The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-12-15
Monster Arms Works Built
of IS Million Bricks
Over Is Million Board
Feet of Lumber Used in
Construction.
Lumber, Cut One Inch Thick
Would Make Belt to Ha-
vana Harbor and Return
Inspection Of the Plant
Means Ten Mile Walk.

Inspection Of the Plant
Means Ten Mile Walk.
The Remington Arms 61 Ammuni-
ton Company, on Boston avenue
which bears oyer its doorway the in
scription Remington Armory'' and
on the face of its clock Remington
! U. S. A. has been completed.
| Begun in January according to con-
tract and finished in November of
the same year, the work of erecting
the 21 monster buildings that now
adorn the site OF fields and swamp is
said to be one of the most gigantic
tasks ever undertaken by an Aneri-
can contractor.
| To grasp the immensely of the pro-
ject one has but to consider the
amount of material that entered into
the work, Authentic figures show
that eighteen million bricks were US
ed in the buildings. These being
8 inches in length if laid end to end
would stretch for a distance of o.
272 Ia miles or nearly from New
York to- Salt Lake City.
/ In the construction of the wood
work used throughout fifteen million
Hoard feet have been handled by
carpenters If cut to an inch in
thickness, one foot wide the strip laid
across the United States would extend
from New York to Spokane. Washing
ton, or to Havana Harbor and return
with some additional feet to spare.
For light in the buildings $4,000
square feet of window glass has been
fused, which if laid fiat would cover
washington park with crystal COW
lering To set this glass leo. 900 10 S.
Of putty, nearly five carloads, was re-
quired.
buildings is 1.5Ss.oe0 square feet
4 which laid end to end In a continu-
Gus strip a foot wide would extend
from New York to Mansfield, N. H,
la distance of 2s9 La miles.
Twenty thousand cubic yards of con-
crete or nearly the cubic contents OF
the Great Pyramid in Egypt has been
fused Plumbing fixtures are esti-
mated at 1880. or nearly sufficient to
i equip 500 single houses
| To inspect the buildings, walking
Through the aisles alone and not IN
Ic1uding stairways. means walk OF
ten miles for the person attempting II
individually.
4 Records at the Remington plant
fshow that excavation and engineering
work began December 1e, 1914. Com
tracts for the building were let with
1.-THE Stewart Construction Company
4 January -18, 1915. The work was Off
Ecial1y completed November II. 1915.
The buildings with few exceptions
are built in units known as main and
lservice buildings, the service building
lbeing in appearance merely connec-
ton between the main sections. There
Eare Il main buildings, IL service, 5
forge shops, / power house, 1 bar
racks and club house, / employment
Iof1ce. 1 garage, 1 steel storage ware
Ihouse and 1 oil house.
The main buildings are stories in
height, 274 feet 5 inches in length, and
81 feet and ! inch wide. The con-
meeting service buildings of the same
height are n feet IL inches in length
land SO feet / inch wide. The first
Istory is IL feet 10 inches in heighti the
second third and fourth stories l.
Il feet 8. inches in height and the fifth
lis feet 10 inches in height.
+ The lighting system is by bays OF
windows, there being 81 bays to- the
side or II in each floor section. In
the main buildings alone it is com
kputed that there are $3.50 penes OF
glass.
/ The flooring is unique, the basement
1 having q. four inch tar-rocl founda-
ton over which is one inch Of tar and
sand, three inches of hemlock floor
ling over which lis additional maple
/ flooring.
1 The upper floors of the building are
made of AXIS inch yellow pine, set on
edge. coated above with ply damp
proofing material and surmounted
tspruce flooring by 8 Id invhes.
i The power-holse is 93x161x5O z1-2
feet with coal conveyors and storage
section So feet high.
4 The employment office built of brick
lis 4Ox9o feet.
The Guards quarters are 81 feet
IL inches by lit feet II inches. five
stories in height.
/ The forge shops, nine in number
are 64x1eS feet with the exception
of four that are "a feet wide by 352
feet in length They have concrete
foundation with brick exterior with
i steel columns and trusses throughout,
The builG1ng of the forge shops, be-
gun December 16, 1914 was complet-
ed in June 1915. r.
The plant is lighted by electricity
throughout and heated both by hot
water and steam exhausted from pow
erful turbine engines that supply pow
err for the electrical dynamos.
| Two and one-half miles of stand
ard guage track line the yards of this
enormous plant and 1900 1ineal feet
lof platform eight feet wide is utilized
in shipping.
Loading a freight truck at the Adj
ans Express Office at 2:45 this morn
ing Frank More, Grand hotel, slipped
i ~, tho ipu thanking and was struck nv