The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1899-07-21
ANOTHER
INDUSTRY
New Concern Will Make Brick at
Whippany.

HlpPully'
Charles w. Ennis and Robert D.
Foote of Morristown are Vice
President and Treasurer Respec-
lively of the New Company-Paid
Up Capital SIS, 5,OOO-I5O Men are
Now Constructing the Plant.
Whippany has treated the business
world to many surprises during the past
few years. The McEwan Brothers half
million-dollar- patent, railroad connec-
tions with Morristown, telephone ex-
change, score or more of new houses
and thrift not exceeded by place of
its size in the State, marks the Whippany
of to-day
The latest industry, the Moore Brick
Manufacturing Company, recently in
corporated with paid up capital of $75,-
900, bids fair to become one of the lead
ing industries of the kind in New Jersey
Work was begun only few weeks
ago, but a force of $50 workmen and
twenty-five teams are rapidly pushing
the work. For years past it has been
generally known that huge bed of clay
under laid the Moore farm. Expert tests
were made, the results exceeding the ex-
pectations of all concerned,
The tests showed that the clay was
strong in aluminium, thus especially fit
ting it for the manufacture of petrified
brick for paving and sewer work, hol-
low, buff and red, repressed and common
brick. A popularity of the clay is that
the color can easily be changed accord
ingly, as the mixture of sand is increased
or decreased.
Already forty-five foot stack has
been erected, with eight tunnels, in
which green brick will be run on cars,
holding 500 each, direct from the mould
ing machine, dried and then switched on
track leading to the kilns. The capac
ity of the drier is about 100, 600; the
dried brick will constantly be replaced by
those just from the machine, thus econ
omizing space, while the stock for burn
ing is kept up.
Adjoining the tunnels and stack
two-story frame building, 150xS5, will
soon be completed. The clav will be
carried to the second story of this build
ing on tramway, from which it will be
dumped into granulator, thence it will
pass through disentegrator to the pug
mill, brick and repressing machines, 10.
Gated on the ground floor. The changes
from one machine to the other will be
automatic. The green brick, as noted
above, leave the machines and are dried
in the tunnels.
The main kilps six in number will be
located in close proximity to the drier,
from which cars of brick can easily be
run. The kilns are of the down draft"
model and in common with other ap-
pliances are of the most modern in use,
with a capacity of 1GO,SG0 each; they will
be erected of steel boiler iron, lined to
thickness of three feet with fire brick.
It is so planned that either coal or oil
can be used for burning; the arrange
ment of the drafts and hampers, while
affording great heat when desired, by
clever devices, can be shut off and uti-
lized in the dry kilns.
By complete system Of tracks and
switches every point in the big plant is
reached, 80 that from handling the clay,
in the rough, through its various stages
of manufacture, to the large store house,
if not loaded and shipped direct from the
kilns, cars are used and the expense is
kept down to very low figure.
David Salkind is driving we'll which
is already down to a depth of 80 feet.
The power will be furnished by a $50
horse power Corliss engine and two Nc
Evan boilers of 100 horse power each.
In addition to market in New Jer-
sey, Philadelphia, New York and else
where, the company are arranging to do
large export trade Porto Rico and
Cuba, affording an excellent market for
paving and sewer brick. The secretary,
J. Condit Smith. son of the late we'll
known Col. Smith of Troy Hills, was in
the Spanish-American war, enlisting in
the First Missouri Light Artillery which
did effective service in the Porto Rico
campaign He has made careful study
of this market and is certain that large
and profitable trade will be opened at
once.
The officers are: Robert B. McEwan,
presidents Charles W. Ennis, vice-p -presi-
dent; j. Condit Smith, secretary; Rob-
ert d. Foote, treasurer.
They are among the most prominent
and energetic business men of this vi
cinity, who have well merited reputa-
tion for sagacity and pushing to sue
cessful completion what they undertake.
Practical men of long experience will
be placed at the head of each depart
ment, and to this add the best machinery
attainable and with clay which has
responded successfully to every test, the
future of the Moore Brick Manufactur-
ing Company is very bright.
Railroad connection is reached via the
Whippany River Railroad from switch
leading in to the works from the Stony
Brook Mill about a mile and quarter.
Walter Mitchell the well known con-
tractor is in charge of this part of the
work and with large force of workmen
track-laying is progressing at lively
pace. 1t is expected that brick burning
will commence the latter part of August.
Messrs. Grimes & Hopler are the car
penters and A. j. Tuers is doing the
mason work.
Farewell Address at Mendham.