The Iron Age 1888-04-26: Vol 42

HE [TRON AGE A New Double-Crank Press. present in this issue engravings of one bape" a series of six sizes of geared presses recently designed and built by the Ferracute Machine Company, of Bridgeton, N. J. Many articles which have hitherto been produc ed in the shape of malleable cast- aa can be made from heavy sheet iron or steel plate in presses and dies for a frac- tion of the cost of castings. The difficulty DOUBLE CRANK PRESS, BU hitherto has been that the many makes and styles of presses in the market have been designed for thin sheet metals or for small punching and shearing only, and were not sufficiently heavy and strong for this kind of work. The particular ma- hines in question are probably the heaviest double-crank prerses now in the | market for cutting or forming large diam- eters in such metal as 4-inch steel, and | their performance has been found to fully meet expectations. Of course this kind | of work can be done in single-crank presses, provided they are large enough, but more effect can be produced in the double-crank style for a given expendi- ture. The length of the slide be arings in single-crank presses should be in propor- tion to the diameter of the work, and con- sequently work of large diameter will re- quire correspondingly high press frames. ‘THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1888. It is more economical therefore to transfer pressure from the crank-shaft to the slide bar from two points, making a double- crank press, than to use the single-crank principle. The two pitmen should be as near the ends of the shaft as possible, and the adjustment of the bar should be of such a character as to affect the pitmen simultaneously. The heavy rugged appearance of the press shown is perhaps the most noticeable feature about it. The main details of the design are clearly shown in the two eleva- | qT il er = ST | | i HAT | Fig. 1 General Vieir, ILT BY THE FERRACUTE MACHINE tions and sections. There 1s an eccentri sleeve on the shaft, by means of which adjustable stroke of from 14 to 34 inches is obtained. This sleeve is not usually put on the press unless ordered, the reg- ular streke being 2 inches. The slide-bar is adjusted up or down by another eccen- tric sleeve which works in both pitmen lat the same time, and suitable mechanism is provided for firmly cl imping this eccen- | tric when the required hight is obtained. An extra bolster plate fitted with die | clamps adapting the press for small dies is | also furnished, and all the presses of the |series have the new form of adjustable |automatic clutch, spring-brake, clamped gibs and other improvements peculiar to the Ferracute presses. The Ferracute Company build a modifi- cation of these presses, in which the gear- ing is dispensed with and a heavy fly- wheel put on the main shaft l velght of the press illustrated is about 9500 pounds. The width between columns in the clear is 32 inches; depth f bed (front to back), 24 inches; size of hole in bed, 24 x 16 inches: hight to slide-bar when up, 12 inches; stroke of slide-bar inches, and adjustment of same, 14 inches. The sizes of the holes in the beds of the other presses of the series, which are of the same design, are 30 x 20 inches, 36 x 24 inches, 42 x 28 inches, 48 x 32 inches, and 54 x 36 inches respectively. The extreme hight COMPANY, BRIDGETON, N of the press as shown from th the highest part is 7 feet 7 inches — cme —— A new form of oil engine is . ent. being exhibited in England It is known as Priestman’s petroleum engine. In a tank in the bed of the engine is placed the petroleum, which is forced through a pipe into a compartment wher the oil is converted into a fine spray by means of a blast of air. The spray passes into a chamber, is rendered explosive, and, coming in contact with an electric spark— obtained from a small battery in the rear —motive power is at once supplied. In construction it is said to be comparatively simple, and to work with admirable regu- larity. The piston requires no oiling, the petroleum vapor supplying the necessary | lubrication. as Oa pat ine 5 ee Tk IN TEER Ta BS Ra SG ae ie es ae a Ae 424, qe al pie et ae ‘ FR ee Heme A Fine Office Building. The new office building on the corner of LaSalle and Adams streets, Chicago, known as ‘‘ The Rookery,” has become the home of so many iron and steel interests | that a description of it will be appreciated by the trade generally. The claim has been made for this building that it is the | | | ananneliceiies NEW DOUBLE CRANK PRESS, THE IRON AGE. | of Chicago, which now contains numerous | specimens of noble architecture. The ex- |terior is granite for the first two stories and reddish-brown brick and terra-cotta |for the remainder of the superstructure. The frontage on LaSalle and Adams streets is highly ornamental. The windows are recessed in courses of two and three stories, the first and second _ stories | Fig. 2.—Front Elevation and Section. BUILT BY THE FERRACUTE MACHIN largest building in the world used for|being thus grouped, then the third office purposes. While this is not a matter | and fourth, next the fifth, sixth of absolute certainty, there is no doubt| and seventh; then the eighth, ninth and that it is the largest office building in this tenth, while the eleventh surmounts the country outside of New York. It covers | whole in square finish of different design an area of 167 feet 6 inches by 177 feet 8|from the others. The windows of the inches, It is 11 stories high, and the!seventh and tenth stories have circular distance from the sidewalk to the cornice | heads. The owners are the Central| dows on both fronts, with carved panels Saiety Deposit Company, of Chicago, and | in terra-cotta. is 160 feet. There are continuous bay win- The general type of orna- its singular name is a legacy from its|ments is East Indian. The piers are predecessor on a large part of its site. . . . . . . j . - This building is described as the most!and lintels are formed upon the same |rounded from top to bottom and arches majestic building, structurally, in the city! radius by the use of brick of special April 26, 1888, pattern. The constructional part of the building is thoroughly incombustible. even the ironwork so employed being covy- ered with fire-proof material, while the floors are laid on hollow tile. The interior is a central court open from the top, 75 feet square, pierced with unusually broad windows, the walls mad of English cream-colored glazed en- E COMPANY, BRIDGETON, N. J. ameled brick, with glazed terra-cotta or- namentations, producing a pleasing effect and adding to the desirability of inside offices. The lower portion of the court is roofed over and skylighted 5 feet below the second story windows, forming a grand covered promenade, with a wide staircase leading to a gallery extending around all sides of the court, from which springs a glass-inclosed iron spiral staircase extend- ing to the top of the building. The en- trances and vestibules are finished in polished white marble and onyx. Thi floor of the main entrance and the court April 26, 18*8. is composed of mosaic and is claimed to be the largest piece of such work in this country, having been laid by skilled Italian workmen brought to this country for that purpose. Twelve Hale hydraulic elevators are used for transporting passengers and freight, ten of them being used exclusively tor pas- sengers. Three Worthington pumps sup- ply the hydraulic elevators, and when put in place they were the largest pumps in use in Chicago outside of the city water- works. Four other Worthington pumps THE IRON AGE. The marble for the interior was furnished by Davidson & Sons. The woodwork, which is of red oak, was finished and fitted by George A. Fuller. The electric lighting was intrusted to the Edison Com- pany, who have installed probably the largest permanent plant in any building in the world, employing two Corliss engines and four dynamos of 800 16-candle power lights each, with the wiring all con- cealed from view. The fire-proofing was supplied by the Pioneer Fireproof Con- struction Compaay. The hardware, which - Fig. 3.—Side Eieration and Section. NEW. DOUBLE CRANK PRESS, COMPANY, are used for supplying the offices and the | steam boilers with water from the city | mains. The pumping machinery has an | aggregate capacity of 13,500,000 gallons in 24 hours. Such a building required a vast amount of material and labor, and a number of the most prominent building firms and manu- faciurers of the country were engaged in its construction. The architects were Burnham & Root, whose artistic creations now adorn so many Western cities, The masonry of the exterior walls was carried to completion under the supervision of Mortimer & Tapper, now Mortimer & Son. BUILT BY BRIDGETON, N. J. THE FERRACUTE MACHINE is cast iron, treated by the Bower- Barff process, was made by the Yale & Towne Mfg. Company after designs fur- nished by Burnham & Root upon plans | originating with Orr & Leckett, the con The safety vaults were equipped | tractors. with the fittings and doors of the Hall’s Safe and Lock Company. The painting and decorating were done by H. J. Milli gan. The galvanized iron and copper ir the skylights and the copper trimmings it the engine rooms and basement were the work of C. B. Rickert. The plumbing wa done by E. Baggot, who used large quan tities of the Raymond Lead Company’s Cc } } | 683 pipe. He introduced in this building the Durham system of sewerage. The steam- heating apparatus was supplied by K. F. Osborn & Co., of Minneapolis, Minn, A very important part of the work of con- struction was the architectural ironwork, which was supplied by the Dearborn Foun- dry Company. The consumed amounted to over 80,000 square feet, and was furnished by the James H. Rice Com- pany. The brick used was made by the Chicago Anderson Pressed Brick Company, and the trimmings were supplied by the Northwestern Terra Cotta Company. The cost of this great structure is about $1,500, - 000. , class ee ioe A Link Grinding Machine. Messrs. Pedrick & Ayer, 1025 Hamilton street, Philadelphia, Pa., have just brought out an interesting new piece of machinery. It is a tool designed to quickly fit up har- dened links and blocks. After the links are planed up they are case-hardened and always spring some. This makes it neces- sary to grind the space and the block. When ground free hand, the usual way, the space and block being ground so as to work freely, the true radius is always lost as the curve straichtens. With the ma- chine in question any radius, it is claimed, can be quickly ground true, either the block, link and face of the link. It con- sists of a frame, carrying xn arm mounted with an emery-wheel. This has an auto- matic feed up and down, exposing all the surface of the wheel to the work, keeping the wheel true. It has also an automatic swinging movement over the are of the circle to be ground. It is driven by an overhead countershaft and occupies small floor space. sna acs Under the management of Prof. W. B. Potter, of the Washington University, the St. Louis Sampling and Testing Works have been built, for the purpose of afford- ing those interested in mining an oppor- tunity of testing and treating their ores on a working scale, so xs to determine not only their value, but also. the best and cheapest method for their reduction. The plant includes the necessary apparatus for sampling, a three-stamp gold mill with blanket tables, reverbratory furnace, two amalgamation pans and plant for chlorina- tion. The works have also a five-stamp silver battery and a concentrating mill, in- {cluding a rock breaker; stamp battery, beit rolls for crushing, sizing screens, jigs ani hydraulic separators. The works are equipped for testing fuel, there being com- plete machinery for washing coal and coal slack; a small coking oven and a return- tlue steel boiler, with appliances for mak- ing complete fuel trials, including gas analyses. The laboratory has the neces sary testing machinery, all the different departments being under the direct super vision of specialists. The only system of forced draft which has been adopted on the ships of the British Navy is that of the closed stoke- | hold plan, this appearing to be the sim- plest and best. The air pressure used in the large vessels is limited to 2 inches of water, but in torpedo-boats is often much higher. The result is that in the vessels thus fitted up the power obtained from a given weight of boilers and fittings will be about doubled, as compared with that »btained from boilers when worked by natural draft alone. N. P. Hyndman, of Pittsburgh, who has | been the general Western agent of the Con- nelisville Coke and Iron Company, of Philadelphia, for a number of years, has een appointed general sales agent of the ompany, with headquarte rs at No. 5 Sixth avenue in the first-named place, > sa Wi eho oses - Fe age tz Oe > PGs % Z “Ales ‘ et Tnie vy Tyas mg Taal 2 ss 684 Southern Pig Iron Freights. The Queen and Crescent route via the | Alabama Great Southern Railroad and the Cincinnati Southern Railway has issued, | under date of April 10, the following tariff of rates on pig iron in carloads from South- ern furnaces to points north, east and west. It supercedes tariff No. 2, 1ssued February 1, 1888. It went into effect on April 1: From. = = lz I = - | galé . e 50 s | <: 2 To E :| 8.2|38| ES > Mess] sali S< 5 cs SO\ Om] «.- ge) ge) a] oe e |6 | Sal® b =o = & > | Q = = Adrian, Mich......... $4.20 34.40 $4.90 $4.90 Akron, Ohio...... ...| 3.65) 8.85) 4.35) 4.35 Albion, Mich........ 4.20) 4.40) 4.90) 4.90) 1 Allegan, Mich........ 4.40) 4.60, 5.10) 5.10 | Allegheny, Ng pcsaind 4.30) 4.50) 5.00, 5.00 | l Alton, RRR 3.66, 5.86, 4.11, 3.56) 4 Anderson, Ind........ 3.70 3.90 4.40 4.40 | 1 |Argenta, Ark.........) 4.35) 3.85) 3.85 3.85 | 1 Ashland, Ky.......... 2.75) 2.95) 3.45 3.45) 1 Ashtabula, Ohio...... 4.10) 4.30, 4.80) 4.80 | 1 Atchison, Kan........ 6.12! 5.62) 5.62, 5.62] 1 Athens, Ohio......... 3.75) 3.95) 4.45) 4.45 / 1 i S| See 4.77| 4.97) 5.22) 4.9711 oe | ee 2.40) 2.60) 3.10 38.10) § 3 |Batavia, Ill........... 4.90) 5.10) 5.35) 5.35 | Battle Creek, Mich....; 4.30) 4.50) 5 00) 5.00 | Bay City, Mich....... 4.65) 4.85) 5.35) 5.35 | Beaver Falls, Pa...... 4.40) 4,60) 5.10) 5.10 | Bellaire, Ohio......... 4.30) 4.50) 5.00) 5.00 | Bellefontaine, Ohio. ..| 3.60) 3.80) 4.30) 4.30 | 3 iBeloit, Wis........... 5.17) 5.87) 5.62) 5.62 | Bloomington, Ill...... 4.40) 4.60) 4.85 4.85 | 3 3 iresil, ind. ........+.. 3.65} 3.85) 4.10) 4.10 | Bridgeport, Ohio..... 4.30) 4.50) 5.00) 5.00 SG 4.40 4.60 ee 5. eI 1 |Burlington, Iowa..... 4.92) 5.12) 5.37 Cadillac, Mich....... 5.40 5 60! 6 a 6. 6101 Cambridge City, Ind..) 3.55| 3.75) 4.25) 4.2: Canal Dover, Ohio....| 4.00) 4.20) 4.70 7 De EE. is. cease de 5.08) 5.28) 5.48) 5.48 | Canton, Ohio......... 4.00) 4.20) 4.70) 4.70 | 3 |Carpentersville, Ill...) 5.03) 5.23) 5.48) 5.48 | 3 \Cedar Falls, lewa..... 6.17) 6.37) 6.62) 6.6211 1 |Cedar Rapids, lowa...| 5.67) 5.87) 6.12) 5.87 | Charleston, Ill........ 3.15| 3.35) 3.60) 3.60 Charleston, W. Va...., 3.26) 3.46) 3.96) 3.96 | Chartions, Pa......... 4.40) 4.60) 5.10) 5.35 ft POE, Bikceaesccsnins 3.50) 8.70) 3.95! 3.70 | “gb Pe 3.90) 4.10) 4.35) 4.35) 1 Chillicothe, Ohio..... 3.40) 3.60) 4.10) 410 | Cincinnati, Ohio...... 2.40 2.60) 3.10) 3.10) 1 Cleveland, Ohio...... 3.65, 3.85) 4.35) 4.35 | 1 |Clinton, Iowa......... 4.92) 5.12) 5.37) 5.12] Colfax, Ind........... 3.80) 4.00) 4.50) 4.50 | Cotumbus, Ind........ 3.15) 3.35) 3.60) 3.60 | Columbus, Ohio...... 3.15) 3.35] 3.85) 3.85 | Connersville, Ind..... 3.40) 3 60) 4.10 4.10 | 1 |Council Bluffs, Iowa..| 6.12) 5.62) 5 62) 5.62 | Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio.) 4.00) 4.20) 4.70) 4.70 | Danville, Ill.......... 3.90) 4.10) 4.35 4.35 | 1 |Davenport, Iowa..... 4.92) 5.12) 5.37) 5.12 | Dayton, Ohio......... 3.15) 3.35) 3.85) 3. 5 | ft PEE BEN ov on vvecns 3.90) 4.10) 4.35) 4.35 | Delaware, Ohio....... 3.70) 3.90! 4.40) 4.40 | 1 |Des Moines, lowa..... 5.42) 5.62) 5.87) 5.62 | Detroit, Mich..... 3.90) 4.10) 4.35) 4.35 | MNT i iw iy ae 4.92) 5.12) 5.37 5-831 1 |Dubuque, Iowa....... 5.08) 5.28) 5.58) 6.28) 1 DS TE, Bilss ccs 5050s 5.22) 5.42) 5.67) 5.67) 1 Lb a a 4.40) 4.60) 5.10 5.10 East Saginaw, Mich... 4.65) 4.85! 5.10) 5.10 | 1 East St. Louis, Dl.... 3.15, 3.35) 3.60) 2.35 1 Effingham, Ill......... 3.91! 4.11) 4.36) 4.11 | i) 4.91) 5.11) 5.36) 5.36 Hikhart, Ind.......... 4.30 4.50) 5.00) 5.00 PR. Ss Bassceases 5.50) 5.70) 6.20! 6.20 | 1 Emporia, Kan..... .. 8.93) 9.13) 9.38) 9.13 SE Rs id tee wie 4.40) 4.60) 5.10) 5.10 1 Evansville, Ind....... 2.65) 2.85) 3.10) 3.10 1 Fort Scott, Kan...... 7.23) 7.34) 7.84) 7.34 1 Fort Smith, Ark...... 5.85) 5.35) 5.35) 5.35 Fort Wayne, Ind...... 3.65, 3.85) 4.10 4.10 | Fredericktown (Knox County), Ohio...... 3.80) 4.00) 4.50) 4.50 1 (Freeport, Ml.......... 4.92) 5.12) 5.37) 5.12 1 Fremont, Neb......... 6.67| 6.87) 7.12) 6.87 Fremont, Ohio........ 4.00 4.20) 470) 4.70 3 Galesburg, Ill........ 5.26) 5.46) 5.71) 5.71 tS eee 3.80) 4.00) 4.50) 4.50 3 'Geneva, [il........... 5.65 5.85) 6.10) 6.10 aS 4.30 4.60 5.00) 5.00 Gosport, Ind... ...... 4.15) 4.35 4.85) 4.85 | 3 Grand Crossing, Ill... 3.90, 4.10) 4.35) 435 Grand Rapids, Mich.. 440 4.60 5.10 5.10 Greencastle, Ind...... 3.65' 3.85) 4.35) 4.35 — = |] fo Mo. Hudson, Ohio Huntington, W. Va... ean ce Ind eee ty )hio. ; Jackson, Mich Jacksonville, Til. Jeffersonville, Johnstown, Pa Kansas City, Kenton, Ohio aaa nc ae Leavenw orth. |Lefflers, lowa Lockport, Il Logansport, Ind London, Canada Lyons, Iowa. McKeesport, Pa Marietta, Ohio Marion (Marion Coun- Marshalltown, Iowa .. Martin’s Ferry, Massillon, Onio May sv ille, Ky Memphis, Tenn Miamisburg, Ohic ... |i Michigan City, Ind ... = 23 Mingo Junction, Ohio. Minneapolis, Minn... . Mishawaka, Ind SS > ot a Rt S = — es SD to to bo — et eet DO to bo Mount Vernon, ee P & or — to a =3 on ee Muskegon, Mich Sk was Nelsonville, Ohio New Albany, 2S ph pe ee OT CO Be SS SHE a SS ht -~ = ” oo? 33h Newburgh, Ohio New Philadelphia .. ~wr B38 se He Ha a CO a OF OT a a FF OF OT OTs 70 so oe = North Vernon, Ind.... Omaha, Neb or I> ISHS Se D oS aay ~)+ Ottumwa, Iowa Piqua, Ohio Pittsburgh, Pa Portsmouth, Ohio g He CO OTe He OO CO a He OC a + . 2 ? PE, chs sds Richmond, Ind. Rock Falls, Ul He 482 “It =? Rock Island, Rushville, Ind i & cenp Ea 13 St. Charles, Il St. Charles, Mo —_ ov ts o So St bm OT ST Oo Orr or ie DLP ze Apiil 26, 1888. 1 |St. Paul, Minn. . | 5.08 5.28, 5.53, 5.28 St. Thomas, Canada... 5.00 5.20) 5.70) 5.70 Salem, Ohio.......... | 4.10 4.30) 4.80) 4.80 Sandusky, | ee | 3.85 4.05] 4.55) 4.55 Scottsville, Pa........ | 5.20 5.40) 5.90) 5.90 BD OS BEN oc0m<0'p0 0% 3.90 4.10) 4.35) 4.35 3 Sheboygan, Wi. esx | 5.42 5.62) 5.57) 5.87 Shelby, Ohio....... .| 3.80 4.00) 4.50 4.50 Shelbyville, Ind...... | 3.15 3.35) 3.60) 3.60 1 Sioux City, Iowa......| 7.23 7.43) 7.68 7.48 3 South Bend, Ind...... | 8.90. 4.10] 4.35! 4.35 1 Springfield, [ll........ | 4.24 4.44) 4.69 4.69 1 |\Springfield, Mo....... | 6.71) 6 21) 6.21) 6.21 Springfield, Ohio..... | 3.15. 3.35] 3.85) 3.85 |1 |Sterling, Ill..........| 4.92 5.12) 5.87) 5.12 Steubenville, Ohio....| 4.30 4.50] 5.00) 5.00 2|1 Stillwater, Minn...... 5.53) 5.73] 5.98) 5.73 Sturgis, Mich........ | 430 4.50) 5.00 5.00 |3 |Terre Haute, Ind..... 3.15 3.35) 3.60) 3.60 Three Rivers, Canada.| 8.00 8.20) 8.70 8.70 Three Rivers, Mich....! 4.20 4.40) 4.90) 4.90 EEO. GINO. sscscscas 3.80, 4.00) 4.50 4.50 || > en 5.00, 5.20) 5.70 5.70 Toledo, Ohio.......... 3.65) 3.85] 4.35) 4.35 1 |Topeka, Kan ........ 8.03 8.23) 8.48) 8.25 Toronto, Canada..... 5.40 5.60) 6.10 6.10 RT RIED 5 ciwa0s oes 3.25 3.45) 3.95 3.95 Union City, Ind...... 3.50, 3.70) 4.20) 4.20 SS | 4.40 4 60) 5.10) 5.10 1 |Van Buren, Ark...... 5.85) 5.35] 5.85) 5.35 1 |Vandalia, [ll.......... 3.86 4.06] 4.31, 4.06 Vernon, ind.... ..... 3.85) 4.05) 4.55) 4.55 1 |Vincennes, Ind....... 8.40 3.60] 3.85) 3.85 Wabash, Ind......... 3.90, 4.10; 4.60 4.60 |Wheeling, W. Va.+.... 4.30, 4.50) 5.00 5.00 Whitewater, Wis.....| 4.91) 5, 11) 5.36) 5.36 Wilmington, Del..... 5.80, 6.00, 6.50, 6.50 2 | 1 |Winona, Minn........ 5.08 5.28) 5.538) 5.28 Wyandotte, Mich..... 3.90 4.10) 4.35) 4.35 Xenia, Ohio.......... 3.20, 3.40) 3.90) 3.90 Youngstown, Ohio.... 4,10 4.30) 4.80 4.80 Ypsilanti, Mich....... 4.20, 4.40) 4.90 4.90 Zanesville, Ohio....... 3.65 3.85) 4.35 4.35 To make rates from Anniston, Brierfield, | Clifton and Columbiana, Ala.; Cedartown, Etna and Hermitage, Ga.; Ironaton, Jenifer, | Rock Run and Tecumseh, Ala., add 50 cents per fon to rates from Chattanooga. To make rates from Round Mountain, Ala., add $1.35 per ton to rates from Birmingham. Note 1.—Rates cannot be made via Q. & C. a the furnaces named above to points under ote 1. Note 2.—To Pullman, Il, an additional charge of $2 per car must be allowed, for switching from Kensington to Pullman. Note 3.—Shipments from Clifton, [ronaton or Jenifer, Ala., must be routed via E. T., V . and G. R. R., Chattanooga and Cincinnati Southern Railway, as rates cannot be made via Birmingham and @). and C. The crying evil of underbilling naturally brings up many curious instances of a per- version of terms to cover efforts to reduce freight bills. The editor of the Railroad Gazette, in discussing the subject, drew upon fact and fancy when he penned the following lines: ‘* The origin of under- billing is lost in the mists of antiquity. We have no doubt that the cargo of the Mayflower in 1620 contained copies of Shakespeare’s works (D 1—owner’s risk of a ‘big, big D’) shipped as bibles (3). And unless Noah was the Barnum as well as the Cunard of his time, and owned a menagerie before he went into the carry- ing trade, we presume that the bills of lading of the Ark described rhinoceroses as ‘hogs’ and boa constrictors as ‘ un- 7|damageable pipe.’ A slight difference in name makes an enormous difference in ex- pense. We once heard of a man who bought an Egyptian mummy, which he wished to ship home by rail. To the first railroad agent he frankly told the facts in the case, saying that the article was a dead > | king. ‘Kings, dead or alive, must pay first-class passenger rates,’ was the reply of the inexorable agent. Learning wisdom 00 | by experience, our friend studied the clas- sification for himself, and finally shipped |his mummy (by another line) under the | head of ‘ Meats, cured, in boxes.’ ” It is reported that two experts of the | Bethlehem Iron Company recently spent five days at the Chester Furnaces, Morris County, Pa., investigating the Taylor pro- ducer. We are informed that a series of analyses of gas were made with very satis- 3.35 | factory results and that it is probable that April 26, 1888. the producer may be introduced at the works mentioned for that department which is now being built to fill Govern- ment contracts for armament. It is_ rumored that the producer is likely to be consolidated in the near future with the | interests of the Westinghouse fuel system of Pittsburgh. I A New Gate-Valve. Messrs. Walter 8S. Payne & Co., of Fos- | toria, Ohio, are putting on the market a new gate-valve, of which we present sec- tional views. These very clearly explain | its arrangement and manner of working. | Resting against the valve seats are two chisel-edged disks, which are provided THE IRON AGE. 685 When the disks are to be closed the stem | is screwed down, forcing the steel wedge | between the two disks, pressing them apart and causing them to be forced against their seats and close the valve. As an auxiliary to aid the steel wedge in pressing the disks to their places against the seats a flat spring is secured in the upper portion of the steel wedge, project- ing outwardly on each side and adapted to engage with the top portion of each of the disks and force them down against their seats. In opening the disks the first part of a turn of the stem releases the wedge and the disks are perfectly free and are drawn up by the two horns on the wedge. By this construction there is no wear or sliding against the valve seats. The valve, it will be noticed, has a very with integral cross-bars arranged on their’ large stem, making it difficult to twist off See lala a NEW GATE VALVE, MADE BY inner faces and projecting slightly outward from the ends, They are adapted to rest upon stops arranged as shown in the right- hand cut, and forming part of the internal portion of the valve body. On the faces of the valve disks recesses are formed in which friction rollers are mounted. These are adapted to be engaged by two horns formed on the lower portion of a steel wedge arranged between the disks, and shown in detail. In the upper portion of the valve body two ribs are formed, and act as guides for the valve disks when raised to open the valve. The projecting portions of the bars on the disks also act as guides for them when they are raised by touching the side of the valve body WALTER 58. FOSTORIA, PAYNE & COMPANY, OHIO. other directions are injuriously affected. The manufacturers of steel rails and other railway material have reason to feel par- ticularly anxious over the dismal prospect for Western trade. A Coke Freights Reduced. At a general railroad meeting, held in Chicago on Wednesday, the 18th inst., it was resolved to reduce the freight rates on coke about 5 per cent. Another meeting of the representatives of roads having con- nections with the Connellsville region was held in Pittsburgh on Thursday, the 19th inst., at which the new tariff was prepared. This last reduction of 5 per cent. is in ad dition to a former cut of 5 per cent., which went into effect on the 19th ult It puts freights back to what they were in Febru ary, 1887. The reductions made for the purpose of aiding a re vival of the iron business throughout the country. Furnace operators claimed that with the high rates of freight on coke and the high price of that article, it was cheaper for them to allow their furnaces to remain idle than to operate them. Now that a very substantial reduction has been made on both freights and coke, it is thought an improvement in the demand for pig iron will take place, and that a number of fur now idle will resume operations. Below we give the new rates of freight on coke, to take effect on Monday, the 22d inst., from the Connellsville region to points named, in tons of 2000 pounds: have been naces Akron, Ohio $2.00 Altamont, IIl.. 3.50 Me, Tilak : 3.50 Anderson, Ind..... 3.00 Ansonia, Ohio. . 2.90 Areanum, Ohio. 2.90 Ashland, Ohio.. 2.50 Ashtabula, Ohio. 2.00 Albany, N. Y..... ae 3.10 Sellefontaine, Ohio... . . 2.5 Bradford, Pa. 2.40 srier Hill, Ohio 1.50 Brighton, Ohio. . 2.90 Beaver Falls, Pa.. 1.40 Boston, Mass. $50 Buffalo, N. Y.. 2.40 os hidudbanadaewnen 4.00 Caledomia., O10... <6... cc cccess 2.70 Carlisle (Franklin) Warren County, Ohio. 2.90 CRE Tick dcuwcss 4.00 Carondelet, Mo.......... po 3.65 Carrollton, Montgomery County, Ohio 2.90 Carthage, Ohio. 2.90 Cattaraugus, N. Y.. 2.40 Charleston, Il. 3.50 Chicago, Il. 3.00 Chrisman, Ill....... 3.50 Cincinnati, Ohio... 2.90 Cleveland, Ohio. . 2.00 Coal Bluff, Ind. . 3.00 Connersville, Ind. ; ‘ rivewen 3.00 PGR Bled cccxeocan es pp aya Rs Sana ea 2.40 Crawfordsville, Ind.......... See | Crestline, Ohio. ..... 2.55 or bend, It is made in eight sizes, rang- ing from 2 to 12 inches, — TI imminent | The Chi- | tailroad | Another war seems to be among the Western railroads. cago, Burlington and Quincy Company announce that they will not | agree to sustain freight rates after May 10, and this notice is regarded as almost a declaration of war by the other companies penetrating the same territory. It is be- heved that if a second conflict is precipi- tated in this way its effects will be much | more disastrous than the one which ended but a few weeks since. The sole cause of | the trouble is the unremunerative condi- and preventing them from becoming displaced from. their proper line of} elevation. When the valve stem is raised to open the valve, the horns on the previously mentioned steel wedge catch under the rollers and draw the disks up- wards, causing them to bear against the ribs in the upper part of the valve case) and to preserve their line of separation in direct alignment with the valve seats. tion of branch lines built in localities in which they were not needed, but for! which business must be secured at the risk of immense losses on the parent system. | If such a conflict could be confined in its effects to the railroad companies involved, its consequences would be of importance to stockholders and « matter of comparative | indifference to others. But unfortunately this is not the case, as large interests in | Edwardsville Junction, a... NI Nn tie dates, a iene op wa 2 Cumminsville, Ohio 2, Coalburg, Ohio... . 1 Dayton, Ohio........ pemans gerne Delaware, Ohio.... ehradeeh eis «wate: a SS re 2, East St. Louis, Il...... } Ee See 2 > oo Effingham, Ill........ reer ee a Elmwood, Ham’n County, Ohio eer REMI ar oi oree:aya, a3 2.00 | Enfield, [l.... : 4.9) ko ed ree 2.05 | Evansville, Ind...... 3.85 Ee 4.00 PUG BEE ceic etcces pcnaerioa Baris . 3.50 Franklin, Warren County, Ohio 2 Franklin, Pa..... 2 Galion, Ohio....... 2 Garrettsville, Ohio. . . 4 Girard, Ohio. . 1 Grafton, Ohio.... 255 Grayville, lll..... 3 2 1 ) ) Great Valley, N. Y... 40 Green Castle, Ind...... 00 Greenville, Darke County, Ohio et) Greenville, Mercer County, Pa 75 Hamilton, Obio..... ; 90 A” 2.90 Hubbard, Ohio... Saar 1.50 | Haselton, Ohio..... ; 1.50 ar ae iy’ ee ee eo sez as . ee 2 i * at ee Tes 5 Ee a sa Tae x ‘ . = ah 4 % - x Pe 626 Indianopolis, Ind Springfield, Ohio 2.4 Sterling, Ohio 65. os hs ea hab berkees wae 3.50 et Oe oe gaan rose Bee ke eee bina 3.50 i iD, <7... . Lene danebobsusen 1.50 PL Meigs cbedavencekdesoannt 2.80 ec uccnpesee ee 2.00 TE: cidncevecescnsbebaee 3.50 I ce sn neh bnis 20 RN is uns cibwkseeanwalbee kt 3.00 Ne a ema ge 1.75 ie ee nie ae aie . 2.7% Cee TT i eee oe ham - 2 EL... on sts dann eoh on vauwe 2.90 TE Rape ee ree 2.40 | Urbano, Ohio 2.75 | Soe. ls Ente eae ee ee oe oe Versailles, Ohio....... euiake solehb ones 2.90 | ee ues seek ue aarem 3.50 | ie os ech skeen ahaa. seman ci 50 | DT ited ccd be abe eenestesyueane -o. BO ee Oe See oa 1 75 | Warren, M. 1.” Ohio. . obit 6h iemke 1.75 Washington, Daviess C ounty, ee eo 3.50 SO Le cen nwa ee bees hi 2.50 | West Middlesex, Pa.......... a nare nate 50 i... eer ich wae tee 1 Wy imcmenter, Td... <2... 5.005. saree cae he ae Lbiwaee keeae wk a Youngstown, Ohio -- a ~ The decisions for March of the Canadian | ment may also be secured by the insertion | the sale a condition was imposed that if | Customs Department fixed the rates of duty : and couplings, 30 per cent follow ing ; Indurated | |beams H, and Diamond drill boring rods | THE IRON AGE. April 26, 1888, of a right-and-left nut (turn-buckle) be- tween the clevis and the piston-rod, The bell may be easily removed by a slight modification of a familiar device. The spacing*of the holes K, K,, Ks, &c., shown in the bell-rod B, is equal to the stroke of the bell cylinder. Straps, J, are riveted to each of the supporting beams H, and are of such lenyth that, when the bell is seated, a pin may be inserted into the hole K, with the extremities resting on the straps. The weight of the bell is in |this manner supported independently of the beams D and E. The link C may be disconnected from the bell-rod and lowered to a point where its center is gpposite the hole K,; connection being made between the link and the rod, steam is admitted to the top of the cylinder and the bell raised until the hole K, is opposite the lower extremity of J, when the insertion of a pin, as before, relieves the beams D and E of the weight of the bell. The opera- THE ROBERTS CHARGING BELL. ated, and that, to secnre proper action, the center of suspension should move in a vertical line. Again, the high tempera- ture to which the bell-rod is, at times, exposed, renders it necessary that some adjustment of the bell t > its seat. These requirements are fulfilled in the design illustrated, in which D and E rep- resent the bell beams pivoted to the eye joined together at their extremities by the links C. From the centers of these links is suspended the bell A, by means of two rods, B. The steam 5 | cylinder G is connected to the bell beat n bal: anced be the weight F , attac hed to the beam E. evident. The dropping of the bell causes } tion, as described, is repeated until the bell is lifted clear of the hopper. This design for operating blast-furnace | bells, with the addition of an air-cushion | cylinder, connected to the beam E, has |been applied to the following furnaces: eeieuces SeeeEeees 3.00 | fibre ware, 35 per cent. ; iron inusic stands, Evorydale, Ohio.............+.++ 0 | 35 per cent. ; surgical instruments in cases, Jamestown, Pe sce eveavanintéiieeanee sees AY) 235 per cent. on case and 20 per cent. on i en .n be ahaueeanesesd oh 50) z . EE re nines Gisbseeanseeennuneee 00 | instruments; wooden pumps, with iron en cama tiee ...-..- 3.£0| handles and spouts, 35 per cent. Kent, Ohio.... .... late ered ee kee pane ee Kenton, isp shaden<é (in bsseee 2.75 —— a wna “ Koshi bases besnyes : New Device for Operating Blast-Fur- savittsburg, Does Seka ene eeneeee io e Foshomie, tele Bee Ree ei ie 1.50 nace Charging Bells.’ MN oe 0 on wens b esas senEnene 2.75 een meres pemmeneense Rte ReT > a BY FRANK CALVIN ROBERTS, C. E., PHILA- 4 ic é Cy, eae. 6004280022090 se . - se ams Rene eee 2.90 DELPHIA, PA. Oe < Re eee ‘neken ee —-- Ludlow Falls, Ohio..... ......-+-+++++- 2.90| “An examination of the various devices Lynn, Prag: ag ounty, Ind............ oy employed for operating blast-furnace i. : UIIIEEELES gio | charging bells has led me to design the Te Ls ce eee 2.00 | arrangement shown in the accompanying SEE, nas ahadesw ews nenkaesessnsod 9% | figure. In order to contribute to the Marion, Ohi0.... ....+..+.+seeeeeeeeeeees ~.70 | even distribution of stock, the movement Marshall, [ll............seeeeeeeeeeeeceee 3.50 of the bell should be in a vertical line, TR en ice sine Renee ekauat awe Tr : s * ict ee Cec cae aeeen esos eh ... 3,50 | Since any tendency to side thrust which oS eer 2.00 | may be induced operates to the detriment erence Ohi0. . 0... ose eee ee eens aa | of the even distribution of material. It is ERURAOUTET,, LORIO. 20.cccccccvccccccssesc 2.90 | EE ED. noon y see aenenseee Cans 2.90 | i Ls Sees hase ee eee 2.00} ‘ CE SO ee er 3.10 | @ I Ne nn debe ssaunedeensuek eee PD CDN. BEL. woccs cones asonsesant 3.50 | is 5 ce papeund sabhieenenss 3.00 | EE ccc, petesnntesadeness AP TED a. us bohubensanpesue Mee E Re rare eer 3.00 | PMR cc ceucces kpabeveseaeb shuns see 1.50 | OS OO OS ee 4.00 | North Vernon, Ind...... ..............-. 3.50] PP sects aaskneee Sennen ed 1.50 | i ee CM. 2, Dons dsonncunsiesnesss 3.30 ses dssuchnnsvchounebienkhesece se 3.50 Cons ccnnss Einewsseneenvess 2.00 | GEE vcccais she RERRESRES SS NewS ESS 2.40 ER Clase cus seudndden senkeswes 3.50 i CEN a> ccce benchesehueresudece 2.75 | Re ee ek ech 3.10 | EN ei eas cee shies che ohaw eee’ 3 50 eo cca pak SRO S Ree een 3.50 PAM. bas sedss<>es ens rash eonsenss 2.75 TE. et cbek eae ese ne 3.85 Pittsburgh, Pa.......... ae ea elon aes 80 | So. ata c euhaebas ees 2.00 ID ces Sexssneneeaneaxbeee bhben 2.00 | EN TE. Miusebiceecceuvan snes ssepbens 2.40 RT AC i eke bcbte ab enn 2,00 Rt Oh 8 ‘eatbuakbanes 2.00 | Richmond, Ind........... eucaksenen eee 2.4 ers rik bu hehavnn sheen 3.50 | ee Oe hs pe tab whee eae 5.00 | oe oc ica a nbescowaewense 2.65 i i. ebseeabenen mend 3.50 | Oe Ee 2.40 EM he. coats losseckuaaebwiens 3.50 an? =— Pee aes ae cee > x | also essential that a tight joint should be | une ducer tr cu. 1.50 | secured between the hopper ring and the Ne ee oe. cikee cba ik 1.50 | lip of the bell. This is possible when the | Shattuc, Ml...............ceseeeeveeecees 3.50 | bell, in returning after each discharge, ee MM. .-2+20ereeeres - s++se+ 4.00) seats itself instantly and firmly around its Shenwwee, Pa IIIT 2 738 | entire base. These requiremen.s render a ESRC eae ree ... 2.75|it highly desirable that any tendency to Re a gas ewan 2.00 | the vilution of the bell should be obvi- The operation of the device is | the centers of the link pins to travel in arcs | | of opposite directions—the point of sus- | pension between them maintaining a neutral | or vertical line. T he adjustment of the bell ” | to its seat is effected by varying the length connection to the bell | 80ld twice. 50 | beam D by means of a clevis, with adjust- | P? arcels and brought $8415, or a little less and | than $2.80 per share. lof the piston- rod ing nuts on the piston-rod above | below the seat of the clevis. This adjust- | * Read at the Boston meeti g of the American Instivute of Minin, Engineers. jand Iron Company, simple means should be provided for the Three 18 x 75 foot furnaces for the Ala- bama and Tennessee Coal and Iron Com- pany, Sheffield, Ala.; two 17 x 75 foot furnaces for the Sloss Steel and Iron Com- pany, Birmingham, Ala.; one 15 x 65 foot furnace for the New York and Perry Coal Shawnee, Ohio; two 12 x 60 foot furnaces for the Nashville | Steel, [ron and Charcoal Company, Nash- ville, Tenn.; one 12 x 60 foot furnace for the Decatur Land Improvement and Fur- nace Company, Decatur, Ala, én ae ——$ Shares in Gogebic iron ore companies do not sell as re adily as they did a twelve- month since. The following item from a Milwaukee source is of interest in this connection: ‘It took 50 minutes for Charles Shepherd to sell 2905 shares of Aurora stock in Glenway Maxon’s office thi8 afternoon for $3.47 per share. The stock had been given by John E. Burton to H. M. Mygatt as security for a promis- | sory note for $20, 000, dated November 15, at 6 per cent. interest. The stock was First it was put up in eight All but five shares were bought in by Mr. Mygatt. Before | any one would raise the bid for the lot he could have it. A gentleman who was un- derstood to be bidding for the Meschants’ April 26, 1888. Exchange Bank bid $3 per share for tie | The THE IRON AGE. lot. The bidding was then between him | the purpose of enabling any one to observe and Mr. Mygatt. Bids of 1 cents additional carried the price up to $3.47, when it fell to H. Mygatt at that figure. The attendance at the sale was large.” cent and em The Curtis Balanced Steam Trap. The Curtis Regulator Company, of Bos- ton, Mass., have recently put on the mar- ket a modified and greatly improved form of the Edwards steam trap (see The Iron Age; September 1, 1887), and are selling it under the name of the Curtis balanced trap. The engravings which we annex, and for which we are indebted to Mr. Amos Aller, 109 Liberty street, New York, who is the agent for New York, New Jersey and Con- necticut, fully explain the new design. The pot is cylindrical, as in the old form, but has rounded ends, and is made amply strong for 150 pounds pressure. Asin the new design of Curtis’s return trap, the whole working mechanism is attached to a! PwANOLER, 5 | without guess-work, if the trap is working correctly, as when the gauge shows the water to be several inches above the dis charge-valve it is impossible that any steam can esc ape. The uses of the we need scarcely point out, bility being of a wide range. Underbilling. Report of the Interstate Commission, trap its adapta Commerce From a report growing out of the inves tigations of the Interstate Commerce Com mission on underbilling we quote the fol- lowing: The attention of the commission has been attracted in various ways by al- legations that the devic known as ‘‘un- derbilling ” is being largely employed by shippers and carriers as a method by which a less compensation is paid by one person than by another for a like and contempor Fig. 1.—Sectional Perspective. NEW BALANCED plate at the side. It will be seen that| when this plate is removed it brings away the float and valve with it, which can be taken, altogether, to any suitable place to be examined or repaired, leaving the pot in place and connected. The advantage of this arrangement is at once apparent. The detail view, Fig. 2, explains the valve mechanism, showing the valve body cast with a flange to bolt it to the cover, with double seats, a passage over the top, connecting the outlets of the two seats, and an inlet from the trap to the seats. There is also an independent passage from the inlet to the outlet of the trolled by a stop-valve. to meet cases of accident, and should the discharge-valve remain closed continue with the work and open the small valve; by so doing the water can be drained off until such time as the cause of the diffi- culty is ascertained. The valve is essen- tially the same in construction as in the valve, con This is provided old form of trap, being shifted, or opened | and closed by the motion of the float-rod in an inclined slot. As the float drops the stem rests against the incline and is pushed laterally by it, forcing the valve to its seat. As the float rises the incline forces the valve open, while the slight rotary motion its seat. STEAM TRAP, MADE BY THE CURTIS |aneous service. It became the duty of the commission to investigate the subject, and such an investigation has accordingly been had. Time was not available for jexamination of the question in all parts of | same of the valve prevents it from sticking on| which the jing most the country. * * * whatever, and the fact to be, that an immense amount of traftic has been carried by the railroads of the country during the last six months, and to some extent during the entire since the passage of the act to regulate commerce, the tonnage or weight of which was underbilled. There is no doubt This has not been confined to any particular road or group of roads, but has been very generally prevalent in various parts of the United States, and even upon lines which at the same time were protest- emphatically their absolute conformity to the requirements of the law. The practice is eee ally condemned | by every railroad official and traftic man- | ager whom the commission has ap-| | proached upon the subject, and they have been very many, most of the and Western time the fact including the officers of leading lines in the Central States. gut at the same cannot be denied that the lines have admitted traffic upon billing was short, and that iia water-gauge is introduced for REGULATOR a full} commission finds the | period , 126.000. and at 20.000. have known, that such was the case. Notwithstanding the excuses offered, the officers must have been negligent. The inspection bureaus of the trunk lines and other roads are commended, but the com mission will not accept this device as a sub stitute for the requirement that every carrier be responsible for the correctness of the weight and classification of the freight received, so far as the same can be practi- cally ascertained The Commissioner then quotes from the evidence: Sixty-one cars from the Michigan Centrab were weighed at Black Rock in February, 1888; of these the billing of 57 short, in all 273,350 pounds, and 4 cars were overbilled, in all 4100 pounds. Of the cars underbilled the errors upon 20 ex- ceeded 5000 pounds each, and on 4 ex ceeded 20.000 pounds each: while on 18 the errors were less than 1000 pounds each, in which case they are disregarded by the inspectors, a margin being neces- sary for variations of scales, differences in weight of cars when dry, when saturated cars Was Fig. »? —Detail of Valve. COMPANY, BOSTON, MASS. | with moisture, when loaded with snow, o: |when not thoroughly cleaned, as well as |for othcr reasonable corrections and pos- | sible minor errors. Forty cars from the New York Centrat | westbound were weighed at Suspension Bridge in February, and were found short, in all 109,280 pounds, or 8 per cent. of the total weight as way-billed. For example, a carload of iron billed at 32,000 pounds x * from Albany to Detroit was found to weigh 42,400 pounds; a carload of salt from Rochester to Chicago, billed at 24,000 pounds, was found to weigh 32,350 pounds. Other underbilling was in ‘car loads of potatoes, cider, apples, glass, &e. Numerous examples are given of the most flugrant eastbound underbilling, weighing 36,000 pounds being billed lumber weighing 435,000 In all some 59 carloads of grain were shipped from Toledo to various points, of which the average underbilling was over 12,000 pounds per car, consider- ably more than 25 per cent. of the actuab weight being thrown off. * Another cause of underbilling is found in the active competition for traffic, under the stress of which a vast number of soliciting agents are employed, officers are corn whose found not only on the corners jusually they have known, or easily might) of the most expensive streets of every city, Ste 1H, at ie + . ' yy? , ¥ 4 > ns WIRY ie De oh Fees < ¥ Lo ¥ a5. * we lL ee ee ee We wet baat er =e aes + aw ae ee pre! eso ee BAS 2 but in the rural communities as well, and who represent not only the carriers directly, but also various so-called ‘ lines”’—red, white or blue, as the case may be—whose only interest is to obtain traffic; who have little responsibility of their own or to their ultimate employers, and whose object in life is necessarily to make a record of suc- cess in securing business which shall war- rant the continuance of their employment and of their pay. All this gilded adver- tisement and persistent solicitation in the | The busi- } ness exists and the public service of trans- énd is paid for by the public. portation must be done, whether or not any agent intervenes to help along the contract. * * Without the most rigid supervision this system cannot fail to be | dangerous. When soliciting agents are compensated by the payment of commis- | sions the danger is largely increased, The | division of a commission between the soliciting agent of a railroad or of a line and his customer obviously operates to give the shipper a lower rate of freight than the published schedule, and as the matter is within the control of the agent’s | employer the carrier which permits it is responsible for the violation of law in- volved. A highly reputable merchant testified that he had been approached with a sug- gestion that one of his employees might be taken upon the salary list of a carrier if his firm would give their business to the road, A letter was produced, written by a shipper to another carrier, asking to be | placed in some such position. * * The pretense of an employment or agency would not for a moment protect the carrier. There is reason for a belief that a critical inspection of pay rolls, vouchers and sub- vouchers by the responsible officials of many roads would disclose to them a startling recklessness on the part of their subordinates. One shipper was told that, while no rebates could be given upon ship- ments after April 5, 1887, if he would’ furnish a list of 100 cars shipped prior to that time they could be taken up for re- bating, upon new freight being received of like amount. * * South Omaha pack- ing houses have underbilled lard and provisions eastbound and have had the refrigerator cars returned from Chicago private sidings billed and carded as empty, when they were, in fact, loaded with nails, | lumber, salt and other supplies needed at the packing houses. The Western Rail- way Association have got the packing Louse firms to sign an agreement allowing the roads to inspect their (the shippers’) books, and this agreement has been in force since March 1, but the commission hesitates to accept it as a substitute for the performance by the carriers of their duty under the law to see that each shipper pays a just and exact amount. The following instances of deceptive classification were found at Chicago and St. Louis on a single day: Correct | Description given classifi- by Articles. cation. consignor. Class. Pickles in glass... 1 | Barrels pickles,... 4 Sassafrass root .. 1 | Tanner’s bark .... 3 Bird cages....... D1 | Box nested tin.... 2 a (ee) PRE abn bbeenetes 1 Acetic acid..... D1 | Vinegar..... cee Groceries........ 1 | Dried fruit... 4 Chewing gum. DRE. iin a nisacaes 3 Glass bottles 2 | Crockery......... 4 Glassware .. Earthenware . 4 Cotton bags 1 | Burlaps.. .. 4 Hardware . 2 | Lron bolts... 4 Printed matter... 1 | Printing paper... 3 Looking-glass plate 1 | Window glass. 4 Drugs | | Earth paint..... 4 \ car billed as ‘‘ wooden-ware” was destroyed and a claim for $1800 was pre- sented, enumerating a large number of articles of merchandise, including brushes, drugs, stationery, and even a parlor organ. Boxes of stationery have been billed as THE IRON AGE. | included one or two ink-erasers, &c. * * * | This practice has assumed such propor- | tions that all of the ‘‘ house-freight ” re- | ceived at the larger Western cities is now | opened and examined. Delay and an- | hoyance result, but the increased revenue seems to justify the carriers. It is not the desire or the purpose of the commission to relax in the least degree | commerce which hold carriers to a rigid responsibility for putting an end to all unjust discriminations and all undue or unreasonable preferences. It is the duty of the carriers to permit nothing whatever those requirements of the act to regulate | April 26, 1888. ating steam in said boilers, and no brace or stay-bolt used in a marine boiler will be al- lowed to be placed more thon 84 inches from center to center. In allowing the strain on a screw stay-bolt, the diameter of the same shall be determined by the diameter at the bottom of the thread. Section 9. Third example, paragraphs 3 and 4: Paragraph 3. Lap-welded flues used in | boilers carrying 100 pounds of steam or less, any flue over 10 feet and not over 15 feet in length shall have two wrought-iron rings attached to the flue externally, equi- distant between the ends of the flue, and which c