The Iron Age 1911-12-07: Vol 88 Iss 23

THE IRON AGE Published Every Thursday by the DAVID WILLIAMS COMPANY 239 West 39th Street, New York Entered at the New York P s‘ O Tice as Second-Class Mail Matter. Subscription Price, United States and Mexico, $5.00 per Annum ; to Canada, $7.50 per Annum; to r Foreign Countries, per Annum. Unless receipt is requested, none will be oak Credit for payment ‘will be shown by domino the date on the wrapper of your, paper. W. H. Taylor, - - - - President and Treasurer |. A. Mekeel, - - . . - - - First Vice-President Geo. W. Cope ° A. |. Findley, - } Editors W. W: Macon, - ° . M. C. Robbins, - - - - Manager Charles S. Baur, ‘ Assistant Manager Branch Offices Philadelphia, Real Estate Trust Building Chicago, Fisher Building Pittsburgh, Park Building Cleveland, American Trust Building Boston, Compton Building Cincinnati, 807 Andrews Building CONTENTS. Firmer Prices for Finished Steel..........cccccccsssccesecs 1215 The Los Angeles Confessions... ......ccccecsecesesecccssenes 1216 Flameless Surface Combustion.......--cecesssecceeeccesseees 1217 Sick Benefits and. Society Physicians..........-seeeseeersseee 1217 Correspondence ...ccccesscccccccsesvecsececcstossseeeceses 1218 The Bourne-Fuller Company Acquires the Upson Nut Company. 1218 Meeting of the Mechanical Engineers.........+-eeeeeeeeenes 1219 October Iron and Steel Exports and Imports..........++.s+: 1219 Youngstown Industries More Active.......s.eeeeeesseeerees 1219 Obituary ...ccccvccclecve never ene eReEHOpeee Seed ebeeescoceee 1220 Pittsburgh and Vicinity Industrial Notes.........+++++eee+ 1220 Lake Iron Ore Shipments. ......-seccee ete eeeeesecereeeeees 1221 he Iron and Metal Markets...... Vebe vad ed pawareevodccrse 1222 \ Constructive Programme on the Trust Question eéinieseaden 1233 he National Gas and Gasoline Engine Trades Association.... 1233 Pig Iron Production....cccccccsccscccccnccvcscscscvceseses 1234 Customs Decision .ccccscccccccvecccscececsecsscecessendes 1235 iovernment Control of Large Corporations.......sseesesrees 1236 Person a] 000 chee Us Ces bbs ous + HOS 594 FS We 0000 8 oe 928-6002 SC 8e 1237 Labor Note oc cocdebvdedecb@sdeecccseseseseeserevebbedesaes 1237 Manufacture and Treatment of Tool Steel.......-+.+e+eee8- 1238 The Pittsburgh Steel Company’s New Blast Furnaces........+. 1239 Coal Handling Plant at Duluth. .........sceeeeceeneereeeees 1240 New Oil Fired Flanging Furmace........+-+eececseseseeeere 1243 Pittsburgh Steel Steamboats for Export......--+++seeeeees 1243 An Interesting Rail Tramsaction........:scseeeeeeeeseeeerees 1243 The Norton Company’s Medical Department.......-+.+++++++> 1244 New Fine Measurement Tools.........-cscsceesesseececerens 1246 Cylinder Boring Machim@, .......0seee cere cceeeensesernenene 1247 Iron Making in New Zealand, ......--eeeccceerecteneceeecres 1247 Remarkable Discovery in Gas Combustion. .........++s+-+e+ee: 1248 Single Roll Coal Crusher. ..secerccssesssecsceccesennsctteans 1251 A Great Trade School at St. Louis RE Cer ry. eeeee 1252 Combination Saw and Drill. dyisseeecseeesseenpecneererecess 1254 Berger Steel Racks for Pattéen DBC 0s od Me daveccvecayes 1255 Quick Change Drill Chisel. é.. 200+ + sql ce neidbitteiws oes oindt 12595 The Pennsylvania Railroad $2-Ft. Steel Carsis....- Rs elt 1255. Eclipse Pipe FIamgers.....csccsecccecccccccscecesewscnces «+. 1256 The Production of Lead in 1910........ccceeeseeeseeseeee 1256 The Pittshurgh Foundrymen’s Association..........++++++ sees 1256 The Kidder Boring Machine............ssseseeeceerceeees 1257 An Improved Slag Bucket. ...cccccceccscscccccccecseevesecs 1257 Large Corliss Engine Built in Matedk Date. <..+c¢e0esencine 1257 Automatic Oil Pump Controller.......0+esssesseeseceseeess 1258 An Interesting Air Compressor Installation. Sikwhebins abc 1258 The My urphy Duplex Jarring Ma@hine........-+ssseeneseeedes 1259 Foundrymen’s Convention at Bu an Sime S048, <0 0 stute 1259 An Fight-Cylinder Aero MOt0ts¥iys..+sseeessseceeees bens Oe recking Crane With Steam Shovel Attachment............. 1260 late Features of the Vilter Corliss Engine.......... siiveus 1261 Goulds Pumps of Exceptional Capacity........+-.+++++ wre First Tata Furnace Blown In in BRIA. c<otceac xexesages ace Sam he Machinery MarketS......csseesesees édeeseee sddeeseuds 1262 New ols and Appliances...........++.+ con ens wenedacowel 1271 New York, December 7, 1911 VoL. 88: No. 23 —= Firmer Prices for Finished Steel Largest Buying of the Year in November Pig Iron Production Stationary, with Some Increase Promised for December The belief that the decline in prices of steel products has been arrested has gained ground in the past week. Support is given this view by continued heavy buying and by the fact that manufacturers whose raw material is largely rolled steel are them- selves favorable to such an advance as will check the demoralization in their own products. November has been the record month of the year in volume of pig iron and finished material orders; present indications are that it also marked the turn in the situation, though there are still plentiful signs of a buyers’ market. The remarkable burst of activity in pig iron ten days ago has been followed by liberal buying, par- ticularly, in foundry grades, and in the past week all markets have been active. Prices are as low as the lowest on the present movement, apart from a firmer tendency in Southern iron, on which as low as $9.50 for No. 2, at Birmingham, was reached on the largest transactions. The Tennessee Company has now with- drawn from the market. At Chicago fully 50,000 tons, nearly all of it foundry and malleable grades, has been sold in the past week.. In eastern Pennsylvania buying has been even heavier, pipe foundries and railroad and locomo- tive interests leading. In the Central and Western markets radiator, agricultural and railroad supply foundries have been the chief buyers, but the move- ment has been general. In response to it a number of blast furnaces, including one at Dover, Ohio, and one at Detroit, will start up this month Pig iron production fell off slightly in November, the total being 1,999,433 gross tons, or 66,648 tons a day, against 2,102,147 tons, or 67,811 tons a day, in October. Output of steel works furnaces dropped off 1900 tons a day, while merchant furnaces gained about 750 tons, making the net decrease from October 1150 tons a day. On December 1, 211 furnaces were in blast, against 212 on November 1, 213 on October 1 and 196 on August 1. While the November figures show; that the steady gain in. production beginming»’ with July was arrested, present indications are for an increase in December. Recent sales of basic iron in the St. Louis district reached 80,000 tons. A southern Ohio steel works is in the market for 10,000 tons in addition to recent purchases. A Pittsburgh steel company, which is in- quiring for 25,000 to 40,000 tons, has had a bid below $12.25 at Valley furnace. Another Central Western interest has bought 50,000 tons on a sliding scale. At .Pittsburgh an inquiry has come out for 6000 tons of 50 per cent. ferrosilicon for 1912 delivery. a FP ROIS SE = Re sea Pes rere. So NS Viral A ee Bie 1216 THE IRON AGE More car orders have been announced, including 5000 in the Chicago district, where 5000 more are pending. The report, apparently authentic, that the Pennsylvania Railroad will buy 3000 to 6000 52-ft. steel cars of 70 tons capacity conflicts with an official statement from Philadelphia that only 200 such cars will be placed now. Rail orders include one of 10,000 tons for the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis to the Tennessee Company, and 11,000 tons for the Le- high Valley, of which 8000 tons goes to Bethlehem, 2000 tons to Steelton and 1000 tons to Pittsburgh. The Pennsylvania Steel Company will roll 1000 tons of its order from its Mayari nickel-chrome steel and will also furnish nickel-chrome angle bars and track bolts. The Delaware & Hudson is closing for 10,000 tons of Bethlehem rails. Stone & Webster are in the market for 6900 tons of 70-Ib. rails. Railroads are figuring on a large amount of bridge work. In New York City specifications have just been issued for 36,000 tons additional for the Hell Gate viaduct of the Pennsylvania Railroad connecting bridge. The American Bridge Company closed its largest month’s total of fabricated material for the year in November, at 110,000 tons. The advance in bar prices by the Republic Com- pany has been followed by three other large pro- ducers. While 1.10c., Pittsburgh, is the general mini- mum for prompt business, some mills will sell at this price for the first quarter of 1912, while others ask 1.15c. for next year. The bar tonnage now booked in the Pittsburgh district is larger than. at any time this year. In plates and structural shapes, also, producers are taking a firmer stand at 1.15c., Pittsburgh. a The Los Angeles Confessions Most unexpectedly the trial of the McNamara brothers for the Los Angeles outrages has terminated. The country had been prepared for a long contest, as indicated by the great length of time consumed in endeavoring to secure a jury satisfactory to both sides. The defendants were represented by an im- posing array of lawyers of long experience in criminal practice who were expected to employ every means in their power for the defense of their clients. Under our system of jurisprudence, with so many safe- guards provided for the benefit of those accused of crime, a long time elapses between arraignment and conviction if the defense is well supplied with astute counsel and the necessary funds to conduct the legal warfare. As no trial in recent years has excited such widespread interest, and the outcome was awaited with keenest expectations as to its possible results and effects, it was with the greatest relief that the country heard the news on Friday, December 1, that James B. McNamara had confessed to the dynamiting on October 1, 1910, of the Los Angeles Times build- ing, in which 21 lives were lost, and his brother, John J. McNamara, secretary-treasurer of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Ironworkers, had confessed to the wrecking on December 25, 1910, of the plant of the Llewellyn Iron Works, in the same city. So skillfully and thoroughly had the evidence against these men been gathered that their lawyers ad- vised them to confess in the hope of securing a lighter penalty than would have followed a conviction after the presentation before a jury of the crushing: testi- mony. December 7, 1011 Some disappointment may be felt by tho would have preferred to see the trial proceed; : the evidence brought out in all its horrifying ¢ to have James convicted of his awful crime an convicted of the outrage to which he was accessory and to have both given the extreme penalty «| the law. But it is infinitely better that the proce. lings have been checked by their confession, even though their punishment may be comparatively light. I[{ con. victed without confession, no power on earth could have stopped the mouths of labor agitators and dema- gogues who would have endeavored to influence their followers against judge, jury, employers of labor and capitalists generally for persecuting the representa- tives of organized labor. The McNamaras would have been hailed as martyrs to the cause of organized labor, their names would have been emblazoned on the walls of every trade union gathering place, and the incidents connected with their trial and conviction would have been seized upon as admirable fuel with which to feed the fires of discord and misrepresenta- tion. All this has been avoided by their confessions They now stand before the world as acknowledged criminals, one brother pleading guilty of the atrocious crime of murdering 21 persons and the other guilty of such an act as to lead convincingly to the belief that he was responsible for the 100 dynamite explo- sions which have damaged non-union steel structures in various parts of the country in the past five or six years. So horrible is this revelation of their crimi- nality that labor leaders themselves are outspoken in denunciation of such methods in fighting those who favor the “open shop.” Especially distressing have the confessions been to such men as Samuel Gompers and his associate officers of the American Federation of Labor. When the McNamaras were arrested, Mr. Gompers rushed into print with the declaration that the detectives had manufactured the evidence against them and that the brothers were the victims.of a “frame-up.” Without waiting to learn any of the facts, he pronounced them innocent and at once put in operation the machinery of his organization to create a public sentiment favor- able to the accused and to raise an enormous fund for their defense. He now says his “credulity has been grossly imposed upon,” he is “shocked beyond expression” and he is “utterly dumbfounded.” He may well feel so. The McNamaras are true disciples of his doctrines, having merely gone a little further than he would have done in defying law and order and putting in practice the militant principles of the propagandists of the “closed shop.” It may easily be assumed that the act of confession is what has so upset him. He would certainly not have been s0 shocked if the trial had been concluded and the brothers found guilty by unimpeachable testimony. It is the act of confession that hurts him so cruelly and makes him declare that “the McNamaras have betrayed labor.” Knowing that a blaze of indigna- tion was sure to sweep over the country when these men acknowledged their guilt, Mr. Gompers hastened to endeavor to square himself before the people and is quoted as saying, “I have always opposed with de- nunciation such outrages; labor is involved in a move- ment of peace, not of destruction and murder.” His keenest regret is evidently for himself, as nothing S° hurts the prestige of a leader of any kind as an ¢x- hibition of stupidity. In the name of labor, he took December 7, IQITI sponsibility of defending the McNamaras and ecame a champion of “destruction and murder.” is exceedingly interesting to note in the daily the opinions expressed by representatives of ized labor who have been interviewed on this ‘t. Almost invariably they speak with loathing ntempt for men guilty of such outrages against nity as those committed by the McNamaras. feel that organized labor has been sadly be- ched by the revelations thus made of crimes com- | for the advancement of the union cause. In indignation at the developments in connection these outrages, which have established beyond tion the fact that men high in the councils of leaders do not hesitate to commit murder, some those who have thus been interviewed express selves plainly with regard to the serious condi- existing in trade unions. A typical utterance is t of one union man who says that the views of y worthy men in the ranks have been stifled by increasing tyranny of labor leaders “who make 1 practice to suppress individual thought, and in system of fines which they have introduced they have a most effectual weapon for their purpose.” Is too much to hope that out of this awakening of the rank and file to the enormities and outrages directed, perpetrated, sanctioned or condoned by the present union leaders there may be wrought a change for the better—a more wholesome regard for the rights of others and less disposition toward destruction and murder ? a Flameless Surface Combustion What is announced elsewhere in this issue as a discovery, with due regard for the meaning of the word, promises to be of great importance in the in- dustrial arts. It covers what its discoverer, Prof. William A, Bone, of Leeds, England, calls flameless surface combustion and involves the burning of gas, vith a minimum of air, on the surface of a refractory naterial which attains and maintains incandescence. The explanation of the phenomenon and of the aboratory and commercial experiments %s so fully set forth in Prof. Bone’s contribution that it is possible dwell here solely on some of the conditions attend- ng its commercial application. Professor Bone came to this country on the invita- tion and by arrangement of gas-making interests and he information was imparted at first hand at meet- ings not only in St. Louis, where the achievements vere given first publicity in this country under the ispices of the American Gas Institute, but also in New York, Philadelphia and Washington. The gen- eral spread of the information here comes about six months after the English gas world was let in, but it is only now that the industrial engineer is enabled to idy the subject and judge for himself of its promise. { a correct impression is gained of Professor Bone’s vn conception of the largest value of surface com- bustion it is in its adaptation to steam generation. ‘hat there is some reason for enthusiasm in this in- stance .is shown in the performance of a commercial size boiler giving 95 per cent. of the thermal value of the gaseous fuel—by-product-oven gas—in the form i steam produced. The view seems well taken also vhen it is noted how small relatively are the dimen- sions of the boiler. The short boiler tubes are filled THE IRON AGE 1217 with broken refractory material like firebrick, though there is the inference that a special refractory material calculated to give-the better results is obtainable. This fact and general details of engineering design, like best working pressures to secure the successful de- livery of the gas and mixture of air and gas and passage of the gases of combustion, point to a justifia- ble expectation that Professor Bone’s assistants still remaining in this country may profitably be consulted in the case of a specific problem. In a general way, however, it appears that the dis- covery is left unfettered for such advantageous use as anyone may wish to make of it, and it is possible that the early future will witness further practical demonstration of its value. Incidentally, the Consoli- dated Gas Company, of New York, is studying it care- fully, and it may be that besides adaptation to the in- dustrial field one will find the accelerated and concen- trated combustion with its high temperature and large amount of radiant energy of special advantage for household heating and cooking utensils. The one de- terrent seems to be the need of a greater pressure of the gas supply than exists in the common gas distribu- tion system, but this should be no factor in the power plant or factory with its available equipment of aux- iliary apparatus capable of meeting such a require- ment. ——_~>--e———_—- Sick Benefits and Society Physicians Attention has been directed recently to the fraternal organizations maintained by workmen to secure med- ical and surgical care for themselves and their fami- lies. The members pay a yearly amount in exchange for which they are entitléd to the services of the “ ciety doctor,” as he is generally called. While em- ployers recognize the usefulness, perhaps the necessity, of these organizations, they realize also that the results are not always favorable to the operating forces. The suggestion has been made that manufacturing works organize societies of their own to accomplish a similar purpose, under company supervision as to the selection of physicians, The accepted idea in this country is that paternal- ism should be kept down in every possible way. The physical examination and general care of the health of employees cannot be designated as paternalism, for it has directly to do with efficiency and costs, including the as yet unknown quantity of workmen’s compensa- tion.. But when it comes to the families of employees, the employing company cannot wisely look after their physical well-being without striking at the natural in- dependence of the American workman. Consequently each man would be expected to contribute to the works society just as he now pays his share of the expenses of his fraternal organization. The great difference would be that he and his family would receive medital attention of a much higher order than is the average experience with them to-day. The contributions of the workmen would not cover expenses; the company would have to make up the deficit. The theory is that this money would be well expended. In the first —. the men ee ment when sr channel of a i ait Be eS a ST Es ORE Si a a ee ie ae 1218 THE IRON AGE takes a lenient view of a case in order to give the man the full benefit of his insurance against sickness, which is frequently a part of the society’s beneficence. An- other element is that men would be absent from work less often because of serious illness in their families. The present trouble lies in the society physician. Many good men have taken up this work, but the average experience and professional standing of such physicians is not high. Naturally a physician with a well-established practice would not be willing to accept the very moderate salary which such a society can pay. The work takes a great deal of time. A very important factor, also, is that the society cannot furnish the services of specialists, as for the eye, ear, throat or lungs, or of surgeons in cases requiring exceptional skill. The works society would give all these benefits. Probably the physicians would require regular fees; the class of men demanded would hesitate to work on a salary. The cost would be brought to a substantial figure; but it is not hard to see that it would be a capi- tal investment. Once established, the system would be an inducement to permanent employment of the most desirable class of workmen. Indirect results would doubtless develop as time went on. One such would be the removal of a handicap which has been expe- rienced in systemized medical inspection of workmen. Under the ethics of medical practice a physician can- not interfere in a case which is in charge of a fellow practitioner. At any rate, high class men live up to this principle. Consequently, where a workman is at- tended by his society doctor the physician in chatge of the medical department cannot follow the case in- telligently. If the society work were merged with the medical inspection this difficulty would be removed. —_——3--——___. Correspondence The Production of Wrought Iron To the Editor: We are very much interested in the article “The Spheres of Wrought Iron and Rerolled Steel” in The Iron Age of November 30. It is encourag- ing to note the statement that iron has regained its lost ground in the manufacture of sheets and pipe, due to its proved superiority in resisting weather and chemical. con- ditions. It is also very interesting to note that this ground has been gained by the manufacturers of sheets and pipe using initial pig iron or cast scrap converted through the puddling process. We think it important to make a very marked differ- ence between the puddling process and the processes of busheling and scrapping by piling on boards or in fagots. In view of the fact that steel has been steadily increasing in tonnage of rolled material, it is now quite impossible for the manufacturer of iron to obtain scrap that is not mixed with steel; hence it is obviously quite impossible for him, through: the busheling and scrapping processes, to: prodtice ‘iron of a homogeneous quality.from a very heterogeneous mixture of old iron and steel of varied carbons. The resulting product is neither iron nor steel, but an entirely unreliable product, which has been mar- keted by the so-called manufacturers of iron in a desper- ate effort to hold the market against the increasing popu- larity of steel, thereby pulling the house down on their own heads. We are firmly of the opinion that the only way to manufacture wrought iron is to use pig iron of known analysis, blending the mixture so as to secure the best results and thoroughly puddle it so as to completely change its nature from the crystalline to the fibrous structure, then to refine and reroll to the extent desired to secure the best product—wrought iron. It may be December 7, 1911 interesting to add that in some recent experiments j)\ade by us of open-hearth steel bars and puddled iron bars of the same section, on a standard vibratory machine, the fatigue value of the iron exceeded that of the stee! py 135.9 per cent. If this fact was thoroughly understood, is it not reasonable to hope that real iron will eventually also regain a large part of its lost ground in bars, where this quality of withstanding vibration is as important as the resisting of chemical action? Tuomas S. WHEELWRIGHT, Vice-president and general manager Old Dominion Iron & Nail Works Company. RicH MOND, VA., December 1, 1911. —_—_.9-- The Bourne-Fuller Company Acquires the Upson Nut Company The Bourne-Fuller Company, jobber in iron, steel, pig iron and coke, Cleveland, has practically concluded nego- tiations by which it will acquire control of the properties of the Upson Nut Company, owning a blast furnace and steel plant in Cleveland and bolt, nut and rivet plants in Cleveland and in Unionville, Conn. The transfer in own- ership will take place January 1. The two companies will continue to be run as separate concerns. The present Upson Nut Company, a Connecticut corporation, will be dissolved. A new Ohio corporation, bearing the same name, has been incorporated, which will acquire the as- sets of the old company. The Bourne-Fuller Company, which is now capitalized at $150,000, will largely increase its capitalization to provide funds for the purchase of the Upson properties. In the expansion of the Bourne-Fuller Company some new Cleveland interests will become affili- ated with it. The Upson Company properties in Cleveland include a blast furnace with a daily capacity of about 300 tons, a steel plant with four 60-ton open-hearth furnaces, a bloom- ing mill and merchant mi!is. The steel plant has been in operation only a few months. W. A. Hitchcock has been president of the company since the death last spring of Andrew S. Upson, the founder. Since that time the finan- cial control has continued in the Upson family. F. H. Rose is secretary and general sales manager. The Bourne-Fuller Company for many years has been one of the most prominent iron and steel firms in the Cen- tral West. It has a large and efficient selling organiza- tion and maintains warehouses in Cleveland, Cincinnati and St. Louis. In addition to handling other iron and steel products it is the selling agent for the Union Rolling Mill Company and the Empire Rolling Mill Company, Cleveland, and for the Hubbard, Ohio, furnaces of the Andrews & Hitchcock Iron Company. The officers of the Bourne-Fuller Company are: B. F. Bourne, president; H. A. Fuller, vice-president; H. C. Bourne, treasurer; L H. Elliott, secretary; R. S. Hall, manager of sales. eS The United States Circuit Court, Chattanooga, Tenn., December 2, appointed C. E. Buek and H. S. Geismer re- ceivers of the Chattanooga Iron & Coal Company, follow- ing the filing of the foreclosure bill by the Trust Com- pany of America. It is understood that all parties inter- ested agreed on the appointments. Mr. Buek has had a long experience in the manufacture of pigiton and has been remarkably successful in his ‘operations. He is now president. of the Frictionless Metal’\Company, Chatta- nooga, and has other financial interests i that vicinity. Mr. Geismer is a mining engineer of high standing, whose headquarters are also in Chattanooga, he being a member of the Keiser-Geismer Company, conducting an engineer- ing and contracting business. A cablegram from Sydney, New South Wales, says that the Australian Government has canceled its contract with the Hoskins Works. at Lithgow for its supply of steel rails. The action was taken as the result of an inquiry recently made on behalf of the Government by a British expert, who reported that German steel! had been used instead of steel manufactured from Australian ores. December 7, IQII Meeting of the Mechanical Engineers 1e thirty-second annual meeting of the American So- ciety of Mechanical Engineers was opened on Tuesday evcning, in the attractive auditorium of the Engineering Societies Building, New York, with an address by the pres- Col. E. D. Meier, following the usual impréssive and digt ified procedure and culminating in the formal! intro- duction of the society’s president for the ensuing year end the reception by the president. and president-elect in the iety’s Own suite of rooms in the building. A special feature of the session was the presentation to “ol. Meier of the oil portrait of himself presented through member: of the society as a token of esteem by Capt. Walter M. Mc- Farland in the absence, on account of illness, of the promi- nent man in the movement, C. J. H. Woodbury. The president’s address was an erudite historical review of the place engineering has had in the world’s progress, and concluded with a remarkable pronouncement with regard to the mechanical engineer’s opportunity to solve the pres- ent industrial problem. Dr. Alexander C. Humphreys, the president-elect, in accepting the office, sounded the same note of the special service the mechanical engineer should and must make in relieving social unrest. He also ad- vanced the hope that the society may properly recognize the specialized lines of mechanical engineering in a further development of the sectional idea, codrdinating the larger idea of mechanical engineering with the special needs of the special developments. What President Meier had to say was in part as fol- lows: “No one who has worked among the contented, in- telligent mechanics of a half century ago can view without distress and indignation conditions as they exist to-day. Labor unionism is a protest, dangerously near a rebellion, but not a cure. When the commanders of the industrial soldiery wrought in their midst, understood their prob- lems, solved their perplexities, aroused and shared their enthusiasm for the quality of the product there grew up an esprit de corps which is now sadly missing. “Without faith in the excellence of the goods produced, without enthusiasm in the work and in the leaders, pro- ductive labor becomes mere drudgery. The remedy lies in placing engineers in all the responsible positions in these great industries. Their special training fits them for lead- ership in this host; and leadership by him who knows, and who sinks himself in his work, always has and always will command that joyous and fervent support from his fol- lowers which money cannot buy. “Where nepotism is banished, and ability and perse- erance are recognized, there great success is attained. Napoleon’s army, the Carnegie Steel Works, the Pennsyl- vania Railroad, exemplify this. The increasing multitudes of special industries are literally hungering for engineers equipped with character, knowledge and devotion, to be- come the expert keaders. Labor wars will cease when such men are given the power to provide that the share in the rewards of industry shall bear just ratio to the service rendered the community. There is a sane middle ground between grasping individualism and utopian socialism. * * * Tf our future professional brethren do their duty, and we know they will, the golden rule will be put in prac- tice through the slide rule of the engineer.” The officers elected for the ensuing year are as follows: President, Dr. Alexander C. Humphreys; vice-presidents, terms expiring December, 1913, Prof. William F. Durand, Prof. Ira N. Hollis.and Thomas B. Stearns; managers, terms expiring, December, 1913, C. J. Davidson, Henry Hess and George A. Orrok; treasurer, William H. Wiley. —_—_~+-e—__—_ October Iron and Steel Exports and Imports The report of the Bureau of Statistics of the Depart- ment of Commerce and Labor for October shows an in- crease in both the exports and imports of irom and steel, as compared with the figures for September. The total value ‘f the exports of iron and steeland manufactures thereof, not including iron ore, was $20,790,591, as compared with $20,534,139 in September, while the value of similar imports Was $2,443,023 against $1,996,288 in September. The exports of commodities for which quantities are given totaled 18s,- :02 gross tons in October, against 179,859 tons in Septem- THE IRON AGE 1219 ber. The details of the exports of such commodities for October and for 10 months of the year ended with October, compared with the corresponding periods of the previous year, are as follows: Exports of Iron and Steel. tober—, --Ten months 1911. 1910. 1911. 1910. Gross Gross Gross Gross Commodities. tons. tons. tons. tons, PIG) WED cecce css vavicceccoves 6,386 11,229 101,711 95,091 DONE Cede +0 « vaedicdenwa ah 7,511 1,687 9,523 18,554 SME o's, v's 02.44 netenee 208 1,052 5,087 15,980 WE. pn dewcichckevpwaeware 3,822 2,543 16,205 19,440 SOE DOOD Necbvcacuds dececcws 9,474 10.708 103,189 642 Billets, ingots and blooms..... 21,783 15,493 961 ier WE MED hs cdc ukarcendeuece 2,918 19,542 372,860 283,3 Iron sheets and plates........ 13,457 7,500 98,515 84,508 Steel sheets and plates........ 24,012 14,068 191,235 141,116 Tin and terne plates.......... 7,116 $52 49,373 8,746 Structural iron and steel...... 19,134 9,942 177,591 124,494 Bach WO ids tyihss eceescesa 11,704 8,135 74, 62,770 All thet WEG 0505 ciicinvccss 11,169 ,038 106,630 74,788 Cut mab ieicd car iadsiacses ss 697 1,106 8,983 6,477 Wire SO ade ches cddetiness 4,964 3,634 40,119 35,917 All other =. including tacks 1,424 925 11,008 8,333 Pipe and fittings.............. 18,613 14,167 163,431 132,268 BURG ia 6s odes cba ye veses 185,392 129,321 1,803,265 1,231,303 The imports of commedities for which quantities are given totaled 19,992 gross tons in October, as compared with 13,534 tons in September, and 31,453 tons in October, 1910. The details of such imports for October and for 10 months of the year ended with October, as compared with corresponding periods of the previous year, are as follows: Imports of Iron and Steel. -——October—, --Ten months—, 1911. 1910. i911, 1910. Gross Gross Gross Gross Commodities. tons tons. tons. tons. i. ERSTE ere orrrr 10,444 20,280 126,318 196,895 Scrap ..ccvrgecccscesescesess 2,105 3,393 16,476 68,850 ae rere oS eee 2,339 1,668 23,179 32,879 ~ Billets, bars and steel plates, RM sae bien Ka de enes s sai 8 3,080 26,603 39,107 Sheets and plates...........+5+ 248 203 1,936 5, Tin and terne plates........... 574 1,668 13,443 55,472 WIG SOU CV cpeeetek sc cectusnes 924 1,161 13,097 16,940 MRT da 4-0 hck-ekegson 19,992 31,453 221,052 414,811 The imports of iron ore in October were 172,459 gross tons, against 184,456 tons in September and 219,571 tons in the month of October, 1910. The total importations of iron ore for 10 months of the year ended with October were 1,534,811 gross tons, against 2,219,488 tons in the corre- sponding period of 1910. Of the October imports of iron ore, 105,140 tons came from Cuba, 30,329 tons from Sweden, 18,720 tons from Spain, 12,273 tons from Newfoundland, 470 tons from Canada and 5527 tons from other countries. The total value of the exports of iron and steel and manufactures thereof, not including iron ore, for to months of the year ended with October was $205,918,252, against $164,376,387 in the corresponding period of 1910. The total value of the imports of iron and steel and manufactures thereof, exclusive of ore, for 10 months of the year ended with October was $24,663,544, against $32,937,732 in the similar period of 1910. ne Youngstown Industries More Active The industrial conditions in the Youngstown district in Ohio are on a better plane than for some time, and the outlook for the future is bright. This week the Ohio Works of the Carnegie Steel Company and also the upper and lower Union mills will operate nearly full capacity for the first time in some months. The Youngstown Iron & Steel Company, maker of iron and steel ‘sheets, will ruin this week to full capacity, starting’ ap one addi- ‘tional jobbing mill, one plate ‘mill and eight “sheet: The Republic Iron & Steel Company is running’ its semer plant full time and has at work 8 of the 12 fur- naces in its new open-hearth plant. The pipe mills of the Republic Company are operating to about 90 per cent. of capacity, and the new 90-in. plate mill, which was 1220 THE IRON AGE Obituary Hugh Tudor Hugh Tudor, president of the Tudor Boiler Mfg. Company, Cincinnati, Ohio, died at his home in that city November 30, aged 71 years. Although afflicted with a throat disease that attending physicians pronounced in- curable over six months ago, his iron will enabled him to continue actively at work until only a few days before his death. Mr. Tudor was born in Cincinnati and had been in the boiler making business in that city from the time HUGH TUDOR when, at the age of 17, he entered the shop of his father as an apprentice. The plant was one of the first boiler manufacturing establishments in the central West. After the death of his father he carried on the business under the name it now bears. He was an active member of the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce and prominent in fra- ternal societies. He leaves a widow, four daughters and three sons. The sons will continue the business as here- tofore. James N. Stower James N. Stower, Plattsburgh, N. Y., died December 1, from paralysis, after a week’s illness, aged 67 years. He was born in Essex, Essex County, N. Y., and received his education in the public schools and a business college. Early in his manhood he became interested in the develop- ment of the iron industry in northern New York, being one of the pioneers in the iron trade in that section. In 1864 he entered the iron business with his brother, William H. Stower, at Lewis, Essex County. In 1873 he purchased from Belden Noble the forge property at Willsboro in the same county, and engaged in the manufacture of bloom iron for boiler plate and billet iron for crucible steel melt- ing stock. Subsequently he accepted the position of super- intendent of the Crown Point Iron Company’s forge de- partment in Essex County. In 1885 Mr. Stower was elected manager of the Hud- son River Ore & Iron Company at Burden, Columbia County, which position, together with that of secretary and treasurer, he held up to the time of his purchase of the company’s entire property about a year ago. In 1893 he accepted the position of general manager of the Chateaugay Ore & Iron Company, Chateaugay Railway Company and Saranac & Lake Placid Railroad Company, taking up his residence in Plattsburgh. He retained the position of general manager for the railroad companies until they were taken over by the Delaware & Hudson Company, and continued as general manager for the Chateaugay Ore & Iron Company until 1904, when he resigned to devote his time to his private business. Within the past few years he effected the purchase of extensive ore mines in the southern part of Clinton County, and their sale to Witherbee, Sherman & Co. He was actively inter- December 7, ested in the welfare and advancement of the public ; tutions of his city. He leaves a widow, three son two daughters. One son, Benjamin F. Stower, was : number of years an employee of the David Williams pany, New York City. Robert C. Morrison Robert C. Morrison, president Joliet Bridge & Company, Joliet, Ill., whose sudden death was briefly noted in The Iron Age of November 30, was born in Kirkin: loch, Dumbarton, Scotland, September 23, 1856. His fathe; and grandfather were weavers and operated as manufac turers in a small way in that line until the death of th father when Robert was but nine years of age. Having acquired a common school education, young Morrison ap- prenticed himself to a stone-cutter in 1872, and after work ing at that trade for several years came to America in 188 Going directly to Joliet, he worked at his trade, principally in bridge building, for a few years. In 1880 Mr. Morrison began to take contracts for build- ing bridges on his own account, developing the modern and scientific structures for which the company that he founded later has established such a reputation. In 1896 he organ- ized acompany which began operating ona small scale, but gradually extended the scope of its operation until it reached large proportions and became widely known as the Joliet Bridge & Iron Company. Mr. Morrison was its president and leading spirit. He leaves a widow, one son and two daughters. EvisHa H. Finn, president of the Northern Iron & Chemical Company, died November 24 at Detroit, Mich., aged 67 years. He had resided in Detroit since 1865 and his business interests at the time of his death were exten- sive. He was vice-president of the Old Detroit National Bank, president of the Farrand Company and a director of the Detroit Trust Company and the Wayne County Savings Bank. Prior to the sale of the company to an Eastern and English syndicate, he was president of the Lake Superior Iron & Chemical Company. He leaves two children. BARNABAS ELDREDGE, president National Sewing Machine Company, Belvidere, Ill, died November 28. His death occurred at. the Great Northern Hotel, Chicago, while on a business trip to that city, and was apparently due to apoplexy or heart failure. B. F. Boyts, head of the firm of Boyts, Porter & Co., Connellsville, Pa., manufacturers of mine supplies, ‘died suddenly, November 27, of apoplexy, aged 71 years. He was president of the Yough Bank of Connellsville and was prominent in religious work. Pittsburgh and Vicinity Industrial Notes G. Wickersham, who has been with the Diamond Forging & Mfg. Company, North Side, Pittsburgh, since its inception, has been appointed general manager, succeeding D. R. Wilson, resigned. The other officers of the company are W. D. Henry, president, and D. M. Smith, secretary The company manufactures general and special automobile drop forgings, including forgings made from alloy steels, besides its line of Neverbreak tubular steel singletrees, doubletrees, neck yokes, etc. It recently established sales representatives in various cities in Southern States for the sale of the Neverbreak specialties, and is now extending its sales force for the disposal of drop forgings. Walter O. Amsler, Wabash Building, Pittsburgh, engi- neer and patentee of the Amsler gas producer, recently or- ganized an associated company to sell and install his power gas producers. The sales will be handled by the Amsle: Gas Power Company, with adjoining quarters, of which T. Turnbull, Jr., is manager. A recent installation consist- ed of three units, gas’ revolving valves, etc., in the plant of the Radium Glass Company, formerly the Millersburg Glass Company, Millersburg, Ohio. J. H. McClure & Son. Philadelphia, Pa., have pur- chased the blast furnace of the Durham Iron Company, Riegelsville, Pa. from the bondholders’ protective com- mittee. The furnace, blowing engines, railroad and general plant equipment are included in the purchase. The plant will be dismantled. December 7, 1911 Kittanning Iron & Steel Mfg. ,Company, Pitts- has started up 14 puddling furnaces in its plant tanning, Pa. The mill had been closed for some it trade has so improved that it is expected to ore puddling furnaces at work in the near future. Pittsburgh Steel Company recently made a ship- f about 1500. tons of wire, wire nails and staples its works at Monessen, Pa., by river to Southern The company maintains a large dock at Monessen, hich these shipments are loaded. uel Tretheway & Co., Ltd., manufacturers of shear and shear-knife grinders, etc., have completed and w occupying a new and well-equipped factory at and Fifty-seventh streets, Pittsburgh. The new s operated electrically and individual motors have nstalled for the operation of all machines with the ion of one group of three small machines. The ity has been materially increased. : Miles Motor Tire Spring Company, Wilkinsburg, as been incorporated under the laws of Delaware, $200,000 capital stock to manufacture tire spring wheels ehicles under the patents of Frederick B. Miles. As- ited with Mr. Miles are C. W. Dressler, Zenob Del- C. L. Balsinger, T. G. Aten and M. R. Myers. rge J. Hagan, 401 Peoples Bank Building, Pitts- h, has received a contract from the United States Steel & Iron Company, San Jacinto City, Texas, for two nd two fagot heating furnaces, to be used in a plant rerolling old rails and making merchant bars. An- ther contract is from the Canton Sheet Steel Company, ‘anton, Ohio, being the fifth order, and calls for five le stoker-fired sheet and pair furnaces. Besides a ontract for six stoker-fired sheet and pair furnaces, an- nealing furnaces, bricking in boilers, etc, for the Wash- ington Tin Plate Company, Washington, Pa., Mr. Hagan has received another contract for setting up and bricking 11 tinning pots. The Thomas Carlin’s Sons Company, Pittsburgh, has received an order for a No. 41 shear to cut 1%-in. ma- terial for shipment to Bossert & Co., Utica,. New York; lso one steel derrick of the stiff leg type for John F. Casey, Pittsburgh, for use on erection work on the re- uilding of the Smithfield street bridge, Pittsburgh. he Harris Pump & Supply Company, Pittsburgh, has eived a contract for new pumping machinery for the Sebring Water Company, Sebring, Ohio. Chester & Flem- Pittsburgh, are the consulting engineers for the work. ie Chicoutimi Water & Supply Company, Chicoutimi, nada. has placed the order in accordance with plans and ifications of its consulting engineer, H. S. Ferguson, Fifth avenue, New York City, for two steel penstocks the Petroleum Iron Works Company, Sharon, Pa. se penstocks will be 1o ft. in diameter, 400 ft. long ¢ in. thick. Because of the cold weather, work on uperstructure of the plant will be suspended until he Pittsburgh office of the Babcock & Wilcox Com- Farmers’ Bank Building, has received an order from Consolidated Coal Company, Fairmont, W. Va., for h.p. Rust horizontal water-tube boilers. The plant is out for 10,000 h.p., and the additional 7500 h.p. is ted to be placed within the next year or.so. An r has also been received from the Locke Mfg. Com- Huntington, W. Va., for a 63 h.p. Stirling water- boiler, built for a pressure of 300 lb. and to be used testing a new injector now being made by this com- A further order has been received from the Phil- Sheet & Tin Plate Company, Weirton, W. Va., for hp. Stirling water-tube boilers. he Walkerville Light & Power Company, Walker- Ontario, Canada, is enlarging its plant by the addi- f a 500 kw. Westinghouse-Parsons turbo-generator, perate at 100 Ib. steam pressure and under a vacuum Sin. The generator is a two-phase, 60 cycle machine ering 2300 volts. The steam is furnished by 12 ontal return tubular boilers which are operated “by ral gas. The previous equipment of the power plant isted of one McEwen single cylinder engine, 18 x 18, ning at 225 r.p.m., directly connected to a Westing- se 200 kw. alternator. The order for the turbine equip- t was placed with the Westinghouse Machine Com- . East Pittsburgh, Pa. The Haverhill Electric Com- THE IRON AGE 1221 pany, Haverhill, Mass., has added to its turbine equipment by ordering from the Westinghouse Machine Company a 2500 kw. steam turbine genérator together with a West- inghouse LeBlanc condenser and Roney automatic stokers. The turbine operates at 150 Ib. steam pressure with 100 deg. superheat and the condenser produces 28 in. vacuum and will supplement the existing equipment of the Haver- hill Company, which consists of two Westinghouse tur- bine units of 1000 kva. capacity. The Stark Electric Railway Company, Alliance, Ohio, has placed an order with the Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Company, East Pittsburgh, for three quadruple equipments of No. 304-A motors, using the type L unit switch control. Among recent foreign orders received by this company is one from the Comanche Rolden & Van Sickle Foreign Transita Municipal, Bogota, Colom- bia, S. A, for double railroad equipments of No. 46-D motors and 200-C control. The Schlieper-Daae Engineering Company, 714 Fer- guson Building, Pittsburgh, has contracted with P. B. Abramsen, patentee of the Pittsburgh universal straight- ener, to manufacture and sell his machine. It is intended for straightening all sizes of bars, structural shapes, flats, rounds, etc., the drive being either motor or belt. The Jones & Laughlin Steel Comany, Pittsburgh, operates one of these machines, of the belted type, for straighten- ing flats,'2% x ™% in., and similar machine is being built for the Republic Iron & Steel Company, Youngstown, Ohio. Lake Iron Ore Shipments The Total for 1911 Is 32,130,411 Tons Returns from the ten docks on Lake Superior and Lake Michigan from which shipments of iron ore were made in the season of navigation ended last week show that the total of water shipments iri 1911 was 32,130,411 tons. This figure compares with 42,620,206 tons in toto and 41,683,500 tons in 1909. The November movement was 2,523,253 tons. As in 1910, no ore was shipped after November 30, though in some other years as much as 500,000 tons has been moved in December. The table below, which covers ship- ments for four years, shows that 1910 was the banner year, and that the 1911 total is about 10,000,000 tons below the average for 1910 and 1900: Iron Ore Shipments from Upper Lake Ports.—-Gross Tons. 1911, 1910. 1909, 1908. TT SE Eee Pe re re 4,278,445 4,959,869 5,747,801 3,351,502 Mp. vis 4a dene ox 2,200,380 3,248,930 2,909,451 1,487,487 AMEE. GivvGwanscaukiias 2,429,290 4,093,822 3,834,207 2,513,670 Two Harbors ......ice- 6,367,537 8,271,169 9,181,132 5,702,237 DURE. Sencavarineee 9,920,490 8,437,261 6,540,505 3,564,0. DE éSeneedbbwee teas 6,934,269 13,609,155 13, 470, 503 8,808,168 Totals by lake........ 32,130,411 42,620,206 41,683,599 25,427,094 Tees UF Rs cs ccukese cavisesas 822,191 903,270 $87,893 Total shipments ............. 43,442,397 42,586,869 26,014,987 The most noteworthy