The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-07-27
=. Heald's Process for Removing
RnCrustoi Oil From Boilers.
n is SIMPLE AND INEXPENSIVE.
Kope Driving and Belt Puliing-A Novel
Case Against an Engineer-rhe Social
Manufacturing Co. OF woonsocket TO
Extend Its Weave shop.

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encrusted oil from steam boilers that is
1ust now matter Of much Importance.
IN some cases recently weeks have been
spent In scraping off the oil that found
its way from the condensers and feed
water into marine boilers. The Monterey
and Peru are two cases, costing thou
sands of dollars in expense, not Co include
loss OF time, when, as Mr. Heald claims,
all that was required WAS TO put into the
boilers some redwood sawdust, which by
attrition cuts or the oil. and by supe-
rior affinity absorbs it, leaving the whole
as loose granular deposit in the bottom
cred by an experiment at the Starr
Gour mills. near the Heald works, where
. battery of boilers badly oil-coated
were perfectly cleaned in few days
time, and no expense or detention what
ever.
Rope Driving.
Considerable space is being given In
the contemporary industrial magazines
to the discussion of the relative merits OF
rope driving and belt driving. In
the India mills In Darwin, Eng
land. the rope driving has given
better results than betting and Ia
quoted as q result Of its superiority, both
IN amount of work done and in point OF
economy. This method is being introdu-
esd in many large mills in this country,
and one Of the first ones to take it up was
tho Warren Manufacturing company
at Warren. They use cotton rope for the
transmission of power from their engines
70 the different floors OF their factory. In
this plant there are some forty ropes OF
the Lardeth make
A Novel Case.
A novel case has been taken to court
= tho people Of Ironwood, Mich. The
ESxinser in charge OF the water works
emitted dead fish, birds and other
matter 60 petrefy at the bottom OF the
stand pipe through which the water for
the city 10 pumped. An epidemic OF
typhoid fever resulted. The city now
proposes TO ascertain the legal respon-
uuences Of his neglect Of duty.
A peculiar fate has befallen rain
maker In Kansas. He claimed TO have
catisod cloud-Durst which came without
warning. A farmer, whose crops were
injured. now attempts to make the rain
maker pay Tor the damages his storm did:
Evidently the rain doctors lot Is hard
one, a. we'll in Kansas as in the wilds of
Africa
Report Business Good.
George w. Payne g. Co. of Pawtucket,
machinists and builders of tho improved
upright spoilers and patent cone wind
ers, say that their business has been very
good during the past month. They have
made one shipment OF four machines to
Paris, France, and one OF two machines
to Rio de Janoiro, Brazil. They are at
present very busy on hosiery winder
work.
To Extend Its Weave Shop.
The Social Manufacturing company,
Woonsocket. r. L, let out a contract for
the erection of weave shop in rear Of
the Social mill. the building to be 20Ox5O
feet and one story high.
Mr.. Charles e. Drew. formerly Of
Baker g. Drew, proprietors of the
Lsicester knitting mills of Woonsocket,
1s starting in the same line at Farming
ton. N. a.
Tho Largest Dredgs.
A new dredge. said to be the largest ia
the world. has been put into operation on
the Mersey. at tLiverpool. 1t is 800 feet in
length, and it Is calculated that it will
raise - 900 tons of matter daily from the
bar at the mouth of the river.
kxperimeuts are shortly to be carried
ont by the Navy department to deter
mine the best colors to paint war ships in
order to make them as difficult as pos
nible to sight at sea-
A successful trial has been made on
Long Island Of an underground electric
railway system, for which claims Of ad-
vantage over the usual trolley system are
made.
Has Returned From the West
N l. Jacoby, traveller for the Providence
Stock company, returned last week from
long visit among the western buyers.
He reports business quiet.
Augustus Chase, who has been twelve
years engaged with the firm OF Foster &,
Bailey, on leaving their employ recently,
was presented with fine solid gold
chain aud charm by his fellow workmen
The Howard Sterling company of this
city has been closed for the past two
weeks as is customary with other large
establishments at this season of the year.
A through overhauling and repairing
having been made, they will resume
operations on this week.
In the new and magnificent equipped
plant of the Baston Finishing wor Ks at
Williamstown, Mass, a great deal of the
equipment has been furnished by Rhode
Island firms. The calendering aud other
machinery OF a similar character was
Furnished by the Granger Iron Foundry
ers were built by {. A. Luther aud com
pany, Of Pawtucket, and the drying ma.
chinery by the II. w. Butterworth CON-
pany Of this city.
Personal and General.
The calender department of the Inter-
1aken mills at Arkwright. is to have n
130-foot extension OF the calender depart
ment, and a 24-foot addition to the en-
bossing rooms
Stern Bros. & Co., of New York, have
repievined q. 600 worth OF diamonds from
the Providence Jewelry comp my and
sbe st. Louis Trust company
Charles A. Russell, OF Irons & Russell,
sas returned from an extended Visit 10
he Worlds fair and other points in tl o
west. His IA nily accompanied him.
DeLoid Stafford. president of the Jewel
ers' Mercantile Agency, visited the
Providence Office OF the concern last
week. Mr. Stafford is Ia much imps owed
health.
Mr.. and Mrs. Julius Eichenberg OF
Providence. have been passing their
honeymoon at Saratoga
Robert NJ. Hamilton, OF Hamilton a.
Hamilton, jr., las recently returned from
r bu~i1es, trip.
Villa u Loeb. the ring manufac urer
Of this city. has rt Gently returned from a