The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1879-12-19
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WIRE MAKING IN JOHNsT0wE--BobB Bur
] dette, the vorld-renowned newspaper wit
I paid brief visit TO Johnstown few days
/ ago for the purpose of delivering one of his
characteristic lectures, and while there in
/ terviewed the Gautier wire mill, OF which he
has this to say in his famous funny paper,
the Burlington Ga } Hatrkeye:
Here y said Colonel Bates ais where we make
barbed wire, for fences. You may know some
We needn't 20 in here" I told him loftily, Il
don't come to Pennsylvania to see barb wire made.
iTonless State Of Iowa. We have a manulaetory at
I Marshalltown that eau Just get up and walk away
with anything that tries to make barb wire in Penn
YES. y the Colonel says, cheerfully. and in
Endorsement OF what l say yes. know; II is a
good factory: first-rate- this is it."
atn silent for a momeLt. aud the Colonel and
fb{1S R1t mis- Is the Iowa barn Steel wire all
the same. and II came here to he close under the
wing OF the .tTautier Steel Company" ," the largest
wire mill in the world They are st1ll running ten
machines at MsrshalitOwn. ! believe, and have
the same number here. and guess they viii all be
here eventually. 1t Is any easy thing 10 max
barb wire The machine does il all. puts on the
barb twists the wire reels 1t and does everything
except ship II and put II up and pay ioF u II is
plsasaut-!OJking wire 20 gaze upon Each barb
presents Jour POINTS N sT2np, No iEatter @ now now
ycu climb the fence HoiI ieei as thengh you it1
lust been picn c. and hsd helped 10 put up the
swing. ! once carried cane made OF this wire.
intend ng 20 smi ite dog WIZ IL hut long oeiGre
] met the duc--tw2y these memories are too pain
tui. Nobody approved of my carrying thai cane
except my patient, trustful tailor
Every day the Iowa company makes twenty miles
twenty miles What panorama! Twenty
miles OF weeping boys on one side OF fence and
tempting orchards on the other. Twenty miles Of
astonished cattle madiy waltZing up the hill or
down the road sideways. twisting their tails ii
uncndurablc anguish and walking aFouhd on their
hands Every day twenty miles o. lSlieGi upon tle
top rail of hich no man can sit and talk politics
with his uejghboE. not with any degree @: comfort
II thts kind o. fence Keeps on the ol cltiLes
meet and discuss" guaranteed by the Constr
tuition, is going TO be seriously abridged ia the
Did You ever see them make wire? 1t is simple
enough. / can make it now. \ gu start in with q
great in,ot steel that will weigh much as the
new court house, and you come out with tiny
thread of wire, ine boys mustache. And II Is
done quickly. The work runs on Ike the days on
thirty-day note. After the wire comes from the
roughing roils-you know what they are, of course;
I do-you Just take kind Of an iron paddle. very
heavy aud strong bus very similar in shape to the
made OF shingle, upon the broad end oi which
vou used to sit whIle your gentle mother held the
the Gautisr steel works is perforated with holes,
very large ri one erI and very smali thc other.
You beat and file down the rough. large wire until
YOU get pushed through one oi these holes; then
INC TeIs fkae hold a IN and Won wouldn't believe
me II told Won how rapidly that wire reeied
3 up sent through another and another process un-
til IL ready for the market All the steel Tor
the Brooklyn bridge il made here, every pound Of
it. 1 went 70 see them gaiVa nIzinz the wire for
this bridge crmecly this wire was all cuiied as
soon as il came through the BATH COiled hot, IT
cooled in the COLL and its tendency was to remain
coiled. You have often noticed that, when YUu
straightcu out They used to have sixteen ma
chimes 2t the Brookly bridge just for sraighten-
ing this Bat they DO things better than
that at the CTautier company = works. They trOt
tie wire along about one hundred aud atty feet
between the bath and the reels II ccois while II
straight and its tendency is to keep straight and
. spring from the coil. il you to the Brook lyH
bridge now you viii Ind those sixteen machines
1or Strengthening wire as idles acoony oi Tram
1t is very simple process / might have thought
of IL myself, but didn't the! Loti ior'y cars
at these works every month. ana thls WY 10
YOU know that every year there IS wire enough 20
+ make three hundred miles of railway iron used in
great wheat fields by these sclolnders binding
3 grain? Wire these things thu: