The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-07-18
WILL LOAD $4,000
SHELLS EACH DAY
GREAT GOVERNMENT PLANT IN
NEW JERSEY TO START SHIP
MENTS BEFORE LONG.
IS LARGEST in THE WORLD
Three Others Like 1t Being Construct
ee-MedicaI Department Has Mobile
Apparatus to Provide Pure Drinking
Water in France.

ee-MedcaI Department Has Mobile
Aroaratus to Provide Pure Drinking
Water in France.
CFron Committee on Public Information}
shington.-Quantity if not capac-
lty shipments will start soon from a
new government shell-lOading factory
in New Jersey, one of four such gov
eminent plants each of which is larger
than any similar plant in the world.
When turning out $1,000 loaded
shells q day under full operation the
plant will use 1000 tons of shells and
explosives daily, the products of some
rs factories. More than 5000 work
men will be required. Plans cOntem-
plate the employment of large num-
her of women The marking of shells
TO designate size, load and range Will
require 100000 operations each day.
The plant has total area of approx
imatey $500 acres. More than 100
buildings, with an aggregate floor
space of 100000 square feet, Will pro
vide storage for shells and parts and
for material. A small city, with heat
ing and lighting plants, water and sew
age systems, hospitals, tire-fghtlng
plant and restaur;. nts was built to
house the employees. There is equip
ment to protect the health of those
who work with poisonous gases. and
d school for instruction in the load
Ing of artillery ammunition with high
explosives.
The operating plant consists of IL
shell-loading units. each Independent
Of the other, with equipment for load
ing 13 sizes Of shells, ranging from the
recently developed 7-miIimeter to is
inches. On two sizes of shells the pro-
Polling charge also will be loaded, the
shell and cartridge case being assem-
bled at the plant All other shells are
assembled in France.
In the construction of the shell
loading units the problem was far
greater than one of mere building. Inn
mense fans have been installed to dis
pose of the poisonous fumes from the
high explosives. When a unit is in
operation the air in the loading room
10 changed every few minutes.
The American soldier in France gets
trains. The trains are under the jul
r1SdictiOn Of the army medical depart
ment. They are miniature water
works, which chemically treat, filter
and SteriliZe water, making it fit for
consumption. What municipal water
works do to insure healthful water to
the people of a city these trains do for
the soldiers.
A number of publication units with
attached mOtOr-tank trucks constitute
a train. Each unit is complete f1ltra-
ton plant, including laboratory. Ar
irving at a stream it sets hose into
the water and pumps the water
through a pressure tank. Before the
water passes through sand filter it is
treated chemically to rid it of disease
germs. The pure water is pumped
into tanks mounted on trucks, which
carry the water to the soldiers.
Each mobile water unit carries an
expert chemist, bacteriOlOgist and
pumpman. There is a complete lab
oratory in the front of the machine for
The testing of the water. Tests are
made every two hours or more often
when it is thought necessary. The wa
ter is lifted into the filter by a gasoline
pump engine and a complete supply
Of extra pipes and tools are carried so
that all repairs, either from accident
or shell fire, can be made on the spot
The trucks are equipped with electric
lights so that the work can be carried
on at night Many of the chemists
and bacteriOlOgiSts assigned to the mo-
bile laboratories were formerly con
nected with municipal waterworks and
filtration plants.
Every community will be cOmbed fO1
war workers. War industries are short
nearly 100000 common laborers and
lack Of workers in the coal-mining in
dustry is imperiling all war produc
lion. There is also a serious shortage
of skilled labor. One of the larges
munttiOn plants, turning out heavy
calibFr guns, is short 1000 machinists
The war plants of Connecticut anC
Maryland are undermined $4,000 ma
chinisfs.
The United States employment serv
ice will begin an intensive recruiting
OF workers for war work from the non
essential industries. Employment of
fees will be increased and the fore,
OF local agents and travelling exam
liners will be enlarged and sent int,
every community that relief may b.
given before the ban against privat
labor recruiting goes into effect Of
August 1.
Nearly 100000 girls and boys hav
volunteered for the United States gar
den army in the department of tn
interior. Their service flag bears
crossed rake and hoe with the letter
q. 8. S. G. in blue on a field of whit
with red border The enlistmen
entails pledge on the part of tn
child to use efforts to increase foo