Show WILL CAST MONSTER INGOT immense lump of steel Is to be turned into new type of sixteen inch naval gun there ling has just been cast nt at the both dath legein steel works it monster ingot for the first of tile 10 lach inch rifles rides that tire to arm the grent new battle caulsen cruts of the united states navy under construction st tit Calude 11 so far us its known writes a bethlehem in ill correspondent it of tile lie philadelphia record tile ship of tills class Is the lie british cruiser lion with engines of horse power iler her speed Is it 11 bit better than 40 miles an III hour till aind she carries 14 inch kuns guns tho the A merlean battle cruisers will have engines of horse power and each caell will be ariller lah gitil four 10 16 inch rifles illicit will shoot 20 allies prom pro present indications there will ie be six nix of them nad and alieni lias has the order for ill all tile the guns which will be tile the largest on tiny any ships of if tills mad kind in tiny any navy the ingot required require the lie contents of three open hearth furnaces being ia feet feets 7 inches long indies inches in diameter te r till and weighing pounds it wll take meyeral Ree ial weeks to cool CHOI such tin 1111 of metal utter after which it will be cut bored tioren nail hollow forged on in tile great armor plate press into it a tube SO 80 feet long it IH 18 proposed to thiloh those 10 inell inch guna gang in it reer H J little in the now new gun shop which Is wide enough to it pirn tile lie tube around with room to spare special indies find and other lium chinery had to bo be constructed ted to handle hohe puns gulls whose parts sui hicl li as jackels rings and yokes tire lire already il being forged |