The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-04-29
Local correspondence.
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] oiAbiid tEOu COMPANY are FdDiUly aDDrOacl
/ ing completion. Those who never saw W orks
/ of this kind should by all means paw these
orks a visit as soon as they go into operation
| he main building is OF brick, about one hun
dred feet square and uniquely corniced and
covered with slate. 1t is only one story in
height, but that story is sixty feet In this
building are the melting furnaces cupalos
| cranes, converters and moulds. The machinery
| III tins department is all operated by hydraulic
pressure, that is, water is forced through small
| apertures, i'll the center of upright metal col.
umns, and this constitutes the motive power
! The furnaces are located on an elevated plat-
form. From these the melted metal runs In
| spouts and empties into the converters, which
are huge cy Indrical, cup shaped vessels that
| can be turned on piEots in any direction by hy-
| drostatic pressure. In these converters the
| hard and soft metals mixed in O fused
state, and cold blast is then forced through
| to harden the metal. The converters re then
turned upside down and the fluid poured into
| a huge caldron. or kettle, swung on chains,
| and carried round a crane to be emptied
| into the moulds, where it is shaped into blooms
and cooled, after which it is again heated and
rolled into rails. There is a large wing to tn e
main building, where the furnaces, boilers en-
gines and blast machinery are located. A
huge cylinder is suspended Immediately be-
meath the apex of the roof and is ALWAYS filled
/ with compressed air, which is used to blast the
/ furnaces and cupalOs. To give a full and lucid
description of these works would require two
| or three columns OF your paper, We did once
/ write a descrip ption of the Harrisburg Steel
| Works, but admit that since then we have for
| gotten the modus operandi. We have stated
enough here, however, to excite curiosity in
one of the greatest enterprises that the present
generation has Witnessed. When these " orks
are in full operation at least five hundred per
sons will find constant employ ment, in addition
to the four thousand already employed about
the Iron Works.
On last Thursday evening an intoxicated
| woman had drawn 2 great crowd of BOYS after
her, and as she was staggering home across
| the railroad track n train came along and
struck one of the boys, VIM O'Bryan by na me
! throwing HIM down under tho cars, fifteen of
which passed over him, cutting off one leg and
bruisiug the other SO much ia it had to be
amputated. He was still living at last ac-
counts. but it is doubtful if he will recover
The boy is about ffteon years of age.
The Highland Agricultural Fair opens on
to morrow. The Echo" says johnny Bull
will be here on exhibition. That is "high
| commission"
Anna Dickinson lectured here last Thurs
day evening on something. Mr. Hunt an
nouncCd it as Mems Rights but Anna
said it was Joan de Are" Little matter
what il was.
A new institution in the shape of a Howe
Sewing Machine Parlor has just been Gstab-
lished in cur town. on Clinton street, Opposite
the little store of Adam ShaIr. Mr. Wag-
staff is the agent, and be foun6 almost
any time at the room with the red, white and
| blue ont, and the sign Howe" painted above
! in blazing capitals. Owes--that is Elias
| Hewe's-machines said to be very superior
machines, and will execute the strongest and
finest sewing work. These machines are sold
at the lowest possible price and are all war
! ranted. No. 1870.
The Benedctine Sisters are about to have
a new school building put up on the old Foster
| House lot. The fence is torn away and work
will be commenced Immediately. Their school
so Tar has been very prosperous
The members of ST. Peters Benevolent So
ciety are to have grand ball in Union Hall
on Tuesday, May 3 proxjmo. Admission ore
dollar. Tickets can be had ut either David
Creed : or John J Murphy stores.
Joseph Never is now erecting a spacious new
building Railroad street near the German
Catholic church. We notice great many
new houses sprnging up in every direction.
Two nymphs de pave who followed Il couple
of patent medicine venders 80 this place, as
pro visionsl consorts, were left at the Island
hotel by their paramours one day last week in
bad taste. Yet, nevertheless, they followed
them to Pittsburgh, and report saws, had the
chaps arrested for seduction. No doubt it is n
lair fight and outsiders have no poke in.
Another medicine yende; held forth on the
Public Square several days and nights of last
week, having in his possession a live seal,
which created quite a sensation among young
Americans Both the seal and the owner
needed a patch on the back side Of the cage.
A little son of Mr.. James B. McCreight &C
cidentallv fell ben cath the W heels of the Good
VIII hook aud ladder truck. on Monday while
the company were passing down Washington
I street on the run, and had one OF his collar
bones br oxen and was otherwise injured very
! mich.
little girl named Williams. whose parents
reside in the Fifth Ward, was SO shockingly
burned yesterday morning, in consequence OF
her clothes taking fire from the cook stove
while her mother upstairs, that she died in
u few hours
A man named Taylor Hatch, a conductor or
the through freight was instantly killed al
, Blairsville Intersectop by falling under the
cars when in motion. He was running along
the top of the cars and. making misstep, fe
! to the track. Fifteen cars ran over him.
Stephen Quirll, miner, was caught
between two cars in one of the ore miues of tht
c. I. Co. yesterday evening and very severe J
crushed.
Tbos Layton, an engineer in the employ o
the Cambria Iron Co., had one of the finger:
on his right hand taken off the first Joint, OF
Saturday last, by being caught in the cross
head Of his engine. ROB Roy.
TIE JoHNsTowN SCaooLs.-An examination
of teachers for the Johnstown schools was helC
on Tuesday LAST. The class for examination
was large, and the candidates acquitted them
4 selves with great credit. The following named
= teachers we're appointed:
y Supt Geo. W. Cope. M. salary SIS per m tn
/ | Hi gh School, Rev. a c. Johnson. 20 - g
+ / High Grammar, Miss 4. c. Horne. 30 =
: No. ., Miss Libbie Swank ........... - -
1 ! No. 3, Mr. George w. Philiippi..... 45
No. 4. Miss Rose QUINN. 40 "
I No. 3, Miss Sadie Hunt.............. 40 " .
: No. 6, Miss Mary f. Gageby........ 40 g "
q No. 7, Miss Maria Brookbanke,. 40
: No. 6, Miss BcclIe y. Wilson 49,. 40 Z" :"
n No. 9, Miss Mary J. Hughes. 30 3"
Eo. 10. Miss BERTHE Marshall. ....... IS "
= No. IL, Miss Aggie Myers. 35 .
a No. u, Miss Mary Shepherd. -. 81 " .
| No. I3, Miss --- Hendricks. 3J - "
+ No. II, Miss Lonava Householder. 35
= Mr. Johnson declined to accept his appoint
: ment so the High School is still unprovided for