The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-01-04
Engine With Uncannily Hu-
man Capabilities Almost
Undreamed of BY I'm
itiated Are Everywhere in
Vast Plant.
Wonderful Systems, Magni-
ficent Welfare Programs,
and Great Development
Plans Are Part of Tremen-
doIs Mandatory.

%@%AAAo We
eefNed wages for work on the great
bennington Arms & Ammunition
Co : plant, which has reared its walls
from Boston avenue and Bond street
FcrthWaTd To Lakeview home in less
than year, and which now gives
emplOy1nent to more than 1000 resi-
dents Of this city and vicinity.
Fifty thousand men are said to
hEve worked in and upon the massive
steel and brick structure, yet it is re-
lated that less than a score have
made an entire trip throughout it's
miles Of sections, which would require
half an hour On a bicycle or on the
IrotoT-Tucks that are used indoors
The trip On foot would require about
six hours for hasty inspection
An aggregate floor area of 1,53g,-
GOO square feet is covered with tof1s
of metal machinery and scientific in
struments that approximatel S5!OO0-
600 in value, or one-half the estimat-sI
ed value of the buildings
The hum of machinery blends with
the flicker of rsnchant steel and the |
flare OF furnaces, gas ovens, the white
Restaurant cooking
Beyond the structure OF Industrial
ism and reaching far into the coun-I
tryside, buildings for housing 10000
4lOIS employees are DSE1unfng 10 rear
their walls farming what will be one |
of the most comprehensive indus
trial suburbs that has ever been built |
in thfs cUHntry-
A corps of expert engineers and ad-
'vfsUfs, from colleges, the army, the
navy and mamnDuth industrial cou-t
Germs of this country, is located in /
this city helping to make the REM
ngtDn rrodnct of wprId-Tide fame.
a power pIa7rt. unique in its ap-
pacity as Ahat which furnishesf all
light and power to Bridgeport, adds
electricity, steam. fire protection,
conpressed air and refrigeration IN
the process OF manufactures
Al syst EN- that has no equal IN this
country has been devised m the guard
ing Of the immense property, issu- 1
ancs OF passes from One section of
the building to another, for estimat-
ing production, feeding the army of
employees and outside workmeu,s sort
ing and distributing mails, scientific
research in testing steel heat units
in coal. and in many other factors
that go to make up the manufac-
tr1e OF arms. The economy of costs.
sanitation and welfare of the work
ers has also BEEN cared for 1naEni-
ncsnt17-
When II is considered that the aver
age Payroll for 5000 men is approx
t1nate1yA $11Os 900 per week and that
this force win be more than doubled
in the course OF six months 1t will
be seen that the Rennin gton Arms & |
Arnn1unftfon Co. will distribute many
nai1n1nS ANNUALLY In Bridgeport
HASTORXs
The Remington Arms & AnlraI1ni-
41on Co is one of three munition,l
misunderstanding concerns owned by the
same interests. The others are: The
Union Metallic Cartridge Co. of
Bridgeport and the Ren1ington Arms
& An1raunitdon Co of Ilion. NJ Y The
Resn1naton-U M C. Co acts asss. tIaef
distributing agent for the others.
The officials of the Remington
Arms a. Ammunition Co who todavI
are credited with having devisef7i and
put into successful operation the vast
enterprise are s. F. Pryor, vice-pfes-i
ident and general manager with Of
fices in New York, and Major Walter
O Penfield general works manager
OF both the r. A. e A. Co., and the
R-U M G. Co. of this city.
Work on the buildings began Dec
Is, 1914 and was completed the fol-
lowing November The first machine
was installed Feb 4, 1915 since when
nearly 900 have been put into use
with nearly one third still to be set.
To equip these machines more thanI
1900 tools and fixtures were manu-
faxtured especiaIIy.
SCIENTIFIC LABORATORIES
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80 re,.,g15fies IF the raw mafariaJe7
purchased, the progress of operations