The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1895-06-08
Rsv. T. 9. Watson Writes Of Mig Pittsours
Industries.
EAST CLARENDON, ONO,
Nav % lS.tS

tatiyes of other denominations together
with oar med rIto.', equally compl,
mentary replies to each-nothing
requires debate or voting-a party of
fifteen set out on trolly car for the
famous armor plate works of the Car
niSie Co, at Homestead, five miles out.
The town has a population of twelve
thousand. About five thousand men
are at work in the factories. We had a
poor guide, but managed to get little
something out of him We saw the
melted iron poured into the moulds that
formed the immense, elongated blocks
of solid iron; saw these blocks again.
lifted up by powerful c}inchers. while
red hot, carried around by ear and en-
CINE to a great roller crushing machine;
lifted up again, and laid lengthwise on
stretcher. which carried them into
the awful mouths of the rollers.
The thunGerous roar as they went
thro' fairly startled Us. The mass went
In, two feet thick, each way: it came
oat the FIRST time, about one foot thick
and three feet wide: and this was re
peated until the desired size was OBJ
tanned. Then came, one after another
dozen processcs-sawing with electric
avs, cutting circular openings for can
mons mouths, by repeated drilling of
holes side by side; fling, pressure under
eighteen tons weight, trimming. polish.
ing, etc. There were others in the pro-
cess of finishing, much larger and
thicker than those We saw in the lump
1t seems verify impossible that any
power in nature could hurl ball of
steel, hard enough and with sufficient
rapidly to penetrate such plates. H.
dee to us neophytes, it seemed as if a
ship covered with such plates must of
necessity 6e sunk, with the aid of guns,
by its own weight.
Yet we now know that ships are
covered, in their vulnerable parts with
plates eighteen inches thick, and that
our thirteen inch guns, just completed,
can send their immense steel pointed
balls throug them.
The recent rise Of twenty-five per
cent in the wages of the men has mad.
all happy. Riding out on Fifth Ave.
We saw the beautiful residenc of Mr..
frick, the Sup't., and often passed by.
or in sight of the noble structure which
Mr.. Carnegie is completing for public
library.
He has already built one for Ale
yheny, and another for Braddock and
another for Homestead. as we under.
stand. though We have seen only the
.wo first mentioned.
Through the courtesy Of a Young
nan in the Steady Side PRESBYTERIAN
we obtained passes to 90
through the Pittsburg Consolidated
Plate Glass Works. They are situated
Ioout seventeen miles up the Allegheny
alley. The best time to see the whole /
process was, fortunately, the only time
We could do so, and not miss any bust /
ess at the assembly. Armed with /
ur passes, two of US from Spokane
'fesbytery, rose early Monday morning.
ook breakfast at our hotel, on first call
nj by seven O'Clock, were on the West
'ennsy!vania cars for Tarentum, and
moving along at good speed.
Our guide there was good one. We
aw the great pot Of clay, filed with
qnid glass, lifted from beneath the
barring furnace, carried by a crane, and
nptied along one end Of large slab
he iive-ton iron roller rolled it out in.
plate, about ten or twelve. by
we've to fifteen feet in size, followed
y a small roller to work down the
aVes. The red-hot sheet, over half an
lch thick was then slid into hot fur
ace, where tile gass fires had first been
'tinguished, and were lett to slowly
'ol for three or four days. Taken ont
gain, they are imbedded in plaster
arls, and placed under iron dull teeth
hich grind them down, first with
'arse sand, then with finer three times
hen they are ready for the coarser and
ner emery process; then again, for il
'ection and separation of imperfect
atcs or fractions Of plate; then, for
Ie polishing board, where brushes of ;
IL, with rouge make them the beauti. i
u plates We see. The quartz comes
ON the mountains naer by, the plaster c
IT'S from Michigan, the emery from !
lrkey, the sulphates and soda. etc =
ON other quarters. Altogether it was a
interesting sight, even to the mechar. Il
holding the melted glass. y
At the risk Of being tedious. we must p
d word about the Westinghouse Il
ectrlc Manufactures. Last January l.
ese, needing much more room. were =
wed out to East Pittsburg, twelve
les away. We took them in on Mon
y afternoon, the day the assembly
20 Irned. There are four thousand. b.
'iu ing many women, at work, there. ia
wing our young friend from the "a "a
npany Of two hundred co leg. bows. vi
a guide, we had full liberty to ask j.
.st!ons; but We are very much afraid az a.,
u there was NOR "Gree'." about it al
n we were familiar with. But we Il.
enjoy seeing just how the incandes N,