The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-04-14

a big cannon factory here is what Capt. c. w. Zimmerman, soldier of fortune and gun runner intfmated to- day. Capt. Zimmerman who is in this city looking over prospective sites for a cannon factory said that within a short time there would be several oth- CT big plants in this city other than the Remington Arms-U. M. c. Go. or the Bridgeport Arms works. Capt. Zimmerman said that within i've years the population of Bridgeport would be increased to at least 500, 1000.
 The cannon factories may be locat- ed in the West End on the low1ands west of Gilman street including what is now the Courtiand club. Former Sheriff John Clarkson owns this property and the Bridgeport Pro1ec- tile Go, through Attorney Carl Eos ter, one of it's incorporators, has an option on the property. Capt Ban herman would not say yesterday whether he was acting for the Bridge port Projectile Co, nor would he say whom he represented But he drove in an automobile to look over this
 property and he also looked over the stretch west of the new PearsaH house on Covers hill and extending to st. Mary -by-the-Sea- This prop erty, part of the Thomas W. Pearsal
 estate, is now held by Spafford Pear sal1 Capt Zimmerman also drove to Pine Rock park and inspected that location.
 tgThe manufacture of munitions Of war here will make Bridgeport grow faster than any city in the worlds history said the captain Mot even the growth Of Detroit by the auto-. mobile industry will compare with 1t Before the snow flies you will find es- abolished in this city not one but two plants whose sole business will be tc manufacture cannon and big guns
 There are no guns in this country like the type of siege cannon that are now being used in the war in Europe
 Here is the situation. The direc- 1 tors of the Krupp interests in Ger many ana the Morgan interests in this country have decided that no matter which way tEais war ends the field for the Krupp business in Europe is practically gone. With the people who are running the Krupp efactory makinng cannon is 8 business just 1 like everything else These hnanciers think that after the war in Europe [ ends, the nations now engaged in 1t will be so busy trying to repair things that have been destroyed that there will be no time for buying cannon for
 many years to come.
 -sNo business, not even the, nanu- fracture of cannon, can stand still The moment it does. decay sets in and it dies of dry rot These men think that the United States will be their next best field and that in a
 few years another great war will come, that Of the United States of America against Japan and China@
 ''The Japanese are now trying to put backbone into the Chinese. They are making demands for Japanese pro- tectorate in China for. the introduction
 of military and political instructors there and for a policy fitted entirely to aid the yellow race in exclusion to all others which is making even Great Britain. Japans ally. pro test.
 After good many years the Jap anese have had their eyes on Mexi- co. When the American, Commo- dore Perry bon1baraed the Japan csc coast in 1854 and made the Japs open their country to the other coun- tries of the world he opened a. con l test that soon is to come to an issue l for supremacy between the white and the yellow races. The development of the Japanese from d race of bar barians to the height of advancement in arts sciences and manufactures is l unparalleled in the history Of the l world. There is not room in the islands kingdom for all it's people. l There are thousands of Japanese in 1 the Philippines. There are Japan l csc settlements in Mexico and lower ICaIiforniaL and everyone in. America F pie of California. had to take to keep t the Japanese out of that state.
 esThe Japanese resent the action of 1 this country in their exclusion from I California and they have never for I given it. When drilled and equipped l the Chinese make mighty good soldiers and if the Japanese can push their 1 aggressiveness into the Chinese the l yellow people can whip the world. You know they call the Japanese the
 Yankees of the east am not an I alarrnist or a jingo but think that l this country is awakening to the fact I that we are poorly equipped to meet I a third rate power and it is time l that something was done for the ma I tiona1 defense This is why Araeri- ca is a fine field for new cannon fac .l tories.
 ..At present practically all the arms l and munitions of war that are made
 in the United States are manufactur- l ed within a radius of about 100 miles I from New York city. The defenses of the approaches to New York city and the area of which speak ought
 to be materially strengthened.
 That is why we need more cannon and of course to have more cannon we have to have cannonI factories. I Fl predict that within two years you will see in Bridgeport cannon factories :. which will give employment to more Il than 10000 persons, you will see bet Il ter coast defenses built, more cannon installed and a great increase in the standing army and the ni1itia.'' fl Capt. Zimmerman is a relative of
 Francis Zimmerman of New York who
 buys and sells all sorts of arms and
 ammunition and is reputed to have fitted out a great majority of the
 South American revolutions as well as military expeditions in all parts o1 the world. Iona island in the Carri- bean sea is famous as a storehouse for
 munitions of war and is guarded by | a private army which the owners o1 1 the munitions maintain there.
 1 In 1891 Capt. Bannerman came to
 Bridgeport and lived for time at the
 L. B. Vail homestead in Seavfew save