The Iron Age 1910-05-19: Vol 85 Iss 20

| carmen Published Every Thursday by the DAVID WILLIAMS COMPANY 14-16 Park Place, New York Entered at the New York Post Office, as Second Class Mail Matter. Subocipace Fico, United States and Mexico, $5.00 per Annum ; to Canada, Other F. Countries, $10.00 per Annum; to soma eauiee per —_— ~ Guar.es T. Roor, - - - = - PRESIDENT CHARLES KIRCHHOFF, = - * - Vice - PRESIDENT W. H. Tayvor, - = TREASURER AND GENERAL MANAGER Haroio S. BUTTENHEIM, - - - - - SECRETARY Geo. W. Cope, - ad - 4 \ corrons A. 1, Finovey, ° ° - s f H. R. CoBLeicn, - - M CHANICAL EorroR 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 t’aGR. Editorial : & Better Feslltg in Steel... is its os castes ae wee bes 1153 The Duplex Steel Process... .6ass issue eae cues 1154 Apprenticeship Laws Need Modqenising bi 9 ok Se Ss, 4,00 1154 Merchant Bar Specifications. .......0..cceeecebeess 1155 Our Patent Agreement with Germany.............. 1155 United Hngineering Improvements.................0005- 1156 The National Stove Comventions...............2+e2-e08 1156 The National Association of Manufacturers... .......... 1157 The Canton Sheet Steel Company....................05 1157 A “TRICK, SUG ee ccc ccc re ete ibe eres 1158 New Employers’ Liability Law in Ohio................. 1158 The Globe Seamless Steel Tube Company................ 1158 The Iron and Metal Markets Reports............. 1159 to 1169 Tron BiG TU PIAINE MOCKS ©. Boi ee errr ees 1169 The Texas Iron Ore Deposits... ... 6... eke cece be eee ees 1169 ‘Tod Engines for Rogers-Brown Furnaces..........0..... 1169 Report of Pipe Mill at Gary, Ind..........5....+« ene 1169 Presence and Influence of Gases in Steel................ 1170 The United States Radiator Company.....¥......5...... 1170 The Garry Company Buys the Empire Company.......... 1170 The Machinery Market Reports...............,...1171 to 1182 Obituary. OE Aaa Gap se fence poe aie oie Telit 1183 Supply and Machinery Convention...........6......05. 1184 The Dusseldorf International Congress.................. 1185 Cuba Requires Invoices Written in Spanish.............. 1185 A Hydroelectric Paper Mill Plant......0. 0c. ccc ceeecceee 1185 PCI Soe Sich se hE Bile CR eek cs o SOR Sbee te sk 1186 RE UCU i, ois 2 a,i9 SORA RED: ee mee ee dea eae 1186 Conference of Oxy-Acetylene Interests.................. 1187 Hagan Equipment Contracts..... ccc. ccc ence eecccece 1187 A New American Radial Drill. IUlbustrated............... 1188 Wee Parmbant... PGC, ilo bbb skins he d.sbe ned Soences 1190 Lahor Conditions in the Steel Industry.................. 1191 Came Tiarieriing. . TIS es oe i es TR Gere 1192 The Pennsylvania Engineers’ Convention:.............. 1196 A Heavy Pattern Lincoln Miller, LIllustrated............ 1197 Pen and Sunlight Sketches of Richmond.........-........ 1197 Rolling Mill Steam Engines... ......sccesesccececccees 1198 An Acme Screw Machine with Power Cutting-off Feed. oe ret PEA a i ee keh os kee eee 1200 The Memphis Freight Transferring Plant. Illustrated. 1201 Two Ore Freighters Launched......... é OE Se aso ekh 1201 An Electric Smelting Furnace. "{mustréted ,. RE OS 1202 The Modern 20-In. Drill Press, Ilustrated......:....... 1204 The Berg ‘Swaging Machine. Illustrated................ 1205 The Machine Tool Trade in Russia.......-.......0000 1205 Russian Trade Combinations. .. i. ...... bene e eee e ees 1206 Current Metal. Prices,......... oes seb ececeweressecese 1208 New York, de 19, 1910 eee —— VoL. eet 20 cose ee ae geen _— A Better Feeling in Steel, Buying of Basic and Bessemer Pig Tron In Foundry iron--the»-Approachto»Low Point Has Brought More Activity Some of the week’s developments, particularly rail- road buying, have contributed to a better feeling in the steel trade. Concerning pig iron, the best that can be said is that at lower prices somewhat more business has been done, and assertions that.bottom is being reached are made with more confidence. The prevalent idea concerning the cutting down of pig iron output exaggerates its extent. Counting fur- naces that have actually blown out, the movement represents scarcely more than 10 per cent. off the rate of production on April 1, and furnaces now scheduled to go out will not increase it beyond 12 per cent. The United States Steel Corporation now has 31 idle fur- naces out of a total of 119, having blown out one additional furnace, that at Niles, Ohio, in the past week, Pig iron inquiry has increased most in the East, where 35,000 to 40,000 tons is pending, a total that seems large only in comparison with the beggarly buy- ing of many weeks. Along with reports that certain low offers are refused by the furnaces come others showing that new low points have been touched; for example, $11.50, at Birmingham, for»No. 2 foundry \ iron. Two sellers are reported to have accepted this» price on prompt iron, but $12 is commonly quoted for second half delivery. Efforts of pipe foundries to bu considerable lots of $11 for the second half. have not been as successful as expected. In southern Ohio sales of No. 2 iron have been made at $15, Ironton. Buffalo and Cincinnati report an increase in pig iron sales and inquiry. At Pittsburgh the market for Bessemer and basic pig iron has been in commotion, with active manipula- lation by buyers to break through recent levels. Sales of several thousand tons of Bessemer iron are re+ ported at $16.25, Valley furnace, and basic has sold in 5000-ton lots at $15. There are heavy stocks at Valley furnaces which will not be readily absorbed without severe curtailment of production. The better sentiment in finished lines is due to the. placing of good car and locomotive orders and the ex- pectation of other railroad buying to follow; also to the additional contracts for bars for Western agricultural works, sepiantialy. 10 Syenet oti ee cigs fer the No. 3 at $11.25 and of No. 4 at” meinen ientoaioenenetersientenacetineese 1154 the Bankers’ Trust Company Building, New York, taken by the American Bridge Company. The Big Four Railroad has awarded the building of its new shops at Beach Grove, near Indianapolis, requiring 6000 tons of steel, to the McClintic-Marshall Construc- tion Company. Plate contracts for new vessels, amounting to 10,000 to 12,000 tons, have been placed by Eastern yards, and bids are being taken on two ad- ditional steamers for the West Indian trade. There are no large new rail contracts, but the Ens- ley, Pittsburgh, Colorado and Chicago district mills have booked 12,500 tons in small orders the past week, while light rail business has been more active. The eastern Pennsylvania wrought iron pipe manu- facturers emphatically deny that they have reduced their prices, the reduction announced last week having been made by Pittsburgh mills. Merchant pipe has taken on new life. Among or- ders taken by the leading interest in the past 10 days are 3000 tons of oil well casing for California, 40 miles of 20-in., 15 miles of 16-in. and 25 miles of I0-in. pipe for gas lines, and 20 miles of 6-in. pipe for an oil line. The arrangement by which the Eastern steel mills have bought their scrap through one channel is on a better footing. One interest which for some weeks has been buying for itself is again co-operating. —_—_-e—___. The Duplex Steel Process The increasing employment of the Bessemer con- verter and the basic open hearth furnace jointly in the production of steel should give in time some au- thentic data as to the economies of the duplex process. In some instances the existence of Bessemer plant which could not profitably be employed except as an adjunct of the open hearth is the determining con- sideration. built expressly to serve open hearth furnaces, the in- In others where Bessemer converters are vestment is made, it may be assumed, after a careful canvass of the savings to be secured from the largely increased steel output and from greater leeway in blast furnace working—savings considerably exceed- ing the interest on the greater first cost plus higher percentage of metal loss. conditions—the character of ores or lack of cheap scrap, for example—are the determining factors. Thus far the duplex process has been almost en- tirely employed in this country in the manufacture of rail steel. Naturally it has received some considera- tion from railroad engineers in view of the attention In still other cases local they have paid in recent years to the processes of The fact that at least one railroad specification calls for the use of “the straight open hearth process ” steel manufacture. in the manufacture of its rails indi- cates a certain vague feeling that all steel works methods which increase output involve possibilities of detriment to the quality of the metal. But nothing has developed in actual practice at duplex plants war- ranting any such restriction as that cited. The time the metal is held in the open hearth furnace is not necessarily a gauge of quality. In this confection interest attaches to the installa- tion now being made at a Canadian rail mill, as re- ferred to elsewhere in this issue, preparatory to the operation of a triplex process. Here all the metal passes through two open hearth furnaces, with an in- termediate blow in a basic Bessemer converter, while THE IRON * May 19, 1910 AGE the final reactions are reserved for the ladle, making m ieality four refining operations. The phosphorus content of the ores is such as to. make the basic Besse- mer process available in this case, though the mini- mum of 1.50 per cent. phosphorus in the pig iron is below what is tolerated for basic Bessemer practice in Europe, and is still more below what is desired. Apropos of the large expenditure on this installation for the triplex process at Sydney, Nova Scotia, is the proposal that has been considered by one steel com- pany in this country—namely, a three process plant. This plan, differing from that at Sydney, calls for the treatment of the metal in two converters, acid and basic, with final refining in a basic open hearth fur- nace. The pig iron is not now sufficiently high in phosphorus for the employment of the basic Bessemer process, but it is proposed to bring up the phosphorus by phosphoric slag additions to the blast furnace charge. It is evident that the limit has not yet been reached in steel furnace outputs. As lower grade ores must constantly be reckoned with, mechanical and metal- lurgical engineers may be expected to find means not only of maintaining the old tonnage records, but of éxceeding them. Apprenticeship Laws Need Modernizing The laws governing apprenticeship now on the statute books of most of the States are obsolete in many particulars, and in some instances have stood in the way of a satisfactory solution of a question which is of growing importance. Apprenticeship in former days was an institution very different from that of the pres- ent. Then a boy was bound out to his employer for a long term, usually during his minority. The master combined the powers of the parent and the employer. The boy’s monetary recompense was little, if anything. He learned his trade thoroughly and this was considered his reward, but in return he had been a source of some profit to his master. To-day the limited apprentice- ship is all that survives. The boy contracts to serve two or three or four years, always for a wage, which increases with his experience, these details being stipu- lated in the indenture papers. Naturally, laws de- signed for the old system apply but poorly to the new. To illustrate the inconsistency, in some States there is doubt as to whether the employer has the right to hold back a portion of the apprentice’s wages in lieu of the cash bond which guarantees the fulfillment of the term of service. This is almost a vital matter. Many employers hold, basing their opinion upon ex- perience, that a better average of apprentices is re- cruited from the class of boys that cannot get the $50 or more for deposit as a bond. They have usually been compelled to shift for themselves to a greater or less extent. They are dependent for a living upon their own efforts. The stimulus to their apprenticeship is ambition rather than parental influence. When they graduate as journeymen they are more apt to continue in the routine of the shop, being content: to advance gradually. But they cannot procure the required bond money, and the employer must have some guarantee that they will continue to the end of the agreed term for the sake of the boys, and for his own because it is during the latter portion of the period that the service of the apprentice is valuable. Therefore the plan has May 19, 1910 been adopted of deducting a certain part of the wages until the fund has been established, reverting to the boy when he has passed to the journeyman class. If this cannot be done legally, then he would be able to break his agreement and recover the funds in his em- ployer’s hands. Probably it is legal in most States, but all doubts should be removed by statute. Other obscur- ities should be cleared away. Legislative study of the questions involved would result in a code of laws which would take care of the necessities of the situation as it now exists. Probably this will not be attempted until some powerful organi- zation, such as the National Metal Trades Association or the National Machine Tool Builders’ Association, shall take the initiative in the form of a request. Should one State create practical, liberal laws others would follow until the statutes would be essentially uniform, serving the mutual welfare of the employer and his apprentices. Merchant¥Bar Specifications The continuotis bar mill has become a very portant factor in the bar trade, as it now contributes, perhaps, 75 per cent. of the total output of soft stcel bars. im- Its advantages over the old style mills in econ- omy and larger production are well known, but it has limitations which have proved embarrassing to large consumers during the past year. When customers are waiting for deliveries it is an expensive operation to change the rolls on a continuous mill. The labor ex- pense is, of course, not a serious item, but considerable time is lost which runs into large figures in the busi- ness that might be done by such a mill. This means a loss of profit to the mill and possibly a loss to cus- tomers, whose deliveries are delayed. The custom that has been followed by consumers in the purchase of bars grew up in the days of the old style merchant mills. The manufacturing buyer makes a contract for a definite period for the tonnage which he estimates he will need and gives specifications each month for the particular sizes or shapes he requires. This plan adjusts itself to the needs of the manufacturer of bolts or agricultural im- plements, who cannot foretell with certainty what particular style or size of his product will sell in the largest quantities. By giving monthly specifications he can obtain the quantity needed of each size or shape without taking the speculative risk of carrying’ a large stock of any particular size. During the past winter, however, consumers of bars have made bitter com- plaints regarding their deliveries, as they have been unable to obtain promptly from the mills the odd sizes and sections called for in their monthly specifications. The agricultural trade requires an almost infinite variety of sizes and special shapes in merchant mill product. One mill rolls 23 different sections of plow beams alone, and altogether there are several hundred sizes and bar mill sections that are used regularly in agricultural implements. The time lost in changing rolls to accommodate all the customers of a mill thus becomes a very serious element in the matter of de- liveries, as well as in the cost of production in the mill. Some of the largest consumers of bars in the West have been obliged to purchase from store in quantities in order to keep their business going, the most unfortunate results having occurred where con- industrial E 1855 sumers with a great variety in their en isctee were depending on continuous mills. It is understood that some large. bar ‘consumers will protect themselves in.the future by. abandoning the plan of monthly specifications and, adopting »a policy that will be more in harmony with,economy of operation of the continuous mill. Instead of furnishing monthly. specifications on a blanket contract, they are now specifying three to. six months’ requirements of each size or section, and in some cases complete speci- fications for the entire tonnage are given at, the time contracts. are placed... This enables the mills to make long runs without changing rolls, increases. very ‘ma- terially the capacity, as well as promoting economy in operation. It may be necessary for the customer, to carry a larger stock of bar material, but.the interest on the money so used will be a small factor when com- pared with the losses incurred by inability to get de- liveries when they are needed, The smaller. consumer will be more likely under this plam to receive attention for his requirements than during the congested con- dition that has prevailed in the bar mills during the past six or eight months. . There. is a growing tendency, however, among the merchant bar interests to decline quotations on small orders for soft steel bars, and the buyer finds it necessary in such cases to purchase from store if he wants prompt delivery. Jobbers who carry large stocks are able to specify in advance for large quantities of this particular size or section, and in many cases they are able to divert carload shipments from the mills of material due on their orders. In the past winter manufacturing consumers of bars found themselves so short of material that they used rough wire rods in place of the usual small finished rounds, and wire rods were also used extensively in concrete reinforcement. Last year the mills were so anxious to book large orders, after a long and unprofitable dull period, that the question of specifications did not receive serious consideration, but buyers as well as the steel manufacturers will now profit by the experi-. - ence gained in the congestion of recent months. Our Patent Agreement With{Germany Germany is becoming impatient over the operation of its patent agreement with the United States. Under it a distinct discrimination exists in favor of Ameri- cans in Germany as against the Germans themselves Under the agreement the American patentee has the same rights in Germany that the German has in the United States, as was fully set forth in an article on international patent law in The Iron Age of March 24, page 690. Therefore, as the German has no compulsory working clause to endure in America, the American is the one exception to the rule of that clause of the Ger- man law. The German must work his patent at home, or it may be canceled. The American is free to do as he pleases in this respect. When the agreement was made it was presumed that the agitation in favor of a compulsory working clause in the American patent law would result in legislation, but the matter has been -per- mitted to drop. The dissension in Germany has been hinted by a recent deeision of the Reichsgericht in a case where » application was made to revoke a patent held by a Ber- lin company-on the ground that it had not been worked in Germany within the stipulated period of three years. + a 1156 Before the appeal was heard the company transferred the patent to the American parent company, and the Reichsgericht held that the transfer was lawful, and that as a consequence the patent could not be canceled, as the patent treaty of 1909 does not bind the United States to the limitations of the German law. The con- clusion from this final decision, as drawn by interested persons abroad, is that foreigners domesticated in Ger- many can escape the compulsory working clause merely by assigning their patents to manufacturers in the United States. We doubt very much if the treaty would permit of a wholesale use of such means of avoiding the German law, though doubtless in many cases of patents held by American citizens the decision quoted has a significant bearing. The German government, however, does not pro- pose to continue a policy of discrimination against its own people in favor of those of another nation. When the matter was brought before the Reichstag recently the Secretary of State expressed the hope that, after receiving petitions and hearing representations, he would be able to publish this year particulars of a provisional bill for the reform of patent legislation. “The failure of the United States to proceed with the compulsory working clause,” he stated, “has pro- duced a condition of imparity between the Germans and citizens of the United States in Germany, and an end must be put to this situation. It is therefore intended to propose an amendment whereby compul- sory working for internal patentees in Germany will be abandoned, but it will remain in operation in the country for such patents as are only worked abroad.” The meaning of this statement is that the home discrimination against the German inventor will be removed. Apparently the present status in Germany of an American patentee is not to be changed. The American, of course, receives no greater favors than those granted by the United States to the citizens of Germany. ——___—--o————_—_ United Engineering Improvements.—The United Engineering & Foundry Company, Pittsburgh, will make extensive changes at its plants at Youngstown, Ohio, during the next three or four months. It is the intention to discontinue the making of iron castings at its Lloyd-Booth Works in South Phelps street ‘about August and concentrate all of its foundry pro- duction at its Oak street plant. The Oak street shops will be considerably enlarged, and when the contem- plated changes are completed the molding floors will contain about 82,000 sq. ft. and the capacity of the plant in iron castings and rolls will be approximately 24,000 tons per annum. A new metal yard is being laid out, which will be served by a 25-ton traveling crane, covering 22,000 sq. ft. in area. The present foundry building at Phelps street will be converted into a machine tool shop, which will increase the floor space of the machine departments at Oak street about 20,000 square feet. The buildings, power plant, cu- polas, cranes and machine tools for these improve- ments have all been ordered, and installation is ex- pected to be made in August. ——-_—. + —__. The Sullivan Machinery Company, Chicago, has re- moved its general offices from the Railway Exchange Building to a suite on the fourth floor of the new People’s Gas Light and Coke Building. It is an- nounced that Myron G. Doll from the Denver office of this company has been appointed local manager of its Salt Lake City branch, succeeding Matt Brodie, who is transferred to the department of foreign sales. THE IRON AGE May 19, 1910 The National Stove Conventions The Stove Founders’ National Defense Association and the National Association of Stove Manufacturers held their annual conventions last week in the Hotel Astor, New York City. The Stove Founders’ National Defense Association met May 11. As the meeting was in executive session, no report of the proceedings is available. William H. Cribben, Chicago, who has been president for several years, refused a reelection. Stanhope Boal, Piqua, Ohio, was electéd president, but he also declined, and this honor finally was bestowed upon George Mitchell, Pittston, Pa. The other officers elected were as fol- lows: Vice-presidents, Frederick Will, Rochester, N. Y., and Lee W. Van Cleave, St. Louis, Mo.; treasurer, William A. Dwyer, Detroit, Mich.; secretary, Thomas J. Hogan, Chicago. The district committees remain unchanged and are as follows: First District—E. W. Anthony, Boston; A. W. Walker, Boston; O. G. Thomas, Taunton; J. L. An- thony, Taunton; H. A. Tinkham, Taunton. Second District—E. W. Peck, Rochester, N. Y.; R. G. Rennolas, Richmond, Va.; W. D. Snyder, Co- lumbia, Pa.; J. A. Lansing, Scranton, Pa.; E. Benedict, New York, N. Y. Third District—Stanhope Boal, Piqua, Ohio; George H. Barbour, Detroit, Mich.; S. Kahn, Hamil- ton, Ohio; William A. Dwyer, Detroit; H. J. Karges, Evansville, Ind. Fourth District—Ralph S. Buck, St. Louis, Mo.; N. H. Burt, Leavenworth, Kan.; H. A. Viets, Milwau- kee, Wis.; J. W. Emery, Quincy, Ill.; Fred Satler, Belleville, Ill. The National Association of Stove Manufacturers held its meeting May 12 and 13. The sessions of this association were also executive. Quite a number of papers were read, among which were the following: “The Psychological Phenomena,” by Charles S. Prizer, Philadelphia; “ Advertising Stoves,” by Frederick Will, Jr., Rochester, N. Y.; “ Pattern Expense,” by Franklin L. Sheppard, Philadelphia; “ Systematic As- certainment of Values versus Haphazard Compari- sons,” by Nathaniel H. Burt, Leavenworth, Kan.; “The Development of Molding Machinery and Ap- pliances,” by Abram C. Mott, Jr., Philadelphia; “ The Cost of Soliciting Trade,” by George Mitchell, Pitts- ton, Pa. Among the topics discussed were “ Cost Systems,” “Stove Repairs,” “High-Grade Goods,” ‘“ Abuses in the Sale of Stoves,” “ The Advisability of Establishing a Freight Bureau Within the Association,” &c. The officers of the association were reelected, as follows: President, William J. Myers, New York; vice- presidents, Abram C. Mott, Philadelphia, and Joseph W. Emery, Quincy, IIll.; treasurer, T. Darl Buckwalter, Royersford, Pa.; general secretary, Edward C. Hanra- han, Chicago, Ill.; general executive committee, Ralph S. Buck, St. Louis, Mo.; Arthur W. Walker, Boston, Mass.; Charles A. DuCharme, Detroit, Mich.; Edward Bowditch, Albany, N. Y.; Nathaniel H. Burt, Leaven- worth, Kan.; Robert G. Rennolas, Richmond, Va.; John H. O’Brien, Cleveland, Ohio. —>+e—______ The Cement Products Exhibition Company, 150 Adams street, Chicago, announces that the Eastern Cement Show will be held in Madison Square Garden, New York. December 14 to 20, 1910, and the Western show will be held February 17 to 23, 1911, in the Coli- seum, Chicago. It is stated that all contracts of im- portance in connection with these shows have already been placed and the intervening months will be spent in perfecting the details. More than 80 per cent. of the exhibitors at the recent Chicago show-have signi- fied their intention to exhibit at New York. May 19, 1910 The National Association of Manu- facturers The fifteenth annual convention of the National Association of Manufacturers was held at the Wal- dorf-Astoria, New York, on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of this week. It was one of the most in- teresting and successful gatherings of the organiza- tion. The attendance was large, the addresses and papers were of exceptional value, and the influence of the association was undoubtedly greatly strengthened. The proceedings opened with a general feeling of sor- row over the death on the previous day of ex-President James W. Van Cleave of St. Louis, whose presence at the convention had been expected and who had served the association with marked ability and enthusiasm. The annual report of President John Kirby, Jr., dealt with such live subjects as the influence on con- temporary legislation of “class conscious labor union- ism,” the prevention of accidents in industrial pur- suits, educational work, the corporation tax law and anti-injunction legislation. Special committees submitted reports on Banking and Currency, Patents, Uniform State Laws, Forests and Irrigation, Interstate Cammerce, Immigration and Merchant Marine. The Committee on Merchant Ma- rine, consisting of D. A. Tompkins, H. M. Leland, W. B. Cowles, John J. Amory and S. K. Smith, held that a system of differential duties would be impracticable and recommended “ sufficient postal compensation to establish a swift and regular service in American steamships to the principal countries of South Amer- ica, and to the ports of Australasia, Japan, China and the Philippines.” One of the most important subjects considered by the convention was “ Industrial Indemnity Insurance,” on which a report of 45 printed pages with an appen- dix of 70 pages was submitted by a committee com- posed of F. C. Schwedtman, chairman; John Kirby, Jr. (ex-officio) ; James W. Van Cleave, D. A. Tomp- kins, H. E. Miles, and Henry B. Joy, with James A. Emery and A. Parker Nevin, counsel. This report re- viewed conditions at home and abroad and presented the following resolutions: 1. That the present employers’ liability laws are unsatisfac- tory, wasteful of life and money, slow in operation and antag- onistic to harmonious relations between employers and wage workers, 2. That an equitable mutually contributory, indemnity sys- tem, automatically providirg indemnity for victims of industrial accidents and their dependentsy is required to reduce waste, litigation and friction, and to meet other requirements of an enlightened industrial nation 5. That it is our desire to co-operate with State lawmakers in promoting sound, industrial, indemnity legislation, and our duty to oppose unsound legislation. 4. That, regardless of legislative action, we inaugurate, with the least possible delay, a system of mutual contributory indus- trial accident indemnity insurance, this system to be elastic enough to provide for voluntary contributory sickness, old age and death insurance if later deemed advisable. 5. That the president and directors of the National Associa- tion of Manufacturers are hereby authorized to arrange for the establishment of such a mutual contributory insurance concern, with the definite understanding that the National Association of Manufacturers assumes no financial responsibility in connec- tion therewith. 6. That a department on prevention of industrial accidents be established by the National Association of Manufacturers, either independently or in conjunction with others, for the gathering of statistics, the study and exhibition of preventive devices, for co-operation with State and national inspection de- partments, and for the promotion of a better understanding of the whole subject. 7. The prevention of accidents being of the utmost impor- tance, we authorize the president of the National Association of Manufacturers to offer annual prizes of $10,000 for the safest plants or the best safety devices brought to his attention each sear, and we urge manufacturers to offer other prizes through the medium of this association, to stimulate invention of safety devices, and a broad study of the subject, so that, in this direc- lion, as in others, the United States may soon become the lead- ing industrial nation of the world. In connection with the same subject addresses were (lelivered by Henry ‘L.. Rosenfeld on “ Co-opetation THE IRON AGE 1157 and Compensation vs. Compulsion and Compromise in Employers’ Liability,” and by Miles M. Dawson on “True Economy in Compensating for Industrial Ac- cidents.” On Tuesday afternoon an especially able and in- teresting illustrated lecture was delivered before one of the largest gatherings in any session by Prof. Fred- eric Remsen Hutton, an officer of the American Mu- sem of Safety and Sanitation, on “ The Prevention of Industrial Accidents.” The lantern slides exhib- ited covered the typical news item of an industrial accident, suggestions as to how the accident is likely to happen, the simple safeguards of common sense, and, lastly, the special safeguards of skill and experience. These latter covered safety for grinding machines, for the feeding of rolls, for pits, for transmissive ma- chinery using belts, gears or shafting, the special dan- gers of drawing presses, of woodworking machinery, the quarry, the mine, the foundry, &c. The series con- cluded with presentations of the museums abroad and the plans of the proposed American Museum. ++ ____ The Canton Sheet Steel Company The Canton Sheet Steel Company, Canton, Ohio, recently organized with a capitalization of $500,000, has broken ground for a new plant which will be ready for operation about October 1. The company has secured a site of 26 acres in the southwestern part of the city, which includes the plant of the Cheswick Mfg. Company. This is a building that was erected several years ago for a car manufacturing plant by the Structural Car Company, but never used by that company. The Canton Sheet Steel Company will erect a main building, 137 x 320 ft.; a boiler house, 50 x 200 ft.; a machine shop, 50 x 100 ft., and such smaller build- ings as are needed. The plant will be equipped with eight hot mills. The Cheswick plant will be used as a galvanizing department and warehouse. The com- pany will make pickled, cold rolled, black and galva- nized sheets. The plant will have an annual capacity of about 40,000 tons. The power plant equipment will consist of five 400-hp. boilers, one 2000-hp. engine and one 200-kw. electrical unit, the latter for operating the cranes, shears and other machinery. The mills will be rope driven. There will be three cranes—one 30-ton for the mill, one 10-ton for the yard and one 1o-ton for the warehouse and galvanizing plant. The machine shop will be fully equipped with such machinery as is needed, None of the contracts has as yet been placed. The company is now asking for proposals for the buildings, and will place orders for the power and other equipment shortly. The company has effected an organization by the election of the following officers: W. W. Irwin, presi- dent; H. S. Renhert, vice-president, and C. A. Irwin, secretary, treasurer and general manager. Mr. Irwin was formerly secretary of the Berger Mfg. Company, Canton, having retired from that company on January 1. W. W. Irwin was also formerly connected with the Berger Mfg. Company. The new plant will adjoin the tracks of the Penn- sylvania & Wheeling and Lake Erie railroads, so that very satisfactory shipping facilities will be provided. ——_—_.2--e—— An official statement issued by the Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Company shows that the business booked in April reached a total of $3,000,000, not in- cluding that taken by subsidiary companies. If this was added it would increase the total to about $3,500,- 000. The shipments from works kave not been equal to the business booked. The company also. reports that business for the first four months of: Igo is 40 per cent. greater than for the same period of 1909. an oar crenmmasnenenat mms comtncse-itahiie te te 1158 A Triplex Steel Process Important Departure by the Dominion Iron & Steel Company, Ltd. A noteworthy innovation in steel manufacture is being developed at the Sydney, Nova Scotia, plant of the Dominion Iron & Steel Company, and the results will be studied with great interest. The company is building two 500-ton rolling basic open hearth fur- naces preparatory to operating a triplex process of steel making, or, as the company’s engineers have styled it, a quadruplex process, counting separately the last reaction following the additions in the ladle after the metal is tapped from the final or third fur- nace. The new 500-ton furnaces are 58 ft. between ports and 21 ft. 6 in. wide. They will desiliconize direct metal from the blast furnaces, scrap and lime- stone additions being made here. When one of the large furnaces has been filled and the silicon has been sufficiently eliminated, the metal will be all poured out in from 16 to 18 ton heats, and blown in basic lined converters a sufficient time to dephosphorize it, from four to six minutes being required. The blown metal is then charged into a 50-ton rolling open hearth fur- nace, some direct metal being also added. The final recarburizing additions are made in the ladle, which is kept at a very high temperature at the time of tap- ping. The process contemplates that when one of the large furnaces is being emptied the other is being filled. It is considered possible by this triplex process to get 60 to 70 heats a week from a 50-ton open hearth furnace. The pig iron from the Sydney blast fur- naces runs not less than 1.50 per cent. in phosphorus. The slag from the basic converters, containing about 20 per cent. phosphoric acid, finds a ready market abroad as a fertilizer at a good price. The equipment of the new open hearth furnaces includes a 75-ton dou- ble trolley ladle crane and a charging machine. The Dominion Company is also building at Sydney a new blast furnace of the most modern type. It will be blown by exhaust turbine blowers, taking the ex- haust from the present reciprocating blowing engines. This will be the fifth blast furnace, and the total ca- pacity will be about 525,000 tons. The present coke plant of 500 by-product ovens is being provided with the most modern appliances for handling both coal and coke. A new plant of 120 10- ton ovens is being constructed, together with a recov- ery system. The surplus gas from the coke plant is used for general heating purposes throughout the works. The addition will give a total of 620 by-prod- uct ovens, making the plant the largest in America. The rolling capacity at Sydney is being increased by the erection of a new 10-in. bar and rod mill de- signed by the Morgan Construction Company, Worces- ter, Mass. A large exhaust turbo electric power plant of the Rateau type is being installed to recover the power from the mill engine exhaust. To meet the increased requirements of water a I5,- 000,000-gal. electro turbine pumping plant is being in- stalled. The entire programme of improverhent is expected to be completed within nine months, making the plant of the Dominion Iron & Steel Company one of the most modern and important in the industry. ————_--- Receiver W. Vernon Philips states that the works of the Lebanon Chain Works and the West End Iron Company, at Lebanon, Pa., subsidiaries of the Iron & Steel Products Company, Philadelphia, Pa., will be placed in operation within a few days. The Bristol Iron & Steel Company’s plant at Bristol, Pa., will not be started up by the receivers, while the advisability of operating the Canton Iron & Steel Company’s plant, at Baltimore, Md., has not yet been determined upon. THE IRON AGE May 19, 1910 New Employers’ Liability Law in Ohio The Cleveland branch of the National Metal Trades Association holds lunch hour meetings once a month, at which questions of interest to the members are discussed by selected members or by invited guests. On Friday, May 13, about 50 members had luncheon together at the Gillsy Hotel and afterward were ad- dressed by Attorney J. P. Dawley of Cleveland, on some features of the new employers’ liability act, which became a law in Ohio last week. The principal changes are those which relate to the fellow servant and as- sumption of risk principles which have obtained here- tofore in the courts of Ohio. The fellow servant fea- ture of the act is as follows, being evidently drawn with special reference to vessel and dock service: That in all actions brought to recover from an employer for personal injuries suffered by his employee or for death resulting to such employee from such personal injuries, while in the em- ploy of such employer, arising from the negligence of such em- ployer or any of such employer's officers, agents or employees, it shall be held in addition to the liability now existing by law that any person in the employ of such employer, in any way having power of authority in directing or controlling any other employee of such employer, is not the fellow servant, but supe- rior to such other employee; any person in the employ of such employer in any way having charge or control of employees in any separate branch or department shall be held to be the supe- rior and not fellow servant of all employees in any other branch or department in which they are employed; any person in the employ of such employer whose duty it is to repair or inspect the ways. works, boats, wharves, plant, machinery, appliances or tools, in any way connected with or in any way used in the business of the employer, or to receive, give or transmit any signal, instruction or warning to or for such employees, shall be held to be the superior and not fellow servant to such other employees of such employer. Regarding negligence the new law provides that the negligence of a fellow servant of the employee shall not be a defense, where injury or death was caused or contributed to by any defect or unsafe condition of the ways, works, boats or wharves, plant, machinery, ap- pliances or tools, except simple tools; by the negligence of any person engaged as superintendent, manager, foreman, inspector, repair man, signal man, or in any way having charge, care or control of plant or machin- ery; by the negligent act of any fellow servant done in obedience to immediate or peremptory instructions given by the employer or any person having authority to direct the doing of said act; or by the want of neces- sary and sufficient rules for the government of em- ployees and the operation of machinery. In regard to assumed risk the new-act provides that negligence of the employee shall not be a defense for the employer unless it was expressly made the duty of the employee to report neglect of proper safety ap- pliances or defective or unsafe condition of machinery, &c. The law also makes all questions of negligence, contributory negligence and assumption of risk matters to be decided by the jury under the instruction of the court. In the discussion of the matter that followed At- torney Dawley’s address it was suggested that ‘notices be posted in all shops making it the duty of each em- ployee to report any defective or unsafe condition that may come to his attention. This matter was put in the hands of the executive committee. —_—_>+@e—___——__ The Globe Seamless Steel Tube Company.—This company, incorporated with a capital stock of $650,- 000, will build a plant in Milwaukee, Wis., on a site recently purchased on Burnham street. The Worden- Allen Company, Milwaukee, has been awarded a con- tract to erect the first building, which will be 468 x 500 ft., one story, and is to be completed so that the equip- ment can be installed and be ready for operation by October 1. F. W. Renshaw is president and Lawrence Fitch vice-president and treasurer. Both were for- merly connected with the Detroit Seamless Steel Tubes Company. The capacity of the plant will be 2000 tons per month of hot and cold drawn tubing. May 19, 1910 The Iron and THE IRON AGE 1159 Metal Markets 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. May18, Mayl11, Apr.20, May19, PIG IRON, Per Gross Ton: 1910. 1910. 1910. 1909. Foundry No. 2, standard, Phila- QOER ead +s tirecins tt hess ake $17.00 $17.00 $17.75 $16.00 Foundry No. 2, Southern, Cincin- WET SS das oe eee aa vee 14.75 15.25 15.25 14.50 Foundry No. 2, local, Chicago... 17.00 17.00 17.25 16.50 Basic, delivered, eastern Pa.... 16.50 17.00 17.50 15.00 Basic, Valley furnmace......... 145.00 15.25 16.00 14.00 Bessemer, Pittsburgh.......... 17.40 17.90 18.40 15.90 Gray forge, Pittsburgh........ 145.90 15.90 16.15 14.40 Lake Superior charcoal, Chicago 18.50 18.50 19.00 19.50 BILLETS, &c., Per Gross Ton: Bessemer billets, Pittsburgh.... 26.00 26.50 26.56 23.00 Forging billets, Pittsburgh..... 82.00 32.00 32.00 25.00 Open hearth billets, Philadelphia 29.00 29.00 30.00 24.50 Wire rods, Pittsburgh......... 32.00 32.00 32.00 29.00 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 16.25 14.00 Steel rails, melting, Philadelphia 14.50 15.00 16.00 15.25 From ratte. CRIGMIER, os <4. os<0e - 7.50 17.50 18.50 16.50 Iron rails, Philadelphia....... 20.00 20.00 20.50 18.00 Car wheels, Chicago.......... 15.50 16.00 16.50 14.75 Car wheels, Philadelphia...... 145.00 15.00 16.00 15.00 Heavy steel scrap, Pittsburgh... 15.00 15.50 16.25 15.25 Heavy steel scran, Chicago..... 13.50 13.50 14.25 13.75 Heavy steel scrap, Philadelphia. 14.50 15.00 16.00 15.25 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.... 1.50 1.50 1.50 1.30 Common iron bars, Pittsburgh. . 1.56 1.55 1.60 1.30 Steel burs, tidewater, New York 1.61 1.61 1.61 1.36 Steel bars, Pittsburgh......... 1.45 1.45 1.45 1.20 Tank plates, tidewater, New York 1.66 1.66 1.71 1.46 Tank plates, Pittsburgh........ 1.50 1.50 1.55 1.30 Beams, tidewater, New York... 1.66 1.66 1.66 1.46 Beams, Pittsburgh............ 1.50 1.50 1.50 1.30 Angles, tidewater, New York... 1.66 1.66 1.66 1.46 Angles, Pittsburgh............ 1.50 1.50 1.50 1.30 Skelp, grooved steel, Pittsburgh. 1.50 1.50 1.50 1.30 Skelp, sheared steel, Pittsburgh. 1.60 1.60 1.60 1.40 SHEETS, NAILS AND WIRE, Per Pound : Cents. Cents. Cents. Cents. Sheets, black, No, 28, Pittsburgh 2.40 2.40 2.40 2.20 Wire na'‘ls, Pittsburgh*........ 1.80 1.85 1.85 1,70 Cut nails, Pittsburgh.......... 1.80 1.85 1.85 1.65 Barb wire, galv., Pittsburgh*... 2.10 2.15 2.15 2.00 METALS, Per Pound: Cents. Cents. Cents. Cents. Lake copper, New York........ 13.00 13.25 13.25 18.25 Electrolytic copper, New York.. 12.75 12.75 12.80 13.00 Spelter, New York.........eees ¢ §.80. 5.05 5.60 5.15 Spelter, St, Lowis.......cccece 5.15 4.90 5.45 5.00 Lead, Mow Yori: mid. chit. 4.85 4.35 4.40 4.35 LOG, Bt TOW «sid 03 vain Selva ‘ 4.20 4.20 4.25 4.30 i, ROW NI fo ae ke Sie ch 33.20 33.25 33.05 28.00 Antimony, Hallett, New York... 8.12% 8.12% 8.25 7.75 Nickel, New: Dome. oc. 5 5 ex 45.00 45.00 45.00 45.00 Tin plate, 100 Ib., New York... $3.84 $8.84 $3.84 $3.64 * These prices are for largest lots to jobbers. —_a+- o______ 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, 11e. ; Cleveland, 10c.; Cincinnati, 15c.; Indianapolis, 17c.; Chicago, 18c.; St. Paul, 32¢.; St. Louis, 22i4c.; New Or- leans, 30c.; Birmingham, Ala., 45c. Rates to the Pacific Coast are 80c. on-plates, structural shapes and sheets, No. 11 and heavier; 85c. on sheets, Nos, 12 to 16; 95c. on sheets, No. 16 and lighter; 65c. on wrought pipe and boiler tubes. _ Structural Shapes.—I-beams and channels, 3 to 15 in., inclusive, 1.50¢e. to 1.55¢., 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, 1.60c., 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; zees, 3 in. and up, 1.60c., net; angles, channels and tees,’ under 3 in., 1.50¢., base, plus 10c., half extras, steel bar card; deck beams and bulb angles, 1.80c., net; hand rail tees, 2.80c., net ; checkered and corrugated plates, 2.80c., net, Plates.—Tank plates, % in. thick, 64 in. up to 100 in. wide, 1.50c. to 1.55c., base. Following are stipulations pre- scribed by manufacturers, with extras to be added to base price (per pound) of plates: Rectangular plates, tank steel or conforming to manufactur- ers’ standard specifications for structural steel dated February 6, 1903, or equivalent, 4-in. thick and over on thinnest edge, 100 in. wide and under, down to but not including 6 in, wide, are base. Plates up to 72 in. wide, 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 edges, or not less than 11 lb. per square foot, to take base price. Plates over 72 in. wide ordered less than 11 |b. per square foot down to the weight of 8-16-in. take the price of 3-16-in. Allowable overweight, whether plates are ordered to gauge or weight, to be governed by the standard specifications of the Association of American Steel Manufacturers, arte = mn under \%-in. to and including 3-16-in. on th MMOSE! CAME. oie on vice convessecce scapes scree $0.10 Gauges under 3-16-in. to and including No. 8..... 15 Gauges under No. 8 to and including No. 9....... 25 Gauges under No. 9 to and including No. 10...... .30 .Gauges under No. 10 to and including No. 12..... 40 Sketches (including all straight taper plates), 3 ft. and over in length... ....-.cccccrcccccwsceces 10 Complete circles, 3 ft. diameter and over.......- .20 Boiler and flange steel. ........---seeeeeeeeees 10 “A.B. M. A.” and ordinary firebox steel........ .20 Mitts Wakteen SHOU: «cc Kusicads as cearda Cease tins as .80 BEBPIMS GEOG. oan oc ce phat Pie cece Ue ER ct eee .40 Locomotive firebox steel. .....-...eeeeeeeeeeeee 50 Widths over 100 in. up to 110 in., inclusive...... .05 Widths over 110 in. up to 115 in., inclusive...... .20 Widths over 115 in. up to 120 in., inclusive...... 15 Widths over 120 in. up to 125 in., inclusive...... .25 Widths over 125 in. up to 130 in., inclusive...... .50 Widtlis over 1890 8M... nncccnesccbenesescccereee 1.00 Cutting to lengths or diameters under 3 ft., to 2 ae C6... etMO, 0:5:6 6+ Vi Aw eps Ree ETee meep Hes eb ee -25 Cutting to lengths or diameters under 2 ft. to 1 fe: fpeteMNGO.. 05 5 71 BS Wa iciste adv Mads «eho Kis 50 Cutting to lengths or diameters under 1 ft....... 1.55 No charge for cutting rectangular plates to lengths 3 ft. and or henue.—Net eash 30 days. Sheets.—Minimum prices for mill shipments on sheets 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, 1.75c. ; Nos. 11 and 12, 1.80c.; Nos. 13 and 14, 1.85c.; Nos. 15 and 16, 1.95e. 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,