The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-02-17
He Wants to Be known rs a HOosier and
Talks Aluminium.

He Wants to Be Known HoOsier and
Talks Aluminium.
DEAR FRIENDs-I have had the grip
That is why have kept in my little corner
roasting my toes by the fire. Did you
ever have that dreadful disease? 1 am
like the son OF Erin. who said when asked
if he had the grip, replied: "Yis sor, and
it served me badly, sor; I was sick three
weeks after got WE'LL But it's no use
talking about what everybody has had.
Ny Hoosier blood was up when l saw
my last article headed: "A Good Word
from a Pennsylvania" 1 am a regular
| d-in-the-wool-yard- wide Hooserl
am only sojourning in Pennsylvania
| People don't live there; they exist. Al
though l am In the shadows of the smoke
! OF Pittsburg, everything l find is from
| fifteen to forty years late in the march of
| progress. This section is a struggling
mass of humanity from the uttermost
parts of Europe. If 1 want to
| see the people of the old
world, especially the pauper elements, |
need only stand on a street corner and
see them pass by. Especially OH Sstur-
day afternoon when Oft from work.
| still better place is in Union depot, Pitts
afternoon. 1t is out of the question to
describe the crowd, herd or drove, as you
may designate them. 1t is a puzzle TO
me how tue ticket sellers ever manage 10
get these people to the right destination.
The most dsagreeable feature of the
whole business is these people don't al
ways stay sober, and when provoked un-
der such conditions are a very dangerous
class. What Is TO be done with this bad
mixture Is more than any student of So
GEOLOGY can tell. Just now the starved
and prosecuted Russians are finding their
way here. And as they are in destitute
circumstances they will work for any
wages offered. which means the discharge
of so many Americans, although it
takes about five of these Russians to per-
form the labor of three Americans The
question of great moment is how to keep
out this undesirable element and vet allow
the desirab e to enter. Can we as a nation
afford TO allow our generosity TO exceed
our good common sense? McKinleyism is
largely responsible for the present state of
things in this state. The manufacturers
under his bill are doing all they can to
make as much money as possible out of
their business under the high tariff of the
present administration for they know it's
make hay while the sun Shines" as thew
see a cloud above Cleveland of a Gray
color, which will gather into a cyclone
this fall and sweep this whole land of the
tariff miasm and purify the air; restore
healthy action and vitality TO the nation
Therefore they import paupers, discharge
Americans and pile up the fiat" while it
is called today, for the time cometh when
no man can work" They see the hand
writing on the WALTON the Chinese wall
of high protection.
Last summer some one said in these
columns they were afraid the new metal.
aluminium, would be q failure | lust
came across some more facts about it. 1t
is made from cryohte, a word derived from
kruos. cold, frost. and lithos, stone. a
fiuoride OF sodium and aluminium found
in Greenland, OF pale grayish
white ana snow white. 1t
is mined and brought to Philadelphia
in specially constructed vessels. Part of
it is used near Philadelphia in a chemical
works. while the remainder is shipped to
point near Pittsburg. There the ore is re
duced and bi-carbonate of soda, or cooking
soda, sal-soda and many other chemicals
are extracted from 1t, even gold and sill
yer. The residue is taken few miles
down the river, where the Pittsburg re-
duction company makes it by electrolysis
into aluminium in the bar.
1t is said there is only enough of the ore
remaining unmined in Greenland to last
fifty years. But there is good substitute
for 1T in Arkansas called ''beauxite,"
which is found in fiat layers covering vast
areas, and can be readily reached and
easily mined.
New processes for reducing aluminium
are being constantly discovered. read
of one near New York where the metal
was made at a cost not exceeding 80 cents
per pound. This is cheap, considering its
weight is but one third that of cast-iron
and that formerly it was worth S64 per
pound and was once worth its weight in
gold. When it can be produced as cheap
or cheaper than tin it will drive that
article from the market, as 1t does not rust
nor corrode. 1t can be manipulated in
more forms than tin. 1t can be rolled
into sheets OF any thickness, beaten into
foil, drawn into wire of any size and
moulded into any shape. 1t reeists ordi-
nary acids, atmospheric changes, and has
greater tensile strength than steel. Take
to quarter inch bar of
steel and it will lift $4,000 pounds
more than the steel. A cast trace
chain of aluminium will draw 500 pounds
more than wrought iron chain of the
same size. The German army is refitting
the soldiers knapsacks with the new
metal, as it never rusts and is so much
lighter. Tableware, jewelry, buttons
kitchenware and many other things are
made out of this wonderful metal.
Lest my wheel friends will forget that |
am "bikist." will say that / have ridden
some every month during the winter. 1t
is delightful to take spin with the
feathery flakes filing the air, TO the tune
of the merry jingle of sleigh bells. 1t is
warmer than walking, and as speedy as
sleighin0, and ten fold more celebrating
My eye Just now catches the following
item: THE most beautiful alloy yet dis
covered Ia made of GOLD and Aluminium