Evening journal., 1916-05-30

Announcement that the Worths,
Of Coaiesville. will re-enter the steel
business along the Delaware River,
following their temporary retirement,
which came a few months ago with
the sale OF the COatesville plant
to the Midvale Steel and Ordnance
Company focuses attention az this
time on a highly specialized steel in
dustry. which has been building along
the Delaware River for a quarter of
century. and now centres about Phila-
delphia.
That a 5000 900 plant for the
manufacture of merchant steel and
plates Is soon to go up somewhere
along the Delaware" Is believed vir-
tually certain from the announce
ment which came recently from a
source close to the Worths, who have
been obtaining options on several
available tide-water sites The Worths
are said 10 own a large tract at New
Castle and rumor is divided in locat-
ing the new plate mill at that place
and at Chester
with the Worth plant a reality,
there will be forged the last link In
q NudlU UI MihAiN q nARAN VI hAn hANNA
plants. backed by millions Of capital
and directed by experts in the indus
try. that have been moblized along
the Clyde of America 10 meet stead
fly growing foreign and domestic de-
mand for steel.
AS the Delaware River Is pre-emi-
nently a great shipbuilding centre, Sc
with equal truth il may be asserted
that the district along the river
stretching in an unbroken line from
Philadelphia westward for nearly 81
miles. is today first In the manufac
ture OF steel castings AS Essen. Ger
many. was the centre for ordance stee
before the war; and Pittsburgh toda.
is the centre for structural steel, 81
Philadelphia and the adjacent distric
will be first in the future I'm the pro
duction OF heavy marine and railwa,
steel castings Already eight larg
plants, six in Chester. one in Crun
Lynne Delaware county. and one il
New Castle. are turning out In IN
aggregate approximately 1l4,00O ton
OF steel castings yearly and this out
put will be materially increased be
fore another year.
The birth of the steel castings in
dustry Of the United States date
back % years. when the first hea
was poured at the plant OF the Penl
Steel Casting and Machine Company
in Chester Fifteen years ago th'
Seaboard Steel Casting Compan,
started in Chester and ten years late
the Baldt Steel Casting Company bull
a plant at New Castle These thre
plants. with a combined capacity o
more than $4,000 tons annually ant
employing upwards of 20O0 men. re
Gently were combined in the Penn
Marine and Ordance Casting Com
pany. and the management consoli
rated in gsoun OF well-known stee
men, with headquarters in this city
At a conservative estimate the out
put OF the three plants alone closel
approaches $5.O00OO0 annually.
Worlds Largest Castings.
Nowhere else in the world are turn
ed out castings OF the weight an
special qualities OF work which al
everyday matters with the Delawa
River plans. Some ship and fortifi
ton castings successfully made in q
Chester plants have tipped the seal
TO 10000 pounds and over. Accor
ing to a statement made by Rodn
Thayer. president Of the new Pc
Company in a recent interview.
ready 90 per cent OF the anchor bl
mess on the Atlantic seaboard
going to locate plants. and his CO
Germ has vast orders ahead for rs
road supplies and heavy marine ca
ings
All the castings for the battlesl