Evening journal., 1916-04-27
The Evening Journal
as low as the best English yards.
Prices Unprecedented.

Prices Unprecedented.
Present prices are unprecedented,
and any sort Of a shipyard, almost.
can make money. BY the standardiza-
ton process. however, it is hoped by
the hackers Of the new yards TO be
able to successfully meet the fierce
competition that is certain after the
war is over.
Another new yard that is turning out
standardized ships is that of the Chcs-
ter Shipbuilding Company. at Chester,
and in common with other shipbuilding
conccrns. this company has more work
ON hand than. 1t can handle. a new fac
tory recently erected at Chester IL that
of the Commercial Box and Envelope
Company. that was moved there from
Binchampton. y. Y. More than 500
hands are employed At Marcus Hook,
mst 10 the south of Chester. millions
more are being spent The Benzol
Products Company has erected a new
pant covering forty acres. employing
$50 men. and producing aniline oils.
This is one of the most ambitious of the
projects to make aniline dyes IN COM
pctition with the fcrman product when
tho war is over, and 10 hll tho gap lett
hy the shortage Of dyes while the war
lasts.
The General Chemical Company. the
largest producer of sulphuric acid M
the United States has completed q
s5,OOO,000 plant nt Marcus Hook, and
is now preparing plans for S5,0OO'OOO
addition About 2400 men are now em-
ploved there. and when the capacity Of
the plant has been doubled, as planned,
5000 or more will be- given steady om-
ployment.
Plant Costs sI,5oo,ooo.
Another Now plant at Marcus Hook Is
that of the United Roofing Company, a
subsidiary 20 the Barrett Manufactur-
ing Company. of Philadelphia. Its plant
cost 81 100000, and employs 800 men.
The plait Is now being doubled in size,
bv the expenditure of another 81 500.
OOO. ilcloth aud linoleum, as well as
roofing products. arc being made there.
Stln further south, at Wilmington,
there has been tremendous develop
ment. The Bethlehem Steel Company
has erected shell loading plant at
New Castle, Del. where 1900 men are
employed. The ammunition turned
out for the United States government
al the Bethlehem Steel Works is load
ed at tho New Castle plant.
Across the river from Wilmington
is the huge Carney Point plant or
the DUPONT Powder Company. There
many thousand men are employed and
tremendous quantities OF powder pro-
duced daily This is shipped abroad.
An abandoned shlpyard. that OF the
Seaford Marine Railway and Ship
ward at Seaford, DEL has been bought
by A. d. Cummins & Co., of Philadel-
phia. This plant has been reopened,
and the keels OF two four-masted
schooners are soon to be laid, each
vessel to he OF about 400 tons, while
there will be constructed two barges
OF about 1900 tons capacity. Wooden
vessels exclusively, for use In the
coastwise trade, are built at this yard.
which is we'll equipped. II contains
marine railway and ways upon
which six vessels may be constructed
at one time. There are wharves. ma
chinery. tools and every facility for
; The construction OF wooden vessels.
When the new ships are launched
at this yard they will be the hrsi
wooden commercial vessels OF any
size 10 be built upon the Delaware
since the launching OF the four-mast-
ed schooner Horatio G. Foss, from
Mill's yard. az Coopers Point. Camden
in 1908. This Seaford yard is on the
Nanticoke river. a tributary OF. the
Delaware. eighty-four miles south OF
Wilmington. Il consists OF twenty
two acres. with a water front one-half
mile In extent.