Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-10
DELEGATES DEPART.
The Pan-American Party Bids Fare
well to the Iron and Gas City.
BRIEF STOP MADE AT JEANETTE.
Interesting Inspection of the Great Tank
Glass Process.
THANKS TO TIE PITTSBURG PEOPLE

precisely dleQ, 1t has gone to Phlladel phla.
The departure from this city took place
promptly at 7.2O o'clock yesterday morning.
With the ringing of the bell, engine No.
1858 steamed proudly out of the Union
depot, as gay with bunting and flags as a
marshal of a Fourth Of July parade. Be-
fore the special train pulled'out, at 6 o'clock
in the morning, Superintendent Pitcairn S
special car left for Jeannette, carrying
James B. Scott and Captain C. W. Batch
ellor, of the Pittsburg Entertainment Com
mite; James h. Chambers and H. Sellers
Mckee, the owners of the window glass
works at Jeannette.
Nearly all of the Spanish-American
gentlemen slept in their berths on the
special train. Few of them were out of bed
when the start was made from Pittsburg.
Some had not even risen by the time the
train reached Jeannette, and missed the In
teresting trip through the great glass plant.
They supposed it was like the glass works
already visited, not having fully under
stood the tank furnace system In use there,
and therefore made no special effort TO see
it. Colonel Robert G. Ingersol went
through the city bound eastward, on the
limited express, which drew out of the depot
five minutes ahead of the special. Some of
the PENNSYLVANIA Railroad officials learned
of his presence after the train had started,
when they expressed regret that they had
not known it in time to invite him to make
the trip with the tourists
Outside of the regular members of the
party, those who went to Jeannette on the
special were: r. E. Petit, General Super
intendent of the Pennsylvania Railroad;
Robert Pitcairn, Superintendent of the
Plttsburg division; Augustus Trump,
Assistant Superintendent. OF the Pitts
burg division; George W. Boyd, As
Eistant General Passenger Agent of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company; Thomas
E. Watt, Passenger Agent for the Western
District: Harold Peirce and John b. Page,
of tie New York Life Insurance Company.
CARNEGIE GOT ON BOARD.
Mr.. Walker Blaine and Mr. Andrew Car
negie accompanied the party from this city
to Philadelphia. The train stopped for a
minute at Homewood, and Mr.. Carnegie
there got aboard. The train ran to jean
nette in so minutes. 1t attracted much at
tention from the people who were up in the
towns and villages through which it passed.
The decorations of the locomotive told every
person what party it was that was rushing
along the rail with so much haste. BreSk-
fast was served Immediately after the de-
parture from the city.
Inc foreign travellers were IOlO Indt lueY
were about to pass over the most picturesque
portion of the entire tour, and they sat at
The windows to watch the passing piano.
rama of grand old hills. The gentlemen
from abroad come nearly all from mountain
Gus lands, and the sight of the huge hills is
pleasant to them. The character of the
country about Pittsburg added great deal
to the pleasure of their visit here. Some of
them who spoke on this subject said that
they had grown very tired of the table-cloth
character Of the Western country. Unfor-
Iunately the season is too late for Pennsyl-
Vania to reveal its greatest beauty. That
fact was acause for regret by the local peo-
pie.
At $40 A. NJ. the train stopped at jean
nette. On a switch running into the prop
ertv of the Chambers & Mckee Glass
Company stood Superintendent Pitcairn's
private car and day coach. This conveyed
the party to the shops. Messrs. Chambers
aud Mckee and the Pittsburg committeeman
received the visitors at the train. During
the hurried tour through the great shops the
two enterprising proprietors took pains to
explain TO the tourists all the details of the
work going on. Mr.. Mckee explained that
the company had bought 400 acres of farm
land, and had built the works and the pretty
thriving town. "0ur process" Mr.. Nc
country, but it has passed that stage some
time ago."
THE DELEGATES INTERESTED.
Delegates Carnegie, Davis, Romero,
Zelaya, Zegarra, Velarde ana CastellaDos
and many of the secretaries and attaches
went through the shops. Mr.. Blaine also
took part in the inspection. The people of
the town appeared in considerable numbers,
and gazed with interest upon the gentlemen
from Spanish America. The party went
first to the shed, where the peculiar sand
used was shown. Then they were led to the
head of the great furnaces, where the per-
spring workmen were shoveling the sand
and broken glass into the seething tanks.
The visitors were given blue glasses to hold
before their eyes when the furnace
doors were opened. The quivering heat
within threw out light more intense than
electricity and panied the naked eve. One
OF the spectators remarked that the Hebrew
children would stand a poor show there.
Mr.. Mckee explained that natural gas was
used everywhere in the works, drawn from
the earth in the immediate vicinity. Mr..
Carnegie asked: 'What will YOU do
when the gas gives out?" Mr.. Mckee re-
piled: MAKE gas; but I'm going to prey
on nature for awhile" yes" responded
the millionaire steel man, that's about all
the praying good many of us do"
The way was then taken to the far end of
the long tanks, where the glass is taken from
the glowing furnace. There two score of
expert glass blowers, in a long line. each
before his own furnace door, were watched
at work. This was the most interesting
place for all, and the stop here was a long
one. The process OF blowing the small mass
of glass into a cylinder 8 feet long and at
least 10 inches in diameter, was watched
with the keenest interest.
CLEVER GLASS BLOWERS.
There were many questions and exclama-
tions of wonder, as the blower revealed his
expertness in swinging and manipulating
the fragile globe on the end of his pine. For
the benefit Of the visitors, the blowers did a
few extra maneuvers, and performed gyra-
tions as fancy as those of an Indian club
sWinger. A cooled cylinder was cut opep
by workman with red-hOt iron, and the
visitors we're led to the fattening ovens.
There the cylinder is laid upon fat surface
in hot oven, and heated until it opens out
and becomes large fiat sheet. 1t passes |
thence, on cunnlngly devised carriers. to |
the cooling oven, and thence to the building |
where the cutters work. Every process was
viewed in order. In the cutting room Mr. |
Curtis startled DR.. YarrOw, of the army. by |
calling to him, "Come here, Doctor. Quick; |
there's been an accident" The surgeon |
burried to the table, where Mr.. Curtis stood |
in a crowd. and the State Department agent |
said "a man has broken piece of glass
AT 8 o'clock; before the inspection had |
been completed, the call was made that the
time was up, and the party started in a
bprrv for the train. Mr.. Mckee asked for
3 DELAY until he could send man to a
building some distance away to bring
great load of elegant souvenirs But the |
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