The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-08-23
How Kansas City Guests
Looked at Us.
CorIiss Engine Works, Gorham's and
Squantum.
They Had Good Timc and Were
Sorry to Go Away.

From a Special 10 the Kansas City Times.
PROVIDENCE, X. L., Aug. 3. Two guns
doomed out a farewell salute at the
Squantum club as the good boat What
Cheer swung off from the landing TO take
The Times delegation 10 the train in
Providence for the homeward journey.
Their reports formally marked the end of
The Times excursion of business men
10 New England, incidentally the close
OF a royal reception which the Business
Mems Association of Rhode Island and
the Mayor and city government gave to
the visitors.
The expedition has been a triumphal
progress. Ii has risen 10 the level OF
popular demonstration. The chief execu-
tive OF Massachusetts,, Governor Green
balge, welcomed IL in Boston; United
States Senator George +. Hoar character
led IL as the expression of the begin
ming of an era of good feeling in his
speech at Lynn; bankers, business men,
Mayors, leading citizens OF Springfield,
Worcester, Hartford, Salem, Lowell, Law
renee, Manchester, Brockton and Provi-
dence have turned out TO give the West
erners a reception unprecedented for
hospitality and generosity.
AS an enterprise for the good OF Kan
sas City II has been an overwhelming sue
cess. The general expression of opinion
everywhere heard was that as an enter
prise Tor drawing the people of both
sections together, the plan was admirable
and its execution perfect. The distribu-
tion of $1,000 copies of the special
Eastern edition of The Times has already
brought forth good fruit. Mr.. w. B.
Thayer left the party at Providence for
New York this evening. He Will not re-
turn so Kansas City for the present.
DAY IN PROVIDENCE.
The wanderer was 20 minutes late when
the station was reached and the represent
atives OF the city and the Rhode Island
Business Mems Association plunged up
the steps with the air OF men who long
had. been awaiting good thing. Presi-
dent w +. Knight of the Rhode Island
Association ana Secretary George A.
Littledeld, locally distinguished by his
auburn hair and also by his joke SIS the
Chauncey Depew of Rhode Island, and
the other members conducted the visitors
TO carriages whence they were driven to
the beautifuI.city ball. In the great recep-
tion room, a stately apartment, were
waiting an assembly Of prominent busi-
ness men and representatives OF the mH-
nicipal government. They were Mayor II.
#. Olney, Ex-Governor ID. Russell Brown,
q gentleman of distinguished appearance,
favorite son OF old Rhody, whom his
fellow citizens are backing very hard for
vice-president on the next Republican
national ticket; j. Lewis Pierce, presi.
dent OF the Board of Trade: James Il.
Field, president Commercial Club Au-
gusttne Jones, president Advance Club;
Leander G. Belcher, Charles III. Childs,
James Snow, ID. M. Thompson, Thomas
Nixon. These gentlemen were all stand
ing In q semi-circle and each was intro
duced as The Times delegation filed by.
As the stay OF the visitors was limited
by the early departure OF the train, no
time was lost in lounging about the city
hall hurried inspection was made of the |
beautiful building and carriages at once |
were taken for the great Corliss manufac- |
turing plant, a spot historical to all work |
ers In machinery and power. As the We |
hicles drove through the winding streets
the Providence men pointed oJt the vnri-
Gus objects of local interest. Most of |
them had some relation, near or remote,
to Roger Williams, the celebrated dissent
ing divine, whose name is indissolubly
connected with the settlement of Provi-
dence. Where his burial place il no one
really knows, for, said Mr.. Leander
belcher sagely, III Rogers grave were
known there would be monument over
1t In q minute, ana there is no monu-
ment."
VISITING THE CoRrIss PLANT.
The Corliss Manufacturing Company's
plant is series OF long, low buildings,
fenced in with high paling fence and
plat. President b. 81 Thompson met
the party at the door and took the gen.
tlemen through. Forty years ago George
A. Corliss designed these works, and for
almost half a century they have remain
ed model TO engine builders and
scientific world TO the mechanics the
world over. Today they are still up to
date with very few changes from the
original design OF the inventor until two
years before his death, when he designed
new machinery at cost OF s400, 000
Corliss was genius in whatever he un-
dertook. There is a certain style, an in
dividuality about the machines in this
great plant unlike any in the world. The
work is very heavy, great planers shave
huge castings which are borne by car
riages as long as freight cars. Great
lathes bore cylinders big enough for two
or three men TO comfortably sit i'm. In
the moulding rooms castings which one
reight car alone can barely carry with
comfort 10 its springs are moulded with
the same ease and simplicity which char
acterizes the moulding OF window sash
weight. Steam hammers pound relent-
lessiy upon bars OF glowing metal three
feet thick and reduce them to symmetri-
tal shapes.
While the party was passing through a
gang OF begrimed wolkmen began 10
swing with steel-armed crane q bar "a
inches In thickness .nto position upon
the block OF great hammer. Five men
guided It's red hot glowing end into posi-
ton. lt rested on the block in place. One
man stood by the lever He moved the
hsndle slightly. Thump came the gigan-
tic force upon the mass. The ground
shivered. Thump IL came again and the
ruddy metal was fiattening. Over on its
side little was the great bar turned.
and II again went the persistent smash
OF the hammer. The ends OF that bar
looked like the ground-rotted lower ex-
tremity OF an old telegraph pole, but with
much trembling OF earth and much pers-
piration, humping and poundinhg the
great bar was at last reduced to a fairly
symmetrical shape.
FoRoINos FROM HoRsEsHoEs
This forged steel was once horseshoes.
The Corliss works prefers them above all
for their steel forgings Useless to aid the
speed OF the horse from hard usage they
are brought up and forged into shafts and
rods for the great engines, and travel un-
worn by rocks or f1inty roads round and |
round or back and forth until their useful
career Is over. In shed thousands of
them are piled. They are heated and
forged together into bars and the bars