The Iron Age 1899-01-26: Vol 63 Iss 4

THE A Review of the Hardware, Iron and a” a vy Aye. ra tt, te: Pho. ) See, Jo My, Published every Thursday Morning by David Williams Co., 232-238 W.liam St., New York. Vol. LXIII; No. 4. New Y ork, Thursday, January 26, 1899. $4.50 a Year, including Postaga Single Copies, Ten Cents. Reading Matter Contents......... page 52 Classified List of Advertisers.... ‘“‘ 109 Alphabetical Index te Advertisers ‘“‘ 114 Advertising and Subsoription Rates “* 61 New York. TUDOR IRON \ WORKS, ST. LOuUIS, Mo. MANUFACTURERS BAR IRON = STEEL, THE BRISTOL COMPANY, Waterbury, Conn, Bristol’s Recording Instruments, For Pressure, Temperature and Electricity. All Ranges, Low Prices and Guar- * anteed. Send for Circ ulars, ‘BRAIDED CORD. Samson and Massachusetts Brands. Send for Samples. SAMSON CORDAGE WORKS, - Boston, Mass. TURNBUCKLES, BRANCH OFFICE: 11 Broadway, New York. Cleveland City Forge and Iron Co., - Cleveland, O. TURN BUCKLES. Merrill Bros., 465 to 471 Kent Ave. Brooklyn, E. D., N. Y. MILL CINDER. PILING & CRANE, Ste TRADR Factory Loaded Paper Shells Smokeless and Trap Shells, With Nitro Powders. Acme Shells, With dense Nitro Powders. New Club Shells, With Black Powder. ALL GAUGES, ANY WADDING, ANY COMBINATION OF LOADS. SPECIAL LOADS IF DESIRED. UNION METALLIC CARTRIDGE C0., - Bridgeport, Conn. SEND FOR LATEST PRICE LIST. GAHALL BOILERS "= CAPEWELL HORSE NAILS. NEW YORK, PHILADELPHIA, CHICAGO, ST. LOUIS, BOSTON, DETROIT, BRANCHES: cincINNATI, SAN FRANCISCO, PORTLAND, ORE., BUFFALO, BALTIMORE, NEW ORLEANS. THE CAPEWELL HORSE NAIL COPIPANY, HARTFORD, CONN. Compare Weights m WHEN YOU ARE TOLD THAT JENKINS ’96 13 MORE Bs EXPENSIVE THAN OTHER PACKINGS. JENKINS STANDAARE BEM Average weight, ‘Jenkins °96,”’ 11 lbs t o the square yard. ’ Red Packing, 14 “ At 50c. per pound “ JENKINS 96” is not only very much cheaper, but the best joint packing manufactured. The genuine is stenciled * Apollo-Vandergrift ” APOLLO BEST BLOOM GALVANIZED IRON It is a mistake in business to use nferior galvanized irons. Apollo costs no more. Apollo Iron and Steel Company Pittsburgh JENKINS | BROS , New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago. > “Clincher” Gucle Tubing the Best, sx 98 MAGNOLIA METAL Best Anti-Frietion Metal for all Machinery Bearings. Beware of Imitations. Genuine Magnolia Meta) is made up tn bars of which this is a fac-simile : The name and crade- : : mark appear on each wort ds “Manufac tured “ Patented June 3, ’90 der side of each ar. TRap box and bar, and the < in United States” and are stamped on the un- MAGNOLIA METAL CO., (Scxacsscrccer®) 266 & 267 WEST ST., NEW YORK, tracers Biase — > Ty 2 THE IRON AGE THE Ansonia Brass ge Correr Co. MARUPACTURERS OF BRASS AND COPPER Seamless Tubes, Sheets, Rods and Wire. ingot Copper. SOLE MANUFACTURERS Tobin Bronze (TRADE-MARK REGISTERED.) Condenser Plates, Pump Linings, Round, Square and Hexagon Bars, for Pump Piston Rods and Bolt Forgings. 19 & 21 Cliff Street, SS Waterbury Brass Co. Established 1845. Sheet, Roll and Platers’ Brass, German Silver, Copper, Brass and Ger- man Silver Wire. Brass and Copper Tubing. COPPER RIVETS AND BURS. PERCUSSION CAPS, TAPE MEASURES, METALLIC EYELETS, Brass Kettles, Brass Tags, Powder Flasks, Shot Pouches, &c., New York. AND SMALL BRASS WARES OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. 8 CLOW HICK’S PRIMERS, BERDAN PRIMERS. R ANDOLP ES Cartridge Metal in Sheets or Shells ’ WATERBURY CONN, a Specialty. ° - MANUFACTURERS OF= : DEPOTS: 60 Centre St., New York. 126 Eddy St., Provi- dence, R. |. 38 Mechanic St., Newark, N. J. MILLS AT WATERBURY, CONN. 88-102 GOVERNMENT BRONZE. EXTRA HIGH TENSILE STRENGTH. SEAMLESS BRASS AND COPPER TUBES, vein. to 32in. Diam. BRAZED TUBES and BRASS RODS, Brown & Bros. Seamless Copper Range Boiler. Write us for Particulars. Bridgeport Deoxidized Bronze & Metal Co., BRIDGEPORT, CONN. MATTHIESSEN & HEGELER ZINC C0,, LA SALLE, ILLINOIS, SMELTERS OF SPIELTER AND MANUFACTURERS OF GHEET ZINO AND SULPHURIC ACID. Special Sizes of Zinc cut to order. * Rolled Battery Plates. Selected Plates for Etchers’ and Lithographers’ use Selected Sheets for Paper and Card Makers’ use. Stove and Washboard Blanks. FOR LECLANCHE BATTERY. ZINCS BRASS COODS MFC. GO." &=maxtam.tar ert , Address all SPECIAL communica - GOODS tions to the MADE TO factory. ORDER, BRONZE DOOR ENOBSB, Bronze and Plated Roses, Combined Rose and Escutcheon Plates, Socket Shells, &c., Patent Mirror Pin Cushicn Business Cards, Mucilage Brushes. Novelties of new design made to order. SALESROOM: 117 Chambers St., New York. FACTORY: 86-92 Third St., So. Brooklyn HENDRICKS BROTHERS, Proprietors of the Belleville Copper Rolling Mills, MANUFACTURERS OF Brazsicers’, Bolt and Sheathing COPPER. COPPER WIRE AND RIVETS. Importers and Dealers in ingot Copper, Block Tin, Spelter, Lead, Antimony, etc. 49 CLIFF ST., NEW YORK. THE PLUME & ATwooD MF6, Go., MANUFACTURERS OF Sheet and Roll Brass WIRE PRINTERS’ BRASS, JEWELERS’ METAL, GERMAN SILVER AND GILDING METAL, COPPER RIVETS AND. BURRS. Pins, Brass Butt Hinges, Jack Chain, Kero- sene Burners, Lamps, Lamp Trimmings, &c. 29 MURRAY ST., NEW YORK. 144 HIGH ST., BOSTON. 199 LAKE ST., CHICAGO, ROLLING MILL : | THOMASTON, CONN. FACTORIES ; WATERBURY, CONN, SCOVILL MFG. CO., Manufacturers of BRASS SHEET, WIKRE, TUBES, Hinges, Buttons, Lamp Goods, Nipples, Pumps and Oilers for Bicycles, Braziers’ Solder, Aluminum, Factories, WATERBURY, CONN. DEPOTS : Chicago, New York, Boston. JOHN DAVOL & SONS, AGENTS FOR Brooklyn Brass & Copper Co., DEALERS IN COPPER, TIN, SPELTER, LEAD, ANTIMONY. 100 John Street, New York. WILLIAM S. FEARING, 256 Broadway, NEW YORK, SELLS TO THE TRADE Sheet Brass, Fancy Sheet Brass, German Silver, Copper, Brass and German Silver Wire, Brazed and Seamless Brass and Copper Tubes, Brass and Cop- per Rods, Brass Ferrules, Pure Copper Wire, Sheet and Ingot Copper; Spelter, Tin, Antimony, Lead, &c. THE BRIDGEPORT BRASS CO., BRIDGEPORT, CONN. 19 Murray St., New York. 85-87 Pearl St., Boston. 17 N. 7th St., Philadelphia. MANUFACTURERS OF Brass {SHEET AND TUBING Copper | WIRE. Lamp Goods of all Kinds, BRASS AND COPPER GOODS In Great Varieties, | BRASS AND IRON GEARS, IN STOCK WITH CUT OR CAST TEETM, MO FAL SPECIAL WORK TO ORDER SEND FOR OUR 1000 AMOS LAT. “\._ 7. F. WELCH MFG. CO., 63 BUDBURY BTREET, BOSTON e ‘THE IRON AG THURSDAY, JANUS 26, 180) The Gorton Disk Surface Grinding [achine. In general the machine here ill built by the George Gorton Machine ¢ Wis., is intended for the rapid) and of metals, hard or soft. It will grind off on drop forgings, dies, &c.. or do the tinest exposed ing. It will also grind faces to an accurate provided or any intermediate angle between 45 and and produce parallel surfaces. The disks. be hand wl flat and emery cloth or paper being cement the supporting by means of the press furnished, provide a tru ‘ovided. Relieving surface from which accurate work must result | dust or dirt to sett high speed (1800 revolutions), and there being no grooves the slidit Surfaces. a he aVV Spring maintai in the disks, cause them to cut many times faster thi THE GORTON DISK SURFACE GRINDING MACHINE a solid wheel. The emery cloth or emery paper disks he table is S inches wide are secured to both sides of steel disks with a quick ches lol ijustment is provided in the sl drying cement used cold and requiring one-half to three » allow of the sliding motion be fourths of an hour to dry. Worn sheets are readily ade paral th disk face. The supporting shoe stripped from the steel disks. These tools are particu he pedestal arms by me: larly adapted to the finishing of dies, gibs and keys nuts on which allows the shoe Wrenches, nuts, engine straps, chuck jaws, parts of ma vuutward sufficient only to chang: chine tools, sewing machines, electrical work, & inward and tightening the nuts ‘The tool is accurately made throughout. All flat sim rings tl able to exactly its original position faces on the pedestal arms for shoe bearings, shoes, vel ljustable to all parts of the table tical slides and table slides are finished by scraping to angle or parallel with the disk surface plates. Particular care has been taken to pro top, shown at tl] duce a machine dust proof in all its working parts long, provided wit! © square adjust The pedestal is a heavy, one-piece casting, with two surface, and which may be either par projecting arms at the top supporting the working ‘ace. It has gradu tables. This construction gives a rigid support to the ‘adjust through 45 degrees, also lateral tables, which are free from vibration. The head stock adjustinent for setting the top plate ctose to the disk contains adjustable halved bearings to take up end mo nay be firmly clamped. The vertical adjustment is tion of the arbor. The latter is 1144 inches in diameter >» inches. The supporting shoe and adjustments are the and is made with end collars of steel shrunk on. The same as on the sliding table. The disks are quickly steel disks are made of flange steel and may be used changed without disturbing the angular or any other ad either side ont. The sliding table is controlled by means justment of the table. E Se Ee ae ~ Water Works Construction. There is a good deal of activity in water works con- struction, as the following budget shows: Director of Public Works Thompson of Philadelphia transmitted to Chairman R. R. Bringhurst of Councils mmittee a proposed ordinance authorizing the Depart- ment of Pablic Works to erect a new pumping station and construct five filtration plants. The ordinance submitted ontemplates the appropriation of $4,575,000 for the con- struction of filtratioa plants and their appurtenances, with a total capacity of 270,000,000 gallons daily in con- nection with the present water works system. Also $2,000,000 for the construction of a new pumping station with a capacity of not less than 150,000,000 gallons and 750 000 for filtering works in connection with this sta- ion. The new station is to be located on the Delaware River above Lardner’s Point and within the city limits. Two of the five filtration plants will necessarily be equipped with mechanical filters, while the slow sand system will be used on the other three plants Director Warden of the Water Works Department of Cleveland, Ohio, has introduced in the City Council a resolution to advertise for bids for construction of a new pumping station of 100 000,000 gallons capacity. The plans call for a main structure or engine house facing Kirtland street 150 feet long, 75 feet wide and 80 feet in hight. This building is to be connected to a boiler house which will be 171 feet long and 60 feet wide. In the main building it is proposed to place four pumping engines, each having a capacity of 25,000,000 gallons. In connec- tion with the boiler plant a large coaling station is to be erected. A storage bin of 2000 tons capacity will receive the coal and supply the automatic conveying machinery which will be operated in connection with the automatic stokers. In addition to this there will be a storage tower of 4000 tons capacity, which will guard against shortage. It is estimated that the buildings, which will be com- menced next spring, will cost about $400,000 At a meeting of the Board of Estimate and Apportion- ment of New York City last week it was decided to issue $250 000 for water works extension in Brooklyn this year. This is equal to the amount allowed to Manhattan in its 1899 budget. The contract for the construction of the water plant for the Home Water Works Company, who will supply East Hampton, N. Y., has been awarded to the Artesian Well Drilling Company of New York. Work is to be commenced at once, and the plant is to be completed May 1. M J. Drummond & Co. were awarded the contract for supplying the pipes and specials for the Vailsburg, N. J., Water Works, and the Rentzlar Valve Company received the contract for the valves. Eugene A. McMurray has been retained as the engineer for the work and Alexander Potter will serve as consulting engineer. The Barr Pumping Engine Company are said to have secured the contract for the pumping engine for the Oil City. Pa.. Works. The contract price was $22,500. The Montauk Water Company of Jamaica, N. Y., have filed plans for the erection of a water column or stand pipe. The stand pipe is to be built of steel’ boiler plate, and is to be 30 feet in diameter by 80 feet high. Its esti- mated cost is $11,500. The work of construction is to be under the supervision of P. D Ford, chief engineer of the Long Island Railroad Company. Jacob & Davies of Man- hattan are the architects. The report of the Water Works Committee of Roches. ter, N. Y., estimates the cost of extending distributing mains at $84. 906, of completing new conduit connections at reservoirs at $60,000, the total amount asked for being $176 352 The State Commissioners in Lunacy have approved the plans of the Bacon Air Lift Company for supplying the hospital at King’s Park, N. Y., with 1,000,000 gallons of water by means of a system of artesian wells and air com- pressor pumps. The cost of the plant is $18,000. Reports from Binghamton, N. Y., state that the con- tract for 16,000 feet of 6, 8 and 12 inch pipe was awarded to M. J. Drummond & Co., New York City, at $16 55 per ton The Donaldson Iron Company of Philadelphia were next lowest bidders, with $16 91 per ton. Henry R. Worthington, New York City, was awarded the contract for the 2 000,000 gallon vertical pump for Midvale, Pa. The contract price was $4845 The Wilson- Snyder Mfg. Company of Pittsburgh were next lowest bidders, their price being $4985 Bids have been advertised for by the Water Board of Lestershire, N. Y., for new water works. The plans and specifications which have just been issued cail for the completion of the work by April 15 The Water Works of Meadville, Pa., have been trans ferred from the private corporation to the municipality for $200,000 cash. It is stated that City Engineer Robert Hooke of Chat- tanooga, Tenn., has prepared an estimate of the cost of building a new system of water works. 2 THE IRON AGE January 26, 1899 The City Council of Memphis, Tenn., has passed a bill authorizing the issue of $2,000,000 for the construction or purchase of a water works plant. Reports from Brownsville, Tenn., state that it was voted to issue $50,000 bonds for the construction of water works, an electric light plant and public school. W. M. Crandell is Mayor. A report from Mobile, Ala, states that ground has been broken in that city for the erection of a new water works plant. Following are the bids which were submitted for the construction of a 48-inch riveted steel force main to the new reservoir in Highland Park, Pittsburgh. The bids were as follows: Keeling & Ridge, $68,775; Cronin & O’Herron, $74,000; T. A. Gillespie, 374,940; Riter & Conley, $81,943; James H. McQuade, $84.663 75; James McNeill & Bro., $82 000; Stratton & Lewis, $83,471; W. E. Howley, $73,697; Thomas McNally, $106,202.35 Sealed proposals will be received by the Home Crystal Water Company of New Albany, Ind., until January 28 for the erection of a complete water works system con- sisting of 23 miles of 4 to 20 inch pipe, 200 fire plugs, 124 valve boxes, boiler and pump house, suction line filter crib, &c. Plans and specifications may be seen at the office of the president, Peter Arlund, Equitable Building, Louis- ville, Ky., or at the office of the engineer, Frank Schefold, 1207 East Spring street, New Albany, Ind. The Water Commissioners of Wilmington, Del., are considering the erection of a steel water tower or stand pipe of large capacity and a special pumping engine to be operated in connection with it. It is reported that the Mayor of Sacramento, Cal , has recommended the purchase of a new 10,000,000-gallon pumping engine of the latest pattern for the Water Works Department. The City Council of New Orleans, La., have passed an ordinance providing for extension in the water works system. —_— _ The New Rubber Combination. The organization of the Rubber Goods Mfg. Company isnow definitely announced, and the report of their incor- poration—probably in New Jersey—may be looked for at any time Theamount of their capital stock may be influ- enced by the number of rubber manufacturing concerns embraced in the combination. As yet no authentic in- formation is to be had concerning the constituent com- panies. While the number actually taken in thus far is small, no doubt options are held on several other proper- ties. It is understood that the new consolidation starts out with an important nucleus in the Mechanical Rubber Compauy—a New Jersey corporation formed in 1892 to combine a large Eastern rubber company with two in the West. This combination has since remained intact. The companies embraced in it alone manufacture nearly the whole line of rubber products except boots and shoes and hard rubber. Since the movement for bringing the manufacturers together in a trust, the Mechanical Rubber Manufactur- ers’ Association, organized a yearor two ago to regulate prices, has held no meetings. It is held throughout the trade, however, that a sufficient advance has not been made in belting, hose and packing, considering the high price which crude rubber still commands. Meanwhile the uses of rubber are increasing. All the fire engines in New York City are to be equipped with rubber tires, and tire departments in other cities are likely to adopt a sim- ilar course. Then a set of rubber tires will be required for every automobile, and if these horseless carriages are coming into use as rapidly as is claimed, the extra de- mand for crude rabber for making tires may have a tendency to make this commodity scarcer for other pur- poses, and hence to keep up the prices of rubber goods generally. The new rubber combination is reported as having in prospect the control to an important extent of the crude rubber market, with a view to supplying manufacturers at lower prices than now. It is contended by others that a monopoly of crude rubber is impracticable through any other course than by overbidding all the rest of the world on all the rabber coming to market—a course which, it is alleged, would hardly tend to cheapening the supplies needed by manufacturers. oe Some idea of the enormous profits that have been made in Wall Street during the present boom may be gathered from the increase in the valuation of ten lead- ing active stocks in the two weeks ended Saturday last. These stocks are Atchison, common and preferred; Man- hattan, Union Pacific, common and preferred; Amer- ican Sugar, common; Burlington, St. Paul, Rock Island and New York Central, and their aggregated enhance- ment in market value in the period named was $67,- 437,141. January 26, 1899 THE IRON AGE. 3 A New [lethod of Boring, Milling and Tapping Machine Frames by Use of Templates.’ BY E, CAPITAINE, FRANKFORT ON-MAIN, GERMANY The question of economy in the use of special tools de pends not only upon the practicability, but very largely upon the amount of work available which warrants the equipment of a shop with such tools. Fig. 1.—Frame. Fig. 3. mounting and adjustment for ea peration In sueces- Sive steps. The use of large special tools is not gener- ally economical, because they are only applicable for few shapes and are frequently idle. The more expen- sive and limited their use the greater must be the duplication of machines to be finished on any s pecial tool to make the latter a possibility. The author has proposed the problem to consti ey eral sizes of a new motor, with as extended a use of special tools as was possible. The essential part to be built was a frame, as shown in Fig. 1: a east iron box from 220 to 1350 pounds weight, and hight of from 32 to 4 inches, with six large bored holes, 72 small holes, % to 514 inches diameter, of which 48 had threads and 14 ] finished surfaces. fhe most important problem in finishing this larger and also the other but smaller frames of the motor was 0 So space the many holes and finish the surfaces that their relative positions would be sufficiently accurate so >) HU TTT | MOTNTTONNEITTTTY rn | | i Figs. 8 and 4.—Arrangements for Boring Holes The number of machines of one pattern to be con- structed is always more or less limited, and hence the complete equipment by special tools—as is the case in sewing machine works—is not always practicable; how- ever, the duplication is in many cases sufficient to war rant special equipment. While many special lathes, milling machines and grinders are available for small pieces, very little has been done in the direction of finishing large pieces. It is, of course, customary to use jigs, auxiliary tools and devices for laying out, straightening and mounting the larger parts. Large parts are bored, milled, planed and drilled on separate machine tools, requiring separate * From the Zeitschrift des Vereins Deutscher Ingenieure, Novem ber 12, 1898. By Gus. C. Henning as to ayoid later adjustment during assembling the numerous parts forming a whole. The usual jigs, templates, guides and boring boxes ap peared to be impossible for the heavier parts, which had adjoining holes of \« inch and of 314 inches diameter, as their handling and adjustment on the boring and milling machines would be too difficult. It would be especially difficult to adjust the drill or mill to such an accurate po sition with relation to the part to be bored or milled that there would be no lateral straining and crowding in the customary hardened guiding bushings. The author conceived the opposite method of bringing the tools to the part to be finished, instead of vice versa. and to se- cure the boring and milling machines firmly to the jigs or templates in such manner that the tools would be in . oP at Nee: a Z spill mat ’ ) ’ ‘ < Y . ‘ PN ] ed ‘ ( \ » J 1] S le 4 eed { ‘ ‘ ‘ “4 ( al ( , ] ] adsae Very ligt CS 2% U = i S < ¢ > ‘ ‘ ‘ tix January 26 1899 THE IRON AGE. tions W 0 urther adjustment or sions by the deseribed devices, but laying out and scrib- ut OX on of this idea has ing becomes entirely superfluous. The sides of the box satisfa vy results, not only in regard have openings, Z Fig. 10, through which the location of Ss nufacture with use of the most important surfaces to be finished can be seen, is ) Ss rela e great econ hence the machine broads ol frame can be conveniently wa s ols and ¢ eplacement of justed by means of screws i, 7, Fig. 10, and thus provision . is IriZO | boring and for irregularities in cnstings is readily made. Toles n, radi \ chines » S. are milled, while the inner surfaces are milled by \ , boring 1d iilling ma- use of a spindle on which the cutter S, Fig. 9, is e 1 S dle must be ounted, being firmlv guided by the end support 0, revent lateral deflection when cutting properly attached to the case A. To mill the opposite sta e bearil If the boring nner si ces devices © and § are inevely interchanged had s supp Close to the After the principal holes and surfaces of large dimen I . —' ible bus n¢ | ee A the l SLOTLS i\t been finished In Case \, the casting is placed 2 be of sufficient strength to resis na boring case, by which all other holes are drilled and G I shows an tapped where desired, and all smaller surfaces are boring > ) » QAO es, and milled: the previously finished openings determining the I holes a > es of 4 inches vwecurate position of the casting in the boring case. In sed ! thre ors hew method the ma or tv of cases, where less complex Castings are s ‘ ot intended to replace the large to be finished the two cases may be combined in a sin- (| ng chines; they are only to vile one on 7 ys to work suitable Figs. 11 to 15 show the necessary templates for bor- sions | dial drills and ordinary ing 70 holes. and the necessary tapping for finishing a ly replaced As stress on the stenm evlinder of a road engine. As shown, the casting, on are slig he devices may be Fig. 16, is easily adjusted in the case by means of though amply strong; the drill which 1 hinged cover, which is firmly bolted down on it. P, es a erand 8 es deep weighs Fig. 15, are the eye bolts for securing the drilling and —— | ' 7% — 4H si <4 >} ee = | me ai rT. i A “ — +e aa i 0 4 a Fig3. 5 and 6.—Suspended Transmission. < gy for holes and ng devices, while s, Fig. 15, are the clamping | ac veighs ab 1295 S ws for securing the free ends of the voke bars. One sare s ted stirrup by a wire eve bolt, P. generally suftices for several holes, while < ‘ eadily ‘ Scr generally answers for two or more holes, ) v the lig t shows how e stutling boxes are first provided s ' suspende th a pilot hole, and then finished by the cutter S: Fig. e nd ¢ Acs Fig. 5. the de 11 shows how the tap J is guided dire¢tly and firmly, . . es ng a thread as a itely as can be done by a ma- ssing ge . other en e alor surfaces ot Figs. 17 to 20 show the template case for a Korting o S R mo] om ad ‘ nie yr body aving 1S holes The guiding S is imn shings are readily inserted and removed and are se S Os Figs. 7 is l v held in position by the boring device itself. The fy and 1 ir g d milling devices, as well as the bushings gs . s ‘ 1achine ind s orts P, are equally applicable for every tem- ‘ oY Ses idapted st If one e¢ latter should become useless or R “ S This machine witl t work for some time the supports and screws g S e mot d bushings are sed for other templates without spe- nder and the il difficulty: the bushings are only tixed in those cases os S right angles Nv ire to be used permanently, otherwise they are ‘ xis { les e lowe part removable ' < The actual cost of installation of such special devices nes ‘ Y ng faces s therefore confined to the template cases, Figs. 10 to S] l « llv distant from the medial 16, and these are provided with the requisite holes by a vlinds As these oles sp il drill and milling machine, which at the same ices differs ( sions and e surfaces the seats for the special tools. It is evi- ced ffer sizes ors, they nt that the applicability of the method depends upon order to finish all in one operation, in- the cost of installation, as the accurate, and uniform fin- dt in apparently ve plex quin sh of machines is not alone sufficient to warrant the use of these devices. In order to decrease the cost as much \ Figs. 7 S e bodv B is as | ible, the bushings, supports and screws are made sof s ws t becomes not only nterchangeable, and a special machine for finishing the cles 1 surfaces of smaller dimen- template cases has been provided. The drilling and mill- January 26, 1899 THE IRON AGE. 5 ing devices, with the bushings and the driving mechan and 19 In this ma i vill be seen t) | rill ism, may be considered to be relatively cheap when com ys are omitted, and provision is made solely for proper pared with the product of the larger machines fastening of the casting to be tinished on the ne S. For iinishing less complicated machine bases or frame ilundreds mn ftaet. all medium sized censting ‘ ‘ the machine shown by Figs. 21 to 25 is used. It consists drilled Ss machine without previous laying it of a stand, A. to the side of which the angle B, which r cheaper and ore accurately than in the custo volves readily, is fastened. By means of the hand lever Inanner. The mechanic needs merely to select the proper Fig. 22. this angle may be placed into any desired pos ber © es f Lt table inte ( the b tion and clamped. The collar S again, Figs. 21 and 22 nes and dowel pins are to be titted or to whiel r revolves in the angle B, and carries the castings to be ‘ devices eto be att orl hie perations | finished. Tig. 22, for instance, shows a cylinder head in easy even for unskilled laborers, and thus quickly en dotted lines, in position to be drilled. The drill I) is ble them to attend the es rapidly and mounted on table C, Fig. 22, rigidly secured to the an Interchanging the bushings d shifting of drilling and gle block B, and is fastened by a fork (voke), one end o ling tools are ver ipid. espec . lat Which passes under lug ¢, thus finding a bearing the latter being clamped down by a screw at the _ of the plate th The casting to be drilled 1 1 volved with ring S, and fixed in its proper position b The Water Department of the city of Boston invites the dowel pin s. If it is necessary to drill a numb proposals for furnishing to the city of Boston, Mass., 5500 > —— / / / j ; \ \ | y / \ Fig. 9. Fig. 10. Figs. 7,8 and 9,—Converting a Boring or Milling Machine into a Special Tool. holes, as in the cylinder head, which shall be equidistant tons of cast iron water pipes. A bond of $20,000, with from a central point—the center of plate C and ring S satisfactory surety for faithfully doing the work, will be it will not be necessary to change the position of the required. The office copy of the contract may be seen at drill: it, in fact, remains in Its position, and it is only the office of the W ater Commissioner, City Hall, Boston, necessary to revolve the head with the ring S and to Mass. The proposal to be used can be obtained at said put the dowel pin into the proper hole on the edge of the — office and must be filled out and signed as directed ring, which corresponds to the proper location of the therein, inclosed in an envelope and, with a certified check hole in the casting for $1000, payable to the city of Boston, left at said office From 50 to 200 holes, according to size, may be pro before 12 o’clock m. of Wednesday, January 25, 1899. This vided in the plate C at different distances from the check is to be the property of the city if the bidder fails to center, thus making it possible to drill holes at any de- carry out his proposal. Proposals filled out and left with sired distance from the center. he interchangeable check as above directed, and no other, will, at the above bushings permit the use of most widely varying sizes of | named hour and place, be publicly opened and read, and drills and taps, and the radial holes in the ring pro- the undersigned reserves the right to reject any and all vided for the dowel pin s, and marked with figures on proposals, or to accept the proposal he deems best for the the outer surface, provide for any desired spacing of city. Said envelope should be indorsed, ‘* Proposal for holes to be drilled. In order that holes can be drilled Cast Iron Water Pipe.’ and tapped and smaller surfaces be milled on the op- - te side and laterally, the rectangular angle block T, A London cable dispatch announces the formation of a Figs. 21 and 22, is provided for the devices D, which is Franco-Belgian syndicate with a capital of 34,000,000, rigidly secured by a screw movable in the grooves of — established with the view of purchasing platinum mines the angle block B. The particular position of block Tin Russia. The syndicate, which is headed by Baron required on block B is fixed by dowel pins, which are Oppenheim, the wealthy Parisian banker, aims to establish put into numbered holes in B. Block T carries the de the central market for platinum at Paris instead of vices D by means of a yoke and bolts, as in Figs. 14, 17 London. posi “STs. - ba ed = 6 THE IRON The Use of Gas Engines for Dynamo Driving. \ HN ¢ KELLEY I have often been asked why it is thet gas, gasoline and engines are more used in England that in this untry. For this condition of affairs various reasons 6 given, the most obvious, perhaps, being that illuminating gas of, say, 700 heat units value costs about twice as much here as in England. For example, in Man- chester, England, such gas costs about 60 cents per 1000 largely i ‘ may de cubic feet, while in New York City the present rate is | ; Wa } J ae tT} re i A ) > Kf ry + manana a \ / hic — — i 2 NAD / xy i \ P>/ / ee RO g/ Fig. 11 ?, A i i] / Fig. 18. | ' ‘ V &J t = : $1.15 per 1000 cubie feet. The result is that when any comparison of cost per horse-power per hour is made with an economical type of steam engine the figure, 2 cents per horse-power hour, obtained with a gas engine of good design, is much less favorable to the gas engine than its thermic efficiency entitles it to be for engines larger than, say, 40 or 50 horse power. If, however, the rates for gas were to be reduced 50 per cent., as | believe might be done when used in large quan tities for fuel purposes, the gas engine, even in small sizes, would give power at a cost of 1 cent per horse- hour, and thus compare very favorably with the engine and give a wonderful impetus to the gas enyine Dusiness. In this connection I might say that in Boston it has recently (October 29, 1898) been arranged by the Brook line Gas Light Company with the city of Boston to reduce the price of gas for fuel purposes to 75 cents per 1000 cubic nower } wel steam AGE. January 26, 1899 feet, and to make graded prices for gas used for poweT purposes in gas engines, so that they will be for engines up to 100 horse power 1 1-5 cents per horse power hour; in gas engines from 100 to 200 horse-power, 1 1-10 cents per horse-power hour, and in engines of 200 horse-power and upward, 1 cent per horse-power hour. These prices, which are understood to take effect early in the sprjng when the Massachusetts Pipe Line Gas Company will have completed their immense plant at Everett and will supply by contract coal gas of 18-candle power to the Brookline Company, will at once place gas engines ac- cording to size on an equality with steam engines using 5 to 6 pounds of coal per horse-power hour, which fairly = - 3, “= LY Jo o.8" Y O° 4c0 &s il \ \ BW ~ & > Fig. 14. Figs. 11 t0 15 —Templates for Boring Road Engine Cylinder. aa a : Py YS ~< é " — © © | I y | « . ) i. : oF - ee \ po Fig. 16.—Casting. represents the coal consumption usually met with in steam engines of moderate size working under variable load. In England not only is illuminating gas lower in price, but there is a much more general use made of producer gas to operate gas engines, even for powers as small as 20 horse-power for factory and other service. Nothing cor- responding to this is done here, except that for large powers, say 100 horse-power and upward, a few gas pro- ducers are being installed for power stations and like service. Such engines compete in economy with our highest grades of steam engines. But though progress is still slow, such plants will be widely used when once the fact is generally appreciated in this country as it is in England that a pound of coal gives far more power when made into gas and run through a gas engine thanif burned under a boiler to That the cost of fuel generate steam for a steam engine. January 26, 1899 is almost a controlling factor in the question of installing gas engines is shown by the fact that the demand for large engines suited to our natural gas regions is steadily increasing, As regards gasoline engines, improvements in the details, and particularly in the electric igniter, have plaeed this motor in position to compete with high grade steam engines, yielding as it does power at a cost of 34 to 1 cent per horse-power hour. The underwriters’ require ments, however, restrict the gasoline engine to localities where there is sufficient space available to place the gaso line storage tank 30 feet away from any building. But for country houses and hotels, village water works, fac tories or lighting stations the gasoline station seems just what the conditions demand, and there are a number of engines in use for such service, besides others to operate dynamos to charge storage batteries. The demand tor gasoline engines is growing for out of town power plants, Fig. 17. Fig. 18. THE IRON AGE. 7 Were this item of cost based on actual charges for street current more generally known, instead of there being in New York City about ten times as many small motors as gas engines in service, the proportion might be reversed. Abroad the cost of operating is considered very carefully, and first cost in its due proportion, which may account, in part, for gas engines being used so much more largely than here. As regards the application cf gas engines to isolated electric lighting, a few instances may be cited. The direct connected plant of 500 lights capacity installed at the house of the American Society of Civil Engineers, 220 West Fifty seventh street, has been in service nearly a year and has proved satisfactory, the cost for tuel and attendance being about one-half that of street current, and the quality of light and regulation being excellent. The two cylinder Nash engine gives two impulses on the crank shaft every two revolutions, instead of only one Fig 19 Fig 20. Figs. 17 to 20.— Template Case for Korting Injector Body Fig. 21. Fig. 22. Figs 21 to 23.—Machine for Finishing Bases or Frames. especially in the larger sizes for electric lighting and fac tory service. ; The lessened sales over former years of the small sizes of gas engines, say 5 horse- power and under, are, perhaps, due also in great measure to the competition of the elec- tric motor. A small gas engine cannot be sold for the same price as a small motor, because it is a much more difficult and expensive machine to build. But it is found, as a rule, that those who install such machinery consider only the first cost and do not consider at all the cost of operating, which is a matter of vital importance. For example a3 horse-power electric motor may be bought for, approximately, one-half what a first-class 3 horse-power gas engine will cost. (The motor, it may be remarked, will weigh about 450 pounds, while the gas engine weighs about 1500 pounds.) The difference in price may be, say, $150, while the difference in cost of operating may be, as shown by actual examples, as much as $200 to $240 per year, or nearly enough to pay for a gas engine the first year. In fact, careful comparison of costs of operating gas engines and motors doing the same or equivalent work has shown the motor to cost from two to three times as much to operate as a gas engine. as in the single cylinder engine, and the governor is so sensitive that it automatically regulates the speed to within 2 per cent. from full load to no load. Besides this, a special coupling, which connects the engine and dynamo, is so adjusted that it is impossible for the speed of dynamo to vary but very slightly either way from normal speed before it is corrected by the coupling and the gov- ernor acting jointly. Regulation, in fact, is so close that the voltmeter shows less than one volt variation under changing loads. At the civil engineer’s house they installed a low pressure steam heating apparatus for warming the build- ing, while gas engines are used only for the electric light- ing. ‘Some of our steam heating engineeis were disposed to question the wisdom of this arrangement as compared with a steam lighting plant and steam for heating, but the result, in this case, has justified the choice and shown the economy of departing from standard practice which has compelled the use of a steam plant, oftentimes, solely because it provided exhaust steam for heating, and be cause it was thought, no matter how wasteful the steam engine might be, it cost nothing for the steam heating. The gasoline engine, particularly, which places coun- a SSS SS 8 Pike try houses in an even more favorable position than those in the city with respect to electric lighting at a very moderate figure, I regard as especially promising. What we need just now is more intelligent appreciation, on the part of architects and owners, of what constitutes first class gas engine machinery and willingness to pay a fair price for it. The market is flooded with cheap gas en gines, as itis with cheap steam engines; but while it is recognized that the severe requirements of electric light ing have wonderfully developed the steam engine and that nothing but the very best engines will serve, it does not seem yet generally appreciated that in like manner only a high grade gas engine will answer for electric lighting. —Lilectrical World. a - Business Cards. various sizes and styles of business cards make exceed nely diflicult to preserve them ina convenient fori ind the consequence is that they generally find thie way into the waste basket in a short time after be xy presented. It is tl practice of the writer to tran scribe the information contained on a business card to an ordinary blank card such as is used for filing in the eabinet of the Library Bureau Company. By doing this all addresses are easily preserved and the cards are filed under the name of the business instead of the name IRON AGE January 26, 1899 tions. and will be found of great convenience in record- ing the visits of the representatives and quotations made at that time. If such quotations cancel any previous figures, the old card will be removed from the cabinet and destroyed, and a new card inserted in its place. We believe that a neatly printed card in this form will be of much greater value to all than the most expensive lithographed one which is not made in such a manner as to be preserved. The only catalogues which are sure to be kept and referred to are those which are made to conform to the standard size, and if the purchasing agents of the railroads and other large corporations would request all business houses with whom they deal to furnish their representatives with a card made in the manner hereinabove described, we believe that it will be but a short time before all business cards conform with this principle => The Snoqualmie Falls Power Plant. Advices froin Seattle. Wash... regarding the important electric power plant nuoew under construction at the Snoqualmie Malis, are as follows: February 22 will wit- ness the completien of one of the most remarkable hydro- electric projects in the annais of American engineering the harnessing and transmission electrically of the water power of the famous Snoqualmie Falls cataract (hight, 268 feet) to the industrial centers of Puget Sound. The hydraulic works and the 30-mile aluminum trans- mission lines have been completed, and the electric ma- SIGNALS, INTERLOCKING & SWITCHES. . The Union Switch & Signal Co. OWNERS OF THE NATIONAL SwiTCH & SIGNAL Co., THE JOHNSON RAILROAD SIGNAL Co. CHARLES HANSEL, C. E., MANAGER DEPARTMENT OF SALES ANO INSTALLATION 43 CEDAR STREET NEW YORK. Fic. 1. ‘ firm or individual presenting the card This transferring of the record from the original card to the ecard in the filing cabinet would be avoided if a uniform size and style of business card was adopted, and it would appear that it would be of interest to all con eerned if this could be accomplished. The size of the standard card for filing in the cabinet mentioned is 8.x 5 inches, which is sufficiently large to permit all necessary matter to be printed thereon Phe sample card, Fig. 1, shows the face of a plain busi ness card with hole punched in proper place. The first line or heading denotes the business of the company offering the card, and this is placed as an index for fil ng. and with this system all cards would be filed under the tithe of the business or the article manufactured J s is done to secure a system of tiling which will at all times furnish the information desired As an example: ‘The are a humber of makers of car wheels. If the were filed under the name of the individual pre senting it or the tithe of the manufacturer, the person seehiIng formation trom the card must remember at zl] es either the name of the individual or the manu f: . Whereas if these cards were filed under the pisdane Car Wheels.” as indicated on the upper left hand corner of the card, they would all be together in the file, and no effort of memory would be required. In this manner the names of the various supplies necessary to be purchased would be together in alphabetical order. id if it was desired to have a card under the name of 1 Individual or the manufacturer, a separate drawer cabinet could be used Each drawer will hold about SOO cards, and with this system we have a complete index of all tirms manufae turing the various supplies, which is especially desirable purchasing agents. This cabinet will occupy a space Oo! hot more than Gb. x 13!. inches on the desk Phe backs of the cards m iv be used for noting quota chinery from the Westinghouse Company is how assem- bling. The service will be over two separate pole lines carrying four independent 25.000 volt circuits to insure uninterrupted service, und will be adapted to 2000 volts for service to the electric lighting systems and factories, 500 volts for the street railways and small motors, and other voltages as may be required mechanically or chem- ically. Six thousand horse-power, in 1500 horse-power units, is the initial Capacity of the plant which will be available on the above date froin the company’s power stations in Seattle, Gilman, Renton and Snoqualmie, The New British Naval Gun. The new type of 12-inch naval gun lately introduced by the British Admiralty for the Royal Navy, possesses material advantages over the existing ordnance of the same caliber. Experiments have shown that a charge of 1671, pounds of cordite is sufficient to fire a projectile SoU pounds in weight a distance of 10,000 yards, whereas the existing 12-inch gun needs a charge of 295 pounds of powder to tire a projectile weighing 714 pounds the same distance. The new gun has also a greater destruc- tive capacity, it having been found that its projectile will penetrate 21.1 inches of wrought iron at a distance of 1700 yards, while the penetrating power of the ordi hary 12-inch gun at the same distance is 19.4 inches. At shorter distances the destructive capacity is much more pronounced, the muzzle perforation of the new gun being 58.5 inches of iron. as against 26.7 inches in the case of the older type of weapon. _— — The German Emperor has approved the plans for the projected Prussian ship canal between Stettin and Berlin, by means of which vessels of heavy tonnage will be able to load and discharge cargoes direct at Berlin. So =) oe a OB eee bee eee ue th he January 26. 1899 THE IRON AGE. o Whirlpool Power. A plan to utilize 5 per cent. of the waters of the whirl pool rapids at Niagara and convert it into 35,000 electrical horse power on an outlay of nearly $2,000,000, has just been completed by John Birkinbine, a prominent Phila- delphia engineer and president of the Franklin Institute, for a party of New York and Buffalo capitalists. The main idea of the scheme is to utilize the 45 feet head of water between the international bridges and the whirlpool by conducting the percentage of water named through a vanal along the base of the gorge and inside the tracks of the Niagara & Lewiston Railroad, known as the George Road, so as not to interfere with the scenery in any way. The power house is to be located just around the bend of the river below the whirlp pol. In speaking of the project Mr Birkinbine said to a reporter of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin: The aver age flow of water through the gorge is from 166,000 to 275 000 cubic feet per second The speed of the water rushing down the gorge is 21.75 miles per hour—that is, from the bridges to the whirlpool The new project is as follows: First to divert a portion of the water from the river below the bridges into a canal separated from the stream by an embankment or wall, which will also carry the roadbed of the Niagara Falls & Lewiston Railway. Owing to the velocity of the river, it is proposed to construct an entrance which will prac tically be a monolith of concrete or mass of masonry, Ke) v. GOA w. RS x of passing through valuable property necessary in the other plants. The plans, which are now in the hands of the promoters of the project, who express confidence in their ability to carry it through, provide for the rise and fall of the water in the river due to the variations of winds on Lake Erie. The maximum variation is about 15 feet. ee Wrought Iron Grille. Phe Ludlow-Sayvlor Wire Company, St. Louis, tiave been very busy during the past six months in their manuiacturing department During this time they have turned out some very handsome and artistic pieces of work im the shape of elevator cars and inclosures, park and cemetery gates, vault doors, &e. We illustrate here With a grille made by this company, which measures 9x 5 feet. It is made of hand hammered wrought iron and leat work, and is Considered a very artistic piece of wor] The company are prepared to make original drawings for any class of artistic iron or brass work, and this department of their business is growing to large dinensious -_ An Automobile Truck. The first antomobile truek ever mad» in this country has just been completed by the Fisher Equipment Com saat ed 2 Ny hy wis WROUGHT IRON GRILLE pierced with openings, through which the water can pass into the canal. The excavation of the canal, which will involve the removal of enormous quantities of rock and débris, will be conducted at a low cost by hydraulicking or washing the loose material away by strong streams of water. Most of the waste material will go into the river, but the harder and better rock, which will have to be blasted down, will be utilized in the construction of the bank for the canal, the power house and otner purposes. The canal will deliver 10 500 eubic feet of water per second, or 5 per cent. of the normal volume passing through the Niagara Gorge. Making allowance for head lost in the canal and for efficiency of water wheels, this volume of water can, with the fall available, produce 35.000 electrical horse- power. The plans admit the water about 300 feet below the bridge, trom which point a tall of 45 feet to the outlet at the whirlpool is secured The canal will be 5300 feet in length and average 100 feet in breadth. {t is proposed to equip the power house just below the head with water wheels, electric generators, exciters, &c., and to carry the railway track over a portion of the power house to allow free vent for tail water without interfer ing with the scenic features of the railroad. T