Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-08
ARPLANE PLANT
WILL BE BUILT
AT MIDDLETOWN
$5,0O0,O00 Company to Erect
Structure Near Govern
ment Buildings
BIG ORDERS ON HAND
Sufficient Business Booked to
Pay All Present Finan-
cial Obligations
BIG ORDERS ON HAND

Announcement that the Lanzius
Company, a New York con-
Germ capitalized at $5,000,0OO, will
establish a $25O,000 aircraft factory
on land adjacent to that occupied by
the government aviation camp near
was made to-day.
For some time there have been
rumors of big developments on this
tract and w. G. Crerie, secretary of
Hord & Company, who is in charge
of the operations of the company
which has taken over the interests
OF the old State Fair proposition,
gave out the following formal notice
when questioned by a reporter:
The Keystone Industrial Cor
.poration, Harrisburg. has agreed
to sell 100 acres of their prop
erty, lying nearest the Middle
town borough line, to the Lanzius
City. This parcel of property will
be prepared Immediately for a
proving ground and landing sta
tion.
In addition to the above, the
Keystone Industrial Corporation
has agreed to lease not less than
six acres to the Lanzius Aircraft
Company ard to construct there
on and equip an airplane manu-
featuring plant, the first unit of
which Will be about two-thirds
the square area of the Govern
ment aviation supply depot al
ready erected on property of the
corporation near Middletown.
This acreage, building and
equipment will be leased on
rental basis with option to pur-
chase and a satisfactory guaran-
tee has been given by the Lam
AirCra
earnest to the faithful perform
ance of their part of the contract.
In addition to the main manu-
featuring building, one or more
large hangers will be construct
ed
This. you will note. is the sec
ond lease entered into by this
company since Hord and Com
gan the task of strengthening out
the affairs of the keystone State
Fair and Industrial Exposition.
Mr., Crerie said that negotiations
for the erection of the factory will
be completed in the next three DAYS
and that the work will be started
within a week or two and pushed
as rapidly as was that on the new
government plant just completed ir
record time. At the same time work
will be started on one of the large
hangers.
The leases have been placed in the
hands of the contracting parties ir
pursuance to an agreement reached
October 4 and all the formalitie.
have been passed. The Lanzius Com.
pany, Mr.. Crerie announces is man.
ufacting a most highly developed
aeroplane and already has contracts
sufficient to cover all of the financial
obligations into which it has en-.
tered.
The officers and board of directors
OF the company are given as fol.
lows:
Directors-E. w. Bloomingdale
chairman of the board, 115 Broad.
way, New York; Brigadier Genera
Bingham, U. S. retired, New York
City; r. w. Braden, 135 West ThirC
149 Broadway, New York; Theodore
P. Gilman, 237 Fulton street, New
York; II. c. Hequembourg, Sc
Church street. New York; w. d
Hord. 100 Broadway, New York
George Lanzius, 149 Broadway, New
York; Edward NJ. Morgan, New
York City; Alfred r. Shrigley. Ire,
mont building, Boston, Mass; Will
liam Wallace White, Wordsworth
Building, New York; Charles e. Mac
key, 100 Broadway, New York.
II. C. Ehrehfels, secretary; Georg,
Lanzius, president; e. w. Blooming
dale, treasurer.
Depository, Chatham and Phoeni,
National bank, 149 Broadway, New
York.
Transfer agent, Union Trust Com
pany of New York, New York; reg
istrar, New York Trust Company
New York; Offices, Singer Building
149 Broadway, New York City.
Confirmed BY Company
The announcement of the loca
concern is followed by another from
the Lanzius people in which the,
say:
"As a first step in the acquisition
of a chain of factories, the compan!
Is planning for the erection and com
plete equipment at a cost of $3.50,
600, of a modern airplane plant a
Harrisburg, to be built in accord
ance with the plans and specification
of its own engineers and architects
This factory will have a present ca
pacity of fifty to sixty airplane
monthly and will be built on Lane
Immediately adjoining the aviation
supply warehouse just completed b,
the OnlIeQ states 6ONefnm ent. lex
to the government warehouse ant
the LanZius airplane factory is al
area exceeding 400 acres admirabl.
suited for an aviation field, owe
which the company will have full
flying rights. Pending the compile
ton of this plant, arrangement
have beea effected with reliabl
manufacturers for the production O
individual parts, bodies, wings, etc
which will permit the immediate ac
ceptance of orders for the Lanziu
Improved Variable-Speed Airplane.
"You may say" Mr. Crerie added
that Hord & Company are mucl
pleased with their efforts to straight
en- out the affairs of the Keyston
Company and that this is only tn
first of a series of announcement
we hope to make shortly as to the de
velopment of this tpact"
JUNIOR SCHOOL PLANS COMPLETE
c. Howard Lloyd. architect for tn,
new junior high school to be erected
at Nineteenth and Chestnut streets
expects to submit complete plans ant
specifications for the building whel
the school board meets next Friday
Several weeks ago the prelirninar,
drawings were approved by the di
rectors.