The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1901-05-14
BIRTHPLACE OF CASH.
HOMESTEAD. WHERE THE CAR
NE0lE FORTUNE ORIGINATED.
Great Hius Of Broken Earth and huge
scraps or IRON Are Here 4 ansmutsd
Into Gold. Free Libraries and Art
Galleries

Into Gold. Free Libraries and Art
Galleries
No Arabian visionary ever iancied
SO remarkable a birthplace FOR mil-
lions as the Carnegie works at Home
stead. writes Douglass Storey, the
English correspondent Nesting into
the Monongahela. on the fat ground
by the river. BY day they are marked
by a cloud Of smoke, at night by
dozen pillars Of FIRE. No man ap-
preaching the hamlet Of sheds can see
there only ghe crude outlines Of a steel
factory. II is the laboratory Of an al +
chemist where great hills Of broken /
earth and huge heaps Of scrap iron are /
transmitted into gold and old-age pen
sions, into free libraries and art gal /
leries Everywhere there is the sense
Of great. mysterious power laboring to
equip the most generous Of modern
millionaires Human agency seems
inadequate to effect the marveis Of the
mills. to manipulate the bubbling ma
terials. to interfere with the fierce fur
naces and fiery forces Of the factories.
TO touch an electric button that re-
leases a force Of 1900 tons Is easier
and more miraculous in its results
than the rubbing Of any Arabian
lamp. Yet everything here is con-
trolled By tiny levers and buttons a
woman or a child might manage. OPP
posite to a roaring furnace a little
train Of iron trucks is standing To II
comes noiselessly. mysteriously, a
great engine that reaches forth a
brawny iron arm. grips up one Of the
trucks. and thrusts It into the furnace.
Backward and forward over the glow
ing Goals the big iron carries the truck
until it finds the hottest corner. Then,
turning the truck. empties It's load Of
pig iron. shavings. limestone OF coke,
shakes It and carries II gently TO the
waiting string Of wagons. There Is no
fuss Of men, no anxious couplings and
uncouplings. Then engine has done
i an its work unaided, save for a single
man. who sits within. lingering a little
sheaf OF levers. Some time later one
returns TO the furnace ana. gazing
with blue spectacles through the peep
hole. sees the poppling. sputtering
devils porridge Within IA time the
door viii be opened and the boiling
metal be run on into great caldrons
hungrily waiting In the pit beneath.
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sheds are u furnaces. each with its
100 tons Of metal Under ones feet.
on moving platforms. pass slabs Of
nzzing. scorching Steel When the
melodramatist and the author Of the
dime novel have penetrated the mys-
teries Of Homestead they win find rare
opportunities for sensational villainy
such as never yet has appeared be-
tween two yellow covers. One stands
on a bridge naked of fencing and un.
derneath rattles a block Of red-ho'
metal that would grill a man in 3
twinkling. II is on its way TO th'
rollers. and there Is a pressure which
would grind him to powder Every
where are furnaces and caldrons OF in
cinerating metal, awful hydraulii
presses and silent, remorseless engines
For the man Of melodramtic imagina
tion Homestead is the place Of horrible
possibility. I stood in one Of the lonl
sheds while a charge was being drawn
The hot steel gushed out. a violen
! white at first. embowered in golde
sparks. immensely beautiful. AS the al
: got at il the outer edge grew orange
! and on the surface the frothy creaI
, gathered and bubbled. a ruby rel
. When the vessel was full the claws Q
a great electric crane we're fixed in Il
! sides and it was swung upward
! proper tankard for some bacchanaliai
Z demon to qnaffl AS it dangled abov
1 our heads. 80 tons Of swelling steel.
S marveled at the silent power Of thi
! birthplace Of wealth. If a stay shoul
: break, OF a bolt snap? And ] move
hastily away from the sinister vicinit
Of the swinging caldron. Seven thot
sand men labor daily ia the Homestea
, works. but nowhere is their presenC
} felt. And yet the work done by on
machine would tax the muscles Of th
/ army that built the pyramids. IN
] making Of millions is no childs pla.
and simple pieces Of mechanism wi
r here perform before one feai
4 Of strength that were impol
e sible to force Of hur
a dred thousand men. In the armc
4 plate department Is an engine whic
r win exert a pressure Of 5000 tons.
s another shed is a reversing engine {
r 1a.0o0 horse power. There are electri
: cfane1 ghat will carry hither an
= thfihe Weights Of 100 tons as easil
a. one 1vould raise a handkerchief.
nseon gosed Light Ter consumptivss.
. Or George. G Hopkins Of BroOkly