The Iron Age 1880-09-23: Vol 26 Iss 13

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. Vol. XXVI: No. 13. — SL _ New York, Thursday, September 23 , I88O. Entered at the Post Office, New York, as Second-Class Matter. ——s 82.50 a Year, Including Postage Stngle Copies, Ten Cents. Charles William We present in the accompanying illustra- | tion, for which we are indebted to L’Ingén- ieur Universel, a portrait of one of the most distinguished scientists and most successful inventors now living. The name of Charles William Siemens is so intimately associated with modern progress in many branches of science and industry, that miere mention sufficient to call to mind meny and v.ried improvements. We shail confine ourselves to little more than an enumeration of the achievements of this remarkable man, whose record as a scientist and as an engineer fur nishes eloquent testimony to his genius, his industry and his courage. Charles William Siemens was born at Lenthe, in Hanover, on April 4, 1823, and, after receiving his early education at Lue- beck, he proceeded to the Polytechnical School at Magdeburg to learn engineering. In 1841-2 he studied in Géttingen Uni- versity, and then entered the famous engine works of Count Stolberg, where he received some workshop training that directed his mind more particularly to the practical ap- plications of science to industry. At the age of 20 he went to England for the purpose of introducing a new process invented by his elder brother Werner and himself for gilding and silvering metals by galvanic deposit. His visit was successful, and a few months in England led him to arrange for settling there. Although he returned to Germany in 1843, he came back to England in 1844 and took up his residence there. In 1844 he patented a steam-engine governor, in- vented by his elder brother but perfected by himself, and in the following year the brothers brought out the process of ‘‘ anas- tatic ” printing. Both inventions were highly spoken of and secured a limited application. A water meter, and in 1846 an air pump, were well received and proved profitable. Siemens then began the study of the mechanical theory of heat and allied branches, and as the fruit of his labors brought out a steam-engine condenser, pro vided with regenerators which attained partial success by the use of superheated steam. In conjunction with his younger brother Frederick he continued this course | Siemens. 18 | of research, but it was not until 1861 that he succeeded in elaborating the plans for the first regenerator. It is quite unnecessary for us to dwell upon the growth of and the benefits derived from this invention in metallurgy, glass manufac ture and other industries. In 1861 Dr. Siemens proposed, and in 1862 he designed, an open-hearth furnace for Charles Attwood, of Towlaw, Durham, In 1863 he experi- mented at Montlugon, France, and a year later established an experimental plant at Birmingham, where a long series of elabor- | ate and expevsive researches were made [In 1868 Siemens built works at Crewe and made steel from old rails, and later made steel from pig and ore at Landore, while Mar- tin produced the metal at Sireuil from scrap and pig. It was at Landore in} 1869 that he first tried his rotary fur- | nace for the production of iron direct from the ore, and some years later he put up experimental works at Towcester. The latter did not prove successful, but the experiments since made in this country, and fully described by us, give very fair promise for an extended application of the process. The name of Mr. Siemens is associated also with the most important improvement made during the last decade in the blast-furnace plant. We refer to the regenerative hot- blast stove, one modification of which has | been partially elaborated by him. Dr. Siemens’ contributions to the science | and mechanical application of electricity | have been as ingenious and numerous as his | inventions for economizing fuel or manufac- | turing steel. Inu company with his brothers and Mr. Halske, of Berlin, he established | telegraph works in London in 1858, and | since then Messrs. Siemens Brothers have | been pioneers in telegraph engineering. At their works some of the largest cables in the | world have been made, as well as some of | the greatest improvements in telegraphic ipparatus. ‘The Indo-European telegraph | ine was constructed by them, and in 1875 | they made and laid the Direct United States | Cable. In connection with the latter work Dr. Siemens, with the aid of the late Mr. Froude, designed the celebrated steamship Faraday for laying oceanic cables. It was | mvenient vessel which laid the Direct | ilted States Cable, which is above 3000 les in length. Nearly the whole of that perfect working order in September of the same year. It transmits messages over a distance exceeding 3000 miles. Dr. Siemens also made original researches }on the application of magneto-electric ar- rangements, by which currents of electricity are increased in strength without the use of several independent batteries. The use of electro-magnets for this purpose was first c ceived by Mr. Wilde, and Dr. Siemens and Prof. Wheatstone simultaneously in- vented a further extension of the idea by using the currents induced by the permanent magnet to convert that magnet into an electro-magnet. In 1854 Dr. Siemens intro duced his armature, which proved an im portant step forward. He and his brothers have developed the dynamo-electric ma- chine bearing their name, and have latterly taken a prominent part in the introduction and perfection of the electric light. the more recent scientific experiments made by Dr. Siemens are those relating to the production of high temperatures by elec- tricity, and the effect of the latter upon the growth of plants. Dr. Siemens has been the recipient of many honors in the gift of learned and technical associations and bodies. He | jafter which, sheet by Among | surface, somewhat after the manner in which the photographer allows the develop- ing solution to run over his plate. By this means, a thin and tolerably even layer is left, which soon partially dries and forms the sheet of paper, and which is made by simply reversing the frame. As soon as a sufficient number of sheets have been made they are taken to the drying room. This room contains a large brick oven, coated on the outside with lime, and built up to within a few feet of the roof. Uponthe top of this oven the paper is placed, in parcels of about a foot in thickness, until perfectly dry ; sheet is damped still moist by means of a soft brush, made to adhere to the sides of the oven for a short time, to undergo its final process of drying. It is then taken away to the pack- ing room and made up into bales, weighing once more, and while is, | from 80 to 120 catties each, the catty being equivalent to 1% pounds avoirdupvis. The largest sized paper is about 1 ‘* chang” (1134 feet) long, and is worth one dollar a sheet. This particular size of paper is made entirely from the ‘‘ T’an-shu-p’i,” but the smaller sizes are composed of a mixture of is | the above-mentioned bark, or the bark of still in the prime of life, and is actively en-' the paper-mulberry tree and wheat straw. gaged in contributing to the advancement of those branches of science and industry in which he now occupies so prominent a place. cr AND TECHNICAL. SCLENTIFIC The Commissioner of Customs at Wuhu gives a description of PAPER MAKING IN CHINA, the district specially referred to being in the vicinity of the city of King-hien. It is made | from the bark called T’an-shu-p’i, the paper- le, made of copper conductors and gutta-¢mulberry tree bark and wheat straw, which, ha insulators and a sheeting of steel | res covered with hemp, was laid in per- condition in 1874, but, in consequence the stormy season setting in, its comple- nh was postponed till 1875. In June of | it year the Faraday resumed operations i soon completed the work. But the dis- | ry of a fault necessitated another re to England for a piece of cable to repair lamage. This delayed the opening of cable till the 15th of tieptember, on h day it was opened to the public for transmission of As regards struction, maintenance and rate of trans- sion, the cable has been a great success, then the same firm have laid another itlantic cable for the Compagnie Fran- du Télégraphe de Paris & New York | entire success in a surprisingly short of time. The order for the cable was | u by the French company in March, | 4279, and it was handed over to them in | messages, after having been well washed and boiled with a certain proportion of lime, are again washed, and then exposed to dry fora whole year on the sides of the hills, in spots where the grass and brushwood have been pre- viously cleared away forthis purpose. After the year’s exposure, it is washed once more, and then pounded on a stone with a large wooden hammer; it is supposed to require 1400 blows from this hammer to reduce it to the necessary consistency ; after which it is removed to another building and left to soak until it becomes quite a pulp, in a large earthenware vessel containing liquid glue, made from boiling the branch of a tree called the Yangkowt’éng, aspecies of hooked vine. This pulp is then put into a cistern of water and well stirred up with a stont stick. A finely-made bamboo frame, or sort of long oblong sieve, is taken by two men—one at either end—and dipped twice into this liquid, which is made torun equally over the whole CHARLES WILLIAM SIEMENS. This paper is known by the name ‘“ Suan- chih,” and is considered a good quality paper in the Chinese markets. Dr. H. C. Sorby, president of a section of the British Association, in addressing it, dwelt upon THE COMPARATIVE STRUCTURE OF ARTIFICIAL SLAGS AND ERUPTED ROCKS. Among the rocks found in nature there are many which are as truly igneous as any furnace slag, and, at the other extreme, there are those which can hardly be dis tinguished from deposits met in mineral veins which furnish preponderating evidence of the influence of water. Between these ex- tremes there is every connecting link, and in certain cases it is almost impossible to say whether the characteristic structure, as re- vealed by microscopical sections, more to the action of the heat than of water. An examination of the comparative struc tures of blow-pipe beads, slags, rocks arti ficially melted and natural voleanic rocks and granites revealed the fact that they may be separated into three well-marked groups, viz., artificial slags, voleanic rocks and granite rocks, which are in some cases connected by intermediate varieties. Dr. Sorby finds that these three groups are characterized by dif- ferences in their microscopical crystalline structure. In the slag type there are com binations of skeleton crystals and fan-shaped groups, and of fan-shaped groups and ‘* elass cavities ;” fan-shaped g glass cavities and simple crystals, | have seen—the | evident to every person who thinks on the granitic type has also the latter combination and of simple crystals and fluid cavities Dr. Sorby suggests that a plausible explana tion of these differences is the presence or absence of water as a gas or as a liquid. In the case of slags, it is not present in any form. Considering how large an amount of steam is given off from erupted lavas, and that, as a rule, no fluid cavities occur in the constituent minerals, it appears very plausi- ble to suppose that those structures which are specially characteristic of volcanic rocks are in great measure, if not entirely, due to the presence of associated or dissolved vapor. The fluid cavities prove that water was some- times, if not always, present as a liquid dur ing the consolidation of granitic rocks, and it is fair to conclude that it must have had very considerable influence on the rock dur- ing consolidation. Prof. A. C. Ramsay, the newly-elected president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, in his address gave elaborate expression to a doctrine that is rapidly gaining ground among geologists, and is likely to supersede entirely the notions of the enormous catastrophes which almost a hundred years ago Originated with Werner, and have taken so firm a hold on the popu- lar mind. OF OF ACTION GEOLOGICAL UNIFORMITY EPOCHS DOCTRINE THROUGH THE has found an able champion in Dr. Ramsay, and we cannot do better than reproduce the closing sentences of bis long address: ‘* In opening this address I began with the sub ject of the oldest metamorphic rocks that | Laurentian strata. It 1s subject that their deposition occurred far | from the beginning of recognized geological time, for there must have been older rocks by the degradation of which they were formed. Aundif,as some American geolo- gists affirm, there are on that Continent metamorphic rocks of more ancient dates than the Laurentian strata, there must have been rocks more ancient still to afford ma | terials for the deposition of these pre Lau is due | rentian strata. Starting with the Lauren tian rocks, | have shown that the phe- nomena of metamorphism of strata have been continued from that date all through the later formations, or groups of forma tions, down to and including part of the | Eocene strata in some parts of the world. In like manner I have shown that ordinary volcanic rocks have been ejected in Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous, Jurassic, Cretaceo Oolitic, Cretaceous, Miocene and Pliocene times, and from all that [have seen or read of these ancient volcanoes, I have no reason to believe that volcanic forces played a more important part in any pomod of geo Eocene, in the volcanic type, of | logical time than they do in this our modern roups and glass cavities, and of | epoch. So, also, mountain chains existed Tae before the deposition of the Silurian rocks ; ‘had been working with an open light, others of later date before the old red sand stone strata were formed, and the chain of the Ural before the deposition of the Per- mian beds. The last great upheaval of the Allegheny Mountains occurred between the close of thé formation of the carboniferous strata of that region and the the new red sandstone, According to Dar win, after various oscillations of level, the Cordillera underwent its chief upheaval after the Cretaceous epoch, and all ge gists know that the Alps, the Pyrenees, the deposit ion of lo Carpathians, the Himalayas, and other mountain chains which I have named, underwent what seems to have been their chief great upheaval after the deposition of the Eocene strata, while some of them were again lifted up several thou- sands of feet after the close of the Miocene epoch. The depositions of salts from aque ous solutions in inland lakes and lagoons ap- pears to have occurred through all time— throuch Silurian, Devonian, Carboniferous, Permian, Triassic, Cretaceous, Eocene, Miocene and Pliocene epochs—and it is going on now. In like manner, fresh water and estuarine conditions are found now in one region, now in another, through out all the formations or groups of forma- tions, possibly, from Silurian times onward, and glacial phenomena, so far from being confined to what was and is generally still termed the Glacial epoch, are now boldly declared, by independent witnesses of known high reputation, to begin with the Cambrian epoch, and to have occurred somewhere, at intervals, in various formations from almost the earliest Palwozic times down to our last post-Pliocene ‘‘ Glacial epoch.” If the nebu lar hypothesis of astronomers be true (and I know of no reason why it should be doubted), the earth was at one time in a purely gas- eous state and afterward in a fluid condi tion, attended by intense heat. By and by consolidation, due to partial cooling, oc curred on the surface, and as radiation of heat went on, the outer shell thickened. Radiation still going on, the interior fluid matter decreased in bulk, and, by force of gravitation, the outer shell being drawn to ward the interior, gave way, and, in parts, got crinkled up; and this, according to cos Jurassic, mogonists, was the origin of the earliest mountain chains. I make no objection to the hypothesis, which, to say the least, seems to be the best that can be offered and looks highly probable. But, assuming that it is true, these hypothetical events occurred so long before authentic geological history began, as written in the that the earliest of the physical events to which I have drawn your attention in this address was, to all human apprehension of time, so enormously removed from these early- assumed cosmical phenomena that they ap pear to me to have been of comparatively quite modern occurrence, and to indicate that from the Laurentian epoch down tu the present day all the physical events in the history of the earth have varied neither in kind nor in intensity from those of which we now have experience.” An invention which attracting ec siderable attention among shipbuilders in England is THE DE BAY PROPELLER, which, there is every ground for believing, will considerably reduce the enormous waste of power of the screw now so generally adopted for the propulsion of steam vessels , although the loss of power is from 40 to 50 per cent The propeller consists of two screws, which are revolved in contrary di rections. The two mounted on shafts of which the one revolves within the other, the one having three blades while the other has four. These are of pe culiar shape, being formed that each blade has projections where the other has depressions, A steamer, the Cora Maria, was fitted with the propeller, and it was found that while she steamed 8.73 knots with an ordinary screw, ber spe d was 11.28 knots, a saving of 29.2 per cent., with prac trically the same expenditure of power nm One of the strangest freaks of fortune is that noted by the London Financter re garding the shares of the bankrupt City of Glasgow Bank. The of this have become valuable property, because few have survived the prucess of Recently an advertisement ap- peared, offering for sale a share of the bank on which calls had been paid The adver tisement that ‘‘the liquidators have already paid 17/ per pound on the liabilities.”’ As regards the remaining 3/ per pound, it is, of course, possible, but not considered probable, that a further call will be made, and it is now publicly known that the liquida- rocks, is mn screws are screw so shares bank share holders liquidation states tors hold assets of great and admitted magnitude and value, but requiring time for their realization (he price asked for the shares is £3000, ‘‘and upon this,” the advertisement alleges, ‘‘an unusually large return may be confidently expected.” With what feelings must a notification of this sort be read by tl lreds of ruined share holders in this unhappy concern lo think, too, that the directors of this so-called bank, just rel ased from prison or still ex piating their offences there, should have the questionable satisfaction of knowing that they have actually raised the market value of each share to £3000 ao An expl sion ol fh alp rred on tha 16th instant at Richard Hecksher & Co.'s Kohinoor Colliery, near Shenandoah, by which five men were seriously injured, They rae meas pee os “Pe ee ee r ee a Te AS A a & ae a os <- AU teen SF ora coll Flat td. : i iz v/ Sra - wey a a ——E = Pi i September 23, 1880, THE IRON AGE. etale | 5. #ctals. FActals. gaetals. etal, ANSONIA The Plume & Atwood a ra O.,, @ 24 J Mfg. Company, A Phelps Building, NEW YORK. aa ree I siecle snk ie chee CHARLES F, WASHBURN, BRASS AND COPPER) Waterb ry Brass GO,| SHEET and ROLL BRASS and WIRE, Washburn & Moen Mfg. Co. | CAPERAL, « - 040000" German Silver and Gilding Metal, Sutahiiened, 1681. Capital, $1,500,000 WORCESTER, MASS. Sheet, Roll and Platers’ Brass; CERMAN SILVER, Copper, Brass and German Silver Wire, BRASS AND COPPER TUBING, COPPER RIVETS & BURS, Sheets, Bolts, Rods, Wire, &c. Seamless Brass & Copper Tubing. Anscnia Corrugated Stove Platforms. Copper Rivets and Burs, WIRE DRAWE RS. Kerosene Burners, Lamp Trimmings, &c. Patent Galvanizing, Rolling and Tempering, A MANUFACTURERS OF ae Ce eee ee BRASS KETTLES, 80 Chambers Street, New York. For Electrical Purposes, Bare and Covered. | yy ,5» Rail, Brass Tags, < IRON AND IRON AND STEEL WIRE Prospnor Bronze Rods for Pumps, &c. PERCUSSION CAPS, 18 Federal Street, Boston. OfE } ss a very Description. Metallic Eyelets, Shot Pouches, Tape Measures, &c. Rolling Mill, Factories, ~ ds ss Wares of every Description. ° eT ee | Sak eee Benes Fare ot cei s ipo. | .. SMOMANEON, Oe, | WARERBURY, Cv. A SPECIALTY MADE OF Sole Agents for the 2 ’ ™ PHELPS, DODGE & C0, Capewell Mfg. Co.’s Line of Sport- Bridgeport Brass Co. GALVANIZED TELEGRAPH WIRE, ing Goods and Wood’s Paper j } GALVANIZED TELEPHONE WIRE, TRPORSEDS OF Shot Shells. MARUDACEURERS OP H) PATENT STEEL WIRE BALE TIES, TIN PLATE, “ene a New York, WATERBURY, Sheet and Roll Brass, PATENT STEEL BARB FENCING, ROOFING PLATE, | 189 Eddy St., Providence, R. 1. | Conn. Brass & Copper Wire & Tubing, \ AND PUMP CHAIN. NEW YORK OFFICE: 8ST. LOUIS WAREHOUSE: CHICAGO WAREHOUSE: German Silver Metal and Wire, | eI Clift St. 802 No. Second St. ce kalintie Sheet Iron, Copper, Pig Tin, Wire, ee Manhattan Brass Co,, Copper and Iron Rivets. ed eee oe ee OILERS and CUSPADORES, [ LAMPS and TRIMMINGS, Sheet Brass, Olmsted Patent Oilers, Brass Wire, Prior Patent Oilers Copper Wire, Breughton Patent Oilers, Copper Rivets, Brass, Tin & Zinc Oilers, Brass Tubing, Brass Butt Hinges, Hiurricane Lanterns, Zinc Tubing, rown’s Patent Picture Hooks. Fire Sets, Fenders, &c. BRASS BLANKS AND TUBES OF EVERY DESCRIPTION TO ORDER. OFFICE AND WORKS, Ist Ave., 27th to 28th Sts., New York, THE NEW HAVEN COPPER CO., LANTERNS and TRIMMINGS, | KEROSENE BURNERS, Clocks & Fly Fan Movements. | PLUMBERS’ MATERIALS, Particular attention paid to cutting out Blanks and manufacturing Metal Goods. MANUFACTORY, WAREHOUSE, Bridgeport, Conn. 19 Murray St., N. ¥. Harrison Wire Company, ST. LOUIS, MO. COPPER AND BRASS. CLIFF STREET, NEW YORK. SCOVILL MFC CO BRASS, HINCES, WIRE, CERMAN SILVER. PHOTOGRAPHIC GOODS. BUTTONS, CLOTH AND METAL. x x x X sot x \) ) @ Cuas. Fis, Secretary. Taos. W. Fitrcs, Prest. and Treas, MANUFACTURERS OF All kinds of ~ S/ x pK ) e oo Sb Sa 4 Ye 7 Me DEPOTS, FACTORIES, 4194421 Some StN-¥. _Waturouy Com | 255 Pearl Street, New York. | [RON & STEEL WIRE 183 Lake St. Chicago, New York City, Manufacturers of and Dealers in site S252 $2Se D'CKERSON, VAN DUSEN & CO.,!Braziers’ & Sheathing) wire Mill Specialties.) sm = I 2 of ES = i Ee ae SSS eS A =. SS. ee Holmes, Booth & Ha dens, NATIONAL WIRE & LANTERN WORKS. Warehouse, 45 Fulton St. N. Y. COPPER. y HOWARD & MORSE, , Ti Pilate, Pig Tin, Sheet Iron, Cooper, Wire, Zinc, Etc. 29 & 31 Cliff St., cor, Fulton, DICKERSUN & CO., Liverpool. NEW YORK. WATERBURY, CONN. NEW YORE, BOSTON, 49 Chambers St. 18 Federal St. Manufacturers of all kinds of Brass, Copper & German Silver, ROLLED AND IN SHEETS, BRASS & COPPER WIRE, Tubing, Copper Rivets & Burs, BRASS & IRON JACK CHAIN, DOOR RAIL. German Silver Spoons, Manufacturers of Brass, Copper & Iron Wire Cleth, Locomotive Spark Whe Cloth, Iron Wire Bolting Cloth, Ship and Railroad Lanterns, Signal Lights, Conduc- tors’ Lantern, Adjustable Globe Hand Lantern, Desk & Office Railing, Riddles, Coal & Sand Screens, Nursery Fenders & Spark Guards, Ornamental Wire Fence, Kettle Bottoms, Bolts, Circles, Rivets, Ingot Copper, Spelter, Solder, &c, Sstablished 1837. Incorporated 1876. WATERBURY MANUFACTURING CO.. WATERBURY, CONN. Brass Machine Screws, Jack and Safety Chain, Bibb Screws and Springs, Whip Mountings, Chisel & Screw Driver Ferrules, Patented Articles, BRASS AND METAL COODS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. ‘ A. C. NORTHROP, SILVER PLATED FORKS & SPOONS, Waterbury, Conn., Kerosene Burners, &c. NOVELTIES IN BRASS AND OTHER METAL GOODS|\soHN DavoL & SONS, Agents for Brooklyn Brass and Copper Co., Dealers in Ingot Copper, Spelter, Lead, Tin, Antimony, Solder & Old Metals. John Street, N. Y. 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 IRON WIRE. on ROEB , WOKKS a. eee = New York Office AT TRENTON, Warehouse, N. J. Sz i 117 Liberty Street. THE JOHN A, ROEBLING'S SONS CO, MANUFACTURERS OF WIRE ROPE) ..vacscx, |Lron and Steel Iron, Steel and Copper | Telegraph Wire, WIRE Hoisting Purposes of all Market Wire, FOR kinds, for Ferries, Stays, Ship Rigging, Sash Cords j i Lightning Rods, a&ec., &C. , Vineyard Wire. Suspension Bridge Cables. 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, Carliswerk, 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, gn 7-ply Swans. Staples, &c. Annealed and Oiled Fencing ire, round and oval, WIRE ROPE OF EVERY DESCRIPTION, TELEGRAPH CABLES. ‘ontractors to the German and Foreign governments. The oldest house in the braneh on the Con- Telegraph Address, CAKRLSWERK, COLOG General Agents for U, 8S. and Canada, PERKINS & CHOATE, 23 Nassau St, N. Y. —_ Market Wire, Fence Wire Bridge Wire, Chain Wire, Buckle Wire, Spring Wire, Rivet Wire, &c., &c, FOR HARDWARE TRADE. 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 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. T TRENTON IR E. HANSON, Secretary. ON COMPANY, (INCORPORATED 1847), TRENTON, NEW JERSEY, MANUFACTURERS OF [RON and STEEL WIRE OF ALL CRADES, BRIGHT, ANNEALED, COPPERED, TINNED AND GALVANIZED; Tron and Steel Wire Rods; EXTRA QUALITIES OF BAR IRON AND RODS. Best Qualities of Gun-Screw and Charcoal lron 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, MANUFACTURERS Ol} ( tinent. Bright, Coppere “Annealea@ and Tin Hated. nh GUN SCREW WIRE. Of all sizer etraightened and cut te order J. WOOL GRISWOLD, | tyo900j WIRE RAILING | Manufacturer of ‘Ornamental Wire Works. DUFUR & CO., The Schoenberg Metal Mfg. Co.,. Manufacturers of and Dealers in SOLDER, TYPE, Stereotype, Electrotype ind Babbitt Metals, imporsere of Block Fin. Antimony, ae. ReGvers of ad, Spelter, &o, Highest price paid for Old Metals nies, &c.; Sieves, Fenders, Cages, Sand a Coal and al: kinds Dross. 3:38 and 530 East 20th YY. X. ¥ | ereens, Woven Wire, Iron “Sedsteads Obairs Bireet, besween Avenues A & B, New York, TROY, NX. X. Bettoos, &c. LA/ I Fe ES a | No. 36 North Howard St., Baltimore. | Manufacture WIRE RAILING for Cemeteries, Baleo- loth, iduc- idles, ence. fice treet. eel Wire Wire, Wire, , &C. Pa. ————— E, 2E, RE hs. Fencing the Con- September 23, 1880. THH IRON AGH. eee } ame " Sane ae eee ee rh tele - nw CARYW fk MOEN, The Seawanhaka Disaster. Manufacturers of omnia STEEL WIRE for all purposes and STEEL SPRINGS of f every description. As an important contribution to the liter- ature on the Seawanhaka disaster, we re pro duce the following article taken from the ; VITf DU a ULL MELLELALALALAA LEAS 0. LINDEMANN & (C0.,. y . r ——_— > f > Patentees and Sole Manufacturers of | . Mf ’ | Spring Brackets for Bird Cages, SaaS : F And manufacturers of the largest variety of ’ : = : ; oe, : : Japanned, Brass and Tin-Plated Bird | is? ; H A ™ : E | Cages in this Country. oe 4 wit {( : ( ‘ Catalogues furnished to the trade. ; ws LT TM Li i , , / 254 Pearl Street, New York. : , , SK = Market Steel Wire, Crinoline Wire, tempered and covered. so Patent Tempered Steel Furniture Sprin s £8, coustantly on hand. 934, 236 and 238 West 29th Street, " . . ‘ ‘ NEW YORK . t | | ; | ‘ WUE EELELELARRALAKLLLLA LE SILIS ESSA TIS IASI I Ph WEL LLLELL LLELLELLEELAL YALE LOCK MANUFACTURING CO. New Illustrated Catalogue and Price List No. 7 ready for distribution to the trade. on d W k SALESROOMS : ce an OrKS, 533 CHAMBERS sST., NEW YORK. 506 COMMERCE ST., PHILADELPHIA. STAMFORD, CONN. |26 PEARL STREET, BOSTON. G4 LAKE STREET, CHICAGO. BROWN & BROTHERS, ‘Stanley Rule & Level Co. MANUFACTURERS OF ‘ 4 FACTORIES, 81 Chambers St., N. Y. Waterbury, Conn. Manufacturers of | 3 m p ro ved New Britain, Conn. were strong and heavy—say, 10 to 12 inches deep upon the grates; the collapsing of the tube, if as badly as has been described, would have choked up the front connection, backed up the draft and driven the flame | Locomotive, published by the Hartford Steam out from under the grates and through the Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company, | | | | | other openings in the front of the boiler in which was called upon by interested parties quantity suflicient to haye caused the de to make an examination of the boilers, as struction that resulted. [t is proper in reply to those who say the beiler could not have exploded or ruptured, for that would have released the steam and the engine would havestopped, to remind them that there were two boilers, while but one, the starboard boiler, ruptured, and the time that elapsed from the explosion to the beach- ing of the steamer, as sworn to by captain and mate, was between 3 and 4 minutes, and the port boiler would have kept up a supply of steam for that length of time It is im- possible to say whether the flues ruptured at the same time that the tube collapsed, for too long a time had elapsed between the disaster and the time of the examination of | Ca rpente rs’ WAREROOMS, Fig. 1.—Longitudinal Section of Seawanhaka Starboard Boiler. oo S. . . ‘at New York, they remained upon the wreck over three | the fractured parts to be positive The flues | Manufacturers of Bailey’s Patent ‘Adjustable Pla weeks after the destruction of the boat : had been patcheda number of times, Boiler *e nes, ; 2 at: en | . ; on GERMAN SILVER, ee “Manufacturers of Defiance? ‘Patent & Co.’s ** Victor Planes, An inspection of the port boiler showed it | explosions occasion more or less destruction, — = “< mEce atent Adjustable Planes, had not given out, though many serious de-| according to the circumstances. The rup- In Sheets, Rolls, Rods, Wire, Tubing, This Advertisement is Changed Every Week fects were discovered, due to its age and long ture of a flue near its mouth, where it is Rivets and Burs, Etc annie m service ; the starboard boiler was found in a_ stiffened by the roundabout seam, as well i 7 h se conditi The crown sheets in | as the flanging of the head, would be likel D. G, GAUTIER, Chairman, much worse condition. ne crown sheets in anging 10 head, w 06 likely ' rman D, J, MORRELL, Treasurer, CHAS, DOUGLASS, Gen’! Supt. to do Jess damage than if it occurred at $$ ALSO, | Seamless Brass & Copper Tubing GAUTIER STEEL CO, LIMITED. PATENTED SEAMLESS BRASS AND COPPER | HOUSE BOILERS, warranted to stand 200 Ibs. pressure and guaranteed against vacuum, | PATENTED SPRING TEMPERED SHANK, | | SILVER-PLATED, FLAT TABLE WARE, in rich 7 | cesigns. GERMAN SILVER SPOONS AND FORKS. WwW 3 R E and POPE, COLE & Co. : 2 | BALTIMORE SPRINGS. 1 ANNUAL CAPACITY. COPPER WORKS, MG 6s sis. Sawa deevwekcanecs a aieae Qi a ae ietele Sale are 25,000 Tons. No. 57 South Gay St., BALTIMORE, MD., Wire.. ‘ Siickied ARYN Neh CakENaeeeneC Reh teiceee ee ie Have always on hand and for sale Carriage ‘iia ee ha kun b da ae Wak hak ad aieiedia bate wad 50,000 Pairs. r en I i le ee 45,000 INGOT col PER, re 60,000 Also Cakes, of unequalled purity and toughness. Wrought Iron Fence, WORKS, | Our specialty. Also JOHNSTOWN, PENN, Fig. 2.—Front Elevation. Crestings, Finials and Vanes; Stable Fixtures, | Eastern Warehouse, 93 John St., N, Y,; Phila. Warehouse, 505 Commerce St. both furnaces were badly bulged in several \f/ Hitching Posts, Door places. = ee tare | Soe In the back connection, a serious crack, rough on Gra ‘“—> 4 _{ : ee 7 a 2 rT. aa in kate WiIITLIUIA MW V OG ET. some 15 inches long, shown at A, Figs. 1 : and 3, was found in upper right-hand wing CLEVELAND WROUGHT Manufacturer of Plain and Stamped flue; this crack was open \ inch wide. ow sence wonss, TINWARE, SEAMLESS BOXES, ROUND, OVAL AND SQUARE GANS, | nsums pine, tough wots bay. “tine ALL WROUGHT IRON, J. H. VAN DORN, | Special Articles Manufactured of Shee . flues were 10 inches in diameter. The cracks eet Metals. ‘thi “ge f thei is. foll i 41,43 & 45 South 9th § Near the Fe z OR were within 2 inches of their ends, follow- Proprietor, : ' Kroes, Hear the Ferries, BROORLEN (B. D.), HN. ¥. ing the lap of the flange where flues were CLEVELAND, ero bbacocas LOUIS H. VOGEL. | riveted to the head. The flues were no doubt weakened by the fretting of the seams at that point, assisted by the corrosion that had reduced the iron in places. A piece of the iron cut out indicated that it § was very brittle. The rivet-heads at the seams were so badly corroded that but little of the heads remained. One of the tubes (3% ® inches diameter) in the lower row had so pecla y. wasted away, that in one place it had col- Ohio, U. A. “ROME IRON. WORKS, Manufacturers of Brass, Gilding Metal, Cop- per and German Silver (In Sheets, Rods, Tubing or Wire), COPPER & BRASS RIVETS AND BURS. Rome, New yy ork. THE MONTOUR © IRON & STEEL COMPANY, CM Works at Danville, Pa. “AHO AND PIG IRON. A general assortment of Mine and Narrow-Gauge | Rails kept on hand, from which shipments can be made promptly. W. E. C. COXE, President, Reading, Pa. Established 1810, S. W. INGERSOLL, Treas., Philadelphia, Pa F. P. HOWE, General Supt., Danville, Pa. MOSES GOLDSMITH & SON,| TAYLOR CO,, Fig. 4.—Section pUnSRILN e508, PHILADELPH IA, 1” ae Ce the coals in the ash-pan. Many fires have CHARLESTON, S- | Wholesale dealers in | Manufacturers, Im porters and Dealers in occurred from that cause, But they burned with far less intensity, and with the appli- METALS, IRON, RAGS, | h far less intensity, and with the app ODD AND REGULAR SIZES ee eee tae coageal En tke taht And all kinds of Paper Stock. ning-like rapidity with which the fire-room lapsed for a distance of about 6 inches (shown at C, Fig. 1). This tube, witha piece of the tube head (see Fig. 2), had been cut out and carried away, and the location of the rupture is a matter of hearsay—(see ' supplementary report at the end of this article), This was the condition of the boil- ‘ i ers at the time of the visit; they had been Shovels, Riddles, Brushes, d&c. tested by a government inspector less than three months before, by a hydrostatic test WHITEH FAD BROS, WM. WHITEHEAD, Treas., of 60 pounds per square inch, and were li > . . ¢ t > 517 W. 15th St., censed for one year thereafter at a steam AMERICAN FACING CO. New York, | Pressure of 40 pounds per square inch. The FIRE a om | events before and after the sudden appear ance of the flame are not accounted for on the supposition that the boat took fire from We + inv ite correspondence. T t ERS, was filled with flame and gas after the ex plosion and jar felt by many of those on LITTLE CIANT 5 board, we have an extraordinary effect, and “THE must look about the boilers for a cause suffi , Black and Galvanized Sheet Iron, Metals, Wire, © : . : Is the cheapest and best. Send for circular. ’ ’ » Copper, cient to have produced it; that we find in ene oe Stamped Ware, Registers, &c. the collapsed tube and ruptured flues in the LITTLE GIANT MFG. — back connection of the starboard boiler. MILLPORT, N, ¥, Prebably the fires foreed by the steam-jet some point midway of its length, where it itis weaker. The explosion of the furnace flue of the tug A. G. Cattell, and crack in the bottom of the back connection of the river steamer Thomas Cornell, both of which happened in 1878, are cases in point. The Cornell’s boilers being upon the guards (while those of the Seawanhaka were in the hold), the fire room was so much more accessible that no further damage was done than in- juring the paintwork and delaying the boat some hours. In the accompanying illustration (Fig. 1), C shows the probable initial rupture in the bottom of the lower tube in the second ver- tical row, through which the water escaped, and A the rupture in the right-hand 10-inch flue, probably secondary, through which wa- ter also escaped into the smoke (gas) thor- oughfares. N N show the low places where the water lodged, the arrows representing the free steam, which separated from the water as soon as it reached the chamber NN. W is the ash pan bedded in fire brick and cement, and P the probable location of the woodwork that first took fire. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the boiler, showing the opening in the tube plate made by the boiler maker shortly after the acci- dent, for the purpose of removing the rup- tured tube, which was the lowest one of the second vertical row from the right hand. Fig. 3 is a section through the back smoke chamber, giving a rear view of the rear tube plate, with the ruptured tube omitted. A and B are the ruptured to-inch flues, Since the examination was made, an inter view has been had with the boiler maker who cut out the ruptured tube soon after the Fig. 3.—Section through Smoke Chamber. accident. The information thus obtained condensed somewhat, is substantially as fol. lows: On attempting to pass an old steam pipe, used as a probe, through the tubes, it met an obstruction in the ruptured one, which was thereupon cut out, a piece of the tube-plate shown in Fig. 2 being cut away, so that the tube could be taken out without violently driving it through the original opening in which it was “‘ set’ in the plate, the effect of which would be to distort or break it. At the interview the proprietor minutely described the tabe, but firmly declined to ex- of Boiler Tube. hibit it. The eut, Fig. 4, was made from hia description, and is a vertical section through the tube, showing about half of the ruptured part, which, he says, was located about 2 to 3 feet from the front end The cut, Fig. 1, shows it as located about that distance from the forward (in distinction from the after) end, as it was understood when that cut was made. Thedifference of location is obviously of little importance in explaining the acci- dent The present maition of the tube. as described, warrants the conclusion that a flap was turned inward, hinging on the front part ef the opening, so as to obstruct tho 7 wide: we. a (SS St ree See £% — a SF ie =< <a! Mba Bia? ON ie —. P. W. GALLAUDET, J ii \ND PAILROAD PAPER WANTED. DVANCES MADE ON BUSINESSS PAPER AND Kk SFCURITIES a RAP IRON and OLD RAILS ¢, f, aud i, te | 139 Greenwich Street, New York, THE LRON AGE. September 23, 1880. ee 3 ee ee ron. ne Kron. Xvon. ¥von. EvON. - NEW YORK. NEW YORK. NEW YORK. PITTSBURGH. PITTSBURGH. OGDEN & . WALLACE, ‘A. B. Warner & Son, John W. Quincy, il RON & STE a | IRON MERCHANTS, 9s = Street, New York. COMMON AND REFINED | 28 & 29 West and 52 Washington dts, rae & Gharconl Pig Hees, SHEET AND PLATE IRON, ae oan ae poe aan ie, BOILER PL ATE, BLOCK TIN, LEAD, SPELTER, ANTIMONY, NICKEL, &e " aa, abaiter Tuber, Anslo, Feo & Girder trews| TA PRISON & GILLOON | Sole Agents for the celebrated IRON AND METAL DEALERS, W. 0D. WOOD & C0" A. G. HATRY, — Commission Merchant. Bar, Sheet, Tank, Boiler, Angle, T, and Rallroad Iron, And Railroad Equipment. Nails & Spikes Steel & R. R. Supplies, WINDOW GLASS, GAS PIPE & BORAX. Swedes and Nerway Iron, Norway Nail Rods. thicsiet- ” 5; Ee iron of all sizes and shapes made to order. ‘“s Eureka, Pennocks, 554, 500, 882 WATER ST. and $0, 204, 906 CHEERY 8T.. js ete PITTSBURGH, ~. NEW YORK, j $6 ” PIFRSON & (0. Wawasset,” Lukens, cssase ectetyen.o Gist ow «| Planished Sask Tren JUN IA I A ny | Brands of Iron. Alsoall descriptions of Plate, Sheet, | Machinery Sora Z sn tone =") Samien, ry ee ° —~ | and Gasometer Iron. Special attention to Locomotive Lead. ewer. fine. ‘a * opper, — Patented March 24th, 1888 ; April 8th, 1878 ; = = Sept. 9th, 1873; Uct. 6th, 1874; Jam. 11, 1876. Guaranteed fully equal in all respects to the IMPORTED RUSSIA IRON, and at a much less price. FOR SALE, by all the principal 24 Broadway, New York Cit | tron. Fire Box Iron a spectalty. eee ROME. MERCHANT IRON MIS, OXFORD IRON CO., ROME, N. Y. fron Ay Steel. Manufacturers of the be st grade of (B. G. CLARKE, Receiver,) . Bar lron, Bands and Fine Hoops. ROADSTER Scrolls, Ov als, Half Ovals, Half Rounds, Hexagon and COMMON & REFINED IRON, ls yrse Shoe Iron. Also from Charcoal P ed su a ec PATTERN. quality of it on bene le ‘d J.G. All pudd balls re Hoops, Rods, Scrolls, Bands, Ovals, du ced by commer, ree rs may be sent to the Millor | NTER, our Agent, at { Bo vone | — METAL DEALE RS Horse Shoe, Natl KRods, ese = “AR Steel, &. ‘MARSHALL LEFFERTS, SPIKES. Orders pro ly od fi tock. ders promptly filled from stoc 90 Beekman St., New York City, “ABEEL BROTHERS, | MANUFACTURER AND DEALER, |J- 8. SCRANTON, Sales Agent, Established 176s by ABEEL & BYVANCE, 81, 83 and 85 Washington Street, Galvanized Sheet Iron, x= vonx lron Merchants, 1st and 2d Qualities. j ~ BURDEN’S | 190 South Street and 365 Water, N.Y, Galvanized Wire, Tele graph ¢ and Fence ; Galvanized R U W U i ST E R | R O Ns Hoop and Banda Iron, Galvanized Rod and Bar Iron, —— Nails, Galvanized Chain, Galvanised Iron A full assortment of all sizés constantly on band. “CORRUGATED SHEET IRON HORSE SHOES Best Ghai ‘Best Refined and Osteen 8 In the Large cities throughout THE UNITED STATES. And at their Office, 111 Water Street, PITTSBURGH, PA. C, A. von Bonnhorst. R A, Wilson. | S i 0 R. A. WILSON & CO., PIG IRON, |. The only Snow Shoes in the market that abso- lutel Iron and Stee! Rails, All Sizes, nately I y — all balling and give universal satis- BLOOMS AND ORE,| Improved Snow Shoe Shapes. Refined Iron Stenandiiuns em, 88 Fourth ave., cor. Wood st., Pittsburgh. Standard Sizes = —_ $¢X7-16, 11-16X7-16, 4% xX7-16, 13-16X7- 16, %x7-16, AX% Common Iron John |. Williams, Henry M. Long. Nathan M. McDowell, 15-16X%, 1X44, 1 1-16K%, 1 1-8X%. . SHEET IRON. Plate and Tank Iron, C No. 1,C H No. 1, C H No, 1 Flange, Best Flange, bb B 5) Best Flange Fire Box, Circles. ur en ast BOILER IRON Wand, Hoop and Scroll Iron, Sheet Iron, Norway Nail Rods, Norway Shapes, STEEL TOE CALKS, Keystone Rolling Mill,|sHoeNseRGeR & co, "2" c Cast, Spring and ‘Tire Steel, ete. cd oa. E vc A. R. Whi itne Stamped and Guaranteed. Williams, Long & McDowell, Sesion ie y> All Soneeene of Iron Work Galvanized or Manufacturers of IRON and STEEL. Old Rails, Wheels, Axles, Springs Merchant Bar and Skelp Iron, Scrap, Turnings, &e., PIG IRON, BLOOMS AND BAR _ IRON. Sheets and Plates of all sizes, Duquesne Way, near 6th Street, Office, No. 87 Water Street, I i cnn Pittsburgh, pa. (Portsmouth Iron and Steel Co., Mill at Sono, Second Avenue. Successors to —— | GAYLORD ROLLINC MILL CO., | Manufacturers of Siemens-Martin (Open Hearth) ‘STEEL BOILER PLATE, Agricultural and Machinery Steel | and Steel Tire. | Also, Homogeneous Iron Boiler Plate and Riveta, Merchant Bar, H¢ oop and Sheet Iron, Wrought Spikes, Fish Bars and Bolts. Office and Works : PORTSMOUTH, OHIO.~ J. C. LEWIS, GEO. 8S. LEWIS, Pres’t and Gen’! Sup "t. Sec’y and Treas, Ekman&C0. s+ | ouis Malleable Iron GOTHENBURG, Company, Manufacturer of and Dealer in IRON, 56, 68 & 60 Hudson, 48. 50 & 52 Thomas, and ‘anion 12, 14416 Worth Sts., Oar specialty is in Mianufacturing Iron Used in the Con- struction of Fire-Proot Buildings, Bridges, 4&c. Vteur end estimates furnished, and contracts made fererecting Iron Structures of every description. Books containing cuts of all Iron made sent on ap- pli cation by mail. Samp'e pieces at office. shape address 58 Hudson Street. | “BORDEN & LOVELL, Commission Merchants 70 & 71 West St., Oy Pesan: | —: New York. Tinned to or _ Price list ai list and ‘quotations sent upon application, ro n W. BAILEY LANG, Sole Agent In United States & Canada for LOW-MOOR_ Boiler Rivets. IRON COMPANY, Burden Iron Works, H, Burden & Sons, NO. 50 BEEKMAN ST., NEW ¥ YORK. Y. JAMES WILLIAMSON & CO., Troy, N. SCOTCH AND AMERICAN | FGLESTON BROS. & ni PIG TRON, ifs ist }vee vor cy No. 69 Wall St., New York, BURDEN’S uisTER IRON WoRKS, HI. B. & S. wswansesv ters ULSTER BAR IRON. Agents for the sale of aa ee isda SWEDEN. 2116 MARKET STREET, . ° sizes an pes ok. Fall River Iron Co.'s Nails, Tuckerman, Mulligan & Co. en ee en s&Rods. |, Am, & Eng. Ref’d Iron,Common lron,&c 2 Agency of oe eas eae Bands, Hoop . N. M. HOGLUND'S SONS & CO., Stockholm, oe | ne Passaic Rolling Mill C0... ores een nae ene a lron Bridge Builders _ DAN’L W. RICHARDS & CO,, pir grec, Ainge Pig Iron and Bar Iron, Beams, Channels, Angles, ‘PHIEBS, Scrap Iron, Scrap Steel, Merchant Iron, &c., &c. P P New York Office, Room 45, Astor House, Old Rails and Old Metals, WATTS COOKE, Pres Sea oO PAYERWEATHER, Treas urer. ae 88 to 96 Mangin St., New York. ‘CARMICHAEL & EMMENS, ~~ W. S. MIDDLETON, _ 130, 132 & 134 Cedar ‘Street, New Wook. IRON AND STEEL BOILER PLATE | Broker in Machinery & Iron AND Borden Mining Company’s Cumberland Coals. ~ WILLIAM H. WALLACE & CO., IRON MERCHANTS Cor. Albany & Washington Sts., NEW YORK CITY. M. BH. WaLLacek. Wh. BIsPHamM. B. F. JUDSON, Importer of and Dealer in SCOTCH AND AMERICAN Pig Iron, Wrought & Cast Scrap Iron, Swedish & Norway Iron Malleable and Gray of every descri on hand at Boston, ock o e aaa ork and Philadelphia: Importation orders @ Iron Castings, GUSTAF LUNDBERG, 38 —_ st., Boston. rARPEREZOFTA Pomadtoin acess 2 & =!) GENERAL HARDWARE, dc. ZUC & CO., Pittsburgh, Pa., Manufacturers of Wheeler’s Iron & Steel Combination Shafting, Under license of the Combination Trust Co., Philadelphia. This Shafting is superior to any now on the market, and the attention of machinists is Lap-Welded Boiler Tubes, &c., &c, Agent for 0 L DD M EK T A L ~ af oho - or ¢ he ‘ sate agate 4 Cas + ag F-- er rP Pistes, FORSTER’ 6 CRUSHER & PULVERIZER, particularly called to it and a trial order solicited. Prices furnished on applicatic mn. Laurel Ki ling iStitts, an “Uns on Pube Wi ksi ;Wro pught © best market a aL 457 & 459 Water St., NEW YORK Iron Be . Rngles’ 7 Te . | W.S. IILDDLETON, 62 John St., N. ¥. R. E E Cc H B U R G 1) R oO N Ww oO R K s a See stint HUGH W. ADAMS, —————_..?.?. = e_e_e_<_ee KIRK PATRIC K & CO., Manufacturers of all grades of FINE SHEET IRONS, (Refined, Cold Rolled, Show Card, Stamping, Tea Tray, Polished, Shovel, Ferrule Iron, &c.) _ DANIEL F. COONEY, — DEALER 1 Glengarnock and Carnbroe of and Successor to Jas. H, Holdane & Ce. FOREIGN AND AMERICAN SS Washington St., N. ¥ RAILWAY, PIG AND SCRAP | sg PLATES and SHEET IRON, | Estimates furnished for all of Iron nO. SCOTCH PIG IRON, LAP WELDED BOILER FL ia “ats ame. or Boller Rivets, ss Angie & T tron, Cut Walle ‘ Spies, ye NEW vorK. |For spot delivery and for prompt or forward anon fee | CORRUGATED AND CRIMPED IRON Stipments to New York, Boston, Philadelphia = ROOFING & SIDING, Baltimore or New Orleans, in g Mil rin. The Re gen Re Ning Mills, at Jers ev C ity. i Banker and Note Broker, Iron Buildings, Roofs For sale in lots to suit by No 3 and & Wall Street, | ee Viighte: brig we’; JAMES LEE & CO., NEW YORK. | MOSELEY IRON BRIDGE AND ROOF CO. | Sole Agemts for the United States, HARDWARE, METAL, IRON RUBBER, SHO! 5 Dew Street, New York. 72 Pine Street, New York. AND PAPER-HANGINGS, LUMBER, COAI NATURAL GAS USED AS FUEL. OFFICE, No, 143 First Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. WORKS, Leechburg, Pa ANDREW KLOMAN, PITTSBURGH, PA., MANUFACTURER OF Steel and lron Structural Material BATES & DESPARD, 188 Poest at, oak tied | Hot Pressed Nuts, Bolts, Washers. &c. gta Susi""” FULLER BROTHERS & CO., EYE BAR FINISHED FROM THE SAME. Kloman Patent Solid Rolted Eye Bars, finished in Iron or Steel without welding or * upsetting.” Universal Mill Plates of lron or Steel. Steel Rails of all sizes and patterns, Splice Bars. Channel Bars for Thielsen Car Truck, SPECIALTY—Unusual shapes and sizes in Steel or lron; Angles, Tees and other structural shapes in Lron or Sé@eh erica, or f, 0, b. English ports, Ss s0- Lis- Pa | September 23, 1880. Kron “pon. £ron. Fro. ‘eee of the water and steam in that sll - aS ___| direction and cause it to flow, as indicated by the arrow, toward the back smoke-chamber Edward J. Etting, JUSTICE COX, Jr. CKARLES K. BARNS, reversing the current of hot gases—thai is, . . EA | causing back d ‘ : ime the flap IRON BROKER axp COMMISSION MERCHANT, JUSTICE COX, JR. & CO., aman ake eo a a °F ° aa 230 S. Third St., Philadelphia, Pa. AGENTS FOR con cae sean “~ . t, ig j,a : as low ray, oO permaps 1 light Pig, Bar and Rallroad Iron. Chickies, St. Charles, Montgomery have been broken off by the boiter Agent for the pee and Keystone {maker’s probe, leaving the opening "7 as though the dotted line a@ were its boun MOUNT SAVAGE FIRE BRICK, Foundry & Fk orge i 1g Iron. dary. The missing piece may have been de- The Allentown Iron Co. and CATASAUQUA MEG. COvS tached at once and jammed in the tube, pro The Coleraine Furnaces. Bar, Angle, Skelp and Sheet Lron. | ducing the same effect. However this may STORAGE WHARF AND YARD RAILROAD CAR AXLES. be, there was undoubtedly a rapid escape o/ DELAWARE AVENUE ABOVE CALLOWHILL STREET, NEW AND OLD RAILS. the water, charged