The Iron Age 1887-04-07: Vol 39 Iss 14

NDOEX TO READING MATTER A PAGE 3¢€ Review of the Hardware, Iron Published every Thursday Morning by Davip WILLIAMs, Nos. 66 and 68 Duane Street, New York. Vol. XX XIX: No. 14. Metal Trac Entered at the Post Office, New York, and New York, Thursday, April 7, 1887. ‘The Iron Age les : as Second-Class Matter, SL.50 a Vear, Including Lostage. Stun gle Coples, Ten Cents. Critical Points in Mechanical Engi neering. 1 that crank-shafts ought to run cool, and would if properly proportioned. The sea going engineer knows better. He will take The statical, or, as it is the custom to/a ship to Australia and never have a hot call him, the civil engineer, has advantages | bearing, but he knows that the credit is not over his professional brother, the dynamical due to the bearings, but to his own skill and or mechanical engineer, which, says the | judgment ; Engineer (London), it ia to be feared he does | he thought of. When a bridge, for | be followed by a split or cracked crank pin. not always appreciate. example, has been properly designed and Why? and there are so many things to A hot bearing will probably No one knows. In like manner, a sufficiently well made, it will perform duties | crack in a crank pin, as fine as a hair, will for many years without further attention than a painter is competent to bestow on it. A railway or a road,a dock or a tunnel, once made, are made for good, require no| more thought, and will last for generations. | The case is different with machines, After make the big end heat. Why? No one knows. A great many men think they know. We may leave them to hold their belief in peace ; we shall not disturb them. Success in dealing with critical points in marine engineering depends on knowledge | | | | they are made they have to be worked, and | of what often appear very little things, but the mere working of them sometimes entails | in reality there is nothing small or trifling difficulties and responsibilities which are | about the management of machinery taxed greater than those involved in their original construction. This is especially true of certain machines of comparatively recent to its utmost. Take, for example, such a matter as the cooling of a crank-pin with water. If the pin has once got thoroughly origin, which present continually what we | heated, water must not be put on the big have called critical points. In homely or | end. expressive phraseology, whole machines in| crank webs. The service pipes must play on the If attention is not paid to this some cases, parts of machines in others, | the brasses are almost certain to be cracked are worked within an inch of their lives,| or broken. Take a hot thrust carriage and nothing but a consummate knowledge | again; an injudicious use of the hose will of the conditions under which they can exist and operate, manifested by those in charge of them, keeps such machines alive. To the out side world the inner life of, for example, the engines of a great Atlantic steamer, is a sealed book. Much the same may be said of a loco- motive engine. Great guns are worked very near the critical point indeed. We might go on to name a great many other examples of what we mean were it neces sary. The kind of knowl- edge necessary to manage asteam engine very near the critical point is ohe that can- not be ucquired by books. It is quite outside the ken of professors; Cambridge knows nothing of it; it is entirely independent of mathematics; it can only be learned by actual prac tice, and then only by those who have carefully trained themselves to observe. We once met on board ship a civil engineer of smal! expe rience in mechanical work, who yet spoke with much intelligence and knowledge of his subject about the pair of marine engines, then of a somewhat novel type, by which the vessel was pro pelled. It was for some time taken for granted that he had been at sea as a ma rine engineer, and when he explained that this was not the case, he was asked, and with some _ surprise, how he came to possess a knowledge that could not be got from books. His reply was simply, ‘* By keeping my eyes open when ever I went into an engine- room.” This keeping the eyes open makes all the difference, very oft en, between a man considered highly compe tent and another who is not. But leaving men, let us give, as far as can be given on paper, a few examples of critical points in mechanical engineering. One which suggests itself almost at once is the condition of the machinery of a hard- pressed vessel, let us say, on a trial trip. Here the maximum possible duty has to be got out of engine and boiler. It is very often touch and go whether the boilers prime or not. If they do the fires must be eased at once by opening the furnace doors. If this will not suffice up go the ash-pit dampers, but simultaneously down goes the steam pressure. To counteract this the feed is stopped. Do what can be done, the result of priming under such circumstances is disastrous. Many of our readers will re- | member how, being in charge of a stoke- | hole, they have watched the gauge glasses | and the pressure gauges with anxious eyes, | while they now cautioned, now urged the) firemen undertheircharge. The success of a splendid trial trip has often hung ona hair, and has only been secured by consum- mate skill on the part of those in the boiler- room ; but very little is e¥er heard about this. Need we say that in the engine- room the difficulties are still greater. If bearings are slack, the engine will thump itself to pieces ; if tight, any rubbing surface may get hot at a moment’s notice. Only those who have had actual and painful ex- perience know how short atime is needed to render a slipper guide literally med hot. This is no figure of speech. The mischief | can be done almost without a moment’s warning. The first intimation the engineer has is the unmistakable and very hateful smell of a hot bearing. | burned the packing. | properly result in cracking the cast iron—yet ‘how tempting it is to turn a jet on the hot, Fig. 1.—Side View, A NEW metal ! of contradiction that success or failure in working machinery at or about the critical point is a question of attention to small de- tails. Writing, as we are now, for our) younger readers, we make no apology for enforcing a lesson in the best possible way— namely, by supplying an illustration drawn from actual practice. On an important line of railway in the South of England a pow- ful locomotive was doing all it could to keep time with an _ exceptionally heavy express train crammed with pas- sengers. The run had been nearly accom- CENTER-CRANK ENGINE, It may be said again without fear | beaten. premium to incompetence Locomotive engines hauling an express train daily do their very best—are worked their very hardest from one end of the 100 miles or so of the run to the other. They are worked under extremely critical conditions—not, be it understood, critical in the sense of dangerous—but critical in the sense that they may fail to do the work expected of them, and lose time. The least mistake about water, or fire, or /ubrication, and all is over: time is lost, and can never be made up. The consummate skill, exercised unconsciously, with which a first-rate driver and fireman will jockey a locomotive and get the last mile an hour out of it must be seen to be appreciated ; that can only be appreciated by one who understands why some things are dove and others left undone. The perfection of en gine driving under difficulties is seen, how ever, on torpedo boats running their trials, and the wonderful success which has been achieved bears powerful testimony to the skill of those who take charge of the machinery after it has been made. It is, we think, a noteworthy fact that, taken all round, no engineers in the world are superior to those of Great Britain, in dealing with machinery worked under critical con- ditions. They do not know when they are BUILT BY THE CORINTH IR They have audacity enough to | dare anything. They know how to let well alone; and while attending to a hundred things seriatim, they attend to but one thing at a time. They keep their heads; they are obedient te those in authority ; and they make no noise. Under the most trying circumstances an engine-room staff will do} their work in absolute silence. We are apt in the present day to take mechanical | triumphs as matters of course. When we| hear of such ships as the Etruria or the} Alaska flying across the Atlantic we praise, and justly praise, the builders of the ship | plished, when, entering a tunnel, the driver smelt the smell which there is no mistaking. Taking an oil can, he went out on the run- ning board and found a piston-rod hot and | the packing burning. The moment he ap- plied oil it flamed up and ignited the oil on the guide bars, already warm enough. The next moment the cross head seized, and before his eyes the engine was wrecked. | The connecting-rod broke at the smal! end ; the motion plate was bent; one link, with its eccentric rods, was torn down. The fireman on the foot-plate shut off steam, and, strange to state, the engine ran for nearly a mile in the condition we have de scribed. " The train drew up at its plat- | form, and of the hundreds of passengers who had safely completed their journey, not one knew anything about the accident. The | cause of the breakdown was atrifle. The | stuffing-box was steam-tight, and the driver did not think the gland needed screwing up. The packing was really slack, avd the bush in the cylinder end worked out, seized a little on the rod, and made it so hot that it All the rest followed | as we have stated. Here we see that the Well for him if he | difference between success and catastrophe does not see sparks flying in another minute. | lay in screwing or not screwing up a gland. There can be no doubt that in almost, if not all, cases the crank-shaft bearings of all charge. It may be said that machinery never ought to be worked within an inch of its This might be done, but only at the and her machinery; but we are, we fear, prone to forget that the engineers in charge | of this machinery have onerous duties tw | perform, and that any lack of skill and judgment would render the labors of engine | and shipbuilder nugatory. The machinery and boilers of our ocean racers are worked | very close indeed to the critical point. - a — A New Center Crank Engine. We show on this page two views of a | new counterbalanced center crank engine, built by the Corinth Iron Works, W. T. | Adams, proprietor, of Corinth, Miss. The engine is of good design generally, and is turned out in five sizes, 12, 15, 20, 25 and 40 horse-power. The main journals are very large and well fitted. The valve, | which is an ordinary slide, and the piston- | rod, as well asthe main shaft, connecting- | rod and strap, are all of steel. The steam and exhaust ports are well proportioned The cross-head is of the locomotive type, and the governor is arranged with an automatic stop, so as to prevent seri ous accident in case the governor| belt should give way. The main-shaft boxes, it will be noticed, have diagonal caps, providing for regular adjustment, both vertically and horizontally, without large steamers are only kept cool by the| life, so that there should be no critical | the use of side gibbs or loose parts. This unceasing vigilance of the engineers in| points. It is all very well to say that this| cost of seriously diminishing its utility, | balanced is capable of making very high is all wrong; that it ought not to be so;'and we may perhaps add, holding out a speed, and is well adapted for sawmill and engine being self-contained and counter- and we may add | = called ‘‘separators,” are other machinery requiring a fast-running engine The engines are all tested and thoroughly inspected before leaving the Works The engravings make further description unnecessary, as they show clearly some of the main features. ee Notes on Russian Petroleum. According to the Journal of the Franklin Institute, three forms of stills are in use in the retineries of the Baku district—viz., the upright ecylipdrical still of wrought iron, the so-called wagon-body still and the hori zontal cylindrical still, The last of these forms is almost exclusively used in the larger refineries \ large vumber of these horizontal cylindrical stills are generally placed side by side, and so are fed with crude naphtha from a common pipe, which runs along in front of the row, with short vertical branches delivering the oil into} each still Che hot-oil residues are taken off from the lowest part of the still by wide pipes, which connect with a common hori zontally placed pipe ; ing of these pipes, filled with highly-heated | residual oils, dangerous fires could readily }ensue, which would make it impossible to | Fig, 2.—Rear View, IN WORKS, CORINTH, MISS. | get to the connections of these pipes with the stills to close the valves from the out side, the valves are placed inside the still, while the valve stems reach through the still and project above, where they are easily accessible. In the Nobel refinery an open | trench, through which water is kept contin- uously running, is laid along before the row of stills, so that all dripping oil is car ried away at once, and the ground and space near the stills does not become satu rated with oil—a most fruitful source of danger. (Juite frequently dephlegmators, or 80 interposed be tween the helmet of the still and condenser, so that the vapors of the burning oil dis tillate are separated from the lubricating oils mechanically drawn over with them These condensed, heavier vapors either flow back by a separate connection into the still or into a distinct receptacle, and afterward serve for the manufacture of what is called ‘solar oil,” a grade of illuminating oil | One of the characteristic features of the| Baku petroleum distilling is the almost ex clusive use made of ‘‘ astatki,” or oil resi- | Jue, for fuel. The great scarcity of wood | or coal in that country caused both crude oil and its distillation products to be used | for fuel from the beginning of the opera tions there. Professor Engler states that | the heating values of these residues is al most double that of bituminous coal, and that ordinary burners using this ‘* astatki |}can evaporate twelve times the weight of | water compared to that of fuel used, while | the best burners, with 1 kg. of ‘‘ astatki, can evaporate 14 to 15 kg. of water. Three to four parts by weight of these residue oils used as fuel will suffice to carry on the dis tillation of too parts of crude oil for the burning oil fraction, The burner in which these residues are used, or ‘‘ forsunka,”’ as it is called locally, has various forms. The essential feature in all the forms is the atomizing of the oil by superheated steam, and the burning of it in this condition, The temperatures at- and, as by the break- | | months | The tunnel, which will redu | tained are, in some cases, so high that wrought-iron is fused thereby, so that the bottoms of stills, heat-pipes, &c., must be protected from immediate contact with the flame of the ‘‘ forsunka.” Of course, this ‘*astatki’’ serves as the material for the }manufacture of lubricating oils. but the | amounts obtained are so large that the greater partis still used for fuel, so that | not only is all distilling done with the aid of it, but it is used throughout the entire dis trict for steam generating both for station ary engines and for ships and locomotives Thus the steamships of the Caspian Sea, and, in part those of the Black Sea and of the river Volga, the locomotives of the Trans Caucasian, the Trans-Caspian and other Russian railroads make use of this ‘‘as tatki”’ as fuel Although the results vary somewhat, the percentages of the seyeral products may be yiven as follows : | Boiling Per point cent Benzine (with gasoline tol ( 5to7 Kerosene [ (burning « PHI? fer QE? ¢ 27 to 3B Kerosene II (solar oil TH? t ( tor 0° Lo to Ww Residues These residues, which make up one-half or more of the total crude oil distilled, show a sp. gr. of 0.900 to 0.910, and, although, | as compared with American petroleum resi dues, they show extremely small amounts of Parafline, they yield on distillation a considerable amount of oils, which, on account of their viscosity, their low cold-test and high fire-test, are among the best mineral lubricants known. ‘The manufacture of lubricating oils is, how- ever, justbeginning to de- velop. Taking the produc tion of crude oil in 1885 at 16.4 million metric cent ners (11.714286 barrels), and assuming the production of 56 per cent of residues we would have. 2 million metric centners (6.571428 barrels) residues. If 1,000,000 metric centners of this be allowed for the needs of the re fineries for fuel, steam gen erating, &c., we still have 5.2 million metric centners (5.557143 barrels) for the lubricating-oil manufacture rhis yields on an average 40 per cent. of lubricating o], which would amount, ther fore, to over 3,000,C00 met ric centners (2.142557 bar rels), But the lubricating- oil preduction of Baku and the surrounding district does not yet amount to the tenth of this, being in 1885 only 260,009 metric (155.714 barrels The amount of residues needed for fuel in the dis- \ tillation of lubricating oils amounts to 20 per cent. of the charge, instead of the 3 or 4 per cent, mentioned before as necessary for the burning-oil distillation, In connection with the trans port and the marketing of the oil, the Nobel Broth ers, as said before, have b@en the most active. They had, in 1554 for use on the Caspian Sea and the Volya, a flotilla of 69 ships, one-third of the number being steamers, and for railroad traflic about 2000 tank cars They had, moreover, ex tensive storage tanks at all prominent points in Southern Russia, and even as far north as St Petersburg and Riya. Some yOo tank cars are also in use on the line of centners road between Baku and Batoum, on the Black Sea, and a pipe line for this distan is projected, Tank-steamers for the trans port of Russian oil in bulk between St Petersburg and Stettin and Libeck, in Ger many, are now building LT The Decapod locomotives 1 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works for the Northern Pacific Railroad are now at work in construction on the Cascade Mountain division. The engines have been a surprise to the mechanical department of the road, } |owing to the unexpected ease with which | they pass round the sharpest urves. The will go anywhere that an eight-wheel en gine can go The switchbacks for crossing the Cascade Mountains are almost finished, and the road will be in operation within two The Decapods will then be used for pulling the trains up the steep grades + the grades to 116 feet to the mile, the maximum yra used on the Northern Pacific Railroad, will not be completed for two years The new material, ‘ lithanode,” for the plates of secondary batteries, was recent! brought before the British Society of 1 graph Engineers and Electricians by Mr Fitz-Gerald, its inventor . tic noti Desmond G Litnhanode, which was first brought to about a year ago, is a coherent peroxide of lead, with more or less sulphate of the metal, which is highly conductive and has in general a specific gravity between and 7.9. ae ai» tee CS Sai SS a4 MRe ee ee ea RT a te = em ee ee ee Q THE LRON AGE. 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Chicago Office, 202 First Nat. Bank Building. [No, 184 Is just as effective, welz he us mares R per rod, Barbs are FINE STEEL. Does not cost muca me we than the Estab’d 1418 Incorp'’d 1874 ymmon, rigid wire "arb is wi 74 h double THE We make galvanized and Intel. ¢ K lly Paint ’ I LASTLONGER tan galvandng GILBERT & BENNETT MPG. CO Thi s Sty'e of Wire is sold through agents only, WARE MER aanre _ delay preferred. It is the ‘ y safe barb for he WAREHOUSES: 42 Cliff St., New York. Country Merchants will find it to their advantage $38 Lake St. ¢ hicago, Ills. e curing hae seouce on 8 clase of goo ae teat te MANUFACTURERS OF make both Two and Four Foiat Wire Barta, me lron & Galvanized Wire pane : Sleves and Wire Cloth. Pc Winssin i an oa [THORN WIRE HEDGE Co, Cloth, Galvanised Wire Cloth fen ery ing pruite, Warld’s Gal CHICAGO. Netting, Twist Wire Poultry =Y, Factories, Georgetown, Conn. TINNED ill Sizes Sale = W Mevoue > Straightened BRIGHT IRON AND BRASS ; AND CUT ~ ‘ ~ LANTERN. WIRE GOoDSsS. - Steel Spring. TO ORDER. M acai ee , FRPP Also Bright Wire Goods for Cotton and CORRESPONDENCE Woolen Mills. Wire straightened, cut, milled STAPLE. SOLICITED and bent into any shape, with or without . thread. Write for Catalogue and Prices. Palmer Wire Mfg. Co |cstnunerss Df. 6. BROOKS, Chester, Conn. a PALMER, MASS. R - B R O E. T. BARN UM, For Bearings, Slide Valves, C ylin- maNUsACTURES der Rings, Cross-Head Gibs, Steps, Bushings, and all purposes where IRE AND Maximum Durability, Anti-Frictional IRON WOR ' and Non-Cutting Qualities are desir- = == able. Pump Rods, Bolts and Nuts, Detroit, Mich. : S Machine and Wood Screws, &c., &c — i Combine Toughness, Strength, Dura- « LY, ry, bility and Resistance to Corrosion. “THE DETECTIVE COt- Be ory ZE, Castings of all kinds to order, Send Burglar Alarm.”’ for pamphlet and prices. ctdntiatober Cote | PE nememnienines GMELTING (0., LTD. May be appl nd to any door — . - GF window in a few seconds No. 512 Arch Street, PHILADELPHIA, PA. winds ‘foo rats f a. ‘inane No Se Owners of the U. 8. Phosphor-Bronze Patents. Sole Manufacturers of Phosphor-Bronze in the U. 8. b lank « seal ig 9 o P wored d compiet with four | ———_——— - . — oa 7 artridges, weight 6 ounces. Endorsed by bon. Wm. B. RTLAND, N. Y. —. es eee W | eS KWI R E B R OT H E R S 5 co 7 ~ “ Chief of Police | MANUFACTURERS OF Having improved the Alarm | erm tn largo quantities en | i? - t VW . ts . 1 re prepared. to. i tes, @ ) = r j 4 | chart tatters | WIRE CLOTH AND WIRE GOODS 5 «681.50 per doz. . or 815.00 e . eee Dish Covers, ited. ie Sam 1 sent by mae on pes : han Serene gilt slgisand frames } oe CORTLAND” Corn Poppers, witb every crder. 9 4 110 Gross sold in the past year INDOW NT Coal Sieves, i ; Owned and Manutactured by SCREE 1 L Spencer E. Carr & Co., Ninth and Jefferson Sts., Philadelphia, Pa. Flour Sieves, Etc., Etc. WIRE CLOTH. BEST Metallic Coal Steve. THE IRON AGH BLAKE & JOHNSON, Watersury, Conn.) ‘Y IRE, WIRE Cl PORTER & WOOSTER OM (td. SPRIN Ka LTT aka LUDLOW-SAYLOR WIRE CO. - TrOoOUIS, “ROPE. Counter Railings, Window Guards, Ip "on and Wire Fences, Plain and Barbed Fencing Wire. NATIONAL WIRE & IRON CO, °°"! aican. MANUFACTURERS AND JORPERS OF GALVANIZEW) WI R E C Reus H, COPPER AND BRASS, Galvanized Poultry Netting. eas Wire Cloth. vet our Prices before ordering elsewhere IRON AND STEEL. THOMPSON McCoOSH, President JOHN A. McCOSH, Sec. and Treas LIGHTEST, STRONGEST, BEST BARB WIRE IN EXISTENCE. The above cut represents Preston's Patent Braided Cable Wire Feace Rail, manufactured by «1, HOLLOW CABLE MPG. CO., Hornelisville, N. ¥Y. We also manufacture extensively four different sizes Wire Clothes Lines. Send for Circulars and Price Lists. F. MONORE, 48 & 5O Lake St., Chicago, Ill. PENNSYLVANIA* WIRE * WORKS, 231 and 233 Arch St., Philadelphia. IcDWARI DARBY & SONS, —=MANUFACTURERS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION Of} _— Brass, Copper and Steel Wire Cloth, Galvanized Wire Cloth, Galvanized Poultry Nettings. WIRE STRAIGHTENED AND CUT TO ANY LENGTH EXTRA HEAVY LOCOMOTIVE WIRE NETTING, WROCGHT-IRON BEDSTEADS, TRON RATLINGS, COAL AND SAND SCREENS, BANK AND OFFI E RAILINGS, WIRE STALI PARTITIONS AND STABLE FITTINGS. All Styles of Brass, Wooden and Japanned Cages Wire Goods of Leery Description BLINTON WIRE CLOTH CO., MANUFACTURERS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION OF WIRE CLOTH, HEX. NETTINGS, WIRE LATH AND FENCING. Perforated Metals. GALVANIZERS AND TINNERS | WIRE CLOTH and NETTINGS. Clinton “Standard” (Number 33 Wire Painted Window Screen Wire Cloth. Factory and General Office CLINTON, MASS. NEW YORK, 59 Beekman St. BOSTON, 23 Court St. CHICAGO,137 Lake St, ——_- — “Rasy” Boit Clipper The MANUFACTURED BY 66 & 68 Beverly 3t., Boston For sale by the Trade generally. Send for = EP EO =<_ = <r => * —— == ee. eee owe CE ee 4. OGDEN & WALLACE, INDURATED FIBRE COMPANY'S 85,87, 89 & 91 Kim S8t., New York. Iron => Steel Of every description kept in stock. Agents for Park, Brother & Co.'s BLACK DIAMOND STEEL. All sizes of Cast and Machinery Steel con- stantly on hand. PIERSON & CO,, (ESTABLISHED 1790.) IMPORTERS AND DEALERS IN IRON and STEEL, And eo COMMISSION MERCHANTS, 24, 25, 27 West Street. NEW YORK. L BKU 1765 Iron * Merchants, 190 SOUTH ST.,) 365 WATER ST., 5 NEW YORK. “ CATASAUQUA” IRON. Large Assort. out of Extra Heavy Sizes on Hand, “ARMU CO.’’ SHAFTING. Also general assortment of Norway, Ulster and Refined Bar, Band, Hoop, Scroll Angle Iron ; Steel of all kinds, &c. AMERICAN PAILS, JOHN BROWER, New York Agent, 81 Murray Street. Engineering | Instruments and Supplies. Safety Lamps. B. F. JUDSON, Importer of and Dealer in SCOTCH AND AMERICAN RPigcge Iron WROUGHT & CAST SCRAP IRUN, OLD METALS. 233 & 235 South St.,} 457 & 459 Water St., *'NEW YORK, PHCENIX HORSE SHOES. A. R. WHITNEY & CO,,| PHENIX Hons: SH9E Co. MANUFACTURERS OF AND DEALERS IB POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y. lron and Steel New York Office, 20 Reade Street. AGENCIES: PORTAGE IKON CO., Limited, Merehant Iron and Soft Steel and Cut Nails and Spikes. PARK BR). & CO., Limited, Steel Plates. BYERS & CO., Wrought Iron Pipe. CARNEGIE BROS. & CO., Limited, Iron and Steel Beams, Channels, Shapes and bhafting BROOKLYN WIRE NAIL’ CO. Stee! Wire Nails THE CHESTER PIPE AND TUBE Plans and estimates furnished a contracts made for erecting Lron Structures of every descrip- tion. Books containing cuts of all iron made sent on application ‘oy mail. Sample pieces at office. Please sddress 17 Broadway, New York. P. O. BOX 33. Borden & Lovell, JAMES WILLIAMSON & CO, 70 & 71 WEST ST., L. N. LOVELL, CG A, @REENE, t New York. H. L. FREELAND, Agents for the sale of Chas. Himrod & b., PIG IRON. Chicago and Detroit. SCOTCH AND AMERICAN PIG IRON, FALL RIVER IRON WORKS CO.’ |No_63 Wall St. New York. Nails, Bands, Hoops and Rods. DANVILLE NAIL & MFG. CO.’S NAIIS AND SPIKES. BORDEN MINING CO.’'S CUMBERLAND COAL. JOHN FOX, Cast Iron Gas and Water Pipe. 2 to 48 Inches Diameter, 160 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. DANIEL F. COONEY, New York, 88 Washington St., IRON AND STEEL BOILER PLATES. | § tern letters, stencils, hx on memibe oes, eta 1b Jie 4 ad GLASGOW IRON CO. PINE IRON WORKS. ALLISON BOILER FLUES. HENDERSON BROS., MACHINISTS, WATERBURY, CONN., Manufacturers of EXHAUST TUMBLING oes \lilustrated C atalogue sent on applicetion.) ~ DONALDSON IRON COMPANY, MANUFACTURERS OF IRON YIP E for Water and Gas, CAST And SPECIAL CaSTING3 Also, FLANGE PIPE, Emaus, Lehigh Co., Pa. METAL AND RUBBER STAMPS, steel figures and letters name stamps, type for type writers, chitted-iron figures and letters, stamps for rais ing letters etal, branding iro me. rubber type, rub ber Btls ampe, fo r free > thlus trated catalogue BELLOWS & DICKEY, 39 to 43 Viaduct St., Cleveland O HICKS & DICKEY, 4/3 Commerce St., Phila., Pa. Iron, Steel and Forgings of every Description. Machinery Stee! in Bars, also cut to exact lengths. Crown Cast Tool Steel, Warranted. Special Quality Lron and Steel Shafting, with large assortment of heavy sizes on hand. Plate and Sheet Iron, Bolts, Nuts and Rivets Nails. Steel and Iron Forgings of all kinds. ROLLED Cir? Channels, Angles, Tees, Merchant Bars, Forgings, Eye Bars, &c., PATERSON, N. J. Room 45, Astor House, New York. NAILS Hartman Steel Wire Cold Rolled Steel Shafting. PASSAIC ROLLING MILL CO. Manufacture and have always in stock IRON BEAMS, Riveted Work, Hot Pressed Nuts, Bolts, Washers, &e. DOVER IRON CO.'S Boiler Rivets, Boiler Brace Jaws, Socket Bolts, |- BAR IRON. FULLER BROTHERS & CO., 139 GREENWICH ST., NEW YORK. QUEEN & CO., Philadelphia,Pa. TH ITIRON AGE. April 7, R s|O XFORD|™ 0. wooo & co. va, E PITTSBURGH, PA. | ep he IRON AND NAIL CO., m EO Cut Nails PTE AND | a > ; J Sri ES. | Est an . thE J. 8 SCRANTON, Sales Agent, 0 ce r ~ 81, 83 and 85 Washington Street, MANUFACTURERS OF PATENT eee oe gree Planished Sheet Iron. pene Patented A ril 8th, 1873 ; Se It. ath, 1873 ; Oc z ¢ BURDEN’S i ha a i! . eee CEE? ee as sia oO Sars Guaranteed fully equal in all respects to the > = : s C HORSE CHES IMPORTED RUSSIA IRON, Sei ¢ . and at a less price. o : > : ALSO = J 5 0 a Common, Refined Charcoal ana Juniata 1 o 5 . 99 GRADES OF S 0 “Burden Best BLACK SHEET IRON. - 2 Haskin’s Patent Double Spira! Pinions, and Roll. ing Mill Castings of every description, OMe, Nos. 10 & 12 WOOD ST., PIT TSBU RG H, P A. CHAS. J. STEBBINS, STEEL AND TRON NAILS. IRON, NAILS AND SPIKES PIG [RON BAR Smooth on both sides. ~ |Manhattan Rolling Mill. Iron SYRACUSE © Ra MALLEABLE IRON; J. LEONARD, B oiler Rive wonxs, 445 to 451 West St, NEW YORK 177 & 179 Bank St,, MANUFACTURER OF HORSE SHOE IRON. Toe Calk Steel, Rods, Ovals, Half Ovals and Flats. HENRY KELLY, Pustic ACCOUNTANT, 923 Walnut St., PHILADELPHIA, Pa. Iron and Steel Manufacturers’ Cos SYRACUSE, - N.Y. THE BURDEN IRON CO. TROY, WN. Y: Mower and feaner Castings and Carriage Irons a Specialty. W. B. BURNS, Proprietor. EVERSON, HAMMOND & CO. LIMITED PULTSBURGII, PA.,, Sheet Steel For Roofing and Corrugating. species: y: ounts and Partnership Settlements Late ¢ ‘bie *f Accountant to Cambria Iron Compar)y Howard, Childs & Co., Commission Merchants, Room 20, Lewis Block, Pittsburgh, Pa. /ron and Stee/ of all Descriptions, Iron and Steel Nails, Heavy Hardware, Coa Hods, Dripping Pans, &c. iltsburen - Manufactured Goods of all Kinds, WILLIAM H. WALLACE & CO., Iron Merchants, Cor. ALBANY & WASHINGTON STS., NEW YORK CITY. Wm. H. Wallace. Wn, Bispham. E. C, Wallace. WM. McFARLAND, lron and Brass Founder, |. OPEN-HEARTH STEEL, INGOTS and BILLETS, SHEET IRON, All Grades, CORRUGATED AND CRIMPED IRON ROOFING & SIDING TRENTON, N. J. Correspondenc -e solicited. Prices | on applicati Chilled Cast Wire Dies a Specialty. Any size or style made at short notice, > . JENCKES MAN FG. CO re | Bright Wire Goods, Belt Hooks, SPRING PINS, KEYS AND COTTERS. Bent Wire Goods of all kinds a Specialty. New York Office, SS Chambers Street. SAMUEL A. HAINES, Selling Agent Iron Buildings, ore, Beers, Cornices, Roofs, Skylights, Gridges'& MOSELEY IRON BRIDGE AND ROOF CO., 5 Dey Street. NEW YORE. D. R. LEAN, T. S. BLAIR, Jr. LEAN & BLAIR, “ngineers and Contractors, Room 709, Ilamilton Building, Pittsburgh, Pa., 7h aan 4 PHILADELPHIA will contract to erect, equip and place in operation Open-Iearth and Bess: mer Steel Works, Blast Furnaces, Lash Steel Melting Furnaces, Hains- worth Soaking Pits, Fire-Brick Hot-Blast Stoves, Gas Works, &c. THE ROBINSON-REA MFG. CO., PITTSBURGILT, PA ROLLS Manufacturers of Cast Iron Pipe FOR WATER AND GAB, LAMP POSTS, VALVES, ETC. Mathew’s Pat. Anti-Freezing Hydrants, 400 CHESTNUT STREET A. GARRISON FOUNDRY Co,,|233 = A 0 Manufacturers of Sand, Patent Homogeneous, RATIO. wae NOS) RHODE ISLAND HORSE SHOE CO, cotinine | Monge, Mule & Snow Shoes we Perking Pattern Office, 31 Exchange Place, Providence, R, I. R. W. COMSTOCK, Seoretary Works at Valley Falls, R. |. ¥, W. CARPENTER, President, Cc. H. PERKINS, Gen'l Manager. Only single Ring ever invent: that closes on outside of the nos: BROWN’S Elliptical Ring t and Triple Groove Hog and Pig Ring Tr -_ wie ane Saas gee —~, CLOSES ON OUTSIDE OF NOSE Only Double Ring Invented. Champion Hog Rineer | /@ RINGS and HOLDER. ns o The only Ring that wi) ome e So | Il! Reade St., New York, n th > ebert = ‘ints = the fle sh ‘to ke eep it sor Exclusive Manufacturers, Decatur, I! aliy hoop Megs t rom rooting sharp points in the nose. : CHAMBERS, BERING & QUINLAN CO.,, J. M. SCHOONMAKER COKE C0. MANUFACTUKER AND SHIPPER OF CONNELLSVILLE Oapacity ot Mines, 2500 Tons Daily. Siding connections with all lines of Railroads. Office, 120 Water Street. PITTSBURGH, PA. Bonnell, Botsford & Co.. YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO. CONDIT, FULLER & co, Cleveland, Ohio. TH! MO! Als BE ome ae DE: Nos. 10 30: SPE! Steel, x tT . QOOmUvVITeorwms | ore Woo wd -31T ss MEA Le ats "8 TO BwWOrR MC rey OO pars 9 ts, Ons, re, frente 2 DOs ng Ring ser On ebart t sore ir, Ul \pril 7, 1887. THEH IRON AGE WwiLhTIAM RNR. HEART c& CO., IRON ORES “Stans MOHICAN PIG TRON. —SPANISH, ___ AFRICAN _ CASTLE PIG IRON. for Finest Steel (phosphorus uniformly low sel A superior iron for ordinary Bessemer work, dom reaching .o; per ao ratag — comparing favorably with English 1 per cent. upward, according to re a oe : quirements of buyers). Nest Coast Hematites Bessemer, Basic and Open-Hearth Steel Slabs, Bullets, Plates and Kars to specifications furnished Old Iron and Steel Rails, Crop Euds “piegeleiseu, Ferromanganese, &c 226 Walnut Street, - - PHILADELPHIA. PITTSBURGH OFFICE, 84 FOURTH AVE, Cambria steel. STEEL RAILS, STANDARD AND LIGHT WEIGHTS, STREET RAILS mo RAILWAY FASTENINGS, Bessemer and Open-Hearth Blooms, Billets and Bars, steel Axles, Steel Anesles. Steel Castings, Steel Forgings. CAMBRIA TRON COX,ITIPANY, Office, 218 S. Fourth St, Philadelphia. ALAN WOOD COM PANY, MANUFACTURERS OF Patent Planished, Galvanized, Common, Best Kefined. Cleaned and Uharcea! Bloom PLATE ech SHEET IRON, ALSO LIGHT PLATES AND SHEETS OF 8TEEL, 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 Lron, WwW. H. WALBAUM «& CO., 206 S. Fourth Street, Philadelphia. NEW AND CLD RAILS. BLOOMS. BESSEMER PIC. Crop Ends, Spiegeleisen, Iron Ores and Railroad Supplies Generally. AGENTS IN THE UNITED STATES FOR THE NORTH LONSDADE IRON & :‘ ke CO., Limited, Bessemer Pig Iron, brand ‘Ulverston ;” Malleable Pig Iron, brand “* U. H. MOSS BAY HE} ATITE IRON & DE EEL CO., Limited, Spiegeleisen, Crop Ends, &c. Also for ‘‘ Lorn” Malleable Charcoal Pig Iron and N. B. ALLEN & CO.’S Dinas Fire Bricks, PENCOYD IRON WORKS, LOCOMOTIVE AND CAR-WHEEL TIRES|° Manufactured from the celebrated OTIS STEEL BRAND eZ STANDARD ZF Quality and efficiency fully guaranteed. Prices as low as any of the same quality. We manufacture Heavy and Light Forgings, Driving and Car Axles, Crank Pins, Piston Rods, &c. THE STANDARD STEEL WORKS, WORKS AT LEWISTOWN, PA. Works, Johnstown, Pa, Office, 220 S. 4th St., Philadelphia, Pa. POTTSVILLE IRON & STEEL Co., POTTSVILLE, FP A., Manufacturers of ali kinds of STRUCTURAL STEEL AND IRON Viz, BEAMS, CHANNELS, TEES, ANGLES, PLATES AND BARS Also STEEL AND IRON AXLES FOR FREIGHT AND PASSENGER CARS. This Steel is manufactured by the CLAPP-GRIFFITHS process, and is specially adapted, in addition to the above, for Boile rand Bridge Rivets, Wire Rods, Nail Plates, ec .&c. Our Mild Steel is well adapted for use in place of the best quality of Wrought [ron; where a greater strength and ductility is required, it welds readily as Iron, Also Billets, Slabs of all sizes and any desired temper. Shafting of all sizes in stock, from which prompt shipments can be made. _ ey, eas ame and Ice House Construction a Specialty. The Phoenix Iron Co., 410 WALNUT ST., PHILADELPHIA Manufacturers of Wrought Iron Beams, Deck Beams, Channels, Angle & Tee Bars, |; STRAIGHT AND CURVED TO TEMPLATE, Largely used in the construction of Iron Vessels, Buildings and Bridges. A. & P. ROBERTS & CO@O., -——MANUFACTURERS OF— BEAMS, CHANNELS, DECK BEAMS, ANGLES, TEES, PLATES, MERCHANT BAR, Shafting and Rolled or Hammered Axles of Iron or Steel, Agents for the sale of Glamorgan Pig Iron. Wrought Iron Roof Trusses, Girders and Joists, and all kinds of Iron Framing used in the con- struction of Fire-Proof Buildings: Patent Wrought Iron Columns, Weldless Eye Bars, and Built-up Shapes for Iron Bridges. REFINED BAR, SHAFTING, and Every Variety of SHAPE IRON Made to order. Plans and Specifications furnished, Address DAVID REEVES, President. New York Agents, MILLIKEN, SMITH & CO., 61 Liberty St. Boston AQarAe, HOUDLETTE & DUNNELS, 272 Franklin St. The Allentown Rolling Mills, MANUFACTURERS OF Rails, Bars, Axles, Shafting, Fish Bars (Plain and Angle), Spikes, Rivets, Bolts and Nuts, &c., Bridges and Turn-Tables. General Office, 237 South Third St., Philadelphia. Works at Allentown, Pa. EDWARD CORNING, 15 Cortlandt St., New York, New York Sales Agent. fice, No. 265 S. Fourth St., Phil.delpnia. GORDON, STROBEL & LAUREAU, ENGINEERS AND CONSTRUCTORS, 226 WALNUT ST., PHILADELPHIA, PA. PLYMOUTH ROLLING MILL CO., Conshgpecken. MANUFACTURERS OF Plate and Sheet Steel, Every description of Light Plates and Sheets of Steel. Plate and Sheet Lron, Best Bloom, Tube, Cleaned, Best Refined, Skelp, Blue Annealed and Common. SPECIALTIES: Gordon Whitwell-Cowper Hot-Blast Stoves. Regenerative Furnaces. Pig Iron, Foundry and Forge. Puddled Bars, Special for Axles, Best Neutral and Common. ee Particular attention Riven to Iron | for Special Purposes, Blast Furnaces. Improved Tuyere Stocks and Bosh Plates TESTED CHAINS. Bradlee & Co., Empire Chain Works, Beach & Otis Sts., Philadelphia. Chains tor Foundry Cranes and Slings. “D. B. G.” Special Crane Chain. Steel and Iron Dredging, Slope and Mining Chains. _Ghip' s Cables and Marine Railway Chains. Bessemer and Open-Hearth Steel Plants, Pittsburgh Branch Office: BOYLE & BISSELL, \ BISSELL BLOCK. Heating Furnace, designed for use of Producer Gas, but can be adapted to Natural Gas with a slight modification, QUAKER cCiTry FACING MILLS. iUs eastipie DULL, \Otal) Stove rlate Facing + : i iis} We Guarantee Pertect Satisfaction. aud cea sie vi, 2A slacolucr CUMBERLAND NAIL AND IRON CO, MANUFACTURERS OF “CUMBERLAND” NAILS & WROUGHT IRON PIPE, 4B Nt North Water St., and os North D Delaware Ave., PHILADELPHIA. J. Tatnall Lea & Co, Successors to CABEEN & CO,, IRON COMMISSION MERCHANTS, No. 4200 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. BESSEMER, MILL AND FOUNDRY PIG IRON, SKELP IRON, MUCK AND SCRAP BARS, NATIVE Waite, Van Harlingen & Mactier, AND FOREIGN ORES. AGENTS FOR CONNELLSVILLE COKE. ENGINEERS AND CONTRACTORS, BOOTH, GARRETT & BLAIR, SOS Walnut Sts cat vurne nn aoetphia Pa) ANALYTICAL AND CONSULTING CHEMISTS, Metallurgical Furnaces. 919 and 921 Chant St. (10th St., above Chestnut St.), Philadelphia, Pa. Established in 1836. Analysis of Ores, Waters, Metals and Alloys of all kinds. A special departmen for the ANALYSIS OF IRON AND STEEL, Steel, Heating, Puddling, Tube Welding, Zinc and Chemical Furnaces; also Glass Tank and Pot Furnaces. fitted with all the apparatus and appliances for the rapid and accurate analysis of Iron, Bteel, Iron ‘ Ores, Slags, Limestones, Coals, Clays, Fire Sands, &c. Agents for sampling ores ip New York and Works Built Complete. Baltimore. Price lists on application. RIDDLES, SHOVELS, BELLOWS, STWEL WIRE BRUSHES, BRISTLE BRUSHES, And all other Tools used in a Foundry, of our Own Special Make. JT. WW. RPASXESON cH CO-., DEALERS IN MOULDING SAND, AND MANUFACTURERS 9OF FOUNDRY SUPPLIES, Nos. 1015, 1017, 1019 and 1021, or Pier 45 North. DeL Ave. *¢ © * VAILADELPHIA, Pa, SPECIALTY: GAS REGENERATIVE FURNACES OF THE SIEMENS TYPE. 5 JUSTICE COX, Jr CHARLES K. BARNS JUSTICE COX, JR., & CO,, iENTS FOR CATASAUQUA M'F’G. CO, r ron, St © el, Bars mK filer, Tank and Bridge Plat ; Skelp, Ang! sand She pes; ¢ k «8s, Montgomery Conewag ands) e Furnaces =» Im oO ™N Foundries and Mills ERIE FORGE CO., Lré Iron and Steel Forgings Every shape 224 South Fourth Street, ~ Phila., Pa EDWARD J. ETTING IRON BROKER & COMMISSIGN MERCHANT 222 8. Turp 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. » LORAGE WHARF anpd YARD, Delaware Avenue ve Callowhill St., connected A track with rail yad. CASH ADVANCES MADE ON Ii Jerome Keeley & Co., 206 Walnut Place & : Selling Asean for CHARCOAI and ANTHRACITE BLOOMS, PIG TRON, BAR IRON, SHEET IRON STEEL and IRON RATLS, [Rt IN CLAD STEEL RAILS and BARS, MAGNETIC and HEMATITE [RO IN ORES, FIRE BRICK, COAL and COKE, MUCK BARS Handle Old Iron and Ste el Ratls, Scrap Iron, & Examine and negotiate sales of Iron and Coal properties, FE. H. Wilson A. Kaiser J.B. M. Hirona E. H. WILSON & CO., 222 and 224 South Third St, Philade Iphia, IRON anp “STEEL. Correspondence solicited, J, W. HOFFMAN & CO,, [RON COMMISSION MERCHANTS, 208 South Fourth st., Philadelphia. Selling Agents PINE IRON WORKS, Pine Rrand Plates; GLASGOW IRON CO., Plates and Muck Bars; SP RANG STEEL & IRON Co (Limited), Slemens- Martin (Open Hearth) Steel, Universal and Shear ed Plates, Angles and Shapes. JINO-. L. HOGAN, IRON COMMISSION MERCHANT, 216 SOUTH FOURTH ST., PHILA. Pig Iron & Ores, Steel & Iron Blooms Agent for Brier Hilllron and Coal Co. Youngstown Steel Co. Open Hearth “Wetal, Charcoal Iron, Connellsville Coke, Old Rails, Scrap, &c. FOR BEST MILE PRODUCTS, Andover Ig lon. Chill Iron for Carwheels, &e Each Pig marked exact chill depth (4% In. o% in.), A. Whitney & Son’s standard test 5 Westen Button, igent. 240 So. 3d St., Phila NORTH BROTHERS MFG. CO., Iron Founders, Light Castings a Specialty. N. W. Cor. 23d and Race Streets*® PHILADELPHIA. Cc orrespondenc e solicited, Established 1847. A. WHITNEY & & SONS, CAR WHEEL WORKS, PHILADELPHIA, Special Whee's for Furnace and Mine Cars. I. J. MOHR, 430 WALNUT ST., PHILA. PA., BOLE AGENT FOR Sheridan, Leesport, Temple, Lynch- burg, Millcreek and Mt. Laurel Foundry PIG [ RO N and Forge CHARCOAL PIG IRON. Also Woodbridge Clay Mining Co.'s Fire Brick. JAS. G. LINDSAY. THOS, 8 PARV1y, LINDSAY, PARVIN & CO., 32