Show WILL CAST MONSTER INGOT immense lump of steel Is to be turned into new type of sixteen inch naval cun there has just been cist at the bethlehem steel works a monster ingot for the first of the 30 inch rifles that are to arm the great new battle cruisers of the united states navy under con at so far as known writes a bethlehem pa correspond ent of the philadelphia record the foremost ship of this class now afloat Is the british cruiser lion with engines of horse power her speed Is a bit better than 40 miles an hour and she carries 14 inch guns tin american battle cruisers will have on alnes of borso power and each will be armed with four IG anch rifles w 20 miles I 1 rom present indications there will be six of them and bethlehem has the order for all the guns which will be the larg est on any ships of this kind in any navy the ingot required the contents of three open hearth furnaces being 15 feet 7 inches long inches in diameter and weighing pounds it will take several weeks to cool anch an enormous mass of after which it will be cut bored and hollow forged on the great armor plate pres into a tube 80 feet long it la proposed to finish these IG anch guns n record time in the nw gun shop which Is wide enough to turn the tube around with room to spare special lathes and other machinery had 0 o be con to handle these guns whose par such as jacket rings and yokes are already being forged |