Putnam patriot. [volume] (Putnam, Conn.) 1872-1962, 1915-04-09
WAR BOcMS
MANUFACTURING
Connecticut Plants Working
Overtime On European Orders
BIG C0HTaACTs FOR ARMS
Rife ard ssyonet Works Running to
Capacity cheap Alarm Clocks Are
Also in Great Dsmand-Watca-
making Drops of.

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New Haven. Few states have bene.
fitted ind1strally from the European
war as Connecticut has What would
( otherwise have been a miserable win.
ter FER employer and employed has
been made quite bearable. To be sure,
. the business is spotty and in many
/ cases factories busy night and days
making var munitions. or other pro.
ducts for which the demand results
from the war. stand beside others
which are running short-handed and
on part time In some cases. even.
one department Of plant operates
overtime while another is very dull.
For instance. the clock business Is
booming. while the watch business Is
dead. The Waterbury Clock Com
pany is running overtime in its de
partment where nickel alarm clocks
are made. and cutting its force radi=
caliy in the department making the
lngersolI dollar watch and straining
every nerve - give the best meehan
les there enough work to keep them
FL Waterbury The Seth Thomas clock
Company III Thomaston has abandoned
entirely watch making, but is building
a large additional factory 10 take care
Of lts increased clock business. Incl
deutailY the last great contract signed
b. the Ingers0lis with the Waterbury
Clock Company was largely predi-
Gated on their European. and especial
Is German. trade, which is now fat.
They are hustling for dollar watch
bueineas IN tins country. and making
special efforts 10 build up a demand
for their better watches, being about
10 reopen the Waterbury plant Of the
defnnet View England Watch Company
in cooperation with their Trenton
plant
War munitions and supplies form
the most important factor In indus
trial betterment. the influence Of which
extends far The Bridgeport Arms
Company has been formed by the
Remngton-U. NJ. G. interests to han
die contracts for 0000 900 rihes-at
s2s each-for the Allies and 100000
rifles for China. This business could
not be handled at the Remington
plant at Ilion, n. y, where sporting
rifles only are turned out and a mann
moth plant of sixteen buildings in
Bridgeport to be completed by July
lis the result The company will
have at least 1000 men at work in
July and expects to have 5000 even
tually. Five hundred are already EN-
ployed making bayonets It is SAID
that ] 2. Morgan & Co. are interested
In the financing of this project.
Manufacturers of machinery and
equipment far and wide in this State
and elsewhere have been called on to
help and there Is no small machine or
tool shop IN Bridgeport but is con.
cerned in some way The brass con
Germs in Waterbury and the Nauga-
tuck valley feel the impulse. of course.
aud there is search on for factories
which can be leased even In New tIav-
en- and Danbury and the NurWalks-
this bv reason of the fact that the
Arms Company are not taking con
tracts for arms and ammunition but
for any other military and and naval
supplies. and sub-letting them while
in Bridgeport the Read Carpet Com.
pany Is dismantling its plant and
scrapping valuable machinery in or
der to rent space for the arms com
pany's use.
Even the American Graphophone
Company is TO have part of the
Read plant to make parts for the
Arms Company. though itself very
busy In the manufacture of the ten.
cent monograph records, with which
the market is being flooded. and oblig.
ed TO build an addition to its own
plant. Meantime the Union Metallic
Cartridge Company through which
the new Arms Company acquired real
estate let contracts and did all its
business until ready TO partially throw
on the cloak of mystery. is building
new additions for itself and working
night and day on ammunition, and
the American and Mritish Manufae-
turing Company is straining every
facility In getting out machine guns.
mountain artillery, howitzers aud va.
rious other munitions.
In New Haven the Winchester Arms
Company is just as busy. New con.
struction To the value of round
million dollars Is going up, and the
company has organized its own police
force OF 500 men TO guard its great
piant. A vast amount of ammunition
Is being made here. The Colts
Arms Company. in Hartford, is be-
ginning a large order of Viekers-M Max
i'm guns for the United States Govern.