The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-05-25
(Hartford Courant.1 ]

lars worth every week, are being turned out in Hartford factories for the warning nations of Europe. In i half a dozen closely-guarded plants, where watch is kept night and day to
 prevent disaster and into which 1t is l all but impossible for a person not an
 employee to enter, great machines
 are turning out guns, shrapnel bullets, | devices for exploding shrapnel shells,
 machinery for manufacturing war products and other materials for Eu- 1 ropes batt1efields.
 i Concerns that were suffering from the general business depression a year ] ago are now busy to the limit of their
 capacity, and war orders are respon- sibIe for the boom.
 Colt Stock Goes Sl1yward. I The factory of the Colt Patent Fire 1 Arms Manufacturing Company is l turning out sBenet-Me Mercier guns for l Great Britain in vast numbers. These Fare the rapid-fire guns which are | mounted on tripods and which fire great numbers of bullets in quick sue cession. The guns are being shipped | to Montreal, by way of Springfield. l The Colt company has contracts suffi-
 cient to keep the plant busy for year, and the concern could not take an order at the present time for de- l livery in less than ten months. The Pratt & Whitney Company, 1 affiliated with the Niles-B -Bement-Pond | lyy i ing war orders. Aside from it's $3,- e0o.00O contract for a complete
 arsenal for the republic of China, this
 concern has more than $8,O0O,0OO in 1 contracts, some of which 1t is filling
 in it's own plant and some of which 1t has sub-let.
 l This company is now in the mar 1zet for 800 machin1sts and 100 tool
 makers A week ago, the Pratt & Whitney Company lost 100 machin-
 Arms-U- M. c. Company in Bridgel | port, which has an enormous amount l of war orders. The same week the company took on no machinists and it is now seeking 500.
 The Pratt & Whitney Company is making the +tinae-fuses on shrapnel sh els. This is the device which ex- l pIodes the shrapnel shell at a, given time. Shrapnel bullets, made of lead l and antinOny, also are being made by
 the Pratt & Whitney Company. Aside from the war contracts with the na- tions of Europe, this company is turning out machinery for the use of other concerns in manufacturing war
 supplies.
 The Hartford Machine Screw Com
 pany is turning out shrapneI bullets
 in large numbers, the contract for
 which is said to be a very profitable
 one for the company. The growth of
 it's business has made a large addition 1 necessary for this company, and work
 on the addition is being pushed for
 ward rapidly. The addition, it is said,
 will cost about. $8O, ,00o.l
 Grinders for DuPont Powder.
 The National Machine Company has
 shipped eleven 1,500 pound surface
 grinders by express to the DuPont
 Powder Company of Delaware and New Jersey. These grinders are used
 to sharpen the knives which cut the powder in the DuPont plants, which are employing 15,o00 people to turn out powder for European battlefields Six more of the surface grinders are
 now in the process of construc cti on
 and the National Machine Company
 officials have just decided to work x the plant ten hours overtime weekly
 Boom in New Haven. ; The Winchester Repeating Arms
 Company of New Haven has an order
 for 5O0,OOO rifles of a new pattern fo1 the British government When the i. representative of Great Britain called at the Winchester factory to make the l contract, officials of the New Have1 : plant said that it would be impossible t to turn out the order without a new s factory. ss<
 l sAli right, said the representative g of Great Britain, Include the price o, 7 the factory with the cost of tn, s rif1es.''
 e work was begun at once on "a. nev 3 factory building, 500 feet long. Tn, t concern will not be able to begin turn : ing out rifles in this new factory for g year, for the building must be fin 3 ished and all new machinery installed 3 Secrecy is maintained as to the con e struction of the new rifle. 4 3 Bridgeport Most Actfve
 The busiest city in Connecticut | | probably in the United States, so ia as war orders are concerned, i . Bridgeport. 5 In nearly all cases where war or ders have been given and the con . cerns taking them have been unabl to turn the products out in their ex . isting plants the representatives O 7 7 the foreign powers have ordered tha | new factories be built and have guar T anteed the payment for them by thei governments. Thus, when the order ! are finished, the concerns not onE ' will have made a big profit tn orders, but will have factory building = tha have cost them nothing. Tn e is true of new plants for the Ameri 2 can Locomotive Company of Provi dence, R. T., the Winchester Repeat
 ing Arms Company of New Haven an 'l the Remington Arms-U. M. c. Com n pany of Bridgeport. It is also said t be true of the new $8o,000~ plant C Il the Hartford Machine Screw Com = pany
 Il In Waterbury.
 Practically every mill and factor < in Waterbury has been turning dow n orders, and many of them are turr a ing them down today. They .simpl = have not the capacity to fill then
 What some of the Waterbury cor q cerns are making are the time fuse for shells and the pockets into whic -- h1111 10fs ara nj