The Iron Age 1880-07-29: Vol 26 Iss 5

- ES a7qned ‘Huryoy ws, Sts. | ———— Vol. XXVI: No. 5. The Volga Bridge. For many reasons Americans ought to watch industrial and commercial progress in Russia with interest. Similarity in the extent and nature of her resources has made her both a competitor and imitator of the United States. The vast plains of central and southern Russia are exceptionally fer- tile. Its inhabitants are struggling hard to retain and extend their markets for agri- | cultural products in Western Europe. The farmer of our Western plains and the boor of the Russian steppes are pitted against each | other. Success must depend largely upon the completeness of the facilities for ship- ping the product of the grain fields. As yet we are far ahead in this respect, but it seems that the Russians are fast realizing their position. They are putting forth their best efforts to utilize the advanta- ges of modern methods of transportation. It is a curious fact that they in many details are imitating the Americans, who have in an astonishing way been identified with their progress. Ross Winans, of Baltimore, took a leading part in the early development of the railway system of the Russian empire. Alphons Sevake revolutionized the shipping of the river Volga, the great artery of trade, by introducing the American type of river 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. intered at the Post Office, New York, as Second-Class Matter. New York, Thursday, Suly 2 9, I SSO. 84.50 a Year, Including Postage, Szmgle Copies, Ten Cents. girder was conveyed on an elaborate staging resting upon seven large barges. These were then towed between two piers by three tugs and anchored when approxi- mately in position. The exact location was | then accurately regulated by paying out or hauling in anchor chain. The barges were then gradually lowered by letting in water, until the girder rested in its proper place on the piers. pump the water out of the barges in case of necessity, but the complete success in every | case rendered the pumps useless. The 13 girders were taken to the piers and placed in position without an accident, and the bridge was opened to traffic. EEE SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL. It is stated that improvements in THE MANUFACTURE OF PAPER BOXES have been introduced lately in Boston, by which they are manufactured directly from the paper pulp. The boxes are turned out of any size or shape, perfectly seamless and of uniform thickness. After drying, the boxes are run through a second machine at the rate of 60 per minute, receiving, under a pressure of 4000 pounds, such embossing as may be necessary. From the time the Provision had been made to} feuille, by treating silica at a temperature | at the distance of about another 4o yards, exploration of the iron and coal districts of of 750 to 800 degrees C. with sulphate of | the same thing occurred again, flame burst-| southern Russia. There can be little doubt | soda. Friedel and Sarasin have recently| ing fromthe earth. The explosions shook | that the first of these projects at least has employed a different method. They placed} the adjoining houses, and damaged them | been underconsideration There is however in a closed steel tube lined with copper a| from the foundations to the roof. These! another hypothesis which would ex slain mixture of potash, alumina and anexcess of | explosions followed each other from east! more naturally Mr Barker's visit here : Me is amorphous silica, water being present. After|to west. Fifty yards from the third ex-| believed that the Government is determined exposing the tube to a dark red heat for| plosion, a fourth explosion, made a terrific | to appropriate a considerable sum to the en- periods varying from 14 to 38 hours, they| gap in the street, exposing the whole found- largement of the fleet, and it is reasonable found that almost the entire quantity of| ations of the houses, and casting up the’ to suppose that Mr Barker, who is backed by silica was crystallized, small, quite fully | contents of the underground cellars. These} a powerful American syndicate is willing to developed individual crystals being obtained | continued explosions appeared to have ex- help the Government. Mr Barker wets a j also. hausted for some distance the explosive Philadelphia Quaker, very much astonished Mr. A. Inostranjeff describes, in the | compound which had been admitted to the! Russia by the scrupulous honesty with which Neues Jahrbuch fiir Mineralogie, mains, for the next explosion did not occur! under disadvantageous circumstances he _. 4 PECULIAR VARIETY OF COAL for nearly 80 yards, where another upheavel | fulfilled his former contract for supplying which occurs on the northwestern banks of | of the street occurred, a burst of flame, the | cruisers, and he has been received here with Lake Onega, Russia, in slates stated to be-| shaking of houses, and the laying bare of singular favor. He was even admitted to a long to the Huronian formation. It differs | the foundations following in a similar man- private audience with the Czar . | in its physical, as well as its chemical, prop-|ner. Between 200 and 300 yards from this a | erties both from anthracite and graphite. | spot the gas again exploded, downward as oe oe =e | Pure varieties show a strong metallic luster, | well as upward, bursting in the sewers and; Production of Iron and Steel Works | which remains even after exposure to a | water-pipes, and very greatly damaging the | of Prussia and Saxony in 1878.—The |dull red. Its hardness varies from 3.5 to 4,| houses, and some distance from it, the | Prussian government has just published, in and its density at 4°C is 1.841. It is| seventh explosion took place. the Zeitschrift f. Berg-Hiitt. u. Sal. Wesen, highly ee ee an analysis — : — . the statistics of the output of the metallurgi- arbon, 95.50; hydrogen, 0.40; nitrogen, . , ls cal works of that country for 1878. One |0.41 ; water, 7.76; and ash, 1.01. When jarly History of Cut Nails. hundred and slaedinen” ‘aes furnaces e -) | free from water the percentage of carbon working, on an average, 42.4 weeks in the | runs up to 98.11 per cent., so that itis richer Thomas Atkins, a gentleman now in his | year, turned out 1,568,061 metric tons of in carbon than anthracite, though it contains | 84th year, writes under date of June 25 to|pig. The amount of manufactures of craft. In 1871 he launched a steamer called | paper stock is taken from the bales until the | less hydrogen, no oxygen and much nitro- |Mr. E. B. Chaffee, giving some interesting | wrought iron produced was 975,136 tons, the Pereworod, now the Colorado. Its suc- | cess was immediate and startling, and now a number are plying on the river regularly. While the Volga is of inestimable value as a highway, it was for a long time a barrier to the extension and consolidation of the rail-| way system of Southern Russia. Recogniz- | ing the necessity of overcoming this obsta- cle, the erection of a monster bridge was finally deeided upon. It is located on the | Sysran-Orenberg Railroad, connecting the | important cities of Sysran, in the govern- | ment district of Simbirsk, and of Samara, in | the district of the same name. In the ac- | companying illustration we show a number | of the river spans of this bridge in course of | erection. The width of the river is nearly a | mile, and the structure spanning it is carried on 12 river piers and two shore piers. The Volga River is remarkableor extraordinary spring floods, caused in part by the existence of gorges between Simbirsk and Samara This has necessitated the building of high piers about 100 feet above mean water level, the depth of the river being in some cases more than 50 feet. The bridge was de- signed by Professor N. Belelubski, of St. Petersburg, the contract for erecting it having been taken by C. Michailow for Seven millions of silver roubles, or a little more than five millions of dollars. The foundations of the piers were made in the usual way—by means of caissons—and the masonry piers erected upon them. The girders are 364 feet long, 37 feet high, and 20 feet wide—ample for a single track of | 5-foot gauge. The girders were riveted to- gether and completed on the high right bank of the Volga. Although. of such length, and although each girder weighed Over 500 tons, and was to occupy a position 100 feet above the mean level of the water, ae - ee ep) MY, Pi) AA Pa: LATA SBA? ANE. in AP dis PE Ee THE VOLGA BRIDGE, ON THE SYSRAN-ORENBERG RAILROAD. perfect box is turned from the machine, | manual labor is entirely avoided. By the use of one set of these machines 30,000 | boxes can be produced per day, at less than | one-third of the lowest market price of | hand-made goods, and doing the work of | 200 hands. Mr. E. Conechy has determined THE POINT OF EVAPORIZATION OF ARSENIC, which he places between 449° and 450° | Celsius, that temperature having been ar- rived at by noting that arsenic evaporated when iodine of zinc was completely melted, which takes 446 degrees, and chloride of sil- | ver, the point of fusion of which is 457 degrees, was nearly liquid. M. Meunier has succeeded in making ARTIFICIAL CORUNDUM AND SPINEL. | The later is made by heating together to | redness, in porcelain tube, chloride of alum- inum and magnesium and conducting steam over them. The tube will, after cooling, con- tain an apparently amorphous mass, which, however, is found under the microscope to con- sist of minute octahedrons. Gahnite is ob- tained by using zinc instead of magnesium. Corundum is produced in the same man- ner in which Gay Lussac obtained hematite or iron glance, by the decomposition of | chloride by means of steam, and Daubrée | cassiterite with the aid of tin chloride. Meunier simply decomposes chloride of al- uminum by means of steam, at a red heat, | and obtains hexagonal plates of artificial | corundum, the same substance as the sap- phire, the ruby and emery. Many different methods have been used for | THE ARTIFICAL PRODUCTION OF QUARTZ, j ; | | |into the air. This was immediately fol- | gen. The ‘ black earth” from Olonez is! data relating to the early history of the! and that of manufactures of steel footed distinguishea from graphite, which it re- | manufacture of cut nails, He writes: | up 462,507 tons, 25 converters and a like sembles much, by the fact that it does not In answer to your inquiries, [ will briefly | number of open-hearth furnaces being em- yield graphitic acid or ‘‘ Brody’s graphite” | state that Daniel French, of Berlin, Conn.,| ployed. The production of zine and spelter with a mixture of nitric and sulphuric acids, | was the inventor of a machine to cut nails, | was 94,638 tons, that of pig lead 75,000 nor does it burn as rapidly as graphite. and as he was not a man of sufficient means | tons and that of copper 9073 tons. Four to carry out his invention, he applied to hundred and sixteen collieries, employing | Jehosphat Star, of Middletown, to help | 145,322 men, turned out 35,500,167 tons of him in the business of cutting nails. Star | coal, while 501 mines, giving work to 18,302 | purchased a water privilege, the next below | men, produced 8,841,366 metric tons of lig |the Middlefield Falls. There Star built a/ nite. The iron mines of Prussia had a total An extraordinary accident took place re-| dam and erected a small factory about the | output of 2,955,872 tons of ore. Works in cently in London, where a company had been | year 1793 or 1794, and here were manufac- | Saxony produced 80,011 tons of pig iron, renewing over a half of mile of gas mains. | tured the first cut nails in the United States, | 11,462 tons of manufactures of wrought The work of laying these mains has occupied | and perhaps in the world. The nails, after | iron, 18,418 tons of manufactures of steel. a considerable time, and was in the hands being cut, were headed by hand. Before |The government works at Treiberg pro- of two different contractors, the junction of | French had perfected his machine to head | duced, besides 3853 tons of lead and manu the eastern and western ends being intended | the nails, he went to Cincinnati and in- | factures of lead, 320 tons of zinc, 1545 tons to be made. The undertaking was so far| vented a steam-engine to propel boats, and | of sulphate of copper and a little more than completed that the work of pumping gas | the first boat that ascended the Ohio River | one ton of bismuth, into the mains was commenced, and con- | was propelled by his engine. Deacon Selah a sequently the gas mains, which were 36)|Goudrich has a letter in his possession inches across, were filled with the highly | giving an account of the trial trip, which; A New Ocean Steamer.—Messrs. John explosive mixture of gas and atmospheric was a success. The deacon’s mother was a| Elder & Co. have been successful in secur air. Two men were in charge of the ends | sister of French. This old letter is worth a| ing the contract for a screw steamer of ex of the mains. They are both dead, so that | perusal. During the war of 1812 wire was traordinary dimensions for the Guion line, it has not been ascertained with certainty manufactured at the nail works building, | running between Liverpool and New York. how the charged mains were fired. It is | and after the peace of 1815 wool was carded She is to be named the Alaska, and her said that the fuse was supplied by the light | in this building. The pistol works, lately | extreme length will be 500 feet ; breadth, 50 from one of the open gas pipes lighted to | burned down, stood a little below the nail | feet; and depth, 4o feet (molded), with a warn the drivers of vehicles against the | works. I might add that the first cut nails| gross tonnage of 6400. The engines are dangers of the open ground, while others| were used with distrust; wrought nails | also to be of great size, constructed on the allege that a light was thrown down by a/| were mixed in with them. three-cylinder principle, to indicate 10,000 smoker. All that is known for certain is Yours with respect, horse-power. It may be remembered that that about 7 o’clock there was at the june THOMAS ATKINS. Messrs. John Elder & Co. built the Arizona, tion of the pipes the flash of an explosion, a fine screw steamer, 466 feet ia length, for and the rising of a vast amount of flame the same line a year ago, and the success of The St. Petersburgh correspondent of the | this vessel in making rapid voyages across lowed, at about 40 yards’ distance, by the | London Standard says: The presence here, the Atlantic has no doubt induced the Guion upheaval of the ground, the throwing up of attended by a staff of experts,of Mr. Wharton Company to entrust a second order on a — A Gas Explosion in London. ——E———— Crystals were made by Senarmont by heat- | the paving-stones, and the rending down of | Barker, the American, has given rise to the | larger scale to the well-known Clyde firm ing gelatinous silica with hydrochloric | the iron palings before the houses, accom-| most varied rumors concerning the intro- | The Alaska will be constructed on somewhat Mr. Beresin, chief engineer, adopted the | acid; by Daubrée, by means of the action of | panied by a rumbling like that of distant | duction of the grain-elevator system, the con- | similar lines to the Arizona, and is expected plan of floating it in its position, Each | superheated water upon glass; by Haute-/ thunder, Before the beholders could turn, ! struction of the Siberian railway, and the/| to attain even a higher rate of speed. enn me te Bom Sua sei ha at - ~ ta a ry —= SU) EE QUES Re, Se a ee ae Sa eS Dew me Ce 6 er ~ alli del nes nti a ee — on a. ae as @ ee : we 2 -, i Bt ere - ' . . i es .F ef e ae nae orn Ee et 2 THE IRON AGE: L pabsods | BRASS AND COPPER Waterbury Brass Co. SHEET and ROLL BRASS and WIRE, __JWetals. ANSONIA BRASS & COPPER CO., No. 19 Cliff Street, Phelps Building, NEW YORK. MANUFACTURERS OF CAPITAL, - - $400,000. Sheet, Roll and Platers’ Brass, Sheets, Bolts, Rods, Wire, &c. GERMAN SILVER, Seamless Brass & Copper Tubing. Ansonia Corrugated Stove Platforms, PURE COPPER WIRE BRASS AND COPPER TUBING, COPPER.RIVETS & BURS, BRASS KETTLES, For Electrical Purposes, Bare and Covered. Door Rail, Brass Tags, ’ Phosphor Bronze Rods for Pumps, &c. ANSONIA REFINED INCOT COPPER. PERCUSSION CAPS, POWDER FLASES, Metallic Eyelets, Shot Pouches, Tape Measures, &c. And small Brass Wares of every Description. i Cartridge Metal in Sheets or Shells a Specialty. PHELPS, DODGE & C0, Capewell Mi. Co.’s Line of Sport- Bridgeport Brass Co., ing Goods and Wood’s Paper Shot Shells. IMPORTERS OF Copper, Brass and German Silver Wire, July 29, 1880, FActals. CAive, etc. ThePlume & Atwood Mfg. Company, PHILIP L. MOEN, President & Treasurer. CHARLES F. 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MANUFACTURERS OF COPPER AND BRASS. | Bras 'ire: Copper Rivets, NEW YORK. Brass Tubing, Brass Butt Hinges, Zinc Tubing, Hurricane Lanterns, Brown’s Patent Picture Hooks. Fire Sets, Fenders, &c. Manufacturers of Olmsted Patent Oilers, Prior Patent Oilers CLIFF STREET, SCOVILL MFC CO BRASS, HINCES, WIRE, CERMAN SILVER. PHOTOGRAPHIC GOODS. —— BUTTONS, CLOTH AND METAL. —_ ———— OF EVERY DESCRIPTION TO ORDER. OFFICE AND WORKS, COPPER C0O., DEPOTS, FACTORIES, 419 & 421 Broome St., N, Y, Waterbury, Conn, 177 Devonshire St., Boston, New Haven, Com.| 255 Pearl Street, New York. 183 Lake St» Chicago, New York City, Manufacturers of and Dealers in DICKERSON, MAN DUSEN & CO., Braziers’ & Sheathing) wire mu specialties. COPPER. Tin Plate, Pig Tin, Sheet Iron, Cooper, Wire, Zinc, Etc. 29 & 31 Cliff St., cor, Fulton, DICKERSON & CO., Liverpool. NEW YORK. Ingot Copper, Spelter, Solder, &c. Established 1837. Incorporated 1876. WATERBURY MFC. CO., WATERBURY, CONN. BRASS GOODS. A. C. NORTHROP, Waterbury, Conn., NOVELTIES IN BRASS AND OTHER METAL GOODS FOR HARDWARE TRADE. Wrought Iron and Brass Machine Screws; Turned, ey Round and Square Head Cap and Set Screws; Brass and Iron Safety ana Jack Chain; Gilt, Nickel Plated and Bronze Trimmings of all kinds. from Sheet Lron, Steel or Brass. Estimates on patented articles, or any description of Sheet Metal work, respectfully solicited and promptly given. 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 Iron Wire; Crucible, Siemens-Martin and Bessemer Steel Wire. Wire Straightened and Cut to Lengths. Represented in New York by COOPER, HEWITT & CO., 17 Burling Slip. BRODERICK & BASCOM, MANUFACTIRERS OF IRON Manhattan Brass Co,, Copper and Iron Rivets. Broughton Patent Ollers, Brass, Tin& Zinc Oilers, | !ocks & Fly Fan Movements. BRASS BLANKS AND TUBES Harrison Wire Company, 1st Ave., 27th to 28th Sts., New York. |... w. Fitcs, THE NEW HAVEN Kettle Bottoms, Bolts, Circles, Rivets, Importers of Block Tin, Antimony, &c. Refi Spelte. end al: kinds of Dross. 5:28 a Street, between Avenues A & B, New York. German Silver Metal and Wire, 21 Cliff St, 802 No. Second St. 107 Lake St. OILERS and CUSPADORES, | LAMPS and TRIMMINGS, LANTERNS and TRIMMINGS, | KEROSENE BURNERS, PLUMBERS’ MATERIALS. Particular attention paid to cutting out Blanks and manufacturing Metal Goods. MANUFACTORY, Bridgeport, Conn. WAREHOUSE, 19 Murray St., N. ¥. ST. LOUIS, MO. Cuas. Fisu, Prest. and Treas. Secretary. MANUFACTURERS OF All kinds of IRON & STEEL WIRE NATIONAL WIRE & LANTERN WORKS, Warehouse, 45 Fulton St. N.Y. HOWARD & MORSE, Manufacturers of Brass, Copper & Iron Wire Cleth, Locomotive Spark Whe Cloth, Holmes, Booth & Haydens, WATERBURY, CONN. NEW YORK, BOSTON, tors’ Lantern, Adjustable Globe Hand Lantern, Desk & Office Railing, Riddles, 49 Chambers St. 18 Federal St. | coal & Sand Screens, Nursery Fenders & Spark Guards, Ornamental Wire Fence, Manufacturers Of all kinds of ae , ’ Brass, Copper & German Silver, | © WorKs ROEBLING'S ivan York Ofc ROLLED AND IN SHEETS. at > —- = : on BRASS_.& COPPER WIRE,; trenton, 5 Warehouse Tubing, Copper Rivets & Burs. N. J. = 117 Liberty Street BRASS & IRON JACK CHAIN, DOOR RAIL. German Silver Spoons, SILVER PLATED FORKS & SPOONS, JOHN DAYOL, & SONS, rnin or wervien Saye Ship Rigging, Sash Cords, Lightning Rods, &c., &c, 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, &c. CONSTANTLY KEPT ON HAND. Address, HAZARD MFG, CO., Wilkesbarre, Luzerne Co., Pa. FELTEN & GUILLEAUME, Carlswerk, near Cologne, Germany. PATENT CRUCIBLE STEEL WIRE, For Mining and Plow Ropes, Hawsers and Bridge Cables. SIEMENS-MARTIN AND BESSEMER STEEL WIRE, Flusseisen, Swedish and German Charcoal Wire. GALVANIZED TELEGRAPH WIRE of Charcoal and Swedish Iron and Steel, also with high conductivity, and in long lengths. GALVANIZED STEEL WIRE, For Plain, Barb and Strand Fencing, 3, ¢an0 7-ply Strand, Staples, &c. Annealed and Oiled Fencing THE JOHN A. ROEBLING’S SONS CO., WIRE ROPE| Iron, Steel and Copper FOR Iron and Steel WIRE Market Wire, Fence Wire Bridge Wire, Chain Wire, GALVANIZED Telegraph Wire, Market Wire, Brooklyn Brass and Copper Co., Vineyar d Wire. Ingot Copper, Spelter, Lead, Tin Antimony, Solder & Old Metals, John Street, N. Y¥. PASSAIC ZING CO. Manufacturers of Pure Spelter FOR Cartridge Brass, Gas Fixtures, Bronzes AND ALL FINE WORK. Also for Galvanizers & Brass Founders. MANNING & SQUIER, Gen'l Agents Geo. W. Prentiss & Co., HOLYOKE, MASS., MANUFACTURERS OF WIRE. Vire, round and oval. WIRE ROFP:E OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. TELEGRAPH CABLES. Contractors to the German and Foreign governments. The oidest house in the braneh on the Con tinent. Telegraph Address, CAKLSWERK, COLOGNE. General Agents for U. 8. and Canada, PERKINS & CHOATE, 23 Nassau St, N.Y. WIRE RAILING N ‘Ornamental Wire Works. } DUFUR & CoO, No. 36 North Howard &St., Baitimere- Manufacture WIRE RAILING for Cemeteries, Balc° B h Cop red Annealed “and Tinted. aio GUN SCREW WIR Of all sizes straightened and cut to order. The Schoenberg Metal Mfg. Co., Manufacturers of and Dealers in SOLDER, TYPE, Stereotype, Electrotype and Babbitt Metals, i ners of for Old Metals 0 past 20th Tin E. J. WOOL GRISWOLD, | joope Manufacturer of nies, &a; Sieves, Fenders, Cages, Sand and Cos! teada Cheirs TROY, N. Y. | Scrpens, | Woven Wire, Tren Beds & r,&c. Highest price paid 28 ana 53 Iron Wire Bolting Cloth, Ship and Railroad Lanterns, Signal Lights, Conduc- — R. SE GI In Shee Seamle PATEN" HOUSE E pressure a PATENT SILVER-P. cesigns. GERMA| ING Also Cakes, | S. H. PA Shipping, Insur; Ne. 29 PEC. Goods receiy the world. In furnished, and oe merchandis o at @ saving i} ee. of ‘ee ror ‘ectuall freight collecte, A general assor Rails kept on ha made promptly, W. BE. C. COX 5S. W. INGER: ¥. P. HOWE, MOSES G CIIAR METALS And all Wein Dealer in Tin Plate, THE IRON AGE. The Utilization and Properties of Slac. July 29, 1880. ————— CARY & MOEN, Manufacturers of record the developments made in utilizing deserving considerable attention both in this country and abroad, and elaborate paper was read recently be fore a local engineering society by Mr. Chas. Wood, of Middlesborough. We rive below a full abstract, but consider it necessary to () 0. LINDEMANN & CO., Patentees and Sole Manufacturers of Spring Brackets for Bird Cages, he largest variety of Bird } SIIISSL LAAT SSA SAAS SS She VALE LELLELELLAAARAALLALLAD Cf this country, and notably in G.rmany. As a record of what has been tried and accom plished in England it is, however, of high value : UL And manufacturers Japanned, Brass and din- Plated Cages in this Country. Catalogues furnished to the trade. 254 Pearl Street, New York. . Cy MT N Market Steel Wire, Crinoline Wire, tempered and covered. Also Patent Tempered Steel Furniture Springs, constantly on hand. 234, 236 and 238 West 29th Street, - - - - - NEW YORK, WESTON’S =( DIFFERENTIAL PULLEY BLOCKS. BROWN & BROTHERS, ‘Stanley Waterbury, Conn. been one of the serious difficulties of the iron trade. Taking an average of all the dis tricts in England, for each ton of iron made, 25 ewt. of slag is produced, and from the official returns of last year of the iron smelted, no less than 8,000,000 tons of slag were produced, The space occupied by this mass, when loosely tipped, is something like 170,000,000 cubic feet, or nearly twice the size of the Great Pyramid, while the bulk of the iron occupies only one-sixth of the same space. Blast furnace slag, as it flows from the furnace when making foundry iron, is usu- ally of a gray color, of much the same con sistency as molten glass, a substance, in many points, it greatly resembles, particu- larly when the more siliceous ores are being smelted. It is very fluid, and has a tempe- rature considerably above the melting point of cast iron ; in proof of which, if a piece of cold cast iron be placed in a block, or wagon of fresh molten slag, it readily melts. At this high temperature, it contains a large quantity of gas, a considerable portion of which is thrown off or exuded as the slag cools down or becomes set. So much is this the case, that a large block or ball, techni- cally so termed, will often burst, an hour or two after being run, from the accumulation of this gas in the inside. The bursting of these balls at the ironworks is of constant occurrence, and a source of danger, caused by the liquid slag and the outside shell drop- ping after the ball has burst. This is par- tially overcome by making the workmen knock a hole through the top crust before leaving the furnaces. Again, the least de- rangement in working of the furnace is quite sufficient to alter the nature of the slag, and often, within half an hour, will the slag be changed from gray to a perfect black. Such a color usually indicates im- perfect smelting, and the slag will be found to contain a larger proportion of iron than it should do. Such, then, is the material with which blast furnace managers have to con- tend, and which forms their béte noire. For many years the only known use for blast furnace slag was for road-making, and for this purpose it is still largely employed. In Northamptonshire, and in certain dis- tricts of Yorkshire, the whole of the slag produced is sold at a considerable profit. These, however, are local exceptions. Per- haps the largest user of slag is Mr. John Fowler, M. Inst. C. E., engineer for the Tees Conservancy Commissioners, whose works upon the breakwater at the Tees mouth deserve to rank as some of the most interesting in the kingdom. On these con- structions Mr. Fowler consumes something like half a million of tons annually, A simi- lar class of work is also being carried on at Barrow-in-Furness, from the slag produced at the hematite furnaces in that town ; but, in consequence of the large amount of lime contained in this slag, much greater care has to be taken in its selection. The slag used at the Tees Breakwater is chiefly taken away upon bogies, in blocks weighing three and a half tons each. The slag is run into these blocks, upon the wagons, at the fur- naces; a case or box being placed upon the bogie for this purpose. When the slag is sufficiently ‘‘set” this case is removed, and the wagon, with the block upon it, is taken a distance of about six miles to YALE LOCK MFC. CO. Office and Works, STAMFORD, CONN, SALESROOMS, 653 Chambers St., New 36 Pearl St., Boston. 506 Commerce St., Philadelphia. Rule & Level Co., MANUFACTURERS OF improved Carpenters’ WAREROOMS, BRASS, COPPER AND CA*Pente ee GERMAN SILVER, Manufacturers of Bailey's Patent Adjustable Planes, General Agents for the sale of Leonard Bailey & Co.'s ** Victor Planes,” Manufacturers of ** Defiance?’ Patent Adjustable Planes, In Sheets, Rolls, Rods, Wire, Tubing, Rivets and Burs, Etc. ALSO, Seamless Brass & Copper Tubing. PATENTED SEAMLESS BRASS AND COPPER HOUSE BOILERS, warranted to stand 200 lbs. pressure and guaranteed against vacuum. PATENTED SPRING TEMPERED SHANK, SILVEK-PLATED, FLAT TABLE WARE, in rich cesigns. GERMAN SILVER SPOONS AND FORKS. POPE,COLE & Co. BALTIMORE COPPER WORKS, No. 57 South Gay St., BALTIMORE, MD., Have always on hand and for sale | INGOT COPPER, Also Cakes, of unequalled purity and toughness. York. FACTORIES, New Britain, Conn, 81 Chambers St., N. Y. Manufacturers of This Advertisement is Changed Every Week, D. G. GAUTIER, Chairman. D, J, MORRELL, Treasurer, CHAS. DOUGLASS, Gen’! Supt. GAUTIER STEEL GO, LIMITED. SitGel, WIRE and SPRINCS. Wrought Iron Fence, Our specialty. Also Crestings, Finials and Vanes; Stable Fixtures, Hitching Posts, Door and Window Guards, Wrought Iron Grat ings, &c. Address CLEVELAND WROUGHT WORKS, JOHNSTOWN, PENN. Eastern Warehouse, 93 John St., N. Y.; Phila. Warehouse, 505 Commerce St. WILLIAM VOGEL, Manufacturer of Plain and Stamped TINWARE, SEAMLESS BOXES, ROUND, OVAL AND SQUARE CANS. IRON FEN ORK : ) CE WORKS, Special Articles Manufactured of Sheet Metals. the breakwater. A large quantity is J. H. VAN DORN, 41, 43 & 45 South 9th Street, Near the Ferries, BROOKLYN (E. D.), N. ¥. also tipped —_ a platform -— “ oe i HENRY J. tLe ovis . voarr, | Side, in such a position that the tide Proprietor, —— oo completely covers it; it is then wheeled CLEVELAND, into hopper barges, belonging to and for the use of the River Tees Commissioners. In consequence of the Tees Break water (known as the South Gare Breakwater) being now nearly completed, and the Tees Commission- ers wishing to commence the breakwater on the opposite side of the river, called the ‘North Gare Breakwater,” Mr. Fowler, in conjunction with the author, devised a plan for shipping the bogies with the hot balls into barges, and towing them down the river to a landing-stage constructed for discharg- ing. Each barge is constructed to carry 40 bogies, and will be about 220 tons burden, These barges will bring back the empty bogies on the return journey. The loading of these barges at all states of the tide has naturally occupied a consid- erable amount of attention, and the ma- chinery for shipment, designed by Messrs. Appleby Bros., of Southwark, and called a Ohio, U. 8. A. S. H. PAYNE, Freight Broker, Shipping, Insurance, Custom House & Forwarding Agent, Ne. 29 PECK SLIP NEW YORK, U. 8. A. Goods received for re-shipment to all parts of the world. Insurances effected, Bills of Lading furnished, and all matters relative to Exportation of merchandise carefully and pm tly attended to ata a Freight and Terminal charges. Entries of ds made and all Custom House work effectually done. Claims for overcharges of freight collected free of charge. Rates of freight uaranteed (when desired) from starting point to on covering all charges. Correspondence Solicited. THE MONTOUR MOULDING SAND, Albany Sand a Specialty. FOUNDRY FACINGS, Shovels, Riddles, Brushes, &c. WHITEHEAD BROS. WM. WHITEHEAD, Treas., 517 W. 15th St, We have from time to time placed on] winch then picks up a blast furnace slag, a subject claiming and | at the same time A most complete deposits it on the line f state that Mr. Wood does not do full justice | to be to the work done in the utilization of slag in | rate of 40 bogies per hour. The engin The disposal of the enormous output of | work, and ean slag or scoria from blast furnaces has always | «€ e line are landed, and the barge is warped forward until the line which has been cleared comes opposite to the line for the loaded bogies: the traveling loaded bogie, tra verses out with it, deposits it in the barge 4 picks up an empty bogie from the barge, then returns to the wharf, and so on at each operation ; ler takes out a loaded bogie, deposits it on the barge, and brings back an empty bogie each ney. or empties, so that the trav« jour estimated rat the ». boiler, coal bunk, feed water tank and counterweight box are fixed at the inshore end, and a plat I he speeds of working ure equal to loading and discharyit form on the traveler is provided for the driver, so that he stands directly above his clearly see each operation One lever gives the motion for lifting and lowering, and another lever those for trav eling in either direction. The whole of the work is performed by two men on the Titan, a stoker and traveler man, two men bein required below to attend to the slings. The next stage in slag utilization is the endeavor which at made of running the liquid slag, as it flows in a stream from the furnace, into molds: or, in other words, making slag castings. has various times been Such an idea, at first sight, would seem natural enough. Here, it may be said, is a material flowing to waste, in a liquid state, capable of being run into molds and of tak ing impressions almost equal to that of cast iron. The castings, also, when successfully made, are exceedingly durable, and even beautiful to look at. So alluring has been the idea of casting that, during the last so years, the Patent Office has recorded, almost annually, the attempts of some inventor im pressed with the notion that he could treat this treacherous fluid successfully, or, in some way or other, make it useful in the arts. To attempt to describe these various schemes, or to give even an outline of them would occupy far too much time, but the au thor thinks that the following remarks will give a general idea of the difficulties he has had to meet. The temperature at which the slag leaves the furnace is about 3000" F.; but, when brought into contact with any thing cold, in the shape of a mold, it readily parts with its heat, and, in so doing, sud denly contracts. The surface contracting becomes filled with fine cracks or flaws ; so much is this the case that, if allowed to be come entirely consolidated in the molds, these cracks will be found to penetrate com pletely through the casting, and, upon ex posure to the air, the casting falls to pieces. This is the more vexing, as, when slag is run into a large mass—say into a pit of sand 8 or 10 feet deep, and containing from 30 to 40 tons—there is such an enormous amount of heat accumulated that it becomes self annealing, the outside of the mass is kept at a high temperature, and, if allowed to re- main until cool, not a flaw will be found, and the slag becomes so exceedingly tough and hard that it may be quarried in the same way as granite or Whinstone, and used for street paving. There is, however, one exception to the numerous failures in slag casting; it known as Woodward's patent, and although there is absolutely nothing new in the pro cess, still, through the perseverence of Mr. Dobbs, the late manager and engineer for the furnaces of Messrs. T. Vaughan & Co., a degree of success has been arrived at suf ficient to enable the company which works the process to pay a fair dividend. The suc- cess has been eminently a practical one, and appears to rest mainly on two points: Firstly, in the quickness with which the castings are removed from the molds and placed in the annealing ovens, where the temperature is constantly kept up nearly as high as the melting point of slag, the heat, after the ovens are full, being so gradually lowered that the outside of the casting cools at the same rate as the inside; the contrac tion is thus equalized throughout, strains upon the outside are avoided, and the fine surtace is cracks do not penetrate much below the skin ; and, secondly, upon the fact that only solid rectangular blocks, with a certain amount of bulk in them, are attempted. The blocks are made by running the liquid slag into a series of open-topped molds, The molds are of cast iron, and are held by one end upon the periphery of a horizontal wheel or table. The wheel is suspended by tie rods upon a central pillar, The molds, when being filled up, are brought in succession under the slag-runner by the man in attend ance, who watches until the mold is full. When the slag has become consolidated in the molds a catch-hook is knocked up, the mold falls to pieces, and the brick drops to the ground. When they come out of these molds, although consolidated, they are still in a sort of half-molten state, and are im- mediately removed into annealing ovens, which are always kept at a high tempe1 ature, so that the block receives no chill the ovens are of small size, and, when full, are sealed up and allowed to cool down by themselves. There are about 70 molds upon each machine, and the hotter these are kept the better; while, to prevent chilling of the molten slag, as it runs into the molds, i SS « 32 Nee. dle oe cn = ee 0 et Let ease. ~ * : : ; | : 4 eo. a Sia ali cn ln — Alling ee IRON & STEEL COMPANY, they receive a thick coating or washing of ‘* Titan,” has been recommended by Mr. chalk or lime after each casting, the lime FIRE SAND AND CLAYS. __AMERICAN FACING CO. New York, RE Works at Danville, Pa. . Fowler, and generally adopted. Cantilevers, A ct ; ' ; from a frame traveling on rails on the quay, | acting as a non-conductor as well as assist- ‘ hs. J : overhang sufficiently to reach the outside of | ing the block more readily to drop out of the = 3 seaman = os = the slag barge, and a kind of overhead|mold. The casting is not allowed to remain # ; " Lad = traveler runs backward and forward on|in contact with anything which can extract - i jones AND Pi Cc IR oO N. 4 2 be - these cantilevers, a distance of about 35] its initial heat, so as to produce unequal a id : a! = 2» <r S ¢ feet. The slag bogies are lifted and lowered | cooling; and, as before stated, the whole , i me ty aspertnens of ine and Nasrew-Ga i. z ud 4a by two steam-winches on the traveler, the | success has been eminently a practical one, ai pt on hand, from which shipments can jan pt = Ss aueadl @: a of which c se 1 ‘th the t 1 reflects great credit upon those who 7s made promptly. m 2 5 centers of which correspond wi h 1 wo} and € 8 8 > om. | } wee +e W. E. C. COXE, President, Reading, Pa. Oo a - on 3 s lines of the rails upon the quay and upon | have so — y ee e it out. ; sacge i, iy ' S. W. INGERSOLL, Treas., Philadelphia, Pa co Loe “ = Cc c5 Ss 2 é the gs Fy oes ee: ree _ eS oo ao . — 3 ; i 7 . 8 ‘ ole any « 5 a : Ss are 3e¢ eNO oO nel ( or ¢ Ss ; / —— ae rs de ett detente = — = E = =— E 2 : ee ed for lifting and ae oe stables, yards and streets ; their dura- e + it oe on oD ea E oa — Ff 2 x eling. Each winch has two drums for flat| bility, uniformity and general appearance ct { MOSES GOLDSMITH & $0 N, = a > ket PBR -* steel-wire rope, and these ropes are con when well set is very pleasing. From a ; e a Key Box 156 a Saw =m =F cS (Ss S % nected together by cross-beams, with slings | series of tests recently ma le against a crush im Fe \. Y, : a Cc A s =S cS a for taking hold of each end of the bogies, | ing strain, some of these blocks carried a tes ” CHARLESTON, 8S. C- Da hee 4 Ff x= & ™ = the object being to prevent them from] weight equal to the hardest granite a one Wholesale dealers in sad a = 3 <x cc a? twisting when being lifted or lowered, and The next successful process for dealing NG METALS, IRON, RAGS, | a a 2 ca % o to insure their coming directly upon the | with molten slag i that of Mr. Bashley And all kinds of Paper Stock. —« & & oS a = lines respectively on shore and in the barge. | Brittain’s, who converts it, by a kind of We invite correspondence. ~~ SF & ee The Titan is fitted with two lines of rails, compound process, into glass for bottl ‘orks. = | A S s one for full and the other for empty bogies. | making, and for many purposes w here R. SELLEW & CO.) ~ — § As already indicated, these lines correspond|a pure white glass is not essential. more. i _—— < with those on the barge. 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