El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-07-06
Great Ship Plant Will Be Able To Frank C Carpenter
Turn Out One Destroyer Each Week 455'4a'@1
Before the Required Quincy Employs
$4,000 Men, Wonderful Efficiency Construction

no Platforms between the ground and
the roof.
10 gives some idea Of the immen-
sity Of this building 10 know that
there is so much glass i'm DO that if
the panes were fitted closely together
-ney would make solid sheet cover
ing eight acres. and also that it took
40 tons OF putty 90 tasten that glass
TO the steel frames.
Load the putty on two horse wa
CONS, ana at 80 feet 90 the team the
train required 20 haul it would be all
most a mile l0ng.
How Destr0yers Are Built.
In this geat building YOU may fol-
low the making OK a destroyer from
beginning TO end started in win
the mold loft where the patterns az
the ship are cut out OF great bolrds.
Just as You cut the pattern OF a dress
out Of the pasteb0ard or paper
Each pattern iz cut 10 the exact
size and snaps OF the part Of the yes
marked every notch and angle and
every rlFet and joint The wooden
patterns so into the GahricatinE
shops, and from them are made the
steel plates, ribs and other parts
which form the great vessels
THIS is done BY gigantic machinery.
oy great furnaces and steel rollers.
and Dy careful hand work On the part
or expert mechanics
some Of the parts require q great
cutting is done with acetyisns flame
SO bright that 10 would blind the eyes
OF the WorHmen did they not wear
masks Of blue glass between their
eyes and the flame
The Welding is done By eIsctrlcftv-
it takes several thousand ribbed uarta
70 go into the frame OF each ship and
me red not iron is nodded so rap
ldly that I saw one rib 30 feet long
shaped to its place in the huh a fust
HH HHk
All OF the delicate parts OF the de-
slrQyer are manufactured IN this
building, and almost ever. process Of
It's construction goes on. including
l-ls--ll machines through which q gang
drives several thousand rivata q dav
70 the galTaniziug OF the plates or
the vessel which are below the water
In the EaIvanizlne department Z
saw one tank in which s15.oe0 worth
or zinc was boiling and ssething- As
-oQked a crane lfted a steel plate
70 rect long and i've feet wide and
gently dropped IL into that tank A
moment later it. was raised. and as 90
came out it looked like q mirror Dc
was the color OF silver. 10 dId NOT
take one minute 20 coat 90 with zine
Rive vessels Under Construction.
RAISING On from one department %
alo -lsrr IiEally reached the Wars
where the parts OF the destroverg
made in the shop were IN courss 81
assembling
There were five vessels under con
srrucri0u. and the kesls OF five 9TH
ers were ready FOR use In the front
OF each great ship were sliding doors
eacl 80 feet wide and 20 feet hlzh.
so arranged that they could BE-
moved back and the vessels launched
into the sea
The whole work OF construction f-
under roof and after the launching
the ships move about into another
srear building adjoining. where they
are IiSte with their boilers. guns and
oLner equipment
This building is now almost com
p-eted- IL IS 500 feet square and coy
ers more than four acres. II win
nave SIX docks under roof Icing
equipped with huge cranes which win
.llI 2ollers into the ships and install
But 7 might TN this naper with n
description Of mechanical wonders
going on in these Fore River wards.
NO sun not tell the whole story.
me machinery is all OF the latest in
Fention, and everything is planned Tor
efficient and speedy Construction.
-Ae- Iorce OF men Is rapidly grow
-n=- Squautuu IS now taking on 500
new hands every week and bv The
time this letter Is DrTr7sre- ~.
should be 5000 or zoos men there maxi
t1s destrovers
Build One Destroyer n week.
Before the war ft took "a months
p build one OF these ships. but since
tnen the Fore River yards have con-
slructed one I'm only a Few DAYS over
nine months and the S1uantum plant
VIII complete its whole CONTRACT
within less than two years from fhs
rll1e ITS foundations BEGAN
Nhen In fun operation 30 ernecf-
% turn out something like q DESTROYER
a week, and the probability IS that i-
VII be u1uu1a curing dsstrove-z for
me navy FOR generations TO come
The plant belongs to the United
states government tt was erected b~
the navy and when the var Be- ovs- f-
VIII be transferred 70 the govern
ment At fixed price. or II the nsvv
thinks best. 10 may stfu be held bv
the Bethlehem Steel corporation