The Iron Age 1887-01-13: Vol 39 Iss 2

1887, lo | 9 5 . > The Iron Age READING MATTER A Review of the Hardware, Iron and Metal Trades. AOVERTISEMENTS Published every Thursday Morning by Davip WILLIAMs, Nos. 66 and 68 Duane Street, New York. Vol. XXXLIX: No. 2. A New High-Speed Electric Light Engine. At a recent exhibition at Atgsburg, Germany, the Maschinen Fabrik Oerlikon, of Zurich, Switzerland, showed in practical operation an electric light plant, driven by a compound high-speed engine of new and peculiar design. The engine was rated at 20 horse-power, and made 420 revolutions per minute, and, while mounted only on an ordinary wooden floor without holding-down bolts or special foundation, is said to have given admirable results in point of smooth ruuning. The general features of the engine are shown in the engravings on this page, repro- duced from Der Praktische Maschinen-Con- structeur. It will be noticed that the high and low pressure cylinders are placed on opposite sides of the crank-shaft, their axes being almost in line. The cranks are arranged at an angle of 180°, and to- gether with the connecting-rods are com- pletely in in the middle portion of the box frame. This is partially filled with oil, and lubrication is attained by submersion of the parts as in the Westing- house engine. The valves are of the rotary type, and, in addition to their proper motion for steam admission and exhaust, are also given av end motion, so as to prevent un- equal wear and leakage. The way in which this is attained will be understood from the general view. Altogether the engine em- braces a number of interesting features and deserves attention. SO rr Steam Boilers and their Settings.* The matter considered by the author was the best and most economical plan of set- ting for water-works. He gave his reasons for thinki the best form of boiler for water-wor horizontal return tubular. Proceeding, id any good setting suitable for water-works purposes is equally applica- ble for most any purpose where steam is required. t us suppose that we are to set a tubu- lar boiler 60 inches diameter and 16 feet long, containing 44 4-inch tubes. The boiler will be furnished with a steam dome 30 inches diameter and 42 inches high, also a mud drum 20 inches diameter and 6 feet long. The mud drum is attached to the boiler by means of cast or wrought iron necks near rear end of boiler, and extends through the rear of the setting, where the feed and blow-off pipes are attached outside of the rear wall. The walls of the set- ting should be built upon stone foun- dations about 20 or 24 inches deep, and the foundation under each wall about 24 inches wide; these foundations are to be leveled or even with the ground, and from this level the brickwork starts. The foundation being laid in place, block-up the boiler in position, with the bottom of boiler 4 feet above the ground.. The steam dome must be plumb crosswise, and the bottom of the boiler shell a trifle lower, say '%4-inch, at the rear than at the fore end. e are now ready for the walls. The side walls are 12 inches, common brick, and one width (4% inches) fire-brick, the fire-brick in the sides extending down to a line 4 inches below the grates. The side walls are carried up plumb until about 4 inches below the center of ,boiler, when the inside face is ‘‘ racked in” toward the shell, touching it about 4 inches above the center of boiler; above this point the walls are built solid against the boiler, and tight up under the cast-iron lugs or brackets riveted to each side for supporting the boiler. The distance between the inside faces of the side walls is 8 inches more than the diameter of the boiler. As the front ends of the side walls are finished, the anchor bolts for holding the cast-iron front should be solidly built into the masonry. For this size boiler the hoods, or doorways through which the fuel is thrown, would be about 16 inches deep, bottom line of which is formed by a cast-iron dead plate ex- tending clear across the furnace, and con- taining a ledge bearing for the grate-bar ends. Between the doorways themselves and between the doorways and the side walls the spaces are to be filled in solid with fire-brick from the dead plate close up around the lower half of the boiler-shell end, the bilance of the space at the end of the shell forming the front smoke-box being formed by common brick. A cast-iron plate is placed across the top of froat smoke-box, which is provided with a nozzle suitable for receiving the chimney connection. The side walls above the supporting lugs on the shell are copula sinahate emo ieaies tholding and where a return flue over the top is not used the space between the walls is filled in with sand, or a brick arch coverieg the boiler is placed between the walls ; the brick arch is much to be preferred, suitable pro- vision being made for reaching the manhole in top of boiler. The bridge wall should be about 20 inches thick, the upper face and that toward the furnace and above the grates being laid with fire-brick. A very good kind of bridge wall is made by carrying the wall right up to the boiler shell, with the exception of an open- ing in the central portion 36 inches wide, * Abstract of a paper read before the annual meeting of the American Water Works Associa- tion, Denver, Col., Jume, 1886, by Mr. Chas. A. Hague, M. E. Entered at the Post Office, New York, as Second-Class Matter. New York, Thursday, January 13, 1887. the bottom of this opening, or what is the same thing, the top of the bridge wall, being 12 inches below the boiler shell. This ar- rangement tends to keep the flame close up te the shell, and directs it so that it does not have much tendency to leave the shell and dive down into the open space back of the bridge wall. The furnace should be about 5% feet wide and 4% feet long, the surface of the grates being in the neighborhood of 28 inches below the boiler. This grate sur- face of about 25 square feet will do for the average work, although it might have to be varied in shape, such as making it longer and narrower, or in area to accommodate some specific conditions of draft or fuel. It is found to be very good practice to place an 8-inch bridge wall just at the rear in number, placed vertically, one pair at each end of the side walls, and the other pair midway between them, with tie rods % inches in diameter, extending across above and below the masonry. The dimen- sions and sizes given apply only to 60 inch 16-foot boilers, and for other sizes they vary accordingly. The author had little faith in the plan of admitting air back of the bridge- wall, or otherwise than through the grate bars or fire-door opening, for every-day regular business; the knowledge and skill required to keep most of these devices up to what they are intended for would yield better results applied directly to firing. He favored returning the products of combus- tion over the boiler ; the flue for this pur- pose in a builer of the dimensions considered ——s ——— : —— SSS > — Se ———_—- SSS: Fig 1.—General View. Fig. 2.—Elevation Showing Arrangement of Cylinders, A NEW FOREIGN end of the boiler, with ite upper edge ‘or face following around the carve of the shell and about 54 inches from it. This second- bridge wall makes a sharp draft just at this point, and tends to hold the flame and gases well together in a solid sheet, keeping them close to the shell. The rear outer wall of the setting should be 12 inches thick, with an inner surface 18 inches from the end of the boiler. It is just a plain wall of common brick containing a cast-iron door through which to remove ashes ; this wall extends upward 4 inches above the top row of tubes. A heavy iron thrown across from the boiler head to this wall forms the top of the rear smoke box. The end of the setting is closed in to the boiler by the 8- inch secondary bridge wall being carried in against the shell just below the water line, and then continued straight up to the hight of the side walls. Sometimes instead of an iron plate forming the top of the rear smoke box, a half arch is thrown from the rear outer wall over against the rear boiler head’; but the practical results are the same in both cases. The boiler setting should be firmly bound together by means of heavy wall bars, six HIGH-SPEED COMPOUND ENGINE FOR should be 12 to 18 inches above the shell. He thought that there could not be heat enough over the boiler plates — them, as not more than 600° is admissi where water is in contact and the fire is the hot test. In the discussion which followed it was held that the foundation and side wall were too light for most economical practice. It was recommended that the foundation be built solid throughout, extending at least 3 inches beyond the outside of the walls— both sides and ends—to prevent unequal settling. The side walls up to the fire-brick line should be at least 26 inches or three bricks thick above that; the outside or red- brick wall, 13 inches or a brick and a half, and the fire wall 9 inches, instead of 4%, with a 4-inch air space between. Instead of ‘** racking in” the side wall to the boiler it was preferred to close with tile made for that purpose. The “‘ secondary bridge-wall ” was objected to as having a tendency rather to check the draft and create a counter- current or eddy in the combustion chamber. re — Until 1776 cotton spinning was performed by the hand-spinning wheel. 824.50 a Year, Including Postage. Single Copies, Ten Cents. —— = The Reminiscences of a Pioneer in the | knows. In 1837 he leased the Union fur Hanging Rock Region. | A correspondent of the Tribune writes to | that newspaper as follows : In 1819 there went from Spartanburg, S. C., to Hanging Rock, on the Ohio side of the river, a certain man named John Means, carrying his slaves with him. He was an | abolitionist, but not being able to manumit his slaves in his native State he sold his | possessions there, and with his family and | negroes emigrated to the nearest pcint where he could set them free. In 1826 John} Means built a charcoal furnace near his | home, and began the manufacture of pig iron. Frame, &c. ELECTRIC LIGHTING. first iron furnace north of the Ohio in this district, in which there are now nearly threescore, and, although built 4 miles from Hanging Rock, its product was known by that name, which eventually was extended to this entire iron region which lies in the three States of Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia, and is fully 100 miles in diameter. Hanging Rock proper was the shipping point on the Ohio River then and for years | afterward, and this doubtless was the chief | reason for the adoption of that name. |derful performance. nace of his father, and ever since he has been connected with it as lessee or owner. At first they made from 3 to 4 tonsa day, and when they increased the output to 30 tons a week it was considered a won- There are now three furnaces where Mr. Means began, known as the Pine Grove furnaces, but there were no new ones built in his vicinity until 1846, when one called the Ohio was put up which had a capacity of from 10 to 12 tons daily. Mr. Means enlarged the Union to the same size and soon after built at Pine Grove, and bought and operated a coal mine 3 miles distant. The ore used was a brown hema- tite, which yielded about 40 per cent. of iron. The Union—as he named it—was the | The ups and downs of the iron business be- tween 1837 and 1845 were the most remark- able of any in the history of that industry in this country. Great depression in every kind of manufacturing was followed by a few years of buoyancy, and then the polit- ical pendulum swung backward all too soon and many a hopeful industry was de- stroyed and its enterprising owners ruined. Speaking of those days Mr. Means said: ‘* When I leased Union corn sold for 12% cents a bushel, and wheat for from 24 to 26 cents. Wages for competent labor- ers were only $10 a month. I made a trip to New Orleans and saw wheat sold there for a quarter of a dollar a bushel and corn on the cob at the same price per barrel. We used only maple sugar in those days and paid for the commonest molasses 32 cents a gallon. Our woolen goods were woven on hand looms. It took 6 yards of calico to make a dress and the material cost half a dollar a yard. There are more people in Ironton now than there were then in the county. We saw no gold, and little silver cvin except small pieces. Our circulation was chiefly bills of State banks and those were continually breaking. From 1854 tu 1861 | kept my furnaces going, but sold very little iron, only enough to keep me in ready money. Charcoal iron was then worth from $10 to$rg4aton. In 1863 I had an accumu- lated stock of 16,000 tons. Next year it ad- vanced to $40, which I thought a fine lift, but in 1864 it netted me $80 aton. For eight years before the war nearly all the fur- nace owners were in debt, but creditors did not distress thea, for they were afraid of iron, the only asset they could get, and so they carried their customers the best they could, hoping all round for better times. We are all right and so is the country, if the fools will quit tariff meddling.” Such was the statement of this venerable gentleman who for.more than 50 years was actively identified with the iron industry, first as his father’s assistant and later as a large proprietor. During his active years he built six furnaces, in all of which he re- tains aa interest. The changes wrought by protection may be seen in this district to great advantage. Instead of a few small charcoal furnaces there are now a great number, most of which were constructed during or immediately after the war. There are also great coke blast-furnaces, using in all 46 stacks, with an output when in full operation of 2995 tons of pig iron a day, or of 898,500 tons for 300 working days. To produce this they require 1,797,000 tons of ore and 1,123,000 tons coke, a quantity of fuel-and ore that would require 24 trains of 20 cars each every day of the 300 to keep up their supply. This in addition to the ore requirements of the 40 or more charcoal furnaces of the district. Few of these coke- using furnaces are running to their full capacity, and, until recently, many of of them were standing idle. Mr John Means, a grandson of the pioneer iron- maker and president of the Ashland Coal and Iron Railway Company, explained the reasons for this stagnation. These were, in brief, the giving out of the local supply of high-grade hematite ores, the low price which iron has commanded for several years, and the cost of bringing coke and ore to the furnaces. They could not compete with Chattanooga, Birmingham and Pitts- burgh in making high-grade pig. Latterly they have been using a peculiar soft ore found in this vicinity which makes an iron similar to Scotch pig and used for the same purposes. Formerly they bought the Mar- quette, Lake Superior, ore, but the cost of transportation is too great for its profitable employment, when prices are as low as they have been of late. This gentleman and Mr. John Russell, president of the Norton Iron Works, state that all the iron men of the district were awaiting anxiously the extension of the Chatteroi Railroad to the coal beds of the Big Sandy and Southwestern Virginia, and to a junction with the narrow-gauge rail- road that carries the Bessemer ores from Cranberry, N. C., to Johnson City, Tenn. In Ashland your correspondent met Mr. | we ae Thomas W. Means, a son of the pioneer | : furnace-builder. This gentleman, now 83 | Metal is now being substituted in England years old, has a vivid recollection of those | for cardboard in bookbinding. This novelty early times, and of the hardships which all | is known as the ‘‘ British Pellisfort” bind- who made iron had to endure because of | ing, and it consists in the use of thin sheet free-trade tendencies and laws. He speaks| metal for covers. The metal is specially with enthusiasm of the prosperity that be-| prepared, and the cover may be bent and gan when the Whigs got into power and re | straightened again without perceptible dam- stored protection, and with much earnest-|age. It may, in fact, be safely subjected to ness he describes the disasters that followed | such treatment as would destroy ordinary the mischievous legislation of President| covers. The metal is covered with the Polk’s period, and the long, hard struggle the | leather usually employed in bookbinding, iron men had until the first Republican Con- | and the finished book presents no difference gress put protection into the tariff again. | in appearance except in the greater thin- This venerable gentleman talks of what he! ness of the cover. — —<-- _— .«—-e 7, eee we " ~ — ame 1s 2 ev eee 2 PUSS ao 2 THE IRON AGE. January 13, 1807, NSON THE PLUME & ATWOOD MFG.Co.| WASHBURN & MOEN MANUF’G CO,, ANSONIA BRASS AND MANUFACTURERS OF Worcester, Mass., New York City, Chicago. COPPER CO., Sheet and Roll BrasS$| every WwiRE: FOR ALL VARIETY. OF PURPOSES. MANUFACTURERS OF AND W 2K IRE, Hard and Soft Drawn Copper Wire for Silectrical Purposes ; Galvarized fron and Steel Telegraph and Telephone Wire ; Glidden Patent Steel For Biectrical Purposes, Bare and Covered. O’NEILS’S PATENT PLANISHED ee cores Waterbury Brass Co. Seamless Brass and Ww. E. DODGE. PE a egg ESTABLISHED 1845. GERMAN SILVER AND GILDING METAL, Pres’t. Wire, O'Nelis’s Sheet, Roll and Platers’ Brass, CUPPER RIVETS AND BURRS, COPPER Barb Wire ; Watch and Clock Main Springs ; . Byeglass Springs; Steel ELECTRICAL WIRE, Wire for Needles and Drills ; Patent Steel Wire Bale Ties s @. P. COWLES, Patent Nickel- Germen Silver, Copper, Brass and mn . . I Pump Chain ; Two Strand 7 wisted and Flat Twisted Fence V.-P. and Treas. * Aa Plated Copper, 5 A. COWLES, > Hi ; ™ Secretary. &e. German Silver pa a Brass and Pins, Brass Butt Hinses, Jack W re, without Barbs ; Fence Staples, Stretchers, &¢.; Bright, = Copper tubing, Chain, Kerosene Burners, Annealed, Tinned, and Galvanized and Copper Wire, on Spools 1 oz. to 1 db. Copper Rivets and Burs, Lamp Trimminé¢s, &c. MS Brass Kettles, Door Rail, Brass Tags, Per- Ansonia Refined Ingo t Cepper, Anchor Brand ; LAKE INGOT COPPER. a 19 & 21 CHM Street, NEW YORK. 18 MURRAY ST., NEW YORK, 71 PEARL ST., BOSTON, 115 LAKE ST., CHICAGO. cussion Caps, Powder Flasks, Metallic Eyelets, Shot Pouches, Tape Meas- ures, &c., and small Brass Wares of every description. Cartridge Metal in Sheets or Shells a Specialty. PHELPS, DODGE & CO, | sue accnistortne carawatn ure. cos Line of Sporting Goods. DEPOTS: , MILLS AT TIN PLATE [@znwea, tertat. WATERBURY, 125 Bidy St, Providence, R. 1. COMM. Roofing Plate, Sheet Iron, Copper, THE Pig Tin, Wire, Zin, &c New Haven Copper Co., SOLE MAKERS OF copper==prass. [POLISHED COPPER CLIFF STREET, NEW YORK. Under Patent of T. James, Sept. 12, 1876. ALSO MANUFACTURERS AND (Established 1802.) DEALERS IN SCOVILL MFG. COMPANY /BRAZIERS & SHEATHING COPPER, WATERBURY, - OCOONN., WwiRhEeE ROoOFYP TE AND SCA BIL EI. Rolling | Factories, _ THOMANTON, UONN. WATERBURY, CONN. BRIDGEPORT BRASS CO. MANUFACTURERS OF Sheet and Roll Brass, BRASS AND COPPER WIRE AND TUBING, SEAMLESS AND BRAZED TUBING, COPPER AND IRON RIVETS, Galvanized Iron Wire Rope for Ships’ Rigging, &c. (Galvanized Steel Wire Cables for Suspension Bridges. Transmission aud Standing Ropes, Hoisting Ropes, Tiller Ropes, Switch Ropes, Copper, Iron and Tinned Sash Cord, Phosphor-Bronze and Copper W ire Rope, Wire Clothes Lines, Picture Cord, Galvanized Wire Seizing, and all the Fixtures and Applianccs reyuired for use with the foregoing. SEND FOR PRICE LISTS, CIRCULARS AND DESCRIPTIVE PAMPHLETS, IMPORTERS OF NEW YORK WAREHOUSE: / CHICAGO WAREHOUSE : 16 Cliff Street. 107 & 109 Lake Street. Oilers and Cuspadores, Lanterns and Trimmings, Clocks and Py Fan Movements, Lamps and Trimmings, Kerosene Burners, Plumbers’ Materials. Rl ) L TT Lf Se vee a'C.a's. a ‘! : , 4! a Lae . cH Particular attention paid to cutting out Blanks and manufacturing Metal Goods. ¥, WAREHOUSE, aria Conn. 19 Murray St., N. ¥. Holmes, Booth & Haydens, Lk A ee Cu a aise * Manufacturers of Kettles, Bottoms, Bolts, Circles, &c. WATERBURY CONN. BRASS.—Shbeet Brass, Brass Wire, Brass Tubing. ET Ss yr a N Sheet German Silver, German Silver ALSO MANUFACTURERS OF NEW YORK, BOSTON, mv) Ry BReVik. Wire, German Silver a ; 25 Park Place. 18 Federal St BRTaans. "stop, Spring asa PianoWorte, | ast Sleei Augers and Rits of Superior Quality. | 22 murray St. BUTTONS. | Toad, School, Lasting, Silk and Dress. | 294 Pearl St., NEW YORK. aa Brass, Copper & German Silver, ROLLED AND IN SHEETS. LAME ‘aie itor DICKERSON, VAN DUSEN & CO. FuOTe. i Camera Boxes, Printing Frames, GRA Ic IMPORTERS OF Chemicals, Paper, Giass, &c Scovill’s Patent Lock Box for Post (Offices DEPOTS: | TIN PLATE, PIG TIN, SHEET IRON, | Brass and Copper Wire, Tubing, wp Broum® j7 Devonshire Sizes, Boston COPPER, WIRE, ZINC, ETC., Copper Rivets and Burs. 183 Lake Street, Chicago. 29 and 31 Cliff St., cor. Fulton, DICKERSON & CO., Liverpool. NEW YORK. MASON IRON CoO., BRASS AND IRON JACK CHAIN, DOOR RAIL. *|GERMAN SILVER Spoons, SILVER- PLATED FORKS AND SPOONS, KEROSENE BURNERS, &C, JOHN DAVOL & SONS, AGENTS FOR Brooklyn Brass & Copper Co., Ingot Copper, Spelter, Lead, Tin, Antimony, Solder & Old Metals, 100 John Street, New York. PASSAIC ZINC CO. MANUFACTURERS OF TYLER BROTHERS, Iron and Steel Merchants. No. 8 Oliver Street, Boston, Mass. WILLIAM P. TYLER. EDWARD R. TYLER. ABRAM 8. HEWITT, Pres't. WM. HEWITT, Vice Pres’t. JAMES HALL, Treas. E. HANSON Sec'y. ‘The Trenton Iron Co. (INCORPORATED 1847) MANUFACTURERS OF TRON AND STEEL WIRE —— AND —— 2426 Washington Ave., Phila. M. H. LEONARD, TREASURER. Advances made on Consignments. BROOKLYN WIRE NAIL CO., BROOKLYN, N. fL., MANUFACTURERS OF Steel Wire Nails of --Every Description. Of All Kinds. Estimates Made for Suspension Bridges, Tramways, and Transmission of Power. AGENTS: SSS : : ND Danham, Carrigan & Co., San Francisco. A. Baldwin & Co., New Orleans. ure Spelter WORKS A OFFICE AT TRENTON, NEW JERSEY. Leeds, Robinson & Co., Boston. F.S. Bradley & Co., New Haven. NEW YORK OFFICE: A. R. WHITNEY & CO., — COOPER, HEWES de. OQ. 17 BROADWAY, - . NEW york.| Cartridge Grass, Ges Fixtures, Bronzes 17 BURLING SLIP. ae ° 7 Philadelphia Office: 21 North Fourth Street. WM. EDENBORN, | J. W. GATES THOS. W. FITCH. WALLACE H. ROWE, ase Or - ay fore meperipaenent. Secretary and Tréasurer.| GALVANIZERS AND BRASS FOUNDERS. Tene MANNING & SQUIER, Gen'l Agents, 111 LIBERTY ST. (2d Floor), NEW YORK. GEO, W, PRENTISS & CO,, HOLYOKE, MASS, Manufacturers of BRADDOCK WIRE COMPANY, MANUFAUTURERS OF STEEL WIRE RODS, “vot” RANKIN STATION, ALLEGHENY COUNTY, PA. WIRE ROPE HAZARD M'F’G Co rami: 87 Liberty - New = Wikesbare, Pa 98 Reade Street, lowa Barb Wire Co., “new tort ENGINE FOR SALE, 50 H.-P. Hewes & Phillips’ make. 144 in. cylinder, 33 in. stroke. Price, $400. Bright, Coppered, Annealed and Tin Plated. Also GUN SCREW WIRE Of all sizes, straightened and cut to order. Wate r b U ry M to. €3 O. , g : A. PROCHEN, &' Gone ROPE CO. bi WATERBURY, CONN. é& W a jj @iaosse © 903 and 905 N. MAIN STREET, ST. LOUIS, MO. Correspondence invited. PATENTS, :- 2 © Rutherford’s Metallic Paint. ‘Buy THE WIRE GOODS CoO.. WORCESTER, MASS. All kinds of Bright and Brass Wire Goods, Mill Wire Goods, Hand elt Screws, Cup Hooks. Cary Wardrobe Hooks, Staples, Meat Hooks, ; Clothes Line Wire, Hooks and Rings, Towel Racks and Splasher 5 ounee ers. Wire Nails in all sizes and varieties, Wires cut. bent, and Labels registered. 15 years’ experience : 4 Se nnn) YOGE THE GGST OMIT GABE: F0 THN, WES AND: SEND. milled, headed, pointed, threaded, and made to any desired shape. years Examiner in U.S. Patent Office. Patent Special artic les made to order, causes litigated. Expert searches and opinions as toscope, valid'ty and infringement of patents. Senc model or sketch of your meeps for free opinion RUTHERFORD & BARCLAY, Miners and Manufacturers, Main Office, 305 CHESTNUT ST., PHILADELHIA, PA, A. Ww. PARM ELEE, Pres t, THE WIRE GOODS CO wepaeres, whetner patent oe secured, and new book on ey MASS. -_, on geet coat dectsfons. Mention this'p. 4 B hes: NEW YORK, PHILADELPHIA CHICAGO . °o ent . ° 4 , y "Wachteston. Do TANCNES *) 138 and 140 Maiden Lane 65 and 67 North Front Street, 112 Randolph Street. ee © if NS ttttttteseees | pe _ DO FOl ST Co Address I This. vr the Thess tion of inventi every | the Wr they a welded the raw Full j W. January 13, 1887 0. LINDEMANN & CO. BIRD MANUFACTURERS OF Japanned, Brass, Tin Plated and Wood. Ati, : - N 254 PEARL STREET, NEW YORK. a os CP as ore Successors to W. S. TYLER, MANUFACTURERS OF BRASS, Pi Li LJ LJ = = Di = Lt | i Ll J = i. - = = it = J = i CJ 4 2 STEEL AND GALVANIZED WIRE, FOUNDRY RIDDLES, COKE AND COAL SCREENS. W.8. TYLER, Pres. FE. H. ALLEN, See. & Treas CLEVELAND. OHIO. THORN WIRE HEDGE CoO. STEEL BARB WIRE FENCING. Sharp, Short, Rigid Barb, “gs. & C.” a Best Steel. Painted and Galvanized. “Kelly” Yielding Steel Points. Best Wire Made. Does Not Lacerate Stock Covered with Celebrated Kelly Point. Address THORN WIRE HEDGE CO., CHICAGO. IDitis Company, 26 Broadway, New York. This company is now prepared to issue licenses ur the use of the several Patents owned by them These Patents cover processes for the produc- tion of “ Mitis Castings” in Wrought Iron and Steel, and improvements in furnaces for melting and heating. Tbe Mitis Castings made in accordance with the inventions covered by these Patents retain in every respect all the valuable qualities of the Wrought Iron and Steel (Scrap) from which they are made, do not require annealing, can be welded and worked under the hammer as well as the raw materials. Full particulars furnished on appl:cation. W. F. DURFEE, General Manager, New York Office, 104 READE ST. CAGES. | steer wire for -all“pu VC EEELELELL LCL LAKLLLLAL EL WOLD ILEE ELLE LLL LERL ELLE Market Steel Wire, THE IRON AGE. MANUFACTURERS a Crinoline Wire, ELA REEL LLL LE TELM LAL LEAAERAALAA ALAA Also PATENT TEMPERED STEEL FURNITURE SPRINGS, constantly on hand. 284, 286 and 288 West 29th Street, NEW YORK. STUDS, PINS, SCREWS, &c. For Manufacturers of Light Hardware. Gautier Steel will All the Toe Calk Steel furnished by the bear the following paper in black letters: Gautier Steel Dept. °SSANStéwnrrx? accomodation of our patrons: 3-8 x 1-4, | 1-2, 5-8, 3- 3-8, 7-16, 1-2, 5-8 x 5-16, 5-8, 3-4, 7- 1-2, 5-8, 3-4, 7-8 «x 3-8, 3-4, 7-8, 1 Dept. of Cambria Iron Co. label on yellow ‘| Toe Steel. x It is made from special soft stock, will bend double without breaking, weld freely, and harden sufficiently to cut glass. Following sizes carried in stock for the Square Toe Calk in Stock, 3-8, 7-16, 1-2, 9-16, 5-8. Flat Toe Calk in Stock, 4, 7-8 x 7-16, 8, 12 1-2, a 5-8. This Steel is put up in bundles of 50 to 100 pounds. Chicago’ Office, 202 First Nat. Bank Building. [No. 146.] Tempered and Covered, (CARY & MOEN, |THE F rposesgjand ‘STEEL! /SPRINGS of every description. TRON AND BRASS RIVETS, BLAKE & JOHNSON, Watersury, Conn. Philadelphia Office, 523 ARCH ST. Estab’d 1418. THE WAREHOUSES : 42 Cliff St., New York Incorp'd 1874, , GILBERT & BENNETT MFG. CO. a9 a a) 4 Pr a | Si ail ae A i Tt qi , ; t \e i lb F 2 228 Lake St., Chicago, Ills. MANUFACTURERS OF . s Iron & Galvanized Wire Sleves and Wire Cloth. Power Loom Painted and Gal- 5B Vanized Window Screen Wire Cloth, Galvanized Wire Cloth for Drying Fruits, Warld’s Gal vranized Web Wire Fence, Gal vanised Twist Wire Poultry Netting, Factories, Georgetown, Conn. Low] LANE’S PATENT STEEL DOOR HANGER, The most perfect Antt- Friction Hanger in the Market, BHOCAUSE It is made of steel throughout, except th h steel axle, It will not break. Secale tooo tren bot 8 is almost noiseless in action bearing on the door, and keeps in line. durable, It may be used with any track. It is always in order. LANET’S PATENT Is made of steel and 1s easily put in position. Catches and holds ao st =. Does bane Caeneee cannot jump the track. subjec ecay. uires no fitting, but is ready at > be used with hangers of other manufacture. om It is practically free from wear. It It requires no oil. It has a broad It is by far the most TRACK Is not ee _ Manutactured by L A N b th oo Oo s ey Poughkeepsie, N. Y. JOHN H. GRAHAM & CO., General Agents, 113 Chambers Street, NEW YORK. PHOSPHOR-BRONZE For Bearings, Slide Valves, Cylin- R 3. 26B d , ‘ /rose- i nn Bee Yonx: i Bushings," and all purpose. wher ve ws y where TINNED. | All Sizes TRADE MARKS~ Maximum Durability, Anti-Frictional : and Non-Cuttin liti lesir- W Le Straightened a = = = able. Pump aa = Nets TAAET en | Pen 8 oe oe <a yoo a and Wood Screws, &c., &c | - Jombine Toughness, Stren th, D Steel Spring. TO ORDER. s Oy bg Gif a , , bility and Resistance to Chasen MARKFT. | — 90240 lO - GUGHE é, Castings of all kinds to order. Send TACK, siniaiimiaeiiaiaas Jf for pamphlet and prices. FR starle. | swore. |7HE PHOSPHOR-BRONZE GMELTING (0., 1D, No. 512 Arch Street, PHILADELPHIA, PA. PALMER, MASS. f Palmer Wire Mfg. Co E.T. BARNUM, MANUFACTURER Wire AND IRON WOR Owners of the U. 8. Phosphor-Bronze Patents. Sole Manufacturers of Phosphor-Bronze in the U. 8. Common Sense Screw Driwver. Silver Medal awarded at Novelty Exhibition, Philadelphia, 1885. This is a plain driver, with solid blade and handle, has a sliding attachment that holds the screw firm to the driver, and when this is pushed baek re- leases the screw to drive home. Stroi and well made of best steel. Sells at s to the patentee, G. EF’. KOLB, 732 Sansom St., THE CELEBRATED ht. Send for circular and prices *hiladelphia, Pa. Detroit, Mich. | é é The Popular Polish of the world. For sale by all dealers in U.S.A. and Canada. Price List Free. 85 Fulton 8t., Boston. THE PARLOR MFG. CO., | GALVANIZED POULTRY NETTINGS. FOR SALE BY THE HARDWARE TRADE, GET THE BEST- SILVER FINISH” : o De x} OX? ‘} KR 5 SRS en AY x OK () RIN YY Ke () ny i ANY xX ROY SON SOOUY ANE ni ROO OOOY OTR ACY CX XPOS (AX OAXAT SSSA OOO KOA IORI SRR KARA SRK TAKIN SKANK NY Plog KK II RED. J. MYERS €> wv MFG, CO, COVINGTON, KY., MANUFACTURERS OF Spark or Bire Guards, Nursery Fenders, Stove Guards and Wire Guards of every description, made of Tinned, Copper and Brass Wire. Also a Full Line of Hardware Specialties. SEND FOR CATALOGUE No. 18. eed ee bbs eb steer’ imp! eter. qs Sa: AG) toacee ae LUDLOW-SAYLOR WIRE CO., s'T. =O SSSESS umovwuits, 7 Z “at On Cont Pe G04 g Ky es ) x WIRE, 0 QOU0O0 a Se WY ~ 2. J QJ G fs x MO. CARR XXX KX X is DOO OX OX Xue DOXOXX XX KT P< DOOXOXOOX X] iS OI Counter Railings, Window Guards, Iron and Wire Fences, Plain and Barbed Fencing Wire. THOMPSON McCOSH, President. LIGHTEST, STRONGEST, FULL National Wire Send for Catalogue, stating your wants. ROOF CRESTING, Tower Ornaments, Vanes, and Stable Fittings. LINE OF EACH MANUFACTURED BY DETROIT, Ion Go., "to" Liberal Discounts to the Trade. JOHN A. McCOSH TRADE MARK BEST BARB WIRE The above cut represents Preston's Patent Braided Cable Wire Fence Rail, manufactured by the HOLLOW CABLE MFG. CO., Hornelisville, N. ¥. We also manufacture extensively Send for Circulars and Price Lists. O. 8. CHAMBERLAIN, 55 Dearborn St., Ghicago, Ill. four different sizes Wire Clothes Lines. THE BILLINGS & SPENCER Co.HARTFORD, CONN. MANUFACTURERS e)7 STANDARD MACHINE WRENCHES SINGLE AND DOU N 16 SIZES. DROP FORGED OF BAR ST TAKING NUTS FOR/4INCH ,, UP TO AND INCLUDING | NUTS FOR IA INCH BOLTS ¢ BLE END EEL ey WICKWIRE BROTHERS, CORTLAND. N. ¥., MANUFACTURERS OF WirRE CLOTH AND WIRE Goops **CORTLAND” INDOW N — SCREE WIRE CLOTH. Dish Covers, Corn Poppers, Coal Sieves, Metallic Coal Steve, Flour Sieves, Etc., Etc. <-ing Sill a + semen 4 / OGDEN & WALLACE, Marshall Lefferts & Co., 85, 87, 89 & 91 Elm 8t,, New York. kman St., New York City. MANUFACTURERS OF [ron =2 Steel galvanized Sheet Iron, Of every description kept in stock. Best Bloom, Best Refined and Common. Agents for Park, Brother & Co.'s SEL, | usepian'tana toa stiekasee Rog°tua bar rom ‘tron, vi an . BLACK DIAMOND STEEL. Galvanised Nails, Galvanised Chain. Galvanised Iron pe. omen c. CORRUGATED SHEET IRON For Roof®g, &o,, Galvanized, Plain or Painted. PIERSON & CO,, Best Oharcoal, Best Refined and Common (ESTABLISHED 1790.) SHEET IRON. IMPORTERS AND DEALERS IN IRON and STEEL,| PLATE AND Tank IRON, And GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANTS. No.1, C. H. No. 1, C. H. No.1 Flange, Best Flange, C. Best Flange Fire Box, Circles. 24, 25, 26 & 27 West Street. NEW YORK. ABEEL BROTHERS, TRON WORK GALVANIZED OR TINNED T0 ORDER. ESTABLISHED 176s, Price list and quotations sent upon application. {ron * Merchants, 190 SOUTH ST., 365 WATER ST., t NEW YORK. “ CATASAUQUA” IRON. Large Assortment of Extra Heavy Sizes on Hand, ‘ARM CO.’’ SHAFTING. All sizes of Cast and Machinery Steel con- stantly on hand. B. F. JUDSON, Importer of and Dealer in SCOTCH AND AMERICAN Pig iron WROUGHT & CAST SCRAP IRON, OLD METALS. 1 tment of Norway, Ulster and & 459 Water St.,/ gated mee, Sond, "Hoop, Scroll, Sesto Iron ; & 235 South St.,} NEW YORK. Steel of all kinds, &c. A. R. WHITNEY & CO., MANUFACTURERS OF AND DEALERS IB lron and Steel AGENCIES: PORTAGE IKON CO., Limited, Merehant Iron and Soft Steel and Cut Nails and Spikes. NORWAY STEEL & IKON OO., Homogeneous 8 BAY STATE IRON CO., Tank. Boiler and Girder Plates HICKS & DICKEY, 413 Commerce St., PHILA., PA. lron, Steel & Forgings OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. Machinery Steel in Bars, also cut to Exact Lengths. + CROWN CAST TOOL STEEL, Warranted. SPECIAL QUALITY IRON AND STEEL SHAFTING, With large assortment of heavy sizes on hand_ Plate and Sheet Iron, Bolts, Nuts and Rivets. HARTMAN STEEL WIRE NAILS. Steel and Iron Forgings of all kinds. COLD ROLLED STEEL SHAFTING. Plans and estimates furnished and con made for = Iron Structures of every descrip- con! en aes by mail. Sample pieces at office. Please eddrese 17 Broadway, New York, P, O. BOX 33. Borden & Lovell, JOHN FOX, Iron and Brass Founder, 70 & 71 WEST ST., Cast Iron Gas and Water Pipe. 2 to 48 Inches Diameter, 160 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. JAMES WILLIAMSON & CO,, SCOTCH AND AMERICAN PIG IRON, No. 63 Wall St., New York. DANIEL F. COONEY, 88 Washington St., New York, IRON AND STEEL BOILER PLATES. GLASGOW IRON CO. PINE IRON WORKS. ALLISON BOILER FLUES. New York. Agents for the sale of FALL RIVER IRON WORKS CO.’S Nails, Bands, Hoops and Rods. PANVILLE NAIL & MFG, CO.’S NAILS AND SPIKES. BORDEN MINING CO.’S CUMBERLAND COAL. __ IMPORTED & AMERICAN PIG IRON. LAKE SUPERIOR CHARCOAL IRON, For Malleable and Car-Wheel Purposes, 4 SPECIALTY. CHARLES HIMROD & CO., CHICAGO AND DETROIT. L. N. LOVELL, C. A. GREENE, H. L. FREELAND, 81 Murray Street. MOULTON’S Improved Lemon Drill. Patented June 28th, 1886. BOLT & RIVET CLIPPERS, For cutting off the ends of Bolts and Rivets, on carriages, wagons, harness, &c. Ask for them where you buy yous hardware, or send for cir- cular and price list. CHAMBERS, BROTHER & CO., 62nd Sr., Betow LancasTer AVE., PHILADELPHIA, PA. PASSAIC ROLLING MILL CoO. Manufacture and have always in stock ROLLED IRON BEAMS, Channels, Angles, Tees, Merchant Bars, Riveted Work , Forgings, Bye Bars, &c., : PATERSON, N. uv. Room 45, Astor House, New York. CUT NATLS. Hot Pressed Nuts, Bolts, Washers, &c. DOVER IRON CO,’S Boiler Rivets, Boiler Brace Jaws, Socket Bolts, BAT IRON. FULLER BROTHERS & CO.. 1389 GREENWICH S8T., NEW YORE. juice from large and small lemons in five seconds. Sent by mail on receipt of 15 cents; $1 per doz. Cash +4 wanted. Abk your ress sole manufacturer, ao WILLIAM H. WALLACE & CO., Wm. H. Wallace, JOHN BROWER, |, gargison, A. GARRISON & CoO., rus wera tror ol ODULEd Rolls, W. F. MOULTON, Burlington, Vt, | Haskin’s Patent Double Spiral Pinions, and Roll ing Mill Castings of every description. Office, Nos. 10 & 12 WOOD ST., PITTSBURGH, PA CHAS. J. STEBBINS, STEEL AND IRON NAILS. Bonnell, Botsford & Co.. RON, NAILS AND SPIKES PIG TRON GAR January 13, 1887, HEH LRON AGE. OXFORD. ©. wooo &co., Ld.) James p. wirierow, PITTSBURGH, PA. IRON AND NAIL CO., Cut Nails AND oF ince. J. 8. SCRANTON, Sales Agent, 81, 83 and 85 Washington Street. NEW YORK. Engineer & Contractor, | Lewis Block, PITTSBURGH Pa. | GENERAL AGENT FOR WHITWELL FIRE-BRICK STOVES AND MANUFACTURERS OF PATENT CLAPP-GRIFFITHS PATENTS FOR MANTFACTURE Planished Sheet L[ron. | OF SOF? STEEL | specially adapted for A No 1 Boiler Plates, Patented April 8th, 1873 5 Sept. oth, 1873 ; Oct. BURDEN’'S vith tdyys eds” Gtk, 307yt Dee. sath, sn; | Bovler Rivets, Wire Reds, Stay Bolts, Bereta ae: aaa Tt | peeping Ware, Malt Plates, 2. Guaranteed fully equal in all respects to the HORSE SHOES FEFORIED RUSMA IRON, [ooo St a SL eee eee hid Silis. | and place in operation Blast Furnace Whit- well Stoves and Steel Plants as above. As ALSO a Common, Refined Charcoal and Juniata I manufacture at our own works everything GRADES OF appertaining to Blast Furnace and Steel BLACK SHEET IRON. | Works construction, can guarantee prompt- Smooth on both sides. | ness and satisfaction. SYRA ‘Manhattan Rolling Mill. SYRACUSE MALLEABLE IRON; J. LEONARD, “Burden Best” Iron Boiler Rivets. wonme, 145 to 451 West Sty NEW YORK SYRACUSE, - N.Y. MANUFACTURER OF eS HORSE SHOE IRON, Mower and Reaper Castings anc | tue calk steel, Rods, Ovals, Half Ovals and Flats, Carriage Irons a Specialty. | HENRY KELLY, W. B. BURNS, Prorrreror.| PUBLIC ~ACCOUNTANT, 923 Walnut St., PHILADELPHIA, Pa. EVERSON, HAMMOND & CO. Speciality’ Lron and Steel Manufacturers’ Cost LIMITED, Accounts and Partnership Settlements. PIVTSBURGII, PA,, Late Chief Accountant to Cambria Jron Company. Howard, Childs & Co., Sheet Steel/Commission Merchants, Room 20, Lewis Block, Pittsburgh, Pa. /ron and Steel of all Descriptions, Iron and Steel Nails, Heavy Hardware, Coa Hods, Dripping Pans, &c. THE BURDEN IRON CO. TROY, N. Y. Iron Merchants, Cor. ALBANY & WASHINGTON STS., NEW YORK CITY. E. C. Wallace. Wm. Bispham. For Roofing and Corrugating. OPEN-HEARTH STEEL, INGOTS and BILLETS. SHEET IRON, All Grades. aa 7 i Pittsburgh Manufactured Goods of all Kinds. CORRUGATED AND CRIMPED IRON ROOFING & SIDING, +e : WM. McFARLAND, Correspondence solicited. Prices on application. E. JENCKES MANFG. CO., PAWTUCKET, R. I, Bright Wire Goods, Belt Hooks, SPRING PINS, KEYS AND COTTERS. Bent Wire Goods of all kinds a Specialty. New York Ofice, SS Chambers Street, SAMUEL A. HAINES. Selling Agent JOHN CALDWELL, Treas T. W. WELSH, Supt. W. W. CARD, Secy. TRENTON, N. J. Chilled Cast Wire Dies a Specialty, Any size or style made at short notice. Iron Buildings, Roofs, Shutters, Doors, Cornices, Skylights, Bridges, &c. MOSELEY IRON BRIDGE AND ROOF CO., 5 Dey Street. NEW YORK. GEORGE WESTINGHOUSE, Jr., Prest H. H. WESTINGNOUSE, Gen’l Agt. Taw — Westinghouse Air-Brake Co. PITTSBURGH, PA., VU. S. i MANUFACTURERS OF THE WESTINGHOUSE AUTOMATIC BRAKE, Westinghouse Locomotive Driver Brake, Vacuum Brakes (Westinghouse & Smith Patents). WESTINGHOUSE FREIGHT BRAKE. The Automatic Freight Brake Is essentially the same apparatus as the Automatic Brake for passenger cars, except that the various parts are so combined as to form practically one piece of mechanism, and is sold at a ve bow press. The saving in accidents, fat wheels, brakemen’s wages and the inereased speed possible with perfect safety, will repay the cost of its application within a verv short time. ; ** Automatic ” has proved itself to be the most efficient Train and Safety Brake known. Its The lication is instantaneous ‘it can be operated from any car in the train if desired, and sh train separate, or hose or vine fail, it applies automatically. A GUARANTEE is given aoe te against loss from PATENT SUITS on the apparatus sold them The WESTINGHOUSE BRAKE is now fitted to upward of i5,000 ENGINES AND 80 000 CARS and is adopted by the principal Railways in all parts of the world, FULL INFORMATION FURNISHED ON APPLICATION. “RHODE ISLAND HORSE SHOE Co, Horse, Mule & Snow Shoes si: Perkins Pattern, Works at Valley Falls, R. |. Office, 31 Exchange Place, Providence, R, |. PHILADELPHIA Manufacturers of Cast Iron Pipe FOR WATER AND GAS, Mathew’s Pat. Arti-Freezing Hydrants. 400 CHEATNUT STREFT J, H, RICKETSON, WM, HOLMES, Manufacturers of Sand, Patent Homogeneous, Steel and BOTH SOLID AND HOLLOW, anemiieatines Ore and Clay Pulverizers, Rotary Squeezers, Il! Reade St, New York, -. W, CARPENTER, Presidens. OH, PERKINS, Gen'l Manager. R. W. COMSTOCK, S. ary. Only Double Ring Invented, eG \ that closes on outside of the nose. . > BROWN'S Champion Hog Ringer so) Elliptical Ring RINGS and HOLDER. “ a a‘ly keep Hogs from rooting. No any sees fring that sivew on sharp points in the nose. points in the flesh to keep it sore. CHAMBERS, BERING & QUINLAN CQ.,, Exclusive Manufacturers, Decatur, Ill. MANUFACTURER AND SHIPPER OF Oapacity ot Mines, 2500 Tons Daily. Siding connections with all lines of Railroads. ~ CLOSES ON OUTSIDE OF NOSE Only single Ring ever invented The only Ring that will efectu and Triple Groove Hog and Pig Ringer J, M. SCHOONMAKER. Office 120 Water Street, PITTSBURGH, PA. YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO. CONDIT, FULLER & C0., Cleveland, Ohio. ia fre Pla dA\?2 THE MOS; BE. Office, Gf BL. Gord: DEA! Xos._101 January 13, 1887 WIGnTIAM RR. HART cw CO., SESE EEEReNTieneneeeeeee _“arcan TRON ORES _*Xiauas MOHICAN PIG IRON, CASTLE PIG IRON. for Finest Steel (phosphorus uniformly low, sel- A superior iron for ordinary Bessemer work, dom reaching .o3 per cent., and Silicon from comparing favorably with English r per cent. upward, according to re- Wes ’ 2 ' quirements of buyers). est Coast Hematites. Bessemer, Basic and Open-Hearth Steel Slabs, Billets, Plates and Bars to specifications furnished Old Iron and Steel Rails, Crop Ends, Spiegeleisen, Ferromanganese, &c. 226 Walnut Street, - - PHILADELPHIA. Cambria Steel. STEEL RAILS, STANDARD AND LIGHT WEIGHTS, STREET RAILS ano RAILWAY FASTENINGS, Bessemer and Open-Hearth Blooms, Billets and Bars, Steel Axles, Steel Angles Steel Steel Forgings. CANYMIBRIA IRON COMPANY. Office, 218 S. Fourth St. Philadelphia, Castings, Works, Johnstown, Pa. The Phoenix Iron Co., 410 WALNUT ST., PHILADELPHIA Manufacturers of Wrought Iron Eeams, Deck Beams, Channels, Angle & Tee Bars, STRAIGHT AND CURVED TO TEMPLATE, Largely useJ in the construction of Lron Vessels, Buildings and Bridyes. Wrought Iron Roof Trusses, Girders and Joists, and all kinds of Iron Framing used in the con- struction of Fire-Proof Buildings: Patent Wrought Tron Columns, Weldless Eye Bars, and Built-up Shapes tor Iron Pri ‘ges. REFINED BAR, SHAFTING, and Every Variety cf SHAPE IRON Made tu order. Plans and Specifications furnished. Address DAVID REEVES, President. New York Agents, MILLIKEN, SMITH & CO., 61 Liberty St. Boston Agents, HOUDLETTE & DUNNELS, 272 Franklin St. ALAN WOOD COMPANY, MANUFACTURERS OF Patent Planished, Galvanized, Common, Best Kefined, Cleaned and Charceal Bloom PLATE & SHEET IRON, ALSO LIGHT PLATES AND SHEETS OF STEEL, No. 519 Arch Street. Philadelphia, Pa, Orders solicited especially for Corrugated, Gasholder, Pan and Elbow, Water Pipe, Smoke Stack Tank and Boat Iron ; Last, Stamping, Ferrule Locomotive Headlight and Jacket Iron, WwW. H.WALBAUM & CO.,, .206 S. Fourth Street, Philadelphia. NEW AND OLD RAILS. BLOOMS. BESSEMER PIC. Crop Ends, Spiegeleisen, Iron Ores and Railroad Supplies Generally. AGENTS IN THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTH LONSDADE IRON & STEEL CO., Limited, Bessemer Pig Iron, brand “Ulverston :” Malleable Pig Iron, brand “ U. H. M.”’ , MOSS BAY HE ATITE IRON & STEEL CO., Limited, Spiegeleisen, Crop Ends, &c. Also for ‘“‘ Lorn” Malleable Charcoa! Pig Iron and N. B. ALLEN & CO.’S Dinas Fire Bricks. PENCOYD IRON WORKS, A. & P, ROBERTS & CO., — MANUFACTURERS OF-— BEAMS, CHANNELS, DECK BEAMS, ANGLES, TEES, PLATES, MERCHANT BAR, Shafting and Rolled or Hammered Axles of Iron or Steel, Office, No. 265 S. Fourth St., Phil.delpnia. Agents for the sale of Glamorgan Pig Iron. Agency Fire-Brick Hot-Blast Stove Co. GORDON, STROBEL & LAUREAU ENIGINEERS, No. 226 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. (Formerly of Witherow & Gordon, Pittsburgh, Pa.) BLAST FURNACE CONSTRUCTION, STEEL WORKS CONSTRUCTION. SPECIALTIES: Gordon's Patent Improved Whitwell-Cowper Stoves, Gordon’s Patent Con- verter for Treating Molten Iron, Improved Regenerative Furnaces, Coke Regenerative Ovens, Blast Furnace Improved De tails, Tuyere Stocks and Tuyere Attachments, Boiler Setting giving the Greatest Efficiency, ; Cinder Car, Kennedy & Gordon's Patents. QUABEBR CrryYy FACING MILLS. nery Facing § We Guarantee Perfect Satisfaction. fOr sumpie vol. XA Machinery Facin > ee - : | . WS Nell | ih i RIDDLES, SHOVELS, BELLOWS, STEEL WIRE BRUSHES, BRISTLE BRUSHES, And all other Tools used in a Foundry, of our Own Special Make. 7. WW. PAESON eH CO., DEALERS IN MOULDING SAND, AND MANUFACTURERS OF FOUNDRY SUPPLIES, Nos._ 1015, 1017, 1019 and 1021, or Pier 45 North, Del. Ave., + + + FSILADELPHIA, Pa, EDWARD J. ETTING IRON BROKER & COMMISSIGN MERCHANT, 222 S. Turrp St., PHILADELPHIA, PA, PIG, BAR and RAILROAD IRON, OLD RAILS, SCRAP, &c. Agent for the Mount Savage Fire Brick. Eastern Penna,, West New Jersey and Delaware. AGENT FOR IRONDALE FURNACE, PRESTON COUNTY, W. VIRGINIA. Foundry and Forge Pig Iron. STORAGE, WHARF anv YARD, Delaware Avenue bove Callowhill St., connected by track with rail oad. CASH ADVANCES MADE ON IRON. JAS. G. LINDSAY. THOS. S. PARVIN LINDSAY, PARVIN & CO., 328 Walnut St., Phila., lron and Steel Structural Material Estimates furnished for Lron and Steel Structures and Rallway construction Correspondence solicited with railroad contractors. L. & R. WISTER & CO., IRON COMMISSION MERCHANTS, 257 So. 4th 8t., Philadeciphia. AGENTS Kemble and Norway Foun iry and Forge Pig Iron Wyebrooke C. B. Charcoal Pig Ir F 1 Red Short Pig [ron. —— ann DEALERS IN ALL KINDS OF SCRAP IRON. MORRIS, WHEELER & CO., Iron, Steel and Nails. WAREHOUSE & OFFICES, 16th & Market Sts., PHILA., PA. SALES OFFICES. 400 Chestnut St., PHILA., PA, New York Address, 14 CLIFF ST. HENRY LEVIS & CO.,. Manufacturers’ Agents For Iron and Steel Rails, Car Wheels, Boiler and Sheet Iron and General Railway Equipments. ‘‘ld Rails, Axles and Wheels bought and sold, 234 S. 4th St., Philadelphia. Frank K. Esherick Barclay W. Cotton, ESHERICK & CO., 263 So. 4th ST. PHILADELPHIA lron and Steel of All Description. Selling Agents for Cleveland City Forge and Lron Co, Forgings; Centre! Iron and Steel Works, Plates of Iron and Steel; Danville Nail and Mfg. Co., Llron and Steel Nails, Boiler Tubes; Bridge, Car and Boat Specifications a Speciaity I. J. MOHR. 430 WALNUT ST., PHILA. PA., SOLE AGENT FOR Sheridan, Leesport, Temple, Lynch- burg, Millcreek and Mt. Laurel rity PIG TRON atime CHARCOA8& PIG IRON. + t2b LRON AGE. JUSTICE COX, Jr. CHARLES K. BARNS. JUSTICE COX, JR., & CO,, AGENTS FOR CATASAUQUA M’F’G. CO., Iron, steel, Bars, Boiler, Tank and Bridge Plates; Skelp, Angles and Shapes; Chick ¢s, Montgomery Conewago and Alice Furnaces. Pree IRON for Foundries and Mills. ERIE FORGE CO., Lro. Iron and Steel Forgings ; Every shape. 224 South Fourth Street, - Phila., Pa | erome Keeley & Co., 206 Walnut Place, Phila., Selling Agents for CHARCOAL and ANTHRACITE BLOOMS, PIG TRON, BAR IRON, SHEET IRON, STEEL and [RON RAILS, [IRON CLAD STEEL RAILS and BARS, MAGNETIC and HEMATITE IRON ORES, FIRE BRICK, COAL and COKE, MUCK BARS. Handle Old Iron and Steel Rails, Scrap Iron, &c. Examine and negotiate sales of Iron and Coal properties. E. H. Wilson. A. Kaiser. J. B. M. Hirons. E. H. WILSON & CO., 222 and 224 South Third St, Philadelphia, BROKERS AND DEALERS IN IRON anno STEEL. Correspondence solicited. a J, W. HOFFMAN & CO,, |RON COMMISSION MERCHANTS, 208 South Fourth St., Philadelphia. Selling Agents PINE IRON WORKS, Pine Brand Plates ; GLASGOW IRON Co., Plates and Muck Bars ; SPRANG STEEL & IRON CO. (Limited), Siemens- Martin (Open-Hearth) Steel, Universal and Sheared Plates, Angles and Shapes. JNO. L. HOGAN, IRON COMMISSION MERCHANT, 216 SOUTH FOURTH ST., PHILA. Pig lron & Ores, Steel & Iron Blooms. Agent for Brier Hilllron and Coal Co.. Youngstown Steel Co. Open Hearth Metal, Charcoal Iron, Connellsville Coke, Old Rails, Scrap, &e. FOR BEST MILL Andover Pig Irons Each Pig marked exact chill depth (4% In. to %& in.), A. Whitney & Son’s standard test. F. A. Comiy, Treas. J. Westey PULLMAN, Agent. 240 So. 3d St., Phila. PepRo G. SaLom, —«<J:, @P,. I, WESTESSON. SALOM & WESTESSON, Philadelphia Testing Laboratory, 208 SOUTH FOURTH STREET, PHILADELPHIA, Analytical and Consulting Chemists, Assayers and Metallurgists, Physical Testing. Kstablished 1847. A. WHITNEY & SONS, CAR WHEEL WORKS, PHILADELPHIA, Also Woodbridge Clay Mining Co.'s Fire Brick. | Special Wheels for Furnace and Mine Cars, The Allentown Rolling Mills, MANUFACTURERS OF Rails, Bars, Axles, Shatting. Fish Bars (Plain and Angle), Spikes, Rivets, Bolts and Nu &c., General Office, 237 South Third St., Philadelphia. Bridges and Turn-Tables. Works at Allentown, Pa. EDWARD CORNING, 15 Cortlandt St., New York, New York Sales Agent. PLYMOUTH ROLLING MILL CO., Sonstspocken, MANUFACTURERS OF Foundry and Forge. Pig Iron, | | | Puddled Bars, Spécial for Axles, Best Neutral and Common. Plate and Sheet Steel, Every description of Light Pilates and 8h Steel. ects of Plate and Sheet Iron, Skelp, Blue Annealed and — Best Bloom, Tube, Cleaned, Best @ Particular attention given to Iron for Special Purposes. TESTED CHAINS, Bradlee & Co., Empire Chain Works, 816 Richmond St., Philadelphia. Chains for Foundry Cranes and Slings. “D. B. G.” Special Crane Chain. Steel and Iron Dredging, Slope and Mining Chains. Ship’s Cables and Marine Railway Chains. CUMBERLAND NAIL AND IRON CO,, MANUFACTURERS OF ~CUMBERLIND” NAILS & WROUGHT IRON PIPE, ~ 43 North Water St., and 44 North Delaware Ave., PHILADELPHIA. ‘Tatnall J. Lea & Co., Successors to CABEEN & CO,, IRON COMMISSION MERCHANTS, No. avuv Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. BESSEMER, MILI. AND FOUNDRY PIG IRON, SKELP IRON, MUCK AND SCRAP BARS, NATIVE AN