Show PRICES LOWER EOE SO NAVY DEPARTMENT BUYS ABROAD w WASHINGTON Oct 19 Determined mined to lo barn whether foreign manufacturers can bell sell the United States naY navy nivy shells of ot equal quality for tor third one-third less than tho 1 lowest pi pt price Ice cc Americans will offer the thc navy y department has awarded cd a IL contract contract con- con tract to the Steel Foundry company company com toms pany patsy of ot Sheffield for tor 00 out of or a total ol or armor piercing projectiles contracted for Cor or The d department pai officials believe that II It f he the English product mea measures up to the test est tho rho avowed ot intention of oC the gov- gov to buy luy abroad when ne necessary tl to meet exorbitant 1 domestic bids will w result ret re- re t sult in fat a substantial lowering lowering- of or American prices The Tho Hadfield company was given n the contract for tOl BOO MIO inch twelve projectiles at 1187 1ST i each To the tho Bethlehem Steel company compan company com com- pan pany went 1 1500 00 twelve Inch shells at al each and md 00 fourteen Itch at O each to the Iho ashin 1 Washington ton Steel Ii Ordnance company Inch c at jj c each cn anc and 1000 1100 fourte Inch fourteen n at al C O each and nt to the he libel Company Compan of America 1000 Inch twelve at Rt each and BOO MO fourteen at each ach Thc Tho Hadl Hadfield ld share amounts amount to 9 out of ot a lr This 1111 company company company com com- pany was given nono of ot the Inch fourteen projectiles although on Oft th them m It bid al almost almost almost al- al most less apiece than its lowest American competitor and was WM the only concern that offered to undertake the en entire en en- tire Ure contract Attorney General Wickersham has prepared pre pre- pared an opinion advising the navy department de department de- de that the hour eight law will wilt be made to apply appl in the tho shell contracts equally equal equal- ly 1 to American and nd foreign builders Contracts were let yesterday for largo quantities of shella other than the twelve and Inch fourteen armor on which only American companies bids bid |