New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-11-08
WONDERS OF AN IRON CITY.
DELEGATES VISIT THE
GREAT MILLS IN PrTTsBURG
SHOWN THROUGH DELEGATE cARNEG1r,s VAC,
MANUFAcToRY-A RARE SPECTACLE IN
NATURAL GAS SEEN AT NIGHT

MANUFAcToRY-A RARE SPECTACLE IN
NATURAL GAS SEEN AT NIGHT.
fittsourg, Nov THE AIl-Americas party has bean
increased here Minister Romero. Senator Davis
Andrew Carnegie and Walker Blaine Joined the travo,
,es ia'. nighI and today the delegates visited tia
IRON ana grass works in this city and McKeesport
III the delegates had any doubt respecting the ,r,,
Vi tns pennsylvania saying that Iron Is kngy f. w,s
ehectually set at rest to-day Since early p,or,,
win the exception Of one place where they saw tbs
process Oh making pressed glassware they have boz,
In an iron. city they have walked over miles n, ,
floor and under iron roofs had their faces sco,e,s
by white-hot iron ingOs and bars and re,urn,d ,r,
and laded, but Instructed, to their hotels bearn,
samples Of iron in their pockets. Many OF tho n-n
cesses used In the vast mills and shops OF pittsbn,
and its suburbs had been seen before by the
but never perhaps, on the same extensive SCALE =,
one place they saw twenty-ton steel ngot enerys
from IT'S mould and with difficulty kept pace with /.
as 1t was seized by machinery and hurried from On.
roll TO another clipped and sheared until II was trans
formed into sheathing for the great coast desenr.
vessel now building at san Francisco. They "a,
the largest hydraulic shears In the world curtin,
through great boiler plates like the tailors sc,sso
through cloth, and out Of another shop comnre,od
railroad rails run out with rapldty that apre,roa
to justify the belief that It supplying all q, r..
steel ra, needed for the railroad construction OF tbs
whole continent =" mo
The delegates were particularly Interested IN -,
manufacture OF tubes and they watched with in,ocH
The sheets Of hot metal curl up under the roll ~
emerge at white heat from the furnaces S" - ana
welded into long tubes By simple yet effective ma
c Ii Ihey also saw the king Of metals spun ogt
INFO wire ana bitten on into nails and beaten doun
by steam hammers into sheets Of Rus IA iron Dele
gate Andrew Carnegie Joined the party for the ars
me To-Day, ana look pride I'm escOrting them THROUGH
his vast works. pea,ant feature Of the enters2Sa
ment was the brass bands that furnished musc AZ va
LiIs and which are composed entirely OF milf oper
The party returned to Pittsburg along the shor.
OF the MonOngahela River and from the views OF ths
acre OF floating coal tows enabled TO get A
idea Of the extent of the water traffic OF wes,1rs
Pennsylvania ''a
Al. In preparing entertainment for the international
delegates the people OF this town hal gathe~d
in their Exposition Building the finished products q
nearly all the business interests here. The build,ns
which is the rivers edge was brilliantly .ii amss
ated tonight. and thher visitors were this evcnin,
carried .I They found remarkable collection. and
OF The courtesy T. at had taken such care for theft
esp esps ria Information and amusement Two rival
s gfd'' I'll. S s100Y san: BE- %a'
he'd been so arranged to form these Words
"America for Americans North. Central and south'
, me sentiment was applauded by many Of the South
Glass iron, ores and many strange uses Of metal,
and, indeed Of the trip was beheld from gresi
balcony on tie river side OF the building In the
darkness the delegates and great throngs Of sight
seers TOOK places. and thousands upon thousands
sw,rmed upon the river slope. \ comnany Of troops
held a clear space before the Exposition Building.
suddenly cannon doomed, rocket was shot in the
afr and what had moment before been a Kissing
sound IN the darkness decpene 70 the city's
How OF natural gas burst into famn at the tops Of
four stand pipes that bad been erected from main
on the river bank The pipes were four inches in
diameter and blank wonder and ama7ement seen
on the face Of every foreigner the roaring flames
wrthed and fared up fifty feet in the night. Then,
100 feet from shore. volcano OF water suddenly
burst upward from the river surface. rocket was
hurled over the turmoil of water and
with 2 slow licking movement a tower Of
N al Fpap1 Q
boiling waters gas main had been run out on the
river bed and the pressure had been turned on soon
from another pipe lcvced the water shot lnrit
plume Of light. 1t changed 10 violet color then 10
saffron. TO blue 10 yellow. to green-each as various
chemicals were injected into the pipe. Then cannon
doomed the infantry fired many rounds, the gas was
turned off, darkness fell and the visitors went 10 bed