The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1898-03-16
INDUSTRIES ACTIVE.
large Order For the Manufacture Of Tin Flats
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What is reported to be the largest sins
gle order ever placed for hot and cold
mills for the manufacture Of tinplate u
almost ready for shipment from the
plant OF Macintosh, Hemphill q Co..
engine builders and founders OF Pitts
burg. The order Is from the Shenango
Valley Steel Company OF New Castle
which proposes going into the manu-
facture of tinplate on a most extensive
scale. When completed Its plant will
probably be the largest Of its kind In
the state. The shipment. which will be
made In few days, will consist OF ~
cold mills and 20 hot mills, all built
ready for immediate installation. The
big reversing engine for Carnegie's new
blooming mill at the Homestead Steel
Works Is also being built by the Mack
intosh- Hemphill plant. II Is to have a
5Ox72-inch stroke and when put In posi-
tion will be coupled direct to the mill,
no gearing being used. The engine is
| practically a duplicate of the one built
4 short time ago for the Jones & Laugh
lin plant.
The Westinghouse Electric and Ma
! shine Company. of Plttsburg. Is very
busy installing power plants in fac
tories throughout the country. There
ls general rush to do away with
shafting and lost power In big factories,
and large generators with small mo-
tors for each machine are now being
installed. The w. w. Kimball Com
pany, manufacturers of pianos of Chi
| sago and Swift e. Co and Nelson, Nor
ris & Co., new stock yards at st.
Joseph, are being equipped with cleo
| trical pewer and transmission plants.
The strike at the Whttenton Cotton
Mills at Taunton, Mass. is practically
ended. A delegation Of loom fixers
waited upon Superintendent Levering
and informed him that the operatives
were ready to return to work at the re-
| duced rate of wages. The help probably
| will return to work next Monday or
week from Monday. About 1000 per-
sons were affected by the movement.
Plans are well under way by the
Reeves Iron Company for extensive en-
iargements of their sheet iron depart
| ment at Canal Dover. o., whereby en-
ployment will be given to large num-
ber OF men. Heretofore the Reeves peo.
pie have had but one sheet MILL but
they are about to start three new sheet
mills. which will triple their output.
The first one will be ready to turn out
sheet in two weeks and the two others
shortly thereafter. About 100 men VIII
be given employment.
Pittsburg and Beaver capitalists are
projecting an electric railway to con-
meet the town of New Sheffield. Beaver
| county, with WoodlaWn, on tne Lake
Erie Railroad The distance Is about
two miles. Part of the route has been
surveyed.
Plans are completed for a second
plant In Braceville, o.. to crush rock
into sand. The sand will be for maxi
Ing glass. and from 100 to 150 men will
be employed.
The Scottdale Iron and Steel Com
pany recently started two new sheet
mills, making eight now In operation
employing about 375 men,.
The Ohio Steel Company at Youngs.
town, o.. has again broken Its record
for output of ingots, one turn producing
S9i ingots. amounting to 947 tons.
The Richardson Clutch and Gas En-
gine Company has accepted the offer by
the board of trade of Grove City. Pa,
for a free site and 5000 cash bonus for
the location there OF its plant
New machinery to cost $4,000 is to be
put in at the Greenville Pa) tube
works. and 1t Is expected 400 men will
be employed when improvements are
completed.
Workmen in the finishing department
of the Dueber- Hampden watch works
Canton, O., have accepted 10 per cent
reduction.
A flve-acre crop of tobacco was sold