The Iron Age 1910-05-12: Vol 85 Iss 19

Established 1855 £ : ass ae Published Every Thursday by the 14-16 Park Place, New York * Entered at the New York Post Office, a8 Second Class Mail Matter. Sabscription Price, United States and Mexico, $5.00 per Annum; to Canada, $7.50 per Annum ; to Other ee. Saaieas $10.00 per Annum. Single Copies, 20 Cents. = Cuar.es T. Roor, - - - - - PRESIDENT CHARLES KIRCHHOFF, - = * = - VicE-PEt0ENT W. H. Taycor, - - TREASURER ANO G'NERAL Manacer Haroon S. BuTTENHEI, - - - - - SECRETARY j Gro. W. Cope, - - . - : ) “ Eoirors A. |, Fintvey, - - : . - f » H. R. Cosieicu, - - - - - M CHANICAL EDITOR Branch Offices Philadelphia, Real Estate Trust Building Chicago, Fisher Building Pittsburgh, Park Building Cleveland, American Trust Building > Boston, Compton Building Cincinnati, Mercantile Library Bldg. CONTENTS PAGE Editorial : Little Aaiey ten Pie THO ce. Sa as Bee he ow eek 1095 Reducing Accident Litigation to a Minimum......... 1096 The Bessemer Steel Industry.............00.e0c0e 1006 International Pens. oii:s aise. ies teen eek é Cae wk 1097 - - Profitable Tool: ROOM. <.. «oss. coast we cha ave ane 1097 PEMCIOND GE gon s oss typ tesle ag kwh See aby py hme we See 1098 The American Electrochemical Society.../...........46. 1098 a pemete’s Wire Rod Boumty. . . isc. cc. cawis i veenteweee 1099 The Bayonne Steel Casting Company............6..006. 1099 Pacific Coast Metal Trades Association................. 1160 o The Lynchburg Foundry Company to Build Another Pipe PREG ia ss « Ainnlp Dee abs Siw, oa sic CE BR se ce 1100 Crucible Steel Company Improvements.................4. 1100 The National Machine Tool Builders’ Association........ 1°09 Gas Engines for Blowing Blast Furnaces............... 1100 "2 The Iron and Metal Markets Reports............. 1101 to 1110 frén and: THAUAHIAL BOG 6 aoa 08 WCE VERSE ETT So SOT 1110 A Large Order for Koppel Steel Coal Cars.............. 1110 Philadelphia Associated Foundry Foremen.............. 1110 The Lawson Mfg. Company's Changes.................. 1110 The Machinery Markets Reports..............+.-. 1111 to 1123 The Pennsylvania Steel Company.............cceee eens 1124 PEE 86. iin wx Va kee ec Wet ees we 6 Neves Hews 4 eg alae 06> 11 eke Teens’ TIGGRE. 6:0 is Me Fin hc ons Gas bee ae 6 +e 0 1125 Deer “Pema CaSlOMss (Sa cae Us cure ee « OSs 0 > ee cin oe 6 es es 1126 ; Te PROG. 5:65:58 vo 61 0 eR SD OC * OW OR ee Oo Ree Caw bi8 8 1126 rr ; Cast Iron Committee of the Testing Society............. 1127 Employers’ Liability Bill Passed by New York Assembly. 1127 3 The Westinghouse Lamp Company's Improvements....... 1127 - NE i. cis ee ee BOE weed oa vb cities he 6 GN wes 1128 A New Southern Iron Ore Development................. 1128 The American Iron and Stee! Institute................. 1128 3 Canada’s Iron and Steel Imports...................000- 1129 4 Peirawemerits Ot. Gary, TAGs o o.o.0 is. claws veins bic os wldbes 1129 A in en OF PUIG MOM... . asd ckde wee 54 owebieis voi. « 1129 The Atlantic City Supply Convention................... 1130 evened te RMatiroaG: MBtSS. . oii he Pieced acc tccs 1130 : ES AS eee eT Se Ore te eee ee 1130 2 The Lake Superior Iron & Chemical Company............ 1130 7 General Hlectric Company..............eeeeeeeeee 1131 . DMs Suction Conveyor for Coal and Ashes. Illustrated. 1132 The New Barrett Track Jack. Illustrated............... 1135 EBlettric Furnaces of the Induction Type. Illustrated..... 1136 Steel Corporation Pension Fund of $12,000,000,....... 1141 b Newark Foundrymen’s Association................. 1141 ’ ra Water Power Limitation........... tg ences A141 Machinery and Tools in Hungary. . Illustrated. ... “ghee . 1142 Turbo-Fun for Ships. Hiwstrated ¥ : PULNIC: ee ee Sete hie cin ok ond New York, May 12, 1910 tas ° Little Activity ir in Pig In Further Western Buying of B of Bars—A Wrought Iron Pipe—New Con for Furnace Coke Activity in the iron market is not to § while the compulsory adjustment of pig ir demand is under way. The movement gone far enough to modify some views | pressed as to the low level likely to be rea costs advancing and prices receding, as h case for some time, it is at last recognized are hovering about the meeting point. The United States Steel Corporation| steadily adjusting its pig iron output % th of its steel works, and since the opening OF has put out four furnaces and one 6 ordered out. At Bessemer, Ala., it now Tam furnace making foundry iron, out of a group The independent steel companies, -being ordig buyers of pig iron, have not curtailed their own: put in the same proportion as the leading int number of merchant furnaces have gone ¢ past week, including four in New Jersey ¢ Pennsylvania, one in central Pennsylvania, er, ginia, one in the Shenafigo Valley and a Mahoning Valley. Southern pig iron prodticers are making @ stand for $12, Birmingham, for No, 2 costs are considerably higher th ago when their product touched $11. & coal miners and other labor have beeri mi recently most blast furnace workmen in “ ham district were advanced 6 per cent. e essee Company’s new schedule went into ef More inquiry for foundry iron is re; Cincinnati, though no market shows= . buying movement. Such offers as buys are make on round lots are not accept In the Pittsburgh district sal been made at $15.25, and the lative iron is evidently not all #@k iron following recent sales at cone panies in lots of 5000 tons, thesmai what steadier. A good many coke contraet in the past week. One deal pt cowl for 450,000 tons, deliveries 4 on a sliding scale 4 - . 4 d@emonths’ c i res ae THE IRON AGE agricultural works have contracted for bars, sactions of the week in Central Western and istrict amounting to 40,000 tons, at 1.45¢c., ctural steel has been more active in the West. Heisen Building, Chicago, the Cambria Steel will’ furnish 3000 tons. The American * Company took 2600 tons of bridge work for the ro Island. Keener competition has developed vonbéth plain and fabricated material in the East, and ; Pittsburgh, basis for steel has been shaded }?ton. @ plate mills are interested in the contracts , N. J., for two Chesapeake Bay passenger steamers, and at Newport News eamer. The Panama lock gate work will r some weeks. lehem Steel Company took 5000 tons of tails for Panama last week. At the same time 14,000 tons of stfuctural steel, sheets and pipe, was awarded the United States Steel Products Export Company. Thé€ Barriman roads have begun placing the long pending Gar contracts. It is expected about 6000 will be givemmmut now. Of these the Cambria Steel Com- pany jeeeived 1325. OF reduction of $2 a ton has been made in wrought pipe. —__——_++e_____ Reducing Accident Litigation to a Minimum The rapid headway voluntary plans of accident compensation are making may be a surprise to some »» manufacturers who have not been alive to this move- ment. But such have not appreciated apparently how Ms. powerfully the large fees of the accident claim lawyer and the high toll in other forms that litigation exacts . both employers and the injured employee have heen working for the new way. As is well known, railroads have been greatly reducing the number of accident cases in which suit is brought. details were given in these columns of the voluntary plan for compensating the injured and relieving the families of those losing their lives in accidents adopted by the United States Steel Corporation. It was stated in that connection that the corporation disbursed about $1,000,000.in such relief and compensation last year, and would spend considerably more under the new arrangement. In.its last bulletin the American Mu- seum of Safety makes the interesting statement that because of the corp@mation’s policy of basing compen- sation on the extent of the injury it had succeeded in greatly reducingthe number of litigated accident cases. Out of about $1,000,000 spent last year by the cor- poration-in compensation only about $40,000 was the result 5i lawsuits, or was obtained through lawyers. In som@of the companies there was practically no resort to law. The following figures summarizing the accident fécords of the Steel Corporation’s subsidiaries for the four years preceding 1909 are most suggestive: 1905.” ql 906. 1907. 1908. Av. number” employed 172,933 169,619 191,815 162,134 Serious accidents. 3,361 4,816 4,659 4,960 Paid injured and fam- $630,889 $769,720 $1,054,615 $1,005,739 Total spent in acci- dent matters Judgments paid Per cent. paid : jured and families. Percentage of accidents leading to suits. ..4-10 of 1% 5-10 of 1% 4-10 of 1% 7-10 of 1% The amount paid injured and their families in- cludes also physicians’ bills, and the “total spent in Recently the $796,617 $1,020,720 $1,336,256 $1,300,076 $23,813 $41,536 $19,470 $41,265 79.2 75.4 78.9 77.4 May 12, 1910 accident matters” takes in administration of accident prevention and adjustment, also inspections and other work in that direction. The percentage of cases in which suit was brought—only a fraction of 1 per cent. in any year—includes all accidents, serious and minor. The exhibit is impressive, and one that will give fur- ther stimulus to the efforts now being put forth to in- sure to the injured in industrial accidents a much larger average compensation than has ever been se- cured by litigation—and that without making any issue of the question of the negligence of the injured work- man. The Bessemer Steel Industry The statistics of Bessemer steel production in 1909 give definite information concerning the further de- cline of the converter, as indicated earlier by the re- turns of Bessemer pig iron production last year. They show that for the first time Ohio produced more Bes- steel than Pennsylvania, the figures being 3,466,077 and 2,845,602 gross tons, respectively; and that the percentage of Bessemer steel that was rolled into rails was the smallest in the history of the indus- semer try; they also make it quite safe to predict that acid Bessemer steel in the United States will not again reach the high record of 12,275,830 tons of ingots and castings in 1906, with nearly equal probability that it will not again rise to the total of 11,667,549 tons in 1907. The Bessemer rail, unless the electric furnace shall come rapidly forward as an instrument for the eco- nomic production of high-grade rails in large tonnages, has entered upon a period of declining output, not only in percentage but in actual tonnage. In 30 with some ups and downs, from making up more than four-fifths of the Bessemer steel rolled in American mills, the Bessemer rail has come to be only years, about one-fifth of the total of converter steel. This great change has come through the marked develop- ment of other Bessemer rolled products, but has been emphasized in the past two years by the displacement of the Bessemer process by the open hearth for rail steel. In making the table below, which shows this decline, the statistics by five-year periods from 1880 to 1905 and then by years. Strictly the comparison should be between Bessemer rail in- gots and total ingots and castings, but finished rails are the only form in which Bessemer rail steel is sta- tistically stated: we have given Production of Bessemer Ingots and Castings and Bessemer Rails in the United States.—Gross Tons. Bessemer Ingots Bessemer Per cent. and Castings. Rails. Rails. 1,074,261 852,196 79 1,519,430 959,471 63 3,688,871 1,867,837 50 4,909,128 1,299,628 26 6,684,770 2,383,654 35 10,941,375 3,192,347 29 12,275,830 8,791,459 31 11,667,549 3,380,025 29 6,116,755 1,354,236 22 9,330,783 1,806,621 19 The table shows that, while the falling off in rails is the chief factor in the decline of the Bessemer steel industry in recent years, this does not entirely account for it. Last year’s output of other Bessemer products makes a favorable comparison, however, with so re- cent a year as 1905. Adding, say, 11 per cent. to the rail output to get the rail ingot total (on the basis of 10 per cent. loss from cropping) and deducting from the Bessemer total, we have_ 7,343,500. tons as the - i = May 12, 1910 amount of Bessemer: steel that went into other prod- ucts than rails in 1909, as against 7,407,691 tons in 1905. Similarly we find that the average for 1906 and 1907 of Bessemer steel ingots which were rolled into forms other than rails was 7,994,481 tons. Thus there has been some loss from the Bessemer to the open hearth process in products apart from rails, but it is comparatively small. The fact that Ohio took the lead last year in Bessemer production shows that in wire, wrought pipe, sheets, tin plates and bars, into which the Bessemer steel produced at Cleveland, Lorain, Youngstown and Columbus largely enters, the converter is still an important factor. The “baby” Bessemer does not figure in the sta- tistics to the extent that might be expected in view of the number of plants installed in recent years. The production of Bessemer steel castings last year was 33,814 gross tons, and all but 821 tons was blown in small converters. The output was 20,559 tons in 1908, 33,273 tons in 1907, 32,601 tons in 1906 and 22,103 tons in 1905. Last year showed a small increase over the average for 1906 and 1907, and 1910 will show more, aS 10 small converters were being built at the close of 1909. Last year 18 Tropenas and 15 other small converter plants were operated. The United States Steel Corporation, through the development of Gary, with its large output of open hearth rails, and the consequent decline of the Edgar Thomson Bessemer rail mill, produced a smaller per- centage of the country’s Bessemer steel in 1909 than in any preceding year, or 62.9 per cent. This com- pares with 66.3 per cent. in 1908, 64.8 per cent. in 1907 and 65.7 per cent. in 1906. The American Iron and Steel Association in its statistical statement concerning new Bessemer con- verter construction says that only two standard con- verters were building at the close of 1909, and these are to be used for desiliconizing and decarburizing molten metal for open hearth furnaces. Thus the con- verter, where it is not being crowded out by the open hearth furnace, is more and more earning its right to remain by becoming the useful servant of its lusty rival. International Peace The movement for placing international peace upon an authoritative basis, which was referred to in The Iron Age of April 28, has received a considerable im- petus from the speech of ex-President Roosevelt at Christiania. Mr. Roosevelt in his remarks proposed ‘ substantially the means suggested in the Bartholdt joint resolution as being the indispensable requisite for the stability of any peace agreement. This requisite is the establishment of a sufficient force under the con- trol of the central authority, whatever that may be, to give effect to its decrees and to render impossible the beginnings of war. On Saturday last the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives accorded a hearing upon the Bartholdt resolution, the reports of which hearing indicate that the committee is distinctly interested in the subject. It does seem as though the continued educational work of peace societies and peace advocates might now be supplemented by some practical action. The nations have been taught by the most efficient of all school- masters, namely experience, the wholly uncompensated. disadvantages of ‘war and the intolerable burdens im- THE IRON ‘ag sake EE ee AGE posed upon them not merely by host but by the preparedness which it is nec tain and by war’s aftermath in the f ine pensions and the like. They should pi a are, ready now for wise and efficient lead the permanent paths of peace, and there | reason to hope that this latest moves ea suuered to cie out, especially if ites” n active support of so forceful a perg@ fa ty 3 mer President. a At this stage of the movement for s abolition of war two features stand out préminen One is the awakened interest of men of affairs and gén- eral business man and the other is the crystallization of sentiment in favor of a practical method for the complete suppression of war. The advocacy of peace apparently made slow progress when confined to those who were merely considered dreamers and idealists, though conceded to be influenced by the highest possi- ble mctive, that of doing good to their fellowmen. — But the cause has now been taken up, and is being | forcefully prosecuted by men who have shown them- selves leaders in great industries and general business _ affairs. The man of theories and high ideals can e¢ | cate, but it remains for the practical man to ce thought into action. This is the stage to which we — have now arrived. The practical men have a follow- — ing that cannot fail to bring about success. The plan for securing international peace which they have evolved commends itself as eminently suited to the accomplishment of its purpose. It leaves every nation free to manage its internal affairs and work out its own destiny while insuring it from attack by a more — powerful neighbor or by a combination of énemies, _ Its resources can be wholly applied for its own devel opment and for the material welfare of its own | ae ple instead of being wasted in war or in fp tio) for war. The Bartholdt joint resolution or a similar in purport should be adopted by Con that action can speedily be started toward secur establishment of some central authority in wis be vested the responsibility of maintaining inte tional peace. As Mr. Roosevelt says, “it would b master stroke if those great powers honestly t peace would form a League of Peace, not only to i the peace among themselves, but to prevent, by if necessary, its being broken by others.” e, ~ Pra — A Profitable Toolroom That the toolroom is a very important arm of any — manufacturing establishment is sufficiently proved by the many articles which have appeared discussing its organization, methods and conduct. It has béew’shown time and again that successful manufacturing depends to a great extent on the perfection of the tools and in turning out the product, which is as much as it depends on the mechanical skill and sity repre: sented by the toolroom organiz While in many concerns the | tain any degree of magnitele, n payroll and expense hundred epee: edhe and it # a source of either c may be. Now no agree sie THE IRON lars a year unless there is a profit in the transaction. Moreover, a good superintendent is not satisfied if any of his manufacturing rooms are shown to be operating at a loss or even without profit. Hence, when the tool- room assumes the size of even the least of the manu- fectantiioms, it should at once, if it had not already done so, attfact the same attention from the superin- tendent as he is wont to give his other rooms. He should consider it just as vitally important for the tool- room to show a*profit on the investment represented as for hig, buffing room or his cutting-up room. Some will insist, with a shrug of the shoulders, that the toolroom is a sort of “ necessary evil,” an “ of the sea,” which will ever cling about us, clogging old man our movements and hampering our progress; yet to-day the country is full of concerns that make it their only business, and they pay good dividends, too, to turn out tools for other people. Of course, the first step in ascertaining whether the toolroom is a parasite .or a root, is to keep accurate tool costs, a thing which is to-day by no means difficult. The second step is to see to it that all tools are charged out at a price which is sufficiently above the cost to mean a profit. For example, the product of a toolroom whith costs $300,000 a year should show a total charge price of at least $330,000, with the assumption that a 10 per cent. profit is to be attained. Ten per cent. is little enough. Try keeping such records for a year. of 12 months, your books do not show you a profit on If, at the end your tools, then one of two things is true and, bitter as the pill may be, the manager must believe either that his tools are costing too much or that his salesmanship is lacking. Usually it will prove to be the excessive tool cost rather than the salesmanship; the price of the goods themselves is all right, but the customer baulks at the tool item—he can’t see his way clear to paymg so much. “So and so will make the tools for so and so much less.” At any rate, make up your mind that your toolroom shall pay, or help to pay, dividends; let it be a matter of pride that not one department or room in your shop is running at a loss. > ——_ _--- ~) Correspondence Protecting Plates for Blast Furnace Linings To the Editor: My attention has been called to the notice, in your issue of April 14, of Mr. Cook’s plan for protecting blast furnace linings against wear from the material near the stock line. I have no doubt the plan will be perfectly successful. It is proper to call attention to the fact that in 1903 or 1904 very good results were obtained at Longdale, Va., at the suggestion of J. E. Johnson, Jr., by using angle plates bent from 6 in. x 3%4 in. wrought iron bars in place of the unsatisfactory cast iron angle plates previously used. The iron was bought sheared to length and then easily bent to shape in the smithshop. In 1905, on my advice. the same method was used at the Johnson City, Tenn., furnace, and about the same time I mentioned it to J. S. Kennedy of Stanhope, N. J., who has used it ther::, as I understand, with very satis- factory results. F. FIRMSTONE. Easton, Pa., May 7, 1910. —_~+e___ ~ The international Acheson Graphite Company, Niagara Falls, N. Y., has established branch offices at room 511 West Street Building, New York; room 457 Monadnock Block, Chicago, and 309 Fourth avenue, AGE May 12, 1910 Pittsburgh. It is expected that the company’s inter- ests in each locality mentioned will thus be much more thoroughly cared for. —_____.--e—_—— The American Electrochemical Society Seventeenth General Meeting, Held at Pittsburgh A four-day session of the American Electrochemi- cal Society was held in the Fort Pitt Hotel and in the University Building, Pittsburgh, May 4 to 7. The meeting was largely attended. -Among those present was Paul L. T. Heroult, inventor of the electric steel furnace bearing his name, one of which is in opera- tion at the American Steel & Wire Company’s plant at Worcester, Mass., another at the Illinois Steel Com- pany’s South Chicago plant, a third is being operated by the Firth-Sterling Steel Company at Duquesne, Pa., and a five-ton furnace is about to be installed in the Park Works of the Crucible Steel Company in Pitts- burgh. A large number of papers were read at the different sessions and excursions were made to many of the man- ufacturing plants in the Pittsburgh district, including the works of the Firth-Sterling Steel Company, where the 2%-ton Heroult furnace was seen in operation; the Isabella blast furnaces of the Carnegie Steel Com- pany at Etna, Pa., where the Gayley dry blast system was inspected, also the Homestead Works of the Car- negie Steel Company, and the works of the Westing- house Electric & Mfg. Company at East Pittsburgh. At the Homestead Works the visitors were unable to see the electric steel furnace installed some time ago, as it is not now in operation, some changes being in progress. The convention closed with a public meeting at the Carnegie Music Hall on Saturday afternoon, at which the principal speakers were Dr. John A. Brashear, who spoke on “ The Advantages of Pittsburgh as an Elec- trochemical Center”; Dr. John H. Finney of the Southern Appalachian Conservation Commission, whose address was on “ The Conservation and Utiliza- tion of Nature’s Power,” and Dr. J. W. Richards of Lehigh University, secretary of the society, whose sub- ject was “ The Present Status of the Electrochemical Industries.” Officers were elected for the ensuing year, as follows: President, Dr. W. H. Walker, Massachusetts In- stitute of Technology, Boston; vice-presidents, E. F. Roeber, New York; S. S. Sadler, Philadelphia; L. Kahlenberg, Madison, Wis.; treasurer, P. G. Salom, Philadelphia (re-elected) ; secretary, Dr. J. W. Rich- ards, South Bethlehem, Pa. (re-elected); managers, C. F. Burgess, Madison, Wis.; C. P. Townsend, Wash- ington, D. C.; W. R. Whitney, Schenectady, N. Y. The register showed an attendance of over 500 members. The secretary’s report, delivered at the opening session, showed that the membership of the society had passed the thousand mark. A year ago the total members in good standing were 776; during the year 343 new members were added, while 53 were lost during the year, through deaths, resignations or other causes, giving a net gain in membership for the year of 290, or a total membership at this time of 1066. ————~+e—____ The Stark Rolling Mill Company, Canton, Ohio, is issuing printed matter calling attention to the alum- aloyd sheets which it manufactures. These are spe- cial analysis sheets, coated with aluminum alloyed meal. They are particularly adapted to use for auto- mobile bodies, being absolutely rustless and having a perfectly smooth paint-absorbing surface. The use of these sheets makes it possible te finish a part or body with a primer, a one-color coat, a rubbing and a fin- ishing varnish. To meet the heavy demand the com- pany is planning to increase its capacity and output. | | | a May 12, 1910 Canada’s Wire Rod Bounty To Be Discontinued After June 30, 1911 Toronto, May 7, 1910.—In Parliament recently Mr. Fielding, Canadian Minister of Finance, gave notice of the following resolution: That it is expedient to provide that no bounties shall be payable in respect to rolled round wire rods after June 30, 1911, under the provisions of the act of 1907 respecting boun- ties on iron and steel, except on such rods as may have been otherwise entitled to payment of bounties, and which were on or before the said date sold to wire manufacturers for use or used in making wire by the makers of such rods in their own fac.ories in Canada. This resolution was adopted in the House of Com- mons May 2. James Conmee, representing Thunder Bay and Rainy River and supporting the Government, expressed the hope that when the iron and steel duties are rearranged a differential in favor of the products of Canadian ore will be provided. He would advise that all Canadian companies manufacturing iron and steel be required to use domestic ore as a condition of Government protection. He did not indicate the means by which this idea could be made practicable if boun- ties are abandoned. He also urged that subsidized rail- roads be compelled to use rails made from Canadian ore. In reply to the question of another member, the Finance Minister said that the Government has no present intention to impose on iron and steel additional duties equal in fostering effect to the bounties that are to expire this year, but added: “I have no doubt it will be a matter for consideration in the future, but the future must take care of itself.” This answer has led some who are watching the development of the steel industry to harbor the expectation that there will be a readjustment of the duties next session, and that it will be favorable to the manufacturers of iron and steel. Of the forms of iron and steel whose production is assisted by Government bounties, wire rods alone are subject to no restriction by the terms of the act in the matter of the duration of the bounty and to no varia- tion in the amount. The bounty on pig iron, the bounty on puddled bars and the bounty on crude steel taper off by annual declension until they reach the vanishing point at the end of the current calendar year. To put an end to them no further action of Parliament is required, but the subsection relating tc wire rods will remain in force until it is specifically repealed by act of Parliament. It is as follows: In respect of rolled round wire rods not over % in, in diameter, manufactured in Canada from steel produced in Canada from ingredients of which not less than 50 per cent. of the weight thereof consists of pig iron made in Canada, when sold to wire manufacturers for use or when used in making wire in their own factories in Canada, on such wire rods made after the thirty-first day of December, 1906, $6 per ton. The rate has been $6 a ton ever since this bounty was established. Among those who were aware of its exceptional nature there was some curiosity to know whether or not the Government would ask Parliament this session to terminate it. Mr. Field- ing’s resolution is not a bill, but it indicates clearly enough the intention of the Government to put an end to the bounty. As the House of Commons has adopted the resolution a bill based upon it will be in- troduced and passed through Parliament. It is not a certainty that such a bill will be forthcoming this session, which is now within two or three days of its close, but by now introducing and pushing through the resolution the Government gives fair notice to the manufacturers concerned. They will expect the bill to follow and become an act mext session, and they have 14 months in which to prepare for the dis- continuance of the. bounty. After June jo, 1911, bounties will be paid on wire rods except upon as om of before that: date: were sold. for ule by: wine | makers in Canada. It would not be surprising if the THE IRON AGE wt output of the rod mills in the peri of 1911 would be very large, as the be a desire to get as much as posst@le of th ing benefit of the bounty, So long as disposed of for wire making purposes of June, 1911, they will be entitled to thé Boun though claim for it could not wéll be a ads that date. aa The Hamilton Steel & Iro#! € consideration a proposal to insta rod mill. It remains to be seen whether the ba wie t's pres- ent action will cause any change in this™part of the company’s plans. Wire rods are on Canada’s free list. So is barbed fencing wire. Flat steel wire when imported by manufacturers of buckthorn and plain strip fencing is also nondutiable. Buckthorn strip feneing, how- ever, is dutiable at 15 per cent. under the general tar- iff. Galvanized iron and steel wire, Nos. 9, 12 and 13 gauge, is free. Steel wire valued at not less than 2% cents per pound, when imported for use exclusively in the manufacture of wire rope, is free. It is felt that if the bounty is removed wire rods and some of the descriptions of wire that are now on the free list should be made dutiable. To make these com- pensatory changes, however, would be unpopular with the farmers, who are now becoming predominant in the politics of the country. Ch Ss SSS SS The Bayonne Steel Casting,Company The Bayunne Steel Casting Company, whose main office is at 30 Church street, New York, has purchased a site at Bayonne, N, J., immediately adjoining the property of the Babcock & Wilcox Company, and will at once proceed to erect a plant for the manufacture of steel castings. The site was selected after exceed- ingly careful consideration. The location enables the company to have shipping facilities on three railroads and by water, it being within the free lighterage dis- trict of the harbor of New York. As a daily line of steamers to harbor points will run from the wharf on the Kill von Kull, the company expects to make a spe- cialty of supplying with steel castings the shipbuilding and dry dock concerns round New York harbor. The equipment of the plant will include motor trucks for . ~~ the delivery of castings where they may be urgently 5 needed in the vicinity. The company will make converter steel exclusively, and will equip its foundry to take care of railroad, shipbuilding and miscellaneous machinery steel cast- ings, but will probably make a prineipal specialty of electrical steel castings. It expects to turn out from 400 to 500 tons per month of small and moderate sized castings. It will probably have the largest production of converter steel castings of any foundry in th United States. The main foundry building will ha 20,000 sq. ft. of molding floor. Other buildings @ ample proportions will be erected for cleaning, sand blasting, pattern storage, &c. As the site comprises 5 acres, there will be considerable room for expansion. It is hoped to have the plant ready for operation early in August. The organizers of the company are men well known in the steel casting business, all of them having been identified with the industry for a great many years. Q M S and Reading Steel Castings Company ; president is J. Turner Moore, ee aan of ¢ Reading Steel Castings Company; t treasurer is D. W. Yeckley, alsa Ae E: \ son, formerly 2 ise 1100 The United Metal Trades Association of the Pacific Coast held its annual meeting at the Commercial Club, Portland, Ose., April 22 and 23. About two-thirds of the firms in the association were represented by from one to three members each, making the attendance the largest in the association’s history. Reports were presented showing that the organization is in good condition financially and otherwise. The forenoon of the first day was devoted to the reports of the offices and the disCussion of questions raised therein. In the afternoon the members visited the shops of Portland and were taken about the city in automobiles. Similar trips were made on the second afternoon. The elec- tion of officers resulted in the choice of the following: President, George James, Variety Iron Works, Seattle. First Vice-President, W. H. Iron & Steel Works, Portland. Second Vice-President, Gilbert Hunt, Gilbert Hunt Company, Walla Walla, Wash. Third Vice-President, John L. Roberts, Sound Iron & Steel Works, Tacoma, Wash. Treasurer, H. S. Hastings, Independent Foundry Company, Portland, Ore. The annual banquet was held at the Commercial Club Saturday evening, April 23, and was attended by 62 members and guests. Addresses were made by T. B. Sumner and J. Bruce Gibson, president and secretary respectively of the Sumner Iron Works, Everett, Wash.; W. H. Corbett, H. S. Hastings, President Banfield of the Employers’ Association of Oregon, Portland; Charles G. Gunn, manager Colum- bia Steel Company, Portland and San Francisco; J. V. Paterson, manager Moran Company, Seattle; J. T. Heffernan, manager Heffernan Engine Works, Seattle, and Principal Hamilton of the Portland Trade School. Corbett, Willamette Puget The Lynchburg Foundry Company to Build Another Pipe Plant. The Lynchburg Foundry Company, Lynchburg, Va., announces its intention to proceed vigorously with the building of its new cast iron pipe plant at Norfolk, Va., the announcement of which was made over a year ago. R. C. McWane, sales manager, 220 Broadway, New York, states that the plans for the new establishment had been held in abeyance until the company was assured of an abundance of raw material at first hands. This has been arranged for through the recent pur- chase by the Lynchburg Foundry Company of the Woodstock iron properties at Anniston, Ala., compris- ing two blast furnaces, which are to be operated under the name of the Anniston Iron Corporation. It had been considered desirable to await this development before proceeding to greatly increase the production of cast iron pipe. Mr. McWane states that the general plan of the Norfolk works will be a modification of the latest Ger- man type of pipe foundry in combination with a num- ber of proved methods of the Lynchburg Foundry Company, the essential departure from the conventional type being the elimination of pits. This will enable the plant to be more quickly completed than would be the case if the design of the company’s Lynchburg and Radford plants was adhered to. In any event, how- ever, the new plant will scarcely be in operation this year. It is considered extremely desirable not to make haste at the expense of thoroughness in the planning and building. oe Crucible Steel Company Improvements.—The Cru- cible Steel Company of America, Henry W. Oliver Building, Pittsburgh, has placed a contract for the building of a Heroult five-ton electric furnace and also THE IRON AGE Pacific Coast Metal Trades Association May 12, 1910 a contract for a 40-ton tilting open hearth furnace, both to be installed in its Atha Works, at Illing- worth, N. J. The company has also placed a con- tract for the complete remodeling of the open hearth plant at its Crescent Works in Pittsburgh. This plant now contains two 25-ton stationary open hearth furnaces and a small tilting furnace. The lat- ter furnace will be removed and a 25-ton stationary open hearth furnace built in its place. The open hearth building will be extended and electric chargers and other new modern equipment installed. At its Park Works, in Pittsburgh, the company is building two new 20-in. sheet mills, which, with its other mills, will give a total capacity of 500 tons of sheets per month. It rolls as light as 28 gauge. ++ —— The National Machine Tool Builders’ Association The programme of the convention of the National Machine Tool Builders’ Association, to be held at Rochester, N. Y., Tuesday and Wednesday, May 24 and 25, has been prepared by Charles E. Hildreth, the secretary. and promises most interesting as well as educational sessions. They will be held at Hotel Sene- ca. The feature of the entertainment will be a recep- tion given Tuesday evening by Miss Kate Gleason, head of the Gleason Works, Rochester, at her Spanish castle, a beautiful suburban estate, recently completed. The convention programme in detail follows: First Session, Tuesday Morning. Committee reports: Motor Committee, tanus, chairman, Uniform Kearney & Trecker Company, Apprenticeship Committee, E. P, F. L. Eberhardt, speaker. Tariff Committee, J. B. Doan. Standardization of Motors, P. A. Mon- Results of installation, E. J, Milwaukee, Wis. sullard, Jr., Costs, Kearney, chairman ; Second Session, Tuesday Afternoon. Meetings of the various machine tool committees Third Session, Wednesday Morning. Cincinnati Continuation School, illustrated, Dyer, Superintendent of Schools, Cincinnati. Cancellation of Orders, C. Wood Walter, C. A. Johnson, Murray E. Shipley and William H. Reid, Marshall & Huschart Machinery Company, Chicago. Future of the Automobile Business with Reference to Ma- chine Tools, Robert Pierpont, works manager of the Olds Motor Works, Detroit. Cone Drive, R. K. Le Blond, vs. Gear Drive, William Lodge. A Bill to Create a Patent Court of Appeals, W. R. Wood, Cincinnati. Fourth Direct Advertising, A. H. vertising, John A, Hill. ——_ - >> —— Prof. F. B. Session, Wednesday Afternoon. Hitchcock, vs. Trade Paper Ad- Gas Engines for Blowing Blast Furnaces The American Steel & Wire Company has awarded a contract to the Allis-Chalmers Company, Milwaukee, Wis., for two gas engine blowing units for its Central Furnace plant at Cleveland, Ohio. These engines will have a maximum capacity of 5000 hp. each and will be the largest gas engines so far undertaken in this country. This is the sixteenth consecutive order re- ceived from the United States Steel Corporation by the Allis-Chalmers Company and makes a total of 50 large gas engines sold by the latter to the former. The records of the 25 engines installed at Gary have been carefully watched, both by the engineers of the Steel Corporation and by gas power experts from all over the world, with the result that successive purchases of units of the same build are now being made. The en- gines ordered by the American Steel & Wire Company, which will make seven in operation at its plants, are of the twin-tandem, double-acting, four-cycle, horizon- tal type, with gas cylinders 44 in. in diameter and 60-in. stroke. They will operate on blast furnace gas. The blowing tubs are of the Slick type and are 8o in. in diameter. They will deliver-40,000 cu. ft. of free air per min. | | May 12, 1910 The Iron and A Comparison of Prices Advances Over the Previous Month in Heavy Type, Declines in Italics. At date, one week, one month and one year previous, May 11, May 4, Apr. 13, May 12, PIG IRON, Per Gross Ton: 1910. 1910. 1910. 1909. Foundry No. 2, standard, Phila- COE Nc vc cbideskcdsagines $17.00 $17.00 $17.75 $16.00 Foundry No. 2, Southern, Cincin- acne chap ean ee dad oe nees 15.25 15.25 15.25 14.50 Foundry No. 2, local, Chicago.. 17.00 17.25 17.50 16.50 Basic, delivered, eastern Pa.... 17.00 17.00 17.50 15.00 Basic, Valley furmace......... 145.25 15.50 16.00 14.25 Bessemer, Pittsburgh.......... 17.90 17.90 18.40 15.90 Gray forge, Pittsburgh........ 15.90 15.90 16.15 14.40 Lake Superior charcoal, Chicago 18.50 19.00 19.00 19.50 BILLETS, &c., Per Gross Ton: Bessemer billets, Pittsburgh.... 26.50 26.50 27.00 23.00 Forging billets, Pittsburgh..... 82.00 32.00 32.00 25.00 Open hearth billets, Philadelphia 29.00 30.00 30.60 24.50 Wire rods, Pittsburgh......... 82.00 32.00 33.00 27.00 Steel rails, heavy, at mill...... 28.00 28.00 28.00 28.00 OLD MATERIAL, Per Gross Ton: Steel rails, melting, Chicago.... 15.00 15.00 pe 14.00 Steel rails, melting, Philadelphia 15.00 15.00 16.25 14.75 Iron rails, Chicago.........-e. 17.50 18.00 18.50 16.50 Iron rails, Philadelphia........ 20.00 20.00 20.50 17.50 Car wheels, Chicago.......... 16.00 16.00 16.50 aoc Car wheels, Philadelphia....... 15.00 15.50 16.00 14.50 Heavy steel scrap, Pittsburgh... 15.50 15.50 17.00 ase Heavy steel scrap, Chicago.... 13.50 13.75 14.50 13.00 Heavy steel scrap, Philadelphia. 15.00 15.00 16.25 14.75 FINISHED IRON AND STEEL, Per Pound : Cents. Cents. Cents. Cents. Refined iron bars, Philadelphia. 1.50 1.50 1.50 1.40 Common iron bars, Chicago.... 150 1.50 155 1.27% Common iron bars, Pittsburgh. . 1.85 155 1.60 1.80 Steel bars, tidewater, New York 1.61 1.61 1.61 1.36 Steel bars, Pittsburgh....... re 1.45 1.45 1.45 1.20 Tank plates, tidewater, New York 1.66 1.71 1.71 1.46 Tank plates, Pittsburgh........ 150 155 155 # £1.80 Beams, tidewater, New York... 1.66 1.66 1.66 1.41 Beams, Pittsburgh............ 1.50 1.50 1.50 1.25 Angles, tidewater, New York... 1.66 1.66 1.66 1.41 Angles, Pittsburgh............ 150 150 150 1.25 Skelp, grooved stecl, Pittsburgh. 1.50 1.50 1.50 1.25 Skelp, sheared steel, Pittsburgh. 1.60 1.60 1.60 1.35 SHEETS, NAILS AND WIRE, Per Pound: Cents. Cents. Cents. Cents. Sheets, black, No. 28, Pittsburgh 2.40 2.40 2.40 2.20 Wire nails, Pittsburgh*........ 1.85 1.85 1.85 1.60 Cut nails, Pittsburgh.......... 1.85 1.85 1.85 1.60 Barb wire, galv., Pittsburgb*... 2.15 2.15 2.15 1.90 METALS, Per Pound: Cents. Cents. Cents. Cents. Lake copper, New York........ 13.25 13.00 13.00 13.25 Electrolytic copper, New York.. 12.75 12.40 12.87%13.00 SPSeeae,. TO: ROR o's sos twee hace 5.05 5.15 5.60 5.10 ae a 4-90 5.00 5.45 4.92% Lend, Mew Tete. oii cise cca cs 4.35 4.40 4.40 4.30 BORE Gy: | CAB sn cic sow ens 6S 5.20 4.25 4.25 4.25 Se, PHONE Ss baa evuss va be 33.25 32.70 382.45 29.25 Antimony, Hallett, New York... 8.12% 8.12% 8.25 17.75 Nieeee, Mew Tots o's ok iss 45.00 45.00 45.00 45.00 Tin plate, 100 lb., New York... $3.84 $3.84 $3.84 $3.64 * These prices are for largest lots to jobbers. Prices of Finished Iron and Steel f.o.b Pittsburgh Freight rates from Pittsburgh in carloads, per 100 Ib.: New York, 16c.; Philadelphia, 15c.; Boston, 18c.; Buffalo, lle.; Cleveland, 10c.; Cincinnati, 15c.; Indianapolis, 17c. ; Chicago, 18¢.; St. Paul, 32c.; St. Louis, 224%4¢c.; New Or- leans, 30c.; Birmingham, Ala., 45c. Rates to the Pacific Coast are SOc. on plates, structural shapes and sheets, No. 11 and heavier ; 85c. on sheets, Nos. 12 to. 16; 95e. on sheets, No. 16 and lighter; 65c. on wrought pipe and boiler tubes. Structural Shapes.—I-beams and channels, 3 to 15 in., inclusive, 1.50e. to 1.55e., net; I-beams- over 15 in., 1.65c., net ; H-beams over 8 in., 1.75c.; angles, 3 to 6 in., inclusive, % in. and up, 1.60¢., net; angles over 6 in., 1.65c., net; angles, 3 x 3 in. and up, less than % in., 1.75c., base, half extras, steel bar card; tees, 3 in. and up, 1.65c., net; —_ 3 in. and up, 1.60¢., net; angles, channels and tees, under in., 1.50¢., base, plus 10c., half extras, steel bar card; deck THE IRON AGE Metal Mark beams and bulb angles, 1.80c., net; hand net; checkered and corrugated plates, Plates.—Tank plates, % in. thick, 64% in. wp to 100 in. : wide, 1.50c. to 1.55¢., base. Following are stipulations pre- . scribed by manufacturers, with extras to be added to base i price (per pound) of plates: Rectangular plates, tank steel or conforming te Manufactur- ers’ standard specifications for structural steel dated — 6, 1903, or equivalent, %4-in. thick and over on thitiest ed ge, 2 in. wide and under, down to but not including 6 in. wide, are ase. Plates up to 72 in. wid’ inclusive, ordered 10.2 Ib. per square foot are considered '4-in. plates. Plates over 72 in. wide must be ordered 14-in. thick on ed or not less than 11 Ib. per square foot, to take base price. lates over 72 in. wide ordered less than 11 ib. per square foot down to the weight of 3-16-in. take the re of 3-16-in. llowable overweight, whether plates are ordered to gauge or weight, to be governed by the standard specifications of t Association of American Steel Manufacturers. Gauges under \%-in. to and including 3-16-in. on ° CHIMMOSE CGM. o:0'o.s 5 Hebd odo 0s 06 bebe wus $0.10 Gauges under 3-16-in. to and including No. 8..... 15 Gauges under No. 8 to and including No. 9....... 2h Gauges under No. 9 to and including No. Bee 20 Gauges under No. 10 to and including No, 12..... 40 Sketches (including all straight taper plates), 3 ft. and over fe Ien@Uh. .2 icc cease tev ecebececus’ Complete circles, 5 ft. diameter and over......... 20 Boiler and Bango steel. ..... ccc ccvcccegueenewes 10 “A. B. M. A.” and ordinary firebox steel........ .20 Melk bodtemn tebe. 5. cc kev ackkacs wesmbnanaes BO PERCURS SEGRE. oo cc ccc ccc awa bes te eee e ees 40 Locomotive firebox steel... . 2.6.6... ccc eecesuacss 0 Widths over 100 in. up to 110 in., inclusive...... 05 Widths over 110 in. up to 115 in., inclusive...... 10 Widths over 115 in. up to ro in., inclusive...... .15 Widths over 120 in. up to 125 in., inclusive...... .25 Widths over 125 in. up to 130 in., inclusive...... 50 Widths over 100 I... sccccvicssstsghepetacs 1.00 Cutting to lengths or diameters under 3 ft. to 2 CE, TRCRMOEVGs vc c.0 o vclee h 6seeds seceebaneeseaes .25 Cutting to lengths or diameters under 2 ft. to 1 $e, BRCtMNe s 6 ces cvs eee nteesecnin eee J Cc utting to lengths or diameters under 1 ft....... 1.55 No charge for cutting rectangular plates to lengths 3 ft. and i over. _ Terms.—Net cash 30 days. i Sheets.— Minimum prices for mill shipments on sheets f in carload and larger lots, on which jobbers charge the usual advances for small lots from store, are as follows: Black annealed sheets, Nos. 3 to 8, 1.70c.; Nos. 9 and 10, 1.75e.; Nos. 11 and 12, 1.80c.; Nos. 13 and 14, 1.85c.; Nos. 15 and 16, 1.95¢c. Box annealed sheets, Nos. 17 and 21, 2.20c.; Nos, 22 to 24, 2.25c.; Nos. 25 and 26, 2.30c.; No. 27, 2.35c¢.; No. 28, 2.40c.; No. 29, 2.456. : No. 30, 2.55¢. Galvanized sheets, Nos. 13 and 14, 2.500e. : Nos. 15 and. 16, 2.60c.; Nos. 17 to 21, 2.75¢c.; Nos. 22 to 24, 2.90¢c.; Nos. 25 and 26, 3.10c.; No. 27, 3.30c.; No. 28, 3.50c.; No. 29, 3.60¢.; No. 30, 3.85e. Painted roofing sheets, No. 28, $1.70 per square. Galvanized roofing sheets, No. 28, $3 per square, for 214-in. corrugations. Wrought Pipe.—The following are the discounts on the Pittsburgh basing card on carloads of wrought pipe which went into effect January 1: 7——Steel.——, See Iron,—, = Galv. Black. Galy. 66 is ao dia daa Sheen ks © 0s eae 71 57 67 53 2 WeGhw ote be sabewebeanadeinen 74 70 58 On OO: os 0 .cwirtce needa eee 78 74 64 S00 IF RR... cocccssecinewenens 72 57 68 53 Plugged and Reamed. £m 4M ic vtacsneseacriaes 76 66 72 62 Extra Strong, rue Ends. % 8 rR Sa © m1 59 47 a Oe @ Wc eicties ss ceheckowue 7 58 66 54 a 06-8 Oi ws nceeaskanenoe 66 a 62 50 9, 20, 11 en@ 19 Mi ici cowcnnse os +9 Double Extra Strong, Plain Bands. ee rrr 48 no 44 The above steel pipe discounts are for “ card weight,” sulk ject to the usual variation of 5 per cent. Boiler Tubes.— Discounts on lap welded steel and char- coal iron boiler tubes to jobbers in carloads are as follows.< Steel. Iron. 2°00 TM eel isc cet etauwebene sere ..49 43 BM 00. 2M Mine skein dod d eeaneek 6a eee 61 43 SE A. 8 in vce een asteestsec thts 63 48 2 86S Wid ccscodatidesvte es steer weene 69 55 G BO: 18 1. ooo a. cnceek cance ceaweeneeeee .-61 43 2% in. and smaller, over 18 ft., 10 per cent, “net extra. 2% in. and larger, over 22 ft., 10 per cent, net extra, Less than carloads to destinations east of the River will be sold at delivered See 9 carloads sae pent, for lengths 22 ft. and under; longer lengths, Wire Rods.— Bessemer, open hearth and chain rods, 882. Steel Rivets.—Structural rivets, %-in. 2.15¢., base; cone head boiler rivets, %-in. : Sin. and 11-16in. take yanice of 15e. THE IRON . May 12, 1910 AGE on. and Metal Markets y Pittsburgh PARE BuILpING, May 11, 1910.—(By Telegraph.) Pig Iron.—-The curtailment in the production of pig iron has already had a beneficial effect on the market, the tone of which is stronger. ‘The feeling is growing that prices of pig iron have touched bottom. There is some inquiry for small lots for May and June’shipment, but consumers are still de- ferring ptrchases of large blocks for last half of the year delivery until fully satisfied that prices will not be lower. A local dealer has a considerable quantity of basic iron which is being offered for prompt shipment at lower prices than the furnaces will name. A sale of 200 tons of this iron was made at $15, at Valley furnace. We also note an- other sale of 200 tons, running under 0.22 in phosphorus, at $15.25, Valley furnace. We quote Bessemer iron at $17; basic, $15.25; No. 2 foundry, $15.50; malleable Bessemer, $15.75, and gray forge, $15, all at Valley furnace, the freight rate to Pittsburgh being 90c. a ton. Steel.—There is not much new inquiry for billets, sheet or tin bars, and in some cases steel is not being taken out as pro