Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-08

of the New York and Cleveland Gas Coal Com
pany: w. II. Berger, the wooden ware manu-
Jacturer: ID. NJ. Anderson. John Bindley. of the
Bndley Hardware Company; Gilbert Follans-
bee, of the Chamber of Commerce: G. A Gates
and o. NJ. Russell, of Massillon, o.: Philip g..
Roeder, Of Cleveland; n. F. Sanford. ex-Mayor
Morrison Foster, OF Allegheny; NJ. K. Moor
head, President of the MOorhead-McCleane
Company: w. Devices Wood, of the w. Devices
Wood Company of Mckeesport; B. +. Wood,
A. Nj. Byers, President of the Iron City Ma
JionaI Iank; General Wiley, of the National
Guard; J. D. Long, of the Vulcan Forge and
Iron Works; Colonel l.. NJ. Dayton, Of the
wholesale milliner; Charles Meyran, President
or the Germania Savings Bank; A L. Griffin,
President of the Keystone Bridge Company; ID.
c. Herbst, of Warden & Oxnardi w. W. SNOW,
A. Dempster, William Thaw, Jr., w. E.
Schmer.z President of the Chamber OF Com,
rnt.rce: Charles ]. Clarke and ]. H. Ricketson
President of the A Garrison Founory CON-
AIDS IN EXPLANATION.
Chairman W. L. Abbott, of Carnegie,
Phipps & Co., and Superintendent Potter,
of the Homestead mills of that company,
went with the party from Homestead to
Braddock, and assisted greatly in explain
ing matters to the visitors. Mention must
be made especially of Mr.. S. W. F. Draper,
of the PENNSYLVANIA Railroad Company,
who has been unwearied in his endeavors to
promote the comfort Of the tourists. All Of
them speak in the highest terms OF the work
which he has done during the past five
weeks.
Great service to the Spanish Americans
was also rendered by Mr.. Philip G. Roeder,
of Cleveland, the young man invited BY the
Pittsburg committee to assist in the enter
tainmept here He speaks English, Ger
man. French and Spanish, and was great
aid to the gentlemen from South America in
explaining 10 them the nature of the vari-
Gus things seen.
The DAYS programme began with the car
riace ride from the Monongahela House to
the glass works of D. C. Ripley & Co.,
on South Ninth street. The sightseers were
conducted to the office, where Mr.. Ripley
received them. In the large Office room
there was arranged a splendid display of
table glassware. This was the first glass
house visited by the tourists. They walked
through the sorting and packing rooms to
the glass factory, where the brittle article
was being nodded and blown bv air pipes
into numerous beautiful and useful forms.
An expert blower performed some wonder
1ul fe1ts with globes of hot glass, blowing
them both with the mouth and with machin-
cry into curious and surprising FORMS One
.'ii!I'' was blown into globe three feet in
diameter, looking like an enormous soap
bubble, and it then burst into thousand
fragments. The experiments were ap-
plauded by general clapping of hands. In
one part of the mill tine Thomas Evans
Glass Company exhibit the process of max
ing lamp chImneys. The visitors were
called to leave these works before
they were willing to go. A number of the
Spanish Americans expressed regret that
they could not remain longer. Senor
Zegarra, OF Peru, said he thought it was one
Of The most interesting places he had visited.
A 81 1ofr ,oh, tod rrif n
souvenir of pretty pressed glass work, form
ing paper weight and cigar holder.
THE GREAT IRON MILLS:
The visitors were then conducted to the
Oliver Iron and Steel Works on South
Eleventh street, where general tour was
made of the great mills and the process of
making smooth and barbed wire was
seen from beginning to end. Where the
redhot wire lett the last roll, a boy stood,
and with a long hook be waved the wire
from side to side. 1t coilej down the long
incline like moving play of curved light
ming and formed a pretty sight glowing in
the gloom of the mill.
The carriages conveyed the travellers to
the American Iron and Steel Works of
Jones & Laughlin, on Twenty-seventh street.
Mr.. B. +. Jones received the visitors in the
Office and they were then conducted through
all parts o the great mills. The operations
of the steel converter especially were looked
upon with interest. The pouring of the
steel into molds and the moving and rolling
of the ingots were closely watched. The
carriages from this point returned to the
CITY. The party walked to Ormsby station,
on the Pittsburg, Virginia and Charleston
Railroad, where a special train of seven
coaches awaited them. AT 11:30 o'clock it
pulled out for Homestead.
A lew minutes before noon the train
stopped at the southern corner of the i'm
Hense steel works of Carnegie, Phipps &
Co. Tne Steel Works Band was out and
began its excellent music as soon as the
train came to a stop. The great gate near
the corner was spanned by an arch, covered
with bunting and trimmed with the flags of
the United States and the Spanish-Ameri-
can nations. Large flags of the United
States waved in the fresh breeze over the
several mills.
ANDREW CARNEGIE AS GUIDE.
At this point Mr.. Andrew Carnegie took
the lead and personally conducted the visit
ors through the mills. Superintendent Pot
ter and other employees of the company as
sisted in explaining all the work done As
the large party entered the mill grounds the
whistles OF the mills and the many locomo-
tiYes shrieked deafening greeting.
The armor plate mill was first visited.
The rolls and shears were decorated with
flags in every department. The work in
hand was the making OF steel plates for the
United States Government A steel ingot
weighing 5000 pounds was placed in the
immense double roll trains, where one set is
horizontal and the other vertical, run bv
two engines, and was rolled into a huge
slab, 81 inches wide by inches
thick. The explosions caused by the salt
on the surface of the hot iron at first rather
startled those who were new to rolling mills
The slab was then run to the steel shears
and cut of rapidly into lengths of A inches
When some of the spectators expressed sur
prise at the ease with which the work was
done, Mr.. Carnegie said, ''Oh, that's only
chicken feedP' Fifty-eight-ton ingots have
been handled in that mill From the shears
the slabs we're run, BY small engines, to the
plate MILL where they were reheated and
rolled down to a thickness of one-fourth of
an inch.
The route was then taken through the
open-hearth basic process department to the
plate mill. There the visitors witnessed the
rolling of an ingot weighing 1,S00 pounds.
The heaviest ingot ever rolled in that mill
weighed 16 100 pounds. This feat was
recently achieved in doing some Govern
ment work. The foreign representatives
were most pleased here, as in other mills
seen yesterday, by the immense and perfect
machinery employed. They said that it
surpassed anything they had previously
seen in iron and steel works.
HANDLING HUGE BEAMS.
Through the converting mill, where Mr.
Carnegie explained that iron was changed
to steel, the sightseers entered the beam mill.
There they watched the process of rolling
great beam, for bridge or other structural
work, into a length of A feet and a thick
ness OF Is inches. weighing about 2,2OO
pounds There was lately rolled in that