The Iron Age 1881-03-10: Vol 27 Iss 10

eo ~~ 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. Vol. XX VII: No. ro. New York, Thursday, March to, 1881. SL°50 a Year, Including Postage. Single Copies, Zen Cents. The Allen High-Speed Engine. Within the last few years high-speed | engines have gained a well-merited favor with rolling mill managers and others for economy and efficiency, and it appears to be only a question of time and of adapta- tion to circumstances when the field of the high-speed engine will be largely ex- tended. One of the applications to which it will probably be put at an early date is the blowing engine. Attention is being more generally directed to greater economy in producing the blast for our furnaces and Bessemer works, and it seems likely that improvement will be sought in the direction of using a greater speed in the engines. The economy of high speed has been repeatedly demonstrated, and notably by Messrs. Chas. H. Loring and Chas. E. Emery, and it is now generally recognized that, in connection with heavy reciprocating parts, it affords valuable advantages. In the accompanying engraving we show the general features of a high-speed engine of the Allen type, built by the Hewes & Phillips Iron Works, of Newark, N. J. The engine has a piston speed of 600 feet per minute, the number of revolutions ef the crank varying according to the size of the engine, from 75 in the larger ones to 260 in the smaller ones, The valve gear of the engine is controlled by the Allen governor, | which raises and lowers the sliding block | in the link, changing the time of cut-off, &c. The two plain slide valves perform the double duty of admitting and exhausting | the steam through four openings at once. DR. MUELLER’S RESEARCHES ON THE GASES IN STEEL. In a paper contributed to the Deutsche Chemische Gesellschaft, Dr. F. C. G. Mueller, of Brandenburg, Germany, gives a summary of his valuable and standard researches on the gases contained in Bessemer steel. He reviews some experiments made in the same direction by Mr. Stead, of Middlesbrough, who modified Dr, Mueller’s methods by using a blunt drill for removing the metal. By its use only 1.5 cubic inches of metal were removed in 12 hours, but from the cast steel operated upon he obtained the astonish- ing quantity of 17.3 cubic inches of gas, while drilling with a sharp tool in the same metal yielded only 21 per cent. of gas. The gas obtained with the sharp tool was com- posed of 67.1 per cent. of hydrogen, 33.3 per cent. of nitrogen and 1.6 per cent, of car- bonic oxide, while that gathered by drilling with a dull tool contained 88.7 per cent. of hydrogen and 10.3 per cent. of nitrogen. Gray pig yielded 75 per cent. of its volume of gas with a sharp drill, the gas containing | 52.5 percent. of hydrogen and 44.9 per cent. of nitrogen, while six times the volume of the metal removed of gas was obtained with a dull driil, the gas consisting of 54.5 per. cent. of hydrogen and 45.5 per cent. of nitro- , gen. An experiment conducted on a small | scale by drilling steel immersed in quick- silver, yielded very little gas, which was almost pure hydrogen. Mr. Stead appears _ to incline to the idea that in some manner | the presence of hydrogen is due to the| decomposition of the water in which the steel is immersed during the drilling. Dr. In all these analyses, it will be noted; there are considerable quantities of hydro- gen and nitrogen. Now, as the spiegel reac- tion develops only carbonic oxide, it is evident that the current of that gas must have carried along mechanically a quantity of the gases already contained in the steel. The behavior of many ordinary solutions of chlorine, bromine and other gases in liquids when a current of air is passed through them, corroborates this view. In the light of these experiments the value of a strong spiegel reaction has a new significance. A MODIFICATION OF THE HOLLOWAY PROCESS. About a year ago a process for treating cupriferous pyrites in the Bessemer con- verter, invented by Holloway, created a great stir in metallurgical circles. It was tried on a large scale, but since then nothing has been heard of it. Now, M. F. Laur, a well-known French metallurgist, comes for- ward in a French journal—l’ Ancre—with a sensational report that an engineer of the St. Etienne School of Mines has discovered that an addition of phosphorus to the charge will suffice to maintain the temperature at the requisite hight, and that a company has been formed to build works near Avignon for the purpose of testing this new process on a large scale, the apparatus being on the spot now. = ¢ a Elevators for Buildings. At a recent meeting of the Polytechnic Association of the American Institute, Mr. Blanchard, in the absence of the author, Mr. They have an inclined position to the face! Mueller rejects this view, pointing to the Baragwanath, read a paper on elevators. of the steam chest, and are relieved of pressure by means of the steam chest bonnet. The latter can be moved vertically by means of set screws, inorder to make allowance for wear. The valves are given a quick opening movement, and the builders try to maintain the boiler pressure in the cylinder up to the point of cut off. The steam pas- sages are short and direct, and the clearance space is made as small as possible. By careful attention to the exhaust, the exit of steam is allowed with little back pressure. A special feature of the engine is the form of the bed, which has been designed with a view to securing compactness and rigidity. It is of rectangular form, entirely inclosing the cross-head slide, which is of cyl- indrical form, and is cast within the bed. The cross-head is round, its diameter being nearly equal to that of the cylinder, and its length being made equal to two-thirds of that of the stroke, so that it is very heavy. At the back end of the slide is an oil bath, into which the cross-head runs at each stroke. The main bearing is one of the new features of the engine. It consists of four boxes, of which those of the top and bottom are made of cast iron, and are lined with Babbitt metal. These are free to move horizontally, and are only sustained at the sides by the collars of the shaft. The other two quarter boxes are sustained and adjusted by cylindrical wedges placed at the beak of each box and extend- ing across their entire face, The bearing adjustment for wear is made by turning a screw which drops the block. The circular face allows the whole bear- ing to accommodate itself to the shaft, should it be out of square or level, thus preventing any binding at either end of the bearing. The cap is a deep hollow cast- ing which slips over the bearings, thus tying the whole together firmly. ~Jslitipsaetetpcltlil-amiiiptiniiiaiiai METALLURGICAL NOTES. THE MANUFACTURE OF SOLID STEEL AT THE CLEVELAND ROLLING MILL, The Jern Kontorets Annaler contains the following description of the method em- ployed at the Cleveland Rolling Mill for making solid steel castings. The materials employed contained by analysis : g |. g | c 6 | oes os a me | Sy Ec | o|g8 28 § pj|a2e, "4d! sg | 9 = a ' Manganese ...... ©.55 0.74 | 10.16 | 52.32 | 1.65 Graphitic carbon 2.6ym|.... sRacaae aut eune 2.35 Combined carbon 150 | 0.32 | 4.85 4:55 0.64 SE -skecsscdes 2.88 O.TB foe cse ei eeeeeee 6.50 Phosphorus...... L GsBZS | OBB [oscccceisesccce| EB Sulphur.......... 0.012 | 0.014 asp naaacest wee Besides these, red hematite was used, con- taining 60.76 per cent. of iron, 6.95 per cent. of silica, 0.14 per cent. of phosphoric acid and 0.21 per cent. sulphuric acid ; 4000 pounds of pig and 10,000 pounds of rail ends were charged cold into the furnace at the same | time. As soon as melted, ore is added in small quantities, until the carbon is reduced to about o.10. Then 6 to 8 per cent. of | spiegeleisen and 5 to 6 per cent. of silicon pig are added, and after about twenty min- utes, when they have been dissolved, the bath of metal is stirred and 1 per cent. of ferromanganese is charged. When this has been dissolved the steel is cast, the metal then holding 0.45 per cent. of carbon, 0.35 per cent. of silicon and 0.45 per cent. of manganese, i Ma HH tH THE ALLEN HIGH-SPEED ENGINE. 3 to 5 cents per trip. The water runs at once to the sewers after being used. In hotels it has been tried to take the waste watcr to the laundries, but it does not pay to raise it more than 10 fezt. Pumping into a tight jtank in the basement is a favorite way of supplying the water under pressure, as all the apparatus is thus placed in the cel- lar, and there is no danger of flooding from broken or leaky tanks. The disad- vantage is that pressure rapidly falls if the pump has to be stopped, and is lost en- tirely before the tank is empty. With the elevated tank there is only a few pounds difference when the tank is nearly empty and when full. The ordinary tangent screw working the drum of an elevator is a favorite method of gearing, but its heavy end thrust upon the shaft is its<Sone great objection. The thrust [equals the load in all cases, and is difficult to meet. Recently an important im- provement has been made by which this difficult problem is solved in a very original manner. A right and left-hand tangent screw is placed on one shaft, and two gear wheels working into each other are driven by the screws. The thrust is divided and in opposite directions ; hence it is converted into a tensile strain upon the shaft. Elevators should all be safe, even those for freight, for porters and others will use them in spite of all authority, and the ques- tion of providing good safety appliances is therefore oneideserving careful{consideration. Many of those in current use are very good, and most of them do their work when in order; but nobody ever knows when they are in a proper working condition or presence of large quantities of nitrogen in| He said that high buildings, on account! when inoperative. Mr. Johnson said that the gas, and referring to his own experi- | ments, in which he immersed the steel in! oil during the drilling, as a proof of! the impossibility of accepting this view. | The gas, he holds, must have been actually | derived from the steel in which it was con- | taind, and he points to the difference in the | volumes of gas obtained, by drilling with a | sharp and a blunt tool, as a striking con- | firmation of his argument, that the gas thus | gathered must have been derived from the | steel. With a dull instrument the steel was | ground into much more minute particles, and | a larger number of small cavities must have | been thus opened, which, with a sharp tool, | escaped destruction. Dr. Mueller favors the | hypothesis that the gases thus proved to be | present in steel are not chemically combined | with the metal, but are simply mechanically | dissolved in it. He reiterated his statements that, in his opinion, the best way to prevent | the presence of large quantities of gas is to aim at a strong reaction by the addition of spiegel. The carbonic oxide gas evolved |during that process has, in his opinion, a |strong washing action, and he states that (8 number of German Bessemer works which | have been working on this principle, have | had no trouble whatever in producing sound ingots. In order to prove the washing effect | | of the current of carbonic oxide gas pro- | duced by the spiegel reaction, he gathered gases from a Bessemer converter during that period of the work, and found them to | consist, by analyses, of the following gases : z Il. | Carbonic oxide... ........ oe 78.55 | Marbonic acid........... ...- jax att ia 0.86 ee a a ee 16.38 Hydrogen............ eae co 2.52 CO ccc cccccccccccrecse esvesses 0.0 1.32 RS - oe » 997 99-63 |Mr. Stead analyzed the gas which had | gathered in a bubble under the cover of | cinder in a ladle, and found that it contained : | of the value of space, were becoming a necessity in the large cities. The upper floors were, however, of little or no value if no elevator was provided. The oldest form of elevator was that in which the car was suspended in the shaft from a single rope. This was dangerous, and safety appliances were early introduced. Some makers used screws running from the top to the bottom of the elevator shaft. One, two or four had been employed, the nuts being attached to the car and the screws revolved. The slowness, enormous wear! and tear, and great friction had caused this plan to be abandoned. Hydraulic telescopic elevators had been used, as in the New York Post Office. They were safe, as had been demonstrated by numerous accidents, from which no harm to passengers had resulted. The hydraulic elevator of the present time differed from those earlier types in having long cylinders, | made in sections, in which was placed a piston to which was attached two piston rods. Inthe cross-head of these rods was attached the lower pulley of the purchase. In the course of the discussion, Mr. John- son took up the subject, and illustrated the principal forms of elevators used at the | present time, The first had a vertical hydraulic cylinder carrying the pulleys upon the cross-heads, the speed being gained by means of them. The second system | was similar, but the cylinder laid upon its side. In the vertical form, such as Mr. | Blanchard mentioned, the operation was somewhat complex, since it would ordinarily | be supposed that as the car reached the top of the building the power, and consequently the speed, would increase. This was avoided by making the piston work in the center of a solid column of water, the water being opened only as the piston moved. The power is usually furnished by a tank | at the top of the building. When city pres- | sure is great, as at Boston or Cincinnati, and | ~. 31-4 “Carbonic oxide..... 47-3 the price of water small, water is taken | Garboale acid..... *"a.5| Total.,,.....+++- 998 from the street mains, The costvaries from the best appliance that he knew of, and which he considered perfectly safe, was the Ellithorpe air cushion. This was first applied to dumb waiters. It has been used in connection with a few elevators in New | York and elsewhere. Mr. Johnson stated, in conclusion, that he | could find no material difference in the cost of working steam and hydraulic elevators of equal power. The hydraulic elevator costs as much to run empty as loaded, while with steam there is a saving when there is no load. The hydraulic elevator can be run | ‘much faster, but the speed diminishes | with the weight. When steam is used |the speed is uniform, but the quantity of steam varies with the load. cr Explosions of Water Gas. Ina communication addresse1 to the Yon- kers Fuel Gas Co., Dr. Henry Wurtz, well known as an authority on gas chemistry, dis- cusses the relative danger of explosions by the ignition of mixtures of air with ordinary illu- minating gas and with Strong water gas. The subject has become one of interest to the pub- | lie in general, as the recent explosion at the works of the Westchester Gas Light Co., in Yonkers, may have led to the belief that water gas is more dangerous in this respect than the ordinary illuminating gas. It is with a view to presenting the recent acci dent in its true light, that Dr. Wurtz has written a letter embodying the results of |his researches, which have been published in the Engineering and Mining Journal. | It is necessary to state, first, that the gas which exploded at Yonkers was ‘‘Lowe gas,”’ not ‘‘ Strong gas,” as previously reported. Dr. Wurtz states that the’ accident was due to carelessness in leaving a drip cock open under the floor of the purify- ing room. A large volume of gas escaped, and one of the most striking features in | connection with the explosion was that it} was so feeble, if the quantity of gas is taken into account. Dr. Wurtz dwells with em - phasis upon this point, and makes an elabo- rate scientific argument to prove that the practical experience thus obtained as to the character of the explosions of water gas is borne out by, and could be predicted from, theoretical considerations. While ordinary illuminating gas contains large quantities (40 to 50 per cent.) of marsh gas, water gas is rich in carbonic oxide. The quantities of air required in burning or exploding—and therefore the volume of products of combus- tion and the expansive energy developed— compare in these two gases as one to four. The rate of propagation of the flame is much less, and the rate of diffusion—de- pendent, as it is, upon the specific gravity— is less also. Dr. Wurtz comes to the con- clusion that gas explosions occurring with the new fuel gas will be far less destructive to life and property, on an average, than explosions of the gases heretofore in general use. EEE A Fluxing Gas Producer for Making Heating Gas.* BY W. J. TAYLOR, CHESTER, N. J. In making heating gas with anthracite coal for roasting ore during the past few years, I have tried many forms or plans of gas generators. So far, the most successful and satisfactory one has been what we call a fluxing producer, which is simply a small cupola or blast furnace in which we charge with the coal, say, 30 or 40 per cent. basic blast furnace cinder, to unite, when melted, with the ash or earthy matter in the coal, and carry it off as cinder. The producer we have in use at Chester, N. J., has more of the lines of a blast furnace than a cupola, the hearth being 24 inches diameter and 24 inches high. It then enlarges on an angle of about 25 degrees from a perpendicular to 4 feet, and then is drawn into 3 feet on top; total hight, 12 feet. We use one water coil tuyere 12 inches above the bottom, and blow through a 1%-inch nozzle. The depth of coal above the tuy- ere averages about 6 feet. It is blown with a small Weimer blow- ing engine 24 inches diameter and 12 inches stroke, making 6 cubic feet of air to a revolution, 50 revolutions or 300 feet of air per minute. It consumes, say, 200 pounds coal per hour, which is about 80 feet of air for 1 pound of coal. The air pressure is from I pound to 1% pounds to the square inch, The cinder is tapped out about every two hours and is black and glassy. In this way we get a very continuous flow of gas as long as the engine is kept running. We have run for at least 4 weeks without a moment’s stoppage or change of any kind. We depend upon cinder mainly for fluxing, and though we often use a little lime stone with it, we have never tried te do without cinder entirely. The only fuel used so far has been anthracite coal, broken or egg sizes giving the best results. We have not been able to make fine anthracite work at all, I have no doubt that almost any kind of bituminous ceal could be used if not too fine. The advantages in favor of this producer are: 1st. It makes an excellent gas, very uni form in quality, there being so much incan ' descent fuel above the tuyere that little or no air can escape unconsumed, and the same advantageous conditions prevent, I may say almost entirely, the formation or escape of any carbonic acid. 2d. There is no cleaning of ashes to be done, consequently there is no cessation of the flow of gas and no waste of coal—a very important matter. 3d. Large quantities of gas can be made in this producer by simply increasing the size and the volume of air entering it, and any one familiar with blast furnace practice can run it, particularly if cinder for fluxing is available. The power required for blow ing the producer for burning 200 pounds of coal per houris, say, 45,000 foot pounds or 1 14 horse power, which at 3 pounds coal per horse power per hour would amount to 2% per cent. of the coal burned in the producer. 3 ccmemmeiia The tunnel through the Palisades at Wee hawken, for the New York, Ontario and Western Railroad, is again in progress, after a temporary suspension on account of a slight deviation from the original survey. The cutting is through solid rock and is for a double track, the whole work to be finished within a year. Mr. Katta is the engineer in charge. The terrific explosion in the coal mines at Almy, on the Union Pacifie Railway, on the 3d inst., is attributed to carelessness. Em boldened by exemption from disaster here tofore, the miners had neglected most of the usual precautions, and so paid the penalty with their lives. * A paper read before the American Institute of Mining Engineers, ee ae W@W aie ees £ ee Be a as eS 5 dL Nee. Be . a. wade’ GEE Gs > we Bch = 4 = es _> ote MA ow eee . —— ‘ aeamern f _— ——s ——_ I ate SS SS Yr =a: rae ~—y >: es. rn Sr oty —= oe a wo Ante LEON AGE. March 10, 1881. gActalis. | fAetals. ANSONIA The Plume & Atwood BRASS & COPPER CO., Mo. 19 Cliff Str eet, Mfg. Company, Phelps Building, NEW YORK. ” \. sal eggs os Fi PmILIP 1. MoEN, BRASS AND COPPER Waterbury ‘Brass CO. | SHEET and ROLL BRASS and WIRE, Washburn & Moen Mic. Co. _ CAPITAL, - - $400,000. German Silver and Gilding Metal, Established, 1831. ; iene $1,500,000 WORCESTER, MASS. WIRE DRAWERS. Sheets. Bolts, Rods, Wire, &c. Sheet, Roll and Platers’ Brass, Seamless Brass & Copper CERMAN SILVER, Copper, Brass and German Silver Wire, Copper Rivets and Burs, aC pereges Platt BRASS AND COPPER TUBING, Kerosene Burners, | orru ove Fiatiorms, a wae: 6a “ COPPER RIVETS & BURS, | 1Lamp Trimmings, &c. Patent Galvaniring, Rolling and Temperin PURE COPPER WIRE pering. ; 3 BRASS KETTLES, lf ANUFACTURERS OF flee ? and Covered. 80 Chambers Street, New York. For Electrical Purposes, Bare Door Rail, Brass Tags, ’ Pnosphor Bronze Rods for Pumps, &c. PER CUSSION CAPS, 13 Federal Street, Boston. | TRON ’ AND BRON AND STEEL WIRE. ANSONIA ob REFINED POWDER FLASES, 109 Lake Street, Chicago. —E Of Every Description, Metallic Eyelets, Shot Pouches, Tape Measues, &c. Rolling Mill, Factories, _ A SPECIALTY MADE OF GALVANIZED TELEGRAPH WI RE, GALVANIZED TELEPHONE WIRE, PATENT STEEL WIRE BALE TIES, PATENT STEEL BA RB FENCING, And small Brass Wares of every Description. THOMASTON, Ct.| WATERBURY, Ct. INCOT CO COPPER. _ Cartridge Metal in Sheets or Shells a Specialty. | ——— PHELPS, DODGE & - & CO. Capewell Mig. Co.’s Line ot Sport- Bridgeport Brass Co,, ing Goods and Wood’s Paper MANUFACTURERS OF Shot Shells. DEPOTs: mits at | Sheet and Roll Brass, IMPORTERS OF TIN PLATE, 296 Broadway, New York. WATERBURY, , . ROOFING PLATE, | 189 Eddy St., Providence, R. 1. Conn Brass & Copper Wire & Tubing, AND PUMP CHAIN. German Silver Metal and Wire, NEW YORK OFFICE; ST. LOUIS WAREHOUSE: CHICAGO WAREHOUSE: 2) Ciiff St, 802 No. Second St. 107 Lake St. Sheet Iron, Copper, Pig Tin, Wire, Zine, &c. Copper and Iron Rivets. Manhattan Brass Co., Seen! et cen ak Manufacturers of OILERS and CUSPADORES, | LAMPS and TRIMMINGS, I C 0 Pp 7 £ a A N D R x AS Sheet Rrass, Olmsted Patent Oilers, | LANTERNS and TRIMMINGS, | KEROSENE BURNERS, 0 sto \HNTTT Te SECT T TT . | Brass Wire, Prior Patent Oilers ' Copper Wire, Breughton Patent Oilers, | Clocks & Fly Fan Movements. | PLUMBERS’ MATERIALS. Brass, Tin & Zine Oilers,| particular attention paid to cutting out Blanks and *‘NATIONAL WIRE AND LANTERN WORKS,” ’ Copper Rivets, CLIFF STREET, NEW YORK. Brass Tabing, Brass Butt Hinges, mamufactering Metal Geode. Warehouse, 45 Fulton Street, New York. SCOVILL MFC CO Bins Febtes, nas ae —— MANUFACTORY, WaArrnovse, oO rown’s Paten SsScCoVv { 7 MM Fj S F d g » Conn. | 19 Murray St., N. ¥. And California Wire Works Co., San Francisco, Cal. ire ets, en ers, 5. THOS. W. FITCH, Prost, and Treas A. A. LASAR, Secy. Manufactory, Nos. 1197, 1199, 1201, 1203, 1205, 1207, 1209 and 1211 De Kalb Avenue, Brooklyn, ) ie» A HOWARD & MORSE, MANUFACTURE BRASS, COPPER & IRON WIRE CLOTH, BRASS, HINCES, WIRE, CERMAN SILVER. BRASS BLANKS AND TUBES OF EVERY DESCRIPTION TO ORDER. OFFICE AND WORKS, Ist Ave., 27th to 28th Sts., New York. AD THE NEW HAVEN COPPER CO., 255 Pearl Street, New York. Manatacturers of and Dealers in PHOTOGRAPHIC GOODS. BUTTONS, CLOTH AND METAL. —_—_>—_—- DEPOTS, FACTORIES, 419 & 421 Broome St., N, Y. Waterbury, Conn. 177 Devonshire St., Boston. New Havea, Conn. 183 Lake St. Chicago. New York City, DICKERSON, VAN DUSEN & CO.,/Braziers’ & Sheathing No. 16 Pattern, Drive Wire Cloth, partly Importers of Tin Plate, Pig Tin, Sheet lron, Cooper, COPPER. soe > —__ unrolled. Way Gates. ns a a, Ee Kettle Bottoms, Bolts, Circles, Rivets, Holmes, Booth & Hay dens, ’ DICKERSON & CO., Liverpool. "aw veas. Ingot Copper, Spelter, Solder, &c. — og HEAVY ROLLED CLOTH FOR MALT KILN FLOORS. ROME IRON WORKS, | JOHIN STARR, |scuseess. re veacrass.| Wire Work, Wire Fence, Railing and Guards. Manufacturers of Brass, Gilding Metal, Cop- per and German Silver (In Sheets, Rods, Tubing or Wire), COPPER & BRASS RIVETS AND BURS. Rome, New York. A. C. NORTHROP, Waterbury, Conn., NOVELTIES IN BRASS AND OTHER METAL GOODS Manufacturers of all kinds of WORKS RO E BI ¥ Brass, Copper & German Silver, sisoaal uING'’S ROLLED AND IN SHEETS. BRASS & COPPER WIRE, - Warehouse Tubing, Copper Rivets & Burs. = 117 Liberty Street. stassaimon” | THE JOHN A, ROEBLING'S SONS CO, JACK CHAIN, DOOR RAIL. MANUFACTURERS OF German Silver Spoons, =|WIRE ROPE) .,..anzxo |Iron and Steel SILVER PLATED FORKS & SPOONS, s..51°"4 copper | Telegraph Wire, WIRE Hardware & Metal Broker, MANUFACTURERS’ AGENT, Halifax, Nove Scotia, Representing in the Dominion of Canada several American Manufacturers, is ready to accept further Agencws, Satisfactory references. _ New York Office aT TRENTON, Kerosene Burners, &c. VOR 2 FOR HARDWARE TRADE. JOH N DAVOL & SONS, Holsting Purposes of all Market Wire, FOR Wrought Iron and Brass Machine Screws; Turned, Hexagon, Round and Square Head Cap and ome oe caus thee, eae ake j j Dae ete Bouse Wine 4 , &et Screws; Brass and Iron Safety and and Jack Vhain; Gilt, Nickel Plated and Brouse Trimmings oe all Brooklyn Brass and Copper Co., Sashentee che fe. ie ~ Vineyard Wire. Bridge Wire, Chain Wire, xinds. from Sheet Iron, Steel or I Dealers 12 9 BOrg Se Buckle Wire, Spring Wire, Estimates on patenced articles, or any description of Sheet Metal work, respectfully solicited and t Co S it L d, Tj Suspension Bridge Cables, Rivet Wire, &c., &c. ngo r er ea in, S See Ss CALVANIZED WIRE CLOTHES LINES. Greer given, ABRAM 8. HEWITT, President, WM. HEWITT, Vice President. TRENTON IRON COMPANY, INCORPORATED 1847), TRENTON, N. J., Manufacturers of IRON and STEEL WIRE OF ALL GRADES, BRIGHT, ANNEALED, COPPERED, TINNED AND GALVANIZED: Iron and Steel Wire Rods; EXTRA QUALITIES OF BAR IRON AND RODS. Antimony, Solder & Old Metals, PASSAIC ZINC Co, IRON AND STEEL WIRE ROPE For Hoisting, Running & Standing Ropes, Ferries, &. CONSTANTLY KEPT ON HAND. Pure Spelter | siiess, wZARD WEG CO. Wikesbare, terme Co, Pa, Cartridge Brass, Gas Fixtures, Bronzes F E LT Fa N & GC U { L Be EA U Mi E, AND ALL FINE WORK. Also for Carlswerk, near Cologne, Germany. Galvanizers & Brass Founders. |DATENT CRUCIBLE STEEL WIR E, MANNING & SQUIER, Gen'lAgents,) cE MENS-MARTIN AND BESSEMER STEEL WIRE, JAMES HALL, Treasurer. E. HANSON, Secretary. Manufactarers of Best Qualities of Gun- Screw and Charcoal lron Wire}; Geo. W. "ee Sreot, ee Se Flusseisen, Swedish and German Charcoal Wire. Crucible, Siemens-Martin and Bessemer Steel Wire. eo rentiss & CO..}GALVANIZED TELEGRAPH WIRE —____— HOLYOKE, MASS., of Charcoal and Swedish Iron and Steel, also with high conductivity, and in long lengths. ee GALVANIZED STEEL WIRE, Wire Straightened and Cut to Lengths. New York Office, COOPER, HEWITT & “CO., ).. 7 Burling Slip. Phila jelp shia Ofice , JOHN HEWITT, Agent, 21 North Fourth St. BRODERICK & BASCOM, MANUFAC TU RERS OF For Plain, Barb and Strand Fencing, 3, qond 7-ply § atrand. Stagies, &c. Annealed ae Oiled Fencing Vire, round and ov WIRE ROPE OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. TELEGRAPH CABLES. 3 a wa ee ' Contractors to the German and Foreign Srrecumente, The oo h in th . ae | tincnt. Teicgraph Address, CAMLSWEMK, COLOGNE.) 08 the Con SS ee r General ae for U. 8. and widen: Bright, een Annealed and Tin inied. to ctxscuew wink | PERKINS & CHOATE, 23 Nassau St, N.Y. The Schosnterg Metal Mi. Co, | J. WOOL GRISWOLD, | MINERS’ CANDLES, so LDE R, T Y Pp E, Manutactaper of Superior to ayy other Light for Mining Stereotype, ace and Babbitt Mensin” WT LT Fr Ee i. Purposes, Manufactured by Importers of Block Tin, antimony, fe BeGuers of JAMES BOYD'S SON, , Spelter, &e. Highest tice pald to io or Old Mepals als Aas Seok TROY, N. ¥, Nos, 10 & 12 Franklin 8t,, New York, IRON ome WIRE ROPE. & Sees 728 WN. Main St, treet, between Avenues 5 & hae HO pre SIL cesi C No Also | , Largest W price: i te on @ A genera R tails kept made pron W. E.O. 8. Ww. IN 7. P, HO March 10, 1881, 0. LINDEMANN & C0., Manufacturers of all kinds of Japanned, Brass & Tin Plated BIRD CAGES. to the trade. NEW YORK. » Catalogues furnished N STEEL WIR E for all purpos ; tii WEL I LER ELLPLELLLLLEALAP 4 Wiha THE IRON AG #4. CARY & MOEN, Manufacturers of es and STEEL SPRINGS of every descr! | | ie MU) ed SVS SASS IS She VAISS SSS ALM OLALELELEELAAAL ALLA LEAP "eset AT Market Steel Wire, Crinoline Wire, tempered and covered. Also Patent Tempered Steel Furniture Springs, constantly on hand. 9234, 936 and 238 West 29th Street, ~ BROWN & BROTHERS, 81 Chambers St., N. Y. Waterbury, Conn. Manufacturers of BRASS, COPPER AND GERMAN SILVER, In Sheets, Rolls, Rods, Wire, Tubing, Rivets and Burs, Etc. ALSO, Seamless Brass & Copper Tubing. PATENTED SEAMLESS BRASS AND COPPER flOUSE BOILERS, warranted to stand 200 lbs. pressure and guaranteed against vacuum. SHANK PATENTED SPRING TEMPERED . 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 unequaled purity and toughness. * RIDDLES AND CASTING BRUSHES aspecialty. Superior goods and reasonable prices. send for prices. A J it, Mich, E. T. BARNUM, Detro eS ees G. Gunther, Manufacturer of Patented Brass, Silver Plated and Japanned BIRD CAGES. Can be nested for ex- ee at » port shipments. — 103 & 105 William St., 7~ NEW YORK. I est variety in patterns and unsurpassed in 1 ar piled New Lilustrated Catalogues and Price Lists on application. THE MONTOUR IRON & STEEL COMPANY, Works at Danville, Pa. Y RAILS —@ he AND PIC 2 A general assortment of Mine and Narrow-Gauge Rails kept on hand, from which shipments ante made promptly. ° W. E. O. COXE, President, Reading, Pa. 8. W. INGERSOLL, Treas., Philadelphia, Pa. ¥. P, HOWE, General Supt., Danville, Pa. WESTON’S DIFFERENTIAL PULLEY BLOCKS. FIRE SAND AND CLAYS. SOLE MAKERS, YALE LOCK MANFC. CO., Office & Works, STAMFORD, CONN. SALESROOMS : - NEW YORK. 563 CHAMBERS sST., NEW YORK. Stanley Rule & Ley MANUFACTURERS OF Improved Carpenters’ Tools. Manufacturers of Balley’s Patent Adjustable Planes, ‘507 MARKET ST., PHILADELPHIA. 36 PEARL STREET, BOSTON. ‘G4 LAKE STREET, CHICAGO. el Co., FACTORIES, WAREROOMS, 29 Chambers St., New York, General Agents for the sale of Leonard Bailey & Co,’s Victor Planes,” Manufacturers of ** Deflance*? Patent Adjustable Planes, This Advertisement is Changed Every Week, D. J. MORRELL, Chairman, WIRE and SPRI ANNUAL CAPACITY. W. S. ROBINSON, Treasurer, CHAS, DOUGLASS, Gen’! Supt. GAUTIER STEEL CO., LIMITED. STEEL NCS. NS hilt. xs ne nthnesedandieadiwtdauaassnunsiedue 25,000 Tons, EN A REsGACEUNDAD EL oA Rukand cebbdceduceedmamnees 25,000 «« ee eis sicekewaddnbaceeaciadece swe 50,000 Pairs, Horse-Rake Teeth..... SRRAND Pia Dan hNe bed k ean aes oon NY Midis si Sadsd de wssaddcddecidsdbens JOHNSTOWN, PENN, Eastern Warehouse, 93 John St. N.Y.; Philada, Warehouse, 505 Commerce St. 45,000 Sets, WILLIAM VOGEL, Manufacturer of Plain and Stamped TINWARE, SEAMLESS BOXES, ROUND, OVAL AND SQUARE CANS. Special Articles Manufactured of Sheet Metals. 41, 43 & 45 South 9th Street, Near the Ferries, BROOKLYN (E. D.), N. ¥. HENRY J. VOGEL. WHITEHEAD BROS. _ AMERICAN FACING CO. Established 1810. N. & G, TAYLOR CO,, PHILADELPHIA, Manufacturers, Importers and Dealers in ODD AND REGULAR SIZES TIN AND ROOFING PLATES, Black and Galvanized Sheet Iron, Metals, Wire, Copper, Stamped Ware, HRegisters, &c. LOUIS H. VOGEL. MOULDING SAND, Albany Sand a Specialty. FOUNDRY FACINGS, Shovels, Riddles, Brushes, &c. WM. WHITEHEAD, Treas., 517 W, 15th St., New Work, ption. ~_, New Britain, Conn, An Explosion of a Rolling Mill Boiler.* to keep up the steam supply. of this kind, a main steam pipe, 8 inches in diameter, leading from the engine through the mill, with 6-inch branches to each boiler. At the places where the branches tapped the main pipe were stop-valves, by which its boiler might be shut off the line whenever necessary for examination, -cleaning or repairs. When the explosion occurred, car- rying away the connecting branch pipé, the steam from all the other boilers emptied upon those who were near the scene of the disaster. This explains why nearly all the vic- tims of this explosion died from scalds, The setting was built above the furnace in the or- dinary way to utilize its waste heat, which passed upward through an uptake at one end turned under the boiler, and thence into the stack, the whole resting nponaniron structure about 10 feet above the ground. The weight of the boiler and connections was hung upon four brackets (or lugs), one at each side at the extreme ends, making a distance between the supports of 25 feet 3 inches, there being no intermediate bearings or supports. The side walls of the setting closed into the boiler along the middle of its depth, about 5 inches below the usual water-line. Over the boiler-top was a thin covering of some light material, and resting on that a single layer of brick on edge. The foregoing, describ- were similar in all respects to the one destroyed by explosion. a At the left side of the illustration, K ig. 3, upon the side and bottom of the boiler, it will be noticed there are three patches, patch upon patch, caused by the flame from the uptake impinging upon the sheet immedi- ately over it, driving off the water, over- heating and cracking it. This defect was, feed entering the boiler at that point. pany. heat with great variations, due to the had been altered in accordance with this manipulation of the iron in the furnaces plan st the time athird patch was put on over which they are placed. They are the fire sheet, only five weeks previous subjected to severe strains, caused by the | Some twenty minutes (or more) before the sudden slowing and almost stoppage of the explosion, a leak was reported in the rolls at times, by heavy blooms of plates, bottom of the boiler; it seems to have making a sudden demand upon the boilers’ increased, for, a few minutes after it was ing the setting, is based upon an examina- | tion of the adjacent boilers, which, it is said, | loaded in the middle. It has been deter It was pumped from an open well ““F From The Locomotive, published by the Hart ' ford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Com- | at a temperature, perhaps, of 1oo degrees. Boilers exposed to this danger are now pro- tected by an arch or hood across the uptake, Explosions of boilers at rolling mills and the effect of which is to protect the exposed blast furnaces are of frequent occurrence. | part as well as to curve the flame along the W hen their great length, in many cases their | boiler bottom. ; defective construction and setting, and the At the coroner’s inquest mention is made manner in which they are are cared for, are of the great difficulty and delays occasioned considered, it is a matter of surprise that by steam leaks at the back end and at they do not more frequently explode, They! the uptake end of the boilers. Some are run day and night, 144 hours a week ; bvilers have, during the last year, been pro- their bottom sheets exposed to an intense tected by the method just described ; No, 15 2 thought sufficiently dangerous to have the r . . . The boiler herewith described, known as! charge drawn, and the fire was dropped Fig. t. No. 15 of the Allentown Rolling Mill, by its; when the explosion oecurred. The water-ten- explosion caused the death of 13 persons| der was at the back watching the leak, and the injury of several others, with a loss | and describes it as being in the middle of or damage to property of ubout $3000, upon | the boiler, extending about 2 feet around which there was no insurance. It was what| the seam, the point at which separation is known as a plain cylinder, erected about | occurred (see Figs. 1 and£3); the ladder the year 1871, though it had not been in con- 0 tinuous operation since that time. It was 27 feet 5 inches long, 36 inches in diameter ; shell, 5-16 irich iron in nine courses, varying | bruises and scalds. The rupture, as before a little in thickness, as they often do; heads | stated, occurred at a girth seam, the line of of cast-iron, the feed-water entering through the front head, the blow-off at the back ; steam dome 25 x 32 inches, with a cast-iron | place, as shown by an enlarged view of the head, upon the top of which was mounted a| ruptured edges by Fig. 2; the parts of the common lever safety-valve of 3 inches diam- | shell missing at the edges have since Leen cut eter, loaded at 65 pounds pressure; under | the valve-chamber was a T connection| a test to determine its tensile strength, the for the steam pipe. The arrangement of the | result of which has not been made public. steam pipe was that generally used in mills | The material of which this boiler was con- upon which he stood was hurled down and | crushed by the fall of the smoke-stack, but |he miraculously escaped with some slight ; 7 | fracture passing through the rivet holes, | leaving half of the lap held by its rivets in out for the purpose of subjecting the iron to | structed was apparently charcoal iron of Fig. 2. |average quality, but the workmanship was bad. he superintendent testified that these boilers were built for a former management by several different makers, and have since been so changed that they cannot be posi tively traced, and no one has yet been found who will admit the paternity of No. 15. An examination of the rivet holes atthe point of rupture proves that seven-tenths were not fair holes, and indicates that the drift pin was used to bring them in position so that the rivets could be inserted, thus subjecting the outside lap seam to a far greater strain in forcing it to its place than it ought ever have been subjected to under steam pressure. There is no good reason for believing that seam to have been any worse than the others uniting the remaining eight rings of plates, and the way in which the rivet heads are flattened down and drawn over, provokes a strong suspicion that this is the case. If this seam was no weaker than the others, why should rupture occur there? Owing to its great length, and having no intermediate support, the weight of the boiler, connections and contents, in the aggregate not less than about 5% tons, would, by alternate expan sion and contraction, bring the greater part of that strain upon its middle seams, anal- ogous to a beam supported at its ends and |mined, by experiments upon single-riveted lap joints of yood material and workman |ship, that the strength of the material jcomposing the lap seam is from 56 to |60 percent. of the strength of the plate, but im the ruptured joint, this econ- jdition is proven not to exist, viz., good | workmanship. Who can tell the strength | of a lap joint whose rivet holes have been no doubt, greatly aggravated by the/| distended by the drift pin, as these are be- ’ lieved to have been / Kngineers do not agree upon this question of sustaining boil- ers by center supports, and point to the fact that hundreds of boilers are now running, | some of them 20 or mere years suspended “a ane ee a $ cot dee a at at A a lhl ee eS ee - mas oc ee S ese THE IRON AGE. March 10, 1881. xron. : Xron. Xron. ¥ron. ron. NEW YORK. NEW YORK. NEW YORK. PITTSBURGH. PITTSBURGH. OGDEN & WALLACE,|A. B. Warner & Son,) John W. Quincy, 85,87,89 & 91 Elim St., New York, IRON MERGHANTS 98 o Street, New York. ro n a nd Ste e | 28 & 29 West and 52 Washineton Sts. | er lw pea ag je eae cna arother er | BOILER PL ATE, BLOCK TIN. LEAD, SPELTER, ANTIMONY. NICKEL, &e BLACK DIAMOND STEEL.) Setler Tubes, Angie, Tee & Girder tren, HARRISON & GILLOON Beller and Tank Rivets. es Se IRON AND METAL DEALERS, " Eureka,” Pennocks, 558, 560, 5&2 WATER ST., and 902, 904, 906 CHERRY 8T., NEW YORE, “Wawasset,” Luk have on hand, and offer for sale, the following: a asse 9 u ens, sneeee itch and — con Fig bro Iro Wresen*, Com oat Brands of Iron. Alsoall descriptions of Plave, Sheet, | Wo, wie also, oid ‘Cespen SN Seeouien: Bresa and Gasometer Iron. Special attention to Locomotive | Lead. Pewter. Zinc. lron. Fire Box Lron a specialty. ROME MERCHANT IRON Mus, OXFORD IRON CO., ROME, N. ¥., (B. G. CLARKE, na a Manufacturers of the best grade of Bar Iron, Bands and Fine Hoops.’ @> ay + N ails Horse Shoe Iron. Also from Charcoal Pig a superior ee Iron branded J.G. All puddled balls re — ~ hammer. Orders may the sent to the Millor | t PENTER, our Agent, at 59 John iw SPI KES. ALLSTO det b I) J. 8. SCRANTON, Sales Agent, ANDM ETAL BRO Aa 81, 83 and 85 Washington Street, NEW YORK. BURDEN’S HORSE SHOES. 5) ee “Burden Best & METALS, lron 68 Wall St., New York. JAMES WILLIAMSON & CO., SCOTCH AND AMERICAN PIG IRON No. € 69 Wa Wall St., N lew York. — ULSTER IRON WORKS, Tow NeY EGLESTON BROS. & CO., 18 Wall St., New York. 166 South Street, 267 Front Street, { NEW YORK CITY. Tuckerman, Mulligan & Co BURDEN’S Passaic Rolling Mill Co. KY B. & S. PATERSON, N. J. AND lron Bridge Builders ULSTER BAR IRON, And Manufacturers of All sizes and shapes ip stock. Also Best Grades of Beams, Channels, Angles, | am, & Eng, Ref'd Iron,Common Iron,&c| TEES, ee ee oe Merchant Iron, &c., &c. Dan’. W. RIcHarpDs. New York Office, Room 45, Astor House. DAN’L W. RICHARDS & CO., Cumberland Coals. WALLACE & CO, [22 Woo RaTEUWiearnen, treater | Pj IRON MERCHANTS CARMICHAEL, EMMENS & WORTH, Pig Iron and Bar Iron, Cor. Albany & Washington Sts, |ipaw ann otrer nny -| Scrap Iron, Scrap Steel, NEW YORK CITY. IRON AND STEEL BOILER PLATE. Old Rails and Old Metals, B Lap-Welded Boiler Tubes, &c., &c, We. Bares. cont a Otis’ celebrated Cast Steel Boller Plates, 88 to 96 Mangin St., New York, HUGH Ww. ADAMS, ea _ he Coatesville Om Pottstown Iron Co., The DEALER IN W. S. MIODLETON, W. All sizes of Cast and Machinery Steel constantly on hand. PIERSON & CO., 24 & 26 Broadway, 77 & 79 New St., NEW YORK CITY. “PICKS” of all kinds, “ ESOPUS” HORSE SHOE IRON, BEAMS, ANCLES, Tees, Channels, Sheets, Plates. All descriptions in stocix. IRON & STEEL. “ABEEL BROTHERS, Established 1765 by ABEEL & BYVANCK, Iron Merchants, 190 South Street and 365 Water, N. Y. JLSTERIRON A full assortment of all sizés constantly on hand. Refined Iron, Horse-Shoe Iron, Laaaaeera Tia (a ttn IRON AND STEELRAILS.OLD RAILS Tanai % a Common tron, Band, Hoop and Scroll Iron, Sheet Iron, Norway Nail Rods, Norway Shapes, Cast, Spring and Tire Steel, ete. A. R. Whitney, Manufacturer of and Dealer in IRON, 0 Hudson ss, 50 4 5 Thomas, anal NEWYORK, 12, 14416 Worth Sts., Oar specialty is in Manufacturing Iron Used in the Con- struction of Fire-Proot Buildings, Bridges, &c. Plans and estimates furnished, and contracts made for erecting Iron Structures of ever description. Books containing cuts o: all Iron made sent on ap- lication by mail. ’ Sample pieces at office, Please address 58 Hudson Street. “BORDEN & LOVELL, Commission Merchants 70 & 7i West St., Wi tone f New York. Agents for the sale of Fall River Iron Co.’s Nails, Bands, Hoops & Rods. AND Borden Mining Company’s of < Brokers ip Boiler Rivets. 7 | Burden Iron Works, H. Burden & Sons, Morton B. Samira. M. H. WaLiacs. ~~ B. KF. JUDSON, T paure Rolling Maus, vand ‘Union Tube Works ;W rought n Beams, Angles, Tees, Rivets, &c. Importer of and Dealer in SCOTCH AND AMERICAN Pris Ir38n, VOREIGN AND AMERICAN RAILWAY, PIG AND SCRAP iron,t 0/OKer in Machinery & lron Wrought & Cast Scrap Iron, oe, ae oe: mates furnished for a nds of Iron Work, FORSTER’S CRUSHER & PULVERIZER, Planished Sheet Iron. Patented March 14th, 1865 ; April 8th, 1873 ; Sept, 9th, 1873; Uct. 6th, 1874; Jan. 11, 1876. Guaranteed fully equal in all respects to the and at a much less price. METAL DEALERS THE UNITED STATES. Il! Water Street, PITTSBURGH, PA. | | OLD RAILS, SCRAP IRON, STEEL, Wa. ‘Rea, Prest. F. B. Lavouin, Vice-Prest. W. A. Suaw, Treas. Storage and Issue Warrants. PIG TRON, BLOOMS, INGOTS MUCK BAR, RAILS, &c. Correspondence relative to establishment of | yards at furnaces solicited. Corner 13th and Etna Streets, EECH BU RG _ TRON WoRKS. OFFIOE, » No. 1430 First t Ave. “9 Pittsburgh, mee oA W. 0, WOOD & COS A. G. marRy, Commission Merchant. Bar, Sheet, Tank, Boller, Angle, T, and Raliroad Iron, And Railroad Equipment. Nails & Spikes Steel & R. R. Supplies, WINDOW GLASS, GAS PIPE & BORAX. PITTSBURGG, PA. PATENT | IMPORTED RUSSIA IRON, SNOW SHOES Fy N@ ROADSTER fg % PATTERN. FOR SALE, by all the principal In the Large cities throughout And at their Office, 'STEEL TOE CALKS. KEYSTONE ROLLING MILL, Extra Quality Homogeneous Steel mus on ¢ oe’ BOTT ER PLATE IRON Pitt sburgh, STEEL PLATES, all descriptions. <8 _ « "pa. | Cut Nails and Spikes, Plate and Sheet Cc. BANE, Iron, all descriptiens, Portsmouth Iron and Steel Co., Successors to GAYLORD ROLLINC MILL CO., Manufacturers of - Siemens-Martin (Open Hearth) ‘STEEL BOILER PLATE, Agricultural and Machinery Steel and Steel Tire. lso, Homogeneous Iron Boiler Plate and Rivets, i. Merchant Bar, Hoop and Sheet Iron, Wroughi | Somes, Fish Bars and Bolts. Office and Works : PIC IRON, BLOOMS, AND ORE. PITTSE URGH, © PA, Sawt. Raley, Jr., Secy. UNION STORAGE CO, RECEIVE ON ON PORTSMOUTH, OHIO. GEO. 8, LEWIS, General Office, PITTSBURGH PA. _| pres't sad Hawt Gup't. Seoy ona Tren SABLE IRON & NAIL WORKS Established 1828. Manufacturers of Merchant Iron, Universal Mill Iron and Nails of Superior Quality and Finish. Orders for odd sizes Iron filled promptly. AaUGse & CO., _ PITTSBURGH, PA. KIRKPATRIC K & CO., Manufacturers of all grades of FINE SHEBHT IRONS, (Refined, Cold Rolled, Show Card, Stamping, Tea Tray, Polished, Shovel, Ferrule Iron, cas” NATURAL GAS USED AS FUEL, e.g F __WORKS, Leechburg, Pa. Pa ANDREW KLOMAN, omaN. Testamentary Trustees. PITTSBURGH, PA., MANUFACTURER OF Stel an lron Structural Material em EYE BAR BLANK A8 IT LEAVES THE ROLLS, EYE BAR FINISHED FROM TILE SAME. 1 . 56 PINE STREET 4 ° | The best i k Q L 1) M L T A L S . D. L. COBB. NEW YORK. |). enaeauaee or oe. Kloman Patent Solid Rolled Eye Bars, finished in Iron or Steel without welding or © upsetting 457 & 459 Water St.,! NEW YORK. | s ee ee oe Tae Pie. Be Be eet tony me hang 4 ven or Steel Steel Rails of all sizes and patterns. Splice Bars. Channel G 333 & 235 South S1.,} | * =. A. LISSBE RGE R, ‘Glengarnock and Carnbroe _and other structural shapes in tron ALTY Unusual shapes end sizes in Steel or Iron: Angles Tees a P EL F. COONEY. IRON & METAL oe HA (Late DANII reed Jas. HH, Hols —e Ce. 29, 511 and sig to seg East ioth St., New York, SWE D l Ss H : R a N. C ° G. LUNDELL, gum 7 SS Washington St., N. | ha e OD bs ra and offer for sale. tbh : fo lowing: SCOTCH PIG IRON J. F. FU LLARTON, 5 io yt A : BONER RLATES and SHEET IRON, | artista tier Sey thn, fat hots teat # | Bennett Ruitding, NEW YORK, Wy 7Byeh AP WELDED BOIL He eavy Wro rught tron; also. old Cx opp er, Composi ; Representing 0. C ange Place, ~ Oics Aas eT ta ms aah is - a tion, Brass, Lead. Pewter, Zinc, &¢ For spot delivery and for prompt or forward ne BRATT & CO, and the UDDEHOLM CO., Sweden. Agency for Pott s Irom ¢ a ¥iadue *t Iron W« rks | shi ents t Pig, Bare, k« nds eo h Bessemer and Martin- aie Le ER dita eg ti dat | BATES & DES PAR Dy aoe oie deta An Siti ib inatsaatatar™™ Hi, BOSTON, w iron Co 117 Pearl St., New York, P. O. Box 764, aitimore or New Orleans. , ' = ie OLD IR ON RAILS ~ tees 1 u wenn wens STEEL AND IRON RAILS, SWEDISH] JAMES LEE & CO : © GO, Sentai. REPRESENTING oo NEW IRON AVD STEEL RAILS BARS, STIEL AND PIG IRON. Sole Agents for the United States, Swedish & Norway lron J f every Descriptio “CRAP TnOn en O1D Bans f dl t of da k hand Iron and Steel os ars of all Kinds. | 4™@emeca. orf o Enelisb port . Pu ; : 72 Pine Street, New York. 2 New York eet Piledelphin’ impostatie mn orders ¢ | Ekman &Co. PAUL STRYBOS, GUSTAF LUNDBERG, ;3 Kilby st , Boston, | ee Shiites pAleuet rors, Philadelphia Agent, 234 & 226 N. | GOTHENBURG, p Lemay myn inn rd firt ne is Haw'y rk, eg yy Hot Pressed Nuts. Bolts. Wash g COMBINATION STEEL & IRON CO., SWEDEN. = nerville Rolling Mill UIS, BOIis, Washers, &Cc. CHESTER, PA. OW We are now prepared to manufacture the COM- I ee : = von FULLER BROTHERS & CO, ss tein | ane iat cameos BP Orders solicite< | € e BOAT BUILDING. C HORSE SHOE IRON 139 Greenwich Street, New York. 7/ New York Office, 82 JOHN ST. Po 4 Ee Pri i ‘eet, ow or 0, A, WEED, General Manager. THA MAS Kd NES Con bioage, Tu, JOHN LEOVARD, 450 West St, N.Y 3S, eet rgh, 50., tivets, ought VIS, ‘eas r » g, Pa vetting Channe! en Tees ——$<—<—— SENTING RCo. SURG, iN. [ON IN DING. March 10, 1881. xvon. . xron. sven. a. Edward J. Etting, IRON BROKER anp COMMISSION MERCHANT, 230 8. Third St., Philadelphia, Pa. Pig, Bar and Railroad Iron. OLD RAILS, SCRAP, &e- Agent for the PHILADELPHIA. ; Siemens’ Regenerative _ HENRY LEVIS & Co., f AS FURN A CF Manufacturers’ Agents 8 Sheet Iron and General Railway Equipments, RICHMOND & POTTS, Old Rails, Axles. ond Vheels bought and sold. 1198. Fourth. PHILADELPABIA, PA. 234 8. 4th St., Philadelphia. PHILADELPHIA. The Allentown Iron Co, and The Coleraine Furnaces. STOKAGE WHARF AND YARD DELAWARE AVENUE ABOVE CALLOWHILL STREET, connected by track with railroa