The following table indicates the size of the pyrotechnic undertaking and also what was accomplished. All of this production came from the plants of the four companies which have been named. In addition to the fireworks themselves, accessories were produced by a number of other concerns. The Japan Paper Co., New York City, manufactured and imported from Japan approximately 3,000,000 paper parachutes. The Remington Arms Co., New Haven, Conn., built about 2,500,000 10-gauge signal-pistol cartridges, except for the stars they contained. The Empire Art Metal Co., College Point, N. Y., produced nearly 2,000,000 Very pistol cartridge cases. The Winchester Repeating Arms Co., Bridgeport, Conn., supplied nearly 5,000,000 primers for these cartridges. Rose Bros. & Co., Lancaster, Pa., produced 65,600 silk parachutes for Very cartridges. Cheney Bros., South Manchester, Conn.; D. G. Dery (Inc.), Allentown, Pa.; Stehli Silk Corporation, New York City; Sauquoit Silk Co., Philadelphia; Lewis Roessel & Co., Hazleton, Pa.; Schwarzenback-Huber Co., New York City; and the Duplane Silk Corporation, Hazleton, Pa., produced a total of 1,231,728 yards of silk for parachutes to float airplane flares. The parachutes themselves for the airplane flares, a total of 28,570 of them, were manufactured by the Duplane Silk Corporation; Folmer-Clogg Co., Lancaster, Pa.; and Jacob Gerhardt Co., Hazleton, Pa. The Edw. G. Budd Manufacturing Co., Philadelphia, built 41,020 metal cases for the airplane flares. --------------------------------+-----------+---------------+-------------- Articles. | Ordered. | Completed to | Completed to | | Nov. 8, 1918. | Feb. 1, 1919. --------------------------------+-----------+---------------+-------------- Signal rockets | 615,000 | 437,101 | 544,355 Position lights | 2,072,000 | 1,187,532 | 1,670,070 Rifle lights | 55,000 | 55,000 | 55,000 Signal lights | 3,110,000 | 2,661,008 | 2,710,268 V. B. cartridges | 1,215,000 | 110 000 | 673,200 Very cartridges, 25-millimeter | 300,000 | | Smoke torches | 500,000 | 31,000 | 188,102 Wing-tip flares | 112,000 | 70,000 | 100,865 Airplane flares | 50,083 | 2,100 | 8,000 --------------------------------+-----------+---------------+-------------- We also contracted for the production of many thousands of Very signal pistols. Before the original program was canceled the Remington Arms Co. had produced 24,460 of the 10-gauge pistols in contracts calling for a total output of 35,000.