The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1902-10-20
LATEST FAIR HAVEN NEWS
TRAMP STEAMER WITH f,5OO
TONS OF STEEL BILLETs.
Yachts Stored for the yyinter-BIg De-
mand for Houses by Employees of
HousatOnic Manufacturing Company.

Aaehts stored for the winter-Big De-
mand for Houses by Employees of
HOusatOnic Misunderstanding Company.
At the plant of the National Wire cor
poration on Fairmont avenue the man
ufacture of iron or steel rods is very
interesting process to witness. Billets
four and one-half feet in length, four
inches square and Weighing 10 pounds
are nlaced in one side of the furnace
and come out at the opposite side ready
for the rolls. The billet is pushed out
on carriage and placed automatically
between the first set of rolls without
any one handling it with tongs, as is
done by the old method. The furnace
is heated by a chemical gas which gives
a superior heat. The rods gol through
three trains of rolls-the roughing set,
middle rolls and the finishing rolls. One
billet will roll out a rod 700 feet long
and about the size of telegraph wire.
The rod goes through five different
processes and is finally wound on a reel.
Sometimes four or five different rods
are going through one set of rolls at the
same time and without the least mix
up. A moving platform carries the
reels of rods out to the yard ready for
shipment. Most of these rods are used
in bridge construction. The plant is a
pretty noisy place and the work is reg
ulated by a system of short steam
whistle blasts. The process has to be
rapid to prevent cooling Of the iron.
After the rod is finished it runs through
pipe and thence to the reel, where 1t
is wound up ready for shipment There
are six Of these pipes. There is a gas
plant on the works, where the Chemical
gas for heating the furnaces is produce
ed. Automatic conveyors supply the gas
to the furnaces.
At regular meeting of the w. C. T.
y, No. the past week it was voted to
hold the annual meeting on Thursday
afternoon, October 80, at 3 o'clock, Of
ficers will be appointed and reports will
be made at this meeting. Afterwards
ten-cent supper will be served, the pro
ceeds to be used to procure fuel for
heating the hall during the winter. The
management invites all Of its friends to
attend the supper and assist in this
work. .,a
/. Mrs. Francis Ray, of English street,
will leave for Boston Wednesday and
will visit with her friend, Mrs. w. b.
Hubbard, two or three weeks. Mrs. Raw
has been very i'll and was threatened
with pneumonia.
Julius H Morris has sold to Hattie
HI Everett TO feet Of land on Cove
street, Norris Cove.
Collector Blake has already received
quite an amount of the East Haven
borough tax, which fell due on the first
of October r.
/ Miss Pearl M. Porter, of Townsend
avenue, is visiting her aunt, Miss A. J..
Warner, of Guilford.
The work of unloading the Norwegian
tramp steamer Siggen at the wharf Of
the National Wire corporation the past
week went on night and day. About
fifteen hundred tons Of steel billets
We're discharged, and then were loaded
several hundred tons Of wire for New
York.
At Thatchers boatyard the yachts
are now being hauled out and stored for
the winter. Many Of these craft will
winter at this yard.
The harvest concert held in the Pill
grim church last evening was very sue
cessful and largely attended. The pro-
gramme was carried out as previously
published.
Rev. H. NJ. Lawson, a returned mis-
sionary. gave a lecture at the Grand
o1,,1 oef<
ming on 1.-THE Practical Missionary
Work in India The lecture was illus
trated by a, number of fine stereopticon
views. pa
The late car leaving New Haven at
1880 and leaving Montowese at mid
night is a change of service much APP
preciated by the residents of the latter
place.
The location of the Housatonic Manu-
featuring company's plant in the Cedar
Hill district has caused quite a demand
for rents in that part of the Twelfth
ward. There are very few vacant
houses and a number of new houses
have been built to supply the demand.
Several more new buildings are now In
process of erection.
A nair of spirited horses belonging to
George Bradley, of Quinnipiac avenue,
ran away Saturday. The team, which
was driven by Mr.. Doan. was standing
on State street, when, becoming fright
ened at something, made sudden dash
for liberty. Their intentions We're to-
tally unexpected and succeeded in get
ting beyond the control of their driver.
In the wagon was a new harvester
which Mr.. Bradley had purchased, and
one of the wheels on this machine was
broken. After running about half Al
lille the horses were stopped.