Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-10

his investment as you do, is content to take
things easy.
"If you have borrowed ideas from us and
developed them while we have been slow to
| follow suit, it is because you have more
need OF improved plants and Improvements
than we have. You have greater competi-
ton; have need OF more labor-saving appli-
ances because of your higher wages; and be-
! cause OF your increasing trade must find
facilities for turning out work than we re-
| quire to give any thought to. The members
of the party are very we'll pleased with
what they saw of Pittsburg, and have
nothing but admiration for the enterprise OF
your people, except in the matter of streets,
and they are deucedly bad" continued
Mr.. Jack, "deucedIy bad.''
While on the excursion to Davis Island
dam, The DISPATCH reporter talked with
Mr.. Stephen H. Waltham, a large coal
dealer of Leeds, Yorkshire. Mr.. Waltham
is at the head of one of the largest coal COM
panies in the trade in England, and was
verv much interested in the conversation, IL
which several of the local coal men and iron
manufacturers took part. The topic of their
discussion during the voyage to Davis
Island was on the river coal interests of the
city. Mr.. WalthBm said:
ABOUT OUR BIG COAL TRADE.
81 have at all times labored under the i'm
preston that the talk of your coal trade in
Pittsburg was greatly exaggerated, but II
the statements of your business men are to
be relied upon, all that l have heard must
certainly be true. 1 would have liked very
much to have accompanied the party up the
Monongahela river, but missed the train.
Your method of shipping coal on water is
quite Lovel, and it surprised me when L
learned how much one of these boats or
barges could transport. l must acknowledge.
after what l have heard, that your city is
far ahead of Leeds in the coal business"
While passing the Ohio connecting rail-
road bridge, Mr.. Waltham turned to Mr..
Zug and said: "You don't mean TO tell me
that trains can go over that frail structure?"
When informed that the bridge was built
to support 5000 pounds to the lineal loot,
beside an engine weighing 202 tons, he
thought it was '.jolly" good joke. Repre-
sentatives of the Keystone Bridge Company,
which erected the bridge, were aboard and
exhibited large photographs taken while
the bridge and channel span was in course
OF construction. The explanation about the
bridge and the channel span interested the
visitors very much.
EXCEEDED THE MANS EXPECTATIONS.
r. II. Attleman, an iron manufacturer of
Birmingham, was accosted while viewing
the large stretch of iron and steel mills, on
the banks of the Ohio. He said between
the puffs of his pipe:
This is nv first visit to your country and
must say tn at it exceeds my expectations,
and l understand that have not seen half
of it yet The iron industry of your city is
much larger than 1 was led to believe"
In reply to the question how the tariff
L. Al
man said he thought it was all right and in
his opinion would not affect the manuta>-
Iure OF iron and steel in Great Britain. Ee
said that England was as far advanced as
America in the manufacture of iron ami
steel, considering the superior facilities
this country affords. He concluded his re-
marks by saying that this is a queer coun-
try.
6. G. Wood. OF the Wardsend Steel Com
pany, Sheffield, England, and who was in
the little party who visited the Southside,
said: 81 am getting thoroughly tired.
have seen enough to day TO do me week.
If this thing had lasted but for day
L would have thought nothing of it,
but here we have been tramping
around in this fashion for several days, and
it will not be surprising it some OF us grow
less appreciative of the many wonder nj
things we see, than we should be. 1 wish
to mention one feature of steel manufacture
in which your American manufacturers far
excel us. That is cold rolling. To roll
cold steel and polish it at the same time, and
to do the work in such a manner so that the
material will be of the precise standard to
the thousandth part of an inch, is some
thing that we cannot attempt in England. 3"
"Pittsburg is truly q great city, and it
has been very properly named the workshop
of the world" said Frederick Smith, of
Frederick Smith & Co., wire manu-
fscturers of Halifax, England. He re-
marked about the magnitude of the manu-
establishments in America and
the scale upon which business is conducted.