Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1892-07-14

mill, where Bessemer
steel is made, the beam mill, the
plate mill, the armor plate mill, the
,pen hearth MILL, the fini shing de-
oartment, the 10-inch, the 22-inch
md the 119-inch mill, and the big
plate pressing-room. The water for
he works comes from the Mononga-
'he1a River, and is sufficient in guam
tity to supply town of $4,000.
One hundred and fifty boilers run
the great engines, the pumps and
the steam hammers. Natural gas
for fuel is furnished from the COM
pany's own we'll
cARNEGIE's FEUDAL STRONGHOLD.
About 5, 900 men are employed at
Homestead, and the output is four
times as big as the great Krupp
works in Germany. The Carnegie
company have purchased 100 addi-
tional acres and will add to the
works next year. This plot of land
is known as the City Farm, and is
already fenced by the heavy barbed
wire. About six weeks ago, in an
ticipation of conflict between the
Carnegie interests and the workmen,
stout board fence, IL feet high,
was built upon foundation of Stag
g feet high. This fence is three
miles long, and completely sur
rounds the steel works. On the top
are strung three strands of barbed
wire SO connected that current of
electricity may be sent through
them from the electric plant by the
simple turning of a switch in the
office. Port holes 4 inches in di-
ameter have been bored along this
fence at the height of mans eye.
Trenches have been dug over all
parts of the works to various points
along the fence whese hydrants are
stationed. Connections have been
made so that either cold or boiling
hot water can be sent through these
pipes to the hydrants and pumped
through the port holes on invaders.
Hundreds of arc lights have been
strung on high poles throughout the
plant, and along the fence and on
all the buildings near the roadway
search lights have been placed,
which in the darkness light up the
whole place thoroughly. On the
top of a high wooden building over
looking the river platform has been
erected and preparations made for a
Photographic apparatus. This is to
be used for instantaneous pictures
by the fash-light process in case an
attack is made upon the plant by
the strikers. 1t is supposed the
pictures will be used to identify
belligerant workmen, SO that they
may be discharged when the trouble
is over. On the river front the Car
negie steel launch "Annie" was fit
ted out as warship with swivel guns
and several fiatboats have been
equipped with small howitzers and
search lights.
HISTORY OF HOMESTEAD.
The men at Homestead have not
yet decided whether the portfolios
in the barbed wire fence are intend
ed for Pinkerton detectives guns or
streams of hot water. 1t is generally
believed, however, that they will be
used for both purposes if the Pinker-
tons once become intrenched in the
works. The pretty little town of
Homestead lies on the south bank
of the Monongahela River, seven
miles northeast Of Pittsburg: 1t is
built on 900 acres of land lying in
a great bend of the river and rising
gently by terraces to sloping hills
and knolls. The town is about 13
years old, and was built, not by the
Carnegies as is supposed, but by
their workmen. Most Of the resi-
dences are owned by their tenants
and were bought on the building
association plan. There are no
tenement houses, no flats and no
novels. Each house has its plot Of
ground in front and rear. The
town contains an opera house,
schools, churches and halls for the
various social organizations to which
the young people belong. II is
lighted by electricity, has good side
walks, fairly wen kept streets, and,
|best Of al, an intelligent, progressive
and peaceabla class q citizens, The
populatzon i about 10 coo Al tho