Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-10
THEY ARE SATISFIED.
Washington Stockholders Have Faith
in the Tyler Tube Works.
THE WORK UNAVOIDABLY DELAYED
Great Trouble Experienced to Secure the
Right Kind of Iron.
WHAT MR.. TYLER SAYS IN HIS DEFENSE

aSn1ngt0n, fa., Is now RDOuI 10 doeumo
some importance as a manufacturing point
for special line of iron and steel products
which will give it wide reputation. w.
P. Tyler, of Boston, the manufacturer OF
high grade plates for Government vessels
and whose tubes for boilers are considered
of great excellence, has removed his plant
to Washington, and will begin this month
the manufacture of them in that place.
Mr.. Tyler said yesterday that he ex-
perienced great difficulty in getting the
quality OF iron and steel wanted to make
into irst-class quality of tubing. He
said he was preparing to make his own
iron and steel plates, and for that reason
his works were somewhat delayed in getting
started. During the past month Mr.. Tyler
has visited number of towns In Ohio, and
none of the mills there were prepared to
make the quality OF iron and steel he must
have. In speaking of the iron business gen.
orally, he said it was hourishing all over
the nited States.
"All do good work" he said, "but the
most complete plant and the best work is
done at Homestead. That is the finest mill
ever saw, and it helps to make Pittsburg a
great place. Ten years ago, down In Bos-
ton, we made more steel plates than were
made in the whole State of Pennsylvania.
We can get pointers here now, though"
ROAST FROM JONES.
Yesterday an interview with Rush T.
Jones, of Washington, vas published in
THE DISPATCH concerning the Washing
ton Tube Works. Mr.. Tyler said there were
statements in the article which were not
true, and if uncorrected might prove detri-
mental. "I have done everything that
promised to do for those people at Washing
ton," said Mr.. Tyler, sand you will find
that they are satisfied with my work. 1t is
true that the works were not ready to begin
operations on the 1st of June, but we were
unavoidably delayed. The brick was not
furnished for 13 weeks after they were
promised, and a vast amount of the ma
terial necessary in the construction of the
plant was not delivered according to order.
These things could not help"
Mr.. Wright the general manager of the
works, said that they had been delayed in
every branch, and he corroborated Mr..
Tyler in all his statements. Some of the
stockholders and two of the directors of the
Tyler Tube Works were seen, and they
stated that they were satisfied that Mr..
Tyler was doing all he could to get the mill
in running order.
MIR. MITCHELL IS SATISFIED.
Mr.. Isaac Mitchell, one of the directors,
said: 1.-THE citizens of Washington were to
contribute $50, 900 in stock toward the tube
works. Ten per cent of this money was to
be paid in when the buildings were COM
pleted, ard the balance when the mill COM
menced to turn out tubing. OF this money,
81, 730 has been paid in and lies in the Ma
tional bank. Mr.. Tyler has not used cent
of it. This mill was built by the
money furnished by the Boston end Of
the company. The stock Of the company is
5000, 900. We furnish, as I have stated,
$50, 900, and the Boston people S150,000.
Mr.. Tyler has done everything he agreed
to do, and think even more. We are
pleased with him in every respect, and be-
lieve him to be p high-ton gentleman and
a man to be relied upon"
Ali the stockholders seen stated that they
had entire confidence in MIR. Tyler. and
that be had made no representations he had
not carried out. They were surprised at the
made by Mr.. Jones, since he had
always claimed to be friendly to the enter
prise Mr.. Jones is the editor of the Petro.
letm Exchange, and that paper on the 30th
OF May contained the following:
A gentleman who visited the new suburb
Tyler yesterday and took a view of the works,
spoke last night as follows: There are few of
our citizens who realize the extent of the works
now being erected for the manufacture Of
steel tubing, or the immense advantage they
will be TO this vicinity Works of such magni-
tude cannot be expected to spring up In night,
as some people would seem to expect. Every
thing that has been done so far has been done
in the most substantial manner. Nothing but
the very best will be good enough. and the prog
fess made 50 far Is simply surprising. Some
day we will wake up
TO THE IMPORTANCE
Of the acquisition of these works in our place.
Their coming will be the means of inducing
others to locate here, unless driven off by the
and greed of those who should
be public spirited enough to help rather than
hinder such undertakings. think We ought
to wish success to Mr.. Tyler and his able super
lntendent Mr.. Wright. They know what they
are doing"
Mr.. Tyler has had two buildings erected
for the manufacture of tubing. One is
250x80 feet and the other 170xS0 feet. They
are built of wood with q corrugated iron
root on each. The floors are partly of wood
and partly of iron. The masonry erected in
these mills is of the most substantial kind,
and will last for century. In the larger
building is a drop welding furnace of the
latest improved variety, and Mr.. Tyler says
it is better than any in use at the Nc
Keesport mills In this building are also
eight cutting and threading machines of the
latest improved kind.
The buildings are completely equipped
with all the machinery necessary to make
the special kind of tubing Mr.. Tyler has
always manufactured.
The variety of tubing to be made at WASH
ington is the Tyler iron and steel tubing for
boilers. Mr.. Tyler has made tubing for
ships, and has made tubes for
boiler makers in Europe. He made the
steel plates and tubes for the cruisers Texas
and Maine. and in the printed specifications
Of the Government for the guidance of ship
builders this requirement is found: Call
boiler material and boiler tubes must be
squal in all respects to Tyler's best"