Evening journal., 1916-08-26

plant is situated at Eddystone. and
covers some ten ond one-half acres
Of ground. It's buildings. all COM
modious and of the latest design.
comprise beam, pattern, main bridge,
rivet making and machine shop. pow
er-house and Office. At this plant is
being fabricated the steel for the Sun
Shipbuilding Company's plant. and
for the new Office buildings now in
course of construction at Fifteenth
and Locust streets and Sixteenth and
Walnut streets. Philadelphia
The development of the ore-smelt- 1
ing industry has not been perfected
in the Chester region on a very con-
siderable scale 20 date but it's single
blast furnace is prospecting nightly
at present This plant Is the prop.
erty of the Delaware River Steel Com
pany. whose present name is rather
a misnomer, for IL has no activity
other than the smelling OF iron ore.
Wrought-irOn pipe used in the drill
ing of natural gas and oil wells, the
piping of gas and oil the sinking OF
artesian wells. the construction OF
ammonia plants and for a myriad
other purposes is manufactured on a
very large scale by the South Chester
Tube Company, which has an annual
output OF about 10000 tons a year.
Chester wrought-iron pipe finds a
wide field. The great pipe line that
conveys the gas from the Caddo, La,
field TO Texarkana, for example. was
made in Chester. and II has played an
important role in the development OF
the oil fields both OF this country and
of Mexico. The plant employs about
zoo men.
Textiles Advance.
As great as has been the develop
ment of the steel and allied indus
tries. Chester's textile industries have
not suffered in comparison. Her mills
embrace cotton and wooden, lace and
other Of the more important branches
OF the spinning and weaving trades,
and the operatives employed run into
> the thousands The cardinal need ~
the industry at the moment is labor,
% both skilled and unskilled, especially
weavers.
In the Plant of the Aberfoyle Manu-
featuring Company. Chester possesses
one OF the leading textile mills in the
United States it's products competing
b with those Of the foremost mills of
. Europe. These products consist Of
high-grade shirtings and dress goods,
woven from cotton yarn silk and ar
titiciai silk and mercerized yarns for
use in the manufacture Of hosiery,
underwear, sweaters, garters, tele'
: phone cords, gas mantels and other
knitted fabrics.
a This is one of the few mills
in the country that have attempted
to produce a really fine-grade fabric
> The first mill in the country to utl-
y lie artificial silk-importing ID from
y England before II was manufactured
on this side Of the Atlantic-the Alb
: erfoyle Manufacturing Company now
has no fewer than 1900 of its looms
:. weaving cloth.
With an investment Of 100000 and
some 1900 employees. this plant il
> the largest Of its kind in America.
In the plant OF the Commercial Boz
. and Envelope Company this sector
q has one Of the largest plants for thu
" manufacture of solid fiber shippinl
!, cases. carton, folding boxes ana en-
velopes in the East. The plant cover
some II acres OF ground. and has
water frontage OF 200 feet. It ha
/. seven buildings. equipped with tn
most modern machinery. The plan
makes its own plates, and does all II
!. own printing II is the purpose c
the company to erect a large pape
~ mill on the property for its own use
~ At the present time the capacity o
:. the plant is being approximately dou
- bled.
~ At the plant of the o. W. KetchaI
Company, near Crum Lynne, is pro
. duced on an extensive scale ever
character of architectural terra Gotta
a material that in the last few year
he has become indispensable to tn
y American builder.
= Differing from structural terri
:, Gotta in that the latter is a standar
y product made by machinery. ARCH
- tectural terra Gotta is made to orde
by hand to plans and specifics
% tiOns of the architect. First use
in this country as a decorative ma
, terial in connection with bricks,
became with the dawn Of the stee
constructed building a primary ms
y terial. fully able to stand on its ow
merits.
w. Many Of the finest buildings an
II residences in the country have bee