Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-07-19
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 Ii Being Construct
ed-Medical Department Has Mobile
Apparatus to Provide Pure Drinking
Water in France.

Apparatus to Provide Pure Drinking
Water in France.
(From Committee on Public Information.)
ashington.-Quantity if not capac-
ity shipments will start soon from
new government shell-foading factory
in New Jersey, one of four such gov
ernment plants each Of which is larger
than any similar plant in the world.
When turning out $1,000 loaded
shells 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 a large num-
Der 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
imately $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, fire-fghting
plant and restaurants, was built to
house the employees. There is equip
ment to protect the health of those
who work with poisonous gases, and
a school for instruction in the load
ing of artillery ammunition with high
explosives.
The operating plant consists of Is
shell-loading units, each Independent
of the other, with equipment for load
ing IS sizes of shells, ranging from the
recently developed 7-millimeter to Is
inches. On two sizes of shells the pro-
pelling 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 she'll
loading units the problem was far
greater than one Of mere building I'M
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
is changed every few minutes.
| The American soldier in France gets
pure drinking water from mobile water
trains. The trains are under the ju-
| risdiction 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 city these trains do for
the soldiers.
A number of publication units with
attached motor-tank trucks constitute
a train. Each unit is complete filtra-
ton plant, including laboratory. Ar
irving at stream it sets hose into
the water and pumps the water
through a pressure tank. Before the
water passes through a 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 al
expert chemist, bacteriologist an(
pumpman. There is a complete lab
oratory in the front of the machine fol
the testing of the water. Tests are
made every two hours or more Otter
when it is thought necessary. The wa
ter is lifted into the filter by gasoline
pump engine and a complete suppl,
of extra pipes and tools are carried 81
that all repairs, either from acciden
or shell fire, can be made on the spot
The trucks are equipped with electri'
lights so that the work can be carried
on at night. Many of the chemist
and psychologists assigned to the mo
bile laboratories were formerly con
nected with municipal waterworks an,
filtration plants.
Every community will be combed fo
war workers War industries are shor
nearly 100000 common laborers an,
lack of workers in the coal-mining in
dustry is imperiling all war produC
ton. There is also a serious shortag
of skilled labor. One of the larges
munition plants, turning out heav
calIeer guns, is short 1000 machinists
Maryland are undermined $4,000 ma
ehinists.
The United States employment sery
ice will begin an intensive recruitin
of workers for war work from the nor
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 0
August 1.
Nearly 100000 girls and boys hav
volunteered for the United States ga
den army in the department of th
interior Their service flag bears
crossed rake and hoe with the letter
U. S. S. G. in blue on a field Of whit
with a red border The enlistmer
entails a pledge on the part of tf
child to use efforts to increase foo
production by cultiyating one or MOI
crops under a garden supervisor {
teacher chosen for this work and
make such reports as may be require
The success of the garden army pla
is most gratifying.
f Uncle Sans training camp theatel
: will do a $4,000. 600 business in the fir