New Britain herald., 1916-12-22
BETHLEHEM PLANT
 OUTSKIRTS KRUPPS
SChWab Pledges It to Use Of U. s.
 During War

New York, Dec. 22.-Charles M.
 Schwab, chairman of the board of di-
 rectors of the Bethlehem Steel con-
 pany, in the course of a speech he de-
 livered at the Lotos club last night an-
 nounced that the great ordnance plant
 at Bethlehem of which he was the
 head was now fifty per cent greater
 than the, famous Krupp works at
 Essen, Germany. At the present
 time, MT. Schwab added, the Bethle-
 hem plant had a capacity of about
 100000 rounds of heavy ammunition
 a month.
 MT. Schwab also told of the plans of
 the company for the addition of a de-
 partment which would manufacture
 6-inch guns of the type which the
 navy department has decided will
 constitute the main batteries Of the
 new battleships of the superdread-
 nought type which the United States is to build.
 II think I may be pardoned when I say'' said MT. Schwab, that I believe Bethlehem is now one of the great as- sets of the United States, and I may add that the plant will be, in the event that the time ever comes, at the disposol of the United States govern ment to be used as the government shall see fit, and the United States government shall name the price at which it shall buy the material pro- duced in that plant.''
 MT. SchWab spoke at a dinner in his honor, which was attended by more than 500 members and guests of the Lotos club. At the table with Mr. Schwab were President Frank R. Lawrence of the club, President Flu gene G. Grace of the Bethlehem com- pany, Samuel Insul, Mayor Mitchell, U. N. Bethell, Samuel Unterrnyer, President James A. Farrell of the United States Steel Corporation. Ar the Bethlehem company; Melville E. Stone, Arthur Brisbane, J. Hartley Manners, Supreme Court Justice Luke D. Stapleton, Dr. Henry S. Pritchett, J. c. Schmidlapp and J. E. Dodson.
 In addition to MT. Schwab the speakers were MT. Lawrence, Mayor Mr. Grace, Dr. Pritchett, Mr. Manners, and MT. Stone All of the speakers paid tribute to MT. schwab as genius in matters of steel and iron, MT. Lawrence going so far as to term him sort of "Tuban Cain of ] the twentieth century.
 In his speech Mr. Grace referred +o efforts that were made shortly after he war in Europe started to buy the 1 Bethlehem company, and he told how l Mr. SchWab had thwarted those eff 1 :orts, and how at a later date when ] somebody suggested an imitation of 1 he stock he put his hand down on the 1 proposal.
 In introducing MT. Schwab, who vas the first speaker of the evening. Mr. Lawrence referred to the situa- ion in the United States as regarded 1 defense, and said that, if the country | the wise laws it needed, American industry need not fear the 1 of any other people, and l hat this happy situation would be 1 made still more secure if i've cease to 1 be the great, supine. helpless giant l hat we are today and place ourselves l n a position to command, and, if need be, to compel the respect of 
 MT. Lawrence read a letter from Andrew Carnegie, in which the ven- arable iron master, referring to MT. Schwab, said that it was impossible to honor Charley beyond, or even up to, his deserts.''
 MT. Lawrence then presented MT. ] Schwab as an American '::Who, in war ] pr in peace, will make himself felt in | the history of his time" as con- structive genius, an optimist, and a patriot, but not a "captain of indus -ry,'' but rather, he added, "a field l of American industry.
 MT. Schwab had a very carefully speech but be departed from t every moment or two. He began by racing the developme ment of the steel in the United States until today the output of the country's steel mills is by millions of tons the great est in the world. This years output he estimated at about 40, 100000 tons, which, he said, was the greatest in the history of the world.
 There were three classes of men in the United States, MT. Schwab said, who, in his opinion, should be added to the articles which were intended solely for export The first class he named as "thOse legislators who have never learned what American industry is" and who never will learn. The second class, he declared, was the un- labor agitator, who tells the laboring man that his condition