WAR SUPPLIES PROM AMERICA

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2379, 8 February 1915, Page 6

WAR SUPPLIES PROM AMERICA

Certain branches of American industry are receiving a big stimulus through tho supply of military . requirements which the _ belligerent nations cannot fulfil from their own resources. According to the "Wall Street Journal" the Bethlehem Steel Corporation has secured contracts worth £10,000,000. which will tax the capacity of the ordnance and shipbuilding plants of tho company for a long time to come. It is said that guns, projectiles, and submarines are being manufactured .for Great Britain and France. Germany is cut off from America by our command of the-"sea.-" The Graton and Knight Company, of Worcester, has a contract for 150,000 scabbards, said to involve nearly a million 'dollars. . Two large orders for revolvers were said to have been placed in the same district. The Jones and Laughlm Company, the Carnegie Steel Company, and tbe Carbon Steer Company are reported to be turning out a total of 750 tons of steel bars daily to be shipped to France for shrapnel shells. It is said that <■ the president of the Studebaker Corporation brought back from England OTders for automobiles, harness, wagons, sleds, and other equipment to the amount of £3,000,000. The Jeffrey Automobile Company has an order from England for 600 automobile trucks, and tho Jackson Automobile Company, of Jackson, Mich., has a contract with France for a million dollars' worth of machines. Tho American, boot and shoe trades have also received big European orders, 1,000,000 pairs at three dollars a pair having been ordered from Massachusetts factories for France and Russia. These two nations are also said to have inquired for structural steel for bridge work. These contracts, however, do not make good the damage which American business has suffered, and employment is much below the normal. ■

The London, Forlong, and Co., Wenganni, intimate that one of their clients will, exchange a. 220-acre property for a partlyimproved bush or aheep farm. The Crown Clothing Co. (N.Z.), Willis Street, .have an advertisement in this issue of interest to "all men who dress distinctively."

Ono of the locomotives of the London and North-western Railway. No. 372 Germanic, is now running wit!h tho name cancellcd b.v a thick red line, and with "Belgic" in now name plates affixed above, remarks the "Railway News." Similarly, No. 4017, Knight of the Black Eagle, on the Great Western Railway, has been rechristened of 'Liege. ,r '