The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1918-08-15
WILL LOAD $4,000
SHELLS EACH DAY
GREAT GOVERNMENT PLANT IN
NEW JERSEY TO START SHIP
MENTs BEFORE LONG.
IS LARGEST IN THE WORLD
fhree Others Like II Being Construct
ed-Medcal Department Has Mobile
Apparatus to Provide Pure Drinking
Water in France.

apparatus TO PROVIDE Pure Drinking |
Water in France.
tFrom Committee on Public Information.l
Notwithstanding If not capac-
lty shipments will start soon from q
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 day under full operation the
plant will use 1000 tons of shells and
explosives daily, the products of some
TO 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
Tor material. small city, with heat
Ing and lighting plants, water and sew
age systems, hospitals, flre-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
school for instruction in the load
Ing of artillery ammunition with high
explosives.
The operating plant consists of 13
shell-loading units, each independent
of the other, with equipment for load
Ing ID sizes Of shells, ranging from the
recently developed 7-millimeter to 16
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 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 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 Jul
risdlction of the army medical depart
ment They are miniature water
works, which chemically treat, filter
and sterilize water, making 1t fit for
consumption. What municipal water
works do to insure healthful water to
the people of city these trains do fol-
the soldiers
A number of publication units with
attached motor-tank trucks constitute
train Each unit is complete f1ltra
ton plant including laboratory. Ar
irving at stream 1t sets hose into
the water and pumps the water
through a pressure tank. Before thu
water passes through a sand filter 1t l:
treated chemically to rid 1t 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 ant
pumpman. There is complete lab
oratory In the front of the machine 70
the testing of the water. Tests ar
made every two hours or more oftel
when 1t Is thought necessary. The wa
ter is lifted into the filter by a gasolin
pump engine and complete suppl
of extra pipes and tools are carried s
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 carrie
on at night. Many of the chemist
and psychologists assigned to the me
bile laboratories were formerly cor
nected with municipal waterworks an
filtration plants.
Every community will be combed fo
war workers. War Industries are shol
nearly 100000 common laborers an
lack of workers In the coal-mining IL
dustry is imperiling all war produ
ton There is also serious shortae
of skilled labor. One of the large'
muntion plants. turning out heaV
caliber guns. is short 1900 machinist
The war plants of Connecticut IN
MARYLAND are undermined $4,000 mi
chinSts.
The United States employment ser
Ice will begin an intensive recruitir
of workers for war work from the no
essential industries. Employment q
fees will be increased and the for'
of local agents and travelling eXat
iners will be enlarged and sent in
every community that relief may
given before the ban against priva
labor recruiting goes into effect
August |.
Nearly 100000 girls and boys ha'
volunteered for the United States ga
den army In the department of Il
interior. Their service flag bears
crossed rake and hoe with the lette
u. s. S. G. in blue on field of viii
with red border The eniistme
entails n pledge on the part of t
child to use efforts to increase fo'
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