The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-11-08
THAT ''IRON IS EING0
Was Demonstrated to the Pan
American Excursionists
IN PITTSBURGH YESTERDAY.
They Walked Over Miles OF Iron
Floor, Under Iron Roofs and Had
Their Faces scorched by Hot
Iron Ingots-Thc Program,

flrTsBURdHi fA,i NOV, t!--lt tho inter
national e1Cursionists had any doubt re,
spectiug the truth Of the Pennsylvania
axiom "Iron is King" 1t was efiectually
set at rest to-day, Since early morning,
with the exception Of one place, where
they saw the process Of making pressed
glassware, they have been In ap iron
city; walked over miles Of Iron foor and
underiron roofs; had theit faces scorched
by whiIe'hot iron iugots and bars and
returned tired and iRded; but instructed,
to their hotel, bearing samples Of iron in
their pockets, Many Of the processes
used in the vast mills aud shops Of Pitts
burgh and It's suburbs had been seen be.
fore by the delegates, but never, per,
haps, on the sams extensive scale.
Delegate Andrew Carnegie Joined the
party for the first time to-day aud took
pride In esCoTting them through his vast
works. A pleasant feature otthe enter
tainment was the brass bands which fur.
nished music at the mills and which are
composed entirely Of mill operatives,
The party returned tU Pittsburgh along
the shores OF the Alonongahela river and
from the views Of tue acres OF floating
coal tows we're enabled to get an idea Of
the extent OF the water traffic OF Western
PENNSYLVANIA.
In preparing entertainment for the In.
ternatlonal delegation the people OF this
Town had gathered In the exposition
building the flushed products OF nearly
all the business interests here. The
building, which is on the river edge,
was brilliantly illuminated tonight
There the visitors found 4 remarkable
collection aud the Foreigners were pro.
fuse in their acknowledgements Of the
courtesy that had taken such care for
their especial information and amuse.
ment.
THE GROWING FRATURE.
Two rival electric lightning companies
had prepared an elaborate display, one
Of which was at an expense OF $4,000.
In the middle arch OF the iron building
inCandescent lamps had been so arranged
Us to form these wordsi America
for Americans, North, Central and
South.n
The sentiment was applauded by many
Of the Southrons, as they behSld the
display. Glass, iron, ores aud many
stranger uses Of metals were displayed,
but the climax OF the visit here, aud,
indeed, OF the trip, was behUld
from q great balcony on the river side of
the building. In the darkness tue dele.
gates and great throngs Of sightseers
took places, and thousands upon thous.
ands Swarmed upon the river slope. A
company oil troops held q clear space be.
fore the exposition building, Suddenly
u cannon doomed, a rocket was shot In
air and what had moment before been
kissing sound in the darkness deep.
ened to roar as the clty's flow Of nat.
ural gas burst into flame at.the tops oil
four stand pipes that hud been erected
from main on the river bank.
THE souTnRoNs AMAZED.
-Four inches In diameter were the
pipes, and blank wonder and amaze.
ment beset the face OF every foreigner
as the roaring flames wrlthed and Jared
up fifty feet In the night. The crowds
scattered before the intense heat and 200
feet away the travellers shielded their
faces from the heat with their hands.
Anon 100 feet from shore a volcano OF
water suddenly burst upward from the
river aprt9ee. A rocket vas hurled over
the turmoil Of water, and with a slow,
licking movement a tower OF fire lifted
itself one hundred feet in the air from
the boiling waters. A gas main had
been run out OF the river bed aud the
pressure, had been turned on. Soon
from another pipe lsyeled oyer
the water shot "a lufid plume
OF light, Il changed to violet
color, then. 10 saffron, 10 blue, tO
yellow, to gteen-eacll as various chemi.
calls were injected into the pipe. Thus
ut the closing Of the display five great ar.
rows Of tlamv were piercing the datkuess
and q pyramid Ol writing tire was vault,
ing ir0m the bosom Of lie river. TIE
cannon doomed, tlAinhntfy fired many
rounds, the Jus was turned Oll, darkuess
fell, and the visitors went 10 GUd.