The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1892-07-15
THIRD EDITION.


Through Information received from
4 gentleman OF most undoubte1 We
rncity. yesterday the REPUBLICAN
etntcd that the Mccullough Iron Com
phny was making preparations to start
III tho business OF tin plato manufac-
turing about the first OF September
Ienrning this morning that there was
mistake somewhere a representative
oil the REPUBLICAN, called at the Me-
Cuilough Iron Company's Office. whore
lie saw Mr.. f. A. Harvey and other
gentlemen, members Of the Associa-
tinn.
Mr.. Harvey said it Ia true that wo
ara putting up a new building 40xd0
feet. and putting in a pair of new rolls,
TO do finer and more intricate work
than we have been doing, but we have
not had any intention OF going into
the manufacture OF tin-plate. The
rolls that we are putting in are for
the purpose OF making thin steel
sheets and they are called tight rolls.
The old system was composed of
loose rolls, by which only ono sheet
could DO rolled at a time, and then
only by throwing loose ashes over the
Iron sheets. BY the new system wo
can roll d number OF sheets together,
hy which they can be rolled much
thinner ON account OF the retention OF
tho heat. These thin steel sheets, how
ever, are not the size OF tin-plates.
neither were they Intended to DO con-
yetted into tin-plntes.
But Mr.. Harvey" asked the report.
er, "have you no Intention in the near
future of starting up the manufacture
Of tin-plater'
NO. said Mr.. Harvey, I'VE have
made no preparations for such an
event, but will say that II the present
protection policy OF the country con
tlnues. do not know what we might
do
.'You can, supposs, convert your
present machinery into machinery for
manufacturing tin-plate very easily,
suggested the reporter.
40 indeed" said Mr.. Harvey. ut
would rsauire much labor and ex.
pense, and al sntirely new Quilt oil
machinery"
Mr.. Harvey spoke very enaourag-
ingiy OF the future OF the tin-plate In.
dustry OF this country, and mentioned
quite number Of mills in the coun'
try that were successfully manufde'
turing tin-plate.
lin annually to supply this country.
II can be manufactured here as we'll
rs In England, and II will not he long,
II tho protective policy OF the country
keeps up, II will eventually be manu-
factured here, but IL may possibly be
twenty years before this Is done.
In reply to the question Of how the
Homestead and other labor strikers In
the West would affect his business Mr.
Harvey said il would make no differ.
ercs as different scale OF wages pro
vailed in tho east compared with tho
western scale. Another difference was
that in the west tight rolls We're al
most invariably used, requiring more
skilled labor, while in the east the
loose roll system prevailed. Men who
worked ON one system would make
very Indifferent hands on the othei
system.
MIR. Harvey was not apprehensive o.
strike In Wilmington, even II it was
but In sympathy with the Homestead
and Pittsburg strikers, and even II I
strike should occur 1t would have Yer.
little bad effects, as there was very lit
Ito doing now anyhow.
Be sure md make the correction Il
regard to our going into thu tin plat
manufacturing business said Dlr. lar
yey as the reporter loft.