Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1916-01-26
SPIRITS PLANT READY
CURTIS BAY FACTORY
Output Viii Go to the French
Government for Use As Am
munition Basis.
A Year to Fill 0rder---To Bring
MoIasses Here

simultaneously with the report that
the Industrial Alcohol Company at Cur
tbs Bay, this county. has closed con-
tract 10 deliver S25 .000 900 worth Of its
product TO the French Government to
be used used in the manufacture OF
war munitions came the announcement
yesterday that the subsidiary plant.
known as the Curtis Bay Chemical
Company, at Stone House Cove. viii
start operations this week.
Its chief product viii be acetone.
and the output for some time has been
contracted for by the French Govern
ment. according to reports in indus
trial circles. Arrangements have been
made with the Baltimore & Ohio rail
road for the shipment of much of the
product TO New York. where ii will he
placed aboard ships for delivery in
France Great quantities of the ace
tone will be placed aboard ships at
landings leading TO the plant. and for
that purpose the channel has been
dredged to admit the passage of large
steamers to these landings
That the two immense plants at Cur
tbs Bay one known as thev inegar plant
and the other as the alcohol plant are
controlled by the same interests be-
came known for the first time yester-
day 1t was learned that Or. Nelson
Mayer, a noted chemist, has had di-
rect supervision over the equipment at
both plants at Curtis Bay.
According to reports from New York.
the firm of j. p Morgan & Sons has
closed a deal with the French Govern
ment for the purchase of the two plans
at Curtis Bay, which involves the sum
of $25,000000. The deal includes
120,000,000 pounds of acetone. 1t is
said it is used in 100-pound lots for the
firing of the large French field pieces.
Under the terms of the contract, it is
reported the plants are obliged to fill
the order within year. That it viii
be possible to do so is the general be-
lief of those who have made a study of
the facilities at the plants. 1t is point
ed out that when completed the plants
Will have an output of more than 1000
barrels per week
While there have been three thous-
and men employed constructing the
plants, when completed more than FIVE
thousand men will obtain permanent
employment there The weekly pay
roll, it is estimated. viii approach
100000, much of which win find its
way Baltimore city in the course of
trade. Many of the workmen viii es-
tablish their homes near the plants.
and land values in that district have
recently been soaring.
AS a base for their products the local
plants will use molasses, and a line
of steamers has been established to
operate between Baltimore and Cuba.
Because of the great demand for the
raw product. it is reported that those
back Of the Curtis Bay industries may
close down their plants in New Orleans
Believing that he will be able to sell
the raw molasses to the local concerns
at figure much less than they can
bring it here from the fields i'm Cuba.
Irwin Delcher, ecretary-treasurer OF
the West India Sugar Company, has
gone to South America to make a study
of conditions there
During the week it is also expected
that the Prudential Oil Company will
close a contract for the delivery of a
big order of its product to an English
firm. E. Scofield, of Manchester, Eng
land, is at Curtis Bay inspecting the
plant with the view of closing deal il
the terms and time of delivery can be
agred upon.
Mr. Schofield is in the market foI
an immense quantity of oil needed by q
munitions firm in England that has q
rush war order.