Evening journal., 1916-08-26


peaceful devices after the close OF
the war.
The Baldwin interests, embracing
the Baldwin Locomotive Works, the
Remington Arms and the Eddyssone
Ammunition Companies, now employ
$1,000 workmen, OF which the locomo-
tive works alone have 10000.
Among the other big industrial es-
Establishments in the Chester region
are the plants of the American Dye
wood Company, the General Chemical
Company the Congoleum Company,
the Bddystone Manufacturing Com
pany, the Penn Seaboard Steel Cor
poration, the Tindel-Morris Company,
the Belmont Iron Works. the South
Chester Tube Company. the Delaware
River Steel Company, the Chester
Shipbuilding Company, the Robert
Wetherill Company, the Aberfoyle
Manufacturing Company, the Com
merclal Box and Envelope Company,
the 0. W. Ketchan Company and the
Sun Shipbuilding Company.
The lest-named concern was incor-
porated recently for $5,000,000, and
more than $500 900 is being expect
ed for the construction of the new
plant. which will be equipped TO build
standard-cargo ships up 10 500 feet
in length and SIS feet beam. The plant
will be ready to begin work about
October ].
Many More Interests.
A survey Of the industries in the
Chester sections leads one through
the whole run and gamut of indus
tries. There is the steel casting in
dustry, for instance. growing in i'm
portance each year. and giving en-
ployment to thousands; the ship
building industry in its infancy yet,
but growing with such rapidity that
It promises to outgrow the locomO-
tive industry within a few years; the
textile industry, the oil industry the
dye industry and so on throughout
the entire long list.
In the manufacture Of locomotive,
marine and miscell aneous castings
the Chester region leads the world
the six plants engaged in their man
ufacture in this section having an
aggregate annual output OF no less
than 100000 tons.
The first steel castings in America
wore made at Chester, 25 years ago
at the plant of the Penn Steel Cast
ings and Machine Works. now a part
. of the Penn Seaboard Steel Corpora
, ton which stands on the historic site
OF PENIS landing in America on DC
tober %. 1892
The chief steel casting plant Of the
, Chester region is the Penn SeabOart
Steel Corporation representing q
consolidation Of the Penn Steel Cast
ings and the SeabOard Steel Cast
ings Companies. This plant. with il.
. Baldt works, further down the river
has p capacity of approximately 5OOI
!. tons a month. these castings rangirl
- in weight from an ounce to a hun
bred thousand pounds. This is not th6
. extreme limit as to weight; in fact
some years ago there was turned on
!, at this plant a platten for the Cam
den Iron Company that weighed 100,
900 pounds.
: The Penn Seaboard Steel Corpora
. tons plant Is the largest in the East
= It has a total floor space of 10000
square feet One of It's features is
/ fireproof storage safe, where all pat
terms are numbered. symboled, key
ed and stored, and connected there
:, with is a pattern shop. where pattern
" are executed to order from submit
{ ted designs and drawings.
AT Chester were cast the first sue
= cessful steel locomotive cyclinderi
y and here, too. have been cast many {
" the marine castings for the larges
vessels of the United States Navy
: Here, too. was cast the huge stem 70
y the battleship Utah, the first steI
! ever cast in a single piece, whethe
y here or abroad.
10 But as important as is steel cast
ing 10 the industrial life of this "a
pidly growing section of the KeystOu
, State. it is by no means the onl
" branch Of the great steel industr
= that is being comprehensively do
- veloped At the plant of the Tinde
! Morris Company. for instance, ar
produced. on an extensive scale. ste'
We forgings of every character with
re range of weight of from 10 to $500
- pounds.
II A recent departure Of the Tinde
Morris Company Is the manufactul
of steel cylinders for the conveyin
~ of high-pressure gases, such as ca
\ bonic acid gas, oxygen and hydroge'
Z and cylinders for the storage Of liqu
' fed gases for lighting system, an
IL. air TASKS for submarines, these cy
'u finders being made under the Tinde
III HOllinger process, which, while SOM
&c what similar to is said to he a deciI
AZ ed improvement upon the Germs
us Erhardt system.
st In the plant of the Belmont Ire
I'll Works, Chester possesses its only e
tablishment for the fabrication
n' steel for bridges and buildings. TIL
e.