Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-18
|[DDYSTONE MADE
1,929,569 RIFLES
Inventory Of Worlds Greatest
Plant" Reveals Splendid
War Efficiency
1907 EMPLOYEES ON ROLL

1907 EMPLOYEES uN HULL
Proposals will soon be received for
disposal of various lots of rolled
steel made by the Cambria Steel Com
pany at the L. s. Eddystonc Rife Stor-
age Arsenal, Eddystone, Pa.
Approximately $50 tons Of steel are
to be disposed of, bids for the first lot
Of 300 tons being open until June 20.
Three lots. totaling $50 tons, will be
sold June 81, and the final group of
four lots. aggrcgating 100 tons, is listed
for sale June so. The committee head
quarters is ITO Market street.
This chapter in the closing of what
has been described as the world s
greatest rifle plant gives interest to
the inventory of stock and plant taciIi e
ties lust completed. During its exist
ence the Eddystonc plant produced
COZ 900 British Enfield rifles and
.352.477 United States rifles. The
highest average daily production was
5000 rifles and the maximum daily pro-
duction was I2ol.
At the peak of production there were
1907 employees, with a payroll OF
S4O2, SIPS per week. In addition
there were 1917 government inspectors
assigned to the plant at the same time.
The inventory was made at cost
of $50. .27O in salaries alone, in eighty
three working days, engaging 14S men,
fftv of whom were experts, the re-
mainder being recorders and clerks.
An additional force of about 100 la
borers was used in handling A., ,567 900
articles inventoried.
The largest movable article taken
was a fifteen ton Putnam lathe. the
smallest a black diamond weighing
1-100 carat.
The equipment and stock inventoried
and TO be moved will fill 215O freight
cars. a solid train sixteen miles long.
ITS weight is so great that If all the
soldiers in the United States army
during the war were to carry an equal
share each mans load would be forty
seven pounds.
Interesting Data
The pipe lines II combined would
reach from Philadelphia to Trenton
while the betting stretched from end
to end would extend from Philadelphia
tn New York. Reduced to one-lnch
single ply it would reach from Eddy
stone to Altoona. The electric wiring
~ In one length, would connect Phila
delphia with Elizabeth, n. j., while
the electric drop cords would equiv
every house in a city of 10000.
Other interesting data shows VI
miles of steel shafting, 14,7Sl wood ant
metal pulleys. 106 oil pumps to supply
cutting oil, 456 electric and hand trucks
6673 racks on wheels, 2093 bench vises
and 327 motors.
The bar stock of component steel ol
hand January II, placed end to en'
/, would stretch from HaIfix. Nova Scotia
to Trepassey Bay, Newfoundland, t.
Fayai, Azores. Gun stock blanks ol
hand, 100000. would stretch from
Philadelphia to st. Louis. 1t require
one walnut tree for each twenty eigh
stocks, and to cut the above quantit!
of stocks, 1888 trees would be re
quired, or 3137 acres of growing walnu
trees. Each working day 320 walnu
trees were cut into gunstocks. End t.
end, the AGO, 900 hard guard blanks il
stock would stretch from Philadelphia
to Manassas, Va.
The largest walnut tree cut in twent
years measured six feet four inches il
diameter. 1t was 80 years old, Gu
from the Turkey Run tract. eighty mile
from Indianapolis. One half was save
into gunstock blanks for Eddystone an
the balance into airplane propellcrs.
Inventory Covers 5000 Pages
Compilation of the inventory com
prises 10 900 written pages with a cor
responding number of duplicates.
Tho company restaurants fed $50
persons day, using 5175 china plates
Other statistics revealed show widt
Of building, 1040 feet; length of longes
bay, 61O feet; ground floor area, IS.
acres; total floor area, 33. 6 acres; are
inside of fence, 34.5 acres; length ,
fence around plant, $500 feet; cub
Ieet in main building and stocking shoy
At, $40 600; square feet of radiation fl
heating, 104 ,421, or, reduced to ! \,
inch pipe, 45.5 miles boiler horsepow
of heating plant, 2400; maximu
twenty four hour coal consumption f
heating, 10 tons.
Number of panes of glass, ia ,O9t
area of glass in windows and SIX!
lights, 331 200 square feet, or 30 acre
The maximum hourly power demaI
during January, 1918, was 7400 kill
watts, the current used equaling 2,32j
600 kilowatt hours. The average los
on average working day was $3.50 Kill
watts, the installed equipment c,
pacity equaling $40, 900 % watt lamp
The four electric substations had
combined capacity of 5000 kilowatts.
Much of the data connected with t
inventory was compiled by G. B. Drak
chief army inspector