Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-05
WELSH TIN MAKERS
Will Never be Able to Destroy the
New American Industry.
ROOM FOR WALES WORKMEN HERE.
A Talk With the Ever Hopeful F. G. Med
ringhaus, of st. Louis.
THE CAPACITY FOR MANUFACTURING.

ST. LOUIS, July 4.-The startling reports
from the tin plate manufactures of Wales
led reporter to interview ex-Congressman
T. G. Niedringhaus to-day. He was found
In the midst of his tin plate samples and
talked willingly.
''The Mckinley tariff bill," said he,
(which made the production of timed iron
plate q possibility in the United States,
went into effect recently, but the English
operators would be astounded to know what
preparations have been made in this country
to reap the harvest that is ours by right.
There are to my knowledge % firms now
getting ready in the United States to make
tin and terne, or roofing plates. The st.
Louis Stamping Company was perhaps bet
ter prepared to enter into the business than
any other company in the country, from the
fact that they already have complete roll
ing mills where they produce the iron from
the pig up to the finished sheet. These
mills being arranged for fine sheet the COM
pany began to turn out tin plates as early
as November, 1890, sufficient to keep one set
of timing pots running
'What does "a set of timing pots do?"
The Capacity::for Work.
sIt will turn out 40 boxes of 112 sheets
each, each sheet 14x2O inches in diameter,
and the weight of each box is 18O pounds.
The new works now nearing completion in
North ST. Louis will be the first of the kind
ever built and the first in operation on
large scale in the United States. We ex-
pect to start up by August 1, and our out
put from the opening day will not be less
than 600 boxes daily, tin plate and lead plate,
known as roofing tin."
Mr.. Niedringhaus here got up and gave
the reporter one of his object lessons by
contrasting the English roofing plate with
that of the st. Louis make. To the most
casual and non-technical eye the latter was
as superior to its English cousin as a banana
is to a paw-paw. Mr.. Niedringhaus ratified
sheet of his own tin plate as if in defiance
of the British tin plate lion, and, resum1ng
his seat, toyed with an American block tin
paper-weight and spat into an American tin.
plated cuspidor and said:
THAT English dispatch, I notice, saws
that the Welsh manufacturers have an i'm
mense capital invested, and that they in
tend to make every effort in their power to
command the trade, and that they will do
this by reducing the wages of the men,
the cost of the raw material,
lowering the payments for freightage and
curta1llng their profits in order to be able
to pay the extra duty demanded by the new
American tariff, which went into effect on
Wednesday.
Bound to Be Struggle.
"Now, I do not doubt this at all. There
will be quite struggle for the trade be-
tween the English and American manufac-
turers This would, perhaps, not have oc-
Cured but for the apparent free trade vic
tory in last falls elections, as a number of
English makers were over here at that time
with view of locating. After the Con-
yressional elections of 1890 they took heart.
In fact, one of them expressed himself to
The effect that he hoped there were enough