The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1915-03-26
WAR TRAFFIC
IS IMMENSE
u. s. Reaping Hugh Profits
From Munitions.
. lSesisess Estimated At One BIZ
lio1 Dollars By End
OF Year.

Eev York, March 2O.-A common
,sst,aate of the wars length is three
VIEWS IN the first six months OF the
cslrsict The United States sold about
sssA00G.00O in war supplies. not
.sl.os into consideration foodstuffs
1letogued for civilian populations. but
,D.sv army materials. BY August l
>JEr- syade will reach 81 ,O00. 0s0. 600 /;
ard unless something occurs to
,cSs-s this phenomenal business,
81 Ss0. 100000 will have poured into
rIas United States before the treaty
NJ pace is signed.
Even if the war should stop right
sRo~ orr trade in the materials of
wa Would soon reach 100000
arr sxritten to be fulfilled without
--esard 10 the course of the war and
no Ear two years, or even longer.
D1r gain would be even larger
cau.5 we supply both sides. AS it
*, almost nothing is going to the
TEgIOnic Allies.
TIE United States Government Of
fciais are unable to give anything
Vie correct figures of the trade in
sxag supplies. A large proportion.
ssas sarge it is impossible to say,
ssss-F 10 Canada first and is then ship
ped from there to England, France,
RryslS- or one of their Allies.
There is no penalty for misbilling
,ssxp1y1s. Much gunpowder is going
,-za- ~ cases marked sugar or salt,
especially thru the Pacific ports to
Es..s.sl+is by way of Vladivostock.
a. the most authoritative circles
IL y estimated that the principal
t4ssns in the four hundred millions
csf dollars worth ordered here in the
ifzs- six months were: Motorcars,
-s35, 300. coo; arms. explosives and
Ii. lnNa. s105,OO0,0OO; iron and
Sassl, S65-0O0.0O0; uniforms, socks.
-sz%.l2ers. etc. s3O,00O.000; chemi-
Gals and hospital supplies. $4,000
sec, soldiers shoes, harness and
.tSE}=.r leather products, $4,000, 900;
miscellaneous, including food sup
psl.s known to have gone to the
sarn,.ss. $160O00,0OO.
=: ean be said without fear of con-
Sy=6 cFiOn that the Allies have not
s,sH1lT2cted for the entire output of
rs. arms and ammunition factories
~. L. United States. while scores OF
esnosrns are enlarging their plants
ard tanning three shifts day to full
SD tHeir foreign contracts
Many of these companies don't
Snas they are turning out goods for
n 5o-eign Power. They pretty well
SHymise it, and they don't care. But
TIVE, dealt. only thru a broker or
,asssnz and with great secrecy.
Goods are sold for delivery here.
and shipment is at the buyers risk.
-The onyer enforces secrecy because
.ne goods are contraband. The man
xt>s,urers surround their plants with
s-sd-,ls, not only to cooperate with
ste buyers in maintaining secrecy,
EJAc also to prevent meddling by
ssssIts of governments hostile to the
,3zyszs.
T6s seventy-five firearm and am
mzE5tion factories in the United
:sSatss ordinarily employ 10000 per-
Spss Now their forces number co.
Get and are increasing.
Eise enormous demand for high eX-
p]Ostses has forced prices to high
Eev,si Picric acid used in making
explosives his risen from twenty-five
a,'sNss 10 $3.50 pound and the entire
sSsyEsy on hand has been bought up.
-FR'os's men who still have guncotton
"a sand which can be delivered with
in :hirty days are asking seventy
s-tzEL gents pound. The usual
pFics is twenty to twenty-five cents. |
IN February the French government |
syied 20 buy 24,000.0O0 pounds of !
s-HEooltOn, Offering siXty-five cents. !
81 H2s unObtainable, so contracts |
IaSsrs placed with a number OF mills
.rnGSins over two years.
More than 10000 automobile /
Jr0eEs have been shipped TO England |
salsd France since August last. but /
IRON tne way new orders are coming
ian. ans branch of trade is only Just
sszgtnning, The French war author
i6szs figure the average life of an
.sszs1O truck is only seven days.
TseTe are thousands of buying
agents for the foreign government
all over the country but the two
largest blocks of contracts are COM
sBs tnru Charles Schwab, of the
Essbtlehem Steel Company and ].
ls.-p3nt Morgan, head of the great
ssskmg firm.