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ambers 3.000,000 rifles for both th
British and American Governments. It
md Britain before- It armed America
rii When worklne at top weed It has
kfciplojed as many as 16,000 hands, 20
er cent of them beinr women,
Its payroll has run about J 375,000
A week,
It 10,000 machines are worth $5,000,-
000 alone,
it ti had on hand constantly resent
stocks of cuttlns tools mada of ths
oostllest steel, worth from 11,000,000 to
3,00O,000.
. Day after day It has turned out com,
Matn EEOO rifles some days 6B00
livery part for eery rifle, down to
h smallest screws, has been made In
ths plant.
To make. 000 rifles In a day entails
. tdtal of 15,000,000 single operations
av HMitember of 1917 Its first Ameri
can rifle was delivered to the Govern
ment, Twelve months later It had completed
1,000.000 rifles.
These facts and figures Klve rome
notion of the vastness of the plant.
Only n Islt to the placn Itself and
iimira Riwnt walking through Its acres
of swiftly whirling belts and speeding
machines couiu convey an i""'i'o "
of the plant's great sire and ceaseless
Industry.
The beginnings of the great inns
lactory at Edd stone go back to the
early dajs of the European war. when
England's need created It and when few
Americans were sufficiently far-seeing
to realize that ultimately this countrj
would become Involved.
Aauclaln's Prophecy
Onomanat least who had to do will,
tho erection of the Eddystono tlflc plant
read the handwriting on tho wall He
was Samuel M. Vauclaln. vice P'
of the Baldwin Locomotive Works The
Baldwin Company built tho plant
When tho broad lines of Its -0"8"u.c;
tlon wero being laid out Mr Vauclaln
aid In effect to his associates
"Let us build It big. Let us make It
the greatest of rifle plants for sooner
or later, this country must bo drawn
Into the! war. and If we build ade
quately now wo will bo able to do our
best for the nation then."
o .. v.. ,111 it ns It stands When
America sprang to arms to help the
world win back Its freedom the Mld
vale Steel and Ordnance Company was
ready. The machines were there, need
' lne but few changes to manufacture
the American type of rifle. The execu.
tlvo personnel was there A largo nu
cleus of trained nnd ctpm men ana
women were ready to build the rifles
that armed Americans In the great
...,,, Tim rifle ulant wan a. great.
Bwlft-ninnlng. perfectly -functioning or
ganization . .
nek In 1014, when the war caught
all th world but Germany unprepared.
Britain needed rifles Her own plants
could not turn them out nearly fast
enough She came ior ueiw i .........
In May of 1915 tho spot where the
rlflo plant now .tanas was a si-mi .
of swampy land adjacent to the Bald
win works at Eddystone On May 11
rround was broken for the rifle works
Mid-August saw the first pieces of
machinery stored In tho building, then
well on toward completion By the end
of tho month the furnaces were going
'"'Tho last day of 1915 at the Lddystone
plsnt was historic. On that day they
completed their first rifle fpr the British
Government.
From the breaking of ground In a
BWimp It had taken less than eight
months to build a modern factory with
thirty-three acres of floor space : to pur
chase and set up rifle-making machinery
all of which had to be especially man
ilfacturedr for tho purpose to get to
gether a huge stock of the finest and
scarcest steels; to fabrlcato millions of
email parts, made with accuracy car
Tied to the thousandth part of an Inch
and less; to assemble these In tho com
pleted product.
miles for the British
It was an achievement even In this
day and land of mechanical miracles
In all, the Mldvale Steel nnd Ordnance
Company made 600,000 rifles for the
British Government. Most of them
went to France. One hundred thousand,
however, wero shipped tcr far Mesopo
tamia, where sun-bitten English Tom
nileB carried them In that terrible march
to Bagdad l
The rifle made for England was the
j;nfield of 1914. chambered for tho Brit
ish type of rim cartridge of 30.1 caliber
A fine, hard-shooting accurate weapon,
the best rifle that had been devised prior
to the war. And these rifles were turned
out In such huge quantities at EddyBtone
that at the peak of production tho Mid
sale Steel and Ordnance Company was
jnaklnpr more English rifles than all tho
arsenals and private plants of England
Combined.
Then camo our entrance into mo war
From the first month It was evident that
we would need huge armies. They had
to po raised, trained, equipped, trans
ported abroad in record time. Making
rifles for them was one of our biggest
problems.
Shortly after war was declared the
officials of the country's -various rifle
planti. wero called to Washington for
r conference with Secretary Baker He
laid (Hey nation's needs before them He
asked them to estimate how long It
would take to deliver rifles of the Amer
ican type In the quantities needed They
eatd six months
The Mldvalo Steel and Ordnance Com
pany agreed to furnish Its first quota of
American rmes Dy rsovemoer i-, ivi.
It did so on September 17
By September of 1918, a year after
these first rifles were turned over to the
United States, a total of 1.000,000 had
been manufactured and delivered
This was record production faster
than even the British rifles were made
The Millionth Rllle
On the 23d of September the em
ployes of the plant celebrated the making
of the millionth rifle. It was a rreat
occasion. The broad courtyard In fiout
of tha rifle factory held 14,000 people,
workers and guests. Secretary Daniels
wan there, with representative.) of the
Secretary of War, of the army, of the'
various departments or Government J
Hrlgadler General John T Thompson,
present director of arsenals at Washlnr-1
ton, and one of the men who assisted In
ths organization and development of
tha Eddystone Jijant, cabled news of the
millionth rifle to Generat Porshlng
Mr. Vauclaln, on bthalf of the plant's
employes, presented the millionth rifle
to Charles H. Schlacki, general manager
of the works, and the man who Is cred
ited by officers and employes alike with
havjns; had the biggest share in per
Meeting and maintaining the great or-i
ganliatlon.
Thl millionth rifle was bought forj
ilm by tho employes themselves. They.
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Mr reoma "a thorough change"
awl a cheery air of newness by a
simple rearrangement of the rugs,,
tc, that can be made in five mln-
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subscribed n. penny each to make the
purchase and had more than a hundred
dollars over for the lied Cross
To show the spirit of Industrv of the
great plant It might be mentioned here
that the emploves on that gala day,
when they celebrated the making of the
millionth rifle, kept right on the Job
until 3:30 o'clock lb the afternoon Until
tho moment the whistle sounded to
cease work, the machines and the men
and women who ran them sped faster,
If. anything, than usual, o that there
might be no production loss.
The spirit of the employes Is one of tho
most Interesting things about the big rllle
works They havo earned good wages,
but they have Blvfcn full value. Never
was there a day's shutdown; never was
there an hour's labor disturbance The
workers vv ero too busy , too patriotic, too
certain of the fair intentions of theli em
plovers, to listen to agitators
Million! for Liberty Uondi
It is signtflcvn, too, that, the workers,
men and women, bought more than
J3.000.000 worth cf the various I.lbortv
Ixin Issues, besides Investing large sums
In war-savings stamps and contributing
generously to the War Chest and Hid
Cros
So much for the workers now for
their product.
The rifles made at Kdds stone for th
American nnnv aro the last word In
small arms Tlioy combine tho best qual
ities of both the nritlsli Knllem ana xne
old American Springfield
The nrltlsh arm uses a cartridge of
,303 caliber Tho mcrlcan nimy foi
icars has been using a JO calmer car-
trldge When our country went Into the
war American rifle plants which had I
ecu miklnc snn.ll nrini for England
could have continued making the mmo
type and caliber arm for the Lnltcd
folates without the loss of a da v.
That, however, would have mule
nicvssarv two kinds of ammunition
Bather than risk the danger and Incon
venience of this course, thu Wnr Hepart
mint accepted tho delay ini Idcntal to
changing machines nnd manufacturing
a new stock of parts
The lessons American rifle makers had
learned In manufacturing tho British
Enfield helped nuke the new American
rlflo the truest-shooting, hardest-hitting
military rlflo ever devised
The rlflo with which our new armies
are e-nulnned is known ns the United
States rifle caliber 30 model 1917. It
has a muzzle velocity of J750 feet, com-
pared to th.- 2-'0n feet niurzie velocity of i
the Enfield The rvploslve pressure de-
vcloped in tho Amtrknii rih Is 51 Olio
pounds, compared to tlio 40,000 pounus 1
of the British arm Our rifles are tested
with a bursting charge) equivalent to
70 000 pounds to the Ineh ns against
the 5:,000-pound-per-lnch test charge of
tho Enfield
Tho frun made at Eddystono and used
by our troops in France will kill a man
at thrco miles
It shoots so aceuratcly that a trained
marksman can hit an Individual with It
at a fulL mile
It Is worth while quoting a letter
written by an army raptnln In France
about tho Eddystono rifle to one of tho
assistant general managers of tho plant
We w ent through thc M Mlhlel
drive, and ns 1 wrllo the drive of No
vember 1 Is going merrily on started
I 15 iu in Some 3600 piece!) of artil
lery let go at that time You ean
eas'lly Imagine the way the earth rocked
as 'Wilson's Answer" wont home Our
big guns usually carry a placard 'Wil
son's Answer,' and after the barrage has
been placed and our boys go over, then
the Sprlngfleld-Enfleld, or model 1917,
rifles come into their own.
The nifle for Bayonet Work
"I hRve handled many rifles, old and
new, SprlngflelK Krags. Mauners and
a fv nthrrs but when It comes to
service, tho sturdy -built Eddystone rifle
cortalnly delivers the goods The stock
Is so strong that it makes an ideal
rifle for bayonet work I have in St.
Mlhlel seen many evidences of thc bayo
net on the business' end of an Enfield
make perfecttv good Huns out of bad
ones they were, of course, dead ones
Tho German rlflo Is but a toy compared
to our1?" ..... ,
The man who wrote that letter knows
the Eddvstono rllle Ho ha staked his
life on it
Tho letter links tho shops with the
battlefield Tho fame spirit eif wrvlco
that made our soldiers Indomitable In
the fle-ld lias animated He me 11 anil
women nt lalho nnd drill Tin too.
are he roes
(So Into the shops and von will see
this spirit
It la linpossiblo to describe tho actual
making of rifles at Eddv stone it Is
an extreme, ly complex undertaking is
you may realize If you reflect n inomont
upon the statement made early In this
article that there aro 15,000.000 single
operations entailed In a day's output qf
6000 rifles
To do so vast a joo in a , wmi
even the 15,000 employes who were at
work with production V Its height,
naturally means perfect svstem Every
man does Just hla own Job Ho has
Y. Z. R. FURNlTURfc
FXONOVn PRICES
LOUIS E. WISER
Wholesale Retail TaSwIW
260 S. 5th St. 6
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Open Htturilaj Kttnlnn
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The Beverage for
the New Year
For jour New Tear celebration
and for all the seasons of this
promising new yeai of 1919.
Held at Dreir Rtorea
and Community Uteres
Specialist in Promptl
Kepalr Service,
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studied every movement of hands nnd
body, so ai to get tho most work out
of the feu est motions He may opernto
one or several machines If several,
he times their operations so that he
can adjust one Idle tool wMIe tho others
are working
Every floor of the great plant Is close
i packed with machinery, ranged In broad
trucks that clang about nil day with
isles so that electric "Jitneys," tho
loads of raw material or purls In various
stages of completion, can run freely back
and forth
As far as eve can reach down the
long vistas of machinery stretch forests
of belting there are seventy -Ave miles
of whirling belts In the 'receler de
partment ' alone
The making of this receiver in lav
man h language tho part of the rifle
that holds the loading nnd llrlng mech
anism Is one of the most painstaking
and important tasks In rifle manufac
ture It goes through 144 operations
At the start It Is a forging of the finest
steel weighing eight pounds Complete
It weighs about eight ounces
Learned a Tlity Worked
When tho Eddy Mono plant was built
few men understood rifle making I"cvv
plants made the machine lools for It
Kddy stone studied the problem ns It un
folded, first adoirtlng and then perfect
ing processes already In use
Automatic tools aro used In most op
erations They are marvellously accu
rate In this connection It might be
mentioned that the Midvnlc Metl nnd
Ordn ince ComDanv has the finest ma
chine tool shop in America devoted rn-
tlrcly to tho manufacture of Its own cut
ting tools J
-, - f, of rl,le"ha"r
One of tho most engrossing opera-
rcls The barrel Is whirled agulnst a
hollow, stantlonerv drill at the speed of
1S00 revolutions a minute Oil forced
through tho drill under pressure brings
back the minute steel chips A barrel la
drilled at the rate of about nn Inch a
minute A somewhat nlmllur tnaihlno
reams out the first flno hole cut by the
drill fetlll another puis In the delicate
grooves which we know as 'rifling"
Before the rifle is assembled tho bar
r"l and action nro tested by flrlnB
through them a Bpeclal bursting charge,
developing a pressure of 70,000 pounds
to tho square Inch Tho test shot Is
fired Into sand A number of rifles are
fired nt once, racked In a frame nnd
discharged automatically. The testing
Is done In a series of little armored
roomgi bu,ot and Bp,nt . proof an(1 the
ni,.ninr fira i - i, i. ,c
,,ition behind a thick steel shield to
rUim, nS.linBl thc cInnKor of a lIcfectUe
t,arr.j
1 T.le assembled rlflo Is fired agiln for
accuracy by Government eipcrtu Every
proicsa or Its manufniture, of eouixe,
Is under Government supervision Tllero
aro more than a thou end Government
employes at Eddystone who do nothing
hut Inspect Tho plant's own Inspec
tors likewise follow the rlllo through
all Its processes, from raw material to
finished product.
Tills firing for accuricv Is one of the
things that catches the Interest of tlio I
eiutslder visiting tlio plant. If lie be,
luckv enough to win through the door
thnt Is guarded against even plant em-(
ployes Into thq long, narrow 'shooting
gallery " Hero experts ' lav ' the rifle
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Cattle Buying For
Swift & Company
Swift & Company buys more than 9000 head of cattle
on an average, every market day.
Each one of them is "sized up" by experts.
Both the packer's buyer and the commission salesman must
judge what amount of meat each animal will yield, and how fine it
will be, the grading of Jhe hide, and the quantity and quality of the fat.
Both must know market conditions fjor live stock and meat
throughout tho country. The buyer mustknow where the different
qualities, weights, and kinds of cattle can be best marketed as beeT.
If the buyer pays more than the animal is worth, the packer loses
money on it. If he offers less, another packer, or a shipperor feeder,
gets it away from him.
If the seller accepts too little, the live-stock raiser gets less than
he is entitled to. If he holds outformore than it is worth, he fails
to make a sale. . "
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A variation of a few cents in,the price per hundred pounds is a
matter of vital importance to the packer, because it means tho
difference between profit and loss.
with the nld of a telescopic sight. I'lfty
slx. rllle rests are gotnr at once. They
lire fired nt small paper targets set up
100 feet from the muzzle. Four out of
Ave shots must hit Inside a rectangle
measuring one by one and a half Inches
Eye-Straightening Barrels
Another fascinating operation Is the
final straightening of rlflo barwls. This
Is done by eye, which proves more ac
curate than any machine yet devised.
The experts who do this work use a
big and curious vise, with -a Jaw ac
tuated by a heavy wheel. The con
trivance looks like an old.fashloned let
ter press set on a pedestal nbout as
high as a man's head. The stralghtener
puts the barrel In his vise and sights
through the boie at a straight black
line on tho background of a glazed
glass window Ho doesn't seo the line
through the barrel, but ho docs see two
parallel shaelows cast down the barrel
half Its length If tho shadows are ex
actly parallel the barrel Is straight. If
they- wa,ver the barrel is crooked and
pressure of the vise Is applied at the
right place to Btralghten It.
It takes -v highly educated eye to seo
the slight wavering of tlicso lines Not
every eye Is capable of this kind of
education Barrel strnlRhtenets aro
'born," tho experts sav, more truly even
than are poets When Eddystone got
Into the business of rulemaking thcie
werei only threo or four real barrel
stralghtcners obtainable In the country.
Eddystone hired ns much of tho avail
able supply as was possible, then began
to train a big corps of' experts of Its
own.
It Is related that about the best man
developed at Eddystone had never looked
through a rlflo barrel In his life bcrpro
somo ono accidentally discovered the
power he did not know ho owned Ho
iiad been employed for months in tho
plant br an Iceman, delivering Ice In ,1
zlnc-Ilncd truck
While you watch a gun stock Is made.
Saws, drills, turning IhHics work with
human accuracy Each process takes
but a few moments When eut and
turned the stocks arc put In racks nnd
dipped In linseed oil, which eoaks Into
overy pore
Stock assembly Is comparatively slni
pl0 if you aro an expert becauso of
the absolute Interchangenblilty of parts
Beforo Eddystone studied and perfected
this assembly Job a good workman
ASJJJIUS 1 S MJUULSJLS JJ J Itj.;
GRAND OPENING TODAY
Unwrpaiud for Itf Ittlian Cinnne
a vn-tv n"VD''7 en" rem erilB
KPirrni? wirxTKn intiij1:
Heart of the Shopping DUtrict,
122 So. 13 ill Si.
If you enme In the ep'plng jou
will com again nnd sssln Our
famous Italian Chefs will to
that
FamouM a la Carte
Dinners Luncheons
Special After Theatre Supper
I'llONK NOW FOR TAni.K RESFR-
VATirfSS OR M'.M IRAK'S K K
Swift & Cdmpany, U. S. A.
Seven Wholesale Distributing Markets
Central Office, 9th and Girard Ave.
t?. M? Hall, District Manager
woulel put together fifty rifles In a day
and feel proud of his work. Now many
of tho men assemble 200 rifles a day.
One man, who holds the plant record,
has assembled 285 rifles In ten hours
Itrsdy far the Front
When the last Job Is dono and the
rlflo stands complete It Is given a pro
tecting bath of vaseline before being
packed for shipment. In a rack with
many others It la swung over a 'vat of
hot vaseline and dipped In. The llepjld
vaseline clings to barrel, stock and work
ing; parts. When It hardens It makes
a thick Incrustation, Impervious to wate
or dampness '
Then tho rifles are read;' for packing,
ten to the crate They go out In freight
care or motortrucks, which aro run right
Into the delivery room for loading. And
then overseas 1
This Is but a glimpse of the work at
nddystone-9A few of tho things that
stand out sW vividly that the least tech
nical visitor cannot help seeing them.
It would be a hopetess task to attempt
to picture the real eights and sounds of
tho place
Eddy etone U still hard at work, de
spite the Government order that will put
out the forge fires and still the roar of
the hammer shop next month. Botweon
3000 nnd 6000 employes are nt work
there now.
Eddystono has completed Its task. It
has faced nnd won Its big fight. It will
simply mo "demobilized," like the gallant
army It equipped
The thousands who work there will
carry with them, when they leave ths
plant next January, the same deep,
quiet pride that Is the soldier's best
memento of tho war. They have done
their work.
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EMnWIilifcl Since 1830
Skirts
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December
Demonstration
Sale
The December Demon
stration Sale will run for
four days Friday, Satur
day, Monday, Tuesday
and during that time very
special values will be offer
ed in every, department.
New lots will be advortised
daily, but many of the re-
auctions are in. quantities
too small to advertise being
broken lines and rumpled '
goods loft from the great
est Holiday Belling we have
ever had. It will pay you
well to visit the store and
share in the savings which
our Demonstration Sales
always bring.
DECEMBER
DEMONSTRATION
SALE
AH Winter Milliner;?
Greatly Reduced
An annual, event which is
always eagerly awaited by
many of our customer!, as it
affords an opportunity to got
a seasonable, stylish Hat at
very much less than the rog
ular prices.
$15.00 to $45.00 Hats for
$5.00, $10.00, $15.00
Dress Hats trimmed with
ostrich feathers and flowers.
$12.00 and $15.00 Hats
Reduced to $5.00
Sports and Tailored Hats
in many shapes and colors.
Children's $15.00 Dress Hats
Reduced to $7.50
Children's Vclour Hats, all
colors $5.00 Special
THIRD FLOOR
DECEMBER DEMONSTRATION SALE
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DECEMBER DEMONSTRATION SALE
Women s Coats at Half Price
Two of the large number of
styles included are illustrated
there are many others fur-trimmed
and plain, heavy and medi
um weight. Jersey Coats, Poiret
Twill Coats, Gabardine Coats,
Wool Velour Coats, Velour .de
Nord Coats, Plush. Coats, Silk
Faille Coats, Wool dheck Coats.
Of some there " is but one of
a kind and sjze, but of others
nractically all sizes. Every
Coat included is marked at ex
actly half of the original price.
None of these Coats can be sent
C. Q D. or on approval, and all
sales must be final no? .subject
to return or exchange. Here is a
partial list of the reductions:
Women's $29.50 Coats for 514.75
Women's 535.0Q Coats for $17.50
Women's $40.00 Coats for $20.00
Women's $60.00 Coats for $3.00
Women's $75.00 Coats for $37.50
Women's $95.00 Coats for $47.50
Women's $125.00 Coats for $62.50
Women's $195.00 Coats for $37.50
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$59.00 SuUa at $15.00 Volour and Duvet do Laine Suita in
green, bro.wn and taupo; lined with peau de cygne and warmjy
interlined; one of the styles is illustrated; sizes 14, 16 and 18
years; reduced to $45.00 from $59.00.
$82.00 to $195.00 Suite, $69.00 and $79.00 Velour, Silvertone
and Velveteen Suits in misses' sizes; original copies of imported
mod6h; trimmed with Hudson Seal or Skunk; two of the styles nro
shown in cut; were $82.00 to $195.00 now $09.00 and $79.00.
Vclour Suits in various styles, orie of which is shown; green,
deer, navy, brown; lined with peau do cygne and interlined; sizes 14,
16 and 18 years; reduced to $29.75 from $39.75 to $58.00.
A small lot of Junior Suits in tan and green only; all-wool
material, warmly interlined; sizes 13, 15 and 17 years special at
$25.00 for quick clearance.
A few Suits from last season in navy serge, mixtures and
taffeta, misses' sizes reduced to $15.00 wonderful values.
SECOND FLOOR
Suits at Half Price
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Demonstration
Sale
These Suits are taken right from
our own stocks and a large number
of attractive styles are v included,
both plain tailored and fur-trimmed.
Materials are serge, tricotine, mixed
and cljeck woolens, shantung, wool
velour, bolivia, broadcloth; blackv
and colors. Many are in light-
maierjais suuaDio ior pon-
em wear, in sports' styles. .Every"
Suit included in the sale is marked
at exactly half of the original price.
The following is but a partial list of
the reductions. None will be sent
C. O. D. or , on approval and all
sales must be final.
Women's $27.50 Suits for $13.75
Women's $38.00 Suits for $19.00
Women's $48.50 Suits for $24.25
Women's $55.00 Suits for $27.50
Women's $60.00 Suits for $30.00
Women's $80.00 Suits for $40.00
Women's $98.00 Suits for $49.00
Women's $125 Suits for $62.50.
Women's $145 Suits for $72.50
Women's $198 Suits for $99.00
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