The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-08-30
ENLARGED PLANTS WILL BE USEFUL
 WHEN WAR IS OVER Remarkable Extension Made By Winchester and Vari- 0us Arms Manufacturers POWDER PLANTS ARE ALSO SPREADING OUT Dupont Company Is Building Largest Plant in the World at City
 Point, Va.-Has 12,000
 on the Pay Rolls
By HOLLAND

By HOLLAND
 New York. August e9-(Special)-It does not appear to be very large plant which
 Charles M. Sehwab, if reports from Cape May are correct, contemplates building
 along the ocean front. or Delaware bay
 front. For if 1t is to cost only s3000o that sum will be regarded as a mere
 trifle in comparison with some of the
 other investments MT. Schwab has found 1t expedient to make whereby the manu- featuring facilities of his Bethlehem plant can be improved. Still, 1t is In line with
 some things which other great industries that are now occupied with war orders
 have undertaken.
 The great arms company which is To- cated at New Haven. Conn.,, which is a
 very close corporation, has been busly engaged not only in the manufacture of
 rifles in great amounts, but also in sub
 stantialy doubling the capacity of this
 great plant. When the late Governor
 Winchester abandoned the manufacture of shirts-a business in which he amassed a considerable fortune-and determined to
 undertake the manufacture fs1the rifle
 U a level tract of land far out In the out 1 skirts of New Haven. remote from any buildings and yet convenient to the tracks of one of the New Haven Railroad com panys subsidiary lines
 He was persuaded that while consd- erable colony might be built up around his works. nevertheless 1t was too re-
 mote from the business and residential section of New Haven to make 1t possible
 that there would be any contact by them with these great manufacturing plants. Governor Winchester was a wise man in many things. but was not farseeing
 enough to realize what the building of
 a plant of that kind meant to New Hav-
 en. That city has grown up to the Win chester plant. He did not live long enough to witness the stupendous growth of the
 organization which he created. Since the European war began the corpcraton ha g found it expedient not merely to double tue capacity of it's plant, already very large, but also to construct a great stor-
 age warehouse on the shore of New Haven bay. with long pier to the chan nei. to facilitate the loading upon steam
 CTS Of the arms and munitions of war
 manufactured by the plant. which is To-
 cated five miles distant.
 !n Bridgeport it has been found neces- sary greatly to enlarge plants for indus tries now occupied with the manufacture
 of various munitions of war.
 The Niles. Bement, Pond company, one
 of the great American industries whose output is tools and machinery. has a sub sidiar. company at Hartford, the Pratt X Whitney company. When war began in Europe this Hartford company was busily occupied in the manufacture of machin- cry and equipment designed for the na- tional arsenal in Australia, and also for
 the great Chinese arsenal. With the in- flow of orders for machinery of the kind used in manufacturing munitions of war, the company was compelled tc take heed of it's emergency. It could not accept or
 ders of that kind unless it's Hartford
 plant was enlarged It happened that an
 djoining plant, that of the Pope Manu-
 1, ,cturlng company, was in the receiver S hands and an order of court was ob- tained whereby the receiver was permit ted to sell this plant to Niles. Bement. Pond company It has been occupied to It's capacity since it was bought by this company.
 Ooc1 sionally criticism has been voiced, associated with the enlargement of plants by industries which have eceived war or ders. because these plants will be found useless after war orders have been exc cuted Criticism of this kind does not ap- ply to Charles NJ. Schwab or to the man. ufacturers of rifles or 10 those who make
 tools and machinery because the enlarge
 mant of their plants is in line with busi-
 ness which occupied them before the war began. This is especially true of the
 great powder manufacturing companies.
 Powder Making at City Point l. is inevitable that there should be
 some sentimental and traditional interest | ls1r rCI God ahV fop hot f.,a rnaf not Ny- der manufacturing corporation whose
 headquarters are at Wilmington, Del, is now constructing at City Point, Va, one Of the largest powder manufacturing plants of the world. Powder played an important part In the history of City Point as that was written in the years 1S64-1SC5. There General Grant estab- lished his headquarters after he had ad- vanced by the flank from the Rappahan- mock almost to the outskirts of Rich-
 mond. Thence the great advance begun in the spring of 1865 was made. Powder in enormous quantities was brought by
 powder ships and landed at City Point Now the DuPont de Nemours company Is constructing powder manufacturing plan. near General Grants headquarters The piant is in convenient reach of deer
 water. and when completed it will occupy 1900 acres. What until this time was rich farm land along the James river Is here- after to be great powder plant The plant is to be protected and safeguarded in every conceivable way. A barbed wire barricade 10 feet high will surround the plant. The undertaking has converted a little sta ation the Norfolk and West ern railroad. where almost slumbered a population of less than 500, into. consid- erable city of a population of 1000. 1t is cosmopolitan city. since the workmen represent laborers who not long ago were peasants in Italy. Greece and Poland. The magnitude of this undertaking Is shown by the fact that upon the pay roll are some 12,0O0 employees.
 The construction of this power and high explosive plant does not represent merely facilities for meeting the demands of the belligerent nations for powdr and explosives. The industry will be contin- ued at this place after the European war is ended. If the present temper of the
 American people, is continud the corpora ton will be busily occupied in providing <