The Iron Age 1911-08-17: Vol 88 Iss 7

THE IRON AGE _ New York, August 17, 1911 Published Every*Thursday by the DAVID “WILLIAMS COMPANY z 239 West 39th Street, New York Entered at the New York Post Office as-Second-Class Mail Matter. Sabsori ny ap Other Forse rte, 310.00 et Asma Usk all es Foreuga Countries, $ js requested, none Credit f ee ea poomenet. Sout yee wae: jie oe, stomata: Giieedins the W. H. Taylor, - - President and Treasurer LA. Mekeel, - - - First Vice-President Harold S. Buttenheim, - ~ Second Vieo- President end Secsaaey Geo. W. Cope, A. L Findley, W. W. Macon, M. C. Robbins, . Charles S. Baur, - - Assistant Manager Branch Offices Philadelphia, Real Estate Trust Building Chicago, Fisher Building Pittsburgh, Park Bulding Cleveland, American T rust Building Boston, Compton Building Cincinnati, 807 Andrews Building CONTENTS. Buyers Rather More Hesitant.......,ccccccccccsccccveseneess 347 British and American Blast Furnace Activity..........00-0eee8 348 A Latent Service of Scientific Management........-.....--4065 348 The Statistics of Blast Furnace Flux.............-e--e+eeeees 349 Safety Devices for Grinding Wheels..............00seeeeeees 349 The Steel Corporation’s Unfilled Order ' Industrial Legislation in Pennsylvania Many Electric Power Charters in Pennsylvania...............+. Personal Obituary Western Steel Corporation Bond Issue...........--+eeee-++++ S51 Back Number Wanted The Iron and Metal Markets An Improvement in Sulphur Tests... ......c.0-secceeesrceeeme f 363 Systematic versus Scientific Management The Steel Corporation Investigation Efficiency in Boiler Plant Operation...........ccsseeeeeeceeee 368 mentoad Equimmstett CMGMRs..5 5.65550 shbiv es ivadesidsavdscsnmns 368 A New Ohio Wire Mill Latest Development in Slag Pots metomes Derisidites (55-58 Ri ews os ic RSs ork inet bdavawedauns 368. : Haselton Plant of the Repubti¢ Iron & Steel Company.......... 370 New Tools and Appliances Uncovering the Maine A New Westinghouse Direct-Current Motor Modern Types of Elevators Pattern Maker’s Disk Grinder...........-.eccccececesceeeess Steel Reinforcement Bars Lower Prices on Panama Rails Republic Iron & Steel Company Pittsburgh and the Steel Corporation A Special Langelier Drill The Hill Face Plate Dog The Remington Marking Machine New Standard Pumps -~ Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company’s. Profit Sharing Plan 385 Unusual Casts of Lew Phosphorus Iron Generating Oxygen and Hydrogen Electrolytically Fluorescent Test of Oil Contamination Specifications for Spelter The Brown Instrument Company’s Expansion The Thompson Automatic Cut-Out Hanger Another Plan for Stock- Owning by Employees The Machinery Markets Perancnt Puschenin, sussicnsanuisuede ten ocunubwpenteunee<ts 396 Judicia! Decisions of Interest to Manufacturers.........+..+ eseee 397 Trade Publications 378 '] Standard Oil Company Purchases of Tin Plates— steel are hesitant The Government crop report for August 1, with due allowance for some bet- terment since it was made up, points to continued con- servatism in railroad purchases; and while the iron market and the securities market are often at variance, the recent course of the latter has made consumers cautious, It is to be said, on the other hand, that for a good many months the steel mills have been sending their products directly into consumption. That so great a scale of operations has been supported almost entireiy on wear and tear demand is no mean argument against any important recession. The conclusion has been hastily drawn in some quarters that the Steel Corporation’s ingot production, now about 77 per cent. of capacity, is a gauge of the entire industry. Counting 15 per cent. of the Corpora- tion’s product as exports would give a 66 per cent. operation for the home trade, and that is probably close to the present average of the independent steel compa- nies, whose exports are almost negligible. On the whole, prices of finished products are not weaker, but in bars alone are they firmer. The situa- tion is one in which deeper cuts might come if there were any good contracting for extended delivery. As long as consumers buy sparingly they will keep price changes within narrow limits. There are better reports of rail and car buying. The Oregon Short Line has taken 20,400 tons, the Wichita Falls Railroad, 10,000 tons, and the Wabash 2,500 tons —all Bessemer rails, to be rolled in the Chicago district. Japan has placed 4,200 tons of rails in this country and Argentina is out for a large lot. The Erie Railroad has divided 4,09gm@éreight cars among three companies and is to clége this week for 60 locomotives. The Frisco Sys- tem has bought 1,200 cars. The prospect of corfsiderable vessel building, even though some of it is not immediate, has encouraged the plate trade. The American-Hawaiian Steamship Com- pany plans to build four steamers of the 10,000-ton class. Of the five new Government colliers steel con- tracts have been let for three. For two of these 6000 tons of shapes have gone to a Pittsburgh mill, while Eastern mills have taken 20,000 tons of plates. Structural orders have come chiefly from the East and Central West. The American Bridge Company was low bidder on. the Point bridge at Pittsburgh—6,000 to 7,000 tons—while the steel for the Kansas City termi- nal station, 14,000 tons, lies between two large com- panies. For the proposed municipal convention hall at Philadelphia 6500 tons of steel will be needed. The leading interest will fabricate the steel for the North- western Life Insurance Company building, a, 5300 tons. In the sheet trade nominal prices are still cut and in view of late developments, Buyers of iron more 348 $1 to $2 a ton. Shading of the $3.70 base price, Pittsburgh, for tin plates is both affirmed and denied. The Standard Oil Company has recently_contracted in this country for tin plates for the remainder of the year. At the same time it has placed a part of its re-export requirements with Welsh The lat- ter have quoted lower prices than at the beginning of the year, when the Standard Company's order went entirely to American mills. Sales of foundry pig iron have increased, but Southern furnaces have not been successful in their efforts to estalli® a $10:50 Birmingham basis for tlie last quartea™ Sales have been made at $10.25 for delivery thf®ugh this year and $10 iron for prompt shipment is still available, while two or three sales of round lots are reported at that figure for mills. delivery extending into the fourth quarter. In Eastern Pennsylvania 10,000 to 12,000 tons of basic iron has been bought for this year at $14.75 to $14.90 delivered. A Pittsburgh steel company. has bought 5000 to 6000 tons of basic for the remainder of the year at a little below $13 at Valley furnace. Pittsburgh reports an inquiry for a large amount of Bessemer iron. After a long wait, the Lake iron ore market has developed some activity, recent sales amounting to 100,000 tons. Swedish ores are now quoted at 8 cents per unit alongside Delaware River dock. <b ee British and American Blast Furnace Activity A sharp contrast is furnished in the conditions of pig iron production in Great Britain and the United States. employed than those of the United States. In British blast furnaces are very much better IgI0 both countries broke all previous records in the pro- duction of pig iron, but in Great Britain the achieve- ment United States there was disappointment that the record was broken the United 1897 to 1907, both years being record years in their was one of note, while in the by so small.a margin. In States from time, production increased 267.1 per cent., which was an average gain, each year over the preceding, of 10.3 per cent. The 1910 production, however, was a gain of only.6 per cent. over that of 1909, and of prac- tically the same percentage over 1907. If production had continued to increase year by year after 1907 at the same rate as from 1897 to 1907 the Ig10 production would have been 34,600,000 tons instead of 27,390,000 tons. While the gain made in Ig10 may be considered fairly satisfactory at long range, it was quite unsatis- factory compared with the experience of the ten years 1897 to 1907, a period of unusually rapid expansion. In Great Britain, on the other hand, the gains in a long period of years have been only occasional, In the past 40 years there have been only If years in which all previous records were broken, and from The earlier year made a new-record, which was broken in 1899, the 1899 record was not broken until 1905. One year later the 1905 record was broken, but that 1897 to 1907 the gain was only trifling. while of 1906 was not broken until Igro. Thus the year 1910 was a good year in the blast furnace industry, and. we find from statistics collected by the Iron and Coal Trades Review that the average number of furnaces in blast in the year was 335. In the first. quarter -of this year the average number in blast was 333, according to the same authority, while in the second quarter the average was 318, making THE IRON AGE August a general average for the first half of thi 325 furnaces. The June quarter, with 50; and 318 in blast, showed a proportion of 63 in operation. In the United States the prop: been much smaller. From the midsummer pr: of the American Iron and Steel Association the following comparison: Total In blast number June 30. Bitumimous coal and coke 196 \nthracite and mixed 38 6 Charcoal 16 All furnaces 2 212 j Thus we have 45 per ent. of the American bias; furnaces in blast on Jum@®*-30;° against 67 per cent of the British furnaces in blast during the June quar- ter. One is accustomed to’ think of our charcoal and anthracite furnaces pulling “down the average, so may be observed that, ex@Mfding them entirely, the percentage of bituminous coal and coke furnaces active was only 51, which still makes an unfavorable com- parison with the British furnaces. We have commonly thought of the evolution of the blast furnace from the primitive to the modern being slow in Great Britain and rapid in the United States but as a matter of fact the progression on the blast furnace is not uniform throughout the American in- dustry. While some producing interests are continu- ally rebuilding their furnaces, others are not. The race of furnaces with iron pipe stoves is not extinct, although nearly so; but not many years ago a rela- tively large number were producing pig iron along- side of modern automatically filled furnaces. It is possible that the very slowness of expansion in the industry has. made it that the distance is smaller from the most primitive to the most modern the United States there is a sritish furnaces. In great distance. It would be difficult to estimate what proportion of the total number of furnaces would be found active in the two countries, in times which would be re- garded as really good; but a large part of that dif- ficulty is due to the fact that the concept of good times is different in the two countries. times are considered good when profits per ton of pig iron are moderate according to the American idea, which in recent years has been that “good times means the employment of practically all the listed fur- naces. When the least fit are running at their cost line, however, the best positioned furnaces are making several dollars a ton profit. In England os A Latent Service of Scientific Management Labor problems and scientific management are inter- dependent and it is to skillful scientific management that many look for the solution of the labor question Industry has of late become so involved in a socio- logical way that readjustment of wages has become more difficult than ever. The well being of a class of workers as a whole has gradually been accepted At the same time pu- lic opinion, in developing a greater expression of the paternal spirit of government, is probably making scientific management more difficult to introduce eve? though it takes firm root when once properly under- stood. | More general elimination of Sunday working, talked of and tried, is a. good instance of the close linking of society and business; but the real problem of giving the worker the income to which he is #¢ as of paramount importance. 7, 1911 id of maintaining for the employer the unit n on which his business can be kept com- has not had much public solution. The boon tific management, providing it meets this blem, is immeasurable. We realize the latent . the whole fabric of business in even the one wage readjustment, and while the present of compromise and delay, avoiding the real ay seem weak and likely to aggravate the of the final eruption, this very dalliance is iedly giving scientific management its chance. The Statistics of Blast Furnace Flux eginning with 1897 the American Iron and Steel ‘ation has gathered statistics of the amount of one consumed in making pig iron. These ics have usually attracted little attention, but, ing that a presentation of the data for the en- re period would be of some interest, we have com- iled the It shows, first, the average ber of pounds of limestone reported used per 1 of pig iron made, for all grades of pig iron, and, second, the average quantity reported used by the ke and anthracite furnaces, excluding the charcoal The consumption of the latter is very 1910 369 Ib. and in t909 382.8 pig iron made. It is impossible to determine how accurate the returns are, for it is juite likely that at some furnaces exact figures are not kept from day to day, and also that some furnaces arrive at an approximate total of the year’s con- sumption of limestone by some other method than that of adding the quantities ascertained as the fur- However reached, the figures are presumably not far from the precise truth. table below. turnaces. being in ee per ton of — nace is charged. stone Consumed in Making Pig Iron—Pounds of Lime- stone per Ton of Pig Iron, Coke and All anthracite. fuels. ova oud bud ae. Cae ewe. 1,002.3 985.7 occ nt 4 dike we be aie ee eee 1,020.4 1,003.7 Pe pep ey Nel (no data) 1,103.1 oo 6 wade 6.) ale Sete ae mn aaeree ie 1,222.9 1,205.6 0 000 66 0.0 kp Obie aesnar ts 1,202.7 1,186.5 PETES Tee ey RRS 1,207.7 1,192.8 0 6 05na be. ce bv peer en 1,207.3 1,193.0 4: 0! 0 wise Rm Wipp le ile etd oie ne 1,128.0 1,112.6 0 00 66 0.0 a eae eaten ie 1,144.2 1,132.7 0 0» vote bok: es ne See eee 1,192.8 1,178.8 TPO a 1,247.8 1,233.2 nae 1,229.4 1,217.1 sexe 1,190.5 1,178.7 + oes tno OR ee eo ee ees 1,204.0 1,191.8 On the whole, the figures for 14 years show a result. So much has been said about the lecreasing average iron content of the ores used from ear to year that the first thing one is prompted to ok for in such a presentation is statistical evi- nce of a progressive increase in the amount of flux ired as the average of impurities in ore used reased. This we do not find. It is true that for nd 1898 the average limestone consumption was trifle over 1000 lb. per ton of coke and cite iron produced, while in later years the -¢ has been fully 1200 Ib. or* 20 per cent. but from 1g00 to I910 we do not see any "ogressive increase. The average of 1900-1-2, indeed, 211 |b. while the average of 1908-9-10 is 1208 r 3 Ib. less. vative amount of limestone required does not, of lepend solely upon the character of the iron depends also to an extent upon the coke. had been a progressive change during the n the kind of coke used, we might look to tending to conceal other forces believed to THE IRON AGE 349 have been at work, but there has been no change such as can be claimed clearly to have had a bearing. The changes from year to year do seem to fol- low one principle with considerable fidelity, and that is that the limestone consumption appears to go up in good times, when there is heavy production with hign prices, and to go down when conditions are reversed. In this we may perhaps discern a tendency to use leaner ores when profits are large, and to drive furnaces harder at the same time, both of which trends would serve somewhat to increase the average limestone consumption. It may be that the more rapid increase in the production of Northern iron, as compared with Southern, has tended to rearrange the average, but this influence would not be very important, particularly as there are partly self-fluxing ores in the South. The general showing is that the coke and anthracite furnaces of the country report that they are using 0.54 to 0.55 ton of limestone per ton of pig iron produced. +e Safety Devices for Grinding Wheels A common form of failure to guard against ac- cidents to employees is in the use of grinding ma- chinery. The manufacturers of abrasive wheels and of machines for their use have given the subject a great deal of specialized attention, and as a result safety devices have been developed which must re- duce the risk practically to a minimum. ‘ The great danger, of course, lies in wheel explosions due to ex- cessive speeds. All abrasive wheels are tested before they leave the factory, where they, are run at speeds which give a wide margin of safety over correct com- mercial practice. If an explosion follows in the shop of a customer, the presumption is that the fault lies in usage rather than in manufacture. A common error is to place too large a wheel on a spindle without reducing the revolutions per minute. Peripheral speeds multiply rapidly with increased diameters, and the wheel, getting beyond its break- ing point, goes to pieces, causing, perhaps, the death or serious injury of workmen. Many grinding ma- chines are equipped with guards, the removal of which is necessary before too large a wheel can be substituted. The user is provided with other means with which to secure immunity from accident, if he is willing to accept them. But he must follow up the use of the devices in his works in order that careless or ignorant employees may not throw them aside. With large wheels special safeguards are fur- nished to keep the revolving mass under control. With certain types a heavy steel band encircles the disk, to assist in withstanding the strains of centrif- ugal energy. In many works, especially in small establishments, wheels are to be seen mounted on spindles running at speeds far too great for the diam- eters. — With the coming in of liability laws compelling the payment of damages for injuries to workmen regardless of liability, employers should look care- fully into menaces such as these. Owners of small works complain that under the new statutes crippling financial injury may be done them, because the in- creased ratio of overhead burden due to accidents. may be too great for them to endure. If such a condition has been created it behooves the employer to use every effort to reduce the chance of accident, and many ways are open to him in proceeding to that end. 359 The Steel Corporation’s Unfilled Orders The unfilled tonnage of the United States Steel Corpor- ation on July 31 was 3,584.085 tons, an increase of 223,027 tons over the total on June 30, which in turn was 247,871 tons greater than that for May 31. The following table gives the unfilled tonnage of the Steel Corporation by months since June 30, 1910, together with tonnage at close of each quarter from December 31, 1902, to June 30, 1910: uly 31, 3,584,085 Mar. 3,765,343 une 30. 3,361,058 Dec. 4,624,552 ay , Sept. 6,425,008 April June 7,603,878 Mar. 3 Mar. 3 8,043,858 Feb. Dec. 8,489,719 —_ Sept. .. 7,936,884 * June 6,809,850 Nov. Mar. 7,018,712 Oct. Dec. -. 7,605,086 Sept. . Sept. . 5,865,377 Aug. ssavstce 8, une 4,829,655 July Mar. 5.579.540 June Dec. 4,696,203 Mar. Sept. 3,027,436 Dec. June 3,192,277 Sept. Mar. 4,136,961 _— Dec. 3,215,123 ar. Sept. 3,278,742 Dec. 31, June 4,666,578 Sept. 30, 3,421,977. “Mar. 5,410,719 June 30, 3,313,876 Dec. 5,347,523 —— About September 1 the new and enlarged plant of the Orenstein-Arthur Koppel Company, of Pittsburgh, will be put in operation. It is located at Koppel, Pa., on the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie and the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago railroads, and was built by the Nicola Com- pany, of Pittsburgh. It gives about double the former capacity of the Orenstein-Arthur Koppel Company, enab- ling it fully to take care of the demand for its industrial cars, portable track and other railroad equipment. The new shop, will also put the company in position to handle to better advantage orders for specially designed steel cars. Combination coal and oil firing of boilers is practised in the Westport station of the Consolidated Gas, Electric Light & Power Company, Baltimore. The installation was described in a recent paper by H. A. Wagner, read before the National Electric Light Association. The space under the boiler, back of the usual coal grate, is made into a large combustion chamber with the oil burners at the extreme rear end. This combustion chamber is sepa- rated from the boiler tubes above by tiling and from the coal grate by a low bridge wall. It has been found that 2000 kw. of station load can be carried by each boiler when using coal and oil together with as much ease and cer- tainty as 1200 kw. per boiler can be carried by coal alone. On August 1 the entire six Duquesne furnaces of the Carnegie Steel Company at Duquesne, Pa., were in blast, but since that date No. 2 has been blown out for relining. At present the Carnegie Steel Company is operating 42 of its 59 blast furnaces in the Pittsburgh, the Wheeling and the two Valley districts. In the Pittsburgh district on August 1 seven Carrie stacks were in blast, two dut of three Clairton furnaces, seven out of eleven Edgar Thom- son furnaces and the two Lucy furnaces. Edith furnace, the three Isabella stacks and Neville Island have been out of blast for a long time. The Anglo-California Trust Company, San Francisco, Cal., has been named as trustee of an issue of $1,200,000 first mortgage bonds authorized by the directors of the Pacific Coast Steel Company, San Francisco, with which concerns at Portland and Seattle were recently con- solidated. The Ontario Exploration Company has decided to close its iron mines at Wilbur, north of Kingston, Ont., for a time. President Hanna, of Cleveland, Ohio, who recently visited Kingston, said there was no market for iron ore in the United States. The company has had 140 men at work at Wilbur. It has not made any shipments as yet. The Brightman Mfg. Company announces that its new plant at Columbus, Ohio, is now completed and in opera- tion. It is especially equipped for the manufacture of shafting and the company’s line of straightening and shaft- ing machinery. THE IRON AGE Industrial Legislation in Pennsylvania Harrispurc, Pa., August 14, 1911—State corinissions to investigate the causes of industrial accidents and the methods of building construction in Pennsylvania are to be named by Governor Tener in September with a view to drafting legislation to be presented to the gencral as. sembly of 1913. The administration has taken up the syb. ject of employers’ liability and a study of laws of other states will be made in conjunction with the investigation into accidents. The commissions will be composed of seven men each, most of the members to be legislators and ample funds will be provided for experts and for in spections in industrial centers. Particular attention js to be given to conditions in iron and steel plants and to rail- road operation. The legislative commission to study the taxation sys. tem and recommend new laws for corporate taxation will resume its sittings this fall. Its report is to be made in January, 1913. es Many Electric Power Charters in Pennsylvania— Over 200 charters for electric companies have been granted by the State of Pennsylvania since May 1, this year, and considerable significance is attached to the fact that the groups into which they were divided embrace coal and water power centers. The companies were chartered with nominal capital and each one was given a district in which to supply electricity for light, heat or power, the ultimate plan being to consolidate. The large coal com- panies of the anthracite region are behind some of the charters, New York capital being interested in a group chartered for the Lehigh Valley. In the soft coal region groups have been secured for townships in the vicinity of Johnstown, Pittsburgh, Washington and Uniontown. Four- teen were taken by interests which will use Susquehanna river power and charters for nineteen are pending for a group to operate in the Clarion river valley. 8 e A good performance with stokers for steam boilers is reported from Amoskeag Mills, Manchester, N. H. The refuse from four boiler rooms, one with hand-fired boilers and three with boilers equipped with the Jones stoker, was analyzed. Deductions made by Capt. Chas. H. Man- ning, consulting engineer of the Amoskeag Mfg. Com- pany, were that the refuse from the Jones stoker was found to contain 15.73 per cent. combustible, while the refuse from the hand-fired boilers amounted to 42.78 per cent. combustible. The mills burn 120,000 tons of coal each year ‘at a cost of $4.50 per ton. It is felt that this showing justifies the statement that the stokers are saving the mills $11,143.11 each year in reduced combustible in the refuse. Capt. Manning is quoted to the effect that not only is there less waste: fuel, but better results are ob- tained from the portions utilized. The boilers are the Manning fire tube type, designed by Capt. Manning. The Pitt Construction’ Company, Pittsburgh, will build a 300,000-gallon water filtration plant, half-million gallon reinforced concrete covered reservoir, settling basin and appurtenances for water works for the State Asylum for Chronic Insane at Wernersville, Pa. Plans and specifica- tions were drawn by Shester & Fleming, Union Bank Building, Pittsburgh. The members of the International Association of Ma- chinists have been holding an election by letter ballet for several weeks past and the count has now been completed. James O’Connell has been unseated as president and W. H. Johnson, Providence, R. I, has been elected in his place. Walter Ames, Boston, who was vice-president of the association, was also defeated for re-election. Thomas Carlin’s Sons Company, Oliver Building, Pitts: burgh, has shipped an 8-ft. automatic wet-grinding p% with base for motor drive, to the Pennsylvania Steel Com- pany, Steelton, Pa., and is finishing tank and other work for a Pittsburgh asphalt plant. The new Morgan rod mill of the Jones & Laughlin Steel Company at Aliquippa, Pa. is nearly completed will be put in operation in the near future. IgII Personal «|. DeGress has resigned the position he has held for t/an ten years as New York district manager of the rocker Wheeler Company to become general sales man- aver |» ‘“> Pulsometer Company, 17 Battery place, New York (ity. In addition to locking after the sales depart- is also carrying on a series of experiments with 4 view to improving certain features of the pulsometer and making it suitable for general pumping work in ants and industrial establishments. \\m. Paul Gerhard, author and consulting engineer for ydraulic and sanitary works, New York City, has been he honorary degree of doctor of engineering by the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany. G. Walter Bates, of Matlack & Bates, pig iron and coke merchants, Philadelphia, sailed August 12 for a month’s trip abroad. Frick has resigned in the past week as a director f the Union Pacifie Railroad. The report. was current would resign also from the directorate and the Executive Committee of the United States Steel Corpora- tion, but this he has denied. James W. Fagans, who has been for the past year superintendent of the plant of Abendroth Brothers, Port hester, N. Y., has just been appointed general manager. Previous to going to Port Chester he was connected with e Detroit Stove Works for thirteen years. Frank A. Moeschel, sales manager of the Newport Rolling Mills Company, Newport, Ky., has returned from a vacation trip to Canada. \shley P. Peck, for six years identified with Allis- Chalmers Company as sales engineer, connected with its New York office, recently associated himself with the Terry Steam Turbine Company as district sales manager for the Middle West, with offices at 814 People’s Gas Building, Chicago, Ill. Prior to 1902 he was actively connected with the machinery sales field of Chicago, and since that date, for three years, was manager of the Mil- waukee district sales office of the National Electric Com- pany, going from Milwaukee to the Allis-Chalmers Com- pany at New York in 1905. He is a graduate of Purdue University and is an associate member of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. William Vaughan, chemist, of Arthur D. Little, Inc., Boston, has been detailed from that organization as an issistant in the new centralized testing department which has just been organized under its direction for the General Motors Company, Detroit, Mich. Mr. Vaughan was chem- ist for the Salem Iron Company, Leetonia, Ohio, and Union Iron & Steel Company. [. J. Drummond, of Drummond, McCall & Co., Mon- real, and president of the Lake Superior Iron Corporation, who attended the congress of steel manufacturers in Brus- sels, has returned. While abroad he completed financial arrangements for the extension of the Algoma Central and the \lgoma Eastern lines, which are controlled by the Lake iperior Corporation. : John C. Searight, superintendent of blast furnaces for } ( the Republic Iron & Steel Company in the Northern dis- ‘ict, with headquarters at Youngstown, Ohio; has resigned. His successor has not yet been appointed. \rthur T. Herr has been appointed western representa- "ve ot the Inter-Ocean Steel Company, Chicago, with ieadquarters at 412 First National Bank Building, Denver, _ §. E. Protherow has joined the staff of the Gregory Company, Chicago, and will represent the com- ny in the sale of its motors in Chicago and adjacent ter- lle was for six years connected with the Chicago i the Crocker-Wheeler Company. R. D. May is also a w member of the selling force of the Gregory Electric ae He was for a number of years with H. M. byllesby & Co, R E. Brooke, general manager E. & G. Brooke 1 Company, Birdsboro, Pa.; Edgar S. Cook, president ‘‘atwick Tron & Steel Company, Pottstown, Pa., and Al- “tl broden, manager Temple Iron Company, Reading, | August 8 for a short trip abroad. Mr. Brooke ‘ook will return early in September, while Mr. ‘pects to make a more extended visit. and Mr THE IRON AGE $5! C. H. Elliott, formerly superintendent of the Atlanta Steel Company, Atlanta, Ga., has been appointed superin- tendent of the new open-hearth steel plant to be built by the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company, Youngstown, Ohio. He will supervise the erection of the six new fur- naces to be built, plans for which are now being prepared in the company’s engineering department, to be passed upon by Julian Kennedy, consulting engineer. W. D. Creider has resigned as stiperintendent of the plant of the Pressed Radiator Company of America at West Pittsburgh, Pa., to become saperintendent of the works of the Duff Mfg. Company. ee Obituary Cuartes Korcet, Springfield, Mass., senior member of the firm of Charles Koegel & Son, manufacturers of paper mill machinery, died August 9. Born in Germany and edu- cated at Heidelberg University, he came to the United States as a young man and entered the paper manufactur- ing industry. He invented various improvements in paper- making machinery and in 1892 established the business which bears his name. He leaves a widow and three sons. a Western Steel Corporation Bond Issue.—It is an- nounced that stockholders of the Western Steel Corpora- tion, Seattle, Wash., have approved the recommendation by the directors of an issue of $5,000,000 bonds to provide new operating capital, It is stated that the company’s president, James A. Moore, has arranged for placing this issue in the East. Work was resumed at the company’s steel plant at Irondale, Wash., early in August and it is stated that the rolling mill will be run steadily for some time. The open-hearth department is in operation and a third furnace is being prepared for starting. The blast furnace at Irondale has not been in operation this year. —_———__sa-oe—___—_ Back Number Wanted.—The Circulation Depart- ment of The Iron Age desires a copy of No. 15, Volume 81. If one of our readers can spare this copy of the paper we would be glad to have him notify’ us, addressing the department above named. +e The Cambria Steel Company, Johnstown, Pa., which heretofore has built only steel cars, announces that it will engage in the manufacture of wooden box cars and pas- senger cars. It is now prepared to quote prices on wooden box cars, and in the spring will quote prices on passenger cars. It will install the necessary new equipment at once, contracts for the most of which have already been placed. The Republic Iron & Steel Company's offices, formerly located in the Oliver Building, Pittsburgh, have been removed to the new office building erected by the com- pany ac 1oingstowa, Ohio. A district sales office will be maintained in the Oliver Building, in charge of George L. Claypool, whose title will be district sales manager, in charge of sales in the Pittsburgh district. James Rees. & Son, Pittsburgh, have received a con- tract for the building of 14 small steel boats for use on the Amazon River, South America. Each of the boats will be about 125 ft. long, and will carry about 200 tons of freight. The steel will be furnished by the Carnegie Steel Company. The Pittsburgh & Conneaut Dock Company has estab- lished a record in ore unloading at its Superior dock, Ashtabula, Ohio, which is equipped with four 15-ton Hulett electric unloaders. These four machines took 10,234 gross tons of ore out of the steamer Thomas Lynch August 10 in 4 hours and 6 minutes. The unloading began at 6:30 a.m. and was concluded at 10:36 a.m. The aver- age per hour per machine was 637.6 tons. The average tons per hour, start to finish, by the four machines was 2550.5. The Duff Mfg. Company, N. S., Pittsburgh, has re- ceived a large contract for hydraulic jacks and Barrett geared ratchet jacks within the past week from the Bra- zilian Government Railways in Brazil. These jacks com- prise various sizes for car and locomotive equipment, with special traversing bases whereby the cars or locomotives may be moved sidewise after having been raised. They run from 25 to 40 tons capacity. 352 THE IRON AGE August >, igi a: _ The Iron. and Metal Markets io i ie ariso f Prices 1909; tees, 3 in. and up, I.40c., net; zees, 3 i od us a Comp no 1.35c. to 1.40c., net; angles, channels and te: nder 2 ‘ _—__— in., 1.40¢c., base, plus full extras as per steel bir card of t Advances Over the Previous Week in Heavy Type, September 1, 1909; deck beams and bulb ang 1.65¢ ad Declines in Italics. to 1.70c., net; hand rail tees, 2.45¢.; checkered ani cory. | At date, one week, one month and one year previous. gated plates, 2.45c., net. oe : s Aug. 16, Aug. 9, July 19, Aug. 17, Plates.—Tank plates, 4 in. thick, 6% in. up 100 in y a eae eed amet. ~ 3088. 18a. 1908. wide, 1.35¢. to 1.40c., base. Following are stipulations abe. on me veh $15.00 $15.00 $15.00 $16.00 prescribed by manufacturers, with extras to added Foundry No. 2, Valley furnace. 13.50 13.50 13.50 14.25 to base price (per pound) of plates: r . v J 2 ~ ‘in- : , pense A No. 2 Southern, Cin 13.50 13.50 13.25 14.25 Rectangular plates, tank steel or conforming to manufacturers’ tecmiiei No.2. Birmingham. Ais, 10.25 10.25 10.00 11.00 standard specifications for structural steel dated February 6, 1903, eee Taam: a —" ene as ent ; ; or equivalent, 14 in. thick and over on thinnest edge, 100 in. wide ‘ CHP aes. eines. : ... 14.50 14.50 15.00 16.50 and under, down to but not including 6 in. wide, are base Basic, delivered, eastern Pa.... 14.75 14.50 14.25 15.00 Plates up to 72 in, wide, inclusive, ordered 10.2 Ib. per Square S Basic, Valley furnace........- 13.00 13.00 13.00 14.00 foot, are considered ™%-in, plates. Plates over 72 in. wide must ‘ Bessemer, Pittsburgh .......... 15.90 15.90 15.90 16.15 be ordered % in. thick on edge, or not less than 11 Ib. per square Gray forge Pittsburgh ¥ : 13.90 13.90 13.90 14.25 a to take Lase yam panera Stee ae ordered less than yi ’, tase esese ys oor oe er », per square foot down to e welg o -16-in. take the pric ) Lake Superior charcoal, Chicago. 16.50 16.50 16.50 18.50 of 3-1¢in. ake the price Per Met “Loksint Oven: weight, to be governed by the standard specifications of the Associa- te f as a COKE, CONNELLSVILLE, Allowable overweight, whether plates are ordered to gauge or * tion of American Steel Manufacturers. = - aan — arom shipment. 1.50 1.40 1.40 1.55 Cen a Furnace coke, future delivery. . 1.65 1.65 1.55 1.75 ~ 5 E . . . ‘ ents per lb Founiry coke, prompt shipment. 1.85 1.85 1.80 2.45 — = = to and including 3-16 in. on thin . | Foundry coke, future delivery... 210 210 2.00 2.25 Geuges ander $16 in. to and incloding’No. @.....2..1. (1? i m BILLETS, &c., Pes Gross Ton: Gauges under No. 8 to and including No. 9.......... an Pn : * sh te ; — Gauges under No. 9 to and including No. 10........ . 30 mat Bessemer billets, Pittsburgh.... 21.00 21.00 21.00 24.50 Gauges under No, 10 to and including No. 12 40 oy : Forging billets, Pittsburgh ois avs : 26.00 26.00 26.00 30.00 Saeechean (includix all straight taper at 8 t or? bet: Open hearth billets, Philadelphia 23.40 23.40 23.40 27.50 ” Quiet ta tea 8 * & Pn eee Tact : Wire rods, Pittsburgh......... 27.00 27.00 27.00 28.00 Complete ieee 3 ee “hea fe ‘canal a! i Pe i i OLD MATERIALS, Per Gross Ton: sr = —S ae pada SEG ae rue 88 a Iron rails, Chicago............ 14.00 14.00 14.00 16.00 Still bottom ee cca et ee 2 : iron rails, Philadelphia........ 17.50 17.50 17.50 “- Mave GUE “a3 chncvacds «ni \ebataet he kemken yo 40 ; Car wheels, Chicago........... 12.75 12.758 12.50 14.50 tan . ; "* po ag , : ; socomotive firebox steel. .......sccceveseeeeeeess era ae “: + Car wheels, Philadclphi«....... 13.00 13.00 13.00 14.00 Widths over 100 in up to 110 in., inclusive 05 en Heavy steel scrap, Pittshurgh.. 13.25 13.25 13.00 14.25 Widthe over 100 in: tn to “198-3 Ke iia... Ute 10 Heavy steel scrap, Chicago..... 10.75 10.75 10.50 12.25 Witthes ome ith ia oie oe bap Heavy steel scrap, Philadelphia. 13.50 13.50 13.25 13.75 Withee aves imo a. - “1s nh a. .......:t De sat FINISHED IRON AND STEEL. Widths over 125 in. to 136 in., inclusive.............. 50 gi Pp , Conte Caaka Oe Cents Widths over 130 im........+4. sup tnae dans sR ace + +1,00 % er Pound: ents, Cents ours — Cutting to lengths or diameters under 3 ft. to 2 ft., in- : Isessemer rails, heavy, at mill.. 1.25 1.25 1.25 1.25 plistin ‘ a | Refined i See Huiladclatbia” oF 571 71 “1 42h Clusive ......eeeres eeeeeeseeepens yb bebe dn's tees + ds es Panne” tae Be yf re ; 55 2 ae 2 ee 2 as t Cuttiong 80 lengths or diameters ‘under 2 ft. to 1 ft., in- Common iron bars, Chicago... . 1.20 1.20 1.20 1.40 Sine wibby fern cet oS Se ae Se tae St eae wre ‘ a mela ~ lnc ag - . Cuttings to lengths or diameters under 1 ft...... 024,55 Steel bars, Pittsburgh.......... 1.20 1.20 1.25 1.40 ees ~ € . : . . : Steel bars, tidewater, New York 1.36 1.36 1.41 1.56 Te ae paeP he — e-Bay CO Pe en Tank plates, Pittsburgh... ..... 1.35 1.35 1.35 1.40 aes : Tank plates, tidewater, New York = 1.51 1.51 1.51 1.56 Sheets.—Makers’ prices for mill shipments on sheets Beams, Pittsburgh ............ 1.35 1.35 1.35 1.40 fri : : : . Renan. idewther, New York... 1.51 1.51 1.51 1.56 mn carload and larger lots, on which jobbers charge the Angles, Pittsburgh ---.......-. 1.35 1.35 1.35 1.40 usual discounts for small lots from store, are as fol- Angles, tidewater, New York... 1.51 1.51 1.51 1.56 1 rs: > Tos JT = Skelp, grooved steel, Pittsburgh 1.20 1.20 1.25 1.50 nate a8 Blae ao sheets, Nos. 3 sa 8, U.S. orga . am Skelp, sheared steel, Pittsburgh 1.30 1.30 1.35 1.60 gauge, tone . os. 9 — a! T.50C. ; eye II and 12, i 1.55c.; Nos. 13 to 14, 1.60c.; Nos. 15 and 16, 1.70c., one eth 6 SETS yr ry rT 7 ws « ’ a . 7 SHEETS, mE, AND WIRE, — . . pass, cold rolled, box annealed sheets, Nos. 10 to 12, a te Yo . nite ents : nts y T 2s eo + Nog be __ret Beane. a Cents. Cents. Cents. Cents. 1 65¢,; Nos, 13 and 14, 1.70c.; Nos. 15 and 16, 1.75¢.; Nos. ee 65 Sheets, black, No. 28, Pittsburgh 2.00 2.00 2.00 2.20 17 to 21 Roc: Nos. 22. 2 1 Sec: Nos. 25 and “ Wire nails, Pittsburgh]........ 1.70 1.70 1.70 1.70 Z to 21, 1.60C.; NOS, 22, 23 and 24, 1.65¢.; NOS. 25 and in a” ; Cut nails, Pittsburgh?.......... 1.60 1.60 1.60 1.65 26, 1.90c.; No. 27, 1.95c.; No. 28, 2c.; No. 20, 2.05c.; No Barb wire, galv., Pittsburgh?... 2.00 2.00 2.00 2.00 30, 2.15c. Three pass, cold rolled sheets, box annealed, gs METALS, are as follows: Nos. 15 and 16, 1.85c.; Nos. afin ai, : , . . ‘ . » - / . 7 ee Per Pound: Cents. Cents. Cents. Cents. 1.Q0C. ; Nos, 22 to 24, 1.95¢.; Nos, 25 and 20, 2¢.; | ma ie Lake copper. New York....... 12.75 12.75 12.75 13.00 2.05c.; No. 28, 2.10c.; No. 29, 2.15c¢.; No. 30, 2.25¢. Gal- oa ee ae Copper, New York. pe oe 12.55 12.62% vanized sheets, Nos. to and 11, black sheet gauge, 2c.; ROICE, Dt. EMM. ccceseracees 5 j 5.57% 5.05 T Ss ae — atc: e aoe New Y i G15 00 coe? on Nos. 12, 13 and 14, 2.10c.; Nos. 15, 16 and 17, 2.25¢.; opelter, New OPK. csccseesees ele 6.06 d./. 32 Nos * /. <a. » Nos. 25 and Raid Mh.? GMMR ed doeaeasass 445 445 440 4.30 Nos, 18 to 22, 2.40c.; Nos. 23 and 24, 2.50c.; Nos. 25 a! Lead, New York.........-.... ad 50 4504.40 26, 2.70c.; No. 27, 2.85¢.; No. 28, 3c.; No. 20, 3.10c.; No. Si eS a. eee a -00 43.00 42.00 33.85 ~ / es sgallee , : s ro ; Antimony, Hallett, New York.. 7.75 7.75 8.00 7.95 30, 3.30c. All above prices are f.o.b. Pittsburgh, — ey Tin plate, 100-Ib. box, New York $3.94 $3.94 $3.94 «$3.84 30 days net, or 2 per cent cash discount 10 days irom 4 * . ie . mt Ran ail —___—. date of invoice, as also are the following base prices per ya ¥ “ The average switching charge for delivery to foundries in the square for painted and galvanized roofing sheets, with i Chicago district is 50c. per ton. : 2'4-1n. corrugations: : a + These prices are for largest lots to jobbers. Bae Gauge Painted. Galvanized. | Gauge Painted. Galvanized. iH ——— aa sche aks bvas $2.40 23. sss 01 $240 $3.50 ; 404 See $1.40 2.55 Oc 3.70 cae . eile ES 1.55 2.60 Bs. Switss 2.80 4.09 > Prices of Finished Iron and Steel f.o.b. 9 2622222): 165 2.65 ees 3.05 4.38 mo Bsc eh te 1.85 3.05 1 Gane 4.05 5.70 Pittsburgh BF. von 2.10 S88 1 Meciens 4.90 6.50 ah SY Wrought Pipe.—The following are the pobbers, car- ‘ ise itts basing card on m4 Boskites ae a ah ace load discounts on the Pittsburgh basing ij ight rates from Pittsburgh in carloads, per 100 ; Sepa eee Wr . ; a lb.:_ New York, 16c.; Philadelphia, 15c.; Boston, 18c.; wrought pipe, in effect from October 1, 1910: :. a Buffalo, 11c.; Cleveland, toc.; Cincinnati, 15c.; Indian- Butt Weld. ; si apolis, 17¢.; Chicago, 18c.; St. Paul, 32c.; St. Louis, (SU mei, pee AS On : ; 2 - ‘ . ‘ k. Galv. , 22%c.; New Orleans, 30c.; Birmingham, Ala., 45c. Rates . i ile he eee ne. ee oa, to the Pacific Coast are 80c. on plates, structural shapes Wm: 1h, deans cera 7 63 71 : bane and sheets, No. 11 and heavier; 85c. on sheets, Nos. 12 %4 to 1% BRE scr tes ss bee ee S "6 66 as F, to 16; 95c. on sheets, No. 16 and lighter; 65c. on wrought Dee ee oa aH boiler tubes. : 2 in. gue oa = 66 72 62 Structural Material.—I-beams and channels, 3 to 15 S00 00 4A, s+ pss ope. cated 78 67 74 ss y in., inclusive, 1.35c. to 1.40c., net; I-beams over 15 in., Be teats. 7 oe a A 7 $5 * 1.45¢. to 1.50c., net; H-beams over 18 in., 1.50c. to 1.55¢.; $5 te SE Pe. s cs ts 2k cco ae 51% 4 " ‘hugg ; oo Ps RN is dp eauke Sewn y" angles, 3 to 6 in., inclusive, ¥% in. and up, 1.35c. to 1.40c., Butt Weld, extra strong, plain ends, card weight. a net; angles over 6 in., 1.45c. to 1.50c., net; angles, 3 in. Boe: My GE Es 657 sis yeneeees 69 59 65 3 Be on one or both legs, less than %4 in. thick, 1.40c., plus a 74 68 70 68 cull 1b d effectiyv ge Oe ee 78 72 74 full extras as per steel bar card effective September 1, 3:00:80 hv icisis tidus 79 73 75 8 a 7, 1911 THE IRON AGE THE IRON AND METAL MARKEFS 353 Weld, extra strong, plain oie epee weight. .000cnbien@awennt 71 DB. oeccdteeahaeeeen 77 71 73 67 Be ovckntaveaeeenee 76 70 72 66 coe thessan eel ein 69 59 65 55 Te er 64 54 60 50 Weld, double extra strong, plain - card ——. jas ataen aes 61 63 57 ih. -ccasanen eens 69 63 65 59 Weld, double extra strong, plain ends, card weight. «anon a kannee 65 59 61 55 4 in. <2 seh ne sehen 67 61 63 57 6 if.cceau seuss 66 60 62 56 i. cconechses semanas 59 49 62 56 Plugged and Reamed. will be sold at eA @ s oints lower basi igher 2 to 3 in. Butt Weld P than ne or price) card weight pipe. lap weld, as specifi ve discounts are for “card weight,” subject to the usual f 5 per cent. Prices for less than carloads are three (3) wer basing (higher price) than the above discounts. Boiler Tubes.—Discounts on lap welded steel boiler to jobbers in carloads are as follows: to 4 iM..seee Lap Weld Butt or 72% 6 65 13 in.oscs%kovesceden senehee stab eens suena een 62% Less than carloads to destination east of the Mississippi River sold at delivered discounts for carload lowered by two points r lengths 22 ft. and under; longer lengths f.o.b. Pittsburgh. sual extras to jobbers and boiler manufacturers, Wire Rods and Wire.—Bessemer, open hearth and hain rods, $27. Fence wire, Nos. 0 to 9 per too lb., terms 60 days, or 2 per cent. discount in 10 days, carload ts, to jobbers, annealed, $1.50; galvanized, $1.80. Car- load lots, to retailers, annealed, $1.55; galvanized, $1.85. Galvanized bar wire, to jobbers, $2; painted, $1.70. Wire nails, to jobbers, $1.70. $ The following table gives the price to retail mer- chants on wire in less than carloads, including the ex- tras on Nos. 10 to 16, which are added to the base price: Fence Wire, Per 100 ib. No. 0 to9 10 11 12&12% 13 14°23 nnealed ....$1.65 $1.70 $1.75 $1.80 $1.90 $2.00 $2 alvanized .. 1.95 2.00 2.10 2.20 2.30 2 Market and Stone Wire in. Bundles, Bright and Annealed: 5 16 -10 $2.20 ; 70 2.80 Discount from Standing List. 9 and coarser........ ahoaave ae endeen Ceercccbdemines 80 10 to 18.5. . 2s sie sive’ s.s <a amines Renae 80 and 10 1D to ‘26.0. eke ces otot Shaan puede eee 80 and 10 and 2% 27 to a cccccec ss veecen cheese tbese eae tees taiee 80 and 5 a anizea: Bnd COBTSES..+ + sos. as senns bed bed ous wie 75 and 10 0 00 16... .reccvetspahed ae setbeewEe ee seh bee 75 and 10 7 to LO. cscvccrsccevcecceusserenebeueeeseee 72% and 10 é/ to 36 TORO eee eee ere eee eee 72% ppered or Liquor Finished: 2 and CORBET. 65 pccn ad cee sdelses ghana née Wed 75 and 10 ) 20 - 26... 6 we win Sas 60d wniel ne deb iae ele aes 75 and 10 6! tO 36. . 000.08 450 tana s ab anns eee 70 and 10 and 5 GS. cow csedaeebaeewaineh » SemRiCa En 75 and 10 and 10 ———_4-oe————_ Pittsburgh CITTSBURGH, Pa, August 16, 1911.—(By Telephone.) Pig Iron—The pig iron market is distinctly better ‘s Tegards inquiries and sales, but low prices are still ‘ing. Consumers belieye it is a good time to cover cad at present prices and several large purchases lave been made. The Colonize! Steel Compa has nought 5000 to 6000 tons of basic iron irom a Valley imnace tor delivery over the remainder of this year na Price slightly under $13 at furnace. The Standard anitary Mfg. Company has inquiries out for about 3000 sof Northern No. 2 foundry iron for its North Side id New Brighton, Pa., plants, but may buy more if _* Prices made are attractive. A large inquiry is “Ported in the market for Bessemer iron. The Car- ‘cgie Steel Company has blown in one of its three ‘ lurnacs and one more Edgar Thomson furnace “Is now operating 44 of its 59 blast furnaces, the “"Sest number it has had in blast for more than a :far. We quote as follows: Bessemer, $15; basic, $13 “T carly delivery, and $13.25 for extended delivery; No. _.. Uncry, $13.50 to $13.75; malleable, $13.25 to $13.50; ’ lorge, $13, all at Valley furnace, the freight rate Pittsburgh being 9goc. Steel.—In the first half of August, actual orders sent ‘he mills for rollimg by the billet and rail sales de- of the Carnegie Steel Compamy showed a er 37,000 tons over the same period in July ‘ain for the sécond half of August will be still ‘he Homestead, Clairton, Duquesne, Mingo sellaire and New Castle steel works of the (ompany are this week running at 100 per S artr ifoae ager nes ' cent. of capacity, for the first tint half. This company is now oper 82 per cent. of its total ingot capacity. we note a sale of 500 tons of 4 X 4 in. open hearth billets at $2r, Pittsburgh, and a sale of 300 tons of forging billets at $26, Pittsburgh. We quote Bessemer and open hearth billets,.4 x 4 in. and up to but not including 10 x 10 in., $21, base, and sheet and tin bars in 3o-tt. lengths, $22; 1%4-in, billets, $22; forging billets, $26, base, usual extras for sizes and carbons, all prices being f.o.b. Pittsburgh or Youngs- town district, with freight to destination added. Structural Material—The Carnegie Steel Company has received a contract for about 6000 tons of shapes for two Government colliers to be built by the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company, and will also get a contract for a similar tonnage of shapes for two more colliers to be built by the Maryland Stéel Com- pany. The plates for these four boats, upward of 20,000 tons, will be furnished by Eastein mits, Inthe first half of August orders of the structural and plate de- partments of the Carnegie Steel Company showed a gain of 12,000 tons over those for the first half of July. (By Mail.) The steel mills are not only maintaining the im- proved rate of operations noted for Several weeks but are increasing it. This week the Cambria Steel Com- pany is operating all of its eight blast furnaces and its 25 open hearth furnaces. The Repub