made
The price will be about So blanket
The Roxford Knitting Company Of
Philadelphia is rushing a contract for
100000 cotton garments to be shipped
to the French Hospital Corps.
One of the large manufacturers Of
wooden knit goods in Philadelphia saN
European Government has COZ
tracted there, in Chicago and Detroit
for sweaters amounting to $3,OOO,OOO.
English buyers in particular are in
the market for hosiery, especially Of
the kind formerly bought in Germany.
Contracts for the purchase of three
hundred motor trucks of the heavy
service type were reported to have
been made in Chicago by representa-
tive of the French and English
Governments. The trucks are for
army SERVICE and the Russian Gov
eminent is sending agents to Chicago
to negotiate for the purchase of 5OO
one-ton trucks for use in the Russian
army.
Large quantities of drugs, surgical
instruments and medicines also have
been purchased in that city.
Millions of pounds of corned beer
and timed beef have been bought
from Chicago packers in the last
week by purchasing agents OF the
English and French Governments
Canning departments of the plants
are working day and night shifts
Cincinnati business is booming as
a result of the European war, fresh
evidences of industrial activity Do
ing cited by many business men. lH0
Otto Armleder Company of that pace
is rushing to fill a contract for wv
horse-drawn army ambulances for INV
English Government. :,
The r. X. Leblond Machine lou
ders amounting to more than SZVV"
for the French and English Govern
ment for lathes and engines.
The Graves Klusman Company aU
Of that city, is shipping engine laLn"
valued at $4,000 to Russia and bns
land. The Lodge Shipley CompanN
the American Tool Works are nIIlns
large foreign orders, while the Oolu
smith Metal Lath Company is WOih
ing day and night to keep up WIZ
it's European orders.
The electrical output of the BUM ri
Engineering Works of Cincinnati v"
be placed in South America by 'p
cial agents as a result OF the
ability of South Americans to oO'"D
machinery from Europe.
Find Same Quality in Amer''',, =,
Apart from the foreign orders ~
American manufactures, neceS'T.
produced by the wars emDarso
driving daily more and more mHp
facturers into the domestic maln,
The results have been in the na.~
of a revelation in many places f"a -,
that put utter dependence on the M. n.
ports are finding they can &c! nd
same quality of goods in the O"'
States.
Japan Seeks 1000 Freight car r:ir,
1t became known Japan is mann" noo
inquiries in this country tof ~
freight cars. ltd
steamship Minnesota IS to De cor.
tered at Seattle by the British ooO
eminent to carry to Europe ,,yosh
horses purchased in eastern vim
ington; idaho and Montana. Inc oaei
nesota can carry 1000 horses
voyage.