New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-20

"shown" that a stranger is bent upon
a legitimate mission and has n right 10
stay in town.
As soon as you enter the spacious
corridors an officer asks the nature of
your business and whom you wish to see
You arc then directed TO the reception
room. which resembles the exchange Of
a busy hotel with dozen other men
awaiting their turn for an audience
with an official or "A department head.
There are bellhops to take your card
and others TO telephone instructions or
run errands. You are not permitted to
60 anywhere without escort, for the
surveillance is perfect and the stranger
who attempted TO enter an elevator
would not get far.
Beehive of Industry
The building is a beehive of indus
try, and if you arc fortunate enough 70
get in touch with high official you are
treated with a courtesy based upon n
tacit understanding that the interview
will not be prolonged unnecessarily.
II is all like a great government
offcc, with men rushing hither and
thither studying specifications and
keeping appointments. There is the
atmosphere OF suppressed excitement.
for the worlds greatest ordnance
plant in war time works in three
eight-hour shifts. But there is no con-
fusion, for 1t is a smooth-running ma
chine, which has been put together to
accomplish Just the work that it is try
ing TO do.
The Bethlehem plants have been en-
gagged in turning out man-killing ma
chinery for twenty years or more and
have built up an organization of spe-
cialist workmen who do just the work
that thew arc best fitted TO do. This is
why such a huge industrial machine is
possible and explains the success Of
the Bethlehem plant in increasing out
put at the time when war material
brings the highest price in the worlds
history.
No visitor is permitted to inspect the
shops, but you can get r mighty inter-
esting view of the works from Presl-
dent Grace's Office or from the windows
of the rooms you pass through before
reaching the mahogany desk of the
chief executive. The long building just
Underneath is the new infrmary just
completed for the quickest relief in
first aid cases. Here all the accident
cases are handled by surgeons and
nurses, who have at their disposal
every appliance and equipment that
science knows anything about. This
hospital is probably as perfect an
emergency institution as there is in
the world.
Across the roadway from the infrm-
airy are huge piles of projectiles and
shells, with guns Of various sizes.
Every now end then an immense auto
mobile truck will back slowly into one
OF the machine shops with one or two
huge guns that have just been tried at
the testing grounds. These are fero-
cious looking things, canvas covered
and heavy as a freight car. Smoke
stacks which remind one of giant trees
are belching forth brown smoke, which
cloud the atmosphere and make you
think you are in London fog.
trifle pathetic by tinges Of red, white
and blue against the srfmy windows OF
the machine shops where foreign born
workmen have tried to give expression
to their patriotism.
Every shop has had its flag raising,
for these workmen are patriotic
bunch of men and yell just as Justify
for the Stars and Stripes as do the
furniture makers of Grand Rapids.
Among the most enthusiastic at these
functions have been the eight thousand
Germans and Austrians who have given
faithful service for years and rank
among the best workers. Their loyalty
has never been questioned, and there is
no likelihood that it ever will be, for
the men are very proud of the COM
pany, and, through the operation of
the bonus system, are recompensed each
month for whatever extra work they
have done.
Several heads of departments are
said TO have entered the millionaire
class within the last year, in conse-