The Iron Age 1880-06-10: Vol 25 Iss 24

ead (| The Iron Age A Review of the Hardware, Iron and Metal Trades. Published every Thursday Morning by DAVID WILLIAMS, No. 83 Reade Street, New York, Entered at the Post Office, New York, as Second-Class Matter. 1er a SS mamas SS anes al ] ol. may No. 24. New Vork, Thursday, Sune IO, ISSo. 84.50 a Year, Including Tostage, LTY. (IVES lass. ‘HT, ughness ast iron 8, Dies, <« Shafts eriority DS AND e. Iphia. A WWW ~ ONING @AW J wal el il ll re Ni The “Economic” Feed Pump. In the accompanying illustration we show a power feed pump of recent design, which will in many localities be found highly ser- viceable for supplying boilers with water. Mr. J. B. Davis, of Hartford, Conn., who is the manufacturer of this pump, has been careful to secure quiet and regular action by making it double acting. As will be seen, | it isa geared plunger pump, which possesses, in common with all power pumps, the ad- vantage of working more economically than steam pumps or injectors. Mr. Davis has adopted every means to render the action of the pump regular and reliable, and has striven, by making the parts subject to wear vasily accessible, to render repairs simple and easily carried out. a The Lay Torpedo. Accounts of the working of torpedoes are so frequently placed before the public, that all are in a general way familiar with their wonderful performances and the rapid ad vance made within the last few years. The letails of their construction are, as a rule, iowever, meager and unsatisfactory, and it is with a view of enabling our readers to form a more accurate idea of the parts of these modern weapons of naval warfare, that we present illustrations of the celebrated Lay torpedy, for which we are indebted to the Engineer. The inventor of this, one of the most successful recent types, is Mr. John Lay, an American engineer. ‘This torpedo is not unlike the fish torpedo in certain re- spects, but differs altogether from it in the circumstance that whereas the fish, when launched, ceases to be under control, the Lay torpedo is started and maneuvered at will from the shore or from the ship launch- ing it. In the inventor’s words: ‘‘ The in- vention is designed to provide the means whereby a torpedo boat may be propelled by machinery contained therein, and at the same time may be kept fully under the con- | trol or management of an operator or staff of operators at a station on land or on board a ship or other vessel or structure. After | being launched from such station, vessel or structure, the torpedo boat may be kept un- der observation and accurately guided or directed to an ironclad ship or other object of attack, and may be fired or discharged at any desired moment, or may be caused to return to its station without being fired.” The boat is illustrated by Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4} and 5. A is’the hull, which has coni cal ends, and is formed of thin plate iron or | steel. This hull is divided into sections, or | compartments. The part or section A,, in | one end, forms the magazine containing the charge of dynamite or other explosive ma- | terial; another compartment, A;, contains the gas reservoir, or holder; a third, A,, contains the apparatus for holding and pay- | ing out the cable. The upper compartment | contains the engine, the steering apparatus shown at F, Figs. 1, 2 and 3. In the boat to set the wings H vertically to any desired | These shafts O are provided at inner ends shown in Fig. 3 the engine is operated by , angle—that is to say, they may be set to | with cranks O', which are connected by rods the expansive force of carbonic-acid gas, while in the boat shown in Figs. 1 and 2 it occupy a horizontal position, or a more or| 0? to the pistons of cylinders P. These less inclined position, in the proper direction | cylinders are supplied with the ammoniacal is driven by ammoniacal gas. The connec-| to cause the submerging of the boat by the! or other gas whose entrance and exhaust tion of the engine with the two propeller! action of the water on the wings as the boat | are effected and controlled by suitable | shafts is effected by two sets of bevel gear ing, 4, 5, 6, or by other suitable means, va- rious arrangements being shown by the let ters E and D and the numerals I to 5. The boat is provided with a double set of side wings or horizontal rudders H, two for- a ** BCONOMIC ” moves forward. This screw L is operated from the outside of the boat by a key or wrench applied to the end of the screw L; these side wings or rudders are adjusted to the required angle for causing the necessary submergence or partial submergence of the and other parts ; all of these compartments | ward and two aft ; these side wings or rud-| boat before starting or leaving the station. means, so that they can be brought into view when required. The medium of communication between the torpedo boat and the land or other sta- tion occupied by the operator, and whereby the boat is started, stopped, steered, fired, | and has her position ascertained, is an ele Single Copies, Ten Cents. or on board of the ship or other structure from which the torpedo boats are controlled. This key-board is provided with a suitable battery or other means for generating the electric current. The cable is composed of several wires, each of which is insulated from the others. One of these wires is con nected with the mechanism for starting and stopping the boat; one is connected with the steering apparatus ; one serves for in- dicating to the operator at all times the ex act position of the rudder; one is connected with mechanism for elevating and depres sing the guide rods, and serves for firing the charge in the magazine. The motive power for effecting the necessary movements of the mechanism or apparatus in performing the above operations is obtained from the engines, which are provided with suitable valves, arranged in combination with elec- | tro-magnets, shunts and devices connected | with the wires of the cable. The rudder is operated and controlled by means of a small auxiliary engine shown at 7 Figs. 1 and 2, which is started, stopped, and reversed by the electric current con- ducted through the cable, in connection with magnets attached directly to a valve form ing part of the engine. This valve is so ac- tuated by the magnets that when the cur- rent passes in one direction the engine will move the rudder to starboard, and when the current acts in the opposite direction it will turn the rudder to port. The steering apparatus is shown in Figs. rand 2. In these the boat is provided with a double rudder, or two rudders, one below and one above the boat, and both fixed to one shaft or stock, or two shafts united by a yoke through which the propeller shaft passes. On the rudder stock is an arc U’, which is connected by worm or bevel gear- ing T, with the engine shafts. This are is provided with metallic pins on its underside, and below this are and in path of the same is arranged a spring; when the rudders move, these teeth or points come in contact with the spring, thereby closing the electric circuit. On both sides of the rudder stock is arranged a spring or arm U,, which in its normal position rests against a contact point, and these arms thereby complete the electric circuit But this circuit is also completed through a resistance coil. When the rudders U are hard-a-port or hard-a starboard, the end of the are, which is fur- nished with insulating points, will be brought into contact with the corresponding spring, and will push the same out of contact with the said point or post, and can then move no further in that direction. The current passing from the spring to the floor is made to indicate the position of the rudder by the index on the key-board, by a set of magnets which have a vibrat ing armature pivoted to oscillate between them. One end of the armature lever is provided with insulated spring pawls which take into ratchet wheels. On the same shafts on which these ratchet wheels are fixed are wheels formed with insulated | teeth, and geared with each other, The — —f\—--= _—: [Eanunsmyeiiomsns =F a oO if j 7 | | — OQ? s21 ¢ All | a — =} = a aS Wh Les yo e es -« 4» a PE PL IL Pade. xy : a ony” (— s ) e - e R a _ - 4 Y h > P A q 3 c= = = n R ! y & a te se = oe FA \e —_ pF ~s w a: «CO - ww s _ a g & Ba ~ 5 Y -z Qo 2 Fig. 3. THE LAY TORPEDO. are separated from each other by air-tight | ders are mounted on shafts or spindles I, | Two guide-rods N, one aft and one forward, | tric cable, Q, which is carried in the boat in| shaft of one of these wheels is geared by bulkheads, As. The boat may be provided | passing transversely through the boat, as | project up from the vessel to enable the/a coil arranged longitudinally in the air- | bevel pinions with a vertical shaft, to which With a single-screw propeller, with a double | shown in Fig. 4. Attached to the shafts | operator to determine its position at any |tightchamber in the reel frame R, and is|/is attached an index needle or finger rew or two screws. The propellers B C | are crank arms J, which have slots for the part of its journey, and in case of a nigut |! payed out as the boat progresses through a| Therefore it wil be obvious that this ind revolve in opposite directions; the shaft D | reception of the ends of the crosshead K. attack these rods are provided with lights ; | tube S, projecting aft under the boat and|finger is placed in connection with t of the propeller B is hollow, or tubular, and | The boss of this crosshead forms a nut, | the rods can be raised or lowered at the will beyond the rudder and propellers, so that | spring and series of pins attached t the shaft E of the other propeller C passes | through which passes the vertical screw L, | of the operator. The rods are attavhed to the cable will not be caught in or fouled by! rudder voke on board the boat Now, it through the same; the said screws or |and by turning this screw to the right or | the outer ends of shafts or spindles O, which | the same. One end of this cable is con-| will be obvious that when the rudder is Propellers B C are actuated by an engine | left the crosshead K and shafts Lare adjusted | pass through water-tight sleeves or tubes, ' nected te a key-board at the station on shore ‘ turned in either direction, these pins will . a “> SESE te ce EP eee - — ae ——— 3 THE IRON AGE: June 10, 1880, fActals. CaAive, ete. - -saetals. — oi N so N i A The Plume & Atwood PHILIP L. MOEN, President and Treasurer. CHAS. F. WASHBURN, Vice President &Secretary, BRASS & COPPER CO., Site. Gaiinans, WASHBURN és MOEN / MANUFACTURING. Co, No. 19 Cliff Street, Phelps Building, NEW YORK. MANUFACTURERS OF BRASS AND COPPER IN Sheets, Bolts, Rods, Wire, &c. Seamless Brass & Copper Tubing. Ansonia Corrugated Stove Platforms. PURE COPPER WIRE For Electrical Purposes, Bare and Covered. Phosphor Bronze Rods for Pumps, &c. ANSONIA * REFINED INCOT COPPER. PHELPS, DODGE & CO, SHEET and ROLL BRASS and WIRE, German Silver and Gilding Metal, Copper Rivets and Burs, Kerosene Burners, Lamp Trimmings, &c.|/§ Waterbury Brass Co. CAPITAL, - - $400,000. Sheet, Roll and Platers’ Brass, CERMAN SILVER, Copper, Brass and German Silver Wire, BRASS AND COPPER TUBING, COPPER RIVETS & BURS, BRASS KETTLES, Door Rail, Brass Tags, PERCUSSION CAPS, POWDER FLASES, Metallic Eyelets, Shot Pouches, Tape Measures, &e. And small Brass Wares of every Description. Cartridge Metal in Sheets or Shells a Spec ialty. Sole Agents for the Capewell Mfg. Co.’s Line of Sport- ing Goods and Wood’s Paper Shot Shells. 80 Chambers Street, New York. 13 Federal Street, Boston. 109 Lake Street, Chicago. Rolling Mill, | Factories, THOMASTON, Ct.| WATERBURY, Ct. MANUFACTURERS OF IRON and STEEL. WIRE, Patent Steel Barb Fencing, Patent Steel Wire Bale Ties. WIRE RODS of all Grades; Round Iron, Rivet qualit a to 3 In., cut to any length. Owners and ex sive Operators of the PATENT ( CONTINUOUS I 5 KO LLIN Mit. Ie producing Iron and Steel WIRE’ iy coils of 100 pounds, without sza™ or alva od rele raph Market and Stone Wire Annealed Fence and Grape Wire in long lengths ; C: Saeee P al Bail Wire ; sons, bridge, esol, Screw, Rivet, Buck, @ and Chain Wire. aoe, > or the manufacture of ‘Card Clothing, Heddles, Ree o-string Covering Wire Tinned Broom Wire and Tinned- — d Wire of all sizes. A specialty is made j Clock. Plano hinery, Gun Screw and Bridgeport Brass Co., MANUFACTURERS OF IMPORTERS OF t ) d Refine ) 0 TIN PLATE, DEPOTS: mis At | Sheet and Roll Brass, gpiral soring Wire, and tefned Auingaled, Height, Polished: oppereds alvanteed or Mis Pate Wise Ret 296 Broadway, New York, WATERBURY, B & C Wi & T bi on a ang Cut So say length. Seeel Cr irineline yi re, eonens enen Sais. Darivaled Steel Music . ‘ re. ee eto pri edies c rils ar ee re Kept in stoc ROOFING PLAT E, 189 Eddy St., Providence, R. |. Conn. rass opper ire u Ingy) WAREHOUSE, 21 Clif Street, New York. St. Louls Warehouse , 802 ? North p= St, einstein ES . ’ Chicago Warehouse, 107 Lake St, Sheet Iron, Copper, Pig Tin, Wire, German Silver Metal and Wire, : SZese NATIONAL WIRE AND LANTERN W Zinc, &c. Manhattan Brass Co,, Copper and Iron Rivets. setes Warehouse, 45 Fulton St., ORKS, MANUFACTURERS OF Manufacturers of is OILERS and CUSPADORES, | LAMPS and TRIMMINGS, | £7 "= HOWARD & MO R s Ss, COPPER AND BRASS. |stes tise | Seer Pccsrohicm’™* | ures aa rans, | xenosene suens, | 2583 ee + | Copper Wire, Broughton Patent Oilers, | Ciocks & Fly Fan Movements, | PLUMBERS’ MATERIALS. | 53 25 Brass, Copper & Iron Wire Cloth, CLIFF STREET NEW YORK. essen Barett ee ore, Particular attention paid to cutting out Blanks and aes a Locomotive Spark Wire Cloth, Iron Wire Bolting Cloth, ’ Zine en Hurricane Lanterns, manufacturing Metal Goods. te os Ship & Rattroad Lanterns, Signal Lights, Conductors’ MANUFACTORY, WAREHOUSE, soko Lanterns, Adjustable Globe Hand Lantern, Desk Brown’s Patent Picture Hooks, Fire Sets, Fenders, &c. BRASS BLANKS AND TUBES OF EVERY DESCRIPTION TO ORDER. OFFICE AND WORKS, lst Ave., 27th to 28th Sts., New York, THE NEW HAVEN and — Railing, Riddles, Coal and Sand Screens, = Nursery Fenders and Spark Guards, nay Comments Wire Fence, mat th Conn. 19 Murray St., N. ¥. Harrison Wire Company, 8ST. LOUIS, MO. SCOVILL MFC CO BRASS, HINCES, WIRE, CERMAN SILVER. PHOTOGRAPHIC GOODS, BUTTONS, ‘T BE BLOWN OUT. to x Tuos, W. Frreu, Cuas. Fisu, Prest. and Treas, Secretary. MANUFACTURERS OF All kinds of Star Lantern. This Lantern is known as CLOTH AND METAL. — COPPER CO. DEPOTS, FACT ORIES, 9 . ‘itOcennese, Bit’ Now RagGom,| 255 Pearl Street, New Vork. | [RON & STEEL WIRE : 183 Lake St. Chicago. New York City. Manufacturers of and Dealers in ome . DICKERSON, VAN DUSEN & CO., Braziers’ & Sheathing] wire nail specialties. } | : importer The Best Burning Kerosene Ou Lantern in the Market for the Money. H. & M. Star Lantern, with Candle Socket, Sperm and Kerosene Oil Burners. Holmes, Booth & Haydens, WATERBURY, CONN. COPPER. Tin Plate, Pig Tin, Sheet Iron, Cooper, Wire, Zinc, Etc. . ‘ 5 DICKERSON & CO., Liverpool. § NEW wWorK.| Ingot Copper, Spelter, Solder, &c. | 49 cnambers st. 28 Wederal St. . : peepee New ork Office Incorporated 1876. Manufacturers of all kinds of nieiniina Warehouse ’ Established 1837. WATERBURY MFC. CO., WATERBURY, CONN. BRASS GOODS. A. C. NORTHROP, Waterbury, Conn., NOVELTIES IN BRASS AND OTHER METAL GOODS FOR HARDWARE TRADE. Brass, Copper & German Silver, ROLLED AND IN SHEETS. BRASS & COPPER WIRE, Tubing, Copper Rivets & Burs. BRASS & IRON JACK CHAIN, DOOR RAIL. German Silver Spoons, SILVER PLATED FORKS & SPOONS, Kerosene Burners, &c. JOHN DAVOL & SONS, ts for Brooklyn eae ye Copper Co., Dealers in N. J. i117 Liberty Street THE JOHN A, ROEBLING'S SONS CO, MANUFACTURERS OF WIRE ROPE qvanzeo |Lron and Steel lron, Steel and Copper Telegraph Wire, WIRE Hoisting Purposes of all Market Wire, kinds, for Ferries, Stays, Market Wire, Fence Wire Ship Rigging, Sash Cords i i Bridge Wire, Chain Wire Lightning Rods, &c., &e. , Vineyard Wire. Buckle Wire, Spring Wire, Suspension Bridge Cables. Rivet Wire, &c., &c. GALVANIZED WIRE CLOTHES LINES. _ IRON AND STEEL WIRE ROPE For Hoisting, Running & Standing Ropes, Ferries, &. CONSTANTLY KEPT ON HAND. Address, HAZARD MFG. CO., Wilkesbarre, Luzerne Co., Pa. ¢ MOULDING SAND. Albany Sand a Specialty. FOUNDRY FACINGS, Shovels, Riddles, Brushes, d&c. WHITEHEAD BROS, WM. WHITEHEAD, Treas., 517 W. 15th St. _ AMERICAN FACING CO. New York: Wrought Iron and Brass Machine Screws; Turned, Hexagon, Round and Square Head Cap and Set Screws; Brass and Iron Safety ana Jack Chain; Gilt, Nickel Plated and Bronze Trimmings of all Ingot Copper Spelter Lead, Tin 4 5 ’ kinds, from Sheet Iron, Steel or Antimony, Solder & Old Metals, rass. Estimates on patented articles, or any description of Sheet Metal work, respectfully solicited and promptly given, jn 100 John Street. MN. Ye N.Y. ABRAM 8, HEWITT, President. JAMES HALL, Treasurer. WM. HEWITT, Vice President. E. HANSON, Secretary. TRENTON IRON COMPANY, (INCORPORATED 1847), TRENTON, NEW JERSEY, MANUFACTURERS OF IRON and STEELWIRE OF ALL CRADES, BRIGHT, ANNEALED, COPPERED, TINNED AND GALVANIZED; Iron and Steel Wire Rods; EXTRA QUALITIES OF BAR IRON AND RODS. Best Qualities of Gun- Screw and Charcoal !ron Wire; Crucible, Siemens-Martin and Bessemer Steel Wire. Wire Straightened and Cut to Lengths, _ Ropresented in New York by ‘COOPER, HEWITT & CO. +, 17 Burling Slip. BRODERICK & BASCOM, IRON % WIRE ROPE PASSAIC ZINC CO. Manufacturers of Pure Spelter Cartridge Brass, Gas Fixtures, Bronzes AND ALL FINE WORK. Also for Galvanizers & Brass Founders. MANNING & SQUIER, Gen'l Agents 113 Liberty Street, N. Y. Geo. W. Prentiss & Co, HOLYOKE, MASS., MANUFACTURERS OF {FIRE SAND AND al THE BEST IN THE WORLD. Hall's Patent Compound aa Cuiting Nippers. Every Pair Warranted to Cut Steel Wire. Worn or damaged partscan be replaced at a trifling cost. Manufactured entirely of steel by THE INTERCHANGEABLE TOOL COMPANY, ™ A. GUSTAM, General Agent, 32 Howard St., N- Send for Price List J. WOOL GRISWOLD, panel WIRE RAILING Bright “Co ered Annealed and Tin "Piated. Also GUN SCREW WIRE. Of al) ages straightened and cnt tn orser ‘The Schoenberg Metal Mfg. Co., Manufacturers of and Dealers in Manufacturer of SOLDER. TYPE, ea ‘Ornamental Wire Works: WwW ITER EE North Howard. St, Baltimore: i Baltime 800 N. Main St. Stereotype, Blectretype a mamntss Beonate, 9 Mé =o ae ‘+ Lt apy eet Bale? ) Importers of Bl ay me ants ae fe. Re edners 4 ae — Sieves, Fenders, Cages, SaB and, « val ’ velter, &C ighe id etals 8s, &c. b § ads, Che i ati kinds of Dross 5 as and 340. Kast 20th " 4 y r Screens, ' Woven Wire, Iron Bedste’ eent between Avenues A & L, New TROY , N. ¥ e Beltecs, "ke, S. H, Shipping No. 29 Goods the work furnished of merch lo ata sa Ent res a York effe fr ‘ight co Suarantee destinatio Solicited, IRON Suce at anti “ d A gener Alls i nade pror W. E.c 8S W. IN ¥ P, HO MOSES METS And Rs Deala Tin Pig 10, 1880, rere ne $$$ $$ $$$$—_—_____ Secretary. G CO, whers and exclu Steel WIRE, in -and Stone Wire, aw, Rivet, Buckle g Covering Wire y, Gun Screw ap of Norway Iron, Wire furnished, pd Steel Music North 2d St, sake St, 1 WORKS, ¢ SE, ‘e Cloth, Bolting Cloth, , Conductors’ intern, Desk Sand Screens, park Guards, pe. This Lantern is known as the H. & M. Star Lantern. York Office rrehouse berty Street 0,, d Steel RE Fence Wire Chain Wire, Spring Wire, bog KC ES. PE rries, &. ND, ly. GS, dic. . Treas., Vy, 15th St. New york. ————— Nippers. ured entirely of >AN Y> ¥ ward St., N- ** SAILING iD e Works: 1O- imore- Balt paleo Les Cemeteries, ogi » Sand ane 3 cdsteads Che —____Weiinvite correspondence. = R. SELLEW & CO.| June 10, 1880. THE IRON AG | CARYWT & MOEN, Manufacturers of STEEL WIRE for all purposes and STEEL SPRINCS of every descrip a aK = — TT HD 0. LINDEMANN & (C0., NG) Patentees and Sole Manufacturers of Spring Brackets for Bird Cages, | And manufacturers of the largest variety of Mel VOL ELL ERLE LLLAAAL A SL VIVA AAAS japanned, Brass and Yin-Plated Bird Cages in this Country. | Catalogues furnished to the trade. 254 Pearl Street, New York. WUD ILLLELLELMELLLLIGEGA Market Steel Wire, Crinoline Wire, tempered and covered. Also Patent Tempered Steel Furniture Springs, constantly on hand. | 934, 236 and 238 West 29th Street, - - - - - “YALE” YALE LOCK MFC. CO. AND Office and Works, STAMFORD, CONN, sé 33 SALES MS, ot T A N D A R D o3 bite Me Mee York. LOCKS. 36 Pearl St., Boston. BROWN & BROTHERS, {Stanley Rule & Level Co, <2 506 Commerce St., Philadelphia. FACTORIES, MANUFACTURERS OF 81 Chambers St., N. Y. Waterbury, Conn. | Manufacturers of WAREROOMS, 29 Chambers St., New York, Improved BRASS, COPPER AND Carpenters’ Manufacturers of Bailey’s Patent Adjustable Planes. ’ | General Agents for the sale of Leonard Bailey & Co.'s ** Victor Planes, j Manufacturers of ** Defiance®? Patent Adjustable Planes, This Advertisement is Changed Every Week. In Sheets, Rolls, Rods, Wire, Tubing, Rivets and Burs, Ete. D. G. GAUTIER Chairman. CHAS, DOUGLASS, Gen’! Supt. ALSO, D. J. MORRELL, Treasurer. Seamless Brass & Copper Tubing. | Cc A U Ti E R ST E EI Cc PATENTED SEAMLESS BRASS AND ae ( Dus OUSE tRS, warranted to stand 200 Ibs. ane pe weet ome vacuum, LIMITEI i PATENTED SPRING TEMPERED SHANK, SILVEK-PLATED, FLAT TABLE WARE, in rich | “aa R R S P R | N GERMAN SILVER SPOONS AND FORKS. | ° d os ; ( , , ‘ POPE.COI 7 “te POPE,COLE & Co. me f COPPER WORKS, No, 57 South Gay St., BALTIMORE, MD., Have always on hand and for sale ALSO ALL GRADES OF csscomaem-eme= STEEL WIRE AND Also Cakes, of unequa purity and toughness. , SPRINGS. Wrought Iron Fence, Our specialty. Also EASTERN WAREHOUSE, { WORKS, ) PHILA, WAREHOUSE, crestings, Finials and} 93 John St, N.Y.) JOHNSTOWN, PA. S 505 Commerce St. Hitching Posts, Door | c Pee Pesca nama - S = and Window Guards, | Wrought Iron Grat- ings, &c. Address 2 CLEVELAND WROUGHT | IRON FENCE WORKS, J, H. VAN DORN, | Proprietor, Mine and Works at Martin’s Station, Virginia, Equal to the Best Spelter known. CLEVELAND, atl weeueuT 'eON, CUCEKE caress», LUCIUS HART & €O., - - Sole Agents. et Ese —— hous healed Nos. 8 & 16 Burling Slip, New York. s, H, PAYNE, Freight Broker, | [See advertisement in The Iron Age of June 3, 1880, | a = Shipping, Insurance, Custom House & Forwarding Agent, WIHIKEKILER & MEL I CK CO No. 29 PECK SLIP, NEW YORK, U.S, A. | ALBANY, NEW YORK. U.S.A ia ’ , . . “9 Goods received for re-shipment to all parts of | Manufacturers of the world. manganese omemed. a of Lading urnished, 1 's relative to Exportation | Fea eet ionic IMPROVED FARM _AND MACHINERY. lo ata saving in Freight and Terminal charges, Entries of Goods made and all Custom House work effectually done. Claims for overcharges of i. freight collected free of charge. Rates of freight | =e ogee guaranteed (when desired) from starting point to ‘ . , “‘~|_7 ale 7 _ destination, covering all charges. Correspondence | Ww I iL iL i A NE ‘ O G Ie L as Solicited. Manufacturer of Plain and Stamped THE MONTOUR: _ |TINWARE, SEAMLESS BOXES, ROUND, OVAL AND SQUARE CANS. IRON & STEEL COMPANY. Special Articles Manufactured of Sheet Metals. 41,43 & 45 South 9th Street, Near the Ferries, BROOKLYN (E. D.), N. ¥. Successors to Messrs. Waterman & Co., = Works at Danvile, Pa, IT { PIG IRON Ol ll, And all sizes of T and Street Rails. “ \ general assortment of Mine and Narrow-Gauge “ils kept on hand, from which shipments can be ‘hade promptly, W. E. C. COXE, President, Reading, Pa. | & W. INGERSOLL, Treas., Philadelphia, Pa. | ¥. P, HOWE, General Supt., Danville, Pa. LOUIS H. VOGEL. —— | MOSES GOLDSMITH & SON, Key Bow 156, | } Registers, &c. CITARLESTON, S. C. Wholesale dealers in METALS, IRON, RAGS, And all kinds of Paper Stock, We invite correspondence. Established 1810, Ny, & Gi, O,, PHILADELPHIA, ODD AND REGULAR SIZES TIN & ROOFING PLATES Manufacturers, Importers and Dealers in Dealer in METALS, | Tin Plate, Sheet Iron, Copper, &c. SAINT LOUIS. tion. | the circuit will be made and broken, and an ton. New Britain, Conn. E. 3 come successively in contact with the said into at a high rate for old iron, the fall in spring, and at each contact and separation the price involving a loss of about $15 per impulse will be transmitted through the a cable, whereby a corresponding movement The English Wood Screw Business will be transmitted to the said index finger os Ee or pointer on the key-board. The mechan- A correspondent of the /ronmonger, writ- ism for firing the charge in the magazine is ing from Birmingham, says of the trade in most clearly shown in Fig. 5, and operates iron and steel wood screws : as follows: Projecting from the front ex- Up to the close of the March quarter, busi- tremity or stem of the boat is a rodor pin V, ness in this branch was more satisfactory which extends through a suitable packing than had been the case for many years past box W into the magazine or charge chamber ; The enormous producing power of the mills when the boat strikes an object, the rod is of Nettlefolds and the Birmingham Screw forced inward into contact with the springs Company were taxed to the utmost to over- or point X, thereby closing an electrical cir- take the large orders poured in during the cuit and igniting a cartridge, shown at Y,in first two months of the year, and a joint the magazine, The charge in the magazine output of sume 300,000 gross weekly proved can also be fired at any moment by the insufficient to keep pace with the demand | operator on shore closing a circuit on the Since the beginning of April, however there key-board, and thereby cutting out one of has been a decided slacking of the orders, NEW YorK, | ‘¥° Fesistance coils placed in the circuit to more especially on home account. The fall- prevent accidental or premature discharge ; ing off is not so marked in the export de- that is to say, there are two resistance coils. | partment, and trade may be reported fairly — ik yng ee eee to | good still with Canada, Australia, and the ‘ asis : s at the leading markets of South America. It is same time. When the boat strikes an/| true that English screws have advanced in object, the resistance coil in the magazine is price since the beginning of the year by 40 cut out by the driving inward of the rod V, per cent., the present discount on iron wood as above described ; the battery then fires | screws being 65 per cent., while American through the one on the key-board. On the | screws have lately been reduced, owing to other hand, if the operator desires to fire the | some disagreement among the makers ; but torpedo boat before she touches the object | the net price of American screws is still Csr eene . "tm men et - ~ T'S Oe were omen ees ae : Qe Soy Vv SSS aon \ eatin. . Pa actin alee ee << SS SSS The Lay Torpedo.—Fig. 5§.—Firing Attachment, of attack, he manipulates the switch to cut | something like 50 per cent. higher than that out the coil in the key-board, the charge then | of Nettlefolds, and but for the high protec- being fired through the coil in the magazine. | tive tariff of the United States, which, with This arrangement of the two resistance | freight and middle charges added, imposes a coils is very effectual in preventing acci- | burden of something like oo or 100 per cent. dents. }ad valorem upon English Screws, the latter Many other and ingenious devices are em- | might be profitably sent into all parts of the ployed by the inventor to secure certain ob-| Union. Even as it is, English screws of the jects which could not be rendered intelligible | smaller sizes flnd a ready market in the without many drawings to a large scale. | United States, though the price at which We have said enough to give a very clear they are retailed there must be nearly double idea of the characteristics of this complex the English manufacturer’s price. The machine. The experiments made by the American makers themselves are profiting Russian government with the Lay torpedo by this circumstance to buy the screws of have been productive of such satisfactory their English competitors, and among the results as to enable the inventor to dispose largest orders booked by Nettlefolds this of his Russian patent. The Russian govern-| year, orders extending in some cases to as ment, in addition to the purchase money, | many as 100,000 gross, or nearly 15,000,000 has subsidized Colonel Lay to erect works in| screws in a line, have been those received Russia for the manufacture of his invention, | from the United States makers, intended the necessary plant, machinery and skilled | either for the satisfaction of domestic wants labor having been imported from the United | or for the supply of the Canadian market. States. At these works operations have al | Next to Canada and the United States, the ready commenced, and ten _ electrically | best markets for English screws of late have steered and governed torpedoes of large size | been those of the North of Europe, including and great power are in course of construc- | Russia, Sweden and Norway, whence some tion. very large orders, representing many mil On Tuesday, the 21st of October last, some | lions of screws, were received just prior to night experiments were made at Antwerp in| the last advance. In Germany the growth the river Scheldt with a Lay torpedo 23 feet | of manufacturing competition, fostered by a long, worked by engines of g indicated horse- | protective tariff, operates adversely to the power. The speed of this torpedo is only g | interests of the English screw trade, though miles an hour, but those in course of con-| Nettlefolds’ make and that of the Manches struction for the Russian government are to| ter Steel Screw Company still command a have a minimum velocity of 14 knots an/ sale in Germany for special purposes. The hour. In the Scheldt the barges, forming | French and Italian markets are in a similar the target, and containing a distinguished | way monopolized to a great extent by the party of English, Belgian, French, Russian, | screws of Jappy Fréres. The amalgamation Dutch, Italian, Austrian, Prussian, Danish | in the English screw trade, which has now and Swedish, as also American officers, | been for some months an accomplished fact, were placed at a distance of 3000 meters | though the separate concerns have been re from the operator, Lieut. Barrett, U. S. N., | ceiving the benefit of the superintendence of on whom the duty devolved of steering the | their former owners, is generally approved torpedo by means of hooded lights across the | of by merchants and factors as tending to current, between the barges, placed 20 feet | give stability to trade by averting the fluc apart, and back. The party on board the | tuations of price inseparable from keen com barges never saw the torpedo approach, and | petition. were taken by surprise on its dashing past them. So successful were the experiments M. Leon Say tells his countrymen that the deemed to be that the Belgian government | chances for the extension of the commercial ordered them to be repeated at the forts on | reciprocity treaty with Great Britain are their frontier below Antwerp. We recently | excellent. This is a very different stury to mentioned the fact that one of the Lay tor- | that reported the other day, and the chances pedoes had sunk while being experimented |are that M. Say is being deceived by the with at Newport, U. S. A. It appears, | flattering tale of hope. He probably derives however, that this torpedo was under re-/his cheerfulness from the fact that Mr pairs at the time of its being launched by the | Gladstone is a pronounced free trader, but officers passing out of their torpedo course at | unless the Premier is unable to profit by the the American Naval Academy. Several lessons of experience, he will not consent rivets were wanting in some of the bottom | to extend the reciprocity treaty upon the mg plates, and the water, entering through the existing terms. It has proved a very one holes thus left open, naturally sank the boat, | sided affair, and the desire of France for its renewal is perfectly natural. ——____—_-<@> Reading’s Finances.—On the ist of June the receivers of the Reading Railroad M. de Lesseps has figured down the struc Company began the payment of the semi- tural statistics of his proposed Panama annual interest on the consolidated mort- | Canal to the finest possible point. Its con gage 7 per cent. loan. The payments were | struction will occupy just six years, and made in money, no checks being given in| will give employment to exactly 8000 work consequence of their requiring the signa-|men during that period, whose labor and tures of the three receivers. It has been | maintenance will cost neither more nor less stated that the receivers have succeeded in than 512,000,000 francs. It is becoming obtaining the $1,000,000 which the court | painfully plain that much wrestling with recently authorized them to borrow. There | the canal problem has disturbed M. de Les appears a statement that one of the causes | seps’ mental equilibrium. Such contidence for the failure of the Reading companies was | as he displays cannot be explaisied on any the fact of a contract haying been entered | other hypothesis. = = . Saat: = hod. . pm s S. a, 7. Re. SPE an ~ eee Re — POOR (erry + 2 SS tee ee — ee er oo =e. 7 oo “se: ae 2 — e a ae ee SN SS oe vo + ae eae at ey - wer June 10, 1880, THE IRON AGE. Xron. 7 Kron. xron. von, 3 _xvoN. a — NEW YORK. NEW YORK. ____ PITTSBURGH. PITTSBURGH. in “Ww Y YORK. OGDEN & WALLACE, A. B. Warner & Son,| John W. Quincy, |W, D, W. D. WOOD & 60.S & C0’S) A. & HATRY, IRON & STEEL, 98 William Street, New York. : IRON MERGHANTS, Anthracite & Charcoal Pig Irons, CORRES Perepant, 85, 87,89 & 91 ELMST., N. ¥. Bar, Sheet, Tank, Boil pe Bonet s ar, eet, Tank, Boller, Angle T, MIDVALE STEEL WORKS, |? &22 Westand 52 Washineton Sts) supht trap, Out Nala, Conve, end-Mallrond trom. A full assortment constantly on hand of BOILER PLATE, BLOCK TIN, LEAD, SPELTER. ANTIMONY, NICKEL, &ec And Railroad Equipment. Cast, Machinery, Tool, Spring, Tire, Sleigh | Boller Tubes, Angle, Tee & Girder Iron, Nails & Spikes Steel & R, R, Supplies WINDOW GLASS, GAS PIPE & _— Shoe, Toe Calk, Plow and Blister Steel. Boller and Tank Rivets, whine HARRISON & GILLOON Orders solicited for Steet Forgings “and Castings. 6 Eureka, ” Pennocks, IRON AND METAL DEALERS, es Sit = 558, 560, 562 WATER ST., and 302, 804, 306 CHERRY ST., PIERSON & C0., “ Wawaseet, | LUKONS, | amy ctiannenmpec. «| Planished Sheet Iron. JUNIATA — Brands of Iron. Alsoall descriptions of Plate, Sheet, | geotch and American Pig Iro Wrought | Cast and d Gasometer Iron. Special attention to Locomotive | Machine Scrap Iron, Car-Wheels, Axles an eavy = : 7 Wro wt iron: "aieo ola Copper, Composition, Brass, Patented March 14th, 1865 ; April 8th, 1873 ; ince, _ Five Box been 0 pew: Lead. Pewter. Zinc, & Sept. 9th, 1873; Uct. 6th, 1874; Jam. 11, 1876. aoe ROME MERCHANT IRON MILLS, Guaranteed fully equal in all respects to the lron & Steel. ini ened ae te tabae of 0 X F 0 R D | R 0 N c 0. ’ IMPORTED RUSSIA IRON, MY Bar Iron, Bands and Fine Hoops. | (B. G. CLARKE, Receiver,) eee Fim ROADSTER COMMON & REFINED IRON, | ,{rls;0rsthaalora suchowes exact | hg AL PATTERN Hoops, Rods, Scrolls, Bands, Ovals, duced by hammer Orders may he pucito the Mill oF [e- U t N a j i] & y all the principal : « Moree Shoe, Nall Rods, — | Soca ttan ee oe seen oO sens METAL DEALERS In the Large cities throughout ee MARSHALL LEFFERTS, 90 Beekman St., New York City, SPIKES. THE UNITED STATES. And at their Office, MANUFACTURER AND DEALER, J. 8. SCRANTON, Sales Agent, | 1] Water Street, PITTSBURGH, PA. Galvanized Sheet Iron, © +2». wasn mr |The U.S. ton an Tn Plate C0, SNOW SHOES. Ist and 2d Qualities. - Manufacture to order Orders promptly filled from stock. “ABEEL BROTHERS, Iron Merchants, 190 South Street and 365 Water, N. Y. The only Snow Shoes in the market that abso- Galvanized hte Tele graph oe Pence: Gryvontees ae Hoop and Band Iron, Galvanized Rod an ar Lron Galvanized Nails, Galvanized Chain, Galvanized Iron 3 BEST REFINED CHARCOAL AND l utely prevent all balling and give universal! satis POLISHED SHEET IRON, faction. ULSTERIRON |* . é3 c l hand. CORRUGATED SH EET IRON Taggers Iron and Bessemer Steel Plate x Somes aon a ee For Roofing, &c., Galvanized, Plain or Painted. in quality and size to suit the wants ot consu : Improved Snow Shoe oe ; s ee ers. Also Best Charcoal Terne Plates in Special | dard Sizes. Horse-Shoe Iron, Best Charcoal, Best Refined and Common Sizes, from rox17 to 20x30 $6x7-16, 11-16x7- s a £6, 23-26xy-26, K7-16, an Se oe Sevell Eren SHEET IRON. s Addrees P.O. Box ant Pieter wawered. 15-16X%, 1X¥%, 1 1-16X%, 1 1-8X56, » - P . Plat a'r te ¥ Works at Demmler, Allegheny Co., Pa, STEEL TOE CALKS., mene tae Rods ate an an roms, Eastern Sales A ente: SHOENBERGER & C0 Wattepurah, ’ t Phil Norway Shapes, aa’, Be CR Ke 1 Flange, Best Flange, ELY & WILLIAMS, ts « John st oe oo ver § ston. P SS - a ortsmouth Iron and Steel Co, Cc __ Cam, t Spring and Tire Steel, ete. A. R. Whitney, Stamped and Guaranteed, Sealer All descriptions of Iron Work Galvanized or IRON and STEEL.. CAYLORD ROLLING MILL co., Tinned to order. Price list and quotations sent upon application. Old Rails, Wheels, Axles, Springs, Manufacturers of Scrap, Turnings, &c., Siemens-Martin (Open Hearth) W. BAILEY LANG, lron re ots tn" STEEL BOILER PLATE, PITTSBURGH. —_ —_ | Agricultural and Machinery Steel Manufacturer of and Dealer in ~~. A. von Bonnhorst. “RA. Wilson, and Steel Tire. Also, Homogeneous Iron Boiler Plate and Rivets, IRON, R. A. WILSON & CcoO., Merchant Bar, ae oa - Sheet Iron, Wrought 4s, 50 & 52 Thomas, ana| NEWYORK. L O W- vi O O R Boiler Riv els. PIG IRON, oe ee =e and works : 12, 14 & 16 Worth Sts. PORTSMOUTH, OFTO. Jar 8 salty is in ios Boe IRON COMPANY, BLOOMS AND ORE,| fous ee, Manufacturing Fron Used in the Con- Pres’t and Gen’l | Sup’ t. Sec’ y and Treas. struction of Fire-Proot Buildings, maa, Ot NO. 50 BEEKMAN sT., NEW yor«K. | Burden Iron Works, H. Burden & Sons, | __® Fourth ave., cor. Wood st., Pittsburgh. —— >lans and estimates furnished, and contracts made : a : JAMES WILLIAMSON & CO., Joha |. Willams. Henry M, Long, Nathan M, McDowell ‘Bonnell, Botsford g Co., for erecting Iron Structures of ever deseription. Books containing cuts of all Iron made sent on ap- SCOTCH AND AMERICAN hh N.Y. Keystone Rolling Mill PIG IRON,| ULSTER | ,, ‘) tron, Nails & Spikes, 3 Williams, Long & McDowell, tion by mail. ss Please address AND Manufacturers of —_— - : Agency of Gemple proces at office, 58 Hudson Street, No. 69 Wall St., New York. BURDEN’S N. M. HOGLUND’S SONS & CO., Stockholm. BORDEN & LOVELL, ission Merchants| —_*:°° : Commis ULSTER IRON WORKS, HB, & §, Bar Iron, | Merchant Bar and kelp tron, tig Norway Iron 70 & 71 West St, Wm, Borden, Pa Also Best Grades of : oe om ‘American & English Refined Iron Saag a Plakias Agents for the sale of Office, No. 87 Water Street, | Newton gents for the sale o GUSTAF LUNDBERG, ;3 Kilby st., Boston. Fall River Iron Co.’s Nails, Pittsburgh, Pa. Mill at Sono, Second Avenue. pALBERT POTTS, Philadelphia Agent, 234 & 236 . Bands, Hoops & Rods. AND Tuckerman, Mulligan & Co. EGLESTON BROS, & CO., wv. wees, | ERLE ZUG & CO., Borden Mining C any’s|} HOLLOW WAR : Oumhatiaal co and Broker in E, a. F. JUDSON, Pittsburgh, Pa., Pia tRO8: SCOTCH AND AMERICAN Sole Agent for Foxell, Jones & Co., manufacturers of 267 Front St., 5 NEW YORK CITY. WILLIAM H. WALLACE & CO., 78 Beekman Street, New Work City. Pa IRON MERCHANTS|Passaic Rolling Mill Co.,|~ ," & * 3 © 2>») Wheeler's Iron & Steel Combination Shafting ; ough a crap iron, Cor. Albany & Washington Sts, PATERSON, N. J. Under license of the Combination Trust Co., Philadelphia. NEW YORK CITY. aun 7 : Iron Bridge Builders 0 L D M E T A L S . This Shafting is superior to any now on the market, and the attention of machinists is Se bik Mailnned 2334 S rt +4 yioter Sos } >} ; NEW YORK. particularly called to it and a trial order solicite d. Prices furnished on application. Beams, Channels, Angles, ow. S. MIDDLETON, LV SReOe BERS IRON WORKS. IRKPATRICK & CO., TEs, BROKER AND BUYER OF I EF Oo INT Manufacturers of all grades of ’ s Merchant lron, Rc. &c. Railroad, Mining and Steamship Supplies, EINE SHriEET IRONS, (Refined, Cold Rolled, Show Card, Stamping, Tea Tray, Polished, Shovel.) BEB A. EX I Fr Oo IN, New York Office, Room 45, Astor House. Machinery, Hardware & Tools, TIN AND TERNE PLATES, made with Natural Gas as fuel 52 JOHN STREET, OFFICE, No, 116 Water St., Pittsburgh, Pa. WORKS, Leechburg, P® *lates, Spikes, &c. WATTS COOKE, President. c ' Fish Plz » SP ° Ww. O. FAY ERW EATHER, Treasurer. Room s. NEW YORK. —" 7 > ANDREW KLOMAN, sadres CARMICHAEL & EMM DANIEL W. RICHARDS & CO, 130-1814 ts4vesarmrevnew secu, Glengarnock and Carnbroe ree he importers of and Dealers in Scrap Iron and Metals, IR N A ON AND STEEL BOILER PLATE, SCOTCH PIG IRON, Steel and iron Structural Material 88 to 96 Mangin St., New York. | BOILER IRON ae 1 Burden Best’? | ©: AN], © SS Sole Agent In United States & Canada for YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO. 90 Broadway, New York. All sizes and shapes in stock Importer of and Dealer In Manufacturers of mu. H,. WALLACE. FLIZABETHPORT ROLLING MILL, Elizabethport, N. J., Common and Refined Agent for Otis’ celebrated Cast Steel Boiler Plates, | The Coatesville Iron Co, Pottst« Tron ; Me ' CORRUGATED AND CRIMPED IRON | Laurel Rolling Mills, "and nion Tube W irks; Wrought | For spot delivery and for prompt or forward : ROOFING & SIDING, HUGH W. ADAMS, shipments to New York, Boston, Philadelphia, ma Iron Buieings,, meofe DEALER IN | Baltimore or New Orleans, EYE BAR BLANK AS IT LEAVES THE ROLLS. es Skylights, aie oe “a FOREIGN AND AMERICAN For sale in lots to suit by MOSELEY IRON BRIDGE AND ROOF co. | RAILWAY, PIG AND SCRAP IRON, JAMES LEE & CO., a Estimates shed fo kinds o ro: yor 5 Dey Street, New York. timat O30 PINE pote is of Iron Work. Sole Agents for the United States, Houdlette & Ellis D. ec w NEW. ¥ 72 Pine Street, New York sae ae ~ e , OUadTLEe ¢ « 4 . ORK, . : roe Cw tork. Kloman Patent Sold Rolled Eye Bars, finished in Iron or Steel without welding or “upset wenutacturers of and Dealers iu Universal] Mill Plates of Iron or Steel. Steel Rails of all sizes and patterns, Splice Bars SPECIALTY—UnusuaJ shapes and sizes in Steel or Iron; Angles, Tees and other structural shape ny UM BA | N, a gron or Steel. — Hon \ogeneous Steel and iron Boiler Plates. DANIEL Fr. COONEY, | co d Tank Iron viler, Tank and Safe os Pp (j Late of amd Successor %: Jas. Hi. 2 P&C RBG : Ot Pressed Nuts, Bolts, Washers, &c. SS Waste atow st) §. Ho Boyntes BOILER PLATES and SHEET IRON, | © st Lap-Welded Iron B Tub | : Wr ut I n irder, Deck and ( annel Be ams Angle, T and Grooved Lron cease Son FULLER BROTHERS & CO.,| acne ee ern / i ae Boiler Rivets, Angle & y iron, Cut Ne ils & Spike s, BE enemy ny | 139 G h I Agohey for Pottstown [ron Co., Viaduct Iron Works r 3 q ebanon Rolling Mills, Pine. Iron W L. 1 19 to 31 Batierymarch Street, Boston. eenwich Street, New York. Works, The Bergen Rollipy Mills, at Jersey City. tan lard i abbitt Me JOWALL 8 SF, NX 7 NX. Gen = ; MANUFACTURERS’ FOUNDRY Cinniira 10, 1880. ‘chant, Angle, T, Me pment. R. Supplies, & BORAX. 1arket that abso- re universal satis e Shapes. -16, 44X7-16, 4x} 1 18x. CALK Ss, Pittsburgh, ' Pa, } Steel Co, MILL CO., of 1 Hearth) | PLATE, hinery Steel re. ' Plate and Rivets, et Iron, Wrought cS: I, OHIO. GEO. 8S. LEWIS Sec’y and Treas, rd & Co. June 10, 1 880. Xyon. PHILADELPHIA. HENRY LEVIS & CO., Manufacturers’ Agents For Iron and Steel Rails, Car Wheels, Boiler and f A § FUR N A CE « Sheet Iron and General Railway RICHMOND & POTTS, Old Rails, Axles, Fay Secale Vheels bought and sold, PHILADELPHIA, PA. | 234 8. 4th St., Philadelphia, — 119 8. Fourth St. oa eS Ee _ a —— - —__— Cambria | d Steel Work The Gambria iron an OFKS, Having enjoyed for over TWENTY YEARS the reputation of producing the best quality ef RAILS, have now an annual capacity of 100,000 Tons of Iron and Steel Rails, Splice Bars, &c. ADDRESS, CAMBRIA IRON COMPANY, No, 218 South 4th Strect, Philadelphia. Or at the Works, JOHNSTOWN, PA. Or LENOX SMITH, New York Selling Agent, 46 Pine St., N. ¥. THE PHCENIX IRON CO.. 410 Walnut Street, PHILADELPHIA. Manufacturers of Wrought Iron Beams, Deck Beams, Channels, Angle & Tee Bars, STRAIGHT AND CURVED TO TEMPLATE, Largely used in the construction of Iron Vessels, Buildings and Bridges. WROUCHT IRON ROOF TRUSSES, CIRDERS & JOISTS, and all kinds of Iron Framing used in the construction of Fire Proof Buildings, PATENT WROUGHT IRON COLUMNS, WELDLESS EYE BARS, and built up shapes for Iron Bridges. REFINED BAR, SH AFTING, and every variety of SHAPE IRON made to order, Plans and Specifications furnished. Address DAVID REEVES, President. NEW YORK AGENTS, MILLIKEN & SMITH, 95 Liberty Street. BOSTON AGENTS, HOUDLETTE, ELLIS & CO., 19 Batterymarch St, ALAN WOOD & CoO., MANUFACTURERS OF Patent Plantshed, Galvanized, Common, Best Refined, Cleaned and Charcoal Bloom PLATE c& SHEBHT IRON, No. 519 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa. Orders solicited especially for Corrugated, Gasholder, Pan and Elbow, Water Pipe, Smoke Stack, Last, Stamping, Ferra, Locomotive Headlight and Jacket Iron. THEH TRON AGE. Kron, Edward J. Etting, IRON BROKER anp COMMISSION MERCHANT, 230 S. Third St., Philadelphia, Pa, Pig, Bar and Railroad Iron. OLD RAILS, SCRAP, &c- Agent for the MOUNT SAVAGE FIRE BRICK, The Allentown Iron Co, and The Coleraine Furnaces. STORAGE WHARF AND YARD DELAWARE AVENUE ABOVE CALLOWHILL STREET, connected by track with railroad. Cash advances made on Iron. lr ‘ J. Wesley Pullman, 407 Walnut St., Philadelphia, Exclusive SALES AGENT, Chester Iron Co.'s Blue, Red and Hoff ORE ss. Also celebrated ** Brotherton” Ore, D. W. R. READ, T. HORACE BROWN. D. W.R. READ & CO., Dealers and Commission Merchants in ORES, METALS, &c, Native and Foreign Iron, Manganese, and other Ores. 2054 Walnut St,, PHILADELPHIA, Office in New York, 142 Peart 8t. J. O. RICHARDSON, IRON COMMISSION MERCHANT, 0. 232 Dock St., Philadelphia. Pig Iron, Railroad Iron Ores. Sole Agent for the MONOCACY FURNACE CO, DEALER IN MOSELEM, ROCKHILL, WARWICK, And other Favorite Brands. SILVER GREY IRON A SPECIALTY. Iron and J. W. HOFFMAN & CO., Iron Merchants & Railway Equipments. 208 South Fourth St., Philadelphia, Sole agents Glasgow Iron Co. and Pine Iron Works manufacturers of Muck Bar and all grades of Plate Iron. Celebrated “Glasgow ’’ and * Pine’? brands for fire boxes and difficult flanging. Pig and Bar Iron, Rails and all shapes in Iron. Quotations given on Bridge and Building Specifications. ‘WROUGHT IRON Evo, JUSTICE COX, Jr. CHARLES K, BARNS, JUSTICE COX, JR. & CO., Chickies, St, Charles, Montgomery and Keystone Foundry & Forge Pig Iron. CATASAUQUA MEG, ©OWS Bar, Angle, Skelp and Sheet [ron. RAILROAD CAR AXLES. NEW AND OLD RAILS. No. 333 Walnut St., Philadelphia. PETER WRIGHT & SONS. 307 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, 52 Broadway, New York, 44 Second Street, Baltimore, Importers of German and English SPIEGELEISEN, Pig, Scrap, NEW AND OLD RAILS, And Iron Ore. E.W.CLARK & Co. Bankers and Stock Exchange Brokers, No, 35 South Third St., Philadelphia, CLARK, POST & MARTIN, No. 34 Pine St., New York, Bankers and Railway Commission Merchants, Importers of Pig Iron, New and Old Raiis, Scrap Iron, &c. Fadi) 7 awa ah ~ THE STANDARD STEEL Ironmaking in Tennessee. The Louisville Courier. Journal savs: Anew era of development opens before the South. This does not mean merely that more cotton will be raised or that the labor system is ad apting itself to changed conditions. The industries of the South, especially of the Central States, are rapidly becoming diver sified. The multiplication of railroads stim ulates agricultural productions, but cheap transportation is a condition precedent to any advance in manufactures or. to any profitable working of the mines. The past few years have witnessed the rapid growth of manufactures in South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee. It is a growth natural and logical, depending on no ex traneous circumstances. Profit in the mills of the South is not due to a high protective tariff, but to local advantages that make cheap production possible. The tariff, by increasing the cost of mill machinery and adding to the cost of raw materials, is a hindrance instead of a help to Southern manufacturers. The cost of production settles these ques- tions at last. It can be shown that pig iron can be produced near Birmingham, Ala., at $10 a ton, and J, A. Killebrew, Commission er of Agriculture, Statistics and Mines for the State of Tennessee, says, in a recent re port, that the cost of producing ‘‘ hot-blast, stone coal mill and foundry iron made of brown and red hematite,” in see, will not exceed $11, and 316 for Besse mer pig made of magnetic ore. When this is considered in connection with the fact that iron at the season of lowest depression averaged $17.63, it is evident that the iron industries of this section have a_ bricht future. It is not possible within the limits of such an article as this to more than point out the important and significant facts. ‘The report of Commissioner Killebrew goes more into detail. He specifies where may be found the various deposits, and he gives a number of analysis of ores that are somewhat sur- prising. Sullivan County, Tennessee, con tains several beds of brown hematite on both sides of the railroad, which are too far from the road for use at present. In Carter, excellent ore is found within two miles of Johnson City. Green County has many large deposits, some of which contain oxide of manganese. In Hamblen County, seven miles from Morristown, is a bank of ore now worked by the Roane Iron Company, of Chattanooga. In Sevier, in Knox, in Blount, in Louden, are abundant supplies of ore. What are called the C