Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-05-04
KRUPP's BIG HAMMERS At WORK.
"Fritz," of Fifty-Tons Weight-A Cracked
Anyil-WeIding lizard" Iron.


Anvil-Welding lizard" Iron.
There is a curious personality in hammers
| and wo;kmen Ike to give them names. There
are - steam hammers in the Krupp works, of
from IOJ pounds weight To 80 tons. The larg-
est is Fritz, whose 30 tons fail on an anvil
and anvil block weighing together go tons,
these resting on a foundation 100 feet deep
The next in size is named Max" 1t would
require a poet like him who sang the Song of
the Bell" rightly TO describe the action OF
Fritz" and l do not wonder that the
emperor, on his visit here, presented the
worker of this hammer with a watch.
/ Observed Fritz" for some time at work
upon the steel stem of an Austrian iron clad,
the Ferdinand Max. The metal was from
one casting without seam or weld, - feet
long and - tons weight Four men with
long clamps managed this red hot mass,
swung over the anvil by a crane They
turned it readily this way and that, the fore
man at each pause uttering signal which
Fritz" understood, answering with soft
tap. or gentle pressure, or with an earth
quake. | was curious To see the anvil block
which supplemented the ability of the earth
to sustain such shocks through a length of
time, and was presently shown one which,
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cracked straight through from top to bottom
possibly beneath some gentle stroke which
was the last feather to break its huge back
krupp does not make plates for iron clads,
tat only such parts as might be needed for
ordinary ships.
Having lit our cigars on the Austrian iron
clad, we proceed to observe the operations Of
Max and other hammers One of these
Max" was engaged in welding "hard" iron
Though tins is more ductile than the other.)
To nice distinctions between iron and iron
Max Is Indifferent; his big bow legs arch
above tower of pieces built on his anvil, and
with crushing blows II his mighty fist he
makes a hundred plates one.
However. though they seem one and act to-
gether, in the end it will be proved that they
are not one; no conceivable force can weld into
one different organizations of atoms. To he
thoroughly united they must be filtered and
refined in the crucible. The central part
of railway wheels is made by welding, but tina
tires are made without welding The nave OF
wheel is of wrought iron, which is placed he
meath a hammer of suitable shape and at the
third blow the wheel is shaped The tire is
cut from a long round mass Of steel-6 or
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If is fattened, punched in the center with an
eight inch die, strung on a horse anvil and
there beaten until it becomes a tire, and
ready for the fiuting process which adapts IL
to the wallpapers Magazine.
Peculiarities of Yokohama's Climate.
To one long accustomed to deep SHOWS
from Thanksgiving To the middle of March a
winter in Yokohama is a delightful change.
Frosty nights and cloudless, sunny days are
the rule. The few exceptions only serve to
the biueness Of the sky and the
warmth and brightness of the sunshine 1t
Is cool enough TO make q little fire not only
social and pleasant, but q necessity, and we
have had one snowstorm- Two or three
inches fell, but in twenty four hours it was
all gone, and in thirty-six hours the streets
were dry. On the sunny side of the house it
Is warm enough in the middle OF the day to
demand open windows, and the natives open
their houses that they may be warmed by the
saves fuel. The Asiatic sun has
peculiar penetrating qualities Many Euro
peans suffer from its effects, and are obliged
70 carry an umbrella in Enid winter to protect
he head
The Thermometer in the coolest weather
'eldom falls to 20 degrees above zero. and yet
{ Is astonishing how newcomers suffer with
old Several reasons may be given for this: |
L is foreign cline, it has damp atrnos-
,here, and the houses are lightly built that |
hey may shake ike a basket IN the frequent |
The corners of our room have |
,reat cracks in them caused by the earth |
suakes. These quakes average about one . |
week The natives some foreign children.
md few European ladies' never lose their 1
ear Of them, but jump and run at the first |
attic of doors and windows and rush in |
right cut of the house. II they are i'm bed |
md asleep when the quake comes they are
ut in the night air presently. although in
garments too few and thin for health, and /
egartile-ss Of propriety.-Yokohama Cor.
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