Show PLANT 1 US 1 1 t i Famous Porcelain Factories Factories' I Now Turning Out Dut Supplies t for Fighting French t I IS A TRANSFORMATION I Skilled edA Artisans 5 Lend dA Assist 1 ance ante in Producing War 1 Munitions 1 C I Parts Paris Sept 1 I L The world-famed world na na- porcelain factory at Scores SC has has has' suddenly been turned Into Inte part of ot tW tho huge hugo war machine Instead of ot making those dainty and fragile statuettes and r vases which are aro tho the wonder of at art collectors It Is turning taming out 1 do guerre or earthenware retorts retort and nd cauldrons for tor manufacturing gas as and for tor all tho the various chemical chemIcal chem I Ical processes of at producing high sires Even the thc famous artists whore whole names are associated with tho the dell del delicate I cat a coloring of ot porcelain are now exercising their art In enameling thes hugo huge retorts so as ns to make them more mor mar resistant to tho the acids and chemical used in the war processes Earl Early in the war M. M Bourgeois Ils administrator ad- ad of ot learned that the th the 1 production of ot high explosives for tor ax- ax f ar-f tillery Was wa falling short owing to the thela la lark lack k of ot earthen receptacles capable ot of l treating the acids lie therefore pro proposed prod I posed to the thc minister of or fine arts M. M Dallmer Daimer that tho the art work of oC Sones' Sones be suspended and all aU Its energies given Olven I Ito to producing the receptacles needed for tor powder making This was approved approve 4 and soon noon the tho transformation was b b- b Inn gun Difficulties j i There Thero were many difficulties to ever ever- come como Half Halt of ot the force had gone off to th the war who remained were j artists trained in In Inthe the most moat delicate class o 0 work The furnaces too were designed dp for tor small art objects and there was only one furnace big enough to make mako powder cauldrons 5 I is But tho the obstacles were overcome th the whole establishment being Inspired with tho the Idea Ide that it was as contributing to tho the national 1 defense The sculptor of or bisque figures ures did not hesitate tomake to tomake to make the plaster moulds for tor tho the big re 1 rc- rc torts The chemists studied art methods meth methode ode of ot adapting tho various hard clays clan clay to the tho new kind of ot war work Th The Th artists did their part In enameling working force soon toon had four tour furnaces usually employed d on vases and I enlarged so as to bake bako the big bl- powder powders I caul cauldrons rons Soon the work was wn going at such a rate that a 3 branch railway w was as run into tho the factory conn connecting It t with the thc great pow powder er t factories of at 1 St. St St. St Fons f Toulouse Bor Bordeaux eaux Dijon DUon and Brest Undergo o n L Thus has hns gono gone through a complete com corn 4 photo transformation on and is today furnishing furnishing fur fur- i. i thousands of ot receptacles of ot all sorts in which h Ich powder explosives explosive and gases pf pt a all 31 l sorts lor is are aro manufactured ta and d stored With a Rt staff t less than ha half f ItS us usual HIU usual 11 strength J CIll Il IlU rho me U production production V. US 01 U S Is five times as ns great grent today as asit ut It was before beloro the war And besides the gr great at quantity of ot Its war output u the thc quality of ot Its work is making it a I cart cort of ot expert school for the tho engineers engineer of oC tho the various pow powder cr factories The The chief workers of or these factories now E como come to Sc to study tho chemical methods employed In tn hardening hl days clays i ind and nd making them more resistant to the tho high temperature A huge new now furnace three times the size of at any heretofore used is now being built for the manufacture manufacture manu manu- facture of ot retorts of ot specially large di dl- dl An And the thc change from an art j i basis to an nn industrial basis has also necessitated ta ted the tho building of or vast new new- ateliers or workrooms with drying dryings I rooms etc I We hope to see art resume Its place before long IonS at Tes Se said aId M M. Bourgeois Bour Bour- tho the director and when whon It does It will find rind industry has given neW newt resources to art And it will be a 3 last f ing Ins souvenir that a national j tion founded l for tor the development o of art was ablo to Join withy with 7 French industry when whon tho the war ar called for tor united efforts of ot national defense defonse |