The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-01-18
FUEL TIEUP CAUSES
CLOSING OF PLANTS
Many Manufacturers Said to
Be Greatly in Need Of
Coal and Metals.

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The traffic situation In the Eastern
territory is still most perplexing. Inc
New Haven II understood to have insti-
tuted another close embargo on all
freight shipments into New England
with the exception of fuel and perish
able products. Many manufacturers In
Massachusetts and Connecticut are said
TO be greatly In need OF metals and fuel.
Consequently some OF the plants havs
suspended operations In some DEPART
ments. while others are closed down
entirely. The tendency IL TO prevent
detailed Information from being pub
lished. There are devious ways Of Sc
curing entrance into New England ter
ritory. but these are more or less ex-
pensivc and are utilized only when aoso-
lutely necessary. Some steel products
are being shipped by way OF Canada,
and pig iron n coke. where possible.
by water. Very little pig iron is being
shipped from the South even into south
ern New England.
The New York state steel Dredging
Company. which recently secured the
general contract from the New York
Central for building "a bridge over the
Barge Canal near Rochester. has placed
VIC lol W " h'thf " ~
required with the Phoenix Birds Com
pany.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad is
taking bids on the construction OF an
outbound freight house at New York
which will require about 100 tons OF
fabricated structural steel.
Bids for the building of a parochial
| aclr.~t ~ r,na. leland ~ he fWelye
stories in height. are being rken from
general contractors. About 400 tons OF
structural shapes will be used.
Bids are being taken on the construc-
| ton Of q nurses home at the Hebrew
Institute on Kinghridge road. New York
| city. calling for 100 tons OF structural
steel. Tenders have also been sub
| mitted on seventy-fve tons OF structural
shapes to be used In the construction OF
| the Yonkers Masonic Temple, and on the
construction OF the Yonkers Armory.
which will require about 500 tons of
steel.
F~abricators have submitted tenders on
furnishing $50 tons OF structural shapes
for a bank building to be constructed at
Middletown, ~. Y. Porfth Bros. ar
chitects, are receiving bids on the con-
struction OF the Brooklyn Home for the
Aged, three stories in height, which will
require about sixty tons OF Fabricated
steel. Several other small building con-
tracts requiring a few hundred tons OF
steel are pending in the metropolitan
district. Most OF the recent large con-
tracts for structural shapes have origi-
mated in the interior.
Ocean freight rates on fuel have again
i adN,oproA AtnNrU,nts1V Within tho last
week one steamship was chartered at the
ratio OF 1l5s. a ton to carry u cargo
OF coal from this country to the west
ocast of Italy. II is understood that
about 5000 to 5000 tons OF steam coal
were included in the shipment. A little
more than a year ago freight rates on
coal to Mediterranean ports were only
So. to I2s. a ton.
The town Of Madison. Wis. recently
received bids on 800 to 500 tons Of I. 4
and IL inch cast iron pipe. The United
States Cast Iron Pipe and Foundry
Company. the American Cast Iron Pipe
Company and the L~vnchburg Foundry
submitted identical bids that Is, $30.5a
a ton for 4 inch. 3.s.53 for q TO IL inch
and 30. a pound for special castings
The award was made to the American
company because 1t furnished pipe &c
the city last year.
Elyria. Ohio. has received bids on 500
tons 4 inch cast iron pipe. the owes'
being submitted by the Massiion Cas-
Iron Pipe Cumpany-s3l.&0 "A ton for
inch and $40 "a ton for larger sizes
The American Cast Iron Pipe Company
submitted tenders of $3.50 for 4 Incl
and s29.SO for larger sizes. The Amer
! lean company also asked an advance OF
go. 90. ,tna - he N.At a.
length. No award has AS yet been an
nounced.
Word has been received from Wash.
ington that the Interstate Commerce
Commission has again suspended tbs
proposed advance in freight rates or
iron and steel products from contra
Western territory to Colorado points
The dvanc was to have gone intc
effect on January rs. The suspen'
sion Is made until June 8.
The monthly reports given by tho
Bridge Builders and Structural Soci,
ETY. In 1915 indicate that the total sals
of the fabricating shops In the coun'
try last year averaged a little less thai
~ per cent. OF total shop capacity
, This would indicate that a little more
thar 1900. 900 tons of fabricated stce
/, shapes were sold for use In the con
/ struction of. railway and h'ghwa,
bridges, manufacturing plant extensions
and commercial and Government build
ings. II IL estimated that about SIS.
900, 900 to 800. 900 900 WAS expende1
= for fabricated steel in 1916.
t The Bridge Builders Society return
= Indicate that sales made during tn,
E nrst quarter Of 1915 averaged 30 pc
: cent. Of shop capacity. In the secont
e quarter sales avera sed 67.s per cent.
4 In the third quarter 1913 per cent. an,
In the fourth quarter 101 per cent. A
already noted, the average for tire yea
! was a little less than ~ per cent. II
1914 the average for the year was Sc
S per cent.
z The city of Otta wa, Canada, will re
. ceive bids on January "a to furnisI
I 3,942 tons OF is by SO inch cast irol
: pipe. The city OF jamestown. y. Y
is preparing specifications on 1000 ton
= class A So inch east iron pipe. TIL
town of Revere, Mass, has taken bid
: on 233 tons of s. 5 and IL inch pipes.
The Canadian Pacific Railway ha
ordered 10000 tons so pound sectio
: rails from the Algoma Steel Compan,
Y The Russian Government is negotiatin
IS with the Pullman Company for 1000
new freight cars.
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