Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-05
BUILDING AND REALTY.
THE STOVE FOUNDRY AT WORK.
The Fort Worth stove foundry is an


established institution.
It has been put in oneration.
And nothing has appeared to alter the
judgment of it's founders to the effect
that stoves and small castings can be
| out turned In Texas advantageously and
profitably and in quantity sufficient to
control the trade and make the operation
of such an institution financial success
| in Fort Worth.
Not less than seventy-fve people were
present at 1880 yesterday afternoon to
witness the first work at the foundry.
The forces were hustling about, arrang-
| ing shaftIng, balancing wheels, firing
| the engines, ties ting machinery aud put
| ting the furnace in shape for the first
blast. The visitors had time to look
| through the establishment, to see what
mad been put in.
| The building is of brick throughout,
| two stories high, of solid, substantial
! and business-like appearance, and
! can be seen from afar by
| travellers from or to the
| city whether by railroad or highway,
| standing advertisement OF Fort Worth's
| growing industrial Importance. The
| railroad has sidetrack 600 feet long run
| in at that point, upon which are stand
| ing some dozen cars. Near at hand are
| huge stacks of coke, coal, scrap iron,
! pig iron wood and other materials neces-
/ sary in the business, and near by are
| several substantial houses, with reliable
| indications of the early construction of
others. So that, altogether, the spot
has the hustling appearance of growing
| settlement by itself.
On the inside, the place of greatest in
terest is the moulding room. This is the
| largest room and extends the whole
| length of the building, covering 6Oxl25
| feet. Here are spread numerous great
| heaps of sand ready for the moulds,
while casting boxes are heaped high in
| one side of the room. This section Is
! very convenient. Hot blast cupola
stands at the middle of one side, let into
an alco7e ct the other side of which is the
engine aud boiler room. The moulding
room is almost all windows on every
side, calculated o admit any quantity OF
| the soothing breeZes that float over that
neighborhood during the sultry days of
| summer.
Passing through a door on the eastern
part of the south side, the finishing
room ia entered. Here are large num-
| Der of lathes, planners, polisherS and
such machines for putting the final
| touches on the manufactured articles, all
| connected by belts with the main motive
rods.
Upstairs is the pattern room. where
one can get an idea of the kind of work
| that will be turned out by the factory.
| There are samples OF every kind Of stove
aud of every kind Of convenience or ap-
pliance connected with heating appa-
| ratus, and almost anything can be found
| from a screw to a big hotel range. One
part of the room is TO be devoted to the
| nickel plating apparatus, which has not
| vet arrived Tools and implements for
! the finer class of work are scattered
| about in endless prOfusion on the benches
that line the wall of this room.
The hot blast Gupola is OF the best and
latest improved sort. So also are the
| engine and boiler. The water supply is
abundant, secured from an artesian well
sunk just outside the engine room, and
in which a fine flow was secured at
depth of only 200 feet.
It was about 1880 that Engineer John
Goetsinger pulled the lever that set the
machinery in motion. Previously the
furnace had been filed with such
material as is necessary to the
production OF good class OF
metal, including layers OF coke, pig
iron, limestone for fuxing and scrap
iron. The spectators, many of whom
were ladies, watched with earnest inter-
est the first slow revolutions of the NAM
moth wheels. Then greater momentum
was established, and the click, click OF
the fan could be heard. Then full power
was put on, and the whirr of the ma
chnery grew duller and louder and more
angry: and then the spectators recog-
nized the sounds they had heard in the
great manufacturing places OF the East,
and knew the factory era in Fort Worth
had dawneds
Attention was then turned to the
cupola, where the action OF the blower
was beginning to tell in the increased
heat. First only dull blaze appeared
at the mouth of the spout; then fork
of blush blaze emerged, which soon
grew into an angry blast. Shortly
small stream Of thick reddish fluid aD-
peared-the molten metal. In few
moments thereafter Head Molder John
Hicks announced that the metal would
do for the casts, and the big, heavy
clippers were brought in action. With
q rush the furious metal was
allowed to escape down the spout and
into the ladies, to be borne off and
poured into the matrices. Before long
100 casts had been made, and then one
1t was only plain clamp for the cast
ing boxes.
But it announced in loud voice that
the iron industry had been established in
Fort Worth, on sound, material, mat
ter of fact basis.
Mr.. NJ. A. Mclaughlin, the manager.
deserves credit for the successful start
made. He says the firm will start
with about twenty moulders, so as
net to overdo the business at the start,
and good stock of Fort Worth made
stoves will be ready for the fall trade.
In response to an inquiry Mr. .McLaugh-
lin said it was intended to name the first
grade of stoves turned out the "Spring
Palace stoves, since it was through
the Spring Palace year ago the atten-
ton of his company was attracted to Fort
Worth, and he pointed TO this fact as a
substantial evidence of the benefit the
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