The Iron Age 1890-05-01: Vol 45

‘THE TuHurRspDAy, May 1, 1890. IRON AGE Cylinder Boring and Facing Machine. At the Louisville shops of the Louis- ville & Nashville Railroad the machine we illustrate has been in practical operation for some time boring 20-inch cylinders, 83} inches long, counter bore 24 inches long, finishing them complete with flanges faced and turned in less than seven hours each; this is very rapid work when the composition of the metal for cylinders is considered, they are made of 2600 pounds of old car-wheels, chill and all, tempered with 800 pounds of No. 1 charcoal iron, making a very hard, close mixture. With or- dinary iron that is often used, the time can be reduced very materially. They do not use facing arms, but place a side tool in regular cutter-head and face off with that. The bed, housings and platen of the machine are very heavy and an 8-inch bar is used, same being driven by powerful gears 44-inch and 5-inch face, back-geared 36 to 1 and driven by a 5-inch belt on cones, the largest of which 1s 30 inches in with buckle-plate, making a tight floor, with the railroad tracks laid as ballast. This arrangement, it is said, obviates all noise and the danger of frightening horses sn the park. How to Win a Fortune, Andrew Carnegie, in an article pub- lished in the New York Tribune, has written entertainingly on the great ques- tion, how to achieve success. We quote from it the following passages: The total absence of the college gradu- ate in every department of affairs should be deeply weighed. I have inquired and searched everywhere in all quarters, but find scarcely a trace of him. Nor is this surprising. The prize takers have too many years the start of the graduate; they have entered for the race invariably in their teens—in the most valuable of all the years for learning anything—from 14 to 20; while the college student has been schools who left theory at school for prac- tice in the works while yet in their teens. Walker, Illinois Steel Company, Chicago; Schwab, Edgar Thomson Works; Potter, Homestead Steel Works, Pittsburgh, are types of the new product—not one of them yet thirty. Most of the chiefs of departments under them are of the same class. Such young educated men have one important advantage over the appren- ticed mechanic—they are open-minded and without prejudice. Thescientific attitude of mind, that of the searcher after trutn, renders them receptive of new ideas. Great and invaluable as the working mechanic has been, and is, and will al- ways be,yet he is disposed to adopt narrow views of affairs, for he is generally well up in years before he comes into power. It is different with the scientifically trained boy; he has no prejudices, and goes in for the latest invention or newest method, no matter if another has discovered it. He adopts the plan that will beat the record and discards his own devices or ideas, which the working mechanic can rarely be LEED’S CYLINDER BORING AND FACING MACHINE. diameter, and smallest 18 inches in diam- eter, with five changes. The feed is changeable by placing change gears sim- ilar to lathes for cutting screws. Distance between bearings for bar to revolve in is 4 feet 6 inches, but can be made to meet any requirements. Table or platen is 36 inches long with suitable T slots for securing the work. From top of platen to center of bar is 174 inches. At the end of the machine, forming a part of cone shaft support, is a sheave to take the weight of bar when drawn out to place “jiteler on platen. The table or platen has a sufficient amount of adjustment and is operated by a screw 2} inches in diameter, by a crank from either front or rear end of the machine. Pedrick & Ayer, of Philadelphia, the builders of this machine, furnish when desired four adjustable saddles to receive cylinders, which have movable parts, operated by screws and wrench to facilitate placing cylinders in position for boring. When once set machine is all right for other cylinders of same size. The new railroad bridge just completed in Philadelphia for the Reading Railroad is known as a deck-plate girder structure, the total length of the iron work being 675 feet, divided into gight spans. The superstructure is from the Pencoyd Iron Works. The deck-plate girder over the west drive in Fairmount Park is covered learning a little about the barbarous and | induced to do. Let no one, therefore, petty squabbles of a far-distant past, or| underrate the advantage of education; only trying to master languages which are dead, such.knowledge as seems adapted for life upon another planet than this, as far as business affairs are concerned—the future captain of industry is hotly en- gaged in the school of experience, obtain- ing the very knowledge required tor his future triumphs. men training for the learned professions, but the almost total absence of the graduate | from high position in the business world seems to justify the conclusion that col- lege education, as it exists, is fatal to suc- cess in that domain. The graduate has not the slightest chance, entering at 20, against the boy who swept the office, or who begins as shipping clerk at 14. The facts prove this. There has come, however, in recent years, the polytechnic and scientific school, or course of study, for boys, which is be- ginning to show most valuable fruits in the manufacturing branch. The trained mechanic of the past, who has, as we have seen, hitherto carried off most of the honors in our industrial works, is now to meet a rival in the scientifically educated youth, who will push him hard—very hard I do not speak of the | effect of college education upon young | j | | j it must be education adapted to the end in view and must give instruction bearing upcn a man’s career. Thus in the financial, commercial and mercantile branches of business, as in manufacturing, we have to ask, not what place the mechanic and practical men oc- cupy, but what these two types have left for others throughout the entire business world. Very little, indeed, have they left. In the industrial department the trained mechanic is the founder and manager of famous concerns. In the mercantile, com- mercial and financial it is the poor office- boy who has proved to be the merchant _—- in disguise, who surely comes into‘ is heritage. They are the winning classes. It is the poor clerk and the work- ing mechanic who rule in every branch of affairs, without capital, without family influence, and without college education. It is they who have risen to the top and taken command. Neither capital, nor in- fluence, nor college-learning, nor all com- bined have proved able to contend success- fully against the energy and indomitable will which spring from all conquering poverty. The young practical man of to-day, indeed. Three of the largest steel manu-}| working at the bench or counter, to whom facturing concerns in the world are al- ready under the management of three young educated men—students of these the fair goddess, Fortune, has not yet beckoned, may be disposed to conclude that it is impossible to start business in ANE ey | | | 716 THE IRON AGE, May 1, 1890 this age. There is something in that. It is, no doubt, infinitely more difficult to start a new business of any kind to-day than it was. But it is only a difference in | something exceptionally valuable in him. form, not in substance. It is infinitely | It should be the effort of every corporation easier for a young practical man of ability | to induce its principal workers to invest to obtain an interest in existing firms than | their savings in its shares. Only in this} Plans have been prepared for a 75-ton it has ever been. The doors have not | way can corporations hope to cope success- | furnace and a muck bar mill to be built at closed upon ability; on the contrary, they | fully with individual manufacturers who | Covington, by the Covington Improvement swing easier upon their hinges. Capital | have already discovered one of the valu-| Company, which corporation have recently is not requisite. Family influence, as|able secrets of unusual success, viz., to| increased their capital stock to §800,000. before, passes for nothing. Real ability, | share their profits with those who aremost| An English syndicate has taken options the capacity for doing things, never was | instrumental in producing them. Theday|on large tracts of mineral lands near so eagerly searched for as now, and never|of the absent capitalist stockholder, who | Lawyer's Station, in Campbell County, and commanded such rewards, takes no interest in the operation of the|it is stated that they will develop them The law which concentrates the leading | works beyond the receipt of his dividend, | during the coming summer. industries and commercial, mercantile and | is certainly passing away. Thedayofthe| The Virginia Steel and Iron Company financial affairs in a few great factories or | valuable active worker in the industrial | have just completed a contract with the firms contains within itself another law| world is coming. Let, therefore, no| Radford Land and Improvement Company, not less imperious. These vast concerns | young, practical workman be discouraged. | to build rolling-mill and two iron furnaces, cannot be successfully conducted by sal-|On the contrary, let him be cheered. | already reported in this correspondence. aried employees. No great business of | More and more it is becoming easier for} At Lynchburg, last week, the Rivermont any kind can score an unusually brilliant |the mechanic or practical man of real | Company were incorporated, with a capital and permanent success which is not in the | ability to dictate terms to his employers. | stock of not less than $500,000, and not hands of practical men pecuniarily inter- | Where there was one avenue of promotion, | over $5,000,000. This company proposes ested in its results. In the industrial| there are now a dozen. The enormous|to construct an iron bridge from Main world the days of corporation seem likely | concern of the future is to divide its| street to Daniel's Hill, and have secured an to come to an end. It has been necessary | profits, not among hundreds of idle capi-| option on about 5000 acres of land in that for me to watch closely most of my life|talists who contribute nothing to its | locality. the operations of great establishments | success, but among hundreds of its ablest| It is stated that negotiations are pend- owned by hundreds of absent capitalists | employees, upon whose abilities and ex-|ing for the removal of a Chicago car and conducted by salaried officers. Con-|ertions success greatly depends. The| works which employs 2500 hands. This trasted with these, I believe that the part- | capitalist absent stockholder is to be re-| company also contemplate establishing a nership conducted by men vitally inter-| placed by the able and present worker. furnace and rolling.mill, and a foundry to ested and owning the works will make make car wheels. The officers of this satisfactory dividends when the corpora- company are G. B. McLane, president; P. tion is embarassed and scarcely knows J. Otey, vice-president; J. W. Ivey? upon which side the balance is to be at the treasurer. i end of a year’s operations. The great} The American Bridge Works, of Roar-| The Augusta Mining and Investmer® » dry goods houses that interest their most | oke, have received a contract from the|Company, with a capital stock betweeu! capable men in the profits of each depart-| Norfolk and Western Railroad Company | $50,000 and $500,000, were organized last ment succeed, when those fail that en-| for the construction of three iron draw| week at Ferrol, and will develop miner: ‘ deavor to work with salaried men only. | bridges. These works have enough busi-| properties, and may possibly erect an ir a Even in the management of our great | nesson hand to keeprunningat their fullest | plant. The president is C. A. Avery, ¢ hotels it is found wise to take into part-| capacity for the next six or eight months. | New York City; John Paulson, of Mis 4- nership the principal men. In every branch| The new foundry and machine shops on | apolis, is vice-president; A. 5S. Upsom of of business this law is at work, and con-| Lynn street, in Danville, are nearly com- | Cleveland, Ohio, is treasurer, and W. WD. cerns are prosperous, generally speaking, | pleted and will soon open up business. Moore, secretary. — ca just in proportion as they succeed ininter-| The stock for the proposed factory for} The iron mines in the vicinity of Guas- esting in the profits a larger and larger| the manufacture of specialties in steel and | gow will in the future be developed by proportion of their ablest workers. Co-| iron has all been subscribed in Danville, | the Rockbridge Company, of that place, operation in this form is fast coming in all| and work on the new factory will soon|a lease which the Virginia Iron and Nail great establishments. The manufacturing | begin. Works, of Lynchburg, had on the property business that does not have practical manu-| A four-story annex is being built to the | having run out. facturing partners had better supply the | machine shops and foundry ot James Cle-| The Virginia Coal and Iron Comy) ay, omission without delay, and probably the | land & Sons, at Lynchburg. at Big Stone Gap, intend building e very men required are the bright young} The Monticello Iron and Improvement | ovens. : mechanics who have distinguished them-| Company have been organized at Char-| . The Harrisonburg Mineral and Devdlop- selves while working for a few dollars per | lottesville. David Harmon, Jr., is presi- | ment Company are contemplating the pur- day or the youths from the polytechnic | dent; W. O. Watson, vice-president; W. | chase of 3000 acres of iron land near school. Instances constantly occvr where | J. Kieller, secretary and treasurer. Harrisonburg. the corporation unwilling to interest a| There is considerable muttering among| A new enterprise to be established at promising practical man loses his services| the ironworkers at the Portsmbuth Navy | Big Springs Depot is a machine shop and and sees an interest given him by some} Yard, and the conviction seems to be | novelty works. able individual manufacturer or com-| strengthening that the steel works com-| Contracts have been given out for the mercial firm who are constantly on the| panies are ‘standing in” with outside | agricultural implement works to be erected lookout for that indispensable article—| shipbuilders and trying to injure the repu-| at Iron Gate, by the Farmers’ Alliance ability. It has not hitherto been the/|tation of this yard by delaying the con-|Company. There are to be four buildings, practice for corporations properly to re-| struction of the new ships and making the|a brick foundry, 150 x 50 feet; machine ward these embryo managers, but this| Government work the most expensive. | shop, 80 x40 feet; wood-working depart- they must come to, if they are to stand| Your correspondent simply reports the| ment, 40 x 40 feet, and a stor ware- the competition of works operated by those | case as it comes to him. It is the present | house, 80 x 40, each two stories in hight. interested in the profits. feeling of the navy-yard workmen on this| A 150-ton iron furnace will probably be Corporations, on the other hand, asI de-| subject. A large number of workmen en-| erected at Gate City by the Gate City sire to point out to practical young men, | gaged on the iron ships now in course of | Land Company, recently organized with have one advantage. Their shares are sold} construction at Portsmouth have been|J. M. Barker, president; I. P. Kane, freely. If a worker wishes to become in-| discharged within the past week, in con-| treasurer; J. L. Kelley, secretary. terested in any branch of manufacturing in| sequence of the delay of the con-| An iron furnace is likely to be built at America to-day, the path is easy. For $50/|tractors in delivering material suitable| Big Stone Gap by the East Big Stone or $100 he can become a stockholder. It|to the incipient work. It is alleged|Gap Improvement Company, recently is becoming more and more common for|that the contractors send all sorts of | organized, with a capital stock of $500, - workers so to invest their savings. There | material except what has been ordered|000, and of which company J. B. F. are many well-managed corporations whose |and is necessary for the first part| Mills is president and W. T. Miller sec- assets and prestige enable them to earn|of the work on the ships, and what| retary. satisfactory returns, and no better evi- | plates are sent as first required are of ir-| It is stated that a plant for the manu- dence of capacity and of good judgment | regular sizes and have to be thrown out. | facture of steel enger coaches will be can a workman give to his employers than | It is said that material is constantly coming | established at Pulaski City by the F. H. that furnished by the presence of his name | in that will not be used for two years yet. | Foster Mfg. Company. upon the books as a shareholder in the | In a conversation with your ae ty ent| The Basic City Mining, Mfg. and Land concern. one of the iron bosses expressed the hope | Company are negotiating for the establish- Workingmen have a prejudice against | that The Iron Age would give the subject | ment, at Basic City, of rolling-mills. showing their employers that the wages | editorial attention, as this apparently in-| The annual report, just published, of they earn Suffice io enable them to save;|tentional delay on the part of the steel| President Kimball of the Norfolk and but this is a mistake. The saving work-! contractors has already thrown out of! Western Railroad Company shows that man is the valuable workman, and the wise employer regards the fact that he does save as prima facie evidence that there is apenas a large number of ironworkers and promises to deprive an additional force of the means of earning their living at least without pulling up and shipping ee and their families to other elds. VIRGINIA IRON NOTES. May 1, 1890 THE IRON AGE. 717 the mineral traffic of the past year has in- creased 476,342 tons, while the coal and coke traffic has undergone a similar in- crease—353,453 tons. The operation of the Roanoke Machine Works, in which this road is largely interested, returned a net revenue of $17,462. F. J. Chapman, of Salem, has secured options on iron properties in Pittsylvania County, and it is probable that a develop ment company will be organized. EE Lathe for Heavy Work. In designing a lathe it is of the utmost importance that the body or bed of the lathe, to which all other parts are at- tached, and which must sustain all load the lathe may be called upon to carry, to- gether with the strain caused by the power exerted in doing the work of every nature the lathe will swing, should be made of ample strength, the metal properly dis- tributed to carry the strain, and with bearing surfaces sufficient to sustain the wear to the best advantage. This idea was closely followed in designing the lathe here shown, which was built by F. E. Reed, of Worcester, Mass., to do un- usually heavy work in the shops of the} Westinghouse Air Brake Company, and which, taken as a whole, is the strongest and most powerful lathe of this swing that has been made up to this time, and the same can be safely said of the other three sizes furnished on this order. The following sizes were furnished: 21-inch swing complete engine lathes, 16- | ire swing complete engine lathes, 22-iuch s nog turret lathes, part compound tur- | rand part plain turrets, a large number | oi ‘ach, amounting in all to over 200) lathes of these four kinds. The bed of| th: lathe is of unusual depth for a lathe of . '-inch swing, and is well tied. The bea g surfaces on which the rest moves are ch larger than usually made for a lath: »f 21-inch swing. The head stock | yee | | a a r th Ee ened n eoparny TWENTY-ONE INCH SWING bearing on the bed of 254 inch and is of ample strength to resist any strain the power in the head will carry, without spring or chatter. The tool block is plain and has a bearing the entire length of the rest. The feed works are driven by a/| company are now erecting a large concen- spline in the leading screw, which in turn | trating plant, intending to handle 800 to is driven by gears from the head, the re- | 1000 tons of crude ore per day. The plans versing motion being in the head stock. | for the new works have been made by a centage of sulphur. The process consists in reducing the crude ore to about No. 16 mesh, by means of breakers and Cornish rolls, after which it passes over magnetic separators to effect the concentration. The THE HARVARD PUMP REGULATOR. Pittsburgh engineer, S. Stutz. The foun- dations of the buildings are already up and part of the machinery is ordered. It is the intention to have the plant in operation before the end of the season. The cross feed to the tool block and the feed of the rest on the bed are each driven by a patent friction, and the feeds being independent of each other, 1t is impossible to break the gearing driving the feed works by starting one feed while the other is in operation. — oo In the northern part of New York the Magnetic Iron Ore Company own a large body of ore at Little River, St. Lawrence Pump Regulator. This regulator is designed to be placed upon the line of pipe used to convey the water of condensation from drying and heating coils or radiators to the boiler. The accompanying cut shows the manner of connecting, returns and suction, and the method of regulating the pump. The float or bucket is a valuable feature of this regulator, as being made of cast iron and submerged, it is sensitive enough to maintain a water level within 3 inches of a given hight; unlike a ball float, it cannot collapse, and as it is guided in its move- ments it cannot get out of place. The long water-glasses, provided with heavy fittings, allow the water level to be ob- served at all times. The tank, or cham- ber, is provided with a drip to allow of drawing off the water if so desired. In the construction of this regulator cast iron is used in the chamber, dome, bottom and legs, and the automatic top is furnished with a shaft, inside lever, stuffing box, gland, and bearing of composition, while the outside levers are of wrought iron. This regulator is made by the Wainwright Mfg. Company, of Boston., Mass. — rr A Western car builder says that thou- sands of cars are being ordered by the transportation lines. He knows of one order for 10,000 cars for the Pennsylvania lines west of Pittsburgh. Last week the Union Pacific ordered 5000, the Missouri Pacific 3000, the Baltimore and Ohio 4000, the Hocking Valley and the Ingalls syndi- cate 2000 each, and the New York Cen- COMPLETE ENGINE LATHE. is large and strong, with bearings for the County, called the Benson Mines. The ore spindle made of sero Babbitt metal. ' is a good magnetite, running on an aver- he spindle is made of crucible steel, with | age about 36 per cent. of iron, but rather a front bearing 34-inch diameter and 64-| high in silica. The latter may, however, inch long, and is strongly back-geared. | be easily eliminated by the use of proper The cone pulley is large in diameter and is | machinery, as has been demonstrated with driven by a 3-inch'belt. The tail or back/a small experimental plant. The results head is of ample dimensions for a lathe| obtained have shown the silica down to of this swing, and carries a spindle of! about 2 per cent., with an increase of iron large diameter. The rest or carriage hasa'to 68 per cent., and but a very small per- ; en SS tral 3000. This seems to show the gen- eral advance in railroad interests over two or three years ago, when an order for 1000 cars was considered a tremendously large one. The quality of steel and iron used in car building has been improved, in- creasing the capacity of freight cars by 300 per cent. While many of the old ten-ton cars are still in use, the majority of the specifications call for 30-ton cars. 718 Street Railway Pole. Probably no field of electric application has grown as fast and met with such an en- thusiastic reception as the electric railway. While the storage battery is the ideal sys- tem of propulsion, it is as yet ideal. All the work of importance thus far done, has been with the overhead wire. The objec- tions and prejudices that were at first aroused against this, have in many places been lived down and overcome. Yet there are those who still find objections to the overhead system and anything that tends to lessen them will be hailed with pleasure by street railroad men. We take pleasure in bringing to the at- tention of our readers the new Milliken Patent Pole, for which Lemuel Wm. Ser- rell, of 115 Broadway, N. Y., is the sole agent. The poles are formed of four sec- tions of iron of the Pheenix shape, riveted together with the tie plates, placed equi- distant, and lacing inserted at the point of greatest strain, a taper is given in the di- rection of greatest strain, as shown in the cut of the pole for the side of the street, making a pole having the greatest possible | strength for the weight of maternal used. Sectional Plan. | They are very light, durable and cheap and being open present a very pleasing ap- pearance to the eye, while the inside can be painted and preserved indefinitely from the action of the air. The pole was recently tested at Post & McCord’s Bridge Works, in Brooklyn, and the pull at the top measured by a Fair- banks’ dynamometer, with a pull of 800 pounds the deflection was less than 4 inches. The deflection took place in a regular curve and showed no irregular bending as the pipe pole does at the joints. A block and tackle was then attached at the upper end of the pole and the building and eight men pulled on the rope, un- fortunately the concrete was not quite dry and the pole moved bodily in the earth, the top being moved some 6 feet toward the building, breaking the concrete up in lumps. When taken out of the ground the permanent set was so small that the pole was readily straightened in jaws. The center pole for use between the tracks, has its longest diameter parallel with the rails; and when arranged with an ornamental top and lamps, makes a very artistic pole. The cross-arms can be made separate from the pole if desired so for shipment, and bolted on after it is set in the ground. A cast-iron bumper to keep wagon wheels from striking the pole is provided at the bottom. This is made in two halves, bolted together on the inside, and can be filled with concrete, as shown in the cut, if desired. At present a num- ber of these poles are being made for the Jersey City and Bergen Railway Company, THE IRON AGE. who recently closed a contract for the equipment of their lines with the Thomson- Houston Company. —— Ocean Freights Declining. Ocean freights from New York have steadily declined for two months, and are now demoralized, with little gag of early recovery. For Liverpool there is practically no freight offering and, in fact, May 1, 1890 nage the world over, and consequently full rates were demanded and paid. This run of prosperity, however, had the effect of influencing its own destruction, for the shipbuilders were filled with orders, and more tonnage was placed upon the market than was needed. This at least is the ex- planation that is offered for the market's weakness by representative men in the shipping trade in this city. ‘‘ The market is simply suffering from an over-supply of tonnage,’ , said one of these gentlemen on Sr Se Oe ee ee ee ee a £ ae ae” = Ft ae = at---— ae STREET RAILWAY POLE. very little obtainable, and steamship agents show a disposition to accept any figures rather than let an opposition boat get the merchandise. demands of 54d per bushel of grain. Saturday last they were only asking 13d. What precipitated this collapse more than anything else, it is urged, was the a advance in the prices of wheat, corn an oats, which stopped the export demand in this direction. Until about the middle of February last the market for ocean freights was a buoy- ant one. For fully two years shipping property had proven a profitable invest- ment; there was a good demand for ton- On February 15 the regular | steamship companies were firm in their | On | remains to be seen.” Saturday, ‘‘ and I should not be surprised in the least if we were not treated to another dose of low rates such as we had in ’87 and the early part of 88. Whether the reactioa will influence the shipyards er The Merritt Wrecking Company have taken a contract to raise 700 tons of steel rails from the schooner James Carlton, sunk twenty-five miles off Cape Charles, in ninety feet of water. The Thomas Iron Company, of Hoken- dauqua, have declared a stock dividend of 25 per cent. tea THE IRON AGE. 719 from east to west. Plaintiffs also allege that defendants represented that they had a The accompanying cut shows a new|contract with the Chicago and Atlaatic, shear recently brought out by the New| the Michigan Central, and the Chicago Doty Mfg. Company, of Janesville, Wis., | and Calumet Terminal railroads by which for beveling iron and steel plates. The! the companies agreed to carry freight to May 1, 1890 Beveling Shear. BEVELING SHEAR. machine consists of the main frame, in {Chicago for $3.50 per car, and that the which works a lever operated by a cam, | contract was for 20 years. Should the which is mounted on a shaft driven by the | plaintiffs locate at East Chicago it was pulleys shown, through powerful gearing. | agreed that plaintiffs were to have advan- The cutting knives are at the end of the lever. The lower knife is stationary. The | motion of the machine is controlled by a} clutch and lever, shown at the side. Un- like the ordinary plate planer, this machine will bevel plates of almost any form, such as throat sheets, the flanges of domes and | sheets bent to a circle, as well as straight | sheets. It will also bevel ship plates of any curve. It is a convenient tool for re- pair work, as the operator can trim a piece of plate to any desired shape. There is no tendency on the part of the plate to tip, while side motion is prevented by the stop shown on the side of the machine. This mac.ine is made in two sizes: A will bevel plates 4 inch thick and less, and B plates 1 inch thick and less. | nm An Important Suit.—A declaration was filed in the United States Circuit Court, at Chicago, on the 25th ult., in the suit of the C. A. Treat Mfg. Company, of Missouri, against the Standard Steel and Iron Company, calling for $100,000 dam- ages in an action on the case, It sets up that July 1, 1888, defendants were the owners of 1000 acres of land, comprising East Chicago, Ind. In order to have manufacturers settle there Joseph T. Tor- rence, president of the defendants, made representations that his company had offered free gifts of portions of the lands on which to establish. On condition that plaintiffs would move from Hanni- bal, Mo., to East Chicago and erect a companies charged plaintiffs the regular rate of $10 acar. For these reasons plain- tiffs seek to recover the above damages, The importance of this suit extends be- yond the mere relations of these two com- panies. Quite a number of other manu- facturing concerns are now located at East Chicago with the same understand- ing as to freight rates. A Tumbling Barrel. The tumbling barrel illustrated in the accompanying engraving was designed by the E. Covert Mfg. Company, of Farmer Village, N. Y., for use in their own works. It proved so successful in comparison with the usual forms of tumbling barrels that it was decided to place it on the market. The barrel is egg-shaped and it has a sec- tion of exhaust pipe connected to the hol- low journal at one end and a tight and loose pulley at the other end. No gearing whatever is used. It is provided with a sectional lining of hard iron, which can be easily replaced when worn out. For this egg-shaped barrel three special advan- tages are claimed: It gives the contents a double motiou or action—from ends to center, and from side to center—causing a thorough mixing and rubbing together of all the parts contained therein, cleaning and polishing the contents better and quicker than any other form of barrel. It requires less power, as the end motion causes the contents at ends to tumble into the center, because of assuming the per- pendicular earlier than those parts at the side. It runs with less noise, because the contents are kept moving in two directions at the same time, doing away entirely with the intermittent motion so noticeable in other forms; doing away with gearing also lessens the noise. nn Thomas D. Jones, an employee of the Tamarack and Osceola Copper Mfg. Com- pany, at Dollar Bay, Mich., has succeeded in rolling a cent of 1889 to 75 inches length and finch width. It is so thin that it cannot be gauged with ordinary in- EXHAUST TUMBLING BARREL. building of sufficient capacity to manu-| tage of the railroad agreement. Upon these | struments. The cent is in the possession of facture 200 railway car-wheels a day, the| representations plaintiffs aver that they defendant company agreed to give two lots | built the required building at an expense of for such structure and also give a strip of | $65,000 and began operations. When they land 300 feet wide and 1200 feet in length | began to ship their freight the railroad John Clement, of Dollar Bay, who offers to send it to the office of The Iron Age should any one challenge the accuracy of the report. 720 THE IRON AGE. May 1, 1890 Mining Plant Operated by Water-|® with a steam plant. Wheel. The utilization of the mountain streams and mining districts for the compression of air for driving rock drills, aud for hoisting by direct connection with a water- wheel or through the medium of hoisting - engines, is becoming a matter of economic necessity where there are possibilities for such application. We illustrate in this issue a plant designed for a Mexican mine, by the Ingersoll, Sergeant Rock Drill Company, of New York, where 3 PELTON WHEEL 360 REVS. The loss of press- ure by condensation is entirely avoided, while the loss by friction need be no greater than 5 per cent. per mile. The accompanying drawing shows the general arrangement of the plant and the dimen- sions of the most important parts. A SOUTHERN MISCELLANY. The H. O. Nelson Wire Fence Works, of Knoxville, Tenn., buy their bar iron in Eastern Ohio, manufacture the same into iron fences, and ship back to the same ter- . *PULLE 10 BELT orn 12°ABOVE cRs STREAM 2 ROCK MINING PLANT OPERATED BY PELTON an independent Pelton impact wheel is; ritory, including Wheeling, W. Va., and belted directly to a belt compressor of| yet make a good profit. If there were their straight line type, and through a clutch-coupliug from the wheel-shaft to a belt-shaft for operating the geared hoist. A similar arrangement is also adapted to the use of the turbine as a motive power with low-water heads, the turbines work- ing with the best advantage with heads from 3 to 80 feet and the Pelton impact- wheels with heads from 50 to 500 feet or more. The value of falling water has been long understood, but seems only tow to claim the appreciation due to its value as a motive power, as economized by the most modern machinery for developing its utmost efficiency. It is not necessary that a compressing plant should be located near a mine or tunnel for effective work, more merchant bar mills in the South, they could, of course, make a greater per- centage of ‘profit and at the same time sell for less money. Capitalists at Tuskegee, Ala., are said to have in contemplation the —— of a company for the purpose of erecting and operating steel works. The new plow factory of L. C. Ezell & Co., Woodruff, 8. C., has commenced op- erations. The Bessemer Rolling Mills have been working on double time for the past 60 days. The building is 700 feet long by 15 feet wide. The forge department con- tains 24 single puddling furnaces, a scrap furnace and a muck bar mill. In the fin- ishing department there is an 8-inch guide mill, a 16-inch bar mill, one sheet mill, a plate mill and three heating fur- naces, operated with . Next to the Birmingham Rolling Mills, this is the old- est plant of the kind established in that district. J. C. Carpenter is the president; L. E, Bruens, secretary and treasurer; Lewis Jones, mull manager. The work of enlarging the Livermore Foundry and Machine Works, of Memphis, Tenn., is about completed. In direct contrast to the above is the re- port received from the Rock Run Furnace, or Rock Run, Ala. They are discouraged 6 PULLEY 150 REVS. PER MINUTE —— CLIFF 30° FROM VERTICAL _AIR PIPE TO MINE_ WATER WHELL. with the outlook, do not think it will undergo a change for the better, and can- not see how their market can be improved. The Harrison County Development Cor:- pany, of Clarksburg, West Va., having a capital stoc . of $500,000, have been or- ganized fo: the purpose of working iron and coal mines in that vicinity. Work on the new foundry and machine shops, at Warren, Ark., is going forward rapidly, and it will not be many weeks before this plant will be ready to com- mence “perations. Work on tie buildings of the Americus Iron \Works, at Americus, Ga., was com- menced ost Mou A company chase iron lands around (ollinsvi!l and will develop them, and w'!! probabiy n orgavized to pur- Ala May 1, 180 THE IRON AGE, 721 — build iron furnaces.. The same syndicate is said to have purchased 3500 acres of coal land in alinamit territory. The amount of the reported purchase is said to be $150,000. The Alabama Iron and Steel Works, of Talladega, Ala., are figuring on a steel plant to be erected at that place on an early day. It is stated that a tempting bonus has been recently raised to secure the location at Atlanta, Texas, of a blast furnace. An annual meeting of the stockholders of the Lady Ensley Furnace Company, tbe Sheffield Terminus Railway Company, and the Lady Ensley Coal and Iron Com- pany, was held at Sheffield on the 16th inst. A rumor has been current in Southern iron circles, for several weeks, to the effect that an English syndicate has in contemplation the purchase of the coke iron furnaces of the South, if negotia- tions can be effected. The Alabama Furnace Supply Com- pany, of Sheffield, Ala., have commenced the development of new brown hematite iron mines near that place. An order for saw mills, from South America, has been received by the Chat- tanooga Machinery Company, and the same company have had business applications from Australia. The Fort Worth Iron Works have all the orders for architectural iron «work that they can with their present capacity conveniently fill. They regard the busi- ness Outlook as very good. The strike in the Birmingham Rolling Mills still continues, but that concern is disposed to think the status of things will undergo an improvement by July 1. At Van Buren, Ark., an iron and brass foundry is being erected, over which James Morrell, of Warrentown, Dak., will be superintendent. A new enterprise at Rome, Ga., is the American Vulve Company. The capital stock of the corporation is $300,000. Every description of valves will be manu- factured, and branch offices will be located in several Northern cities, Both partners in the firm of Murray & Stevenson having died, the foundry and machine shop of that firm, in Annis- ton, Ala., isto be sold for a division. The Red Ore Company, of Cartersville, Ga., having a capital stock of $15,000, have been incorporated by J. W. Akin, L. 5. Munford and J. 8S. Dobitte. Mineral properties near Middletown, Md., owned by P. H. Bussard, Wm. Hol- ten and others, have been secured by a party of Baltimore capitalists who will open iron mines. The North Alabama Furnace at Florence, has been doing — work for the past two weeks. On one day two runs of 64 tons each were made, or 128 tons for the day’s work. A Northern syndicate has purchased sev- eral thousand acres of iron ore lands in Gwinnette County, Ga. Four charcoal iron furnaces, each with 50-ton capacity, are to be erected at At- talla, Ala., by the Attalla Iron and Steel Company. This is a change of pro- gramme. New Orleans parties, who were reported ,_ to be negotiating at Attalla, Ala., for the location of a furnace, are represented by T. Marooney, who, it is said, has (fered to build two iron furnaces if sites-are do- nated, : A company is said to be organizing. with John Russell as the leading spirit, to build and operate a steel plant at Ash- land, Ky. The American Arms Company, of Bos- ton, having a capital stock of $200,000, have, it is stated, decided to remove their plant to Bluffton, Ala., in acceptance of inducements offered them by the Land, Ore and Furnace Company of that place, This, it is stated, will be the only factory of its kind in the South or West, and will give employment to 200 skilled workmen. Work is to begin at an early date on the building, which will be about 300 feet long and built of brick. It is stated that the Bluffton Land, Ore and Furnace Company bave also secured the location of a large machine shop, a foun- dry and a forge shop. There is quite an iron boom at Buena Vista, Ga. Rich deposits of iron have been discovered, and companies will be organized to proceed with the develop- ment. J. H. and J. M. Lowe have pur- chased 800 acres of mineral land. A new iron furnace will be erected at Bessemer, Ala., by capitalists from New York City, together with the Perry syndi- cate from Kansas City. The magnetic ore beds that are being opened near Mabel, on the 12,000 acres of iron property recently purchased by a Nashville syndicate, lying along the Mari- etta and North Georgia Railroad, are proving to be quite rich, and are fully up to the samples that were first taken out, ky which the sale was made. Robert G. Ingersoll, of New York City, Andrew Johnson, L. F. Box and others, have purchased 32,000 acres of mineral lands in the vicinity of Ashville, Ala. Two companies have been organized, one with a capital stock of $4,000,000, the other with $1,000,000, and an iron town will be built. The Star Foundry Company, with a capital stock of $10,000, have been organ- ized at Covington, Ky. J. F. Miller, H. W. Foss, John Leary and others, have organized at Hot Springs, N. C., the Mountain Park Improvement Company, capital stock $500,000, to de- velop mineral properties. It is reported that a $200,000 company, to be -gmposed of Pennsylvania capitalists, will uxablish a steel plant at Bristol, Tenn. m Pa Co. contemplate works at ‘t Pay Ala., for the manufacture of ' cans t Griffin, Ga., a company with $50,000 capitai stock is in process of formation, to build and operate a machine shop and foundry. It is reported that an iron foundry, to cost $100,000, is to be established at Florence, Ala., by L. D. Erbin, of Phila- delphia. Mineral lands in Marion County, Ark., are to be developed by the Eagle Minin and Timber Company, recently organiz at Newport, in that State, with a capital stock of $100,000. A machine shop has been started at Middlesborough, Ky., by Vinson & Graff. D. W. Bissell, L. E. Rich and others, have organized at Asheville The Western North Carolina Corundum Company, with $50,000 capital stock. The machine shops of Detrick & Harvey, at Baltimore, Md., are to be enlarged by the addition of an annex 90 x 70 feet. One thousand acres of iron land adja- cent to Chnton, Tenn., have been pur- chased by Knoxville parties, for the pur- pose of developing mines and building a town. The machine works of the J. A. Cush- man Company, of Houston, Texas, will be augmented by the addition of four new buildings that will cost about $20,000. Western capitalists are reported to have bought 50,000 acres of iron land, near Greenville, Tenn., and will probably build and operate an iron furnace. The foundation for the new Lookout Boiler Works, at Chattanooga, has been completed, and work on the superstructure is now progressing. Two additional crucible furnaces are being put into position at the Eagle Brass Foundry at Chattanooga. The Central Railroad of Georgia has just placed a notably large order with the Baldwin Locomotive Works for 40 loco- E motives, 5 of which have already been®re- ceived; 15 more are to follow before May 17, and the other 20 are to be ready in July. Parties are considering the establish- ment of axe works at Morristown, Tenn. The Catoosa Mining Company, of Ca- tcosa, Ga., are now working all the hands within reach, in the erection of mining machinery and in the construction of its narrow-gauge railroad. ee The Bradley Works. Bradley & Co., of Syracuse, N. Y., manufacturers of the well-known Bradley hammers and forges, are at the present time busy turning out both these well- known appliances. In their own forge room they show, by means of practical examples, what may be done with different weights of their hammers. Here the heaviest work that comes into their general business, which is extensively increased by the manufacture of carriages and wagons of all kinds, and the heaviest forgings and the most intricate, they do by means of these hammers. In each case the blow can be so regulated, no matter what the weight of the hammer, that it will deliver a slight tap slowly, or 1t will deliver a succession of heavy blows so rapidly as to heat and draw large sections of metal without destroying the texture of the metal drawn. In a small piece this was illustrated during our visit, when a piece about § or } inch square was placed under the hammer, attaining a red heat, and at the final stage showing that it had . not been tortured during the process The foreman stated that with a slight initial heat to start, with bars 3 and 4 inches square could be drawn down in the same way, the heat produced by the heavy and rapidly delivered blows being sufficient to permit the drawing of the metal without destruction. A simple machine has recently been rigged up which serves two purposes: First, it utilizes all the old and partially worn out files which usually col- lect around establishments of this kind; and, secondly, it serves the purpose of taking the burr off the dashboard frames and similar pieces entering into the carriage work. It was formerly troublesome and expensive to smooth the edges of these frames, which usually have a double con- vex section. The machine consists of a flat table provided with a central opening, similar in many respects to the table fur- nished with an ordinary jib or band saw, and fitted to work up and down through this hole is a file, held in a sort of clutch under the table, which is givén a vertical reciprocating motion by means of a pitman attached to the crank on the shaft driven by a belt from the overhead shaft. It has been found that in this simple device a file, which is practically worn out, so far as handwork is concerned, will do good service, and that it may be employed until the cuts are almost obliterated, while the work of taking the burrs off the frames is reduced in the labor required, and the speed is greatly increased. $$ The recent auction sale of three blast furnaces at Sheffield, Alabama, has brought out some curious expressions of opinion. The following chunk of wisdom is taken from a Chicago daily newspaper, which ranks among the ablest in the country: ‘*The trouble with the Alabama iron ores and the cause of failure to establish the iron industry there on as great a scale as was anticipated a few years ago, are the excessive quantity of phosphorus in the deposits and the cost of getting rid of it. A foreign process has been found for roast- ing the phosphorus out of the ore, but it is expensive and absorbs the profit. Mean- ‘time the Alabama ores cannot be used for 722 THE IRON AGE, May 1, 1890 making steel or malleable iron, but only for pot metal, castings, stoves, &c., where great strength 1s not required and there is little objection to brittleness. Alabama has abundance of ore, coal and limestone, and if the problem of getting rid of the phosphorus cheaply in the iron deposits was solved, it would become the seat of an iron industry of extraordinary propor- tions.” Sn Duplex Air Pump. The Eames Vacuum Brake Company have placed upon the market a duplex locomotive air pump of novel design, and for which a remarkable economy and dur- ability are claimed. It is evident that in a single cylinder air pump the resistance in the air cyliuder varies each stroke from O to the extreme pressure in the reservoir, and that, therefore, the steam piston must have sufficient area to produce this final pressure and expel the air into the reser- voir. It is further evident that if the steam cylinders of a duplex air pump are made of the same diameter, and if one air cylinder is twice the sectional area of the other, we can obtain far better results per unit of steam used ia the duplex than in the single cylinder pump, provided the air cylinders are so connected and propor- tioned that the air is compressed by one into the other and by this into the reser- voir. This pump is founded upon thi: principle: The action is as follows: The larger air cylinder takes air through the outside check valve until full, the piston then Wd dlddddddddddlddidddé} Zi H H } | PLLA LLL lc 4 NM (dad —————— EN WL a. ome Oy BS == Ry 1) iY Pee WMS Ce eee ced oes N With iy cca Ufa RESERVOIR Eames Duplex Air Pump. waits until the smaller piston has made a stroke and filled the smaller cylinder full of air through the same outside valve and the valve between the two cylinders. When the smaller piston reaches the end of its stroke, it shifts the valve for the larger piston which then compresses the air in the larger cylinder into the smaller evlinder; the smaller piston then com- p