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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-07-14

Manila, July {, via Hong Kong. July
13.-The insurgents. yesterday, made
vigorous attacks on the Spaniards,
from all sides with little result. They
shelled the Spanish blockhouses and
trenches north of Manila and captured
the Spanish guns at Santa Mesa.
There was furious musket fire all
night long at San Juan, Santa Ana.
Pacon and Pasayi. the Spaniards re-
plying with artillery and musketry.
The insurgent artillery is not vet
operating. About 400 native militia at
Santa Ana have joined the insurgents
The insurgents have rushed the
Malate entertainments, pushing for
ward to the walls of the fort, but thew
had to retire at daylight. 1t is prob
able that both sides lost 100 men each
The Americans aad the insurgents
are acting independently, both con-
Quoting their own operations and hon.
ing to evolve an agreement after
wards
The extent and duration Of General
Aguinaldos influence is uncertain. But
it is certain that the Mohammedans of
the South Archipelago ignore him, and
the insurgents of the island of Luxon
and other regions are content to use
Aguinaldo until the Spaniards are ex-
PEELED, when there will be state of
chaos unless a strong force of Ameri-
cans assume control of the islands.
The secret Katipunan Society, which
was chiefly instrumental in organizing
the campaign, is not fitted, it is said
to assist in administering the govern
ment of the Philippines.
The Americans are postponing opera
tons until they are fully prepared for
any controversy. The natives ara
proving intractable. a.
About 10000 Americans are expSi
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-07-14
CLOUDY wEATaeR-wARmeR.

Boston, July 1S.-Generally cloudy :
weather, probably without rain:
warmer; northerly wind becoming
variable. - ~
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-07-14
waskIa les Forecast.

Washington. uly ls.-Forecas
Thursday: New England,
cloudy weather with showers
coast. fresh northerly VIM
are displayed on the
from PASSPORT to San
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-03-06

fluid compressed process. what WHIT
worth open hearth steel is you can
learn from your encyclopedia. L shall
tell YOU only how it looks, first as 1t
becomes a fluid in the glow OF the
great gas furnace and then as it passes
to the molds in the pit below the
building floor.
The furnaces are at the top of the
gloomy building. 1t is long pullo-
ing dimly lighted, black with coal
dirt, and showers dust and SCOT on you
as You enter it. Working about
steel furnace is a smutty business, and
the gases from coal and metal make 1t
a suffocating business, too.
You can look into the furnaces
where the steel is melting through lit
tle holes. but you must look through
blue glass if you would save your
ewes from a glare more brilliant imam
the sun. Through this glass you look
ON a sea of. violet white, dazzllngly
brilliant, tossing and squirting above
tbo furnace fame. This sea is being
raised slowly to a temperature CT =
sT0 degrees F. When it has reached
tbis noint and a little has been drawn
nff and tested chemically, the mouth
NJ the furnace is opened and, flow
ING like a living flame sending show
ers of sparks in all directions the
,,etal runs down into 'ladle." This
IadIe is so named from the office 1t
nerforms. but in general appearance
+ is unlike any ladle you have ever
seen. 1t is a tank about seven feet
che with an opening at the top and,
mike the ladle of household use ana
fame. an opening at the bottom. Inc
tank runs on wheels of steel on tracks
which are laid on each side of the
eastinp nit. 1t holds 80 tons OF molten
metal. s.u - :. ,,
When the ladle is full 1t is run
down the track to the place where the
mold is lying ready. Men, walking on
each side, pry with eroWoars OF iron
under the wheels, keeping at re-
enertfnl distance from the superheat-
cd tank. In this way the ladle IS
pushed along, and the crowDars piock
The wheels when the vent is 9usc
above the opening in the casting poN
intended to receive the metal. ihen
a man standing beside the ladie turns
an upright wheel, like the pllot
wheel on a ship. but made OF IRON ana
smaller and without SOUND tne
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-03-06
Thousand Men Are Working Niqht and
Duy al the Bethlehem Iron Works.

thick golden stream pours from the
bottom of the ladle into the box.
Showers OF sparks fly from it and
play about the men who are watching
the flow. They look like an exhibition
OF Chinese fireworks, but they cannot
be very dangerous, for the men face
them without tiinching, every eye but
the pilots fixed on the top of the
box.
'Ho-o-o.' cry a half dozen voices,
and the pilot puts his helm a-star-
board, and the how of metal stops. In
the opening at the top of the casting
box the metal, glowing still with its
temperature only 100 degrees less
than when it came from the furnace,
is tossing and throwing its tiny
waves upward, as though seeking to
escape.
The casting box is mounted on
wheels, which run on another track
laid in the pit. Down this track it is
rolled until it reaches a hydraulic
press. The plunger Of this press is
inserted in the top of the box, the
bed of the press is moved up from be-
low under enormous pressure, and the
great ingot is compressed, while fam
ing gas bursts from the sides of the
mold In England the pressure at this
stage of the process is applied from
above.
This compression makes the lump
of metal homogeneous. Before the
hydraulic press was used 40 per cent
of every ingot had to be cut off from
the top, because that part was porous
Now only small stub, or sinking
head, is left at the top and that, with
the piece cut from the bottom of the
ingot to remove impurities which may
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-03-06

piece of dough. The great white mass
radiates heat which is not altogether
ungrateful on midwinter day. though
| am not prepared to say that shoula
like it so close to me even Win the
thermometer at zero. In the summer
the men who guide the end OF the
mandrel and the man who escapes the
scale from the mass with Hat endeu
poker as it goes through the press
must lead lives of great suf1erlng.
Near the furnaces in the summer
months the heat is something awful
and men work stripped to their waists
bathed constantly in their own sweat
AS you watch the kneading process
going on under the press you see that
the tube is growing thinner ana
longer. The pressure from above e1-
pands it at the sides, and as 1t turns
around and around it is expanded az
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-03-06

ZION. Among the buildings runs also
d narrow gauge road, on which a dunn
my engine switches cars from one
mouse to the other, for you must re-
Hember that II inch gun weighs 1871
ooO pounds, and in handling first its
parts as they are developed and then
the completed gun enormous power
must be used.
Scattered here and there about the
yards are piles of debris, pieces of
mods, and near the casting houses are
great castings, whose jackets are being
cooled by stream of water previous
to their removal.
The system of transportation ex-
tends into the shops and through
them, and in the foundry, the forge
building and the great machine shops
are overhead tracks, on which run
great cranes. The lump of steel as it
Is being fashioned into the gun tube
OF gun hoop, is picked up by these
cranes and carried from one place to
another within the shops, and as it is
necessary to move it from one shop to
another, it is loaded on a car and
hauled by the dummy engine to its
destination.
steam hammers are familiar imple-
mentS to any one who has lived in an
iron working community. Visitors to
the Worlds Fair saw them in opera
ton, and lesser expositions have
shown them. But no such hammer as
the one at Bethlehem exists anywhere
in the world except at Essen. The
krupp works have a larger hammer
now, but the Bethlehem hammer was
the largest in the world when it was
erected. 1t has falling weight of 125
tons. For four years it has stood idle
and useless. 1t is so big that it Jared
all the machinery in the other build
ings, firm as the foundations are, and
drove the tools OF the great gun
lathes an inch deep into the tough
steel.
There are similar hammers in the
building with the large one, which are
in use to shape the massive castings,
but most of the work on the gun cast
ings is done by steady pressure and
not by blows. The great presses-one
of them eXerts pressure of 14,000
tons-are as spectacular as the ham
mers. But most impressive of all is
the casting room, where molten metal
flows in a shower of sparks from fur
naces and bubbles, seething and glow
ing, in the molds.
Ingots for the great coast defense
guns are made at Bethlehem from
Whitworth open hearth steel by the
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-03-06

have settled in the mold, is no more
than IS per cent of the whole cast
ing.
The ingot is left in the press for
some time after the gases have ceass-
ed to escape. Then it is taken outside
the furnace room, and two days later
the mold is broken away, the inner
jacket is removed in a great lathe, ana
the defective part of the ingot IS CUT
away. Now it is ready to be made
into tube for a great gun.
The first step in the forging is to
make a hole in the big steel block
Sometimes this hole is bored on a
lathe. These gun lathes are enor-
nous machines There is one at Wa
tervliet arsenal which weighs 56e,uoo
pounds. The process of cutting a hoie
through the ingot cold is much slower
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-03-06

this way or that. or it raises or low
ers the clamps which hang suspended
from it by chain whose links are an
inch thick. 1t works as easily and
smoothly and surely as the sand
dredge that You may have seen work
ing in a harbor or the crane that picks
up boxes and barrels at wharf and
drags them into the hold Of q vessel.
The 10000 pounds which hang between
the Jaws OF it's clamp are as little TO it
apparently as a block OF wood. 1t
picks up the great casting and puts IL
down Oh a car. which carries 1t to the
furnace room. There mandrel is put
through 1t, and it is hoisted by another
crane and swung into the mouth of the
furnace. AS it settles down the man
dral-a long, straight shaft Of metal
is tilted until the casting slides of the
end and settles on the bottom OF the
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-03-06

though it pats and squeezes the metal
rather than hugs it.
The presses used in the forging of
gun tubes have a pressure OF 1000 to
5000 tons There is an immense
frame Of steel, within it plate and
above that a plunger which works by
hydraulic pressure. A crossbar at the
end of this plunger covers the breadth
Of the open space between the sup
porting pillars Of the press. A little
army of men guides the mandrel on
which the casting hangs. Hydraulic
lifts hold it in position, turn it over
and move it backward and forward on
the bedplate. AS it moves and turns
the plunger goes down and up, and
the erossbar kneads it and pats it and
squeezes it just as you might pat and
squeeze and hold with your fingers a
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-03-06

every point until the trained eye of
the workman sees that it is of the
right shape for the shop. Then it is
lifted from the press. still on the
mandrel, and carried by one of the
overhead cranes to furnace, where
it is heated until it is Of salmon pink.
The right temperature is recognized
by the color. When that is reached,
the tube is hoisted out of the furnace
and plunged into bubbling tank of
oil. After that it is put into an an
healing furnace, where a fire of wood
completes the process of tempering it.
The Importance of this process is
very great, for if the government in
spectors, who test bars from casting.
find that it is below the high govern
ment standard it is rejected, and that
means loss Of several thousand dol
lars to the makers.
The forgings for the 10 and u inch
guns are delivered at the Watervliet
arsenal in the rough. There are IL
forgings for II inch gun. They range
in weight from the trunnion hoop,
which weighs 5000 pounds, to the tube
and jacket, which weigh more than
$1,000 pounds each. The aggregate
weight OF the IL pieces is $4,000
pounds, and the completed gun weighs
1850 pounds, about Is per cent of the
rough weight being removed in the
machine shops.
The Is inch gun, too, will be as
sembled at Watervliet, but the assem-
bling of the smaller guns is done here
Each piece is turned and bored down
to the proper dimensions on the big
lathes. The jackets and hoops are
shrunk in the tube. They are heated.
and the tube held aloft by one of the
great cranes, is lowered within When
the jacket, or hoop. cools, 1t contracts
and holds the tube in grip which
nothing can release. BY the shrinking
of the jacket on the tube and the
hoops on the jacket the gun is built
up" Modern guns are known as
built up" guns. and they have re-
sistance that was never dreamed Of In
the days of the civil war, though a
few built up guns were made at
that time. The largest of these early
built up guns was made of cast
iron reinforced with wrought iron. 1t
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-03-06

however, than punching hole through
the hot metal, and though cutting is
preferred, when the works are running
under pressure, as they now are, the
lngots are usually punched out.
A great crane comes down the shop
and picks up the 50 ton casting with
what looks like pair of exaggerated
ice tongs. This crane runs on an ele-
waited track. 1t runs up and down and
across the shop under the direction of
an engineer, who sits in little box at
the top of the building and travels with
it. AT the movement OF lever it runs
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-03-06

furnace. There you may see it and
other great hoops standing side by
side, some black, some red, some glow
ing white with the furnace heat.
When the casting has reached the
temperature for forging, the crane
lowers the mandrel into the furnace,
drops it into the hole in the casting
and Tits it until the casting rests on
it horizontally. Then it is lifted from
the furnace, swung outward and run
down the room to one of the great
hydraulic presses. This press is some
times called a "hugger," l believe,
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-03-06

weighed Ugh IL tonD and its cost was
$4,000. VS.
The making Of the breech mecban-
ism is another complicated undertak-
ing; so is the building of the disan-
pearing carriage. All these have bear
much simplified in recent years how
ever, and the gun which one TOOK Ill
or seven months in building can now
be turned out ready for service in ona-
third of that time.
GEORGE GRANTHAM PAIN
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-03-06
THE HUSBANDS TRIUMPH

THE HUSBANDS TRIUMPH.
New York Sun.
I began about a week before Christmas
to try TO find out just what she wanted T
sounded her on rings, pins. lorgnon =
gold purse, and a dozen other things Rn%
no, she didn't want any jewelry becanss
she didn't think We could afford it, in tha
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-03-06

p..-- v-or YOU IO0k very cheeIIUI
TINS nofhln ~ 9oost heen maxim wea
Falenl-I = 80 he amount D whisky
/ haze ia en- in my time and a. - ply.
est estimate the totals grauna' - ''A
Me-Up.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1898-02-18

St. Valentine receives distinguished at
tention from the new Golfers Weekly
there is a dainty full-page illustration,
By Stanlaws, of St. Valentines Day
poem by Clinton Scollard, and double
page plate. by Wenzell, OF "A Medieval
Love-Message, borne to a maiden by a
carrier dove. In striking contrast with
these plates is one Of the scene of dem
onstration against Zola by the Paris stu
dents, and frontiSpiece showing an inn
mense snow-plow at work in a city
street at night. Still another full-page
plate is one by Eric Pape, illustrating a
strange scene of Henry James novel
THE Turn of The Screw" Pictures and
criticism of the new play, "A Virginia
Courtship," cover a page. There is fine
portrait of Mexico's President, Diaz, who
is soon to visit the United States; and a
sketch map and its accompanying text
explain one Of the mysteries OF the inter-
national quarrels in China. The serial
story, IAN Impossible House Party"
continues to justify it's title, and the
special departments signed by Blanche
Willis Howard, Edgar Saltus, Julian
Hawthorne and Edgar Fawcett are as
full and varied as usual.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1898-02-18
COleDroOk, n. III.
Potatoes were selling at IS cents a
bushel last week.

Potatoes were selling at IS cents a
bushel last week.
Fitz Rolfe is bearing the loss of his hand
much better than his friends expected
He is able TO ride out, and is very cheerful
and hopeful.
Mrs. Z. A. Travers was called to Bloom.
field last Sunday on account of the ill.,
ness of her mother Mrs. Cordelia Spencer.
Last Saturday evening j. S. Chase re-
ceived news by telegraph from Kansas
that his mother Mrs. Mercy Darling
passed away at noon that day. Mother"
Darling was we'll known and much be.
loved by the people of this and adjoining
towns. She was eighty-fve years Of age
and died of brain fever.
The site for an Advent Charch has been
donated by Mrs. Shuah Mulliken on
Pleasant street. The Episcopals are to
hold services through the summer. Let
the good work increase and go on.
The next sociable is with Mrs. Sawyer
on High street.
The Ladies of the Congregational So
ciety served valentine supper on the
18th.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1898-02-18

Our readers will remember that a few
weeks since we made mention of Charles
Gonya formerly of this town going to
the Massachusetts, general hospital to
submit to delicate surgical operation.
The treatment was most successful, and
Charles is again at his home in Leomin-
ster. At that place he is manager of the
band, and it is apparent that he has won
warm place in the hearts of his fellow
musicians, for day or two after his re-
turn from the hospital they gave him a
serenade, and also presented him with a
beautiful, heavy oak reclining chair, ele-
gantlv carved and handsomely uphoIster-
ed. Better than all this was the kindly
words of appreciation of his services to
the band. Charles, as the local paper
puts it, responded as well as he could,
owing to his still weak condition, but his
words came from heart OF gratitude"
His MANY friends here are much pleased
to know OF the successful result OF his
treatment, and congratulate him in the
possession of the high regard and esteem
and the warm personal friendship OF the
members of the band.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1898-02-18
COLLIER,S WEEKLY.

OF all weekly papers there must be one that
is the best; COLLiERs WEEKLY is that one.
1t is made by combii. alton of the greatest
writers and greatest artists in the world, who
are regular contributors to its pages. and
each of whom occupies a page every week.
Mayo W. Hazeitine writes the editorials.
There is NO living man who sees clearer,
thinks straighter, and can convey thought
with such cogency and charm as he.
Edgar SaltuS writes Our Note Book" The
wide scope and brilliant quality of this ia
Inous writer's mind peculiarly fit him for his
function.
Julian Hawthorne does our "Vitascope."
These papers add week by week to the wealth
of a reputation already Worldwide.
Last, but not least, Edgar Fawcett, in his
Men, Manners and Moods, :" finds himself at
his best; and that best is unsurpassed by
any contem porary author. His social phil
osophy, his satire his humor and his poetry
constitute him the favorite writer OF men and
women of the world
As for our Artists-words cannot describe
pictures, and these drawings will speak for
themselves. So bright galaxy of famous
names expect to present never before
shone together in any journal.
This Incompatible pa per goes to every sub
scriber for $500 year, payable 80 cents
every month. On receipt OF your order the
paper will be sent you tor one month; then
our collector will call on you for the first
you for a similar sum every month until the
full subscription of $500 is paid. In no
other way can the money be invested to Sc
cure such ample returns of intellectual profit
and pleasure.
Address Golfers Weekly, 521 to $40 West
Thirteenth Street, and 500 to $50 Vest
Fourteenth Street, New York.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1898-02-18

The community was much shocked and
saddened last Tuesday to hear OF the
death of Mrs. d. A. Haynes. The de-
ceased had been troubled tor long time
with throat difficulty, but able to do
her ordinary household WORK till within
two weeks. Last week she went to Port
land hoping to obtain relief, but the doc
tors gave no encouragement whatever
of her recovering from her illness, con-
sumption OF the throat, and advised her
to return home. Mrs. Haynes was an
earnest and devoted member OF Grace
NJ. E. Church. and very prominent in the
Epworth League, at the head OF the
Mercy and Help department, whose mis-
sion is to visit and relieve the sick and
the destitute. In the past three years
she had done much good in this way.
a good wife, mother and friend has gone.
Her immediate family consists of hus-
band, son and daughter, and four broth
ers, and they have the universal sympathy
of the communityin their sad and sudden
bereavement. The funeral will take place
at p m. today, Thursday, at the house,
conducted BY Rev. A. E. Atwater.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1898-02-18

EVERYONE WANTS TO MAKE
MONEY! There is no denying this fact
Then see or write to an expert who has
spent TWENTY YEARS studying specu-
lations and investments. A broker who
advertised two years ago to to buy Man.
haitian around IS and pay for it, and
put it away in a safe and that it would
pay the investor six per cent. on his
money and a certain profit of $25 per
share on his holdings besides. Also he
advised to buy Lake Shore around S145
per share; also wheat around 55 cents.
Manhattan is now selling at SLY per
share, or $42 per share advance, and
Lake Shore S194 per share or $40 per
share advance, and wheat $1.C0 per
bushel, or so cents per buShel advance.
These are cold, uncontradictable facts
that appeared in public print and nmar-
ket letters. The same man now advises
to buy cotton under cents, corn under
80 cents and Louisville and Nashville rail-
road stock under $50 per share. Every
share that is bought and paid for and
laid away in a safe will be worth good
many dollars more inside of one year
Cotton will show $1,000 profit on 100
bales bought now, and Louisville and
Nashville will be four per cent. dividend
paying within one year and will be SELL
ing at $50 per share. Corn will be selling
at 40 cents before July next. Write to
+. E. Knott, stock and commission bro
ker, Burlington, VT, who has been estab-
lished in Burlington since 1886, who
buys and sells everything On the New
York stock Exchange and Chicago board
of trade, and he will give you further
particulars.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1898-02-18

Aug. Bogel. the leading druggist of
Shreveport, La, says: "0r. Kings New
Discovery is the only thing that cures my
cough, and it is the best seller have"
]. F. Campbell, merchant OF Stafford, Ariz
writes; "Dr. Kings New Discovery is
all that is claimed for it; it never fails,
and is sure cure for consumption,
coughs and colds. cannot say enough
Tor its merits" DR.. Kings New Discov-
cry for consumption, coughs and colds is
not an experiment. 1t has been tried for
a quarter of century, and today stands
at the head. 1t never disappoints. Free
trial bottles at Thurstou's drug store.