Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-08-25

for the battleship Utah. the first stem ever
cast n single piece, whether here or
abroad
But as important as is steel casting to
the industrial life Of this rapidly growing
section OF the Keystone State. It Is by no
means the only branch of the great steel in
dustry that is being comprehensively de-
veioped At the plant of the Tindel-Morris
Company. for instance are produced. on an
extensive scale. steel forgngs of every char
acter with a range of weight of from 10 to
$4,000 pounds.
IMPROVED STEEL CYLINDERS.
recent departure of the Tindel-Morris
Company is the manufacture Of steel CYL
inders for the conveying of high pressure
gases, such as carbonic acid gas, oxygen
and hydrogen and cylinders for the stor-
age of liquifed gases for lighting system
and air TASKS for submarines. these cyl
inders being made under the TindelHol-
linger process, which, while somewhat sim
ilar 10 is said to be a decided Improvement
upon the German Erhardt system,
In the plant Of the Belmont Iron Works,
Chester possesses its only establishment
for the fabrication of steel for bridges and
buildings. This plant is situated at Eddy.
stone and covers some ten and one.half
acres of ground Its buildings. all COM
modious and of the latest design, comprise
beam pattern. main bridge, rivet making
and machine shop, powerhouse and office
At this plant is being fabricated the steel
for the Sun Shipbuildng 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.smeting in.
dustry has not been perfected in the Chester
region on very considerable scale to date.
but it's single blast furnace is prosperins
nightly at present This plant is the
property of the Delaware River Steel Com.
pany, whose present name is rather
misnomer. for II has no activity other than
the smelling Of iron ore.
wrought-iron pipe used in the drilling of
natural gas and oil wells, the piping OF gas
and oil. the sinking of artesian wells, the
construction of ammonia plants and for
myriad other purposes is manufactured on
a very large scale by the South Chester
Tube Company, which has an annual out
put Of about $4,000 tons year.
WIDE FIELD FOR IRON PIPES.
Chester wrought.iron pipe finds wide
field The great pipe line that conveys the
gas from the Caddo. La, field to Texarkana,
for example, was made in Chester, and 1t
has played an important role in the devel-
opment of the oil fields both of this country
and of Mexico The plant employs about
700 men.
AS great as has been the development
of the steel and allied industries, Chester's
textile industries have not suffered in COM
parison. Her mills embrace cotton and
wooden. lace and other of the more i'm
portant branches of the spinning and weav-
ing trades and the operatives employed
run into the thousands. The cardinal need
of the industry at the moment is labor.
both skilled and unskilled, especially
weavers.
In the plant of the Aberfoyle Manufac-
turing Company, Chester possesses one of
the leading novelty textile mills in the
United States, its products competing with
those of the foremost mills of Europe. These
products consist of high-grade shirtings and
dress goods, woven from cotton yarn, silk
and artificial silk and mercerized yarns for
use In the manufacture of hosiery under
wear sweaters, garters, telephone cords
gas mantels and other knitted fabrics.
This is one OF the few mills in the coun-
try that have attempted to produce a really
fine.grade fabric. The first mill in the
country to utilize artificial silk-importing
1t from England before it was manufactured
on this side of the Atlantic-the Aberfoyle
Manufacturing Company now has no fewer
than 1900 Of its looms weaving cloth.
With an investment of $2.0O0000 and
some 1900 employees, this plant is the largest
of it's kind in America.
BIG SHIPPING CASE PLANT.
In the plant of the Commercial Box and
Envelope Company this section has one of
the largest plants for the manufacture of
solid fiber shipping cases, cartons. folding
boxes and envelopes in the East. The plant
covers some II acres of ground, and has
water frontage OF 700 feet. 1t has seven
buildings, equipped with the most modern
machinery. The plant makes its own
plates, and does all of its own printing. 1t
is the purpose of the company to erect a
large paper mill on the property for its own
use At the present time the capacity Of
the plant is being approximately doubled.
At the plant of the o, W. Ketcham Com
pany, near Crum Lynne, is produced on an
extensive scale every character of archtec-
tural terra Gotta material that in the last
few years has become Indispensable to the
American builder.