The Iron Age 1882-10-19: Vol 30 Iss 16

/ES SS. lle. | BLE ING. Per Pair. $1.60 2.00 2.50 3-59 4.50 6.50 The Danks Puddling Furnace in Cincinnati. Mr. William Kent, of Pittsburgh, in a’ recent issue of the Bulletin of the American Iron and Steel Association, gives the follow- ing interesting particulars concerning the Danks puddling furnace in Cincinnati : It is now about ten years since the iron manufacturers of the world were considera- bly excited over the prospect of a revolution | in the art of puddling, by which the severe | and exhausting manual labor required in it | should be replaced by machinery. Out of a} number of so-called mechanical pud- ing furnaces, but one—the invention of Mr. | Samuel A. Danks, of Cincinnati, Ohio—has stood the test of experience on a large scale, and even with it there have been so many failures that, in the minds of many, it has been relegated to the limbo of abandoned inventions, and has become almost forgotten. The wonderful development of the steel in- dustry, and the probability, which has been evident for many years, that steel would nearly, if not altogether, supplant puddled iron as a material of construction, have no doubt been largely instrumental in diverting men’s minds from the anxiety so common 10 or 15 years ago for the improvement of the uddling furnace; and it has frequentl said that the only improvement whic the puddling furnace was likely to undergo was ‘‘to improve it out of existence.” In the United States, especially, an additional hin- drance to the introduction of mechanical puddling furnaces was found in the strength of the labor unions, who would resist to the utmost any attempt to cheapen the cost of labor per ton of product, whether that cheapening were effected by the employ- ment of men at lower wages or of fewer men. But notwithstandiug these, which may be called the theoretical obstructions to the im- rovement of the puddling furnace, they | been much less serious than the prac- tical obstruction, which has only been learned by costly experience, namely, that it is exceedingly difficult to build and to op- erate a mechanical puddling furnace which shall work so successfully that the losses consequent upon imperfectly worked iron, upon expensive and frequent repairs, upon stoppages and irregularity of working of furnaces, and upon greater interest on cost of plant, are not found at the end of a year’s running to have overbalanced the saving in fuel or in wages of workmen. This has been the real trouble with mechanical pud dling furnaces. With but rare oxceptions, they have proved commercial failures. They did not for a long period of time make iron cheaper or better than the old-fashioned fur- naces. To this rule even the Danks furnace, which is certainly a success in two estab- lishments in the United States, is only a par- tial exception. The failures with it have perhaps been more expensive than with any other mechanical puddling furnace. The writer well remembers that about five years ago he mentioned to a gentleman, who he was not then aware knew anything of the Danks furnace, some facts learned concerning the results obtained from it in Pittsburgh. The gentlewan replied: ‘*I don't want to hear anything about the Danks furnace. I have had $175,000 worth of experience in it, and don’t want any more.” That reply would Have confirmed most iron men in the belief not only that the furnace was a failure, but that it always would be; but at the very time that the statement was made the furnace was running successfully at the works of Graff, Bennett & Co., in Pittsburgh, had been so running for some years, and has been running ever since, except when stopped on account of a strike or by the burning down of the mill building. In a paper by Mr. John I Williams, then manager of Graff Bennett & Co.’s mill, pub- lished in the Metal/urgical Review for Se tember, 1877, he uses the following words concerning the tribulations which the Danks furnace had undergone: ‘‘ Chattanooga, Indianapolis and Cincinnati, as well as all other gases where they have been tried, have cast them to the dogs with many curses. So sick and sore at heart are those who tried them that even now they would not believe, even though one rose from the dead to tes- tify that there is goodin them. It has re- quired some nerve and backbone to go on against the gloomy outlook that rose before us. The general sentiment of the trade, encouraged by opinions from workmen and workers of iron, was against us. Labor unions disseminated prejudices among all classes, based upon the idea of want of uniformity and rawness of body; and the failure first of one and then another of the plants built for its development ; then, finally, even where it had its birth —Cincinnati—a thousand rumors were fly- ing about as to the causes of failure, but all against the furnace, and reports from Europe, gathering as they came, proclaimed defeat.” As to the cost of making iron in the Danks furnace, Mr. Williams says: ‘‘ Muck bar from the Danks furnace was made, including all labor, stocking, puddling, rolling, shearing weighing muck bar and piling it upready for use, in Jengths 12 to 48 inches long, 12 inches Wide, at a cost of $4.80 to $4.90 per ton.” This was at a time when the regular price paid for puddling alone was $5 per ton. As above related, the Danks furnace proved a Success in Pittsburgh, after it had been Cendemned in Indianapolis, Chattanooga, | | plate, and for this the operation is somewhat different. The squeezed blooms, instead of being rolled at once, are taken to a hammer and hammered to about 7 inches square. Théy are then reheated and rolled to a bar of about 3% inches by 1 inch, and piled crosswise and lengthwise in alternate layers, and heated and hammered again into a slab, which is heated and rolled into the boiler plate. The plates made by this process pass the Government in plate, being stamped 50,000 to 55,000 pounds tensile strength. The revolving puddling furnace is practically the same as that in use at Graff, Bennett & Co.’s works. The com- paratively small size of the bloom (being 650 pounds, while that of Graff, Bennett & Co. is goo pounds or more) is due to the laek of facilities for handling and finishing at the Cincinnati mill, the 3-high 21-inch train not being so good a machine for treating the squeezed bloom as is the reversing 2-high universal mill in use at Pittsburgh. The Messrs. Danks say that there is no reason why their furnace should not make a bloom of 2000 pounds, and that with a strong uni- versal mill this could easily be rolled into | rauck bar 1 inch or less in thickness. There is no doubt that, if their furnace can uni- formly and economically make blooms of such a size, there would and Cincinnati; but in Cincinnati, its | birthplace, it was again revived, in Sep- tember, 1880, and has now been running successfully for two years. At the works of the Cincinnati Rolling Mill Company, 'of which Thomas Emery is president, and Frank and John G. Danks, the sons of Samuel A. Danks, the inventor of the fur- nace, are managers, there is now a plant of 7 Danks furnaces in regular operation. Each furnace makes 7 heats a day, single turn, the charge being 650 pounds of pig iron, and the product about 670 pounds, the excess being gained from the ore and scale used. The product is made into one ball, about the size and shape of a flour barrel, by the revolving of the furnace, and is made into a solid cylindrical ball, or bloom, ina Winslow squeezer, with a steam ram for compressing the ends. This squeezed ball is at once, without reheating, taken to a 3-high 21- inch train and rolled into muck bar 7% inches by 1 inch, which is sheared hot into lengths for piling for tank plate. New York, Thursday, October 19, 1 The Iron Age A Review of the Hardware, Iron and Metal Trades. Published every Thursday Morning by Davrp Writtams, No. 83 Reade Street, New York. Entered at the Post Office, New York, as Second-Class Matter. Vol. XXX: No. 16. 82, labor and in scrap over the old-fashioned process of dividing the 480 pound product of a furnace into three balls, and handling each one separately. The labor employed at Cincinnati consists quired if the charges were doubled would be but little, if any, greater than this. As | for the amount of fuel consumed, it cannot | be said that the Danks furnace has at pres- | lent any advantage over the old style fur- |mace, except that due to the fact that it | makes seven heats a day to the five or six of the old style. A perfected Danks plant should have a cupola or other furnace for melting the pig iron before it is put into the puddling furnace. By this means a great saving of fuel could be effected. As for | quality of product, the Danks furnace is | claimed to superior to all others. Very | strong evidence of this is given by Mr. Wil- | liams in the paper before referred to, includ- Fig. 1.—Perspective View. of one skilled puddler and one helper to| | each furnace, and a helper or laborer in ad- | | dition to each two furnaces. The labor re- | | consequent savings of pilings, crop ends, reheating, rerolling, shearing and the multi- plicity of operations now necessary in an |iron works, there might have been greater hope than there now is in the impending struggle between wrought iron and steel. But the improvements in the steel manu- facture have been so rapid and so vast, and those in the puddled iron manufacture so slow and so trifling, that the outlook for the latter is at best a gloomy one. But, notwithstanding the poor prospect for pud- dled iron in competition with steel, some puddling furnaces have yet a long life be- tore them, and so great is the confidence of some ironmakers in their future that a number of the old-style puddling furnaces | have been built even this year. In the in- evitable struggle for the survival of the fit test in iron and steel-making furnaces, some | pud2ling furnaces must go to the wall, and the probability is that the older fashioned | they are the sooner they will go. For those manufacturers who must make puddled iron THIRTY-TON STEAM CRANE, BUILT BY MESSRS. GEORGE RUSSELL & ©O., MOTHERWELL, ENGLAND. Part of the product is made into boiler | ction for marine boiler a vast saving is | ing a long record of tests of iron made for bridge purposes; and the fact that the Cin- cinnati mill makes a large portion of its product into marine boiler plate, which competes with that mada from charcoal blooms, is another point in its favor. One very promising outlook for the Danks posing furnace is that of its use for re- ing iron for steel making. It is claimed to be a good dephosphorizer, and there is no reason why it should not be with skill- ful handling, including proper regulation of temperature and the tapping out of the cinden when it has the highest percentage of phosphorus. It would no doubt well serve the purpose of the Bell and Krupp pig- washing processes, using oxides of iron or manganese to remove the phosphorus. In this way it is reported to have been used with great success at Creusot, France, and a furnace has recently been put up for this purpose at the Otis Steel Works in Cleveland. If the success now reached with the Danks furnace at Cincinnati and Pitts- burgh had only been reached ten years ago, and along with it the development of pud- dled iron processes, including the purifica- tion of impure irons, the handling of large masses up to 2000 or 3000 pounds in weight, and the finishing of the material direct from these large masse by the use of ma- ehinery in place of skilled labor, and with for a quarter of a century to come, and they are not few, it will be well to look to improving their processes even at this late day, and in view of the success reached after much tribulation, as above related, of the Danks furnace, it is not unlikely that it may be the longest-lived of its race. It is at least worthy of the most serious at- tention by those who would protect their iron works against the ever-encroaching Bessemer steel. EEE | |The Atkins Water-Softening Process. The following description of the Atkins water-softening process is given in the Lon- | don Times : and purifying of hard water in bulk has |received a satisfactory solution in the | Atkins process, which promises to be of great public service in these respects. The | process is a modification of and an improve- ment upon the Clark system of softening | water, which consisted in adding lime to the | water to be softened, and allowing the mix- | ture to stand for 24 hours in large reservoirs |or precipitating tanks before it could be : ae In the Atkins process, however, the | | precipitating tanks are dispensed with, and | The important question of the softening | - ee $L.50 @ Year, Including Fosti'G Single Copies, Ten Cenés. process being continuous and no time being required for it to stand and settle. The process essentially consists in chemically purifying the water, instead of mechan- ically, as in the ordinary filtration. In prac- tice a small jet of lime water is inteodacel into a portion of the water to be softened, and the two are blended in a mixer, whence | they flow into a softening tank, into which |the bulk of the water is conducted. From this tank the water with the lime in suspen- sion flows into the Atkins rotary disk filters, |in which the solid particles are all arrested | by an ingenious system of cloth-covered | disks placed within a tank, and which pre- | sent a very large area of filtration within a very small compass. The purified and soft- ;}ened water is conducted from the filters to |the storage reservoirs ready for use. The eifect of the lime water is not only to purify |and soften the water in bulk, but to cause any clayey matters that may be held in sus- pension to coagulate, thus facilitating their removal. The water passes from the out side to the inside of the filters through the cloth-covered disks, the surfaces of which become in time coated with a deposit con- sisting of carbonate of lime and impurities. These surfaces are quickly cleaned by means of a series of brushes, which are brought into contact with the disks. Tho brushes, which are fixed on a spindle, are rapidly re- volved, as are also the disks, but in opposite directions, the result being that in a few minutes the filters are cleansed and ready for work again. The system has been suc- cessfully applied to private water supplies in several instances, notably at the residence of the Duke of Richmond, at Goodwood, and at that of Mr.W. H. Smith, Member of Parlia- ment, near Henley. The first application of the system to a public water supply is that of the Henley-on-Thames water works, which were recently opened. It was introduced there by the engineer to the water com y, Mr. Jabez Church, in consequence of the ex- treme hardness of the water which is to be obtained from the chalk, and which is normally of about 1g degrees of hardness. After treatment, however, by the Atkins process the hardness is reduced to nearly four degrees, which means a beautifully soft water. The apparatus is calculated to soften and purify rather more than 100,000 allons of water per working day of 10 ours. The softening apparatus was sup- plied by the Atkins Water-Softening and Purifying Company, of No. 62 Fleet street, London. The system has been tried on the London and Brighton Railway by Mr. Stroudley, the locomotive superintendent, who is having an apparatus put up to soften and purify between 300,000 and 400,000 gal- lons of water per day for the supply of the boilers at the npee’ locomotive and car- riage works at Brighton. The practical value of the system is, therefore, established as regards the treatment of waters contain- ing the carbonate of lime. ec A Thirty-Ton Steam Crane. The steam crane which we illustrate was manufactured by the George Russell Co., for the Town Council of Renfrew, England. It ie of a class not very familiar to our readers, and possesses many decidedly novel features. The nearest approach to anything of the sort we have seen in this country are the heavy steam masting shears on the docks of our large iron ship builders. These, however, confine their operations to simply lifting in and out of a vessel in a single plane. The crane that we illustrate commands, it will be seen, a very wide range with its jib. Steam is carried through the pivot, and in this way the boiler is taken off from the engine plat- form and placed at the foot of one of the stays. The following description is taken from Engineering, to which we are indebted for the engravings : The maximum working load is 30 tons, lifted at a radius of 25 feet. The jib, mast, diagonal and horizontal stays are of malleable iron, built with plates and angles ; the jib and mast being stiffened by a double set of lattice stays. The jib is 54 feet long from center of pin at bottom to center of top chain pulley. The distance from center of crane to each of the holding- down bolts at foot of diagonal stays is 35 feet. This spread is more than usual, but | is necessary to allow free traffic on the rails, which are to be laid under the diagonal | Stays, and which connect the wharf with the Southwestern and Caledonian systems. The boiler is detached for the same reason, being placed close to one of the diagonal stays ; and the steam pipe, which is copper, is led up the diagonal to a stuffing box at top of mast, and thence down to cylinders The engines have a pair of 8-inch cylin- ders, with extra large wearing surfaces— and are connected to the hoisting barrel by double and triple purchase gearing, giving two speeds for hoisting [he hoisting bar- rel is 3 feet in diameter, with groove to re- ceive chain, and is capable of winding in fully 1os5 feet. The block is so arranged that it can also be used for double purchase, thus giving a vertical lift of 52 feet 6 inches. fhe slewing gear is worked by a double conical friction clutch and hand lever, inde- pendent of hoisting. The jib is variable in radius, wita safety arrangement of screw clutches, so coupled that either the clutch for varying radius or the clutch for support- ing jib isin gear. There is an indicator for showing the radius and corresponding load at any position between 25 feet, the mini the water can be used as it is softened, the| mum, and 37 feet 6 inches, the maximiuu, "KE. + —~ <= <= 7 =e ———— ee einen cr nll SS THR IRON AGE. October 19, 1889, ANSONIA ThePlume & Atwood pecans BRASS & COPPER CO,, Mfe. Company, 4 | ‘\ Phelps Building. NEW YORK. MANUFACTURERS OF a . PHILIP L. MOEN, CHARLES F. WASHBURN, ae MANUFACTURERS OF SHEET and ROLL BRASS and WIRE, | ae > ge-aaamaame BRASS AND COPPER Waterbury Sven C0.) German Siver and Giding Metal, | | Washburn & Moen Mfg. Co. } CAPITAL, + - $400,000. Copper Rivets and Burs, ene ee Capital, $1,500,000 ! WORCESTER, MASS. Sheet, Roll and Platers’ Brass, CERMAN SILVER, Copper, Brass and German Silver Wire, BRASS AND COPPER TUBING, COPPER RIVETS & BURS, BRASS KETTLES, Door Rail, Brass Tags, PERCUSSION CAPS, POWDER FLASKS. Metallic Eye'ets, Shot Pouches, Tape Measures, dc. Copper Electrical Wire, Pins, Brass Batt Hinges, Jack Chain, Kerosene Burners, Lamp Trimmings, &c. 18 Murray Street, New York. 13 Federal Street, Boston. 109 Lake Street, Chicago. Rolling Mill, Factories, THOMASTON, Ct.| WATERBURY, Ot. In Sheets, Bolts, Rods, Wire, &c. Seamless Brass & Copper Tubing. Ansonia Corrugated Stove Platforms, PURE COPPER WIRE For Electrical Purposes, Bare and Covered. Phosphor Bronze Rods for Pumps, &c. ANSONIA * REFINED \ —— WIRE DRAWERS. -+ Patent Galvanizing, Rolling and Tempering, MANUFACTURERS OF TRON, AND IRON AND STEEL WIRE. Of Every Description. es ete" co A SPECIALTY MADE OF \ ——— i iINcOT COPPER. an ae ee Wares of every Deserty aio. a8... le B C GALVANIZED TELEGRAPH WIRE, PHELPS, DODGE & C0, Capewell Mfg. Co.’s Line of Sport- Bridgeport rass 0, GALVANIZED TELEPHONE WIRE, cnidaieaial ai ing Goods. MANUFACTURERS OF oe PATENT STEEL WIRE BALE TIES, i r TIN PLATE, 296 Broadway, New York, WATERBURY,| Sheet and Roll Brass, AND PUMP ace FENCING, | | 125 Eddy St, Providence, R.1. Conn. | Bracs & C Wire & Tubi | a d ALIN, | ROOFING PLATE, _ , rass & Copper Wire & Tubing, 7 - : ' \ WAREHOUSES | Serr Tor, 76 Clif and 241 Pearl Stroct. German Silver Metal and Wire, h 7 and 109 Lake : J Sheet Iron, Copper, Pig Tin Wire, Zinc, &c. MANUFACTURERS OF COPPER AND BRASS. Copper and Iron Rivets. OILERS and CUSPADORES, j{ LAMPS and TRIMMINGS, LANTERNS and TRIMMINGS, | KEROSENE BURNERS, Clocks & Fly Fan Movements, | PLUMBERS’ MATERIALS. Particular attention paid to cutting out Blanks and manufacturing Metal Goods, AS Sssks! VANE ADVAN \ ean SSS — Detroit Copper & Brass Rolling Mills, ““NATIONAL WIRE AND LANTERN WORKS.” Warehouse, 45 Fulton Street, New York. And California Wire Works Co., San Francisco, Cal. CLIFF STREET, NEW YORE. BRAZIERS’ AND SHEATHING COPPER, - tin lapeeetaiaadeecaiedeigeaniaiiaia : MANOPACTORY, AREHOUSE, Manufactory, Nos. 1197, 1199, 1202, 1203, 1205, 1207, 1209 and tar De Kalb Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. SCOVILL MFC CO) ROLLED, SHEET & PLATERS' BRASS Bridgeport, Conn. |19 Murray Sty WF. HOWARD MOR ee ae GERMAN OR NICKEL SILVER, caaeeeculla OF _ aes BRASS Copper Wire for Electrical and other purposes, HARRISON WIRE CO, , HINCES, WIRE, CERMAN SILVER. Copper Rivets and Burrs, COPPER BOTTOMS FOR TEA KETTLES AND BOILERS, Cor. Larned & Fourth Sts., Detroit, Mich. PHOTOGRAPHIC GOODS. ST. LOUIS, MO., BUTTONS, CLOTH AND METAL. —_—_~>_—— MANUFACTURERS OF ALL KINDS OF ROME IRON WORKS, [STEEL AND IRON |™* “p07 = Ster Fire Departmen Lanter: DEPOTS, FACTORIES, 419 & 421 Broome St, NN, Y. Waterbury, Conn, 177 Devonshire St., Boston. New Haven Conn, Manet met rire De partment 183 Lake St., Chicago, New York City. Brass, G ilding Metal, Cop- eae Holmes, Booth & Haydens, WATERBURY, CONN. NEW YORK, BOSTON, 49 Chambers St. 18 Federal St. Manufacturers of a)l kinds of Brass, Copper & German Silver, ROLLED AND IN SHEETS. BRASS & COPPER WIRE, Tubing, Copper Rivets & Burs. BRASS & IRON JACK CHAIN, DOOR RAIL. DICKERSON, VAN DUSEN & CO.,! per and German Silver Importers of (In Sheets, Rods, Tubing or Wire), Tin Plate, Pig Tin, Sheet Iron, Cooper,| COPPER & BRASS RIVETS Wire, Zinc, Ete. AND BURS. 29 & 31 CUM St., cor. Fulton, Rome, New York. DICKERSON & CO.» Liverposi. NEW YORK, A, ©. NORTHROP, Waterbury, Conn., NOVELTIES IN BRASS AND OTHER METAL GOODS FOR HARDWARE TRADE. ht Iron and Brass Machine Screws; Turned, Hexagon, Round and Square Head Cap ene Bet Soenee Brass and fron Safety and Jack Chain; Gilt, Nickel | Plated and Bronze Trimmings " all from Sheet Iron, Steel or Brass. win dmates on patented articles, or any description of Sheet Metal work, respectfully solicited and Rh ae man a Kh a AA uA MN Wire Fence,Guardgor Galvanized WireSettee. No. 16 Pattern Drive W. Ww: = Railing, No. 9. = ay ire ees, Quards or 0. 12, ABRAM 8. HEWITT, President. JAMES HALL, Treasurer. WM. HEWITT, Vice President. E. HANSON, Secretary. TRENTON IRON COMPANY, (INCORPORATED 1847), TRENTON, N. J., Manufacturers of [RONand STEEL WIRE OF ALL GRADES, BRIGHT, ANNEALED, COPPERED, TINNED AND GALVANIZED Iron and Steel Wire Rods; promptly given. WORKS ROEBLING'S N York Off German Silver Spoons, ojala Warehouse, enandinien indian, ie, ‘| Best Qualities of Gun-Screw and Charcoal Iron Wire; Crucible, Siemens-Martin and Bessemer Steel Wire. Wire Straightened and Cut to ev ton York Office, COOPER, HEWITT & CO., 17 Burli adelphia Office, JOHN HEWITT, Agent. 2: North z IRON AND STEEL WIRE ROPE For Hoisting, Running & Standing Ropes, Ferries, &c. CONSTANTLY KEPT ON HAND. Address: HAZARD MFG. CO., Wilkesbarre, Luzerne Co., Pa. JOHN DAVOL & SONS, Agents for Brooklyn waned & Copper Co., Dealers in Ingot Copper, Spelter, Lead, Tin, Antimony, Solder & Old Metals. 100 John Street, New York. PASSAIC ZINC CO. B17 Liberty Street. THE JOHN A. ROEBLING'S SONS CO, MANUFACTURERS OF WIRE ROPE| .. vince, {Tron and Steel iron, Steel and Copper, | Telegraph Wire, WIRE FOR a coe Gane Market Wire, Market Wire, Fence Wire ana = kinds, for erries, jB, a s ’ , ’ ; nn Seemann i esi ay ce eeeeaeee ver | Vineyard Wire. | Ress. wis same wees] Pure Spelter |FELTEN & GUILLEAUME , 5 FOR Cartridge Brass, Gas Fixtures, Bronzes AND ALL FINE WORK, Also for Galvanizers & Brass Founders. MANNING & SQUIER, Gen'l Agents, 1 13 Liberty Stre Street, N N. ¥. Carlswerk, near Cologne, Germany. PATENT CRUCIBLE STEEL WIRE, For Mining and Plow Ropes, Hawsers and Bridge Cables. SIEMENS-MARTIN AND BESSEMER STEEL WIRE, Flusseisen, Swedish and German Charcoal Wire Lightning Rods, &c., &e, Suspension Bridge Cables, Rivet Wire. &c., &c. GALVANIZED WIRE CLOTHES LINES. BRODERICK & BASCOM ROPE 60., MANUFACTURERS OF f= WIRE ROPE™ of Charcoal and Swedish Iron and Steel, also with high conductivity, and in long lengths. GALVANIZED STEEL WIRE, For Plain, Barb and Strand Fencing, 3, +e ond r-ply Strand, Staples, &e. Annealed ont Oiled Fencing WIRE ROPE OF EVERY DESCRIPTION, TELEGRAPH CABLES. Contractors to the German and Foreign governments. The 0 tes house in the braneh on the Con tinent. Velegraph Address, © AHLESW ERK, COL General Agents for U. 8. 2 o fadotin, Geo. W. Prentiss & Co.. HOLYOKE, MASS., MANUFACTURERS OF ie se TRE) Et a3 co RON WIRE ROPE, STEEL WIRE ROPE 728 N. - Main St, St. Louis, Mo. WORCESTER WI RE CO.. a, t ght, dad, A led ad T¥ a . Orfinica, htoctsscnaw wine | & “ie LBSCHEN & SON, | IRON AND STEEL_ of all sizes str aight ened and cut to order, dl = ees ad do * aie ts g /¢ a 35. ee i : a z7 (C= ee Ee Js s 3 i — Bs BF BROWNING, SISUM & CO., 85 Chambers St.,] = = 7 da Manufacture bh OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. . Correspondence invited, Belt Hooks, Cetters, Spring Keys, D Rings, Staples, and opery thing perveining. to wire bending. 9 to 923 N. Main St. ST. LOUIS, MO. For all Purposes, WORCESTER, MASS. co = GALVANIZED TELEGRAPH WIRE carrie l(t Be : : October 19, 1882. THE IRON AGE. 8 si . a 2 - bik CA Fe a «hk? AAC ¥ IN ralii. Its action is shown by the annexed| The Royal Prussian Institutes for (4 , diagram. A fixed stud in jib A has a toothed | Testing Materials of Construction at Berlin. Manufacturers of rack bar attached, gearing into a small | ’ a | G. Gunther, bria Iron Co., Johnstown, i * oT Manufacturer of e ° © Va P B . | Hy \\ S Patented Brass, Sliver Plated a. ’ IS in ars, Or Cu 0 ~~ - a men" R os Ss and Japanned eee - ES on Ee = —— ; 5 ' vy. ; TT, BIRD CAGES specific lengths, smooth in | C 3 " . . . . . : e ~- Thirty-Ton Steam Crane.—Fig. 2.—Plan of Crane. Esa ' ice idee te finish and straight, with rt shipments. s ; : 5 7 S o : d t | quis Railroad, and runs to the Katahdin Iron | imposed are fulfilled, if every single piece 46 Park Place, en S Cu square y. Works, a distance of 20 miles. There are ' could be tested for its yarpers. for a i four bridges on the road, having spans of | ample, a tire were not accepted until it hac ’ NEW YORK. ; [No. 19.] 160 and 150 feet, and two of 50 feet each. | ac. over about poms miles, ner a - until [ ety in patterns and unsurpassed in The road is fairly ballasted with good gravel. | it had been used for 10 years, nor bridge-iron ’ > - low prises, Bow Imastzated Catalogues Gad Price There are two engines, two passenger cars, | before it had been in use for 30 years, nor an : Lists on application. one baggage car, a snow plow, ten box and | armor-plate until the enemy had bombarded FOUNDRYMEN’S METALLIC twenty flat ears. Thereare good depots, two | it without success, nor a brick until the turntables, water tanks, wood sheds, repair | whole weight of a house had rested on it, it Pattern Letters and viqueee, shops, and the whole cost of the road was would only be necessary in all these cases to oun prices. Mafd. by H.W. Kneght fam Falls, N.Y, only $200,000, There are only ten stock- | agree on the mode of payment; but because ty Ne re rere — _|holders. The road runs through Brownsville, | any system of that kind is impossible, and in ’ where it strikes the famous slate quarries | NO case more than for materials of construc- T H O M P so N S PAT E N - at that place. It is laid through a good tion, a different method of examination must >. CO YESS S E N P M TASKER it was no uncommon thing in winter to see | bulk. It is clear that those tests mostly have i i 5 ° ° ’ stacks of pig iron scattered all along the | only to prove that the mechanical qualities road, where teams, on account of the heavy | of materials of construction respond to the SOLE MANUFACTURER, roads, had been obliged to unload and stack | requirements which are imposed upon them a portion of the iron with which they started, | 17 a use for > is rare . practice, as ' ' . i ax . ° n aoe A portion of the old road was of the most} for example with tanks for acid water, that Care of MORRIS, TASKER & CO., Limited, Se character, and how wagons or | the chemical quality is considered ; but it is : ca i - . lok , | of the greatest interest to the producer, who PHILADELPHIA : teams stood it is unaccountable. We know | ‘ é : U. 8. A of many miles which were laid in corduroy makes the material by chemical processes, to & C0. Manufacturers of all kinds of BIRD CAGES. > Catalogues furnished NEW YORK. POWER PRESSES, RIVET MACHINES, Special Machinery to Order. BLABEE: & JOHNSON, 0. LINDEMANN STEEL WIRE forall vurposes and STEEL SPRINGS of every description. DEEL LELLLA VAIISTSISY #934, 936 and 238 West 29th Street, ~ - ~ - - IRON and BRASS RIVETS, For Manufacturers of Light Hardware. 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. The ROUND, SQUARE, and FLAT MACHINERY STEEL made by the GAUTIER STEEL DEPARTMENT of the Cam- FOR Wet Pulverization of Rocks, Ores, Rolling Mill Fix AND OTHER MATERIAL, EITHER COARSE OR TO AN IMPALPABLE POWDER, Centrifugal force applied to a rolling ball for the purpose of pulverizing. Tested thoroughly and guaranteed to yield a greater product of pulverized material of equal fineness in a given time with less wear, less power, less first cost and less cost for repairs than stamps or any other pulverizer. B on mast of crane. NEW YORK, pinion fixed on the back of a 3-foot dial. The dial is free to revolve on the fixed stud There are brass shaped plates at proper intervals round its circum- ference, and the fixed pointer C indicates out coming out of gear. The rack and pinion are wrought iron, without any clear ance in the teeth so as to indicate correctly. The purpose for which this crane has been erected is to place boilers, machinery, &c., in vessels, and since its completion it has been in constant use at this work; and also There is throughout the crane an ample mar gin of strength for the work, steel both in castings and forgings being freely used, o i - Light Standard Gauge Road. The State of Maine has a 20-mile standard gauge length of railroad, which apparently has all the advantages ever claimed by the narrow-gauge people, with the additional one tion into a road of standard weight. The road leaves Milo, on the Bangor and Piseata country for traffic, and as the iron works furnish from 4000 to 5000 tons down freight, | and nearly as much up in the way of sup- plies, it is likely to be a paying property| The rails are second-hand, weighing from 45 to 56 pounds per yard, and were bought | at the price of old rails. We well remember | the time when six, eight, twelve and 14 mule | teams were the only means of conveying the slate from Brownsville or the iron from the Katahdin Iron Works to Bangor. The dis- ! tance, we believe, was about 40 miles, and | across swamps, and though a pretense of | covering the logs with earth had heen made, the logs themselves were only too plainly | visible. The railroad opens a charming coun- | try, and will probably be one of the very | best investments of the day for those fortu- nate enough to possess stock. | iniaiinasnitan | Among the many interesting papers read j}at the Vienna meeting of the British Iron and Steel Institute, was that of Dr. H. Wed the radius in feet and load in tons. The) ding, of Berlin. entitled as above. and of t Japanned, Brass & rack is long enough to allow the jib to be | which we submit the following abstract : rt Tin Plated lowered horizontally and elevated again with The controversies between the claims of ef producers and consumers of manufactured products are in no case more severe than in that of the materials of construction, even should there be no doubt as to the existence of the best and most honest purpose on both sides. The producer will always choose thi cheapest and best mode of manufacturmg in indifferent to the method of production, and only cares that the quality of the material be equal to all requirements, even under the most unexpected conditions. It has, there- fore, always been necessary to make a com- promise between the two parties, which en- ables the producer to employ rational pro- cesses, and gives to the consumer a full war- rant for all probable requirements. On the basis of such a compromise, all conditions concerning the delivery of materials for pur- same principles prices are also calculated and arranged. It would be easy to judge | Whether the the conditions which are thus BON CORINNA DIAN NN rs AQ5 8 be sought for. If a tire gives way, or a rail breaks, or a bridge-girder tears, or an ar- mor-plate is shot to pieces, or a brick wall crumbles, damage is done which can be compensated by payment or repair, but | hundreds of lives may be lost through it. Hence it is absolutely necessary to tind a means of obtaining a certain judgment on a large quantity of articles or materials by the test of a single piece, or even only parts cf single pieces, supposing that the method of production was quite the same for the whole know how far the chemical constitution in- fluences its mechanical properties, and so to be certain that if a piece of a certain chemi- cal composition answers the test imposed by the consumer, all others of the same chemical composition will do the same. These cireum stances furnish the reason why, during the _ Saas ‘ | last 10 years, institutes have been established The Value of Coal Tar. which examine all such questions, and give ———= Bergen Port Spelter. | anal decisions in cases of doubt or difficult J. A. EMERICK, RE MINES : WORKS & FURNACES, Lehigh Valley, Pa. Bergen Port, N. J. The only Miners and Manufacturers of PURE LEHICH SPELTER From Lehigh Ore. Especially adapted for Cartridge Metal and German Silver. Also manufacturers of HOWARD EVANS. MOLDERS’ TOOLS, FOUNDRY FACINC, MOLDING SAND, FOUNDRY SUPPLIES, J. A. EMERICK & CO., Before the year 1856, the value of coal-tar | in London was hardly one cent per gallon, and in most of the English country towns gas makers were glad to give it away. Up to that time but small quantities of benzine, naphtha and creosote oils had been distilled In 1856, the discovery of the mauve or ani line purple, gave a great impetus to the coal- | tar trade. At the present time, the color | trade industry practically uses all the ben- | | | ' | zine and most of the naphtha, all the an thracine and a portion of the naphthaline, re sulting from the distillation of coal-tar. It is | estimated that the value of the coloring mat It is clear that such institutes can only be ) properly controlled by government, for then only is there a guarantee of entire impartial ity and disinterestedness, and an assurance that in each test the interests of the produ ing and the consuming parties are equally re | garded, and there can be no doubt that it right to make a certain, if only a very small part of the general taxes of the people pay for the expense of tests which are undertaken for the general welfare At the present time, three such institutes are in existence, two of them being occupied with mechanical and one with chemical eee em eee He eT ee” ~~ - ~ cena na pr W ATER B U RY CON N of being standard gauge, having roomy cars poses of construction are founded, and on the , ’ . and being capable at any time of transforma ; Fencing 1056 to 1076 Beach St., PHILADELPHIA. ter so produced is upward of $16,000,000 in | tests. ‘he Institute for mechanical tests has ' BERGEN PORT OXIDE ZINC, Eng ‘and alone. Over 1,000,000 tons of ammo- the duty of examining the strength of iron ’ § iperior for Liguip Parr on account of its body | — — niacal liquor and 95,000 tons of sulphate of j and other metals, timber, &c.; the Institute and wearing properties. ESTABLISHED 1837. INCORPORATED 1876. | #mmonia are made, which is worth over | for the testing of building materials has the BERGEN PORT ZINC CO. | is. cmusr, sey. C.F. Pors, Treas, | $00 per ton, Itis said that the by-products |same duty for buicks, coment, lime, &e.; ; , of the English gas works exceed the value of | while the Chemical Institute makes assa\ E, A. FISHER, Agent, 13 Burling Slip, N. Y. the coal used by $15,000,000, It is tothis won- | and analyses in both directions Regarding es derful economy in the utilization of the waste | the work of the institutes, two groups ma \ he Cov a r LU a oO products that the English cheap gas is due. be distinguished, the first of whj h embraces i CALVIN WELLS, A. MEANS, 9 A gas engineer from this country a few | the tests ordered by the State authorities or President. Manager. - mi - = years ago, spoke of English gas works | by private individuals. These are made on f Y y WY A I ERBURY be J CON 1 as being works for the production of pay me nt, and to a great extent cover the . - ILLINOIS FING CO coal tar, ammonia liquor, &c., which sold | oost of carrying on the institutes Work of 7” 4 °9 their gas as a by-product at little more | this character cannot be dispensed with. Its ‘ | ey Oo than the cost of producing it. Anxious as | value seers at the first blush only to extend = MANUFACTURERS OF am | the gas makers are to increase the consump- | to the individual person ordering it, and it eo 3 | Sa — tion in order to make more profitable por- | might seem to some as if this labor would be | he tions of the business larger, it seems strange | better done if left to private enterprise ; but : SHEE I ZINC MENDEN & SCHWERTE IRON AND STEEL WIRE WORKS, | that they hav ie, acelin Setees Ulier oan Sent. eaions: tad ek a =- ~ that they ave not more generally taken | by and by a system 1s built up out of the = = 3 AT SCHWERTE, WESTPHALIA, GERMANY ’ measures for encouraging consumption, In } th uusands of results, which is of the greatest - aa : ; . . : many places the application of gas for heat- | value in solving problems of general interest = & PERU, ILLINOIS. The largest Wire Works in the world. Make, on 12 traips, STEEL AND IRON WIRE RODS of all|:.. -..'..... :. a ee oe ee ee ee rig , oa , dimensions down to No. 8 and 9, Stubs gauge. Also, FINE TRON, HOOP IRON, BAR IRON in al) | 28 PUFrposes Is difficult, in consequence of end which can be attained in no other way. ; = — imensions and qualities. the reduced pressure on the mains during | The second group embraces the examina- : SOLE AGENTS FOR THE UNITED &TATES: the day time. In fact, this pressure is so|tion of w hole series of assays for the pur- invited. E. A. FISHER, - = + Agent, low as to barely prevent the indraft of|pose of solving the question, how the ; 18 Burling Slip, Now York. WOLTMAN & MICKERTS, ST. LOUIS, MO. atmospheric air into the pipes. quality of the whole bulk can be ascer- to the trade. - cn to ship coals For this latter purpose it is | order to get a material which answers the ‘ #1 —— a —— —— provided with a wrought-iron cradle to lift purpose of its application, while the con Why : 254 Pearl St., Market Steel Wire. Crinoline Wire, tempered and covered. the railway wagons, and an improved tipping | sumer, who mostly bears a considerable re - i! Also Patent Tempered Steel Furniture Springs, constantly on hand. gear worked by the driver on platform. sponsibility for the safety of the public, is eapieedeeemespenenn THE IRON AGE. October 19, 18892, (B. G. CLARKE, Receiver,) Cut Nails SPIKES. J. 8. SCRANTON, Sales Agent, $s Arian 81, 83 and 85 Washington Street, Planished Sheet Iron. NEW YORK. JOHN W. QUINCY & CO.,| Staten |STEEL TOE CALKS Guaranteed fully equal in all respects to the r Extra Quality Homogeneous Steel 98 William Street, New York. Anthracite & Charcoal Pig Irons, na MPORTED RUSSIA IRON, Wrought Scrap, Cut Nails, Copper, FOR SALE, BOILER PLATE BLOCK TIN, LEAD, SPELTER, ANTIMONY, NICKEL, &c. by all the principal METAL DEALERS) sreex erates, at dosoriptions. "| HARRISON&GILLOON ss des bins ee enc heat DEALERS, oe Large os throughout ut ' d S ik a 1 THE UNITED STATES. . aay deans ana 558, S60, 562 WATEK 8T., & 302, 304, 306 CHERRY S8T., fa 3 l4 2 {he ~ v ite SNOW SHOES fam Wem ROADSTER & sence aurmim seston.) TRON MERCHANTS, ! ronan d Stee | 28 & 29 West and 52 Washineton des or ewycosnpase nese! IRON & STEEL BOILER PLATE. Agents for Park Brother & Co.'s BLACK DIAMOND STEEL. BOILER TUBES, al | sizes of Cast and Machinery Steel constantly | Angle, Toe and Girder Iron, Boiler and Tank Rivets. a ae: Sole Agents for the celebrated ~ BIE LUKENS, PENNOCKS, y “WA WASSET,” “ EUREKA.” srands of Iron. Alsoal! descriptions of Plate, Sheet, 24 & 26 Broadway, 77 & 79 New St. ey | andGasometer Iron. Special attention to Locomotive aron. Fire Box Iron a specialty. NEW YORK CITY. “PICKS” of all kinds, ROME MERCHANT IRON MILLS, sé ” ESOPUS” HORSE SHOE IRON, ‘ ee eee ar iron, Bands an ine noops. _ BEAMS, ANGLES, | mcovrietnigrenaeineaty iran Tees, Channels, Sheets, Plates, | gusty ofizentrandeaa'. ait Baad tab All descriptions in stock. Bercet, N jew vers. our Agent, at 59 Joh oD IRON & STEEL. Se FOX & “DRUMMOND, NEW YORK, nd at their joe, nae on nant and oer for wn hooting axe | HM] Water Street, PITTSBURGH, PA. | SHOENBERGER & CO., ***z"=- see sinensis Cc. KANE, KEYSTONE ROLLING MILL, Limited, : OLD RAILS, SCRAP IRON, STEEL, SeneneINND of BURDEN $s PIC IRON, BLOOMS, IRON AND ORE, HORSE SHOES. \warsoa tau worxs |tonoci Botciord & Ge LIGHT GRAY IRON CASTINGS ron Nails & Spikes Tt 9 as j Bur den Best rr See making. YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO. Bridgeport, Conn. 190 South St., 365 Water St., IRON, NEW YORK. ALLENTOWN | cin PLATES, SHAFTING. os And all sizes of CATASAUQUA’”’ eULSTER” METALS, ABEEL BROS., N Oeamway IRON | 68 WALL STREET, - NEW YORK. BO Sreer oF ALL KINDS.| Marshall Lefferts & Co., A. R. WHITNEY & CO., 90 Beckman 8t., Now York Otty, Manufacturers ot and Dealers in MANUFACTURERS OF CORRUGATED AND crimPeD IRON| MANN & JONES, ROOFING & SIDING, 4 Hanover St., New York, Feit enero Mel PEWERAL IRON BROKERS Best Bloom, Best Refined and Common. Our specialty is in Sannin Soom Ueod in the Con-| geivanized Wire, Tele vant and Fence ; Galvanized struction of Fire-Proof Buildings, | Hoop and Bana lio Iron, “Gaivanized pod Boa t and Bar iron, MOSELEY IRON BRIDGE AND ROOF CO., tien, an Galvanised ‘ . <a 7 And Commission Merchants Agents for Carnegie Bros. & Co. Limited, { aw Tork. ; Nafta barbie cttman ker gez| CORRUGATED sweet iron | Boiler Rivets. EK SEN. |W. §. MIDDLETON, way S and Iron Works, Homo eous Steel For Roofing, &c., Galvanized, Plain or Painted <i WN % > : : foetene Meee gS yes | mew Omron, Bet Reet ond omen) oy a 3 Broker in Machinery & Iron roug on . 40.’ Ox sHEET IRON. Agent f a3 Cee é burden iron ompany re FORSTER’S CRUSHER & PULVERIZER, ket. Nails. Hoops, Bands, &c. Samson Iron Works, Bars. Pans and estimates and contracts f Tro) es f descri male eye n Structures of every tion. Books Ho =e cuts of all [ron made sent | Bes en application b Sample yes Ms aie. Please address udson Street, New Work. Plate and Tank Iron, C No. 1,C H No. 1, GR Be 1 Flange, Best Flange, t Flange Fire Box, ALL DESCRIPTIONS OF Iron Work Galvanized or Tinned to Order. Price list and quotations sent upon application. JAMES WILLIAMSON & CO., SCOTCH AND AMERICAN PIG IRON, No. 69 Wall St., New York. ULSTER IRON WORKS. 90 Broadway, New York. Tuckerman, Mulligan & Co CARMICHAEL & EMMENS 130, 132 & 1 St., New York, and Nos. oa, i a5 ay Wes wane a Lake St., Chicago, Il. IRON AND STEEL BOILER PLATE. Lap Welded Boiler Tubes, &c. &c. uo it in mar Troy, N.Y, } z o e . I Sy w.s. mUDDANren, 62 John St.,N. ¥. JNO. J. SHIPHERD, EGLESTON BROS. & CO.,| of Doutie Extra Quatity tron. INVESTMENT BANKER, NONE BUT CHOICEST MATERIAL USED. 166 South Street, - | NEW YORK CITY. Address, Lake uate ot Mining Stocks, F. W. JESUP & CO., a ——— H. B. & S. Railway 8 Supplies and Equipment Swedish & Norway ion ULSTER BAR IRON, Agents NASHUA IRON IRON AND STEEL ‘CO., | of every, desert (figek on hand) a Hi bpectalay. All sizes and shapes in stock. STEEL Bo bolt tic F eH Bde dona SYERL AXLES, GUSTAF LUNDBERG, 3¢ Kilby st., Borton Also Best Grades of IRON AND STEEL LOCOMOTIVE FORGINGS, | pALBERT POTTS, Philadelphia Agent, my & m6 ¥. Aan, & Eng, Ref ironyCommon rove! GT ENGARNOCK AND CARNBROE SCOTCH PIG IRON VOUGHT & WILLIAMS, For spot delivery and for prompt or forward shipments to New York, Boston, Philad nts to New York, Boston, Philadelphia, 288 Greenwich Street, Baltimore or New Orleans, For sale in lots to sult by NEW YORK, JAMES LEE & CO., Sole Agents for the United States. Dealers in 72 Pine Street, NEW YORK. 101 Milk Street, BOSTON, MASS. Horse Shoes, Horse Nails, |e EECHBURG IRON WORKS. BELLOWS, FORGES, VISES, KIRKPATRICK & CO., EINE SHEET IRONS, Tuyere Irons, Carriage and Tire Bolts, (Refined Cold Rolled, Show Card, Stamping, Tea Tray, Polished, Shovel, Ferrule Irom, &&.)” RASPS AND FILES, NATURAL GAS USED AS FUEL. OF FIOR, No. 143 First Ave., Pittsburgh, Pa. WORKS, Lecohburg, Po. Drilling Machines, Hammers and Sledges. CHARLES HUBBARD, “Sheridan” & *“ Leesport”? Brands Pig Iron, BORDEN & LOVELL, Commission Merchants 70 & 71 West St., Li "Covel New York. Agente for the sale of Fall River lron Co.’s Nails, Bands, Hoops & Rods. AND Borden Mining Company’s Cumberland Coals. WILLIAM H. WALLACE & CO., IRON MERCHANTS Cor. Albany & Washington Sts. e La NEW YORK OITY. and Seer et va si Rolling. Mills, Wu. BH. Watlace DANIEL W. RICHARDS “’ co., FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC B. EF. JUDSON, WHITE IRON (Anthracite & Bessemer) Stock for Making Stron ; SCRAP IRON, RAILS, STEEL AND METALS. ¥. FUE 7 KHON dts & neem) tock fOF Making rong Ceti Yards and Office, 88 to 96 Mangin St., NEW YORK. SCOTCH AND AMERICAN FAVORITE BRANDS OF SCOTCH PIG, IN STOCK AND TO ARRIVE. Dante. W. RICHARDS. Morton B. Sutra. Pe i =4 = r Oo n > Old Car Wheels, Best Brands. 46 CUf Street, New York City. PASSAIC ROLLING MILL CO., Wrought & Coat Sere ven, JAMES uwV7. ROSS, Manufacture and bave always in stock ROLLED IRON BEAMS, Channels, Angles, Tees, Merchant Bars, Riveted Work, Forg- ings, Eye Bars, &o. PATERSON, N. J. Room 45, Astor House, New Worm. NUFACTURERS’ AGENT OF 59 Water St. aise sou sez} NEW YORK. Bar Iron, Car Wheels, Axles, Rails and Railroad Supplies. BOLE AGENT —_———“* |Manhattan Rolling Mil| WHITAKER IRON COMPANY LING, W. VA., MANUFACTURERS OF OLD METALS. (SCOTCH AND AMERICAN PIG IRON. SEL % a — CUT NAILS, |. 3.uzomanp, | crs iiiiver wietsresiso™™ Hot Pressed Nuts, Bolts, Washers, “due, NEWYORK, |THE JERSEY CITY GALVANIZING CO., ee HORSE SHOE IRON, CALVANIZED > MATERIAL OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. DOVER IRON CO.’S Toe Calk Steel, Galvanized Sheet Iron— Best Bloom, sth at BRANCHES. Lijptadage pal Rods, ovale, 5 Half Ovals and Flats. oop Iro &e. ‘BOILER RIVETS,|— ane a en ae = ler B J Socket Bolts, & DANIEL F. COON EY,| of corrugation aa Boller brace Jaws, ' » oF. ' BOILER “PLATES “AND SHEET IRON, a oe LAP-WELDED BOILER FLUES, 2h to 5 inches. Eedler Rivets, Angle & T Iron, Cut Nails & -_~ FULLER BROTHERS & CO, #2222202 es 5 ips a roe Wwe rorne jgoeees Holling Mills, . Bet” ester | Gorrugated Sheet Iron & Specialty, Galvanised, Rieck ond Poin ated. Iron Corrugated for the Trade. 1 tsbed 139 Greenwich Street, New York, Stiiniexhaa” Homegeuevits steel, Bollr WORKS, GREEN AND BAY STREETS, JERSEY CITY, N, J, OFFICE AND WAREHOUSE, 96 JOHN STREET NEW YORK : 7 KS. pel rE Ons. Sheet irgh, ited, = RM “~~ TER, N. y. ER, cks, kholm. ron a E 236 N. hia, Ss. TASS. Trade. w YORK 2 marta daran be ne October 19, 1882. Siemens’ Regenerative GAS FURNACE. RICHMOND & POTTS, 119 8. Fourth St. PHILADELPHIA, PA. The Cambria Iron and Steel Works, Having enjoyed for over TWENTY-FIVE YEARS the reputation of producing the best quality of RAILS, have now an annual capacity of 230,000 Tons of Iron and Steel Rails, Splice Bars, &c. ADDRESS, CAMBRIA IRON COMPANY, No. 218 South 4th Street, Philadelphia. HENRY LEVIS & CO., Manufacturers’ Agents For Iren and Steel Rails, Car Wheels, Boiler and Sheet "1 = General Railway Old Ralls, Axles, a a Wheels bought and sold. 234 8. 4th St., Philadelphia. Or at the Works, JOHNSTOWN, PA. Or LENOX SMITH, New York Selling Agent, 46 Pine St., N. ¥. THE PHCENIX IRON CO., 410 Walnut Street, PHILADELPHIA. Manufacturers of Wrought Iron Beams, Deck Beams, Channels, Angle & Tee Bars, STRAIGHT AND CURVED TO TEMPLATE, Largely used in the construction of Iron Vessels, Buildings and Bridges. WROUCHT IRON ROOF TRUSSES, CIRDERS & JOISTS, and all kinds of Iron Framing used in the eonteuction of Fire Proof Buildings, PATENT WROUGHT IRON COLUMNS, WELDLESS EYE BARS, and built up shapes for Iron Bridges. REFINED BAR, SHAFTING, and every varicty of SHAPE IRON made to order. Plans and Specifications furnished. Address DAVID REEVES, President. NEW YORE AGENTS, MILLIKEN & SMITH, 95 Liberty Street. BOSTON AGENTS, FRED. A. HOUDLETTE & CO., 19 Batterymarch St. ALAN WOOD & CoO., MANUFACTURERS OF Patent Planished, Galvanized, Common, Best Refined, Cleaned and Charcoal Bloom PLATE c& SHEET IRON. No. 519 Arch 8t., Philadelphia, Pa. cially for Corrugated, Gasholder, Pan and Elbow, Water rue, Smoke Stack, a Pest, Stam tamping, Ferruie, Locomotive Headlight and Jacket Iron. —— ROWLAND & CO,, Kensington Iron, Steel & Nail Works, PENCOYD IRON WORE i (‘iéiéié™ A. & P. ROBERTS & co.,_4 1 i