New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-10-08
AMERICAN TIN PLATES.
WHAT HAS BEEN DONE IN ONE YEAR UNDER
PROTECTIVE TARIFF.

WHAT HAS BEEN DONE IN ONE YEAR UNDER
PROTECTIVE TARIFF.
PHILADELPHIA Oct. THE American Iron and Steel
Association recently Instituted careful inquiries re-
cardng the progress that has been made during the
mast wear in the manufacture Of American tin plate
under the protection Of the Mckinley Tarlh me
result Of the investigation is published to-day in The
Bulletin OF the Association, and may De anayzeu an
summarized follows:
Three establishments are now making tin plates or
terne plates or both from their black plates their
present united capacity being $50 boxes per day one
establishment has made tin plates from its own black
plates but has been stopped while its plant was
being enlarged Seven others are getting ready to roll
black plates and convert them into Bin plates and
terne plates and will be in operation their daily
capacity when In operation being 20e5 boxes. Three
others are now making tin plates terne plates from
purchased black plates its daily capacity being from
forty-dve 10 fifty boxes. one establishment. WINCH
now rolls black plates, proposes to make ooth uh
plates and erne plates in the near future one estsO
lishment has made terne plates eAperlmentaiiy, ouo
has not yet perfected its plant. And two enter
priss have been projected for the manufacture Oh uh
plates and terne plates.
The foregoing detailed information brings the de-
veopment of the American tin plate Industry down to
September &c, 1891.
Martins Ferry. Ohio Oct. Cspeclal). Everybody
in Martins Ferry is talking plate. John W. Crooks
has created egular sensation by decorating MS place
OF business In Hanoverst, the principal thorougare
I'm the city, with American plate of all kinds and
shapes made in over a half-dozen cities The largest
sheet is terne tin plate 25x72 inches made by F. H.
Loufrnan q Co., Appola, Penn Other terne plates
shown were made by Fleming d Hamilton, Pttsburg;
the Cincinnati COrrugaHng Company, at Pqua, ONO,
and the " G. Naylor Company, Philadelphia Eight
bright sheets by the United States Iron and Tin
Manufacturing Company, at Demmler, Penn. and sew
era By the st. Louis Stamping Company, St. Louis.
NO. are exhibited; also plate made at tie Pittsburg
Exposition in 1859, by Morgan &c Sons, the original
in-plate makers in America, and dozen fruit cans
made of American tin plate, by Conrad Long, Demo
cratic timer who has been In the business in Martins
Ferry since 1857. Crooks has letters from nearly all
the manufacturers showing that the steel sheets the
foundation of all tin plate, were made Of American
steel and rolled in the United States by American
workmen, and genuine American as plates made
in Wales are Welsh. The Hqua plate is AL American
steel lead, tin and all. The United states Iron and
Tin Manufacturing Company states that there
Is no doubt that the American mines
Will soon be able to supply all the block tin
necessary for the manufacture Of the full supply OF
coated steel plates required.
The Democrats have been driven clear 20 the wall
on the tin plate question. g The Wheeling Register"
said the socacd American tin plate shown by Crooks,
was merely sheet iron dipped in lead, and that paper
is now the laughngstock OF the neghborhOod. In the
big rolling mills here there are many tnworiers,
of whom Is out In card in Tile Wheeling Inteli-
gencers showing that this is absolute impossibty,
that the welsi have been experimenting on this for
century. and that fortune awaits any man who can
coat iron with lead. Iron dipped in lead How alb
surdl We might as well try to make putty stay on
butter. Tin was made in Martins Ferry two years
ago Mr. Crooks, who Is the secretary OF the Repub-
icnn Club, is the sole manufacturer Of the Mckinley
tin button made famous by the lie telegTaphed al over
the United states 10 the effect that he imported the
buttons from Wales. This oOntradicted by an
array Of aihtavis, and the lie has reacted. IL has
given the little button an advertisement that could not