The Iron Age 1881-11-10: Vol 28 Iss 19

wa ee a Published every Thursday Morning by DAVID WILLIAMS, No. 83 Reade Street, New York. E Vol. XXVII1: No. Clerk’s Gas Engine. attention. and is manufactured by Messrs. Thompson, Stern & Co., London, England. This e gine is not only of unusual power for its size, but it bas the additional peculiarity that a charge of gas and air is taken and exploded | at every stroke. The large amount of power developed is partially due to the latter fact. The engine comprises two cylinders, one the working, and the other the so-called ‘‘ dis- the placer” cylinder. The diameter of former is 6 inches, and the stroke is inches ; the piston is connected to the crar in the ordinary manner, but the piston of | the displacer cylinder, in which the pressure is very slight, never exceeding 5 pounds to | the square inch, is driven off a pin in one of | this result the capacity of the displacer | the arms of the fly-wheel. The pin is at When the piston in the displacer ad- vances, a combustible mixture of gas and ar is drawn in during the first half of the stroke ; the admission valve is then closed, 4nd air is admitted during the remainder of te stroke. On the return of the piston a valve is opened, making a communication vetween the two cylinders. At this time the piston of the driving cylinder is at the outer snd of its stroke, and an annular port is pened, communicating with the exhaust Pipe. Through this opening the products of *mbustion from the last explosion pass, the Pressure in the cylinder falls, and the cylin- “er is ready to receive its next charge from the displacer chamber. The first portion that *aters the cylinder from the displacer is the pure air that passed in after its piston had reached the half stroke, and the combustible ‘xture of gas and air had been cut off. This “Ws through the motor cylinder, washing ‘out as it were at each stroke, and escap- ‘Ng through the exhaust until the latter is “sed by the piston starting on the return Toke. Meanwhile the explosive mixture ‘4s followed the pure air into the motor cyl- ‘der, and remains, as the exhaust opening sas how been closed. The returning piston “presses this mixture in a space at the ‘ad of the cylinder until it is about 45 The Iron Age A Review of the Hardware, Iron and Metal ‘Trades. 9. | pounds pressure, when the charge is ex- ploded, the pressure rising to some 250 We publish this week an illustration of a | pounds per square inch, and driving forward new gas engine, which, on account of several | the piston to the other end of the cylinder, very novel features, deserves most careful | when the exhaust is again opened, and the Itis known as the Clerk engine, | exploded gases escape, leaving the cylinder | free for the next charge from the displacer. | This series of operations takes place at every In the engine exhibited, the pres- ; sure at the end of the stroke is reduced to | about 30 pounds to the inch, but in larger engines it is considerably lower, and may be as small as 5 pounds above atmospheric pressure, by means of a special expanding n- stroke. arrangement. 12 ik New York, Thursday It will be noticed that a particular feature of this engine is the passing through the cylinder at each stroke a volume of pure air, which cools it down and at the same time thoroughly displaces all the residual gases from the previous stroke. ‘To produce slide at the back of the engine, worked | }an eccentric on the main shaft, and tl same slide cuts off the supply of n novelty in detail. In the ignition slide ;one end of the cavity is a perforated plat |} ing made by a small hole in the slide and ways in a passage in the engine face leadir | motor cylinder. | perforated plate the mixture is lighted by THE CLERK GAS ENGINE | chamber is larger than that of the driving | the slide ; the movement of this latter opens nght angles to the crank, and in advance of | cylinder and the space atthe end into which | this port into a port on the side of the com- the explosive mixture is compressed, and as half of each charge from the displacer is pure air, the desired object of cleaning and cooling the cylinder at every stroke must be attained. In large engines this device should be of the greatest possible service, as it should effectually prevent premature firing | of the explosive charge, which would other- ‘ wise sometimes occur through the existence | of sparks from the ignition of particles of carbon on the side of the cylinder. volume of air which sweeps through the cylinder at each stroke in the Clerk engine, cools it down so as to prevent the existence of sparks, or if they should be created, re- | moves them as it passes rapidly to the ex- haust. The valve gear and cut-off arrange- ment are well designed and very simple. The mixed charge of gas and air is admitted into the displacing chamber by an automatic lifting valve, and another similar valve makes a communication between the dis- placer and the driving cylinder. This valve is actuated by the pressure of the air and gas in the displacer, but this pressure is very low, all that is required being sufficient to raise the valve and help to displace the re- sidual gases left by the previous explosion in the motor cylinder. The ignition of the ' mixture at each stroke is effected by a small The} |bustion chamber, causing ignition at each stroke, So efficient is this arrangement that it will operate successfully at a speed of 300 explosions a minute, a far higher rate than can be obtained, or is indeed required by ordinary gas engines. Before the ignition slide is open to the combustion chamber, it it of course closed to the atmosphere ; the ignition port is very small, .5 by .25 inch, so that a very moderate pressure keeps the slide to its face, even against the 250 pounds per square inch caused by the explosion. | The slide being so small, there is no neces- sity for ventilating the port, as the mixture from the cylinder requires no exterior air to | support its combustion. It may be mentioned | that the admission valve to the displacer | chamber, and that between this latter and air cushion. One of these engines is ex , November 10, 188. gas }to the displacing cylinder at half stroke. |The igniting device is very perfect, and as jit is required to operate more frequently than in gas engines where explosions take | place every second revolution, it forms also a cavity, from each end of which is a small port leading to opposite ends of the slide. At | through which the explosive mixture passes | from the motor cylinder, communication be | groove in the face of the slide, which is al to the combustion chamber at the end of the After passing through this Bunsen burner, the flime filling the cavity and discharging at the port in the face of | —s ; | sum of money from the treasury the driving cylinder, are prevented from pany at atime when its financial ¢ yndition rattling by a very simple arrangement of | was such that within three mouths from tl j ry The Montour Iron 16 a i President Bond, of the Philadelphia a Reading Railroad, in a communication to t Company. Evening Bulletin of the 2d inst., gave some further explanations of the statements in his | ntered at the Post Office, New York, as Second-Class Matter. S4£°50 a Year, Inchseding Fostage, Single Coptes, Zen Cenéc = the introduction of electricity in | some of the first order sea-coast lights, nd he | asked for. he The fog in a most oflicient condition. recent pamphlet concerning the purchase of | — nine-sixteenths of the Montour Iron and | Testing U err fae is | Steel Company by the Reading, during Mr re TERT eee Wl, Gowen’s presidency, for $450,000. Mr. Bond | a says that $250,000 of theamount wastohave| A test of the underground telegraph wires e, | been used to retire $250,000 of the old mort- | laid in Market street, Philadelphia, gage bonds of the Pennsylvania Iron Com- | made a few daya ago, in the presence of a pany, then outstanding on the property pur- | number of gentlemen from New York, Bos ajchased. The Montour Company was then to! ton and Chicago. One of the rooms of the issue $600,000 new bonds on the property, | new Public Building had been connected by if | the Reading to guarantee interest and prin five wires witha store at Ninth and Mar- cipal after negotiating them ; this, however, | ket streets, and by a single wire with the was never done. Had it been done, the |dynamo-electric machine in the Grand a | Reading was to have been remunerated for | Depot across the way. Three of the five its payment of $4 [150.0 50,000 10 realized was for uso toward payi $183,576 due the Pennsylvania tron Com- pany for old supplies and materials, The negotiation of the $600,000 was unsuccessful, In fact, the old bondholders had refused to accept a surrender of the whole property in satisfaction of their claim of 32 so it 100 by mort- »,000, was impossible to borrow $6090,¢ gaging it. The old bondholders, however, agreed to surrender their $250,000 of bond upon the payment of per cent. of theit face in cash, or at the rate of $175 » for the property then owned by the Pennsylvania Iron Company. Mr. Bond explains that he alluded to this transaction to call attention not only to the extravagant price paid for an outside property off the line of road, but more particularly to the fact that a purchase had been negotiated by the ofh the Reading Company, withdrawing su —- large rt the ci In) hibited at the Paris Exposition and though} of the railroad and Coal and Lron Companies it is a small one, with a cylinder only | was placed in the hands of the receivers 6 by 12 inches, yet working at 145 revo lutions it develops on the brake 6 horse- power, and indicates about 10, London Engineering, speaking of this engine, says} report, speak of the great that it considers the arrangement a most|the appliances for generatin promising one, and such it certainly seems| 2d improvements in the burners te be, and the remaining running to Ninth with telegraph instruments, i street were |! were all solenoid, or composed of one straight insulated wire wrapped by another, their ends being joined, worked perfectly. The ‘‘ solenoid” is a new patented cable, prepared by Dr. Lugo, an Italian man of science, whose object is to overcome the in duction of electric currents In the tests alluded to above, as we learn from another source, no trace of induction or retardation can be detected ] ; jlenoids conveyed electric lizht currents in one of the chambers of the conduit ln the same conduit were several earth and metalli ‘urrents, some of which were devoted to telephony and }others to teleyraph When no signals were sent over the conduit lines induction from the lines on the poles 60 feet above the level of th treet was plainly noticeable in the telephone, and when the Morse circuits | were worked t iuduced signals were so | loud in the telephone circuits that one would »falmost believe the battery was in circuit date of the negotiation all the property, both | with the telephonic line if ‘the contrary had in been proved Yet none of these signals were discernible in the instruments con } nected with the solenoids —— f | It is und tood that the Western Uniou The Lighthouse Board, in their annual) oficials have been watching the results of advances made 10 | ph, 6 ¢ xperiments above deseribed with much electricity, »| in e1ec- tric lamps, They feel, justified in recom | solicitude. If the difficulty thus far experi enced has been overcome, the fact is one of Ino ordinary impertance, appropriation of $50,000 for this purpose is signal service is said to was connected These, which eee a » _ < = THEH LRON AGE. November 10 188). FActals. oe etre. | PMetale. inl A N 8 oO NM i A The Plume & Atwood PHILIP L MOEN, President and Treasurer. S. F. WASHBURN, Vice President & Secretary BRABE & COPPER 00, Mig. Company, |WASHBURN & MOEN MANUFACTURING Go _ 5 a . iim ’ ota — Phelps Building, NEW YORK. MANUFACTURERS OF BRASS AND COPPER Waterbury ‘Brass Co. Sheets, Bolts, Rods, Wire, d&c. eae ae oo ps . 1e€ 0 ’ Seamless Brass & Copper : CERMAN SILVER, Tubing. Copper, Brass and German Silver Wires Ansonia Corrugated Stove Platforms. BRASS AND COPPER TUBING, PURE COPPER WIRE COPPER RIVETS & BURS, For Electrical Purposes, Pare and Covered. BRASS KETTLES, Phosphor Bronze Rods for Pumps, &c. Door Rail, Brass Tags, AN *& PERCUSSION CAPS, aa 2 age POWDER FLASSES. INCOT COPPER. MANUFACTURERS OF SHEET and ROLL BRASS and WIRE, German Silver and Gilding Metal Copper Rivets and Burs, Kerosene Burners, Lamp Trimmings, &c.| BR 18 Murray Street, New York. 13 Federal Street, Boston. 109 Lake Street, Chicago. Rolling Mill, Factories, __THOMASTON, Ct. | WATERBURY, Ct. |Bridgeport Brass Co,, MANUPAOTURERS OF IRON and STH. WIRE, ‘ Patent Steel Barb Fencing, Patent Steel Wire Bale Ties. sia FIRE RODS o Bere i, CONTIN vet alit rei. t In., Cut to any ee. PFRere we qos Ss Y pounds, — out skaw your 8 HO Ly teed ¥ iy te nok Wis rey Mark 1H a nealed Fence and Grape Wire | and Chain Wire. Wire for the 7 Jong tenga £0 PSiot Fathi aa ire Flop eed $ ‘ec Mage Bon, Seren, vee Buckie ve And small Brass Wares of every Description, Cartridge Metal in Sheets or Shélls a Specialty. Sole Agents for the "| Capewell Mfg. Co.’s Line ot Sport- MANUFACTURERS OF IMPORTERS OF Wood’s Paper TIN PLATE ine Goognot Shells : Sheet and Roll Brass Spiral Beran met Ree hinete et cin nada of Coa, Machner?, Gus So : ; oid ee a aay ere ot Wire. fraiche oaeeg eaters Fem ces Sake hyper ray on, ‘ ’ a engt Ste ” 8 ROOFING PLATE, [296 Broadway, NewYork, | WATERBURY,| Brass & Copper Wire & Tubing, Wire. ie Wire for Goring, Needles and Brit” Nartet Stal twine kepe ta took aft tigas 4 Ste Music 189 Eddy St., Providence, R. 1 Con) Garman Silver Metal and Wire OUSE, 21 Clif Stret, New Yor eee Peer enonee aoe phorth 2a = Sheet Iron, Copper, Pig Tin, Wire, Zino, &c. Copper and Iron Rivets. ““NATIONAL WIRE AND LANTERN WORKS.” Detroit Copper & Brass MANUFACTURERS OF OILERS and CUSPADORES, | LAMPS and TRIMMINGS, LANTERNS and TRIMMINGS, | xERosee suaners, | Warehouse, 45 Fulton Street, New _ C 0 P P E R A N D B RAS S. R tli Mill Clocks & Fly Fan Movements. | PLUMBERS’ MATERIALS, And California Wire Works Co., San Francisco, Cal. 0 Ing | S$: Particular attention paid to cutting out Blanks and Manufactory, Nos. 1194, 1199, 1208, 1203, 120%, 1203, r209 and r2tr De Kalb Avenue, Brooklyn, N HOWARD & MORSE, MANUFACTURERS OF BRASS, COPPER & IRON WIRE CLOTH, Heavy Rolled soe for Mait Kiln Floors. Wire Work ‘ence ting ad Guards. Also, Hand and Satiread oatenns. —_ NEW CLIFF STREET, EW YORK. manufacturing Metal Goods. MANUFACTORY, WAREDOUSR, _Bridgeport, Conn. 19 119 Murray ! St., N.: ¥. THOS. W. FITCH, Prest. and Treas. A. A. LASAR, Secy BRAZIERS’ AND SHEATHING COPPER, ROLLED, SHEET & PLATERS’ BRASS GEKMAN OR NICKEL SILVER, Copper Wire for Electrical and othes purposes, Brass and German Silver Wire, Copper Rivets and Burrs, COPPER BOTTOMS FOR TEA KETTLES AND BOILERS, Cor. Larned & Fourth Sts., Detroit, Mich. SCOVILL MFC CO BRASS, HINCES, WIRE, CERMAN SILVER. PHOTOGRAPHIO GOODS. BUTTONS, CLOTH AND METAL. —_>——_—. ROME IRON “WORKS, DEPOTS, FACTORIES, 419 & 421 Broome St, M, Y. ae — Manufacturers of 177 Devonshire St., Boston. jew Haven, Conn, 183 Lake St» Chicago. New York City. Brass, Gilding Metal, Cop- ‘ DICKERSON, VAN DUSEN & CO.,; per and German Silver sof (In Sheets, Rods, Tubing or Wire), ST. LOUIS, MO., Tin Plate, Pig Tin, Sheet Iron, Conper,| COPPER & BRASS RIVETS | ————-—————_——__*___|_ & 4 Ps 2 Wire, Zinc, Ete. AND BURS. Holmes, Booth & Haydens, Border Garden Aocen. No. 2 Semicircle. No. rr Square. Plain arch. 29 & 3) CU St., cor. Fulton, Rome, New York. Garden a ti. WATERBURY, CONN. SOT DICKERSON & CO. Livernosk waq@ vost ie ABRAM 8, HEWITT, President. JAMES in . : neeeee, WM. HEWITT, Vice President, 7 ee tee =" 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, SILVER PLATED FORKS & SPOONS, Kerosene Burners, &c. TRENTON IRON COMPANY, (INCORPORATED 1847), TRENTON, N. J... Manufacturers of LRONand STEEL WIRE OF ALL GRADES, BRIGHT, ANNEALED, COPPERED, TINNED AND GALVANIZED: Iron and Steel Wire Rods; EXTRA QUALITIES OF BAR IRON AND RODS. Best Qualities of Gun-Screw and Charcoal Iron Wire; Crucible, Siemens-Martin and Bessemer Steel Wire. A. C. NORTHROP, Waterbury, Conn., NOVELTIES IN BRASS AND OTHER METAL GOODS FOR HARDWARE TRADE. Ww ht Iron and Brass Machine Screws; Turned, He: Round and Square Head Cap one Bet Serews; Brass an and Iron Geto end ana Jack Chain; Gilt, Ni Nickel Plated and Bronze Trimmings of ail kinds. from Sheet = Steel or Estimates on patented articles, or any description of Sheet Metal work, respectfully solicited and promptly given. oo 9 wouEe : abatinicltinntcalled ws New York Office aT Warehouse TRENTON, i gs 2 as 4 Ser}j 117 Liberty Street, JOHN DAVOL & SONS, Wire Straightened and Cut to Lengths, pues Se Philadelphia Oice JOMN HEWIET: agent a Mente Boneh St THE JOHN A. ROEBLING'S SONS CO, | =x rissSener cn MANUFACTURERS OF WIRE ROPE! Q.vacszxn |Lron and Steel Iron, Steel and Copper | Telegraph Wire, WIRE Holsting ee ia of all Market Wire, oe Minds, for Ferries, Stays, Market Wire, Fence Wire Ship Rigging, Sash Cords, Vineyard Wire Bridge Wire, Chain Wire Lightning Rods, &c., &c. Buckle Wire, Spring Wire, Suspension Bridge Cables. Rivet Wire, &c., &c. GALVANIZED WIRE IRE CLOTHES LINES. _ Ingot Copper, Spelter, Lead, Tin, Antimony, Solder & Old Metals, 100 John Street, New York. IRON AND STEEL WIRE ROPE For Hoisting, Running & Standing Ropes, Ferries, & PASSAIC ZING C0. CONSANELY REZE On HARD. eee ees Address, HAZARD MFG. CO., Wilkesharrs, Luzerne Co., Pa. Pure Spelter |FELTEN &* GUILLEAUME,] __ FOR Carlswerk, near Cologne, Germany. Cartridge Brass, Gas Fixtures, Bronzes PATENT CRUCIBLE STEEL WIRE, AND ALL FINE WORK. For Mining and Plow Ropes, Hawsers and Bridge Cables. “BRODERICK & BASCOM, Also for MANUFACTURERS OF, Ceabetinineiin dit tis Bienes, SIEMENS- -MARTIN AND BESSEMER § STEEL WIRE, fa MANNING & SQUIER, Gen'lAgents,| GALVANIZED TELEGRAPH WIRE i IRON STEEL 113 Liberty Street, N. ¥. of GALVANIZED ~~ with high conductivity, and in long lengths & f Geo. W. Prentiss & Co. e, | For Plain, Barb and Strand Fencing, 3, erecta te EEL WIRE, Oiled Fencing Rei HOLYOKE, MASS., ase ore WiRE Ror ery IRON 4 i . wi R E. OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. TELEGRAPH CABLES. Contractors to the German and Fore The eldest hous ou tinent. Telegraph Add@ress, C ARLS a ERE COLO GNE. SSE e8 te Sche General Agents for U. 8. and Oenada, PERKINS ¢ & CHOATE, 23 Nassau St, N. Yo Larg low pri Lised aa WIRE ROPE, KLE ue We 728 N. Main St, iQ A Mi delivere WORCESTER WIRE CO, bi yy fa “enews | A. LESCHRN . SON, fT The Schoenberg Metal Mig, Co., ¥ . The | Manufacturers of and Dealers in SOLDER, TYPE, Stereotype, cinmdieee and Babbitt Metal OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. Im as or “iefale in Sti ST. LOUI e it Pataca ee Cb ke i were” O20 to O59 NH. Ms ? S, Mo Correspondence invited, ; And sy '¢ and The ™ P WIRE For all Purposes. WORCESTER, MASS. nclng » Cou November 10, 1881, & C0., Manufacturers of all kinds of Tin Plated BIRD to the trade. NEW YORK. New Catalogue Just Issued. BROWN & BROTHERS, 81 Chambers St., N. Y. 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 HOUSE BOILERS, warranted to stand soo lbs. pressure and guaranteed against vacuum. PATENTED SPRING TEMPERED SHANK, SILVER-PLATED, FLAT TABLE WARE, in rich cesigns. GERMAN SILVER SPOONS AN 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 eens ee and toughness. Waterbury, Conn, RIDDLES AND CASTING BRUSHES a specialty. Supertes goods and reasonable prices. Send for prices. E. T. BARNUM, Detroit, Mich. ~ G. Gunther, Manufacturer of Patented Brass, Sliver Plated and Japanned BIRD CAGES. Can be nested for ex port shipaients, = Park Place, EW YORK. 6 rety in patterns and unsurpassed in New lilustrated Catalogues and Price Largest Low prices. Lists on application. Schenectady Molding Sand Co. ALBANY AND SCHENECTADY MOLDING SAND delivered on cars or boats at low rates. All grades guarant All orders will receive prompt atten- tion. Address, J. G. GREENE, Seon. 22 Wall St., ScHENECTADY, N 0. LINDEMANN Japanned, Brass & CAGES. Catalogues furnished 254 Pearl St., LIGHT HOISTING ; STAN RORD, CONN. | ‘ Salesrooms, Mew York, 53 Chambers Street, a Boston, -« ~ 36 Pearl Street, Sent Free on Application. G. 8, _VEEDER, » Pres; : J. G. GREENE, Sec. and 1 Treas. ; The Morris Sash Lock Mfg. Co., Manufacturers of The Morris Sash Lock, Pat. Combined Sash Lift & Lock, Pat. Self-Locking Shutter Bear, | And specialties nm Builders’ Hardware. 214 and 216 ELM STREET CINCINNATI, OHNO, U, S.A | } | | | | nad FIRE SAND AND ene | CARY & MoEN, Manufacturers of STEEL WIRE forall ourposes and STEEL SPRINCS of every description. = 2. oS ———— —— —s = = — SS => — a = — =: = Frey . AAAS AIA IV AS SSIS UA CML LELLLLEKELAAELEELE LLL Market Steel Wire, Crinoline Wire, tempered and covered. Also Patent ‘Tempered Steel Furniture Springs, constantly on band. 934, 936 and 238 West 29th Street, - - e * e YALELOCK MFG.CO. Office and Works, Philadelphia, eO7 Market Street, Chicago, ~ - G4 Lake Street. This Advertisement is C hange a Every w eek. GAUTIER STEEL DEPARTMENT OF THE CAMBRIA IRON Co. PHILIP E. CHAPIN, Gen’! Superintendent. SCE EL,, WIRE AND SPRINCS. Sample of our Toe Calk Steel, showing vue end bent over and flattened down cold: a piece of iron solidly welded to the stee! wita the use of sand only, aud the other end hammered to anu edge, aud then hardened sufficiently to cut ylass. Similar samples cui be made by any blacksmith from our Toe Calk Steel, or seen at WORKS, JOHNSTOWN, PENN. Eastern rn Warehouse, 81 81 John in St, N. Ys; Phila. Warehouse, 505 Commerce St. MOULDING SAND, Albany Sand a Specialty. FOUNDRY FACINGS, Shovels, Riddles, Brushes, &c. WHITEHEAD BROS, AMERICAN FACING CO. J. A. EMERICK. HOWARD EVANS, J. A. EMERICK & CO. 1056 & 1076 Beach Street, PHILADELPHIA, "*MANFRS, FOUNDRY, FACINS MOLDING SANDS and Foundry Supplies. WM. WHITEHEAD, Treas., 617 W. 16th St., New Vork, Established 1810, N. & G, TAYLOR 6O,, PHILADELPHIA, Manufacturers, Importers and Dealers in ODD AND REGULAR SIZES TIN AND ROOFING PLATES, Black and Galvanized Sheet Iron, Metals, Wire, Copper, Stamped Ware, Registers, &c. WOOD, JENNISON & CO. Manufacturers of SHAFTING, PULLEYS AND HANGERS—A Speciaity, Also, Wood’s Patent Bolt Threading Machine. Worcester. Mase. THE LRON AGE. N EW FORK, structure or machine, is now Our Progress ia Riianiedl | Engi- | put | adopted, and we may hope neering,* Dp I Siow veCOlULU oe: Lhal soon we may e mhdeutly assert of each ANNUAL ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT O1 bridge over which we ride, of each machine upon the strength of which depends safet THE AM. SOC OF MECH ENGINEERS, ; ta ES ae y } of life and property, that its every part has } been proven, by actual test before use, to be | perfectly safe. Now that the great testing jtnachine at Watertown Arsenal, set up by }the unfortunately defunct board appoimted | and other metals, {is at the service of the public, it} The following is a synopsis of this valu able address. The direction of movement to-day becom ing known, aud the character of the diffi culties presenting themselves being ascer tained, the way in which a cererated pre yress may be rendered pe ssible becomes | } 1m 1575 to test iron, steel we may hope iat such methods of test may hereafter Deco! ‘OnlmNo : ( hi est ‘ 8 more easy of detection, lu meny cases we]? ne common, and that tests of full-sized shall find ourselves able to decide precisely pal of bridges and machines, made at where to look for such progress, and in all pr vate cost, may, to a limited extent at least, vield the knowledge that that board directions we shall find our exploration in teresting, gratifying and pr fitable. We will would have mivure and at leas first examine those de part tment expense have made laitiiar to vee ‘, ply us with our materials had its life not been terminated at the very {n that field to which we are apt to give | V€S!uing of Its labors too little consideration, notwithstanding the fact that it lies at the base of all our work, rhe progress of art, directed by brain and a field which—formerly cultivated by many | sust of the greatest men that our profession has | well known—is now too generally neglected,|taken place in our textile manufactures. while more seductive but less fruitful, and, | According to Atkinson, a century ago one on the whole, less immediately important] person in each family was compelled toa departments are overcrowded with able} work, day in and day out, nearly the whole workers, in that of the materials of con-| year, to furnish homespun and dress goods struction, we are making steady progress on| for the rest; to-day, such has been the ystematically which sup * ined by energy, skill and enterprise, is illustrated by the changes which have every side. progress in the introduction of mechanism We are everywhere giving up the use of} and automata, that one day’s work in the that expensive and perishable material, | year w ill, on the average, be sufficient to wood, and the weak and brittle minerals, |] enable each worker to supply himself with and are substituting for them iron and steel. | all needed cotton and woolen fabrics [ron is slowly, but steadily and inevitably, Speeds of cotton spindles have risen, dur- being displaced by steel, Cast iron in small}ing the two deeades that my memory cau parts is less aud less used as steel casting tollow the change, from 5000 to 7500 revolu become more and more reliable, and especi- | tions per minute Looms then waking 120 Webber illy as the art of making drop forgings of} picks per minute make now, M1 large r size and in more intricate forms ells me, as high as 160, and one hand takes perfected, Sheet steel, very low in carbon | charge of from 25 to ) per cent. more ind other hardening elements, is becoming, | work. The ‘Slasher’ dresser does ten year by year, more generally adopted in] times the work of the old machine supply boiler making, not because of its greater {ing 4oo looms in place of 4o, and demanding strength, for the stronger grades are always|the attendance of only one man and a boy, rejec ted by the experien ed boiler make r, }instead of two men and ten gil ls Pickers hut because of the greater uniformity, ease | handle a ton of cotton per day in place of a of working, freedom from cinder, and the | half or tive-eighths ton Phe cheaply made lnrability of those grades which are well] turbine driving these mills has copletely suited to such use. lisplaced the old costly vertical wheel, do- A tenacity of less than 65,000 pounds per]}ing the work with less water and greater «quare inch and great ductility are de steadiness. Its efficiency has risen from 70 manded for tnis work. In rods and bars, | or 75 to 80 and 85, and sometimes to go pe) und for sheets to be used where mechanical! | cent. furces only are present, we are getting steel When the last generation was in its prime which, with a tenacity of 80,000 pounds per}our factories were in operation twelve or square inch (5624 kg. per square inch), | thireen hours; ‘‘man’s Work was sun to stretch 25 per cent. before breaking, and|sun, and woman’s work was never dons.’ we are sometimes given a grade very low in| To-day man works ten hours, and woman varbon, but high in manganese, which has|is coming to a stage in which she will work io per cent. higher tenacity and equal duc. | where, when and how she pleases. Theu tility. In fact, we are apparently coming to three yards an hour was the product for a a manganese steel as the metal for use in]|single operative to-day ten yards pet : . . ° ] veneral construction. worker are produced. In twenty years the In making alloys | have been able to show annual product in cotton mills bas riseu the existence of an alloy of copper, zinc and] from 2'3 tons to 3!2 tons per annum per tin of maximum possible strength and to}mill hand; wages have increased 20 per point out approximately its composition, and | cent., and the buying power of the dolla has risen in much more than equal propor my discevery has been confirmed by othe investigators, who have independently hit ipon alloys closely related to this ‘* maxi tion, thus adding so per cent. to the com forts and luxuries of working people, pe: nilting anu mcreased number ol bappy inal riages and comfortable homes, the child-slaves of the mills, and turning them into the schools mum metal,” and possessing properties of hardly less value We now know that bv ‘arefully proportioning the constituents, by properly fluxing the alloy and by special mechanical treatment, we may ybtain brasses and bronzes having strengths un ireamed of by earlier engineers. ‘Te ot from 75 900 to over £00,000 pounds pel ’ | setbing free Where one hand then drove 40 spindles hoe now manages 60, and every 7 of the mure than 10,000,000 of spindles in operation works up a bale of cotton each year aad turns out $100 worth of product Vhis pro duct is supplied to the most indig gent of out nacities «quare inch have already ‘en attains * “ ¢ Dr. Fleitman’s discovery of a method of | poor at a small advance on the 1 “4 cents fur wmaking nickel malleable and capable of welding, and his similar improvement of commercial cobalt by the use of maynesinm, is in itself important, and promises to lead the way to further progress. * - labor and an equal sum for raw cottou vhich are expended in the manufacture otf the cheapest yrades, A still more striking fact is the distributiou of our cotton gouds »distant countries A single mull opera tive at Fall River, Lowell or Providence The effect of variation of temperature in | makes each year cotton cloth enough to us the annealing of iron and steel meté us, and i the hardening and tempering of steel, ha long been known, That anuealed and unan nealed wire differ widely in tenacity and in ductility, that very “ mild” steel and good iron are softened by the very process which vives hardness to steel, are long familia: facts, and it has probably been long known to many engineers that there exists a criti cal temperature, probably definite and fixed for each grade, at which the hardening of steel occurs. Passing this point in cooling the metal takes on its Leliper, but of temperature on eitber side that point pro iluce n0 observable effect on its condition, however rapidly they may take place. This critical temperature has now been identified in certain cases, and may prove to be nearly the same for all steels. ply 1500 of the people whio pay her way os by sending her tea ln regard to Wouleu manufa res we hav the same story ty The strength, durability and finish of all kinds of silks are constantly becoming mure nearly equal to the best imported Indeed, the ladies assure me that some makes of American silk wear much better than any f foreign make yet seen in our market, and that several vrades have a finish whieh cum pares favorably with the very best of Fur. pean silks fn variety ods produ and more variations end in quautaty of da steady gain is to be noted Spinning frames occupy poOoth the spave and cost 1-20th as much per spindle as iu the earlier days of the trade, aud the cust of work has now become so small that 3 er pound spent in wages make silk costiuz % Lauth’s process has been applied with equal success to certain alloys cf copper and tin, by Sears, in the United States, aud later by Rosetti, in Italy, and very extensively and successiully by Uchatius, in Austria $5 per pound into finished goods averagiiis $11.50 venerally the dis tinctively American idea of muanufacturiaz is opposed to the old methods of making In machine work Tobin has cold-rolled bronzes, approaching parts of mechanism in large numbers 4 the ‘‘ maximum” alloy iu composition, and | ceeadily progressing, thanks tu the ingeuu has attained tenacities exceedin [00,000 of mechanics like our colleavues. Pratt pounds per inch. und Whitney aud others, in devising tools * a pecially designed for the production ot Preliminary straining to secure an ¢ lefinitely limited kinds of work he same vated initial elastic limit with relief nal stress is likely to be of service in tl of inter maaadont il genius of invention which pro luced the White ne cotton gin, the Blauch eg _ SSS ss SSS applications of iron an Isteel,ase.g. by cold-/ ard Jathe, our screw ma hiner Vv, and the rolling, by ‘‘ frigo-tension”’ and therm more wonderful card-setting machiue, has tension,” and by wire drawing, while it] Jately given us ‘ nalic gear cut proves to be proba rly ! s ellective vil ter, the aul atic turret lathe, and a@ thou other metals Phe experiments made for] sand and one ma ! 3s hardly less re the Prussian Government by Wohiler a markable in ¢ str tion and eficienacy Spangenberg during a pi riod of 1 yeal lurni Amibation of the present and which have now been concluded eight{ eondition of the railroad system of vur years, are just becoming kuown to practi i ountl that sv em. Which, binding State ing engineers, and Woliler’s la Laun-| to State with lin f steel, is our stronges hardt’s and W eyrau h’s analyses of 1 | sfesrual inet politica | epsion aud are found valuable checks upon usual meth lisunion tind that changes are every ods of proportioning iron parts of structures. | where in progre inder the direction ol the It is becoming known that not simply the] ajlest meuber i rofession. It is nuw load to be applied, but the frequency and al n Stevea u bis the method of it application, and tl Hedin i 1den Dewitt tion of the structure a determmined | ( i 1 jt iuopth t ip ’ earlier strains, must bx suSidered Ih SE ! I ransportat allways upon its mupntiane, und upon the magi la hat the t i me tude of the factor of sufet : f arriag sald ld make thej i oi t A method of inspection is 4 | u as 0 i larkes. IO years ago, will safely determine tiv i i t as in the light of day i stuted tha of each piece, subseq ently to be bells ie ild see nothing t t stear ~ * American Society of M anical gi | carriage moving on its wa' velocaly New York meeting, Novembe: 1881 By Rob 100 miles an hour and that h ‘ should H. Thurston, President Che address will t lished in fuli in Van Nostrand s Maguzine De 1 prupellet ' E | n 1t be surprised” at seein ceimber ' 10 OF uiles an lewipulrary | | yron, | __ ¥von. November 10, 1881. THH IRON AGH. xvOU. ________ PITTSBURGH. = -: PEPTSBURGH. |W. 0. WOOD & COS Evo. NEW YORK. NEW YORK. oe NEW YORK. OGDEN & WALLACE, A. B. Warner & Son,|JOHN W. QUINCY & CO., 98 William Street, New York. ran and Gtaal| IRON MERGHANTS, Anthracite & charcoal Pig Irons, | ron and Steel 98 & 99 West and 52 Washington Sts. | Wrought Scrap, Cut Nails, Copper, hose a @eake tm ceadinny te Maite | BOILER PLATE | BLOCK TIN, , LEAD, SPELTER, ANTIMONY, NICKEL, & &c. eee | HARRISON & GILLOON BLACK DIAMOND STEEL. Boller Tubes. Angle, Tee & Girder tren Boller and Tank Rivets. IRON AND METAL DEALERS, All sizes of Cast and Machi -y Steel constantly a a " . — Sole Agents for the celebrated 558, 560, 562 WAT ER BST., and oo 804, 306 CHERRY BT., “Eureka,” Pennocks, car veal. have on hand, and offer for uate, the following: Iron, Wrought, Cast and PIERSON & CO (é ” =U ' Wawasset Secntant duncan Fig J a asse y u ens, Mac hinery Sorap Iron, Car Whe els, Axies and Heavy Brands of Iron. Alsoal: descriptions of Plate, Sheet, Lead. Pewter. dt ne, &e. old Copper, Composition, Brass, Zstablished 1790, and Gasometer Iron. Special attention to Locomotive OXFORD IRON CO., iron. Fire Box Iron a epecialty. (B. G. CLARKE, Receiver,) 24 & 26 Broadway, 77 &79 New St ROME MERCHANT IRON MILLS, Cut Nails SPIKES. J. S. SCRANTON, Sales Agent, 81, 83 and 85 Washington Street, : NEW YORK. on hand PA'TEN’ -_ Planished Sheet Lron. eo : Patented March 14th 1865; April 8th, 1873 ; S T E E L - O E C A . K Ss. Sept. 9th, 1873; Uct. 6th, 1874; Jam. 11, 1876. Guaranteed fully equal in all respects to the E ‘ xtra Quality Homogeneous Steel IMPORTED RUSSIA IRON and at a much less price. : FOR SALE, PLATE by all the principal METAL DEALERS | STEEL PLATES, ali descriptions. In the Large cities throughout Cut Nails and Spikes, Plate and Sheet THE UNITED STATES. lron, all descriptions, And at their Office, SHOENBERGER & CO., Pistepuren, Ill Water Street, PITTSBURGH, PA. pedi eetieeig ee ~ | KEYSTONE ROLLING MILL, Limited, Cc. BANE, Manufacturers of OLD RAILS, SCRAP IRON, STEEL, KL EFLOMN, PIC IRON, BLOOMS, Pittsburgh, - - - Pa AND ORE. ‘= al prrraBunen, PA. Bonnell, Botsford & Co., amin ecuseccer| Tron, Nails & Spikes, F. B. Laveu in, Vice-Prest. W. A. SHaw, Treas UNION STORAGE CO, eewnededtn. eases. Storage and issue Warrants | MARSHALL IRON CO. ON Manufacturers of ““MUCK DAT, RATLS, de.” | Clea Blam, Bet Refned & Connor i WY 5 . i. Correspondence re see to establishment of S$ Ed = E T t P QO N. yards at furnaces solici On and Mills, Manufac a ‘rs oO a a Row grade of ‘Bar lron, Bands and Fine Hoops. olis, Ovals, Half Ovals, Half Rounds, Hexagon and Hors ¢ Sho »lron. Also fre ae Cases nal Fig a superior uality of Irc yn brande a J. All puddled balls re a uced by hammer. Orders may be § coat to the Millor to a 0. Cc ARS BE TEE, ¢ our Agent, at 59 Joha ork. Street, New NEW YORK CITY, All Sizes _and Shapes kept in Stock, | ABEEL BROTHERS, | Qh a. Established 176; by ABEEL & BYVANCK, of Uy lron Merchants, < ena 190 South Street and 365 Water, N. Y. ULSTERIRON. ‘OLD RAILS, A full assortment of all sizés constantly on hand. SCRAP IRON, Refined Iron, Horse-Shoe Iron, & PIC I RON, Common Iron, Band, Hoop and Scroll Iron, Sheet Iro erwan tek thedit G8 Wall St., New York. cant Spring and Tire Steel, ote. MARSHALL LEFFERTS & C0., 90 Reekman &St., New York City, A. R. WHITNEY, MANUFACTURER AND DEALER. Manufacturer of and Dealer in [TRON —— Sheet Iron, BURDEN’S | HORSE SHOES. “Burden Best” lron Our specialty is in Ist and 2d Qualities, “Metruction ok Iron Used in the Con- Galvanized Wire, Telegraph an d Fence; Galvanized ‘ire-Proof Buildings, Hoop and Band Are m, G abv anized I and Bar Iron, dd c hain, G alvanized Lron struction of 2 — -d Nails, Galvan Boiler Rivets. ridges, &c. Agent for Carn gie Bros. & Co., Limited, Pittsburgh, arnagic Bese. & Oa, Riuniion, Eisies CORRUGAT ED SHEET IRON ___ General Office, PITTSBURGH, PA. | Newport, Deleware Channel Iron, For Roofing, &c., Galvanized, Plain or Painted. Sa a ae 8 - = : 3 >, Sag Gue oe oe, pont ay oma sates Best Charcoal, Best Refined and Common Naylor & Co., Boston, Mass., moaregencens ; Nyy Th B dd | C ; U st ecl Plates and Compress sed Steel SHENT TRON. e ul en ron om an Or S. Shafting. rz. Plates Rolled to 100 Inches. Plate oan “ a nk Iron, Ple nd estimates furnished, and contracts c No. C H No RS ms o. 1 Flange, Best Flange meta’ o erat ting Iron Structure sar ev oe rip De La Fire Du rk, S - ‘Troy, N.Y. i— tior Books containing cuts of all [ron nade nt -_ J _ on application by mail BOILER. IRON U S T E R Aiemiccngi Sample pieces at of i “aS __ 68 Hudson Street, io ‘York. Stamped and Guaranteed. L sae - am de soaranste ms of lron Work Galvanized or AND Tinn i yy ee ZUG & CO = § BORDEN & LOVELL, Pri » list on 7: quo tations sent upon application. JAMES WILLIAMSON & CO., CommissionMerchant$) scores aso aseicas 7O & 71 West St., PIC IRON 5 wasnt = —— ~—s New York. L. N. Lovell H. B. & §: Bar Iron. Also Best Grades of American & English Refined Iron. All sizes and shapes in stock. EGLESTON BROS, & CO., d6° Front St, | NEW YORK CITY. Manufacturers of the Celebrated SableNails No. 69 Wall St., New York. Agents for the sale of Fall River Iron Co.’s Nails, | ‘ULSTER IRON WORKS. Bands, Hoops & Rods. | 90 Broadway, New York. - Glengarnock and Carnbroe Borden Mining Company’s . "Cumberland Coals. _| Tuckerman, Mulligan8Co| SCOTCH PIG IRON. ~ WILLIAM H. WALLACE & CO., : CARMIC HAEL & EME ENS For spot ~— . ~ a * —_ a iT : DEALERS 18 shipments to New York, Boston, Philadelphia, TRON MERCHANTS |iagy ano STEEL BOILER PLATE,| suiimor or Now Oris Cor. Albany & Washington Sts. te se erate a eS) éc, éc. __| For sale in lots to suit by ) 7 oates Potts ibe We Iron Co., The JAMES LEE & CO., Office and Works, ¢ l NEW YORK CITY. h ile Ir eli ting Mills am a Unto 7 Tub Works ; W re ought M. H. WALLACE. Ww M. BISPHAM. = on Be ims, Angles, Tes ’ TWO UNCUT ROLLS FOR A 16-INCIIE MII... ABOUT 10 TONS Ix-IN. SQUARE BAIL TRON, ABOUT 4 TONS 1h-IN. SQUARE BAR IRON. ABOUT 7 TONS 1%-IN. SQUARE BARK IRON. Also, a small tot of other sizes, by DANIEL W. RICHARDS & CO., 92 Mangin St., N. Y. _ PASSAIC ROLLING MILL CO., Manufacture and have always in stock ROLLED IRON BEAMS, Channels, Angles, Tees, Merchant Bars, Riveted Work, Forg- ings, Eye Bara, &e. PATERSON, N. J. Sole Agents for the United States, 72 Pine Street, New York. DESPARD BROTHERS, GO Wall St., New York, P.O. Box 764 PITTSBURGH, PA. i.EE OH BU RG IRON WORKS. 4 KIRKPATRICK & COoO., Manufacturers of all grade FINE SHEET “IRONS, c (Refined Cold Rolled, Show Card, Stamping, Tea Tray, Polished, Shovel, Ferrule Iron, &c.) NATURAL GAS USED AS FUEL, OFFICE, No, 143 First Ave., Pee Pa, . DANIEL F. COONEY, | : Agency of Cate of end eapesrene $0 Jans. Hi Holgnne d Ce. '|N. M. HOGLUND’S SONS & CO., Stockholm, g BOILER PLATES & SHEET IRON, | Swedish & Norway Iron on hand at Boston Boiler Rivets, Angle & T an mn, © ut Nails & Spike of every ak 6 Agency for Glasgow Iron uilley & Co., | New as rk —_ t Phitmae 2Ip _ Importation orders @ New and Old Rails, Steel Blooms, SCRAP IRON, &c. Duty paid or in bond. HUGH W. ADAMS & a. IMPORTERS OF SCOTCH AND ENGLISH IRONS, Agents for American Charcoal and Anthracite Furnaces, WORKS, Leechburg, Pa Astor House, New York, a 56 Pine Street, New York. z Danigz L. Coss. Room 45, Hue W. ADaMs. L. Bs Mills Chester | apecia C U T iM A 3 L S 4 B. F. J UDSON, Peas ice ies ns ee a 2 if mu & Steel Co.'s | 3 Us AF LU NDBERG, 38 Kilby st., Boston. Importer of and Dealer in and Fire Lt, ee | Frome — r _ OTTS, Philadelphia Agent, 234 & 236 N. SCOTCH AND AMERICAN -. CHEN KY & SON | era R Hot Pressed Nuts, Bolts, Washers, &c, | > S LTOD,| Montano NARLES HUBBARD, ; ™ DOVER TRON COWS Wrought & Cast Scrap Iron, Small Gray Iron Castings. | Brands Pig dg J, 0 L D M E TA L XQ , same our work for smoothness | WHITE IRON (Anthracite & Bessemer) Stock for making strong castings. BOIL. EF: Fe RIVE Ts, Boiler Brace Jaws, Socket Bolts, &c. 3334233 soucn se} NEW YORK. Powerville Rolling Mill, COKRUGATED AND CRIMPED !RON |< CHLARGOAL PIG IRON,” ry ROOFING & § SIDING, * “Maiden Creek” and “Garrick” oe pee) Tron Buseines, 2 o fs . ” Shute ors, Dox 0 s.| Favorite brands of Scotch Pig Iron, Manufacturer of FULLER BROTHERS & CO. eh euaee: a ae lu stock and to arrive. HORSE SHOE IRON MOSELEY IRON BRIDGE AND ROOF Cr, OLD CAR WHEELS, BEST BRANDS, fitte 46 Cliff St., New Fork City, Bal & Dey Street, New York, 153% Greenwich Street, New York, JOHN LEONARD, 450 West St.,N. ¥ November 10, 1881, vow. - | —- | Kron. PHILADELPHIA. ——————— | PHILADELP HIA. ae Siemens’ Regenerative IWENRY LEVIS & CO., Manufacturers’ Agents CA S FIURN A CF ' | For Iron - ee ee ——- and RICHIMOND & POTTS, } Old Rails Equipments. , Axles, and Wheels PHILADELPUIA, PA 234 SB. 4th Bt., bought and sold. 119 8, Fourth St. re The Gambria Iron and Steel Works, Having enjoyed for over TWE* STY-FIVE YEARS the: producing the best quality of RATI i ss ; have now an annual ¢ 150,000 Tons of Iron and Stool Rails, Splice Bars, &c. ADDRESS, CAMBRIA IRON COMPANY, No. 218 South 4th Street, Philadelphia. Or at the Works, JOHNSTOWN, PA. Or LENOX SMITH, New York Selling Agent, 46 Pine St., N. ¥. THE PHGENIX IRON CO., 410 Walnut Street, PHILADELPHIA. Manufac yf Wrought Iron Beams, Deck Beams, Channels, Angle & Tee Bars, STRAIGHT AND CURVED TO TEMPLATE, Largely used in the construction of [ron Vessels, Buildings and Bridges. WRCOUCHT IRON ROOF TRUSSES, CIRDERS & JOISTS, and all kinds of fron Framing used in the constru tie if Fire Proof Buildings PATENT WROUGHT LRON COLU MNS, WE LDLESS EY E BARS, for Iron Bridge ‘turers ¢ and built up shap REFINED BAR, SHAFTING, and every variety of SHAPE IRON made to order, Plans and Specificatio yns furnished. Address DAVID REEVES, lresident. NEW YORK AGENTS, MILLIKEN & SMITH, 05 Liberty Street. ROSTON AGENTS, FRED. A. HOUDLETTE & CO., 19 Batterymarch St. ALAN wooD & CO., UFACTURELK Patent Planished, Galvanized, Common, Hest Refined, Cleaned and Uharcoal Bloom PLATE cc SHEET IRON. No. 519 Arch St., Philadelphia, Pa. Water Pipe, ket Iron. Pan and Elbow, Smoke Stack, ght and Jac uted, Gasholder, Orders solicited especially for Corrug vcomotive Headli Tank and Boat Iron; Last, Stamping, Ferrute, L« JAS. ROWLAND & 60, Kensington Iron, Steel & Nail Works, 920 North Delaware Ave., - - PHILADELPHIA, Manufacturers of the Anvil Brand Refined Merchant Bar Iron, Also. the James Rowland & Co Kensington Nails, cut from their Refined Anvil stock. Also, Plow and Cultivatar Steel, Rounds, Squares, Flats, Bands and Hoop Iron. Correspondente with Dealers solicite d, PENCOYD IRON WORKS. A. & P. ROBERTS & CC., Manufacturers of CAR ASLES. ss BAR, ANGLE, TEE AND CHANNEL IRON. Office, No, 265 S. Wourth St., Philadelphia, Agents for the sale of Glamorgan Pig Iron, en ne rr eee {oo ra eS = =< = Oo Oo Cc he r in o oe - = = o = 2 > wo <x > = a a =< oO = Charcoal, Mineral, Sieves, Stove Plate Sand Pa. ¥ Bitumen, Anthracite Sand, Chandelier Sand, § Philadelphia, German Lead, American Lead, iite, hovels, Brushes, Crucibles, Machinery Sa J. W. PAXSON ALLENTOWN ROLLING MILL COMPANY, Manufacturers of i, Bras & CO., Rails, Bars, Axles, Shafting, Fish Bars (Plain and Angle), Spikes, Rivets, Bolts and Nuts, &c. Bridges and Turn Tables. Works at Allentown, Pa uth Third St., Philadelphia General Office, 237 5o JAMES CC. BOOTH THOMAS H. GARRETT. ANDREW A. BLAIR. BGOTH, CARRETT & BLAIR, Analytica! and Consulting Chemists, 919 and 921 Chant St. (10th St. above Chestnut St.), PHILADELPHIA, PA, metehiiahed in 1836. f all kinds sper ANALYSIS OF IRON AND STE EL, fitted with all the apparatus and appliances for the ri .P id and accurate analysis of Iron Steel, Iron Ores. Slags, Limestones. Coals, Clays, Fire Sands, Xe. ents for sampling ores in New York and Baltimore. Price lists on application Analyses of Ores, Waters, Metals and Alloys ‘ial department for the THH IRON AGE. —- $I et eee Krom. Ero. Oliver | A carriage 5 tart from Wasl ton in the ! t} Edward J. Etting, ee CHARLES K, BARNS, | passengers will breakfast at Baltimore, dit IRON BROKER axp COMMISSION MERCHANY, JUSTICE COX JR CO stan Ge eee mm ew Tork 230 S. Third St., Philadelphia, Pa. Agunts FOR ; e | a ria ‘) wit was a neravion late! Pig, Bar and Railroad Iron. CHICKIES ST. CHARLES, MONTGOMERY | 9. “sigue ted; it OLD BSEES, CORA D, Oe Fou leek’ AGO AND KEYSTONE * ” Wne 4 4 gent for the oundrvy & F ra pi si ' : MOUNT SAVAGE FI 7 nt ry & Forge Pig Lron. | sin: T RE BRICK, — _ ROLLING MILL CO., Limited To-d \“ hay miles of tra he est Quality Muck Bar lail «lawn in ft] . | ee Co. and CATASAUQUA MEG. COOS a : ele it : See ae ad s 5 oA . it 1 ! tructe lt 1 STORAGE aie Bar, Angle, Skelp and Sheet ron, | of the world lrains her a 1 * Cirent commen sea by tree 2 vith call CALLOWHILL STREET, No yn ur Axles New and Old Rails Britain make miles an hour on sched ec ck w rac 335 r . ime. tal Cach pe Bet Irom, 33 Walnut St.. Philadelphia, | Vie, taku } vater from the track, and re eervin an deliverin mails without st » > f J. Wesley Pullman,|PETER WRIGHT & SONS, jie soars tans 407 Walnut St., Philadelp hia, eo grrciegy eta higg wet gener ia Exclusive SALES AGENT B07 Watnet Street, Philadelphia, sppahady re frequently built weighit Chester Iron Cours Blue, Red and Hon { 19 Broadway, New York, t ee : ; . ha l nm me j 3s. : every Dullder of engines 1s read \ Also celebrated ** Brotherton» Ore, 44 hecond Street, Raltimore, antee the performa f an : —— a mporters lraw 2000 tons nile n | T. HORACE BROWN. D. W. R. READ. ; eae a pen tearil ee cee German and English rade . "ie .R. READ & CO., f pounds of coal per hour and. per hor ounds of enal » hon , ' , aeeaaa and dealers in : = ri r a ' " : V it tl | ! in 1 cor mpt FOREICN & NATIVE eet ee 4g) steam has | - ‘nihig ; ¢ ‘ . . J , nas | reported from reece BE! Pig, Scrap, motive test SSEMER ORES'. PIC IRON, ENCLISH FIRE BRICK. 2054 Walnut St., PHILADELPHIA, NEW AND OLD RAILS, |! imensity of omiustinn by. extend And fron Ore. = pelea an. Nena 142 Pearl St., 57 Gracechurch St 67S | r Vin 7 S, Gay S!,,, ‘ nth il ] NEW YORK, LONDON, BALTIMORE E.W.CLAR K & Co. | vill» as. =. RICHARDSON, Bankers and Stock Exchange Brokers, “ae - Bs IRON COMMISSION MERCHANT. No, 35 South Third St., Philads Iphta, nary engines is illustra i 1 , ‘ . these Corl htains a du rech | . No. 232 Dock St., Philadelphia. ( LA RK, POST & M A RTILN. from figures recorded by m ‘ Pig lLron, Railroad Iron anil a ; recent 12-hour trial of his | Iron Ores. mee eee ia gl: 3 Reed Sole Agent for the MONOCACY FURNACE Co, Bankers and Railway Commission Merchants, | so weal dees’ trial b { aie Es P DEALER IN froporters of ives me data showing a duty for mont} LOSELEM, ROCKHILL, WARWICK ,| Pj fron, Now and OI ee a — And other Favorite Brands. » New and Old Raiis, Scrap Iron, &e, | 4 horse-power with an expenditur ! , - uunds of feed water pr ur at ' ' SILVER GREY IRON A SPECIALTY. b ind : JS ~ rater pe h rat Lynn and 23 ¢ wrence ! Littnet elygin x witl we ate ' ' ‘ + fis? J. W. HOFFMAN & CO., peed, demands but 18 pounds, and the Flvcl eed, demands bt ounds, an 1° Flectia lron Merchants & Railway Equipments, hoisting engine is credited with the wonder 208 South Fourth St., Philadelph