The Iron Age 1883-04-12: Vol 31 Iss 15

XXX: No. Large Testing Machine. Messrs. Tinius Olsen & Co., of Philadel- phia, Pa., have recently compieted a testing machige for Messrs. Brown, /Konnell & Co., of Youngstown, Ohio, which has a capacit ef 200,000 pounds, The by screw-gearing, instea pressure, as heretofore used in such large machines, thereby insuring a gradually in- creasing strain and freedom from shocks for the test-pieces. The preservation of the knife-edges under the lever-bearings is sought to be accomplished by spring cushions, which it is claimed will prevent hammer- ing on the pivots, and thereby’ greatly wer is obtained aid in maintaining the accuracy_of the machine and its adjustment. All the parts of the machine are above the floor line, and therefore easily accessible. It is provided with the necessary attach- ments for tensile, compressive and trans- verse testing, among which may be mentioned the patent -bearing wedges. A noticeable feature of the machine is the fact that four straining screws are uged instead of two, as is usual in other similar appliances. This admits of smaller diame- ters for the screws, and, together with the fact that the steps of the screw are carried on friction rolls, and no worm being used, greatly lessens the friction and evabies the machine to accomplish a larger amount of work with less power. This machine is the largest one thus far manufactured by Messrs. Olsen & Cu., and is capable of testing iron specimens of 314 square inches of effective section. The maximum ranges of this machine are for tensile and compressive tests 2 feet, and for transverse test any desirable length. The Cost of Power. It is only a few weeks since that we found in one of our English exchanges an item re- lating to the above subject, and which, since its first appearace in an American contem- pay was extensively copied. Though ving experienced some c in going the rounds of the press, the item has retained its main and distinctive features, and the estimate given of the cost per hour per horse- power of various motors is about as follows : Cents. roo-horse-power steam engine............. ... 1.9 a-horse power steam engine.................+. 31.07 2-horse-power Lehman caloric engine,..:... - 662 2-horse-power Hi motor............ ; - & opomee power ete engine 5 -§ s-horse-power 1D gas engine........ 54 a-horse-power Schmidt water engine (fed by ? olty water supply)... ...----ee eee e cece cceceee 23.76 Florges...... Deane J akw> cobesdae ‘cobecee cess oBi.8u Meu....... sSeiNDen cubding ehGrothee set eeceenras $0.0 The experiments yielding these resulta were said to have bebn made at Carlsruhe, Germany, and their adoption in a number of pers as standards of comparison, and as | ving any value whatever, has given rise to severe criticism. The American Engineer, in considering the question some time azo, said : The absurdity of judging of the economy and of i:stituting comparisons of prime- movers on the basis of such slender and erro neous premises, and the fallacy of the above item, in the general sense in whieh it is put forward, is best characterized by the last lime—** men 50 cents.” We dare say in Carlsruhe, as the world over, some men get so cents au hour for their labor, some 25 eents, and some, when subject to the will of corporations, but 17 cents an hour. So, too, the 100 horse-power developed by the steam engine may cost 1.90 cents per horse-power per hour, 2.20 cents per horse-power an hour or 1.70 cents per horse-power an hour. If fuel and wages are sufficiently high—as, say, in some of our Western States—the 100 horse-power developed by the steam en- gine may rise in cost to 3 cents per orse-power and above. The variations of the 2-horse-power steam engine are apt to be much greater, and according as it requires more or less attendance, or forms the only cause for expense of skilled attendance, oris only part of a large system of steam plant, the price per horse-power per hour of the 2-horse-power engine will vary immensely. So, too, with all the other motors enumerated, including the horses, whose size and weight and fuel or oats capacity, as | well as the price of oats, will affect the cur- | rent expense, It is possible that the state- | ment, as presented in its original German form, where possibly all the qualifying ele- ments were stated, was correct, though we | are even inclined to doubt this. For any | one who attempts to summarize results as | this table shows them is given to a form of | genereslization which is usually productive of erroneous and foolish results. Leaving, however, the original German account out of the question, it is absurd to reproduce the | statement as it appears above in any scien- tific or technical journal, It only goes te| show how anxious people are to know resulte without going to the trouble to obtain them themselves or to discover | if they are correct. That an item of The Iro is. y| of by hydraulic | court will be divided by aisles into suitable the Hopeless fact that their —~+—- n Age A Review of the Hardware, Iron and Metal Trades. ities some distance apart. The comparison ;se“affected by the cost_of the materials of | construction, the cost of labor, the price of | fuel, salaries of. engineers, the cost of oil, | the interest value of money, and many other | conditions which materially influence the |expense of each separate prime-mover. | Having giy~a all. the items of expense, it is | usual! no difficult matter for an engineer to | Settle the most economical conditions of run- | ning and the prime-moyer most economical ; in any particular cage, bit to this trouble he | must go, and will undoybtedly do so cheer- | fully. It is the general public who are | influenced (and, sien !+ perhaps sometimes | guided) in their ideas and practice by state- ments of the type we criticise ; but the engi- |neer smiles at them and lets them pass as useless trash. attractive to the ublic as any other. should also have descriptions to fill the the stalls now provid useful. The Chicago Railway Exposition. | In view of the unexpected demand for room by those who desire to be represented | atthe above exhibition, the Board of Com- | missioners have decided to add largely to the floor space of the present building, and | also to erect a large extension. The result | will be to add, altogether, about 200,000 | square feet to the space heretofore available for exposition purposes. In other words, | what will be by far the la the present space is to be nearly quadrupled. | teresting exposition ever The extension of the floor space in the pres-' The wille present building and the annex. The large plate-glass tanks most interesting exhibits, M1 itt } a_ a a « ‘ A NEW TESTING MACHINE, BUILT BY MESSRS. TINIUS OLSEN ent building includes a large addition to the iron and wood working machinery have been made, and the display in this respect will, it is thought, equal anythin: ever seen before the exposition. on this continent. The steam supply willbe| We learn from the Railway Age that the increased from 200 horse-power to to 600, | net earnings of the exhibition are to be de- | a a |Should it, however, be a financial success, lin the Pacific States (226) is nearly double besides which it is expected that a boiler of | voted to an important and useful charity. 100 horse-power will be placed in the annex. | In its issue of April 5 that journal says : The annex will consist of two pavilions | Every day throughout this country railway extending south and parallel to each other| men are being crushed between cars, man- 400 feet, with an open court between them | gled under wheels, parboiled by exploding 100 feet wide. The east pavilion will be 90 | steam and crippled for life in collisions. Every feet in depth, and the west one 70. Both of | day railway men find themselves sick and these pavilions will be divided into stalls 16 | Sainioss, with no friends to care for them feet in width, in each of which will be placed | and no money to buy medicine and nursing. a locomotive or a car. The vast central | Every day railway men are compelled to face youth and spaces, which are being allotted to appli-| strength are gone, and that they must hence- cants whose exhibits are suited to such loca-| forth drag out their existence a burden upon tion. Many of these exhibitors will erect | the neh aibaolioe of the busy world. Itisa ornamental booths in which to display their | painful fact that very little practical thought articles. The eastern portion of the ounrt | bes been given by railway officers to the will contain an immense transfer-table, by | condition of their faithful employees after | proceeds will be amply sufficient to inaugu- means of which cars and lecomotives can be | accident, sickness or old age have rendered quickly moved into or out of their respective | them unfit for service. There are always ome in which various devices, such as| off, or a leg brakes, couplers, &c.,as well as improve- | age strike down their victims, is immediately ments in eugines and cars, can be tested. | ceed In the center of the court a stand will be! march New York, Thursday, April 12, 188}. of the present building will be devoted to| light articles, models, &c., and will present hundreds of illustrations of human ingenuity. This portion of the building will be fully as It n mentioned that the annex is so planned that the positions can be extended southward in case more room should be needed. There are now nearly enough entries of locomotives and cars of all e to be devoted to for, and a consider- able addition will probably be needed. Two other features of the exposition will, no doubt, prove very attractive. One of these is a series of exhibits from along the lines of the Southern railways, consisting of tropical plants, shrubs, &c., both ornamental and Many carloads of these collections will be distributed in a tasteful manner | throughout the grounds and spaces of the The other | special attractions referred to embrace large | collections of fish, entered by several of the railways running into the fishing regions of Michigan, Wisconsin and the Northwest. | around the central fountain will accommodate these The foregoing is merely an outline of matters relating to and most in-| eld in Chicago. | the money come from for this noble charity t scope and reach of the enterprise, ' This question will probably be answered in & the character and energy of the Board of | the next three months. portion devoted to machinery requiring Commissionersand the Executive Committee, | the great National Exhibition of Railway Ap- power. A very large-nuinber of entries of and the eagerness with which space is being | pliances, soon to be opened, did not originate applied for and entries of exhibits made, all| the enterprise for money-making purposes combine to insure a remarkable sucoees for | On the contrary, they are giving their valu- | | stalls. There will also be several railway | mea enough to be had. The vacancy in the | be welcomed in their times of need. tracks in the court at least 400 feet in | ranks which is caused when an arm is cut this prospect in view, every railway officer | led, or when disease or | and emplovee ought to use his best endeavors by fresh recruits, and the army goes | Railway Exposition during the month of ing on, forgetful of the unfortunate | June. the above kind finds reproduction in the | erected, from which music will be furnished | comrades who have fallen by the way. | technical press, as this one has, is a/| sad evidence of the state of dppraaiete | opinion as to what class of engineering infor- mation is desirable. omy of different prime-movers is a matter | which can be judged of in specific cases and | for specific purposes, adding together the | oe of expense Lightly 7 ew aiden > jtems very sli every different | y very considerably in lool: | piece, and afternoons and evenings. Running transversely across the southern | superannuated men? Only the merciful end of the court will be the ‘‘ Old Curiosity | Father knows, oftentimes ; for in most cases ” pose and mentioned on former occasions. | follow the course of their servants when they he universal attention which this exhibit | cease to be useful, This is not from hard and others to be located in the annex will heartedness, but becauses the rush of busi- attract must necessarily make the ground | ness engrosses the thoughts of railwa pace of the court as valuable and desirable | officers, and no orgenized method of aan ps that in the present building, The galleries| jng for those in need offers jte agsistance, | What becomes of the sick, disabled and | The comparative econ- | Shop,” @ building specially designed for its | their employers do not trouble themselves to owners of Westphalia devised a scheme for | Published every Thursday Morning by Davio Witttams, No. 83 Reade Street, New York, Entered at the Post Office, New York, as Second-Class Matter. -_- $4.50 a Year, Including Postage. Single Copies, Zen Cends. drawn up hy the Westphalian coal-mining industry, suggested to the Milan Chamber of Commerce the holding of an international coal exhibition, but after mature delibera- tion the present time was not considered opportune for such an extensive display. When the matter was again a subject of dis- cussion in Westphalia, it became evident that the advantages of the new tunnel were by no means as important as had been ex pected, inasmuch as the high rates of trans- portation to which Westphalian coal was subjected rendered competition with England out of the question. It has, therefore, its shelter. Somewhat similar ;.uvio:... has | been resolved to abandon the idea until a been made by a few other companies, and | reduction of tle railway rates should invest several others, notably the Baltimore and | the business in view with prospects of that Ohio, have organized employees’ mutual | commercial success which is neutralized by benefit associations, which are doing an ex- | the present traffic arrangements. cellent work for those entitled to their privi- | leges. But the great majority of railway men in the country are still unprovided for, and sudden accident or sickness and certain disablement from old age will leave many of them homeless. Should there not be at least one great rail- way hospital and home in this country, with an army of more than 500,000 working railway men? The question seems to bring its own affirmative answer. Every one will say yes; but the natural question is, Where shall True, some of eur great railway companies have of late undertaken the good work of providing a hospital and home for their servants in time of need. The Central Pa- cific Company have for some years maintained a model hospital at Sacramento for this pur- | pose. It is a noble structure, costing $64,000, and consisting of a main building 60 x 35 feet, four stories and basement, with wide verandas, and with two wings 35 x 52 feet, and a kitchen building near by. It has ac- commodations for 125 patients, and affords the best of care for employees of the Cen- tral and Ser*" 5. Dacicu .2mpanies needing TI Failn:es Since January 1. The number of failures in the United | States during the three months of 1863 are reported by &. G, Dun & Co, at 2806, as com- pared with 2127 for the same period of last year, showing an increase of 779. The liabilities show about a proportionate in- crease to the number of failures, being for the current quarter just closed $37,000,000 as against $33,000,000 for 1882. In view of the tedious and trying winter and the many disasters that have been reported, the increase in the number of failures can scarcely be considered remarkable, especially when it is borne in mind that the number engaged in business is greater than ever before and transactions have been of unusual magnitude. In Canada the figures show a very large increase, the number of failuras being 398 in the last quarter, as compared with 206 in the first three months of 1882, in increase of nearly 100 per cent. The liabilities are equally Rene, being $5,000,000, as against $2,000,000 in 1882. The follow- ing are the failures in detail : Number. Liabilities “astern States..... ..... 297 $2,048,5° 7 Miduie States....... coos 643 32,774,563 Southern States.............- 693 6,552,844 eWestern States................ 899 33,805,784 facifice States and Territories. 274 2,488,522 WORDS Frac tescsuens ; 2206 $37.5°9,207 Dominion of Canada.......... 398 $5, 180,484 Summing up the trade disasters for the ‘irst quarter of 1883, which is complete, ex- cept for the last day of March, Pradstreet’s says the record is a formidable one. Accord- ing to that agency, the number of failures is 3189. For the first apeneet of 1882 and 1881 it was 2146 and 1986, respectivety. These figures make the increase cver 1581, 60 per cent., and over 1882, 49 per ceut. The iabilities for the quarter foot up 342,235,53*, against $29,010,944 for the first quarter last year, making an increase of 42 per cent. The total of assets is $23,763,828, while for the same period in 1852 it was $15,323,s91, showing an increase of 55 per cent, he percentage of assets for the quarter is larger than that for 1882, from the fact that a few heavy failures present schedules of acknow]- edged assets equal to, and in one or two in- stances in excess of, the labilitics. The average liabilities for each failure are $13, 243, against an average of $13,518 for the corresponding period last year. The aver age of assets is $7542, and for the corres ponding quarter in 1882 it was $7141. The ratio of total assets to total liabilities is 56.2 per cent., against a ratio of 52.8 for the tirst uarter in 1882. The average liabilities of the 429 failing traders in New England were $9055 and the percentage of assets to liabili- ties 43.7. In the Middle States 732 traders failed. Their average liabilities were @20,701, and the percentage of assets to liabilities was 45.8. There were failures in the Southern States, with aver- age liabilities of $9069, and a percent- age of assets to liabilities of 47.9. The failures for the quarter in the Weet- eru States were 975, the average liabil ities $1:,156, and the percentage of assets bilities 76.3. The number of failures CO,, OF PHILADELPHIA, PA, The managers of 799 able time and labor entirely without pay, and they are personally responsible if the exposition should prove a financial failure, | to lia they have promised to devote every dollar of that in the first quarter last year, and but 1 } the net proceeds to benevolent purposes con- | less than for the same time in 188r. The nected with the railway interest, and the | average liability of each failing trader is idea of founding such an institution as that | $7,912, and the percentage of assets - tw referred to seems to be at the bottom of all | liabilities 45.6. The number of failures re their plans. ported in the Territories is 58, or 14 more It now remains with railway men and the | than double the number for the first quarter general public to say whether the dream of | of 1882. The average liabilities are $11,561 these philanthrophic men—a great hospital |and the percentage of assets to liabilities and home for railway employees, to be/67.9. The whole number of failures in located wherever it shall ultimately be |New York City in the first quarter of 13383 deemed best—shall be realized as one result | Was 123; in 1882, roo, and in 1881, tou of the exposition. If the attendance is as| The liabilities in 1583 were $4,722,713; in reat as the extent and importance of the | 1882, $3,014,664, and in 1881, $3,495,490 len now assured, warrant, then the | The actual assets in 1883 were $1,541,459 lin 1882, $1,423.936, and im 1831, $1,073,170. The percentage of assets to liabilities in rate this beneficent institution, to which rail- | of a way men from all parts of the country will | 1883 were 38.9; in 1882, 47.2, and in 1881, With | 30.7. The number of failures in Canada and the Provinces for the quarter were 409, the general liabililies $5,952,692, the actual assets $2,891,660, and the percentage of assets to liabilities 48.6. By trades, the greatest number of tailures in the United to swell the multitude which will throng the ener eetee es, nae, States was, in general stores, 628; in grocers, The Proposed Coal Exhibition at | so6; indry and fancy goods, 195 ; im boote Milan.—At the time of the opening of the and shoes, 163; clothing, cloths, &e., 154 ; in liquors and saloons, 130, There was one failure in the rubber trade. Bradstreet’s suys that the quarter’s record shows to how large an extent an adjustment of prices and enforced liquidation has been going on. Many unwise ventures of the preceding ears have been entered ip the record of Tiluree since January fr. St. Gothard Tunnel, the principal coal-mine the holding at Milan of an exhibition of Westphalian coal and minerals, iu order to make the population of Northern Italy scquainted with the products which were boone within a shorter distance by the completion of the tunnel, The plan, as 53 as WORCESTER WIRE CO., co., ANSONIA BRASS & COPPER CO., No, 19 Cliff Street, Mfg. Company, MANUFACTURERS OF PA, came TET YORM,| | LSC” | SHEET and ROLL BRASS and WIRE, BRASS AND COPPER Waterbury Brass C0,| German Silver and Gilding Metal, a CAPITAL, - - $400,000. Copper Rivets and Burs, Sheet, Roll and Platers’ Brass, . ; ; aehan G:LVEn, Copper Electrical Wire, Pins, Copper, Brass and German Silver Wire; a ye — ac ain, BRASS AND COPPER TUBING, COPPER RIVETS & BURS, | Kerosene Burners, BRASS KETTLES, Door Rail, Brass Tags, PERCUSSION CAPS, POWDER FLASES, Metallic Eye’ets, Shot Pouches, Tave Measures, dic. And small Brass Wares of every Description. Sheets, Bolts, Rods, Wire, &c. Seamless Brass & Copper Tubing. Ansonia Corrugated Stove Platforms. PURE COPPER WIRE Electrical Purposes, Bare and Covered. Phosphor Bronze Rods for Pumps, &c. ANSONIA REFINED INCOT COPPER. 18 Murray Street, New York. 13 Federal Street, Boston. 109 Lake Street, Chicago. Reiling Mill, Facterics, THOMASTON, Ct. | WATERBURY, Ct. THE IRON AGE. ThePlume & Atwood Lamp Trimmings, &c. f April 12, 1888, PHILIP L. MOEN, President and Treasurer. AS. F. WASHBURN, Vice President & Secretary a & WEN _MANUFACTURING £0 Botabitched 1831. a Re om a4 ? “yr a» Sree er ne MANUPACTUREES OF IRON and STEHEL wiRs, Patent Steel Barb Fencing, zoe Steel Wire Bele a. Seciieatinaibtiescaiasieteraiamedstelliaaesass Cartridge Metal in Sueded of Chelle a Rpeciay. | eS es 000 ef a on a ts t Nt m4 [ron et i Owners and ereralt Mie. Spo rt Brass Co | erator = We PATENT CON: “bousr x M oe r— sae. Iron and Steel <a Wikk PH ELPS D 0 DGE & CO., Oapewell “_ Co.'s Line of rt- "YK cot oF ee + Sona te loeake > net Ga sehrninteer nee rele + how ang Stone Wire, , ‘ Wire, “Wire for th a Cover oP ae ing Goods. MANUFACTURERS OF Chain Wire Rwttnt erates St ain rd Clot ee. ae fin eats te son ‘Gus bo Sew van IMPORTERS OF DEPOTS MEille At Spiral Spring Wyre, an d Refined Wire to Pattern fon particnser | purposes, from selected stamps of Norway Lron T A ; Sheet and Roll Brass, A Sp ; Galvanized or Tin Plated. Wise fernteben, 7 E 296 Broadway, New York, WATERBU RY, Straigntened and Cut to any length. tine ¥ Wire, Pate atent ee. oath Unrivaled Stoel Music i | Pp L . 125 Edd St. Provid R. | Conn . . bi Wire. Stee) Wire for Springs, Destine Nc Drilis. pt in stock, all sizes, 5 Eddy St.. Providence, R. |. . Brass & Copper Wire & Tu ng, WAREHOUsEs: | New York, 16 Clig, ana 941 Peart Sts. (Chicago, 107 and 109 Lake St. ROOFING PLATE, Sheet Iron Copper, Pig Tin, Wire, Zinc, &c. SE CMANUFACTURERS OF COPPER AND BRASS. OLIFF STREET, NEW YORK. Seamless and Brazed Tubing, . Copper and Iron Rivets. ONLERS and CUSPADORES, [ LAMPS and TRIMMINGS, osc BURNERS, Detroit Copper & B:ass Rolling Mills, BRAZIERS’ AND SHEATHING COPPER, ROLLED. SHEET & PLATERS’ BRASS GERMAN OR NICKEL SILVER, Copper Wire for Electrical and other purposes, Brass and German Silver Wire, Oopper Rivets and Burrs, COPPER BOTTOMS FOR TEA KETTLES AND BOILERS, Cor. Larned & Fourth Sts., Detroit, Mich. ROME IRON WORKS, LANTERNS and TRIMMINGS, Clocks & Fly Fan Movements, PLUMBERS’ MATERIALS. eee ere to cutting out Blanks and manufacturing Metal ManurAcToRY, a WAREHOUSE, Bridgeport, Conn. | 19 Murray St., N. ¥. ee ee deed neck nashddichtiebceaitnianiansiibe HARRISON WIRE CO., ST. LOUIS, MO., —_——_— C—O SCOVILL MFC co —_— ——_—— BRASS, HINCES WIRE, CERMAN SILVER. PHOTOGRAPHIC GOODS. MANUFACTURERS OF ALL KINDS OF BUTTONS, manutatree CLOTH AND METAL. | Brass, Gilding Metal, Cop- STEEL AND IRON a St. MY. Waterbury, Com, | per and German Silver 177 Devonshire St., Boston. New Haven, Conn. (In Sheets, Rods, Tubiug or Wire), re Kw Yoke | COPPER & BRASS RIVETS Miesrias aL ETRE SS CSE AND BURS. DICKERSON, VAN DUSEN & CO,|___ "tome. New York. jHinimag Booth & Haydens, Importers of ’ WATERBURY, CONN. ® NEW YORK, BOSTON, 49 Chambers St. 18 Federal St. Manufasturers of ail 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. JOHN DAVOL & SONS, Agents for Brooklyn wanes & Copper Co., BROWN & BROTHERS, 81 Chambers St., N.Y. Waterbury, Conn. MANUFACTURERS OF BRASS, COPPER AND GERMAN SILVER POLISHED COPPER “=~<"""~ Jnder Patent of T. James, Sept. re, 1876, wae z Seamless Brass & Copper Tubing. PATENTED SEAMLESS BRASS AND COPPER | HOUSE BOILERS, warranted to stand 200 Ibs pressure and guaranteed against vacuum. BRAZIERS & SHEATHING COPPER, | PATENTED SPRING TEMPERED SHANK, Kettles, Bottoms, Bolts, Circles, &c. SILVER-PLATED, FLAT TABLE WARE, in rich designs. 200 Peari Street - NEW YORK. Tin Plate, Pig Tin, Sheet Iron, Copper, Wire, Zinc, Etc., 29 & 31 Cli@ St., cor, Fulton, DICKERSON & CO., Liverpoo, § NEW YORK. THE NEW HAVEN COPPER CoO., SOLE MAKERS OF ALSO MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IN Ingot Copper, Spelter, Lead, Tin, Antimony, Solder & Old Metals. 100 John Mtireet, New York. PASSAIC ZINC CO. Pure Spelter Cartridge Brass, Gas Fixtures, Bronzes AND ALL FINE WORK. Also for Galvanizers & Brass Founders. GERMAN SILVER SPOONS AND FORKS. A. C. NORTHROP, Waterbury, Conn., NOVELTIES IN BRASS AND OTHER METAL GOODS FOR HARDWARE TRADE. , Wrought Iron and Brass Machine Screws; Turned, Hexagon, Round and Square Head C Bet Screws; Brass and Iron Safety ana Jack Chain; Gilt, Nieke ] + {= Pet Sevows; Goats ane ce t= he i Plated and Bronze Trimmings of all Estimates on patented articles, or any desoription of Sheet Metal work, respectfully solicited and prompuy given. BRODERICK & BASCOM ROPE (CO., MANUFACTURERS OF 113 Liberty Street, N. ¥. - ‘Geo. W. Prentiss & Co., HOLYOKE, MASS., MANUFACTURERS OF IRON = Et aie) BRODERICK& BASCOM ROPE Co. IRON WIRE ROPE, STEEL WIRE ROPE, 728 N. Main St., St. Louls,Mo. Mo. | Bright, Sennetete Annealed and Tin | Plated, Also GUN SCREW WIRE Of a all sizes straightened | and cut to order. No. 35 Manufacturers of IRON AND STEEL WIRE For all Purposes. WORCESTER, MASS. Belt Heeks, Gael Sestee Keys. D Ringe et and ev ery thing perseinin to wire bendj aoten Fact ory KLYS. —? MANNING & SQUIER, Gen'l Agents, | WIRE. = Sprols, weight atout 100 Ibs. and length of . * NATIONAL WIRE AND LANTERN WORKS,” Warehouse, 45 Fulton Street, New York. And California Wire Works Co., San Francisco, Cal. danufactory, Nos. 1197, 1199, 1201, 1203, 1205, 1207, 1209 and 1211 De Kalb Avenue, Brooklyn, N. ¥ HOWARD & MORSE, BRASS, COPPER & IRON WIRE CLOTH, Exclusive Manufacturers of No. 16 Pattern, Drive Way Gates. HEAVY ROLLED CLOTH FOR MALT KIIEN FLOORS, Wire Work, Wire Fence, Railing and Guards. JAMES HALL, Treasurer. E. HANSON, Secretary. ABRAM 8S. HEWITT, President. WM. HEWITT, Vice President, TRENTON IRON COMPANY, IRPORATED 1847), ——s M. J., Manufacturers of [RONand STEELWIRE OF ALL GRADES, RIGHT, ANNEALED, COPPERED, TINNED AND GALVANIZED Iron and Steel Wire Rods; EXTRA QUALITIES OF BAR IRON AND RODS. Best Qualities of Gun-Screw and Charcoal Iron Wire; Crucible, Siemens-Martin and Bessemer Steel Wire. Wire Straightened and Cut to Lengths, New York Office, COOPER, HEWITT & CO., 17 ping Philadelphia Office, JOHN HEWITT, Agent, a1 North Fourth St, IRON AND STEEL WIRE ROPE For Hoisting, Running & Standing Ropes, Ferries, &c CONSTANTLY KEPT ON HAND, Address: HAZARD MFG. CO., Wilkesbarre, Luzerne Co., Pa. This Advertisement Changed Every Week, LOW A BARB WIRE CO., 99 John St, New York. 89 Lake St., Chicago. STAUFFER, MACREADY & CO., New Orleans, La. > BARB WIRE, DIGGERS, STRETCIERS, STAPLES, Etc., Ete., Ete. w're about 1500 feet. LESCHEN & SON, l A. = o Manufacturers of Fi . s W | ae is 5 IR 0} ‘ iS : z — s = 4 = Ss » & : = 2 Ze YP oO as co. = B Ss | = 08 f= OF EBVERY DESCHIPTION. 919 to 923 N. Main &8t., ST, LOUIS, MO, Correspondence invited, Sold | OTIS A, MORRB In WAREHOUS| 16th & PHI Now yw - i ; # THE IRON AGE. $ 0. LINDEMANN & C0. Manufacturers of all kinds of Japanned, Brass & Tin Plated BIRD CAGES. Catalogues furnished to the trade. 254 Peari St., NEW YORK. 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. | t Gunther, Manufacturer of I Pt Ss, Se Ps Meeutrirtttice n TT) BIRD CAGES. CMmeattrttt+t AN; Can be nested for ex- 46 Park Place, NEW YORG. Largest variety in patterns and unsurpassed in lew prices. Mew lilustrated Catalogues and Price Lists on application. FOUNDRYMEN’S METALLIC Pattern Letters and Figures, To put on patterns of castings. All sizes. Re- éuced Prices. tinfd. bw H. W. Kn qnt, Senece Fails, NY. ' Bergen Port Spelter. 977Ex 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 BERGEN PORT OXIDE ZINC. 943 Superior for Ligurp Paint on account of its body aud wearing properties. BERGEN PORT ZINC CO. E. A. FISHER, Agent, 13 Burling Slio, N. Y. AMOS STDECK, NOTARY PUBLIC, Real Estate Agent :nd Broker, GREENSBURGH, Westmoreland Co, Pa. FURNACE & RO‘LING MILL COAL TRAC'S A SPECIALTY Have now for sale five Coal Fields n diff r nt parts of the county, Three—150, 35° and 0. actes respectively—are Coking Coal, and two, 250 and Soo acres each, are Steam and Gas Coal ; all having surface drainage and adjoining Railroads, or nearly adjacent. Prices according to location. Have also several Shafting Fields in view, Correspondence solicited, SMITH’S NEW MODEL CARYW _& MORN, anufacturers 0 STEEL WIRE for aii purposes, and STEEL SPRINCS of every description. | Machine Shop Arrangement, } BY C. H. Fitch The comprehensive summary of the prin | ciples of arrangement of manufacturing es tablishments, by Professor Hutton, in No. 57 of Mechanics, prompts the writer to approach the subject with a specific example which might not be a satisfactory light in the boiler and machine shops, and an econemical plan would be to unite both in one go x 120 foot shop, the roof amply supported by rows of building piers or posts placed outside the posts of the traveling cranes A single main shaft could then run between the cranes, and skylights could be placed over- head. The power boiler room could be lo- DELLE EARL LLA VL EC LELLLLALELAAELAALALLEE — a. > > ee ) Ss > te be YE ee = > a) SE = i Market Steel W re, ¢rineline Wire, tempered and covered. Also Patent Tempered Steel Furniture Springs, constantly on hand. RASS RIV 234. 236 and 238 West 29th Street, IRON AND B Studs, Pins, Screws, &c., For Manufacturers of Light Hardware. BLAKE & JOHNSON, Waterbury, Conn. The WIRE MILL of the GAUTIER STEEL DEPART- MENT of Cambria Iron Com- pany, at Johnstown, Pa, procucss and sels MORE FENCE WIRE than any mill in the world. port shipments. | E NEw CHAIN. SEND FOR CIRCULAR. C. W. & H. W. MIDDLETON, Selling Agents, “945 Ridge Ave. 908-910 and 926-928 Calliowhill St. Philadelphia. J. A. EMERICK HOWARD EVANS. MOLDERS’ TOOLS, FOUNDRY FACING, MOLDING SAND, FOUNDRY SUPPLIES, J. A. EMERICK & CO., 1056 to 1076 Beach St., PHILADELPHIA. ESTABLISHED 1837. H. 8. Cmase, Sec’y. INCORPORATED 1876 may serve to illustrate a method of proceed- cated below the ground level and partly ling in the layout and design of shops—a Under the inlet track, with a runway per matter ordinarily conducted with such an mitting the convenient use of the boilei-shop apparent lack of system that one is often , crane. impressed with the feeling that the varicus The foundry power would then be taken departments of a factory have ‘‘met by off near the engine, as before, and the bal- | chance, the usual way.” — ance of the power would drive the heaviest Let us assume a shop manufacturing en machines near the engine, viz.: On the gines and boilers of nominal powers ranging machine shop side a vertical turning mill o1 from 5 to 100 horse-power, and having an pulley lathe, a boring mill, tw oO large planers, annual product specitied as 175 boilers and | 4 slotting machine and a radial drill, in the engines of 3500 aggregate horse-power, order stated ; and on the boiler-shop side | valued at $180,000, and of a weight of 1000 bending rolls, shears, punch and riveter \OF net tons, comprised of 450 tons engine and | 4ir compresser, if a portable pneumatic riy 25 tons boiler castings, 450 tons sheet and | eter be used), in that order. For shops of instances, are believed to fall within the | machines, two small planing machines, two limits of ordinary practice, and are stated | pony planers, two shapers, a gear-cutter, 'as of interest apart from their bearing on | 5!* small and medium size lathes, three drill the question of shop space. The average presses and several emery wheel stands, in product per operative employed will be per addition to the heavy tools mentioned, For annum, say, 1% engines and boilers, aggre- these there would be ample space, the gating 27 nominal horse-power (that is the planers, when provided with diagonal driv maker’s estimate of engine power at ordinary | 28 Motions, admitting of being placed par : speed, and with a corresponding boiler ca- allel with the lathes, and the order of pacity), a weight of machinery of about 7% | 8trangement being obviously in the order of tons, valued at about $1400. The net weight | Work. of material handled per operative per day he productiveness of shops arranged with will be: In the foundry about 105 pounds, Provision for such ease and freedom of move in the boiler shop about 85 pounds, and in ment would probably be found to exceed the the blacksmith shop less than 30 pounds. | ¢stimates on which the shop spaces are based, The net daily average flow of cupola will be so that the foundry would have to be enlarged about 3200 pounds. Most of Professor Hutton's conditions are With these data we may estimate 40 hands complied with, except that the offices are not | in the machine and erecting shops, 35 in the central. Were offices located as suggested, in | boiler shop, 30 in the foundry, 12 or 15 in the middle of works or in the center of an the smith shop and 10 in pattern-making | 4 plan, it occurs to me that the words, ** No and miscellaneous work, a total of, sav, 130 | 8dmitance except through the office,” would men. We may now approximate the floor | Cease to be a distinguishing feature in manu- space of the principal shops, assuming 150 facturing establishments. In practice we square feet per man in machine and erecting usually find the offices in an exterior corner shops, 100 square feet in foundry and smith of the works next the machine shop shops, and 140 square feet per man in the| |! would remark, in closing, that while ma- boiler shop. This will give us 6000 square | Chine tools are highly perfected, there re- | feet in machine sheps, 4900 square feet in | ™#!ns a great deal of inefficiency to be cor- boiler shop, 3000 square feet in foundry and rected in the machinery for passing and 1500 square feet in smith shop, a total of adjusting work, which is sometimes so crude | 15,400 square feet, to which about one-fourth | @ to be scareely mechanical in the work- would usually have to be added for offices, manlike sense of the term. This defect may engine and boiler rooms, pattern shops, and paralyze the best energies of an establish- stock, tool, coal and other storage space. ment, for there is little incentive to certainty The producing shop room should first be and celerity of work in other respects when considered, and the other departments should the moving and setting are hound anyway to be arranged in reference to it. In every hitch and drag. I estimate that in many shops plan cases will arise in which it becomes | #¢ least 75 per cent. of the cost of labor goes to such moving and setting. Much of this but the free progress of material and work | ™@Y be unavoidable, but here at least should through the shops is of prime importance. | °COMO™Y and system chiefly be studied, and, To provide for this there must obviously be by way of stimulus to such study, I beg two systems of transportation. The material | !*@ve to follow the lead of Professor Hutt«n must come in on cars or trucks, and the] “ ith the foregoing observations heavy work must be lifted by cranes for the , ——— , operation of tools and be returned again to| Iron Shutters vs. Wood Incased in Tin. cars for removal. The old method is to run - plate work and 150 tons steel, wrought iron | the proposed duty I should estimate that and other work. These and the following | there would usually be required in the ma ance though departed from in some | chine shop two bolt-cutters and nut-tapping necessary to choose the lesser of two evils, the work along on trucks or rollers, with a Mr. Edward Atkinson, in a note op the | gib-crane near each group of heavy tools. 1] subject of iron shutters for buildings, says : | know of some shops where there are about Of all the materials in common use, and | as many cranes as large tools, The method | which are commonly depended upon for pre- is slow and bungling, occupying much floor venting destruction by fire, there is none so space and interfering with its own operation, | treacherous as unprotected iron, with the no matter in what order the machines may | possible exception of granite. Lron doors and | be ranged, A track system running through | iron shutters may have occasionally appeared the shops is better, but if the heavy pieces | to prevent the passage of fire through a win nave to be transferred to and from gib-cranes | dow or doorway, but such successes can only at every large tool, there is often more room| have been attained either by their not being for improvement than for the unimpeded | subjected to great heat or else by their being operation of work, ‘The best method usually | drenched and kept cool with water. Whea- available is to have an inlet track running | ever and wherever they have been exposed to past the ends of foundry and boiler and ma-| severe heat, they have been so quickly warped chine shops, and two traveling bridge cranes | and twisted as to have become practically (made as narrow as practicable, for the sake | useless as safeguards, while they ee often of economy) taking work from this track and | prevented access to buildings, and have thus carrying it in paralle) lines through boiler| greatly increased the loss or damage from and machine shops respectively, to a ship-|the fire raging within. There is nothing yet ment track passing the farther ends of these | invented which can be said to be absolutely shops. | fire-proof by which window spaces or door- Let us examine the details of this arrange-| ways can be protected; but the heavy |}ment as applied to shops of the proposed | wooden door or shutter incased in tin will | size, bearing in mind the requirements of | retard the action of fire in sufficient measure light and power as well as of transportation. | to give the firemen a fair chance to put it | Using skylights, the shops may be efficiently | out in the room in which it starts. If two | grouped within a square of less than 200 feet | thicknesses of inch board (pine preferred, | sides. We muy range parallel a machine | because it does not warp) are nailed cross shop, 50 x 120 feet; a boiler shop, 40 x 120 ways and fully incased in tin, locked and feet, and a foundry, 35 x go feet; the ship- soldered, and thoroughly nailed under the ment track being at the side of the square locking, the outer surface of the wood | passing the outer ends of these shops, while under the tin will be speedily reduced to the inlet track passes along the outer side of charcoal by the action of heat through the the foundry, and turns, passing the inner combustion of the small ameunt of oxygen ends of the foundry and shops, and leaving under the tin The charcoal itself theu space on the other side of the track for a| becomes a very effective non conductor of two-story pattern shop opposite the foundry, | heat, and if the tin is tight, so that no a sheet iron and stock shop, a 25 x 60 foot | further supply of oxygen reaches the un blacksmith shop opposite the boiler shop, and burnt wood beneath the charcoal, it will a 30 x 40 foot office building cpposite the remain cool and strong for some hours, machine shop. Beyord the outer end of the | thus giving time to control the fire where it foundry will then be left space for coal and | starts sand sheds. The ovens may be placed at this end of the foundry, and the cupola on Another (hance for the World's Fair. the side next the inlet track. A gib-crane, —W. H. Guion, of the Guion Line of steam- as usual, may swing between ovens and shi) s, presided at an informal meeting of the a x TOI "EE . cupola and cover a considerable space of the | Executive Committee of the National Indus REWN ‘ LES. Wate rb ur Nit C O | fone used for the heaviest castings, and a | trial Exhibition Co., the residuum of the old | Ss “9 | single overhead track may suffice to carry | World’s Fair Commission, at the oftice of fold by Gun and Hardware Trade Everywhere. OTIS A. SMITH, Manufacturer, Rochfali, Ct. ~~ EMPIRE NUT CO. PITTSBURGA, PA. NUTS. MORRIS, WHEELER & CO., IRON, STEEL & NAILS. WAREHOUSE and OFFICES,| SALES OFFICES, 16th & Market Sts., 400 Chestnut S8t., PHILA.» PA. PHILA., PA, New Work Address, 14 CLIVY UF. WATERBURY, Brass G ROLLING MILL ANti* MACHINERY CASTINGS, ROLLS, CLEVELAND, INUOT MOLDS, ANNEALING POTS, HOT BLAST PIPE, &c. CONN. oods. RIVERSIDE FOUNDRY WORKS. OHII®. Hot Pressed Sma Sizes a Specialty. | FOR STEEL REFINERS. WE OFFER AUSTRIAN CHARCOAL HAMMER STEEL, In Flat Bars, deliverable in quantities to suit, {n bond or duty paid, Correspondence solicited, Sample Bars on hand, WOLTMAN & MICKERTS, No, 5 N, Second St, St. Louis, Mo, | As the buildings would be set close, there | subject to the call of the chair, these to the platform cars on the inlet track, | Clark Bell, No. 126 Broadway, on Fricay on which they may be run to the machine last The meeting was cailed to consider a shop. In the blacksmith shop a similar proposition from the officers of the National overhead track may run from the steam | Cotton Planters’ Association, who have in hammer and smith’s crane. The heavy tools | charge the World’s Industrial and Cotton and work may be sq arranged that the | Centennial Exposition to be held in 1884, traveling bridges in machine and boiler | and which was given the official sanction otf shops need be only 16 or 20 feet in span, | the Government by an act of Congress ay covering the centers of vertical mills, the proved February 10, 1883, to consolidate the | shears of lathes, and so on. two enterprises, and for the further object | We now come to the considerations of of discussing the most eligible site for the | power and light. If the engine room be exposition Among those present were W located at the inner end of the machine H. Guion, Clark Bell, Henry W. Slocum shop—the end to which the castings would Cyrus Clark, C. C. Shayne, C. W. F. Dare first come and where the heaviest tools E. Duncan Sniffen and G. W. Chater Clark would be located—the power could be run While no positive action was taken, the direct by belts from the main shaft in this terms of the consolidation were thoroughly shop toa parallel shaft in the boiler shop. discussed. General Slocum said that Brook To reach the foundry and pattern shop the lyn would give a site on the west side of power would have to avoid the boiler-shop Prospect Park if the managers of the ex crane, and a shaft with miter gearing might position would accept it. Cyrus Clark was be run underground to the foundry, in the opposed to the exposition going to Brooklyn, manner suggested by Professor Hutton. In and thought that the most eligible site was a ithe foundry it would drive the blower and plot of about 24 acres on the Dykeman rumblers, which might be partitioned off in| estate, near Inwood. Nothing definite was the inner corner next the boiler shop, determined on, and the meeting adjourned >” a ee . THE IRON AGE. Apru 12, 1888, CE CCT A Seg S EDIT See ee ee NT OGDEN & WALLACE,|4. #. Warner 4 sor Ox F oO R Dw. 0. WOOD & . 00'S 36,87,89 & 91 Kim &t., New York. rer lron and Risa a UN MERGHANTS, "| IRON AND NAIL CO., Cut Nails Ot ever actenpeon wept neck, | ARON STEEL SILER PLATE. Agents for Park Brother & 00.% > SLACK DIAMOND STEEL. BOILER TUBES, AND tee SNOW SHOES al sizes of Cast and Machinery Steel constantly | Angle, Toe and Girder Iron, S P j K e c ce =! on uand Boller and Tank Rivets. , * “™ ROADSTER Sole Agents for the celebrnie: PIERSON & CO, [Feito Eatin J. 8S. SCRA» TON, Sales Agent, PATTERN. 81, 83 and 85 Wa-hinglon Street, Planished Sheet Tron. orends of iron Aimval) Cescriptions of Piao, Bde. AEw ror... Patented March 14th, 1865 ; Avril 8th, 1873 ; and Gasometer Iron. Special attention to Loremotty ‘nt, Vaihin’ a nena ‘iW FS eee oUt ae CO en spatirratinativmyrartete| STEEL TOE GALKS. 24 & 26 Broadway, ew St. ¥8 William Street, New York. . ~ Extra Quality H Steel NEW YORK CITY. Susstininatats ha Reco grade of Anthracite & Charcoal Pig irons, wna MPORTED RUSSIA IRON, ow a: Bar tron, Bands and Fine Hoops scrolls, ores, Half Ovais, Haif Rounds “wy on - 4 Horse Shoe Iron. Also from Chareoal Pt uper genes of Iron branded J.G. All pudd ed ba Is re d by bammer. Orders may be sent to the Millo oe @ S i; paneer a our Agent, at 59 Job All Sizes and Shapes kept kept in Stock. FOX & FOX & DRUMMOND, ABEEL BROS., ane comme | aw TOME. RAILWAY “ULSTER” IRON, “caTaASAUQuA” 1RON,;,ROLLINC MILL ALLENTOWN SHAFTING, MATERIAL. COMMON IRON, And fall assortment of sizes of the best brands of 6s WALL STREET, REFINED IRON, Wroug ¢ Scrap, Out Natis, Copper, FOR SALE “1 LOCK TIN, LEAD, SPeLTER, AN ANTIMONY NICKEL, Gc. by all the prineipal HARRISVU 8 &GiLLOON METAL DE ALER S$) sTeen PLaTes, ali descriptions, IRON AND METAL Dé ALERS, THE UNITED STATES, Cut Nails and Spikes, Plate and Sheet 558 S60, 562 WATER ST., & x, %., 306 CHERRY 8T., lron all e i : a tei, And at their Omiec, , all descriptions nave on hand, and offer a Se. ty nw tattewtng 1 1 1 Water Street, PITTSBURGH, PA PA, SHOENBERGER & CO., ew = otch and ‘\merican Pig t. Cast and enicheniniaheaeminnn Vesrisiaesstoesonomset SYRACUSE ©MALLEABLE| WHEELING a IRON ee N A | LS BURDEN’S | SYRACUSE, N. Mower and Reaper Castings Laughlin N ail Co., : and Carriage Irons a JUNCTION IRON Co., T r Specialty. Joint Yearly Capacity Over Burden Best’ ~.» omen rome | 600,000 KEGS. lron AND Band, Hoop, oe end Angie em, Cast, Spring, oot oie eee YORK. 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Base Woe cies wu hast | sue TRON. |The Burden Iron Compan | talNiule dis" fC" tiuhed” woxgst| Plate and ‘Tank Iron, pany SCOTCH PIC IRON, IRON ‘ane end an, Chennaa and 7 and con nS 23% C H No, 1 Flange, Best Flange, Pi b h, “ e a sie fpr ees iron atractury f Se as enenses Tn Ys FOR SALE IN LOTS TO SUIT, See sige a eas ae “uapiple pieces at office. Please address Iron Work Galvanized or Tinned to Order. EDWARD J. WESSELS Bonnell, Botsford & Co., 58 Hudson Street, New York. | price list and quotations sent upon epplication. U Z 4 T c K cahehdte: Sinat eietabias BORDEN & LOVELL, | JAMES WILLIAMSON & 00., BURDEN’S cities sami lron, Nails & Spikes, Commission Merchants) —§ “7 |W OB & S Bar Iron, |:2ccee. st te OR: |_xouncsrown, ome. nde 26 ene PIG IRON “= bo. Dal ron. F. W. 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