Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-07-18
|EUROPE CALLING FOR ALL
KINDS, OF WAR SUPPL. les

VNYAR orders in the American mar
wv kets dll big space In tho pub
lilo eye. Tho immense pur-
chases being made and projected in the
United States by the warning nations
constitute ono Of the great questions
Of the day. There are many angles to
this question. but the weight Of testi-
mony of the Industrial interests Of the
country is that the war orders came as
a great relief as well as a revelation of
our latent powers.
After collecting and collating the
opinions of many important American
manufacturers, the Engineering Maya
zine says:
At the outbreak of the war 1t appeared q u
the the re Of no
and suffer severely for the acts Of others. This
happily is no longer the situation. The ni.la !
In ali lines and In some has yielded to strenu.
GUS vitality. The war orders and their enect eel
on stock exchange. factory. mine and farm, ioi
the most part beneficial. have been so astound,
ing that their full extent and significance is only
%Seh 10 sas that tRe foreign shipments
arms. ammunition and supplies have saved the
country from serious industrial str, depr resc"s
existing. There has not yet been published any ny
dustry, and it is difficult to reach conclusions
In a situation SO confused and complex. ano
an our one sn
mediate and ultimate, is a matter OF especia
obscurity and especial interest;
manufacturer in the United States Whc
is profiting by European war orders
The buying has given an Impulse &c
nearly every line, If not every line OF
trade. Evidence of this is found In the
J,a H.
ed at New York for European ports IT
one week were as follows: Automo-
biles. aeroplanes, small cannon, motor
trucks, tractors, road rollers. horses
copper catholics, horseshoes. automoolie
tires, wire Copper. steel and barbed
projectiles 0oaded), protectiles Gun
loaded), cartridges Ooaded), cartridges
(unloaded), small arms, military equip
ment, beef, shoes, machinery. flour
sugar, lubricating oil, oxide zinc, acetit
acid, ammonia, leather. cotton lint, cot
ton and hay.
~
The wars demand on all forms O
food for man and beast is making 1t
self felt, and the cloth mills. clothing
i factories and their allied industries ar
| said to be feeling and responding to TIL
stimulating pressure Of war orders.
l Wv
that up to the middle of May 100000,
900 worth of military supplies had beel
ordered, and the term war orders" 1
to be taken as applying only to tn
purchase of arms and ammunition from
large concerns manufacturing meta
products.
One Of the features Of the war de
mands on the products of the Unite'
States has been the heavy call on ben
zol. 1t is an element Of supreme i'm
portance IN the manufacture of ex
plosives. being obtained from coal tar
a byproduct of coke manufacture. an,
furnishes the picric acid Of which tn
picric acid powders are made. TIT
price Of benzol is five times higher thai
| it was at the outbreak of the war an,
is said to be rising. with the top pric'
| not in sight, though because Of tn
large profit In 1t at prevailing fgure
many coke makers are producing 1t
considering 1t no longer as a mere by
product of their business, but as tn,
product Of greatest value. If all thu
| coke makers could turn to the pro