Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-07-13
LACK OF STEEL
DELAYS SH|PYARD
Effort to be Made to Speed Up
Fabrication for Hog Island
Plant.

Owing To the delay of fabricated
steel at Hog Island just about one-half
of the amount of work has been done one
the shipwavs where kecls have been
laid that should bc done 10y now, Ad-
miral Bowlcs said yesterday. He added /:
And this should bc published to cor
rect the misleading reports that have
been printed concerning the plentiful
supply Of steel flowing INTO Hog Island.
The story of work delayed because
of steel shortage which was thought to
have been SO beautifully laid to rest re-
Gently by the steel committee formed to
meet precisely that situation. WAS again
dug up Yesterday afternoon with the
statements made by Admiral HowIcs. He
WAS careful To- explain, however that
has words did not imply that only 80
per cent of the work that should have
been done NJ Hog Island has been aC-
complished because of lack Of steel. He
said:
Hog Island Is something like ten or
eleven DAYS ahead of its schedule on lay
ing kccls but IT is behind in general
ship instruction. II is not half way
behind by any manner of means on the
total sum of its operations. because that
involves the entire ship whereas boiler
work engines etc. may he ready for
installation even while certain parts
cant he completed because Of lack ot
materials
However. the situation IS Just this
Hog Island j. ready f. do work and i
has not >uiiicwnt suppl, Of material
v any means
10 ENrANu Sun rLtNI
Chester. Pa Iuly r. Plans are under
Way Tor tremendous extensions and
improvements ~ the plant d The sun
>hIpouldlng Co m tins rtN The
present boiler shop 1t he san plant has
car&city of about - Scotch boilers ,
lear and work has bcgun toward 3. new
boiler shop which viii have additional
ap4,itv IT 30 Scot IN noflcr- year and by
b> far n, llrEc., holler shop of the KIND
IN hi> country 4 not ~ tie world This
rlaIt VAL jc located an the lloek nov
used f,,r an III tllatic tfcld and tho adjoining
prapcrs1. owned ~ ! Frank Black
igtvccn the athletic fold ard tho rall-
road tn avoid dcla1 the ground may
have tn hc commandccryd h1 the Finer
gcn,1 Fleet Ccrporatl0n, winch IS inter
C~tcd
The san Go has al-o taken ttlc ~
Iht. trdr1 ol land owncd by the Stewart
lhStiling Company IN thc Delaware
hIytr lront between Morton avenue aud
Madison street and this will nc added
a. thy shjpyari plant immediately Ihi~
tract has i frontage of 500 feet on thc
river and extends back 10 tho Reading
railway pon thus large ttt'ng-out
deck viii hc rou~t uIctcd. ~ the present
deck Will nc inadequate 70 tho increased
demands The extension to the sun plant
will mean the closing 81 Morton avenue.
an increased housing plan and great
addition q tho population IF the CITY
GInrCE~rFR WILL AMEN VILLAGE.
Philadelphia. IA JULY IL Repre-
scntatives Ut tho Emergency llcct Cor
poratIon asked the Gloucester City Coun-
cal on Thursday n supply water for the
new village that i icing built below
Gloucester for the shipvard workers at
the Pennsylvania and New Jersey plants
After the plans had been discussed all
the members spoke IN favor Of supplying
the water and il s likely that the new
village e1Il tc annexed 10 Gloucester
The village is III Center township
There are coo dwellings, tn bc erected
Each will he two stories and have slN
rooms and bath 1t Is likely that Al least
400 more VIII bc constructed after tho
first 600 are finished
"SToNE SHIPS FATE
The tate Of the concrete ship will 10
very large extent bc decided 1T an I'M
portant conference between Charles +
flez. VICE president in charge Of con
>irUction ol the Emergency Fleet Cor
poration and II ] Wig chicf cmgnc,r
at the division Of concrete ship con-
>truction q the corporation viii
lake place nCNt Tuesday IN Seattle. for
mich city Mr. Wig left Philadelphia
last night