The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-06-03
NAVY BUILDING PLANS
STIR WIDE INTEREST
steel Men and Ordnance Max
ers Study Problem of
Doing Work.

uIlIe ABOUT IbNs'uU rorS VI StStl ~ Ai''
plate, hull and deck plato and ,truc-
clude 20 To 80 ~ inch guns. I4tch
~ tho battleships is designed to be 90
feet long and about 10000 to 30, 90
displacement. The feature wi ich
~eNcltes most comment is the require
ment for the development Of 10000
horsepower for each boat. which will
a speed OF IS knots, equivalent
to about ~ miles an hour. The cleo
trical drive will como from dynanios
through steam turbines. OIL fuel Will he
used under the boilers. n II estimated
that each boat will cost about 100000
900. To give an idea OF the huge
size Of these ships II may be noted
that the Mauretania and Lu~i.ania were
each 7s0 feet long. $4,000 tons displace-
ment md developed 10000 horsepower.
It Is thus indicated thai the designs for
tho battleships require three times the
horsepower OF these Cunard boats. IN
largest chip anoat Is the A%auitania,
which II ?01 feet In length. ~ feet beam
and develops $1,000 horsepower.
There ~ considerable speculation con
corning the prospect 81 building these
boats In merchant yards. az all OF the
ways are full for a veal aHd y half
10 two years. and the capacity Of the
plate mills has been sold well irto next
year. Ordnance manufacturers also
have their capacity engaged Tor pract'-
cally a a There seems 10 be small
doubt, however. that both shipbuilders
and steel mills. as wei, as ordnance
manufacturers, would give preference 70
Government work should necessity arise.
The situation Is unusual and the action
~ the Government II awaited with In
terest.
The consensus among American mar
nfscturers Of high explosive shells who
have been negotiating With tho allied
Governments through y p. Morgan 3
Co. during tire last ten DAYS Ia that.
with the exception OF one Ut two con-
tracts Tor n small number ~ very large
shells no orders for proJect!les will be
given out at this time or In the near
| future. II develops that alternate bids
were taken on steel bars. hillets and
forging a. the same tim" that tenders
ve-c received from the shell narufac-
turcry The stee' Wa purchased for d.
rec, export and the shells will be manu-
featured IN Europe rather than In this
country.
Tho italian Government. however, r.
SIN a~ctivcl, ~ the market FOR shells
which will require about 10000 tons Of
s,ee' forging billets. one contract is on
III. point Of being closed.
The Russian Govc-rrer. q reported
to have placed an order for seventy
narrow gauge locomotives with the
American Locomotive company and =
| Spanish company hsa given an order 'or
on. tank locomotive 10 the same huiid.
c-s.
sss
Tho chesapeake and Ohio Raiiro,'
rf.v malist locomotives from the BAD.
win and American works. but u e. nov
understood tia. Twenty-Five are to n
hu'lt by tie Lima Locomotive Corpora
ton and twenty-n,e by the America
Locomotive Company. IN. Sou.her'
Utah Railroad has bought one mall"
panv OF omaha Neb.
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The Illinois Steel Compan, ha. hual''
placed a contract FOR 500 stock cars wiz
the American car and Foundry Com
pauv after Inquiries and the rejection
OF bids and the ssuing Of new specincl
,ions several tlmes. The SsaNoard =.
Lin. has placed m order for fifteen sal
steel pressed cars piih tho PROSE-,
steel car Company.
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7, 10 report.d that the Rus sian GOV
ernment has placed an order FOR LOO
steel cars with The Seattle Car an
Foundry Company. The cars are de
signed for the transportation OF troop
and war munitions. Tho Chicago North
seven cars for passengcr service. IN