Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-09
PROGRAMME FOR TO-DAY.
THE INTERNATIONAL MEETING AT CAR
NEGlE HALL.

Papers to be Read by Prominent Visitors
Excursions Outlined to Various Places
Public Reception at the Duquesne Club
This Evening.
The international meeting of the British
Iron and Steel Institute and the American
Institute of Mining Engineers will be held
to-day in Carnegie Hall. The programme
will be as follows:
Address of welcome by John II. Ricketson,
Chairman of the General Reception Commit
tee, and the reading of papers as follows: "Ihe 4,
Probable Future of the Manufacture OF Iron,
by Sir Lowthian Bell, Bart, +. X. B., Mlodles,
borough; THE Protection of Iron and steel
Ships Against Foundering from Injury to Their
Shells Including the Use of Armor. oy Sir
structor of n. NJ. NAVY. London: THE Devel-
opment of the Marine Engine and the Progress
Made in Marine Engineering During the Past
Fifteen Years" by Mr.. A. e Seaton; M: =.
E., NJ. i. NJ. E, NJ. Council l. n. A, Hull.
At tl:30 p. NJ the delegates will take special
train on the Pitrsburg and Western Railroad
for the Wildwood oil field. They will have an
opportunity of seeing oil wells IN various stages
of progress some drilling, some pumping and
some flowing. While the visitors are on the
field Smith No. will be shot with nitro
glycerine.
sition at the invitation Of the Exposition So
ciety
AT o'clock local excursions as follows: To
Davis Island dam and Onlo connecting DrluSe
by steamer Nellie Hudson.
At 8 P. M. leave Union station for Will
merding. arriving there at 3:4S. The Westing-
house Airbrake Company's works will be
visited, Messrs. T. W. Welsh and R. w. Bayley
acting as guides, and leave Wilmerding for
Pittsburg at 5:l7.
At S:3O p M. leave Baltimore and Ohio station
for Monongahela Gas Coal Companys mines,
guided by Thomas B. McKaig, of the Hercules
Mining Machine Company. These mines are
lighted, mined. pumped and ventilated by
electrical power and machinery.
AT $50 P. M. leave West Penn station, Ale
gheny. for Etna, where the plant of the Spring
Steel and Iron Company, Lim., will be in
spected, returning at $40 P. M.
BY the Citizens Traction line the following
establishments will be visited: Westinghouse
Electric Company: Sable Iron Works of Zug d
Co.; Macintosh. Hamphill d Co.; Pittsburg
Steel Casting Company; Carbon Iron Company;
the Pittsburg Reduction Company; Citizens
Traction Company power house.
On Second avenue. by electric cars, the fol-
lowing places: kensington Iron Works; h.
Lloyd, Son & Co.; Moorhead, McCleane & Co.;
Linden Steel Company.
On Carson street the works of Singer, Nimick
& Co., ]. Painters Sons & Co., upper mills
of Oliver Iron and Steel Company, Oliver
& Roberts Wire Company, American Iron and
Steel Works, Jones and Laughlins; Rippey d
Company's Glassworks.
The Astronomical and Physical Instrument
Works Of John A. Brashear, on Observatory
Hill, will be visited. This excursion will be
conducted by Mr. Brashear in person. The
days itinerary closes with an inspection ofIthe
La Belle Steel Works, Allegheny.
AtSP M. and lasting until II P. M a recep-
ton in full dress will be rendered by the Recep-
ton Committee at the Duquesne Club on Sixth
auenue.