The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-07-02
AMERICAN TIN PLATE.
IT Is NO LONGER A MYTH, BUT
A REALITY.


and Many Others Projected-The "Tin
Plate Liar" Disheartened.
To manufacture tin plate on large
scale requires the erection of extensive
and costly plants. So soon us the new
tariff fiu passed, preparations were
prompsiy made for the establishment of
tin plate mills in all parts of the country
There are at least eleven of these now
under way. OF course, none of them ut
any time expected to begin .inanufactur-
ing on large scale until the new duty
took effect. On the contrary, it was be-
cause of the confessed impossibility of
manufacturing them under the present
duty of one cent a pound that the higher
rate was provided for. That higher rate
does not take effect for more than a
month yet.
Aside from the question of duty, there
has not been time since the passage of
the law to locate, establish and get under
way extensive plants. The men who in
tended to embark upon this new Ameri-
can industry naturally wished, before
risking their capital, to acquire some
experience in the business SO many of
them erected temporary plants and be-
gan to manufacture on small scale,
pending the building and equipment of
their larger works, few of which were
expected to start before the new tariff
rate should take effect Now, the tenn
porary mills are what the Free-tra re-
porters have dishonesty been describing
as the great tin plate mills which were
to be brought into being by the new
tariff. They shut their eyes to the pro-
jected permanent establishments and
have persisted in their course of denying
that any such enterprises are under way
The new tin plate industry has full
filled the expectations of it's friends. AL
though it was not expected that tin
plates would be made ON a commercial
scale before next July, yet as matter
of fact they are now SO being made
The Evening Post satisfied itself on this
point when it sent a reporter to the
Office of II. R. De Milt & Co., of 23S
Water street, New York, who are agents
for P. Fl. Lauflnan G Co., Apollo, Pa.
The Apollo works have been manufac-
turing and placing tin plates on the
market for some time, and if we are to
credit them with ordinary common
sense, they must be doing so at profit.
The friends Of the tin plate industry
need have no misgivings about its future.
1t is its substantial progress which so ex-
cites its enemies. 1t takes time even to
build hen coop; to transplant great
| industry from Wales to America re-
quires time too. When the work is
accomplished back numbers of the Free
trade papers will furnish interesting
reading.
A meeting of manufacturers who have
entered upon the business of making tin
plate was held in the Fifth Avenue hotel,
New York, some weeks ago, and an adj
journed meeting was held in the Hotel
Anderson, Pittsbrrg, on May 20. A
permanent organization was effected un-
der the name ''Tinned Plate Manufac-
turers' Association of the United States.
The membership was rigidly restricted
to those actually engaged in the in
dustry, making timed sheets or sheets
ready for timing. or bars ready to roll
into sheets. The firms and companies
represented by delegates and by proxies
at the meeting included the following:
The Britton Rolling Mill company, Cleveland.
| Anderson Tin Plate company, Anderson, Ind.
Bellaire Nail company, Bellaire, o.
Somers Bros. g. Co., Brooklyn.
Lewis Steel Sheet and Tin Plate company,
Joliet, Ills.
Falcon Iron and Nail company, Niles, Q.
Mccullough Iron company, Philadelphia.
Arethusa Iron works, New Castle, Pa
Fleming e. Hamilton, Pittsburg.
United States Iron and Tin Plate company,
| Demmler, Pa
Marshall Bros. s. Co.. Philadelphia
Scottdals Iron and Steel company. Scottdale.
| Pa
Shoenberger g. Co., Pittsburg. ..
| Reeves Iron company, Canal Dover, O.
Joseph earns g. Son, Massillon, O.
Welsh-American Tin Plato company, Phila.
| delphia-
Piqua Rolling Mill company, Piqua, o.
w. Devices Wood g. Co.. Pittsburg.
P. II. Laufman g. Co., Apollo, Pa
Standard Iron company, Bridgeport, O.
Jenning Bros g. Co., Pittsburg
Canonsburg Iron and Steel company, Canons
| burg, Pa.
st. Louis Stamping company, St. Louis.
Norton Bros, Chicago.
Kirkpatrick & Co., Pittsburg.
Pittsburg Electroplating company, Apollo
Pa
Mr.. A. o. Kittredge, editor of The
Metal Worker, read paper at the meet
ing, giving birds eye view of the new
industry as he found it In the course of {
long trip Just ended, in which he visited
nearly all the tin plate works. We ex
tract as follows: a
"Geutlemen-The eyes of the people Of
America-yes. OF the entire world-are
upon you, the pioneers in this new de
parture. Every one is anxious to know
what kind Of an out You are going *
make Of it, this manufacturing of tir
plate in America. Your every action i!
being scanned, and long before you have
had chance to try your plans, to find
that they are either good or bad, the ex
act result is determined by that part O.
the press that is hostile to you, and tn,
report Is given to millions of readers
The great American scoffer is abroad
and before you have had time to con
struct your buildings or install your ma
chinery he is saying with q sneer: 4 tolt
you it would not be much of an indus
trv ANYHOW and won see I am riphf