Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1870-06-22

city. The sand for its manufacture Is brought
from Miffiin county, Pennsylvania, and the
soda ash Is found in the vicinity of Pittsburg.
The manufacture of glass was started here As
long ago as 17s7, and by no less q person than
Albert Gallatin. Now the business has grown to
mammoth proportions. For instance no less
than 20, OoO, 900 bottles and walls are made here
per snnum, and this Is but one department.
About 500 600 boxes Of window glass are made
here yearly, and the total value Of the annual
glass products Of Pittsburg Is about 81 900, O0Ji
The Lyons works visited by us makes the
finer flint glass ware, and it is wonderful to see
how this pressed glass Is made to take the shape.
in sharpness OF outline and beauty of design of
the costly cut glass 1t has 30 successfully dis
placed.
Next We we're taken to the works of the west
inghouse Air-brake Company, where the new
style of airbrakes for railroad cars, already de-
scribed, are manufactured. 1
Next we inspected Shoenberger's great Roll
ing Mil and Nail Factory where 1 500 men are
employed, and 800 kegs of nails Of all sizes are
made per day. An opportunity was afforded
here of seeing the new process of mixing pull
verified ore with the melted ore asst comes from
the furnaces, which has attracted the attention
of some of the members Of the British Diplo-
matte Corps at Washington and induced a re-
cent visit to Pittsburg for its inspection.
II is claimed that the product of the pudding
furnaces Is not only greatly increased by this
process, but that the quality Of the iron Is also
improved. Fsr-r T-.-e. -s-T as
The Steel Spring Works OF A. French & Co
were the next visited. These works are devoted
to the construction of springs for railroad cars.
In the afternoon we were taken to the Pitts
burg Locomotive Works, Cd. A. Stewart Pres
ident,) where cars and locomotives are made
throughout. Three hundred men are EMPLOYED
and they turn out work at the rate of about ffty
first-class locomotives per year. After this we
visited some more Of the five hundred and sixty
two "works," or manufacturing establishments
OF Pittsburg, and then
Went mp In . Balloon, Boys!
- or words to that effect, for we were mounted
in q sort of car and jerked up through the pail
Of Pittsburg smoke with a perpendiculairty
that suggested q direct ascent to the clouds
Pittsburg has the disadvantage of being stu
ated on narrow tongue of land, hemmed i'm
by nearly perpendicular hills four or five hum
dred feet high. She has no capability of ex-
psnsion except By surmounting these precipices;
and the process OF zigzags by which these
heights are attained has been q serious
drawback to communication between the
Some inventive Yankee has now devised
the plan of an inclined plane railway.
by which cars are run up and down a track $50
feet long at an angle Of IS degrees. The grade
is so steep, in fact, that the racket-w wheel, used
for safety in inclined plane railways elsewhere,
cannot be employed here, as it would fly of. At
the White Mountains, what is called the "per-
pendcular railway" has only an angle of 10
degrees.
The cars on this Pittsburgh incline are moved
by stationary engines at the top and are drawn
by wire ropes. They run from a. m. to II d.
M, and have accommodated as high as $500
passengers in day, taking from twenty to
thirty passengers to a load. The railway looks
frightfully dangerous, but the American people
will risk their necks at any time to save a cir
cumbendibus of a mile, and this new wrinkle is
likely to solve the problem how Pittsburg shall
get elbow room; and enable her to expand to a
city of five hundred thousand and perhaps a
million of inhabitants. CSN