The Iron Age 1907-09-12: Vol 80 Iss 11

THE IRON AGE Published every Thursday Moraing by David Williams Co. 14-16 Park Place, New York. Vol. 80: No. rz. Reading Matter Contents ..... page 737 Alphabetical Index to Advertisers ‘‘ 193 Classified List of Advertisers « 183 Advertising and Seheoription Rates‘ 192 Reed F. Blair & Co. Frick Building, Pittsburg, Pa. COKE, PIG IRON CHROME ORE FERRO MANGANESE SILICON SPIEGEL, ETC. The eae ee Or ears Ropes-and Twines UE ot. 2 EA ae asa Bristol’s Patent Steel Belt Lacing SAVES Time, Belts, Money Greatest Strength with Least Metal Send for Circu- lar QO and Free READY TO APPLY FINISHED JOINT Samples THE BRISTOL co., Waterbury, Conn. w York : 114 Liberty Stree oeiaaee 753 Monadnock Building SAMSON SPOT CORD Also Massachusetts and Phoenix Brands SAMSON GORDAGE WORKS, Boston, Mass, TURNBUCHLES ini Cleveland City ity Forge and Iron Co., - Cleveland, O. TURN BUCKLES. MERRILL BROS., Ep 465 to 471 Kent Ave., Brooklyn, E. D., N.Y. Mill Cinder Girard Building, Phila. Pilling & Crane Yicsti Ncw vor There may be some sub- stitute for HIGH QUALITY —but so far it has not been discovered. See AMERICAN SHEET & TIN PLATE COMPANY’S Ad. on Page 16. New York, Thursday September 12, 1907 S227 cose,’ BOILERS: 6... page 53 $5 00 a Year, including Postage > Cents, SHOT SHELLS Arrow and Nitro Club brands will oe carried by the thousands to the game fields this fall. Their popularity and the partiality of shooters for them is not ac- cidental. True merit in manufacture, from primer to crimp, has won such a con- fidence in the U. M. C. trade-mark that it means A PREFERENCE, U. M. C. Shells give satisfaction, Carry seed x ck. The Union Metallic acealihie Co.,. Bridgeport, Conn. Agency, 318 Broadway, New York City. > HA WATER TUBE O6h4e Babcock @ Wilcox Co. 85 Liberty Street New York There is More Profit for the Merchant in Carrying “‘Capewell’’ Horse Nails Than others because there is such a large demand for this brand, Considerably more than half of all the horseshoe nails sold in the United States are ‘‘Capewell.” It pays a dealer, therefore, always to carry these nails in stock. THEY SELL THE BEST Made by The Capewell Horse Nail Co., “eifor* JENKINS 96 SHEET PACKING The Original Unvulcanized Packing. Suitable for all steam joints. Not only does it make a tight joint quickly, but it makes a joint that w#///ast. Made in sheets, and also, to order, in GASKETS cut to any size orshape. All genuine is stamped with Trade Mark as shown in the cut, and is guaranteed. JENKINS BROS.,”New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Londor London “Sedan” Cold Rolled Steel tuts: Drawing e Stamping THE AMERICAN TUBE & STAMPING COMPANY sEK BRIDGEPORT, Conn. PAGE Water and Rail Delivery) MAGNOLIA raiciion METAL The Standard Babbitt of the World everything in the Babbitt Line. MAGNOLIA METAL CO. Chicago’ Fisher Building. New York: 115 Bank St. Montreal: 31 St. Nicholas St. oe THE IRON AGE (SHEET (The Plume & Atwood Mig, Co. PROT BRASS. wre| She and Rol Brass We are now in a COPPER mo} WIRE y WIRE Printers’ Brass, Jewelers’ Metal, German Silver and Gilding Metal, QUICK = O)GERMAN {S221 | Sore Roe So DELIVERIES SILVER | seal Burners, Lamps, Lamp Trimmings, &c. 279 Broadway, NEW YORK 3 Ei ACK LOW GRASS. SHEET GROMER 8 caicaca SEAMLESS BRASS AND COPPER SH FETS TUBING, BRAZED BRASS AND THOMASTON. CONN. WATRADURY, CUNL. BRONZE TUBING : + +: + SCOVILL MFG. CO. MANUFACTURERS OF BRASS, GERMAN SILVER, Sheets, Rolls, Wire Rods, Bolts and Tubes, Brass Shells, Cups, Hinges, Buttons, Lamp Goods. Special Brass Goods to Order. FACTORIES: WATERBURY, CONN. DEPOTS : CHICAGO ONE PASS COLD ROLLED WATERBURY BRASS CO., and special qualities WATERBURY, CONN. eee 99 John St., New York. Providence. R. | FOLLANS B EE Bridgeport Deoxidized Bronze BROTHERS & Metal Co. BRIDGEPORT, CONN. C OMPANY Phosphor and sails PITTSBURGH Bronze Henry Souther Engineering Co. HARTFORD, CONN. NEW YORK BOSTON Composition, Yellow Brass and Alumi- num Castings, large and small Consulting Chemists, Metallur- gists and Analysts. Complete Pnysical Testing Laboratory. Expert Testimony in Court and Patent Cases. Mattinesset ute een,” HIATIAUTT, Rutt & SMELTERS OF SPELTER 256 Broadway SHEET ZINC AND SULPHURIC ACID. NEW YORK ‘Small tubing in Brass, Copper, Special Sizes of Zinc cut to order. Rolled Battery Plates. 7 t Selected Plates for Etchers’ and Lithographers’ use. Steel, Aluminum, German Silver, Selected Sheets for Paper and Card Makers’ use. &c Sheet Brass Copper and “ , . ’ Stove and Washboard Blanks. “ German Silver. Copper, Brass ZINCS FOR LECLANCHE BATTERY. and German Silver Wire. Brazed Ty | TT % Th “x4 = en - —e ALN f ube Opper an rass Oo 105-109 Baebes oy OEE 2 3 “PHONO- ELECTRIC” ASME CUI EUDICT Se TUBE VHT ITU pict Mace WiIRK. “IT's TOUGH.” On Short Notice TROLLEY, GERM AN SILVER NICKEL ANODES TELEPHONE Brass, Bronze, and Copper and THE SEYMOUR MFG. CO. - - SEYMOUR, CONN. TELEGRAPH HENDRICKS BROTHERS 7 eae : PROPRIETORS OF THE : ; ws gains BRIDGEPORT BRASS COMPANY, Belleville Copper Rolling Mills, _ Sonn. Brosdway and Murray Bly New York. Braziers’ Molt asc Sheathing { PHOSPHOR-BRONZE COPPER GERMAN SILVER COPPER VV Et 5) pe > RIVET s, Ingot Copper, Block Tin, Spelter, Lead, Antimony, etc ae 49 CLIFF ST., NEW YORK. GCIVEORSIDE, N.e View from Northeast Gallery, Sh + - a a L bo 2 = oo, = + 4 cs 2 z - bs oO Tete MACHINE SHOP OF JOHN BE 1907 De Fig. SUPPLEMENT TO THE IRON AGE, SEPTEMBER 12, ie@Ty rh ~~ ~ +2 f = = a “A adil etic od Lr i we Tne Ae Se eS View in Planer Se and 3. 5 ree > 9 < - Fis an 1 | Ty iil eestecteall 2! ed wing Erecting Shops Nos RTRAM & SONS COMPANY # Fy hs 3 ‘ n f F t a : i - ry 5 is rn 5 a fl H i ; re, . tip VE\ PALEY ae “hs . ANCA XT enna ea _ wr yt OY aie Sth as 32 aa ry eS . rT LA a) 7 os re @ie View in Main Bay of the Foundry, Looking North. ‘ig. 8. View in East Bay of the Foundry, Looking North. TWO EXTREMES IN JOHN BEF Fig. 9. Typical Products.—A, Locomotive Rod Borer ; k, Extension Boring and Turning Mill; F, Car Wheel Lathe; Hammer; K, Driving Wheel Lathe; L, Plate Bender; M, Planer; P, Axle Lathe. TRAM & SONS COMPANY’S PLANT Bb, Coping Machine ; G, Engine Lathe; H, Planer ; Slotter ; Locomotive Frame C, Vertical Miller ; D, Tire Mill; I, Multiple Drill; J, Steam N, Slotter: (), Four-Head i ee THE IRON AGE New York, Thursday, September 12, 1907. LIGAARY of CONGRESS wo Copies Recetved SEP 12 1907 Copyright Bntry CLASS =—s_— Atay Noe COPY 8B. THE CANADA TOOL WORKS. The Enlarged Plant of the John Bertram & Sons Company at Dundas, Ontario. ‘ BY H. R. COBLEIGH When in the summer of 1905, the John Bertram «& Sons Company became the Canadian auxiliary of the Niles-Bement-Pond Company, the contracting parties were not the only ones that reaped a benefit. What is most important, it made available to Canadian purchas- ers of machine tools the experience of the oldest and largest machine tool builders in the United States, with- out compelling them to pay the duty imposed on imported tools, or diverting their money from giving employment to Canadian labor. While the combination removed the BOILER HOUSE ducts of the Pratt & Whitney Company, (the Canadian market for which is supplied by the Pratt & Whitney Company of Canada also located at Dundas), and has the use of the drawings of the allied plants. An illustra- tion accompanying this article showing examples of pro- duct, gives a striking idea of the scope of the output, but even this is inadequate as it shows merely a few of the larger tools built. Smaller manufacturing tools, such as lathes, shapers, milling machines, &¢c., form an im- portant part in the work done. The locomotive and car STORE ROOM ERN SHOP E PAT G Two sTORIES GALLERY any — a a pascal ena ag aiogeeenenenecasaemtenensha oe STREET Fig. 1.—General Layout of the Canada Tool Works—John Bertram & Sons Company, Ltd., Dundas, Ontario. competition that existed before, that too has its ad- vantages to the consumer. The company still retains its individual name and continues under the direction of Henry Bertram, Alex- ander Bertram, James Bertram and John H. Bertram, the sons of John Bertram, the founder of the company, who died April 4, 1906. The plant is favorably located at Dundas, Ontario, a short ride by trolley from Hamilton, which in turn is only two hours distant by train from Buffalo, so that excellent facilities are at hand for shipping. As indi- cated in Fig. 1, which shows the general layout, five rail- road switches connect with the Toronto, Hamilton & Buffalo Railway. The site comprises some 15 acres on which are a half dozen buildings with numerous exten- sions, store houses, &c. ‘lone plant is easily the most notable engaged in building machine tools in the Do- minion, and in one particular at least is more remarkable than any in the United States, namely in the variety and range of sizes of its products. In addition to its original lines, it undertakes the building of almost any of the tools made by the other shops of the Niles-Bement-Pond Company, with the exception of the more special pro- shop tools are, however, the most notable on account of their power and size. History of the Plant's Growth, The Canada Tool Works, by which name it is still known, was established in 1865 in a small frame build- ing 24 x 40 ft., which burned a few years later and was immediately replaced by a rough building 60 x 40 ft. Continuing from this a brick structure two stories high was built in 1868, then this was extended in the front. Later a molding shop was built in the rear, and finally the fourth side of the rectangle was closed by another two-story extension, leaving in the center an area 80 x 100 ft. The firm name at this time was McKechnie & Bertram and continued as such until 1886 when the part- nership was dissolved. From then until the present it has been known as John Bertram & Sons. In 1899 the latter firm erected a steel structure, converting the hol- low area enclosed by the original buildings into an erect- ing shop and equipped it with a 20-ton traveling crane and railroad track communicating with all the other buildings. This structure is one story with a clear hight of 28 ft. overhead, and is roofed with heavy glass and corrugated iron. A significant index of the growth of 690 the works, particularly in later years, is the increasing number of employes; at present it is 425, six years it was 150 and a decade back 125. The Foundry. As a consequence of the combination two years ago and the larger fields it was proposed to enter, there was ago THE IRON AGE September 12, 1907 but this alone would be of little advantage were it not for the way in which it is disposed, this being peculiarly favorable to economy of time and labor. One of the most interesting features is the means provided for holding down large floor molds. The latter consists of a system of grillage embedded 714 ft. below the floor surface and CROSS SECTION OF FOUNDRY LOOKING TOWARDS THE SOUTH. SECTION E-F A The Foundry.—Plan, Cross Section and Details. Shows the Grillage -9'9-) +2 ~ sla11'92 SECTION A-8 Imbedded in the Floor for Anchoring Large Molds. immediate need of increased facilities, and extensions were planned for the machine and erecting shops and an entirely new and larger foundry was begun. The foundry, shown in plan in Fig. 2, is 210 ft. long by 109 ft. wide, and is divided into a main bay bays each 28% ft. wide. The east bay is one story, 10 ft. ft. wide and two side indicated in the plan. The manner of holding the cross members of this grillage to the three longitudinal lines is illustrated in Fig. 11. The outside longitudinal members are anchored to the concrete piers supporting the columns’ that divide the bays, and from the cross members there extend nearly to the floor surface 160 eye bars in four 9 in. under the crane, and the west bay is two stories, rows of 40 each. In the eyes at the tops of these bars sions = = GALLERY -— a = a + =< ” = — E =F = re a ome = if , ies Se Spe ortice SE MOTORS} = Ac =a I) Cotrice ir LAT Ss MOTOR _ L___ = 75 H.P. "FH if & >, LATHE © ee —II a ic HO re ora! “ES HM. 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[ip 2 Lo smal i f w bh 23 ELEv. 9 He +! 2 HAND oe i | MOTOR _ ¥ _ ni \ ze h Hf o oC RA F « | SERIE o “| =TRAV> rs oe, Me ] < i , ey | >| fy] jCRANE ~ | . ze onn $| fc Jj TON CRANE LIMIT a i = pood a | 3 ERECTING SHOP NO, 2 ' one . SLOTTERS } th RIN MAIN BAR EREC rc NO. 8 Machine and Erectir containing a gallery with a reinforced concrete floor 201, ft. above the main floor, that serves as the charging floor for the cupolas and storage for coke, sand, &c. The foun- dations are concrete, the side walls brick and the frame steel, furnished by the Phoenix Bridge Works, Montreal. The skylight is wire glass, the door frames cast iron and the window sills reinforced cement. material in the eonstruction is the planking in the roof, which is covered with fireproof material. The foundry equipment The only combustible is modern in every respect, iG. MOTOR- DRIVEN uu g Shops, and Gallery s 3 PLANERS LINE SHAFTS CRANE LIMITS VEN LATHES I ( cation of Tools. showing binding hooks are inserted to hold down of. large molds made in the floor. Where the location of the eyé bars would interfere with a mold they are easily remov- The foundry fioor ft. its level has with that copes now about 6 above filled extent to give sufficient depth for large castings. Fig. 7, in the main bay, and shows one of the two cranes there installed. This is of 25 tons capacity, with a 5-ton aux- iliary hoist, and the other is a 10-ton crane. There are is able, original and been in loam on the supplemental plate herewith, is a view } September 12, 1907 two 5-ton cranes in the east bay, which, as shown in Fig. 8, is devoted to smaller molding work. All of the cranes are electrically operated. In the middle of the west wing are the cupolas, brick walled from the rest of the building. There are two, a Colliau cupola made by Byram & Sons, Detroit, Mich., 66 in. inside diameter and 14 tons per hour capacity, and a Whiting Foundry & Equipment Company’s cupola, 40 in. inside diameter and 7 tons per hour capacity. Nearby are tumbling barrels. To the south is the core depart ment, which is served by a 5-ton crane. Large cores are dried in two core ovens in an extension shown in the plan Fig. 2. A vertical section through oven No. 1 and the coke bin is given in Fig. 12. This oven is 19 ft. deep and the other 30 ft.; both are 10 ft. high by 15 ft. wide. From the coke firing room behind the shorter oven both ovens are fired, as indicated in Fig. 12. For small cores there is Fig. 10.—View in the Machine Shop Gallery a portable oven patented by Eli Millett, Springfield. Mass., which is heated by natural gas and is made with sectional doors, each integral with a rack or tray in the form of a quarter segment of a circle, the center coinci- dent with the hinge in the door. <At the back of each tray is a vertical flange which closes the door opening when the tray is swung completely outside of the oven. The gallery, a view of which is given in Fig. 13 as it appeared before the coke and sand bin partitions were erected, is one of the most interesting parts of the foun- dry. Adjacent to the charging doors of the cupolas is a scale on which the charges are weighed, and a No. 6 Root blower, driven by a 40-hp. Westinghouse induction motor, which supplies blast to both cupolas. <A small amount of scrap and pig iron is kept on the floor prepara- tory to charging, but the main supply is brought up as needed from the storage yard adjoining the foundry on a platform elevator. Cars or barrows of the end dumping type are used, so that the material may be directly charged into the cupolas. This elevator is driven by a 5-hp. electric motor. The coke and sand are stored on this floor and are delivered to it from the ground level THE IRON AGE 691 outside of the building by a bucket elevator, the casing of which may be seen at the right in Fig. 13. The elevator discharges into either of two chutes, one leading to the coke bin and the other to a horizontal chain and flight conveyor. The latter carries the sand along to the sand bins, of which there are four for the various grades of sands, including molding sand, core sand and parting sand, and may be set to discharge into any one of them. These bins are over the core department, and near each is a hole in the floor through which the prepared sand may be spouted to the floor below. Near the bins are portable air operated sand sifters made by the Hamilton Facing Mill Company, Hamilton, Ont., and power mixers The sand and coke elevating and conveying system was supplied by the Waterous Engine Works Company, Brant ford, Ont. Clay for lining cupolas and ladles and for other pur from the Northeast Corner, Looking Southwest. poses is also stored on the gallery floor. For drying ladles and skin drying molds natural gas is used. There are fixtures in the ground floor at the north side of the cupola room for the former purpose, and for drying molds the gas is piped as convenience requires. Compressed air, besides operating sand shakers, as already mentioned, is also used in pneumatic rammers and chipping hammers and for blowing out molds. Material is received in the ample storage yard between the foundry and machine shop in cars on a spur leading from the railroad tracks, as the general plan, Fig. 1, in dicates. Castings are also stored in this space. A crane runway against the side of the foundry is now in posi tion for the 60-ft. span yard crane, which is contemplated for serving the storage space. Another railroad spur leads directly into the foundry, where the crane service is available for loading castings which are to be shipped directly. The company’s foundry capacity is more than sufficient for its own needs. and some work is done for outside concerns. Castings are cleaned at the north end of the foundry in the main and west bays. At the back or south end there is sufficient room for extending the ee f 692 foundry, though it might necessitate diverting the creek which passes through the property. At present there is here located the foundry carpenter shop, where flasks and core boxes are made and repaired. The Machine and Erecting Shops, The foundry is a foot higher than the machine shop, so that completed castings may be easily pushed on cars down the gentle grade over the narrow gauge track to the machine shop. The general plan, Fig. 1, shows the CAST IRON WASHER Fig. 11.—Detaii of the Joining of the Members of the Grillage in the Foundry Floor. relation of the two buildings, and the narrow gauge track system. In Fig. 3 a plan of the machine shop and its gallery, the disposition of the tools is indicated. The grouping of tools in the main follows the scheme of keeping close together those employed in the constructing of each type of product. For example, that part desig- nated erecting shop No. 1 is commonly devoted to the assembling of planers; boring mills for the most part are Inade in erecting shop No. 2, and large or special ma- chines in the main erecting shop No. 3. The arrange- meut of departments is as outlined before, the erecting shops being in the center and the machine shops around them. ; The new erecting show (No. 13), finished about six months ago, extends about 84 ft. beyond the older buildings and is much higher, making it particularly convenient for erecting large machines, All of the new construction work is of brick and steel. The present floor space is 70,000 sq. ft., including the 12,000 sq. ft. in the gallery. The shop is particularly well lighted and roomy. _The latter is largely a consequence of the excellent arrange- ment of the equipment which is apparent from the dia- gram, Fig. 3. The best conception of the interior of the shop is to be had from the photographic views, Figs. 4, 5, 6 and 10. Fig. 4 shows best the erecting shops Nos. 1 and 2, and No. 3 may be partly seen in the left back- ground. A better view of this shop is given in Fig. 5, which shows a large 10-ft. planer in process of construc- tion at the time this photograph was taken. All standard size planers are erected in the section of the shops shown in Fig. 6. In general the large work is done on the ground floor, and the machining of small parts is as far as possible carried on in the gallery, a view of which is given in Fig. 10. Between these four views nearly every part of the machine shop building is shown. By examin- ing these and referring to the plan. Fig. 3, on which THE IRON AGE September 12, 1907 arrows indicate the direction in which the views were taken, a pretty clear understanding of the shop may be had. The bases of the arrows are approximately on the points at which the camera was placed. As will be seen from the plan of the building most of the tools are ranged near the walls of the building. Some of the larger tools which require crane service are placed in rows beside the columns in the erecting shops, where they do not encroach on the space needed for assembling and where they can be advantageously driven from line shafts. Considering the space which was available for the tools it is rather remarkable that the shop is not overcrowded, although it contains in all about 170 sep- arate pieces of equipment exclusive of benches, &c. In all there are some 60 lathes, including in the order of their predominence, engine, hand, turret, gap, boring, chucking and pulley lathes; 22 planers and a rotary planer, 7 gear cutting machines, 12 milling machines, and the remainder are radial and upright drills, grind- stones and tool and drill grinders, shapers, horizontal boring machines and vertical boring mills, universal and surface grinders, slotters, key seating machines, bolt cut- ters, power hack saws, ‘cutting-off machines, &c. The more remarkable tools in point of size are the following: The largest lathe has a 28-ft. bed and swings 72 in., the next longest is 26 ft. long and swings 28 in. (there are a number swinging 36 in. or more, which are 12 ft. long or over); the largest planer is a 72 x 941% in. x 36 ft, machine, and another of the same length has an opening between the housings, 60 x 48 in. (a number are 36 x 36 in. x 12 ft. or over, another large one being 72 x 72 in. x 20 ft.); a Pond floor boring machine, with 3-in. spindle at the east end of erecting shop No. 3, is used for miscel- laneous boring and drilling on large pieces. In this same. shop several interesting portable tools are used, including a portable boring bar, a special port- able shaper and a portable electric drill. In the majority of cases the tools are group driven. In the plan of the machine shop the lines of shafting are indicated and the location of the driving motors and their sizes are given. All the tools in the main erecting shop are driven by in- dividual motors, and in other cases where the location or the power required were sufficient to warrant it, direct connected motors have been employed. The course of work through the shops may be fol- lowed from the general plan, Fig. 1, and the shop plan, Fig. 3. The castings are brought into the shop in either of the two ways indicated by the lines of narrow gauge COKE BIN Fig. 12.—Sectional Elevation Through Oven No. 1 and the Firing Room for Both Ovens. track, heavier parts being carried to the large machines adjoining the main erecting shop, and lighter ones to erecting shops Nos. 1 or 2, where they are distributed to the adjoining machine shops, or are passed up by an ele- vator to the gallery. Cranes are provided to assist in the distribution of the work, In erecting shop No. 1 there is a 10-ton crane, in No. 2 a 15-ton crane, in the main erect- ing shop No. 3 one 25-ton crane, with a 5-ton auxiliary hoist and one 10-ton crane, and in the bay adjoining the latter shop a 5-ton crane. All are electrically operated. Compressed air is used in this building for hoists and chipping hammers. ; : ant ROT ir 0 cate om elke 6 a aS A ar Set ae en: September 12, 1907 THE Other Buildings. Lack of space forbids more than passing mention of the other buildings. These in the order of their size are the pattern storehouse, 50 x 148 ft., and shown in Fig. 1, containing shelves and bins for the storage of pat- terns, which are assorted according to size and where possible according to use; the pattern shop, 35 x 98 ft., equipped with the usual complement of woodworking tools commensurate with the foundry it serves, and hav- ing a wing containing a wood drying kiln and brass foun- dry; the office building two stories high, accommodating the business offices on the first floor and drafting room and blue printing and photographic departments on the second floor ; the blacksmith shop, 25 x 45 ft., with forges, annealing and tempering furnaces and a S00O-lb. steam hammer (operated by compressed air); the boiler house, 25 x 30 ft., containing the equipment that furnishes heat to all the buildings in winter; the transformer house of about 1000 sq. ft. area, which, since power is not gener- ated locally, is the substitute for a power plant, and numerous storehouses. Power Supply. It has been explained that the plant is at no great distance from Buffalo, and it will be at once appreci- ated that another advantage of the location is avail- IRON AGE 693 A large panel switch- board in the transformer house controls the distribution of current to different parts of the plant. Canadian Westinghouse Company. Heating and Lighting, The comfort and welfare of the employes have re- ceived deserved attention in the provision of cleanly and sanitary lockers and plumbing, and in the heating and lighting equipment. Sewerage is cared for by quite an elab- orate septic tank installation, and pure drinking water is supplied to all parts of The heating is by direct radiation, mostly from coils suspended on the walls or columns; an example of the latter mounting is to be seen in the view of the east bay of the foundry, Fig. 8. Two large boilers located as indicated in Fig. 1, furnish steam solely for heating, all power being sup- plied by electricity or compressed air, therefore they need to be operated only during the cold con- venient arrangement for reducing the handling of coal for these boilers has been effected by placing the firing floor below the ground level. Coal is received in cars over another spur between the foundry and machine shop, and the cars are dumped directly into a pit beside the boiler house. The latter holds a considerable supply and delivers it as needed by gravity through gates di- rectly upon the firing floor. the premises. season. <A Fig. 13.—Foundry Gallery, Looking South. ability of cheap power, being within the zone of elec- tric current distribution from the various Niagara water power developments. The power used here, however, is not generated at Niagara proper, but at De Cew Falls near St. Catherines, and is purchased from the Dominion Power & Traction Company of Hamilton. Alternating current is transmitted at 60,000 volts to Hamilton, and from there to a point near Dundas at 10,000 volts, where it is transformed to 2400 volts, at which pressure it is received at the plant and finally stepped down to 220 volts. Alternating current at this pressure is used di- rectly for lighting and in the constant speed motors, and is converted to 220-volt direct current for the variable speed motors on individually driven tools and on the cranes. All of the substation apparatus is contained in the transformer house, an entirely fire-proof structure, and includes four 250-kw. static transformers which re- duce the pressure to 220 volts, a 175-kw. motor-generator which takes 220-volt alternating current and delivers 220- volt direct current, a 175-hp. induction motor driving a Canadian Rand air compressor supplying air at 100 lb. pressure for use in various parts of the plant, and a 1000-gal. triplex fire pump which, when occasion re- quires, may be instantly connected by a clutch to the same motor, the air compressor being disconnected. The pump supplies three 6-in. mains extending about the works for high-pressure fire protection. The motor-gen- erator set was furnished by the Canadian General Elec- tric Company, and the motor and transformer by the View Taken Before the Sand and Coke Bins Were Erected. The ventilation is cared for by natural means that have proved entirely suflicient. The location of the build- ings and their surroundings are favorable as the prevail- ing winds create currents through the windows and me- chanically operated ventilators. Both the natural and artificial lighting are excep- tional. Of the first something has already been said, and the interior views, which are from practically unre- touched photographs, bear witness to the ample light by daytime. The advantage of north light is had, particu- larly in the machine shop where it is most important, and the foundry, although this building does not have a great amount of northern exposure, is so well-lighted in the daytime that a man can see to work at the bot- tom of a hole 6 or 8 ft. deep. The artificial illumination for dark days, early dusk, or night work when necessary, is such as to render working practically as easy as by bright sunlight, and is afforded by Nernst lamps; no separate incandescent lights are used at individual ma- chines, for the rigging required to make them really use- ful is too often a nuisance. This was the first installa- tion of Nernst lamps on a large scale in Canada, and the experience with them has been all that was hoped for. They are disposed in units so as to light uniformly every area where light is needed. The Products, To revert in conclusion to the work executed at this plant is to close with what is most important in connec- tion with any industrial establishment. More particular- 694 . THE IRON AGE ly reference will be made to the impressive collection of tools presented in Fig. 9. The following are brief speci- fications of these machines: the prefixed letters in each case are the designating ones found on the engraving: A. Two-Spindle Locomotive Side Rod Boring Machine. De- signed for simultaneously boring the two ends of locomotive con- necting rods. Boring spindles are adjustable from 36 to 132 in. between centers and stand 18 in. in front of housings. Spindles are driven by tangent gearing, are counterweighted, and have four changes of positive zeared feed by hand or power. Heads are movable on the rail by rack and pinion. Work table is se cured te the housings and has tee-slots. Capacity, holes up to 10 in. in connecting rods up to 132 in. long. B. Motor-Driven Beam and Channel, Punching and Coping Machine. Depth of throat to center of sliding head, 25 in. Punches and lies have an adjustment of 214 to 24 in., center to center. Each punch is controlled by a gag. Capacity, the equivalent of punching two 11-in. holes through 1 in. in flanges in beams up to 24 in. Coping and notching attachment inter- changeable with the punching tools. C. No. 4 Vertical Milling Machine. Distance from center of spindle to inside of frame, 32%4 in. Vertical distance from table to arch of frame, 20 in. Traverse of spindle, 21 in. Diameter of table, 42 in. Spindle has power vertical feed. Built in two sizes, Nos. 2 and 4. D. 50-In. Tire Boring Mill. Designed for rough turning and finishing steel tires. Swings 51 in. and takes under tool-holders 33 in. Table is 49% in. in diameter and has eight speed changes. Cross rail carries two saddles, made right and left for close work. Either saddle will move to center for boring. Feeds are positive, operate at any angle, and are entirely independent of each other. Mill may be built with either fixed or adjustable eross rail. E. 12-18 Ft. Extension Boring and Turning Mill. Swings 12 ft. when housings are clear forward and-18 ft. when they are clear back. Greatest hight under tools, 80 in. Extension cross rail reaches to center of table and carries a large boring bar, with power feed and rapid hand-traverse. Provided with rear tool column which may be adjusted in and out for turning diameters from 18 down to 12 ft. Tool slide has vertical power feed and quick hand adjustment. Driven by variable speed motor with auxiliary motors for moving housings and elevating cross rail. Bulit in sizes from 7-10 to 14-20 ft. F. 48-In. Steel Tire Car Wheel Lathe. Designed for simul- taneously turning and truing two steel-tired car wheels on their axle and will take wheels 48 in. in diameter on the tread. Heavy self-centering chucks grip axle journals and chuck jaws engage tires, preventing spring of axle. Driven by a variable speed motor; variation in cutting speed can be made instantly for hard spots in tires. Power is ample for one tool to cover each entire tread and flange in finishing. G. 20-In. Double Back-Geared Engine Lathe. Built in sizes from 16 to 32 in. H. 30 x 30 In. Square Drive Planer. Planes 30 in. wide, 30 in. high and any length. Movement of table is at right angles to line shaft, but machine is also built with parallel drive. Built in sizes from 24 to 96 in. I. Four-Spindle Multiple Drilling Machine. Drills four holes simultaneously up to 1% in. in diameter. Usually built 10 ft. between housings. May be equipped with two saddles each carrying four counterweighted spindles adjustable by screws to not less than 7% in. centers. Spindles have 10-in. travel by hand or automatic feed, are controlled simultaneously by hand wheel or feed gear at end of cross rail, and are adjustable to different hights for unequal length drills. Saddles are adjust- able along the rail by rack and pinion, and table in and out by the same means. 3rackets can be attached to vertical face of table for supporting firebox rings or similar pieces, when a pit is allowed beneath J. 2000-Lb. Single-Frame Steam Hammer. Diameter of cylinder, 13 in. Stroke, 33 in. Width between: guides, 17 in. Usual die surface, 7 x 16% in. Has adjustable V-guides for taking up wear and is arranged to operate automatically or by hand. Built in sizes from 350 to 2500 Ib. K. 100-In. Double Driving-Wheel Lathe. For turning whee!s 94 in. in diameter on tread. Swings over bed 102 in. Maximum distance between face plates, 9 ft. Driven by variable speed motor. Range of speeds through motor and gearing provides cutting speeds from 12 to 30 ft. per min. on any diameter of tire within its intended working range. Face plates have openings to receive crank pins to bring wheels close to face plates. Feeds are positive driven by ratchets. Separate motor is used for adjusting the traversing right hand head. Built in sizes from 51 to 100 in. L. No. 8 Motor-Driven Plate-Bending Rolls. Built in six sizes—for plates 10 ft. wide and 1\ in. thick; 12 ft. wide and 1 in. thick; 14 ft. wide and %& in. thick; 16 ft. wide and % in. thick; 18 ft. wide and % in. thick, and 20 ft. wide and % in. thick. Illustration shows the last. Rolls are arranged in pyra- mid form. Two lower rolls are driven by motor with reversing mechanism operated by clutches. Upper roll is raised and low- ered by power, extended for counterbalancing, and outer-bearing is hinged for removing plates rolled to a full circle. M. No. 2 Three-Head Locomotive-Frame Slotting Machine. Openings in heads are 50 in. wide by 27 in. high. Cutter bars are adjustable for any pesition or length of stroke up to 26 in. and have quick return. Built with two or three heads which September 12, 1907 can be placed on bed to face in either direction. A smaller size has a maximum stroke of 10 in. N. 20-In. Slotting Machine. Maximum stroke, 21 in. Dis- tance from tool apron to column, 43 in. Hight between table and frame, 27 in. Table is 42 in. in diameter on its working surface, and has a longitudinal travel of 40 in. and a cross trav- erse of 32 in. Cutter bar is provided with automatic relief tool apron, having both vertical and horizontal clamping surface. Built in sizes from 8 to 24 in. O. 72 x 72 In. Four-Head Motor-Driven Planer. Planes 73 in. wide, 73 in. high and is built to any length. Designed for planing locomotive cylinders and other work requiring great power. Table travels on one V and one flat track having large wearing surface and oil pockets with rollers for lubricating. Heads on cross rail are made right and left, bringing tools close together. Operated by two motors, one driving table and other raising and lowering cross rail and side tools. Also built with- out side heads cr with only one. Largest size, 96 in. P. Single Locomotive-Axle Lathe. Designed for turning axles up to 14 in. in diameter. Maximum distance between centers, 8% ft. Axle is driven at one end by an equalizing driver. Ma- chine is equipped with one right and one left-hand carriage, having power feed and rapid hand traverse. Rotary pump and tank for supplying lubricant to tools are provided. As has been said, this group of tools can hardly be considered representative, though it is typical of the company’s specialty, railroad machinery. The other standard tools built include lathes, planing machines, shaping machines, slotting machines, horizontal boring and drilling machines, vertical boring and turning mills, drilling machines, milling machines, cutting-off machines, bolt cutting and nut tapping machinery, punching and shearing machinery, plate planing machines, plate bend- ing rolls, steam hammers, and horizontal forming and bending machines. Though the range of product is so extensive, it does not imply a lack of that excellence in any individual tool which would seem to be possible only where a shop is devoted to a limited variety of output. The assistance had from the allied company’s shops is an effective offset to such an apparent disadvantage. a Australian Trade Developments. MELBOURNE, August 5, 1907.—The Eskbank Iron Works, at Lithgow, New South Wales, is turning out about 700 tons of pig iron per week. At a recent general meeting of shareholders it was resolved to increase the company’s capital to £250,000 ($1,250,000) by the issue of 100,000 new shares of 20 shillings ($5) each. The quality of the iron turned out is highly spoken of, and Australians are now able to buy stoves and ranges of Australian manufacture for the first time in their lives. 3ut the industry will need a strong measure of protec- tion to insure profitable existence. Railroad and tramway construction is proceeding apace in the several states. An English electrical engi- neer will shortly arrive in Victoria to report upon the electrification of the Melbourne suburban railroad. El- ectric power for various purposes is coming into rapidly increasing favor, and bids fair to supplant a good deal of manual labor in many factories. Steam locomotives are in good demand for our railroads still, and Beyer, Peacock & Co., Manchester, England, have secured a con- tract for 50 more locomotives for the New South Wales Railway Department. The contract price was about a quarter of a million sterling. The United States Steel Products Export Company has secured from the Victorian Government a contract for 8485 tons of steel rails at the price of £6 17 shillings per ton ex ship’s slings at Melbourne, and free of duty or landing charges. Of these, 6914 tons were 80 lb. rails and 1571 tons were 100 Ib. en The first consignment of coke made at the new plant of the Bessemer Coke Company, located in Greene County, Pa., which went over the new extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad to that place, was shipped by J, K. Dimmick & Co. of Philadelphia, and was consigned to themselves at Chicago for one of their large customers in that territory. The new coke field thus opened is ex- pected to become as large and as well known as the Lower Connellsville coke field. a a on Sent eat oa ee 12 PSA GTRAES aoe en Ped nt aiateiel ieee te 2 ar gears : September 12, 1907 No Internal Revenue Reduction, WASHINGTON, D. C., September 9, 1907.—The proposi- tion to reduce the revenues by cutting down the internal revenue taxes, thus relieving a part of the pressure for tariff revision, is not gaining in favor; in fact, the Treas- ury Officials are convinced that the suggestion was pre- mature and was based upon a too hasty assumption that the receipts from customs sources for the current fiscal year would show a large increase over those of last year. The returns for the month of July foreshadowed a sur- plus for the current year even larger than that shown by the Treasury ledgers on June 30, last, but the record for August tells quite another story, and has put an end to all revenue reduction talk in Washington. The Iron Age recently pointed out editorially that, as to impor- tations classified under the metal schedule at least, there was an excellent prospect of a decline in duties in the near future. The returns for August bear out this fore- ‘ast in a very comprehensive manner. While the receipts from all customs sources for the first two months of the current fiscal year show a gain of nearly $3,500,000 over last year, the month of August is credited with only about $700,000 of this amount. The same tendency is shown as to internai revenue. The gain for the fiscal year is approximately $1,100,000, but only a little more than $300,000 of this amount is credited to August. While the month of July usually shows a much larger deficit in Government revenue than August, this year there has been a complete reversal of condi- tions. On August 1 of the current year there was a deficit of only $6,000,000, as compared with $9,000,000 on the corresponding date of 1906, but on September 1 of this year the balance on the wrong side of the ledger was $7,445,000, as compared with only $5,353,000 on the same date a year ago. While this difference is due in a meas- ure to increased expenditures, it is clearly apparent that if the gain in customs receipts during July had. been maintained throughout August, the current deficit would have been much less than that recorded on the corre- sponding date of last year. At the present rate of de- cline, last year’s surplus of $87,000,000 will not be ap- proached during the current twelvemonth. w. L. ©. —_———_ o-oo Switching Rates in Chicago. The friction between the railroads in Chicago over switching rates has been settled, and switching tariffs on in and out traffic have been restored to a “ reciprocal ” basis, the terminal charges being absorbed in the through rates. About a year ago Northwestern and St. Paul railroads issued new switching tariffs in which they es- tablished rates of $5 and more per car for switching cars to and from industries on their terminals, for connecting lines. This was a higher rate than roads entering the city from the East and South were willing to absorb in through rates, and shippers located on the Northwestern or the St. Paul had to pay the excess. At the same time the railroads, in new tariffs filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission, began to specify that rates quoted in such tariffs would only apply between their own de- pots, or between private siding industries on their own rails. The manufacturing interests and other shippers in Chicago were considerably exercised over the matter, as it was feared that their local trouble with the North- western and the St. Paul might grow into a general move- ment on the part of the railroads of the country to throw upon the shipper the burden of all switching and terminal charges. Fortunately this fear has proved groundless. The Northwestern and St. Paul roads have recently re- duced their switching rates to $4 per car, to and from connecting lines, and other roads entering Chicago have agreed to absorb this amount. Incidentally, the other roads are raising their rates. to $4 on service for con- necting lines, so as to keep their charges on a reciprocal basis. A few industries in the northwestern part of the city, formerly within reciprocal switching limits, are not covered by the new tariffs, but it is understood that special provisions have been made for them. THE IRON AGE 695 Fere River Forgings. Massive examples of complicated steel forgings are the stern frames for three steam colliers which are be- ing built by the #ore River Shipbuilding Company, Quincy, Mass., for the New England Coal & Coke Com- pany, Boston, to carry coal between Boston and Southern ports. One of these, for the collier Malden, which will be launched about the middle of this month, is shown in the accompanying illustration. Its dimensions are as follows: a Ae eee ee eee ee 13% tons. Masten) WiMtR..cacccccccccsccccesceseuseeesaeeseess 11 in Sectional thickness...........cccceeeeeecrcceceeee cou in. Length of rudder post.............eeee eee reeeet 6 .a Tameth Of NEO). 6. oc ccc csc ccc ccscwcecceseescseces aa: a) 2 Length Of SUF... 0c ccc ccc ceric cece eee nccacees a? ft. oa Length of propeller aperture........-.-+ee seer eres 21 ft. 6 in. Width of propeller aperture.......-.--2eeeeeeerers 7 ft. 5 = Diameter of boss (inside measure) .......-++++eeeee% 2 ft. 1% in. These forgings are made from 80,000 Ib. ingots of a spec- ial steel, low in phosphorus and sulphur, having a tensile A 13%-Ton Stern Frame Forged by the Fore River Shipbuilding Company, Quincy, Mass. strength of 51,350 Ib. per square inch, elastic limit of 31,200 Ib., elongation of 38 per cent. and reduction of area of 65.638 per cent., as determined from a test speci- men taken from:a full size prolongation of the forging. A metal possessing such elasticity and ductility obviously has many advantages over the wrought iron usually em- ployed in forgings of this nature, especially from me- chanical considerations. Heavy wrought iron forgings are more or less spongy, requiring after treatment to cor- rect bad spots in the welding, and frequently a defective interior is only concealed by this treatment. Properly melted and selected steel ingots, however, make homo- geneous forgings easily and perfectly welded, and, except for a tendency to corrode more rapidly, produce more reliable stern frames. The method of scarfing the two sections facilitates repairs to the part most subject to accident. —_—_.3---e——_—____ Reports that the Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad, con- trolled by the Carnegie Steel Company, would shortly be in the market for 21 locomotives and 25. pas- senger cars are untrue. We are advised that this road will probably want some locomotives in the near future, but the number has not been determined, and it is not in the market for any passenger cars. 696 THE A Bar Iron and Light Rail Mill. The Loucks Iron & Steel Company’s Plant, Roanoke, Va. The finishing department of the Loucks Iron & Steel Company’s mill at Roanoke, Va., is so arranged that by the changing of but two stands of rolls the mill can swing from the rolling of merchant iron from muck bar or fag- gots to the rolling of light rails from old standard sec- tions. In a number of other respects the layout presents features that make it an unusually flexible iron mill and rerolling proposition. As originally built, more than 15 years ago, the mill comprised 15 double puddling furnaces, with a large ham- mer and a squeezer, a scrap furnace and a three-high train of muck rolls, the product being muck and scrap war. In 1906 this mill was remodeled, and a finishing department was built, housed in a building 85 x 305 ft. ROANOKE TIDEWATER R.R.. we 7 DOUBLE PUDDLING FURNACES IRON AGE September 12, 1907 retary, and D. §S. Loucks, tréastirer. Albert Graham of the Graham Nut Company, Pittsburgh, is chairman of the Executive Committee, while P. H. Mynahan, for- merly of Pittsburgh, who for several years was engaged in steel hoop manufacture at Atlanta, Ga., is general manager, located at Roanoke. The new finishing mill was designed by Mr. Mynahan and built under his super- vision. Fig. 1 shows the ground plan of the entire plant, including both the old and the new mills, while Fig. 2 shows in detail the equipment and arrangement of the new mill. Lecation. The plant is located close to the Roanoke River, the Norfolk & Western road passing it on the side farthest from the river, while the Tidewater & Deepwater road, now called the Virginian Railroad, passes between it and the river. The principal shops of the Norfolk & Western are located in Roanoke, where cars are built and repaired. The Virginian Railroad has bought 100 acres of land in PUDDLING MILL Sat = 8 OOUBLE PUDDLING FURNACES WITH WASTE HEAT BOILERS PUMP HOUSE RR. TRACK FINISHING MILL Fig. 1.—General Arrangement of the Rolling Mills of the Loucks Iron & Steel Company, Roanoke, Va. This finishing department comprises two heating furnaces with waste heat boilers, a continuous rail heating furnace, a three-high roughing train and a Belgian train of five stands of rolls. The original plant was built in 1891-92 by the Roanoke Iron Company under the direction of D. H. Lentz, its manager, and put in operation in February, 1892. The company had built and blown in Roanoke Furnace in 1890, and the iron mill was intended as an adjunct. The vicissitudes due to the collapse in the trade in 1893 stopped operations at both the blast furnace and the iron mill, and the ownership passed through various hands la