The Iron Age 1909-11-25: Vol 84 Iss 22

THE Published every Thursday Morning by David Williams Co., Vol. 84: No. 22. Reading Matter Contents...... page 1684 Alphabetical Index to Advertisers ‘‘ 188 Classified List of Advertisers =e Advertising and SN ete Rates ‘* 1691 PIG IRON | Basic Foundry Bessemer Low Phosphorus REED F. BLAIR & GO., Pittsburgh, Pa. The original and only Genuine **‘STILLSON is manufactured by WALWORTH MFG. CO., Besten, U.S. A. And bears their registered Trade-Mark BRISTOL’S PATENT STEEL BELT LACING The Briatei Company, Waterbury, Conn. SAMSON SPOT SASH GORD TURNBUCKLES Cleveland Clty Forge and tron Co., Cleveland, 0. TruRN BUCH UES MERRILL BROS. eB cacceen. New a ke N.Y. COKE Pilling AAU Pilling & Crane Real ne Trust Bidg PHILADELPHIA Empire Bidg., NEW YORK OFKIN * RULES IN AMERICA and THE ApEStT IN THE WORLD THE LUFKIN RULE CO., Saginaw, Mich., U.S.A. New York don, Eng. Windsor, Can. 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New York, Thursday, The New York State Steel Company’s Plarit, THE IRON AGE November 25, 1909. ee { : ’ Noteworthy Features of Construction and Equipment of Blast Furnace and Talbot Open Hearth Steel Works. The New York State Steed Company’s open hearth steel plant at Buffalo, N. Y., is the outgrowth of the be- lief of Spencer Kellogg and other Buffalo capitalists that Buffalo has special advantages as an iron and _ steel manufacturing and distributing point. Interested origi- nally in a project for a bridge and structural works, Mr. Kellogg and his associates took up the larger undertak- ing, the result thus far being a blast furnace and steel plant, based on holdings in Lake Superior Iron ore prop- erties. The present New York State Steel Company in- terests, who succeeded the original builders in the con- trol of the property, contemplate further expansion, or, rather, the carrying out of the first plans, which called for a second blast furnace and three additional Talbot open hearth furnaces, making five in all, with the addi- tion of various finishing mills. The decision to huild a Talbot plant was in view of the rapidly increasing de- mand for open hearth steel and the consequent scarcity of the scrap ordinarily employed in its manufacture. It is the directness with which open hearth steel produc- tion from ore has been worked out that gives special in- terest to this plant, which was designed and built under the supervision of the Garrett-Cromwell Engineering Company, Cleveland, Ohio. A number of new ideas are embodied in the construction, these including the blast furnace top filling arrangement, the location of the mixer so that metal runs directly into it from the blast furnace, several of the features of the open hearth charging arrangements, and the combination ingot strip- ping and charging cranes in the pit furnace building. Ore Handling. The steel plant site consists of 70 acres on the Buf- falo River, south of the city proper, about a mile in a direct line from Lake Erie. However, the tortuous course of the river, involving four or five long loops be- tween the lake and the steel plant site, makes the dis- tance to be traversed by boats considerably longer. At present ore is being unloaded on the B., R. & P. R. R. docks on the navigable part of the river and is there loaded into cars for transfer to the furnace yard. Dredging contracts have been let for the deepening of the river to a 22-ft. channel beyond the steel com- pany’s site, and it is expected the work will be finished in two years. There is also some work to be done in widening the stream at some of the turns, reducing their sharpness and shortening the course. Three railroad bridges must be converted into swing bridges also, and this, like some other municipal improvements, has en- countered delay. The ore dock of the New York State Steel Company, as shown in Fig. 1, is what it will be after contemplated changes have been made in the course of the river at this point. The ore yard will be 1000 ft. long and will have ample capacity for serving two blast furnaces. Construction work was begun late in 1905, the steel plant being built first, and work on it being well ad- ranced before the blast furnace was undertaken. The first steel was made in April, 1907. The blast furnace was blown in in July, 1909. Its capacity is about 450 tons in 24 hours. In addition to the water transportation facilities which the plant will have eventually, direct connections are made with the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad and the Buffalo, Rochéster & Pittsburgh Rail- road. Fig. 1 shows the railroad track arrange- ment and the trestle over which ore is brought to the bins. There are 10 ore bins, each with a capacity of 183 tons, and the 10 coke bins have a capacity of 51 tons each. The bins were built by the Brown Hoisting Ma- chinery Company, Cleveland, Ohio, and are of this com- pany’s double suspension parabolic type, discharging ore, coke and limestone directly into an electrically operated larry car. Thus far but one ore bridge has been erected. It was furnished by the Brown Hoisting Machinery Com- pany and handles a 5-ton grab bucket. The ore as it is brought in by train is dumped alongside the trestle and from the piles thus formed is picked up by the bridge bucket. When the position of the bridge is such that this can be done ore may be dropped into the bins by the grab bucket, but for the most part the bucket loads ore into a larry car, which travels from any posi- tion of the bridge to the bins containing the various kinds of ore. The Blast Furnace, The blast furnace is 21 ft. in diameter at the bosh, 14 ft. at the stock line and 18 ft. 9 in. at the hearth. The hight is 85 ft. The furnace is blown through 12 tuyeres. There are four 21-ft. Massicks & Crooke stoves 105 ft. high. The furnace is fed by a double skip, which differs from the ordinary arrangement in that the pock- ets travel one over the other, instead of side by side. Each skip carries a suspended tub, which receives its load from an electrically operated larry car and dis- charges it when in a central position at the top of the furnace. The discharge position of the bucket is shown in the sectional views of the furnace top in Fig. 2. The discharge of ore is accomplished without any mechanism at the top of the furnace. The position of the operator is near the foot of the incline, where he has in direct view the dropping into the bucket of the ore, coke and stone from the larry car running under the bins. The skip is operated by an Otis electric hoist, located on the opposite side of the furnace from the operator. In Fig. 2 the construction of the ore bucket is well shown and the method by which the bell forming its bottom is lowered when the bucket is seated on the top of the hopper. The curved top of the latter and the bucket bell are thus depressed together and after the bucket has been emptied the counterweight shown returns the upper seal to its place. The deflecting plates in the upper por- tion of the hopper serve to secure a proper distribution of the ore as it falls upon the bell. Unlike the average modern skip filled furnace, it will be seen that this one has but one bell. The car which carries the loaded bucket stops in its highest position when the bell in the bottom of the bucket is at its lowest position, as shown by the dotted lines. When the stock has run out the car returns to the lower position shown and the upper seal closes so that the furnace bell may be lowered at any time. With the top ear in this position the other car at the bottom of the hoist is in position for loading. All of this operation is automatic. The Otis hoist is stopped by an electric cut- out and the brake applied when the car is in its highest position. The hoist also has a time limit mechanism which holds it in this position long enough for the stock to run out. The hoist is then automatically reversed, the car lowered into the position shown in Fig. 2, and the ET REN SE oe SS AN ERE RCE REECE CES OL a Peers amet ees Saws Se REE ee mene guy mes 4 ANT PRA SN TL ERE EUS oS one =~ oe ~ - ~ 2 mR me ee rete ~ i ea ad SSE IES ae : Sm en a - ee oy ee PR RN er ec > Oo 1024 brake automatically applied. position until the other car is loaded at the bottom, when the hoist is started by the operator. : : x Oo | ° | O | | wi | ‘. | ° | I The Cal The usual chemical KE BINS THE IRON AGE remains in this are lowered. also indicated. > Lt <zZ : ‘ ( Ye = \ < @ ‘ = i « E r oct - < u ui =z z wi ° a “ “ . = ° < < oy > é < November 25, hight of the stock in the It is to be noted that \ dD od } a = Ww = LS Z < > va ‘ ~ 2 r = ~ < < = - = > x ~ i a 2 ' ' i LPiT FURNACES 44 ~ , o ih \ oO <> 1909 indicators in the operator's house show when the bells The furnace is in the four months Dotted Lines , Shown in , & Open Hearth Furnaces, Finishing Mi!! st Furnace, Projected Bla N.Y Plan of New York State Steel Company’s plant at Buffalo, y. 1 lis November 25, 1909 the furnace has been operated no differences have been observed in the hight of stock at the four points around the top chosen for indication. The blast furnace blowing equipment consists of three cross compound steeple type engines each 48 and 8&4 in. by 84 and 60 in., built by the Southwark Foundry & Ma- chine Company of Philadelphia. There are 10 400-hp. Stirling boilers, which are fired by blast furnace gas. Provision has been made for handling the blast furnace slag, either by running it into a granulating tank from which it is loaded by gravity into railroad cars, or run- ning it direct into cinder cars in the molten state. The Mixer. The blast furnace, mixer and open hearth furnaces are located in one building. The proximity of the mixer to the furnace, so that metal runs into it directly from the latter, is a noteworthy feature of this plant. The plan and sectional views in Fig. 3 show the arrangement emn--- = 2 ST Se ie = aaa = | nen == ee tf om a —<—<——== - —— THE IRON AGE 1025 furnace for the pouring of hot metal from the ladle. The open hearth plant consists of two 200-ton Talbot tilting furnaces, each being 538 ft. long and 16 ft. wide ip the tilting section. As shown in Fig. 5, each furnace is supported upon four large wheels which run upon a circular track, thereby tilting the furnace without dis- turbing the center of its ports. The tilting of the fur- nace is accomplished by means of motors supported directly upon it. The rack and all gearing for tilting the furnace are steel castings. ‘No hydraulic pressure is employed in connection with these furnaces, everything being electrically operated, including the reversing of the valves and the opening of the doors. The door hoisting mechanism is shown in Fig. 6. Each door has an in- dependent hoist operated by a type K Westinghouse motor suspended below the gear frame, driving a worm by a pinion and gear. The crank for lifting the doors is keyed to the extension of the worm shaft. tata oat wet ms 4 f Fig. 2.—Sectional Views Showing Top Construction and the Bucket Method of Charging Without Machinery at the Top. of runways leading to the mixer and to the ladle cars which carry the metal when desired to the pig casting machine. This latter procedure is only in case of an interruption to operations in the open hearth department or for excess or merchant iron. The mixer is of the converter type, and the method of tilting it is shown in Fig. 4. There are two 25-hp. Crocker-Wheeler motors carried upon the column which raise and lower the mixer. Both motors have worms on the extensions of their armature shafts, gearing into worm wheels on opposite sides. The worm wheel is keyed to the long sleeve extending downward, and it turns the steel screw which works in a bronze nut bolted at the bottom to the ram connected by a universal joint to the mixer. This ram slides in the outer sleeve, which is brass lined. The thrust of the screw is taken up at the bottom by a series of collars working in babbitt. The Talbot Open Hearth Furnaces, A 40-ton ladle crane commanding the charging floor of the open hearth building and cast house carries the metal from the mixer to the Talbot furnaces. A refractory lined cast iron runway is inserted in the door of the As the plan shows, gas producers were installed and for a time producer gas was used. However, oil is now the fuel employed. It iJ stored in tanks adjoining the open hearth building, and is introduced through the usual piping to the ports of the furnaces. The ore, mill scale and burnt limestone required in the open hearth charge are brought up to the open hearth charging floor by an electric incline hoist at right angles to the line of the furnace. The limestone is burned in kilns located close to the open hearth building. Ore is loaded into the boxes from bins in that part of the ore trestle nearest the open hearth furnaces, these bins being filled by larry car in the same way as those carrying ore for the blast furnaces. A Rotary Charging Machine, The cars of filled charging boxes, after being pulled up the incline, stand on a track at the end of the open hearth building, while the boxes are picked off by the charging machine. This machine is of a special type, with rotating trolley, as shown in Fig. 7, so that the charging boxes can be picked up and swung around 90 degrees to the furnace doors. This charger was built by PERO omen gh 3 = et LEE ERR Hee oe maree ee AE SE Ins Me i ee a i TT VL MRED Se “meneame! TEE) RAY COED NoREMESNEEY Ee NECK Sie ~ erence 4 _™ al eet a map ce ee ee Ae > 1626 THE +4 Hy +4 +4 IRON AGE *lovember 25, 1909 K ) J fr. \ / ' ¥ ie ~~ & | | | | | \ J | >»~ J | , ere ; J {RA = J Tey J a) - J J OS as eine icciaieinsnlbbiindiinieniadl Plan and Se« the Morgan Engineering Company, Alliance, Ohio. It is constructed of steel forgings and steel castings, prac- tically no iron being used. The span from center to center of rails is 34 ft. 6 in., and the wheel base is 16 ft. % in. The total hight over all is S ft. 6 in. There are five electric motors. The Ls METAL oon ond Y 5 “Up, 1 III IY Hy, PS, Yi ff /, Yih a tional Elevation of Blast Fig. 4.—General Arrangement and Method of Tilting of 250-Ton Mixer. Furnace and Mixer! main motor is 50 hp.; the tifting trolley tra- verse and charging bar rotating motors each 30 hp., and the trolley revolving motor 11 hp. The charging bar ean be rotated about 12 rev. per min., and the trolley about 3 rev. per min. The armature of the lifting motor with an automatic electric brake operated traverse is provided FLOOR LINE \ oO November 25, 1909 by solenoids in such a manner that should the current fail from any cause the brake will immediately act and pre- vent the load from falling. To the top section of the trolley frame, which revolves on ball bearings, is attached the charging bar. This is made in two pieces, allowing the front part to be renewed in case of accidents. The front end of the charging bar is nade to fit into a recess on the back of the charging boxes. Its head is provided with two double inclined faces. These are exactly duplicate, with their meet- ing edge on line with the center of the charging bar. If, after the lower end of the charging bar has entered the pocket, the box should not be in the exact position to permit of the free seat- ing of the head therein, the inclined faces on the bar head and on the pocket coming’ together will cause the box to shift its position to receive the head. The flanged end of the charging bar having double inclines and the sliding lock being located in plane with the cen- ter of the bar, it can thus be used either side down, and if one side is damaged the other can be used. To lock the boxes to the charging bar the locking rod is pulled back toward the operator, thus putting this rod in tension. As the operator can always see whether the box is secure, it is held that this design of box reduces the number of lost boxes to a minimum. The practice at the Buffalo plant has been the typical Talbot practice, and the results have been quite uniform, each of the furnaces producing 200 tons in 24 hours, this amount having been exceeded in a number of instances. About 50 tons of metal is tapped out at each cast. The reserve metal being very low in carbon (about 0.04 per cent.), the addition of a fresh pot of metal from the mixer is at- tended with a violent ebullition, the product of the reaction. These additions vary from 25,000 to 40,000 Ib., depending upon the kind of steel desired. The maintenance of a limy slag of good depth and of a freely oxidizing slag (by the charging of iron ore and scale, or both) is the condition of speedy and satisfac- tory refining. On the pouring side of the furnace the ladles of metal are handled by a 75- ton four-girder crane built by the Al- liance Machine Company, Alliance, Ohio. The Blooming Mill. The blooming mill is 36 in. in diam- eter and was built by the United En- gineering & Foundry Company, Pitts- burgh. It is operated by a pair of 48 x 60 in. reversing engines built by Mack- intosh, Hemphill & OCo., Pittsburgh. There are three four-hole soaking pits, which are served by two Alliance Ma- chine Company combined stripping and charging machines, one of which is shown in Fig. 8. The ingots after they leave the open hearth furnaces are switched directly into the soaking pit building and are there stripped and handled direct into the pits without any further movement of the cars, in con- trast with the frequent instances of such an arrangement of plant as calls for the hauling of ingots to a stripper and then their transfer to a soaking pit building. 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A CGE, LEELA ALLE LOLA LL EOL T x —~ = a 4 The combined stripping and charging machines remove the ingots from the pits and place them upon the ingot tilter, from which they go direct to the mill. For the pit furnaces there are nine standard Duff gas producers 10 ft. 6 in. in diameter. The billet shear, which is motor driven, is capable of cutting steel 11 x 11 in. It was built by Mackintosh, Hemphill & Co., Pittsburgh. The boiler equipment for the rolling mill end of the Le dh Ak Ee Pr Fig. 6.—Method of Raising Open Hearth Furnace Doors. plant consists of 10 400-hp. Stirling boilers, with Green chain grate stokers. Coal, which is received upon a sur- face track at this boiler plant, is dumped directly into a concrete hopper, from which it is elevated into storage bins. From these it is drawn directly into an electric larry car, which traverses the length of the boiler house, feeding the hoppers of the stokers. This same larry car also delivers the coal to the pit furnace gas producers, which are located in line with the boilers. The electrical plant consists of three 250-kw. gen- erators in each of the two power houses. In the pump house are four 5,000,000-gal. two-stage centrifugal pumps driven direct by electric motors. Fig. 7—The Morgan Rotary Charging Machine. THE IRON AGE November 25, 1909 Iron Ore Supply. The New York State Steel Company has three iron mines on the Mesaba range—the Kellogg, near Biwabik, Minn., producing high grade Bessemer ore, the mine aver- November 25, 1909 aging GO per cent. metallic iron; the Larkin, near Virginia, Minn., also producing a Bessemer ore, and the Knox, at the east end of the range, near Mesaba, Minn., which shipped ore this season for the first time. The company is thus practically independent of the ore market, though naturally it would be a seller of its high grade Bessemer ore and a buyer of some non-Bessemer and silicious ores. The company is at present putting its product on the market in the form of basic pig iron, blooms and billets, but its intention is to provide a finishing plant in the near future. The officers of the company are the follow- ing: President. F. N. Beegle (president of the Union Drawn Steel Company, Beaver Falls, Pa.) ; vice-presi- dent, Frederick Davidson; secretary and treasurer, Louis R. Davidson. F. E. Porter is general superintendent, in charge of the works, and is assisted by John Quier, superintendent of blast furnaces; S. E. Phillips, super- intendent of the open hearth and blooming mill, and Robert A. Noon, master mechanic. The mining depart- ment is in charge of Thomas F. Hildreth. Oe A Motor-Driven Star Lathe. Onn The Seneca Falls Mfg. Company, 255 Water street, Seneca Falls, N. Y., has recently brought out a new type of motor drive for its 9 and 11 in. Star lathes, as shown A Star Lathe Made by the Seneca Falls Mfg. Company, Seneca Falls, N. Y., Equipped with a New Arrangement of Motor Drive. in accompanying illustration. The advantage of this type of motor drive over previous and usual methods em- ployed is in its adaptability to the use on small engine lathes of motors of all kinds. The drive has been de- signed so as to use any kind of constant or variable speed motor, nonreversible, preferably with a speed of 1000 to 2000 rey. per min. The motor may be easily attached and a pulley of proper size on the motor. transmits power by belt to the countershaft pulley running constantly in one direction; a belt is also used from’ the cone pulley on the countershaft to the cone pulley on the head spindle. Means are provided for quickly tightening belts, and they can be kept at proper tension until worn out without shortening. Experience has proved that this method of driving small lathes has advantages over rigid gearing and chain belt drives and will prevent damage to both motor and lathe. Starting, stopping and reverse rotation of the lathe spindle are controlled by a shifting bar placed horizon- tally above the lathe within easy reach of the operator. Moving this shifting bar to the left imparts forward motion to the lathe spindle, and to the right reverses it; bringing the shifting bar to the center position stops the lathe. The driving mechanism consists of friction clutches and gears for reversing the motion, encased and running in an oil bath. It is simple in construction and THE IRON AGE 1629 not likely to be damaged or disarranged. The bearings are thoroughly lubricated by oil rings. ———_~ 2» —____ Some New Canadian Projects. Toronto, November 20, 1909.—The town of Welland is becoming an industrial center of importance. Its prog- ress in this respect is largely due to the advantages of its location. Situated close to the United States boun- dary line, to the Falls of Niagara, on the Welland Canal and on four lines of railroad, it could hardly fail to go forward in this particular period of Canada’s develop- ment, when United States capital, cheap hydro-electric power and a capacious home market are available as they never were before. The Electric Steel Company of Canada is the latest concern to project works for the town. It proposes to erect a large plant at the point of juncture between the canal and the feeder of the canal, where an extensive site is reported to have been secured for the purpose. It is announced that the plant will be ready for operation in the spring. The ratepayers of Goderich, Ont., recently voted on a by-law for the guaranteeing by the municipality of the bonds of the Good Roads Machine Company in the sum of $40,000. The by-law was carried. The company will establish works in the town. The Thunder Bay Harbor & Improvement Company has almost completed the ore dock it is building near Port Arthur for the Dominion Bessemer Iron Company. The first cargo of iron ore is expected to leave the dock in a few days for Cleveland. Thomas Hogan. well known as a mining man in the Rainy River country, reports an unusually active interest in iron ore lands in that district. He says that a trans action is now pending for the sale of certain iron lands he holds on the Canadian Northern Railway line, and that if it goes through it will be of greater magnitude than any negotiated there for a long time. He has had a large number of men engaged in the testing of his iron properties this season. Colonel Ray, another Port Arthur man prominently identified with developments there, spoke to like effect when he was in this part of the province a week or two ago. It is said that the Atikokan Iron Company has an offer from Western interests for the purchase of its pig iron output in the molten state for the feeding of a steel converter and ingot works, whose construction at Port Arthur is under consideration. The steel made would be shipped to the Western interior. At present the bulk of the Port Arthur pig iron is sent to the east- ern Ontario foundries. W. J. Lindsay of Toronto has a number of industrial undertakings in which he is trying to interest the Port Arthur municipal corporation and the Board of Trade. These include projects for rolling mills, open hearth or Bessemer steel works, a rod mill, a galvanizing plant and wire and nail works. Application is being made to the Dominion Parlia- ment for an act to incorporate the Dominion Dry Dock & Shipbuilding Company, the capital to be $1,000,000, the chief place of business to be in Montreal. The Dominion Iron & Steel Company has placed an order with an English company for two briquetting plants at a cost of $50,000. This is for the economizing of coal dust now lost in the handling of coal used in the company’s system. Oy Ai Mord, ——-_-——_--—~e-@ ---- The Knecht Planer Company, successor to the Knecht 3rothers Company, Cincinnati, Ohio, announces that it has sold its drill business to the Crane Machine Tool Company of the same city. The Knecht Planer Company also states that it is about to enter the market with a new high speed planer, variable speed instantaneous, power control throughout. It has been developing this machine for the past three years and is now ready to book orders for 1910 delivery. The Duquesne Steel Foundry Company, Pittsburgh, has placed an order with the Whiting Foundry Equip- ment Company for four 5-ton cranes, to be installed in its plant at Corapolis, Pa. eee ee EO oo Sormcemase arenes ee Re OR Cah ee . . wes vee teeny: reeEreEEnerrse se ee THE 16030 The Cambria Steel Company’s Presidency. The rumors which have been current of an impending change in the presidency of the Cambria Steel Company were verified November 17 when Effingham B. Morris, chairman of the Executive Committee of that company, issued the following statement : President Powell Stackhouse of the Cambria Steel Com- pany having announced his decision to retire from active POWELL STACKHOUSE. business, it is proper to say that he will be succeeded after the next annual meeting by Charles S. Price, who, for some years past, has been the vice-president and genera] mana- ger of the company. Mr. Stackhouse entered the service of the company 54 years ago, and has well earned a right to rest after such a period of faithful and successful labors. Mr. Stackhouse will remain as president of the Cambria Iron Company, and while relieved therefore of all duties and responsibilities connected with the active management of the works oper- ated by the Cambria Steel Company, he will still be avail- able for consultation. All the operating departments, in- cluding sales, purchasing and freight, will hereafter be con- centrated at Johnstown under Mr. Price’s direct supervi- sion. The treasurer’s department, the auditor’s, secretary’s and stock transfer office will remain in Philadelphia at the head office of the company, where directors’ meetings and Executive Committee meetings will continue to be held. Mr. Price will reside in Johnstown as heretofore, but will be in Philadelphia as frequently as business may require his pres- ence. The annual meeting takes place in March. Following are brief sketches of the retiring and incoming presi- dents: The Retiring President. Mr. Stackhouse was born in Philadelphia July 16, 1s40. At the age of 15 he went to Johnstown to enter the employment of Wood, Morrell & Co., then conducting what was known as “the company’s store,” his uncle, the late Daniel J. Morrell, being the managing partner. He was at first a plain clerk, selling goods to workmen, but was soon placed in charge of the firm’s cost accounts. He served five years in this capacity and then began a more strenuous career, entering the army during the Civil War and emerging with the rank of senior major. Returning to Johnstown, he was placed in charge of affiliated operations of the Cambria Iron Company, such as the brickyard, woolen mill, &c., then putting in seven years as assistant to the general superintendent of the company. For three years he resided in northern Mich- igan in charge of the mining operations of the Republic Iron Company. Returning to the Cambria Iron Com- pany’s service in Philadelphia, he was successively gen- eral manager, comptroller and vice-president and, on the IRON AGE November 25, 1909 death of President Edward Y. Townsend in 1891, he was elected president. In 1898, when the Cambria Steel Company leased the property, he was made president of that company. In every position he filled he has been the same energetic, painstaking, thoroughgoing but approach- able and sympathetic man. The Incoming President. The promotion of Mr. Price to the presidency of the Cambria Steel Company is the recognition of years of faithful and valuable service in the interests of the com- pany. Like his predecessor in this office, Mr. Price began his career in an inconspicuous position and won advance- ment by his merit. He is a native of Pennsylvania, having been born at West Chester August 27, 1852. He was graduated from Cornell University in 1872, taking the course in civil engineering. For a short time he was employed as a draftsman by the Detroit Bridge & Iron Works, Detroit, Mich., and then was elected city engineer .of Lock Haven, Pa., serving for three years. In 1876 he took a position as draftsman in the engineer- ing department of the Cambria Iron Company at Johns- town. When the company began the erection of its first open hearth steel plant he supervised the details of con- struction and on its completion was appointed foreman of one turn. For three years he served in this position and was then made superintendent of the department, becoming in 1884 superintendent of the Bessemer, open hearth and bloomiug department. In January, 1886, the metallurgical department was organized, comprising the Bessemer and open hearth steel works, blast furnaces and rolling mills, and Mr. Price was advanced in charge of that most important department. According to the Johnstown Tribune, from which these details are secured, Mr. Price succeeded so well in bring- ing order out of chaos in his department after the dis- astrous flood of 1889 that when a vacancy occurred in the general superintendency his name was the only one that suggested itself to the principal officers of the com- pany in connection with the position, and in October, 1890, he was made general superintendent of manufac- ture, his duties covering all processes of steel produc- tion and manufacture. Again, when there came a yva- CHARLES 8. PRICE. cancy in the office of general manager, a position which imposed duties far beyond those usually accompanying such a position elsewhere, there was no question of choice in the selection of a new incumbent, and Mr. Price was advanced to that position in March, 1892. Since that time he has been the sole responsible head of the company’s local operations. When he first assumed the duties of general manager the total number of men em- ployed under his direction was 7616. Some idea of the November 25, 1909 THE growth of the plant under his management may be gath- ered when it is said that at the present time the Cam- bria payrolls provide for over 16,000 men, while more than 17,000 have been employed at times when construc- tion and improvement work was under way. In addition to the duties of the positions above enumerated he has served for years as president of local water, and other companies. Regarding his personal characteris tics, the T'ribune says: “He is a strict disciplinarian, but always, courteous to those with whom he is in as- sociation and to his subordinates, and it is a great com- pliment to the man that his methods and manner are un- consciously copied in the conduct of other men through- out the length and breadth of the Cambria Works.” The 7'ribune further says: “It is known that vast ex- tensions and improvements are in contemplation, and this fact doubtless had a great deal to do with the re- moval of the headquarters of the president from Phila- delphia to Johnstown. This arrangement will enable President Price to give much personal attention to the carrying out of the ‘extension and improvement plans with which he is personally familiar and which are largely the result of his suggestion and planning.” a The Railway Business Association’s Dinner. gas The large ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria, New York, was crowded on the evening of November 10 with an exceptionally representative gathering of financiers, railroad executives and manufacturers, on the occasion of the first annual dinner of the Railway Business Associa- tion. The organization itself is distinct from the rail- roads, but several hundred railroad men were present as guests. President George A. Post acted as toastmaster. In the course of his introductory remarks, he said: “We are not a ‘Faith Cure League,’ a ‘ Sunshine Guild,’ nor purveyors of ‘Moonshine. We are men who want business. We do not want political offices ; we want orders. We cannot have orders unless our cus- tomers are prosperous, and they cannot prosper against a stiff current of public hostility. Our plea for the rail- roads is not to ‘let us alone,’ but the shibboleth of our campaign to all concerned is: ‘Let us behave!’ “ This appeal is made to railroad folks from baggage handler to executive; to those who are patrons of the railroad, and to public officials clothed with authority in dealing with railroad matters. It is the high hope of the Railway Business Association that the time may. come when public wrath will be as quickly aroused against any one who would seek to harm a properly conducted, square-dealing railroad as it would be aroused against an offending railroad. The condition precedent to this state of the public mind is that unremitting attention be given to that branch of railroad engineering having for its function the maintenance of public good will.” Interesting addresses were delivered by President Brown of the New York Central, President Ripley of the Atchison and ex-Congressman Hepburn of Iowa. ————_»--e____—__ Dodge Mfg. Company Improvements. business The Dodge Mfg. Company, Mishawaka, Ind., is erect- ing an addition to its foundry, 360 ft. long, work on the foundations of which is now under way. The company also has under construction a warehouse of reinforced concrete, 112 x 256 ft., four stories and basement, which will be used for storage and shipping stock goods. With the completion of this warehouse, which will be about April 1, and the improvement of its shipping facilities, the company will be in much better shape to take care of its rapidly increasing business 2nd will be prepared to give its agents and dealers, and power users generally, first-class service in the way of prompt shipments. The company has just completed an extension of 250 ft. to the main machine shop, in which machinery is now being installed. The machine shop now has a length of 585 ft. on the crane runway and is equipped with a 25-ton Niles electric crane and a 10-ton Whiting crane. IRON AGE i631 The Gardner No. 7. Disk Grinder. The line of disk grinders built by the Gardner Ma chine Company, Beloit, Wis., has recently been extended by the addition of a size No. 7, which differs from the company’s other machines only that it accommodates disk wheels—30 in. in diameter or under—and larger The No. 7, 30-In. the Gardner Machine Company, Disk Grinder Built by 2eloit, Wis. Fig. 2.—A Setting-Up Press for Attaching the Abrasive Disks to the Disk Wheels Equipped with a Handling Device. has greater belt power. It is declared to be the heaviest and most powerful single head disk grinder on the mar- ket and is equipped with special work tables covering a wider field at the present time, it is said, than any other tool of its type. Fig. 1 shows a No. 7 machine equipped with the 30-in. disk wheels and plain work tables, but the Gardner universal and lever feed tables can also be used on it. Fig. 2 shows the wheel press used for setting up disks of this size. Since the 30-in. disk wheels weigh about 175 lb. each, there is excellent reason for equipping the disk wheel press with the lift- ing attachment shown, for convenience in handling the disks from and to the table of the press. 2 oe —_—_——_ The universal Portland Cement Company, Universal. Pa., a subsidiary company of the United States Steel Corporation, has about completed an addition to plant No. 5 at that place which will give the works an output of 10,000 bbl. per day. This is believed to be the largest output of any single cement mill in the world. 1632 THE IRON November 25, 1909 AGE TREATED STEEL FOR HIGH SERVICE. The Demand for Greatly Increased Strength and How the Manufacturer Is Able to Respond to It. BY JAS. Some of the things I mention are common knowledge among steel men, but this article is meant partly for commercial information and, therefore, some details are gone into which would be unnecessary in speaking to fellow craftsmen. And it will be a pleasure if I can lay this subject clearly before the users of steel, while calling attention of technical men to certain points. Treatment does not relate here to the way we use the steel after it is made, nor to where we place it in a structure, but to what we do to it to increase its ability for service. Nor does this article include tempering edge tools, &c. It refers to treatment, commonly called “ heat Broke Under Jaw of Untreated Steel One Blow; When of Treated Steel 25 Blows Were Required to Break It. Fig. 1.—Track Wrench. e treatment,” of articles formerly used without treatment of any kind. But the principle applied to both classes is the same. I know that any statement about steel must be cautiously received, for the accepted facts of one decade are often upset by developments in the next. But some things become more and more clear, and what I present here is largely the outcome of my experience as a manufacturer of steel articles. It would be just as wise to expect good service from an untempered axe or spring as to look for the best service from steel without treatment. If ever there was a case justifying the use of the picture “before and after” this is one. For we know that properly treated steel will be 50 to 150 per cent. stronger and many times more reliable. The strengths referred to here are those represented by the elastic limit of the steel, as shown by the drop of the beam in the testing machine. Fur- ther along the use of the extensometer in this connection will be noticed for its detection of weakness, and I think it will be found that we have only been about half awake to the importance of treating steel. The elastic limit being the measure of the working strength of steel this article need not be cumbered with figures of ultimate strength, though this is affected in the same way. High Carbon Treated Steel. Higher carbon in steel means greater strength, and heat treatment gives such steel still greater strength and reliability. So it is entirely safe to say that we are now using for some purposes steel] three times as strong and many times as reliable as that we used a few years ago. Then in some cases the limit to increase in size is fixed by certain conditions, while there is a constant call for higher service. Therefore, the increased strength and safety must be had by putting the material into better condition. It is not such ancient history that our gov- ernment engineers saw this condition and began to call for higher carbon treated steel. They were met by cer- tain steel makers with the statement that it would be unreliable, would not stand shock, &c. Any one familiar with the present Government specifications will see that the engineers won. It is a well known law that lowering prices increases demand. Therefore, the treatment of steel is coming to be a prime factor, for because of it a lighter article of the same strength and greater safety can be used. in many In other cases a lower priced steel, by a comparatively trifling additional cost, can be made to take the place of steel costing from two to five times as much. By treatment it is possible to use a steel which can be machined at commercial speeds and yet -ases, H. BAKER. get a very strong article, say, of 100,000 lb. elastic limit and 30 per cent. reduction of area, to say nothing of the greater safety. But remember, there are places in which none but the best of alloy steel should be used, and then only after having been subjected to the most care- ful treatment. Bad steel cannot be made into good steel by treatment, but any of it can be vastly improved. While the fundamentals are comparatively simple, yet when the variations in size and relative thickness of parts of the same article, different degrees of heat, rate of cooling and the qualities needed for, different kinds of service are considered, treatment becomes a matter for skilled men. Care Needed in the Use of Terms, In order that steel treatment may be better under- stood, look at some terms. Tempering, annealing, &c., are used in such contradictory ways that there is great need of standardizing the terminology of this subject. Metcalf called attention to this 20 years ago, but was not heeded. Hardening is done by heating and quenching and without heat by cold working. Sometimes we speak of air hardening; but this is only a faster way of cooling annealed steel than to let it cool in the furnace. A blast of air is often used in cooling special steels. To temper steel is to modify the hardness by applying heat. To anneal is to heat the steel and cool it slowly. Annealing has ahother fundamental meaning, and that is the re- moval of strains set up in forging or casting. There are Fig. 2.—Dead Soft Steel Annealed. just these three operations which can be applied to steel through heat, though the last one is subdivided into an- nealing to produce a change of grain, or softness, and an- nealing to take out strains. To anneal for change of grain the heat must be brought to about 1350 degrees F., while almost any degree of heat will help to remove strains. These distinctions should be made clear for the benefit of the thousands of young men who are now in technical schools where they are supposed to gain useful definitions. Among old steel workers there was no doubt as to the meaning of these terms, and any workman clearly understood what to do when he was told to harden, anneal or temper an article. Now, when the engineer states that steel shall be oil tempered and annealed, we have simply- to ignore the proper meaning of the terms and find out from his de- scription what he means, for he may mean that the article shall be hardened in oil and then tempered. One paper THE November 25, 1909 Fig. 3.—-’Treated Piece from Same Bar as Fig. 2. says that “‘ tempering has a tendency to produce a struc- ture which is hard and brittle.’ Tempering has just the opposite effect; so here you have to read “ tempering” as meaning hardening. Tempering always presupposes hardness. Get these terms clearly understood and there will be no further need of using quotation marks when printing them. True, the word “temper” is usef in a symbolic way by steelmakers to designate certain car- bons, or steels for certain purposes, but this use of the word has no reference to the condition set up in steel by heating and cooling. Liquid Tempering. In the strict meaning of terms, oil tempering comes under the broad term of what I will call liquid temper- ing, meaning that after the steel has been hardened and it is desired to temper the hardness, it is put into oil of the desired temperature and left there until it is equalized with the temperature of the oil. The degree to which such tempering can be carried is limited by the nature of the liquid. ‘This method is valuable for the finest work and for small numbers of pieces, but for large quantities of the same article the method of placing them in boxes or tubes, closing them and slowly heating is good and is much practiced. Take an article like an auger bit, and it is very difficult to heat it alike in its different parts. In liquid tempering we can easily heat even the mos