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OUltO, iuuopouut/livij y MU v c* * JLi-i V* Is Mthe same time. ♦---CENTRALLATEIn the Speed of Its Rebuilding ProgramPART OF THE ROOFIs Going on Today, on the North-Business Has Been Going OnDespite the Fire—Tents Still Pitched.Connersviile has witnessed the swift rallying of more than one industry, after a heavy blow, but probably it never before saw anything to equal the re-creation of the metal department of the Central Manufacturing Plant, ruined by fire six weeks ago.At the time of the fire the company had great orders ahead and was being pressed by customers for output. Alarmed telegrams flooded into the office of the President, as soon as the fire was heard of, asking what the company proposed to do. With characteristic directness, W. B. An-sted flashed back the word that he would go ahead, making bodies. He did go ahead. He rushed two tents, circus size, to the ground and had them pitched at the south end of the burped area. In them he had the vitals of the machinery installed, and there the work has gone forward ever since, except such parts of it as were housed under other roofs.The reconstruction of the. ruined building began at the north end, in order not to disturb the tents* Thewalls at the north part affe.'Up, and today the east section of*$ne roof is being put on.It is somewhat too early to say when the building will be complete, but it is going ahead at a rate hardly equaled in any other building project ever undertaken in Connersviile. The whole force of the plant,is intact, and, surprising as it may seem, the working efficiency of the place has not suffered very greatly.The new building will eventually enfold the two tents, also the old wooden building at the west of the main office. When they are enclosed, then they will be razed, and the industry, overgrown by its new buildings, will be cast all together for the full resumption of operation, I\i
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Connersville Evening News
Connersville, Indiana, US
Thu, May 10, 1917
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