Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1895-09-26
Ranublican Nominations.
OLD INDUSTRIES IN PITTS
BURG.

Almost every body knows that tne
furnaces and factories Of Pittsburg ana
vicinity turn out more steel, iron ana
glass tasn those OF any other city IN tne
country; and that its coal trade is immense
but Pittsburg has other industries OF whicn
little ia known by the world in general.
Come of these are described in an article
by Bion H. Butler in the Pittsburg I'meS
of last Friday, as follows
In the manufacture of cork goods PITTS
burg ranks first. The railroads aoou, once
n week bring in train load of cork BARK
and other supplies to the cork works. ana
carry away as much as they bring worked
ND into finished product. The CITY can
make about 20, 600, 900 corks week. De-
sides nearly 100, 900 cork soles in the same
snace of time, In addition great many
special articles are made Of cork. Bicycle
handles are staple and regular product
So are corset stays. Cork enters into a
multitude of special things that are made
at the Pittsburg cork factories, but moth
that ia more novel than the pair OF shoes
fitted up by one of the city cork factories
for a Young man short instature. The
fellow had tall girl, and he was looking
forward to a dance to which he had en-
saeed to take her. In order that MS
stature might not show off to disadvan-
rare he obtained pair Of shoes much TOO
large, and by having them fitted az the
factory with all the cork they would hold'
and admit his feet, he succeeded IN get
ting enough under his feet to raise him
two .nchas in height. The manufacture
OF cork in Pittsburg employs 200 to l'ooo
peop,s The crude material is brought
from Spain and Portugal. Some expert
ments are ON foot looking to the produc-
t;on of the cork tree in America. As 1t
takes the tree about 80 years to yield bark
th;ek enough for commercial uses, the
crop will not be large one.
AZ the foot of Locust street, in Ale
pheny city, is an establishment that mas
pttIa, in common with the industries
thonght TO be 80 typical of Pittsburg. 1t
Is md large plant Of the Pittsburg Brass
comnany an institution that started IN
1896 in two rooms of the Eagle cotton mill
huiIdina. near the Sixth street bridge.
Three wears ago the magnificent big struc-
tnre on Locust street was erected and 1t
now makes staple article-the Pittsburg
Iamp. This in itself is unique in It's sue
eess' as il has penetrated the globe as TAR
ss Calcutta and the West coast of Africa.
But the company makes line OF onyx
tables that Is more interesting. 1t is in
teresting also to know that the output OF
the factor ia the largest of any in Amer
ica, averaging 1000 ony1-topped brass
tables every dag.
High priced workmen design the vari-
Gus STYLES of tables, and the work is done,
from. The casting Of the iron and brass to
the finishing in gold. plate, in the big
building. One exception TO the finished
work is in the grinding of the onyx. onyx
v ffa S siE p
pany, approaching the cornelian in hdes.
TIC supply used at the Allegheny factory
ia brought from Mexico. From the City
of Mexico it goes to New York, whence
the Pittsburg Brass company send their
supply to Buffalo to be polished and ground
to shape. No facilities exist in Pittsburg
to cut and polish it cheaply enough for
COZ. .nsroial purposes. The daily output
Of the Pittsburg company is close to 3,ooO
pieces day in tables and lamps, OF which
cnyx constitutes the column OF the lamps
and the top of the tables. The tables sail
in the markets of the world at prices rang
ing from 81 to $50. Cabinets on more
elaborate style than the tables run in price
rs high as 500.
ha~,an ia m uunan
pockets, New deposits have TO be sought
continually to keep up the supply. Some
times q nice block will be found from
vh;ch can be cut pieces that will be worth
eight or ten dollars for piece eight inches
SQUARE. In the same block will be other
pieces worth not o fourth that much and
some that is absolutely valueless. Tie
soloriIg and texture have all to do with
the value. The high priced pieces go in
to expensive tables carefully designed and
worked out by hand and heavily plated
with gold. The cheaper kinds are used in
tables made of light iron castings and
plated with brass. But even the cheapest
are handsome.
Pittsburg imports from Fuboea(an
island of the Aegean sea, east Of Greece)
annually the material to urDish gas for
more than 100, 100000 glasses of soda
water. and scarcely a hamlet from Penn
sylvania to the rocky mountains goes
through the summer without more or less
OF lA5 gas manufactured by the Liquid
Carbonic Acid Manufacturing company,
which has factory in Benvenue, in the
Ea.s eu.. The company has factories al
10 in St. Louis. Chicago, Milwaukee, and
the foui factories supply the bulk
Oh the soda water gas made in the United
States 0ther concerns exist, but they
arc fev 10 number, and their business is
limited compared with what is done by
the conp.ly operating in Pittsburg.
The material imported from Greece is
ealoiued Grecian magnesite, the purest
source in the world of carbonic acid gas
1t is brought over by the Pittsburg oom-
pany a ship load ct o time. After the gas
is driven out the by-product ia sold to the
openhearLh steel makers, as ii withstands
the extreme of the heat better than any
thing else they can obtain.