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METHYL A TEKKOK.
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record achievement in speed. The
utmost secrecy surrounded the efforts.
It was forbidden to officers and
men to divulge the nature of the
product or even the existence of the
t plant. Mail was censored. A Cleveland
postoffice lock drawer was used,
and letters were mailed and received
there, for the very name of Willoughby
was verboten in correspondence.
Telegrams were sent through
the headquarters at Xela Park. The
* experimental plant, as it was callea,
was conducted as an army post and
the men were not permitted to visit
Cleveland. The work was hard and
there was no reaction. But patriotic
Ti-nmon nf thft npiehborhood.
S JJULUU auu ?* ^ ?
who knew something was being done
for tb country but not what was being
done, supplied the men with
reading matter, a Victrola, fruit, and
pies, and even a grajid piano!
Klaxon horns were installed and
an alarm system agreed upon, and
the men in the plant worked always
with their masks in the "alert" position.
A fire and gas brigade was
organized and alarms were given at
. . V intervals, sometimes "for cause."
But none of the men were lost from
poisoning. The only death at the experimental
station was from influenza.
The methyl was packed partly in
115-millimeter shells, each carrying
about 10 pounds of liquid, and partly
in drums carrying from 350 to 400
pounds to be dropped from airplanes.
It is estimated that 50 of these
drums, judiciously dropped about
Manhatten Island, would kill its population.
. In this connection it is pertinent to
:rv reveal' some facts, until now not
*!/' \v known to the public, about the man'ufacture
of mustard gas. The chloy
rhydrin process for making this poison
was unsuited to quantity production,
and it was not until February,
* 1918, that an. English professor's
vV v discovery of a new method was ca.
bled to America. The. cablegram anticipated
by just two days a discovery
* of the same reaction at George
Washington University in Washing^
V ton, where experimental tests were
under way.
In March a smaller experimental
' station was established at Taft ave.
nue and East 131st street in Cleve[K
land, with Colonel Dorsey (then Mr.
, J " Dorsoy of the National Lamp Works)
as technical director. The little twostory
office building of the Great
.
?;... Lakes Refining company became, in
August, the offense section of the development
division, with Colonel Dor v'
sey in charge. It was connected with
" a large single-storv structure suitable
for plant operations.
t- This plant, within six miles of the
Cleveland public square, was in a
congested district, and great precaur
v tions were necessary to avoid gassing
;- -t the neighbors, who did not suspect
t", . the deadly material being prepared
. within. But few outsiders ever be"
. came aware of the nature of the work
1 : being done in East 131st street, and
no serious trouble was caused by
It. The second-story room was converted
into a control and research
laboratory, and was equipped with 10
m
well-ventilated hoods and all the oth y.
er necessary equipment. The rapid
assembly of the materials was made
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* possible through tne co-operation 01
Cleveland manufacturing concerns,
, whose attitude throughout the war
has been thus expressed: "If we
have it, the government can have it;
r if we haven't we'll get it."
At this plant no barracks nor mess
hall was provided, and the men ate
and slept wherever they could in the
neighborhood. As each arrived, he
was told what was being done and its
- importance was explained to him; and
the officers in charge report that the
workers performed eagerly and thor '
oughly the tasks assigned to them,
although often they were tedious and
hazardous.
' The results at this plant were immediately
transmitted to the Edgewood
arsenal (Hastings-on-Hudson)
plant, to the National Aniline and
Chemical company plant at Buffalo,
and to the Dow Chemical company at
Midland, Mich. At each of these
places mustard gas was made in
quantities. Nela Park, so named
from the initial letters of the National
Electric Lamp association,
forerunner of the National Lamp
Works, was the hub from which these
spokes radiated. At Nela Park investigations
were made of two other
poison gasses, before the methyl
work was undertaken, but the war
^ department stopped the other inquiries
before they were completed.
The main result of the 131st street
plant was the development of mustard;
the main result at Willoughby
was the production of the deathdealing
methyl.
It may be seen with what caution
and energy the United States se1
about meeting German ingenuity in
cruelty and destruction, and how successfully
American chemists sur
passed the enemy chemists. The visible
death-dealing evidence of theii
- technical skill ha3 been destroyed
France and England and Italy are
continuing their chemical warfare
services unimpaired. The United
States has disbanded her personnel
and dismantled her plants.
To the chemical warfare service
was assigned the bureau of mines, j
Dr. W. K. Lewis representing the
bureau, went to Cleveland on April
2S, 1917, to enlist the aid of the National
Carbon company and the Na- j
tional Lamp Works of the General i
Electric company. At that time mus- i
tarcl gas was the main goal, and,
electric power was required for the
electrodes. Moreover, expert knowl-1
edge about charcoal was required on
the defensive side of'the work, in;
devising gas masks and other protec-1
tive apparatus. For example, tests J
at Nela Park proved that cocoanut1
hulls were the best raw material for |
making absorbent charcoal, and so j
that material became the standard, j
The plant of the Great Lakes Refin- j
ing company in Cleveland was taken
over for mustard gas research, and
its personnel of 35 was increased to
175 officers and enlisted men. That
was a microscopic but typical example
of the methods adopted to meet
the greatest emergency in America's
military history.
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