Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-01-13
SCHVAD TO BUILD
NEW CASTLE PLANT
FOR WAR ORDNANCE
Let for Delaware
Factory to Turn Out
Heavy Orders Received
From Allies.
pErHLEHEM, Pa, Jan. 10.

,.s Al schwab president OF the
.hem steel Company, has awarded
,n,ract for the erection of large
.sa0raI ordnance factory at New
moi, it was learned today. SO
.dnps are the war orders, obtained
IN A. schwab that this step became
'....ssry, and the contract was let yes
uday. - ,--,-... ..
!. given in feet and inches. The only
tsoid about it is that 1t will be
Az present all products of the
.t,.,om steel for the allied armies are
sro,., here to Canada. Germany has
th' arotested against the making of
pss.nneI ~ and 1t will be made at New
III close to the DUPONT powder fac
s..Iss and at n spot where 1t can he
sad wis on boats that will quickly pass
,r.,n ,he Delaware River and Bay into
N, Atlantic Ocean,
INSPECTORS FOR NEW PLANT.
,,ish army officers, who arrived hero
sunday and Monday to inspect the con-
,..c, work. will probably go to New
r"stla as soon as the plant there is in
ss.r,iion. They are here for inspection
Sa,v eager to talk about anything but
~ uar and their duties Mt Bethlehem.
~ y. ,o what brought them here and what
,ss,r duties will be they are oppreSsively
,gsnt A heavy pail of SECRECY also
hangs over the Bethlehem Steel offices
snd plant. -. =, +, ,...
tor correspondents to get into the Ger
man trenches than into the Bethlehem
Steel plant.
ne English Government to the Bethle-
Nam Company are so extensive that n
torre OF inspectors as large as this. ana
nossiblv larger, will be employed for at
II least a year and half and possibly
tvo years. Most of the men will be en-
eased in the ordnance department in
,paetIng the manufacture of field pieces
and shells.
The Bethlehem plant has been very
busy for eight or 10 weeks turning out
ust quantities of shrapnel. These shells
ne three, four and six inches in diameter,
md the largest of them contain 564 bullets
which rain down when the projectle en-
podes, They are finished ready for firing,
the fuses being made at factory
recently built by the Bethlehem Company
At It's proving grounds at Redington.
The manufacture OF field artillery is Just
about beginning. although forginGs have
been made the last few weeks. The long
est process in the manufacture of n field
piece is the boring of a barrel, slow work
being required on account of the extreme
tOughness of the steel. The manufacture
Of shrapnel, on the other hand, is rapid,
since the shells are of cast iron and
quickly nodded.
STRUCTURAL STEEL ORDERS.
In addition to proiectiles and cannon.
there are also large orders for structural
stuff and the inference is that this Is
for bridges to replace structures de-
stoyed in the war. 1t is quite possible
that part OF the orders for the ord
aalce placed by England with the Beth
khem Company is for the Japanese army,
anee some of the shipments, while made
dlFect TO Canada, are consigned TO Van
sauver, and 1t is believed, shipped across
the Pacific Ocean.
The English army officers decline to
hazard guess as to length of the war,
but re emphatic in their declarations
that the Allies will win.
The hiring of men at the Bethlehem
plant continues steadily. II often hap
pens that as many as 100 day are put
on The number now at work is, in
round numbers, 1lOO0 More will be put
on as soon as buildings are finished and
machinery installed for them to work,
It was said today that it was expected
ne payroll by early spring would con-
hin LOCO names.