The Iron Age 1903-04-02: Vol 71 Iss 14

THE IROM=AGE URIMOSYIIUTg A Review of the Hardware, Iron, Machinery ana imc.ui Trades. Publishéd every Thursday Morning by David Williams Co., 232-238 William St., New York. Vol. 71: No. r4. New York, Thursday, April 2, 190}. SS & See, Sees Pees Single Copies, Ten Cents. Reading Matter Contents.........page 56] — = 4 Alphabetical Index to Advertisers ‘** 237], Classified List of Advertisers..... ‘* 229 Advertising and Subscription Rates “‘ 77] Smokeless Powder Shot Shells are being continually improved to meet changing conditions. Dealers should carry a stock of the best loads of U. M. C. NITRO CLUBand ARROW shells to meet the increasing de rand. U. M. C, products are half sold before they are offered by the retailer, This is due to their long standing reputation and the thorough advertising behind them. THE BRISTOL COMPANY, The Union Metallic Cartridge Co., Waterbury, Conn. Bristo’s’ Recording Agency, 313 Brosdwoy. BRIDGER. Instruments. For Pressure Temperature and Electricity. Silver Medal, Paris Exposition. hain 5 All Ranges, Low Prices, and Guar —— 7 = ach ‘SPOT coRD CAI CAHALL H Al | B0 | BOILERS =» RS: Soo Page 156. : CAPEWELL HORSE NAILS Also Massachusett aP i Masenc! of Sash ro Cn P SAMSON CORDAGE WORKS, Boston, Mass. TURNBUCKLES. | | i Branch Office, 11 Broadway, New York. NEW YORK Branches : PORTLAND, ORE. Cleveland City Forge and lronCo., - Cleveland, O PHILADELPHIA, BUFFALO, RNB 4k CHICAGO, DETROIT, BALTIMORE, TU vo BES. ST. LOUIS, CINCINNATI, NEW ORLEANS, BOSTON, SAN FRANCISCO, DENVER. MERRILL BROS., ig et 485 to 471 Kent Ave., Brooklyn £.D..™ ¥ tHirard Building, “a . ~ Partiter Bank, Pittsb’¢g. yf pense Bldg. ES York. THE CAPEWELL HORSE NAIL COMPANY HARTFORD, CONN. PLATE PATTER REGULAR PATTERN. i of Trade, Boston. JENKINS BROTHERS’ VALVES Perfectly tight under all pressures of steam, oils, or acids. Warranted to give satisfaction under the worst conditions. Received the At the Pan-Amer- Highest Award Gold Meda ican Exposition, Insist on having the genuine stamped with Trade- Wark. JENKINS BROTHERS, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Ghicago. much money on it-promptly. ~ THE AMERICAN TUBE & STAMPING 60, Your jobber may not be HOT AND COLD ROLLED Senate 8. ours ; he can buy of ours ; so STRIP STEEL. The WILMOT & HOBBS MF6. CO. PAGE APOLLO BEST BLOON GALVANIZED IRON Your jobber can always get it—he may not make so er MAGNOLIA METAL. l ; a Best Anti-Friction Metal for all Machinery Bearings. Fac-Simile of Bar. f — ‘ Beware Si : imitations. 3 San Vrencians KE leans, Montreal. Boston, Ownersand Sole Manufacturers, 511-613 West OtgjSt., San yranciaco,, S4 Ayes ty eentceak. Bapton, | Chicago, Fisher Bidg. OF t pres of Babpitt Metals at competitive prices, THE IRON AGE, ANSONIA RASS gp” COPPER CO. MANUFACTURERS OF BRASS AND COPPER Seamless Tubes, Sheets, Rods and Wire. ESTABLISHED 18. Main Office and Mills at Waterbury, N. Y. Store, No. 122 to No, 180 Centre St. Providence Store, No. 181 Dorrance St. and No, 152 Eddy St. SOLE MANUFACTURERS o Tobin Bronze (TRADE-MaRK REGISTERED.) Condenser Plates,Pump Linings, Round, IN SHEET, ROD AND WIRE for Square and Hexagon Bars, for Pump Key Stock Piston Rods and Bolt Forgings. Cutlery Metal Seamless Tubes for Boilers a pe Senden. Electrical Purposes 99 John Street, . New York. Plated Ware also Randolph-Clowes Co., Main Office and Mill, WATERBURY, CONN. MANUFACTURERS OF ““Pope’s Island White filetal’” for like uses when extra drawing and spinning is required. WRITE FOR SAMPLES. SHEET BRASS & COPPER, 9) R-227-7.°-72-772-°-72- VRAD BRAZED BRASS & COPPER , GENUINE No. 1 BABBITT. ; TUBES. & wnat y € no shrink in it. ver tried ier SEAMLESS BRASS Saves in every way-Time, 2 & COPPER TUBES € Money and Patience. » ccomiinaianan GREATEST DURABILITY. ; New York Offiee, 258 Broadway, Postal is Bridgeport Deoxidized Bronze a ‘Telegraph Bidg., Room 715. © and Metal Company, , Chicago Office, 602 Fisher Bldg. , Bridgeport. Conn. + @Seeeo_eove1 EL Nec Nee Ne aN Nee ae Nee Nee Nee Brooklyn Brass & Copper Co., Matthiessen & Hegeler Zinc Co., LA SALLE, ILLINOIS. SMELTERS OF SPELTER AND MANUFACTURERS OF SHEET ZINC 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. ZINCS FOR LECLANCHE BATTERY. WENN meee mA Uk LAI Sc 8:74 West Monroe St., Chicago. OME UML UTTER CUS TEAST MEU TIDDIIT Redo DAs ae BRASS, BRONZE and ALUMINUM CASTINGS. Founders, Finishers, W. G. ROWELL & CO., BRIDGEPORT, CONN. HENDRICKS BROTHERS PROPRIETORS OF THE Belleville Copper Rolling Mills, Brasiers’ Bolt ax nana Sheathing SE, ee a. Ingot Copper, Block Tin, Spelter, “Lead, Antimony, etc. 49 CLIFF ST., NEW YORK. WATERBURY BRASS GO, | THe PLUME & ATWOOD Mro, Cr,, com She8t and Roll Brass GERMAN SILVER “ \ MANUFACTURERS OF —AND— WIRE PRINTERS’ BRASS, JEWELERS’ METAL, GERMAN SILVER AND GILDING METAL, COPPER RIVETS AND BURRS. Pinus, Brass Butt Hinges, Jack Chain, Kere- 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, GERMAN SILVER Sheets, Rolis, Wire, Rods, Bolts and Tubes, Brass Shelis, Cups, Hinges, Buttons, Lamp Coods. SPECIAL BRASS GOODS TO ORDER Factories, WATERBURY, CONN. DEPOTS: NEW YORK, CHICAGO, BOSTON. JOHN DAVOL & SONS, AGENTS FOR DEALERS IN COPPER, TIN, SPELTER, LEAD, ANTIMONY, 100 John Straet, - New York. Arthur T. Rutter SUCCESSOR TO WILLIAM S. FEARING 256 Broadway, NEW YORK Small tubing in Brass, Copper, Steel, Aluminum, German Silver, &c. Sheet Brass, Copper and Ger- man Silver. Copper, Brass and German Silver Wire. Brazed and Scamless Brass and Copper Tube. Copper and Brass Rod. THE BRIDGEPORT BRASS CO. BRIDGEPORT CONN. 29 Murray St., New York. 85-87 Pearl St., Boston. 17 N. 7th St., Philadelphia. MANUFACTURERS OP Brass SHEET AND TUBING Copper | WIRE. Lamp Geeds of al) Kinds. BRASS AND COPPER GOODS lp Great Varieties. IR No better counter ~ made. 4 Whecl, $3.00 5 Wheel, $3.25 Guaranteed. BATTLE CREEK, MICH. R. A. HART, 7 8 MAN ETS 2 TS} Ll . | day > ohn HE IRON AGE TuHurspbay, Apri 2, 19038. Kb The New Le Blond Milling Machine. The line of milling machines built by the R. K. Le Blond Machine Tool Company of Cincinnati, Ohio, was completely redesigned last fail, special care been exercised to enable the tools to produce the maxi mum amount of work. They can be adjusted, operated having = & i, Je i SAP ta. Sea i ¥e Ad | rik NEW LE BLOND and locked from practically one position. They have a wide range of speed and feed changes; the driving cones are of large diameter for wide belts; the spindles are strongly back geared and the feeds are powerful. All sliding surfaces are scraped to surface plates and cylin drical surfaces finished by grinding. The bevel gears are planed theoretically correct and interchangeability is secured by making all parts to standard jigs. The Nos. 0) and 1 machines have eight spindle speeds; Nos. 1% and 2, 12 spindle speeds, and Nos. 3 and 5, 18 7 speeds. These speeds are arranged in geometrical ratio, the same amount of increase being obtained from the helts to back gear speeds as from one to another belt speed. These speeds are obtained by driving cones of arge diameter and wide face, the Nos. 0 and 1 having plain cone, Nos. 144 and 2 being back geared and Nos. + and 5 being double friction back geared. rhe first engraving shows the No. 3 universal ma- MILLING MACHINE which is the double frie tion back gears, the construction of which is illustrated in Fig. 2. This back gear consists of a ring, C, which is opened by a plug, I), the sides of which are made taper- ng. The plug is forced up with a taper key, E. The friction ring is made to snap tight on a spoo_ so that When released there is absolutely no friction _» the gear, as the band comes tightly to its place on the - >ol. a yoke, F, whicu turn is operated by the lever G, shown at the side of the chine, the principal novelty of The wedge or key Is carried by 2 | THE «olumn. The special advantage of making the friction this way is that it is multiplied a good many times be- fore it reaches the spindle, as this friction merely drives the pinion on the back gear quill, which in turn drives the face gear, making it several times as powerful as a friction direct in the face gear. This construction pro- vides ample driving power. The advantages of these back gears are that they can be properly proportioned; a greater number of spindle —.-{— a THE IRON AGE Fig. 3.—Double Back Gear. THE NEW LE speeds can be obtained, as four changes of speed are derived without shifting a belt; there is a higher ratio of back gears and higher belt speeds and therefore bet- ter belt contact; finally, the drive is twice as powerful as on the regular single back geared machine. A comparison of the relative spindle power of a double back geared machine with that obtained by an ordinary four-step cone and single back gear, conditions being the same in both instances, shows the superiority of the former. Fig. 3 is a diagram of a double back gear and Fig. 4 of a single back gear drive, both being calculated to give the same range of spindle speeds, from IRON AGE. April 2, 1903 12% to 262 revolutions per minute. The large step of the spindle and countershaft cones is the same in both. The countershaft on the double geared machine runs at 180 and 220 revolutions per minute, while that on the single geared machine runs at 135 and 166 revolutions per minute, giving the double geared machine a gain in countershaft speed or power of 33 and 30 per cent. re- spectively. The cone diameters on the double back geared machine are 13, 10% and 8% inches. On the Tae IRon Ace Back Gear Ratio _ 6.3 tol THE IRON AGE Fig. 4.—Single Back Gear. BLOND MILLING MACHINE. single back geared machine they are 13, 1013-16, 85% and 67-16 inches in diameter. This gives an increased diameter on the smallest cone step of the double back geared machine of 2% inches, amounting to 32 per cent. increased belt contact. This pertains as well to the small step of the countershaft cone. The relative belt speeds obtained are shown graphic- ally in the diagram, Fig. 5. The broken line indicates those on the single geared and the solid line those on the double geared machine. It will be seen that when both machines are running at the slowest speed of 12% revo- lutions per minute the double back geared machine = April 2, 1903 has a cone belt velocity of 447 feet per minute, while the single back geared machine has a velocity of 267 feet per minute, showing a gain for the double back geared machine of 70 per cent. in power. This proportion is maintained until a speed of 35 revolutions per minute is reached, when engaging the low ratio of back gear the doubie back geared machine reduces the belt speed to about that of the single geared machine, from which point the belt speed then increases in favor of the double back geared machine until at 75 revolutions per minute there is a difference in the belt speed of 390 feet, or a THE IRON AGE. ww 121% revolutions per minute the double back gear would have a belt travel of 35 feet per revolution, the single back gear 22 feet per revelution, or a gain in belt travel of 18 feet per revolution. The power is proportioned to the relative helt velocity. On the high speeds, where the back gear is not used, there is a gain of about 32 per cent. Each back gear increases the pulling power of the cutter until on the slowest speed there is an in- creased cutting power of 62 per cent. Next in importance is the novelty of the feed change box, Figs. 7 and 8. The feeds are arranged in geo- oe D 2g 9 oo w x wi 20 LO © < n< w®@ w ~~ w su au az zo > | 4 aa ®Ds ~ 26 ee 5 2 2 12} of a = * 12% ; ish | ce ot wl Yi eames | +. i 1D } ~h 15 | rt. \ 19 | ‘ 19 | | 23 o 23 2 } “ } | — 30 ss | | 1 } 47 | | } | } } | os 7 j 1) tli tt | Lp Lewoee lL tse | 7 geese rsssF } Pel 4, | ) Y= 90 | ‘N ‘ 120 x 147 18D | | 227 | 290 | 362 | | Fig. 5.—Diagram Showing Relative Belt Velocity in Feet Per Vinute. BELT TRAVEL IN FEET PER REVOLUTION OF SPINDLE 41.5 2 OOuBLE GEARED ~ THE IRon AcE Fig. 6.—Diagram Showing the Relative Pull on the Cutter of the Single and Double Back Geared Machines. THE NEW LE BLOND MILLING MACHINE. gain of 150 per cent. When the machines are running on the open belt the double back geared machine has an increased belt speed varying from 70 to 200 feet, as will be seen from the diagram. There is still another factor to consider that has an important bearing on the power of the machine—namely, the ratio of the back gears. Calculating the back gear ratio so as to give an even grade of speeds running in geometrical progression from 12% to 362 revolutions per minute, we get a back gear ratio of 3.31 and 10.34 on the double back geared machine and 6.2 on the single back geared machine, amounting to an average increase of 74 per cent. in back gear power in favor of the double back geared machine. The diagram, Fig. 6, demon- strates this by showing the belt travel per revolution of the spindle. For example, with a spindle speed of metrical progression, ranging from 0.006 to 0.255 per revolution of the spindle. The box is composed strictly of spur gears, and the transmission from the spindle to the box is through spur gear. Any feed can be instantly obtained by the movement of a single lever. An en- graved plate attached to the feed box indicates the feed obtained. ‘The lower lever gives a fine and the upper lever a coarse graduation of feed. Each handle is en- tirely independent of the other and can be worked separately or in unison. To illustrate this suppose the operator was using a feed of 0.012 to one revolution of the spindle and wanted to get 0.02. The lower lever would then be moved two notches. If 0.086 was required the upper lever would be shifted. With the upper lever in the first position all the feeds from 0.006 to 0.036 would be obtained, or 4 THE the range generally used for direct cone drive. With the upper lever in the second position all the feeds from 0.043 to 0.255 would be had, or the feeds used when the spindle is back geared. The spindle on the feed box is inversely proportioned to the spindle speeds, obviating speeds that are detri- Fig. 7 Feed Boa 3 P THE NEW LI and On mental to the machine. high feeds the drive is through the pinion K, Fig. 3. speeds when beavy are taken the feed through the gear J, increasing the feed and power of the feed box seven times. The levers on the feed box are nearest the operator. By meshing each of the on the with the gear I on the upper cone, Fig. 38, of the On the high spindle speeds slow euts is lower cone rears and each BLOND IRON April 2, 1903 AGE, gears on the upper cone with the gear A on the lower cone, eight changes of speed are obtained. By moving the gear K into mesh with the gear I eight more changes are obtained. The No. 38 universal machine, Fig. 1, has an auto- matic traverse of 10 inches, a vertical movement of 18% Cover Removed Vachine ain MILLING MACHINE and an automatic longitudinal movement of 36 Ali the movements are graduated. The table working surface of 12 x inches. It can be swiveled 45 degrees each way for cutting spirals. The 12 inches, and takes 34 inches be centers. The spindle can be turned completely from one the other, and is threaded and bored to the same taper as the main spindle. The over- inches inches. has a 53 spiral head swings tween to over side April 2, 1903 hanging arm is a solid bar of steel furnished with two supports. The plain machine, No. 3, Fig. 9, has a traverse of 10% inches, a vertical movement of 20 inches and a longitudinal movement of 36 inches. The table is the same size as the other, and has an automatic feed in both directions of 36 inches. Notes from Great Britain. The Markets. LONDON, March 21, 1903.—We are having quite a lively time, for during the week there has been a good deal of speculative buying, with the result that prices have been irregular. The prevailing feature is the con- tinued firmness of pig iron. Smelters are now well sup- plied with contracts. Consumers have again taken heart of grace. Forge iron quotations have advanced. The increased cost of spelter has brought up galvanized Sheets to £11 10s., f.o.b. Liverpool. Black sheets have also advanced, and altogether the market prices of raw materials and semifinished products are stiffer. Cop- per has been irregular all the week, but finished up last night at £66 10s. Reports from America arouse some distrust, and consumers are buying for immediate re- quirements, the rest of the market activity being purely speculative. Tin has been bobbing up and down, settle- ment price last night being £134 5s. It is thought that the account on the whole has been considerably over- sold. Prices to-day are as follows: Pig Iron: Scotch, 57 shillings 4 pence; Middlesbrough, 52 shillings 7 pence; hematite, 61 shillings 6 pence. Forge quali- ties: Staffordshire cinder, 48 shillings 6 pence; part-mine, 49 to 51 shillings; all-mine, 57 shillings 6 pence to 67 shillings 6 pence ; best ditto, 80 to 85 shillings; cold blast, 95 to 100 shil- lings; Northamptonshire, 48 shillings 6 pence to 50 shillings: Derbyshire, 51 to 52 shillings; North Staffordshire, 51 to 52 shillings; Lincolnshire, 53 shillings 1 penny. Friday, Thursday, Public stores stocks, in tons. March 20. March 19 ee ee ee 19,798 19,798 Connal’s, at Middlesbrough, hematite....... 1,300 1,300 Thursday, Wednesday, Hematite. March 19. March 18, WEE GER Cscecurbadeencndar ede ccRenen 22,488 22,488 Connal’s, at Middlesbrough................ 130,568 132,041 Finished Iron: Marked bars, £8 10s.; Earl of Dudley’s brand, £9 2s. 6d.; second grade, £7 10s.; common unmarked bars, £6 5s. to £6 10s.; North Staffordshire bars, £6 15s.; angles, £6 10s. to £7; sheets, singles, £7 12s. 6d. to £7 17s. 6d., doubles, £7 15s. to £8, trebles, £8 7s. 6d. to £8 12s. 6d.; galvanized corrugated sheets, f.o.b. Liverpool, £11 10s. to £11 15s.; hoop iron, £7 5s. to £7 10s.; nail rod and rivet iron, £7 5s. to £7 10s.; gas strip, £6 12s. 6d. to £6 15s. Steel: Bessemer billets, £4 15s. to £4 17s. 6d.; Siemens Dil- lets, £4 17s. 6d. to £5; mild steel bars, £6 12s. 6d. to £7 2s. 6d.; steel plates, £6 5s. to £7; steel girders, £6 to £6 5s.; steel angles, £5 15s. to £6 7s. 6d. It is noticeable that the Middlesbrough warrants have touched a level not reached since October 1 last. Wages and the State of Trade. A conference has been held during the week between the engineering employers’ federation and the Amalga- mated Society of Engineers. After two days’ sitting, a reduction of wages on the Northeast Coast of 1 shilling per week time rates and 2% per cent. piece work rates, to take effect on May 1, was agreed to. Considerable discussion took place with regard to the proposal on the part of the employers to reduce wages on the Clyde by 1 shilling time rates and 5 per cent. piece work rates. On this point the conference was unable to come to an agreement. Profits and Dividends. The balance sheet of Charles Cammell & Co. for last year records a net profit of £144,724, and a dividend of 5 per cent. for the year on the preference shares and 10 per cent. on the ordinary shares is declared. A number of interesting points in the report are worth noting by American readers. I glean the following facts: The resumption of work in the heavy branches of the company’s business did not occur until too late in the year to make good the consequences of the lack of employment in the early part, and it is due to this cir- cumstance, in combination with the lower prices obtain- able for other materials, that the reduction in profits as compared with the previous year is to be attributed. THE IRON AGE. o In reference to the mines in Spain, in which the com pany are interested, the construction of that portion of the independent line of railway over which the mineral will be carried to Bilbao has been placed with a well- known firm of contractors in England. An advanta- geous arrangement has been made by the Sierra Company for the couveyance of the mineral over the railway when partially or wholly completed. The development of an important deposit of ore lying between Bezares and Huerta de Abajo is being actively carried on, and this deposit will be available as soon as the means of sufficiently economical communication are established. If the promise of the explorations already made be realized there will be sufficient mineral here for several vears’ consumption of the Cumberland blast furnaces without recourse to other portions of the properties. The acute depression which has for some time pre- vailed in the manufacturing districts of Russia has pre- vented the Russian Cammell File Company, Limited, from contributing anything to the profits of the parent company this year. The sales of files, however, are steadily increasing, and a more profitable result is ex- pected when improvement occurs in the economic con- dition of Southern Russia. The profit made last year by A. J. Stewart & Men zies, Limited, the well-known tube manufacturers, was £150,336, gross, and £97,132, net, and a dividend of 10 per cent. is declared. This company amalgamated as from January 1 with the other well-known tube manu- facturing firm of Lloyd & Lloyd, but the joint working, of course, does not come into last year’s working bal- ance sheet. The capital of the new company reaches altogether £1,750,000. Standardization of Gun Manufacture. Upon the important question of the standardization of gun manufacture, the following words from the speech of the Secretary to the Admiralty in the House of Commons should be placed on record, for they may have far reaching effect: ° “With regard to guns, everybody connected with these nayal matters realizes that the question of the efficiency of a gun is very important. There are two things which have to be considered: 1. The total gun power of the ships, which becomes more important in these days of improved armor and improved torpedoes; 2, the actual efficiency of a gun, which is measured by its muzzle velocity and striking power. “The attention of the Admiralty has often been di- rected to these points, but it has never been an easy matter to revolutionize the whole gunnery equipment of our fleet, but I can say there has been a steady, pro- gressive increase in the effective gun power of our ships. We believe the new guns which are being fitted into the ships under construction will be an immense advance on those we have already, which will be partly due to the increased efficacy of the powder we use, and partly due to the length of the gun. “I also wish to make reference to a fact which will have the effect of increasing the rapidity of construc- tion, and it is the standardization of our work. This question has been dealt with by some of the most pow- erful engineering committees this country has ever known, which have met under the presidency of Sir James Wolf, Bart., on which committees have sat repre- sentatives of our Government departments. The com- mittees are only commencing the production of their labors, the first of their volumes being that on standardi- zation. Anything which tends toward the supply of proper material must be important to the Admiralty. Up to last year, 12-inch guns, costing £30,000 each, were manufactured by three great makers, the differences being of a minute character. We have now got those makers together in a room, and they have agreed to make every part of the guns interchangeable. In future, therefore, throughout the world, wherever a part—be it large or small—requires to be replaced, we shall be able to replace it from our own stores, independently of the maker.” In this regard I may say that I had the other day a question of providing gun mountings for a small gun. Ss. G. H. 6 THE IRON AGE. Extra Session of Congress in Novem- ber. WASHINGTON, D. C., March 31, 1908.—The cablegram of Secretary Hay to United States Minister Squiers at Havana to the effect that President Roosevelt will call an extra session of Congress next fall, which promptly brought about the ratification by the Cuban Senate of the pending reciprocity treaty on March 28, has been fol- lowed by a semiofficial statement to the effect that Con- gress will be called together on November 9, four weeks in advance of the regular date of meeting. The Presi- dent’s object is to secure the approval of the treaty by both houses before the holiday recess, and he expects that the efforts of the Congressional leaders will be con- centrated upon this one item of legislation and that until it is disposed of—or at least until December 7, the regu- lar date of meeting—no attention will be devoted to other matters. Until within a few days the majority leaders in both House and Senate had strongly advised the President not to call an extra session to consider the Cuban treaty. The months of October and November cover the period during which much work preliminary to the Presidential conventions is done by the political leaders of both par- ties, and this time is very valuable to Senators and Representatives who are necessarily detained in Wash- ington through the coming long session. After mature refiection, however, Senator Allison and several of his colleagues on the Senate Finance Committee decided to recommend the early convening of Congress in the hope of disposing of all questions associated with the tariff as far as possible in advance of the meeting of the national conventions. Senator Allison presented the case to the President with considerable force, and it was thereupon decided to bring Congress together im- mediately after the State and municipal elections, which take place this year on November 38. A Tariff Wrangle Expected. The majority leaders in both houses are making no attempt to conceal the fact that the consideration of the Cuban treaty will provoke a protracted wrangle over the tariff, which they greatly deprecate, but which can- not well be avoided. The hope has been entertained that extended debate might be limited to the Senate, but recent developments indicate that the question at issue will probably not be so promptly disposed of by the House as has been predicted. So many Republican Representatives will enter the new Congress pledged to secure certain tariff reductions that the fight in the House promises to be even more interesting than in the Senate. It is assumed that immediately after the election of Representative Cannon as Speaker of the House in the Fifty-eighth Congress the personnel of the Ways and Means Committee will be announced, and a joint resolu- tion putting into force the reduced rates of the Cuban treaty will be speedily reported. If it is then possible to pass a resolution after limited debate, under a spe- cial order from the Committee on Rules, there will be little or no delay in the House, but the crucial test will be whether the House will agree to consider the resolu- tion under the terms of a special order, which will, of course, cut off amendments, limit debate and fix the time for a vote. It will be remembered that when the Cuban Rect- procity bill was taken up in the House a year ago the leaders promptly recognized the fact that a majority of the House would oppose the consideration of the meas- ure under an order prohibiting amendments, and it was therefore discussed without limit and so materially amended that the Senate subsequently abandoned it. While there has since been some change of sentiment among members of the House with regard to the ques- tion of reciprocity with Cuba and several who opposed the bill a year ago would probably now vote for a reso- lution putting the treaty into force, there are others who, while favoring the treaty, are now disposed to demand that the joint resolution shall be amended so as to provide also for other and important reductions in the April 2, 1903 tariff. The Democratic minority will vote solidly against a special order limiting debate, and if 16 Repub- licans unite with them they will not only be able to re- ject the special order, but also to overrule the chair in case the Speaker should hold general tariff amendments not to be germane to the measure under discussion. Under the parliamentary precedents which have been quoted in this connection general tariff amendments may or may not be germane to a joint resolution putting into force the reduced rates of the Cuban treaty, but the question is shrouded in sufficient doubt to make it extremely probable that the Speaker will hold that all aumendmenis are out of order, while members of the House who favor tariff changes will not be deterred by conscientious scruples from voting to overrule the chair. The element on the Republican side of the House which is likely to prove troublesome to the majority leaders will embrace, 1, the so-called beet sugar mem bers, who will oppose the joint resolution on its merits; 2, members from the Middle West who have been in- structed by their constituents to insist upon lower duties on certain schedules of the tariff; and, 3, certain mem- bers from New England and New York who are pledged to miss no opportunity to vote for free hides. It is, of course, quite possible that the aggregate of these “insurgent ’’ Representatives will exceed 15 and in that case the tariff fight in the House will be un- iimited and fui] of significance. But whatever may be the outcome in the House, a memorable tariff discussion in the Senate is inevitable. Such a discussion was planned by the minority leaders of the Senate when the Cuban treaty was amended so as to require it to be “approved by Congress.” The tariff and the trusts, and especially the extent to which the tariff has helped the trusts, will be the leading issues put forward by the minority leaders in the next Presi- dential campaign, the literature of which will be chiefly produced during the debate upon the Cuban resolution. The large Republican majority in the Senate—where the vote now stands 57 to 33, a margin of 24—is counted upon to prevent the passage of any tariff measures ex- cept the unamended Cuban resolution, but should a sufficient number of insurgent Republicans vote to amend the resolution a long and bitter contest between the Senate and House would result, of which one out- come would probably be the failure of the Cuban treaty. No More Reciprocity Treaties. Whether the Cuban treaty is ratified or not, it is generally accepted without any question that no se- rious attempt will be made hereafter to ratify any of the other pending treaties, and that Section 4 of the Dingley act, under which they were negotiated, has utterly failed of its purpose. As heretofore stated in these dispatches, the administration will negotiate no more treaties under the existing law, and it is improb- able that those now pending will be extended. It has thus been clearly demonstrated that it is impracticable to secure the ratification of a reciprocity treaty which, under the law, must be acted upon by Congress after its negotiation, and this fact has drawn attention anew to the plan, which President McKinley is known to have seriously considered, of adopting the European system of a maximum and minimum tariff. Under such a system the present rates might be adopted by Congress as a general tariff and a series of minimum conventional rates enacted as to such items as Congress might consider proper subjects for recipro- eal trade concessions. The function of Congress would thus be exercised in advance, and the exact limits of the authority of the Executive to modify rates would be fixed by statute. Treaties negotiated on this basis could be promulgated without further reference, either to the House or Senate. This principle has been car- ried out to a limited extent in Section 3 of the Dingley act, under which several minor treaties have been nego- tiated with France, Germany, Italy, &c., by the terms of which specified reductions are made by the United States on importations of argols, brandies, statuary and other works of art, &c. The representatives of indus- tries, the products of which might be placed on the conventional tariff list, would have an opportunity to + rag Je ere, were April 2, 1908 THE IRON make any desired representations to the ‘Ways and Means and Finance committees in advance of legisla- tion establishing a maximum and minimum tariff, but thereafter they would be afforded no opportunity, as at present, of killing a treaty that might be regarded by them as undesirable. W. L. ©. oar An Appeal for Protection in Canada. ToroNTO, March 28, 1903.—The very representative deputation sent by the Canadian Manufacturers’ Asso- ciation to Ottawa on the 19th inst., was received by the Finance Minister, the Minister of Customs and the Min- ister of Marine and Fisheries. It was introduced by a number of members of Parliament. Cyrus A. Birge, president of the association, headed the party, which was made up of 20 persons, one for each industry or group of industries. ‘The members of the deputation who spoke for the iron and steel interests were F. H. Ciergue, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, and F. P. Jones, Sydney, N. S. J. K. Osborne, Toronto, was on hand for the agricultural implement manufacturers, and J. L. Moffatt, Jr., for stoves. Mr. Birge first addressed the Ministers. He stated that manufacturers were unani- mous as to the need for more protection. The associa- tion, he said, had prepared schedules of duties which represented the consensus of its members as to the fair- est apportionment of protection among the different de- partments of manufacturing production. These sched- ules he would be pleased to submit to the Government, in confidence. Mr. Fielding, the Finance Minister, in- quired “‘ Why in confidence?” ‘ Because,” Mr. Birge re- plied, “it would not be wise to present them unless the Government intended to use them.” But Mr. Fielding insisted that, the mater being of public interest, it should be known to the public, for whom the Govern- ment was acting. George Drummond of the Canada Iron Furnace Com- pany also spoke, urging the necessity of an upward re- vision of the tariff this session. W. K. McNaught pointed to the importations of German goods and the rising demands of labor here, which insisted on wages as high as those current in the United States, where pro- tection was much greater. F. P. Jones spoke emphat- ically of the need for higher duties on iron and steel. Canada makes billets, but because there is no protection on steel rails there are no mills for the production of these. F. H. Clergue followed the man from Sydney. He said that he had been in Canada for ten years now and had speut millions of dollars in construction work and on pay rolls. When he first came to Canada the Con- servatives were in power. Those whom he represented were used to the policy of protection as it was in vogue in Canada. It had made the United States prosperous. He had every reason to believe it would make Canada prosperous. Then came a change of Government and a rumored change in the tariff. This forced him to change his plans. He bought a site at the American Soo, be- cause he reasoned that if Canada was to have free trade he could the better distribute his products from the American side, could easily get his raw material from Canada, and sell his surplus products in Canada. That was his frank confession. But the tariff of 1897 showed that there was to be very little change made. Turning his attention to rails, he said that there was no duty on the rails he manufactured when he came to Canada. There was a duty on some styles of rails, but he had been assured that when those styles were made the duty would be imposed. He had spent a large amount of money on his rail mill. Could he keep the mill going? It was as well equipped as any mill on earth, but he had to fight a wage scale that was three times as great as that in existence in Great Britain and Germany. He be- lieved he had thrown more life blood into the commercial life of Canada than any other single Canadian industry. Was he not entitled to consideration? The Government's Reply. After several other speakers had been heard Mr. Fielding, the Finance Minister, replied. He stated that while he agreed with the deputation in some things he AGE. 7 differed from it in others. He had expected it to lay its information before him, but as he would not promise lo keep it from the public, whom it concerned, it was withheld. He added that letters had been received by him wherein he was warned against the designs of the association. In these and other communications re- ceived by Ministers the Government was urged to leave the tariff as it is. A Memorial Presented. A memorial in which the general case for the asso- ciation was stated was presented to the Ministers. It was adopted at the Toronto meeting of Mareh 12, re- ferred to in a former letter to The Iron Age. In this memorial it is stated that there are 1218 manufacturing concerns in the association, with an invested capital of $400,000,000, that the association is nonpolitical, that it believes the tariff should be taken out of politics, and that the general tariff should be immediately revised. Referring to the bearing of the present tariff on the trade with the United States, the memorial says: Our most natural market, geographically—the United States —is meeting us in every branch of industry and at every oppor- tunity with a closed door. We have seen our imports from the United States grow during consecutive years from $28,000,000 in 1866 to $53,000,000 in 1896, until last year they reached the enormous sum of $120,000,000. . . . Of the $120,000,000 worth we bought from them last year, $65,000,000 was made up of manufactured goods alone, or more than the value of the wheat grown last year in our whole Northwest. True, we may congratulate ourselves upon the expansion of our great Northwest, but what does it profit Canada if we give the whole of our Northwest crop in the encouragement of United states industries, as opposed to our own, and enhance for the United States farmer the value of his market, which excludes at every point the farmers of Canada? Of the British preference the memorial has this to say: Turning to the more distant but friendly markets of Great Britain, we find that the mother land purchased from us last year only $117,000,000, as compared with $631,000,000 which she purchased the previous year from the producers of the United States. We purchased from Great Britain, in turn, only $49,000,000, or about one-third of the amount supplied to us from the United States. And this in spite of the fact that we have given a preference of one-third of the entire duty to the products of the mother country. Your honorable Government will bear witness to the fact that our association has consented and supported, rather than objected to, the preferential tariff; and yet you must be aware that many of our Industries are suffering to-day from the com- petition of the British manufacturer, with his tremendous out- put and his cheaper capital and labor. This grievance is aggravated by the fact that the preferential provisions are taken advantage of by manufacturers of Germany and other countries, who have their goods practically trans- shipped from Britain, and thus obtain a preference in our mar- kets which they are not entitled to—a preference which is noth- ing short of an injustice to the manufacturers of this country. We are desirous that Great Britain and our sister colonies should still be given a preference in this market, but who will defend the Canadian Government in continuing that preference to the detriment of Canadian capital and workingmen, especially when the Canadian producer receives no compensating prefer- cence in the markets of Great Britain? cg 4. G dé. Se — The A. Leschen & Sons Rope Company, manufactur- ers of wire rope and aerial wire rope tramways, with headquarters at 920 to 932 North First street, St. Louis, Mo., have just opened an office and warehouse at 1717- 1723 Arapahoe street, Denver, Col., where they will carry a full stock of their various grades of wire rope, and likewise manila rope, &c. This gives them four branch offices and warehouses, in addition to their head- quarters at St. Louis, which are as follows: 92 Centre street, New York City; 137 Lake street, Chicago; 85 Fremont street, San Francisco, and the Denver office above referred to. The company not only manufacture all of the standard grades of wire rope, but they are also sole manufacturers of Hercules colored strand wire rope and of patent flattened strand wire rope. They further manufacture automatic tramways, which load and unload automatically, likewise several types of friction grip tramways and single line and two-bucket tramways. Askham Brothers & Wilson of Sheffield, England, have sold their plant to Edgar Allen & Co., Limited, of the Imperial Steel Works of the same city. Lake Iron Ore Matters. DvuLuTH, MINN., March 30, 1903.—Shipments of ore from mines to dock have commenced on all three Min- nesota roads, but the movement is small and is for the present designed more to relieve mines whose stock docks are crowded than from any pressing need of ship- ping. No vessels have yet moved and there is no im- mediate expectation that they will, for labor troubles have arisen that may take time for settlement. All the boats of the Pittsburgh Steamship Company (United States Steel) are ready for action at any time. Harbors are still frozen, but with ice that is thin and weak and the connecting channels at the Sault are not open, though a good tug might pass. The canals are not opened. Lake Superior navigation, which was closed in February, is open, boats moving from Duluth to north shore points. The three Minnesota roads are each pre- pared for a movement during the year of about 6,000,- 000 tons, though they may not reach as much. The ves- sel outlook is not the best and lake rates will be scarce- ly better than last year. The Clergue Works. At the Sault No. 1 furnace of the Algoma Steel Com- pany (Clergue interest) is so nearly ready that fires to dry the stack will be lighted in a few days. The com- pany’s charcoal kilns in the woods are running and prior to the opening of the furnace are selling coal to Michigan furnaces. Their by-product retorts are to be fired for the first time in a few days, and their chem- ical works are ready to receive the pyroligneous acid for treatment. Their No. 1 furnace will run on ferro nickel from their roasters, which have been in success- ful operation for some months, which is to be mixed with their Helen ore, and some important contracts for the product may shortly be announced. Several thou- sand tons of ferro nickel ore, from which the sulphur has been eliminated in their roasters, is briquetted for the furnace. ‘The ore docks are receiving a Hulette un- loader, to be electrically driven. A mixer is to be in- stalled. ‘There is, I believe, no patent on the mixer in Canada, thus saving the royalties demanded on this side. The ore docks are pretty nearly finished, and steel tres- tles for the unloading machinery are under erection. No ore has been received, but the first boat leaves for Michipicoton in a few days. The shipments of Helen for the year will amount to about the same as last, slightly more than 300,000 tons. Nearly all the indus- tries of the Consolidated Lake Superior Company, both metallurgical and other, are about ready to operate and are wheeling into line with speed. They are, so far as can be determined now, earning well, and up to the ex- pectations of their owners. Some, indeed, are showing a remarkable earning capacity, far greater than was looked for, and the product of those operating is well sold ahead. The policy of the company is to complete in the same substantial manner as before, and oper- ate the works under way, but to take up no new ven- tures for the present at least. The Maas Shaft. Maas shaft of the Cleveland Cliffs Company, that has been sinking for the past two years, is now about ledged and any day may see it rest. The shaft has pene- trated seam after seam of clay between the wet sands and its sinking has been a job that only care, pluck and perseverance could have accomplished. With this shaft on the ledge it will be sunk rapidly the several hundred feet remaining before the ore body is reached, and in 1905 there may be a small shipment from the property. It can scarcely be a large shipper before the following year. The property is a large one, and both in quantity and grade will reward the enterprise of the company operating it. This comp “joneer furnace at Mar- quette will go into blast in a very few weeks. There have been many delays and obstacles, not the least of which has been the difficulty of securing machinery after it has been built in makers’ shops. -Exploration Results in New Districts. At the Breitung Mine, 20 miles north of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, they have some ore on the dump and THE IRON AGE. April 2, 1903 are preparing for shipment to the furnaces of the Al- goma Steel Company at the Sault. ‘They are erecting a crusher. Their ore is a hard siliceous hematite running from 40 to 50 per cent. iron, but the short haul makes it available when it otherwise would not be at all desir- able. In the neighborhood of this mine there is quite an outcropping of ore bearing rocks, but no other de- posit of ore has been found yet. Some exploration will be carried on there the present year. In what is known as the Highland Range of Minnesota, located a few miles back from Lake Superior, and formed by a low range of hills running parallel with the lake, reports of ore finds are continually brought in by settlers and prospectors, of more or less credibility and knowledge. The pits so far sunk are very shallow and really little indicating the presence of iron in anything more than bog ore or float has yet been shown from the district. Many men are there, some few sinking pits but most traveling through the woods on snowshoes iooking for indications. The rocks of this district are eruptive, chiefly diabase and gabbro, and some of them resemble in some little degree the quartzites and slates of the Mesaba formation. Titaniferous magnetite is to be found in place in a good many localities of the High- land Range, especially to the northeast and near the contact of the gabbro with older rocks. In the great district east from Lake Nepigon, north of Lake Superior, exposures of beautiful slate hematites have been followed for miles. One prominent exposure is at least 10 miles in unbroken length. But the ore is not better than 40 per cent. iron and is therefore useless now. The question of transportation is a very serious one. Some work has been carried on during the winter northwest and west of the Canadian ports at the upper end of Lake Superior, but nothing of more value than was heretofore known has been shown. Generally speaking these ores contain sulphur. Where they do not and have no other deleterious element, they are usually lean. But exploration has now gone far enough in that district to show vast deposits of ores that are probably capable of concentration, and apparently have nothing the matter with them but an excess of silica. There is hope for these ores, especially on account of the fact that they lie contiguous to large undeveloped water powers, from which power for concentration can be pro- cured easily and cheaply. These deposits are not so far from Lake Superior that the matter of rail shipment would be an insuperable obstacle, and railway connec- tion is now near by. There may be some time, when the need of more ore is recognized and when the cost of concentration is not so great a factor as now, a consider- able iron mining industry in the district. To Work Titaniferous Magnetite. The work of exploration in the titaniferous magnetic formation of Cook County, Minn., a considerable distance northeast from Duluth, has been carried on for some time by the Johnson Nickel Mining Company, somewhat no- torious among mining men for their methods of pro- cedure, &c. Just at present the company state they have an urgent call for some of their ore, for tests, and they have sent 15 tons by dog train 30 miles to the ter- minus of a once a week railway, whence it will ship 1000 miles to a furnace which Mr. Johnson, head of this company, says he has perfected for smelting these ti- taniferous ores, and that he has made direct process steel at low cost. If he is correct there will be a great deal of exploration in that section, as it is generally known that immense outcroppings of these ores exist there. But his statements are not as yet corroborated by those in whom the mining public has confidence. D. E. W. — > The financial troubles of M. Zier & Co., manufac- turers of boilers, New Albany, Ind., which have been before the courts since December, have developed a sen- sational receivership case that landed several prominent citizens, including politicians and attorneys of New Al- bany and Louisville, Ky., in jail and made the unusual record of reaching the United States Supreme Court from the local court in a little over a month. It also April 2, 19038 THE brought into question the jurisdiction of Indiana courts in bankruptcy cases. A judge of the lower court and an attorney, formerly Judge Advocate General of the army in the Philippines, narrowly escaped imprisonment, the higher judge passing caustic comment on their actions and requiring certain promises from them in view of leniency extended to them. The chief prisoners are out on bond with leave granted by the Supreme Court to file petitions for habeas corpus and certiorari, returnable April