Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-05-14

OTHERS ARE COMING
Baldwin Locomotive Works Reported
to Have S2O.OOO,OO0 Order and VII
Add to Their Plant

New York, May 14.-With apparcnt
disregard as to the possible olCt14 :
Of the crisis now confronting the t'lt-
ted States, the belligerenI corntt'"'
of Europe are rushing enormous wHf
orders 70 American manufacturers. .
has became known in Wall street th-ta
in addition TO the big order rece.%t1
several weeks ago through the Ca2a-
dian Car and Foundry Company ~
shrapnel to be delivered to the hus-
sian Government, the American Lo'3-
motive Company, the New York -
brake Company and the West!nghcas=
Electric and Manufacturing Cc,apaHJ
nave concluded contracts for the 60
of 5,G00,O00 shells to Great Brlt"iH
ard France.
The American Locomotive Corh-
pany will supply half the order '.Id
the New York Airbrake and Westing-
house companies will divide the rest.
1t is said that the contract price i1c
the shells is about Sl3 apiece. II IS
not believed that these contracts
would he interfered with even IN tho
event that the relations between the
United States ard Germany should
reach the breaking point. The Foin,
was made i'll Wall street that etca
in the event Of war these compai.ic3
would lose nothing, as this Govern
ment would undoubtedly take o.7ss
the contracts.
There is a very definite report IL
financial circles that the Baldwin o.
comotive Works, during the last twc
weeks, had received orders forsnnri-
tiors Of war from the allies aggrege-
ting about S2O,0O0,O00., The company
has placed a large order for cement
and structural material, which gre .
he used in the erection II addition
To it's plant. These new plants ar -
be used largely il the lnnanufa24 yt-, T..
rifles.
Brokerage houses with Miiwaufaa
connections have received dispatch
from that city announcing that ti.2
AIiis- Chalmers Company hes j'a-T
closed a contract TO turn out lu,hvG
shrapne! forgings six days wee.
The contract is an overflow order ttohl
the Bethlehem Steel Company, whose
plants are booked to their full cap2c-
ity. -
Il became known that the UIit@a
States Industrial Alcohol ConipaH.
is figuring on sl,oOo,0Oo contiaat
for one Of it's oy-products which =
uses in the manufacture Of po"ds''
This contract is jim addition to the ,s
order reported two weeks ago.
The Westinghouse Electric ana
Manufacturing Company has exc
cised it's option on the plants OF ~
Stevens Arms and ;SteyenS-DurY'%
Company, which are to be used 14r
the manufacture Of rifles, contr&c.'
for which were signed several 'd'."S
ago.
The Dawson Chemical Company, o.
Baltimore, has just closed d contra25
with the Du Pont Powder Company
for 81 .0OO,0CO worth of sulphuric AZ
to be used in the manufacture o. =.
plosives. The powder company fa'
taken an additional option or acit
that will probably bring its total r.
ou;rements up to $1,3OC,00O.
The announcement was made -.
lower Wall street that the Fren1n
Government had purchased 34.ooo,CpD
pounds Of granulated sugar in IN
country on the basis Of 46oc
pound in bond. The British Go7eth-
ment is in the market for about J.
100000 pounds of raw sugar. Ear:y
in the week the United Kingdom took
45,OOO, 900 pounds of granulated suG2r
here. The total value Of thse three
lots is approximately ss,o00,oOo.
Representatives of the Diamond
Match Company say that American
matches are now for the first sir2.
being sold in France. The company
has recently made several very .sar6s
shipments to that country.