Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1892-08-19
HOMESTEAD.


and locked up.
The Federation Of Labor Executive Coun-
Gil at its meeting in Pittsburg. Friday,
decided not TO boycott the products of the
Carnegie mills because they are too in
consequential.
Jack Clifford had a hearing that day
in Pittsburg before Judge Ewing,
and was held for Court He did not find
sufficient bail and went to jail.
Saturday was the 1st Of April for the
18th. The boys moved their tents that
day fron their old location to the brow OF
the hill adjoining the camp Of the 10th.
They are all in good health and propose en-
ioying the situation as much as possible,
and so long as they have to.
In the mill, Saturday noon, two thous-
and men received wages; and that after
noon work was being done in but three
departments-the machine shop, where
some large armor plates were being finish
ed. the cutting mill, where red-hot plates
were being cut into sizes with the steam
cutter, and another place where they were
saving the ends off angle iron, cold. The
machinery of the mill is immense-notao-
ly the steam cutter, the engines, cranes
and lathes-but trip through the mill
without a well-informed guide is almost
useless. Wallace Mechling of this county
is said to be foreman of three departments,
but we did know it at the time, and did not
happen to run across him.
The mills cover large acreage, and the
comnany has built bunking and boarding
bouses inside the great board fence, and If
grading streets on the hill above the works
mart of which is now occupied by the
troons. with the intention of building q
new town there for their present EN-,
pIovees. The greater part OF Homestead
ig also on the hill side and it looks Ike
comparatiyely new town. There are some
very uretty, new frame houses IN u, Dut
the upper streets are neither graded, drain
ed or sidewalked.
The Monongahela Valley excells the
Allegheny in manufacturing establish
ments, and probably will continue 10 do
20 until the Allegheny river is slackwater-
ed, if that is possible.
On Sunday drunken man assaulted q
sentry. and was probed in the leg by anoth-
er sentry.
The nopuIation Of Homestead is given as
79II The number of the men employed
in the steel works is stated in round mum
bers at 8, 800, and yet the total vote oi
Homestead in the last gubernational cam
paipn was only 845. There does not seem
10 be a very large share OF American
labor in that great industrial establish
meut. not even of ofnaturalized laborers, al
thoueh it is said that the best paid men,
who are leaders in the present struggle, are
mostly Americana. Pattison got AZ votes
Delamater 4O6, and the Prohibitionist Il,
so that politically the American
population is pretty evenly balanced.
On Monday, supt. Porter opened new
and halffnished converting win
hitherto untried machinery. anf win
practically unskilled labor. The Few de-
partment cast four ingots OF Bessemer
steel, weighing in the aggregate forty ono
tons, and samples OF the metal $1,000
crucial examination by Expert furVis,
who declared the stuff perfect, and IN
speaking of the event said: 1T was tne
most auspicions and successful test oil a
steel mill that ever saw anywhere or un-
der any conditions.
The new mill in bich this was done ~
the first OF its kind ever built anywhere In
the world. utilizing machinery almost ex-
clusively TO perform the work formerly
done by hand. Architecturally the plant
is a model, built entirely from stone and
steel. It is open on all sides, and when
entirely completed will have floor OF art
ificial stone paving and iron. ON either
side of huge crane, which handles the
metal before it is poured from tho ladies'
into the ingot molds, are two huge casting
pits, arc-shaped, with heavy iron Innings,
Each of these holds six tYelye-ton lngot
molds. Only one is now complete, but tne
other will be finished this week. However,
the plant showed that IT
could do even moro than was expected OF
it, and its full capacity will be %, 600 tons
month.
The boycott which the Homestead and
Munhall steel-workers have declared
against everything that is now connected
with the Carnegie plant broke out in new
spot last Sunday, and in most novel man
ner. For some time past the wife and
daughter Of one of the superintendents en-
ployed in the mill have been teaching
classes in the little Sunday School at Nun
hall. On Sunday they went to the Church
as usual, and after the opening exercises
began to expound the Scripture lesson as
usual to their scholars. The scholars in the
two classes at once arose and marched out,
remarking that they would not be taught
the Gospel by the wife and daughter OF q
man working in O non-union mill. Sc
they left the institution for good. The
Sunday school authorities refused to recog
nize the boycott, and it will hereafter be
run "a non-uniOn or "ODen."
On Tuesday the militia were called
upon to quell several small disturbances
Strikers attacked some mill-lnen who were
witnesses in suit before town alderman,
and the men had to be rescued by the mil
itary; and they also attacked some non -un-
ion men going into the mill. The Bessem'
or department of the mill was put on doub-
lie turn that night.
Wednesday evening some one on a
freight train On the Pemickey bridge,
opened fire on the Little Bill which was
returned by the soldiers. Soon after foui
men were arrested in Homestead, and q
crowd assembled, which the troops dis.
persed.
THE excellent road law just adopted by
New Jersey is thus described by an ex-
change: The Governor of New Jersey has
signed the Davidson road bill which puts
it in the power of county boards of free
holders to contract, under certain specific
regulations. for the construction Of macad
amized roads. Provision is made for
thorough supervision and for substantial
work. But no more is to be done in a
single year than may be paid for by tax
Of one-half of l per cent on the taxable
property in each county. One third of the
cost Of roads so constructed is to bo paid
each year by the State, not TO exceed the
sum of $75, 900 If one-third of the cost
shall exceed that amount the excess il II
be appropriated among the counties il
proportion to the amount Of work done.
On petition of two thirds Of the real estate
owners fronting on any public road, set
ting forth their willingness to pay 10 pei
cent of the cost of macadamizing roadwayi
of not less than mile in extent, the free
holders are compelled to provide for the
construction asked for.
CONGRESSMAN WARWICK Of Mckinley
district in Ohio, died at the Riggs Houst
in Washington last Saturday.