The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-16
BIG STEEL MANUFACfORY
NATIONAL STEEL FOUNDRY CON-
 PANY LOCATES HERE.

ings Now Being Erected.
 New Haven will soon be able to boast of another important manufacturing es- tablishment that will add to it's fame as
 manufacturing center. The National
 Steel Foundry company, organized with
 a capital stock of sSOO.OOO. has acquired
 land on Fairmont avenue, just south of
 the National Wire corporation, and has
 already laid the foundations for man-
 ufactory Of mammoth proportions.
 The company is to manufacture open
 hearth steel castings for all purposes.
 As there is at present no plant of the ! kind in this section of the country, the gentlemen actively interested in the en- l terprise decided. in order to supply the valuable trade of New England and ] New York, to build modernly equipped plant in this city. Employment will be given to between 300 and 400 hands. The. plant will consist of one main building for moulding and pouring, 40S feet by 160 feet, well lighted and yentilated;
 also buildings for pattern storage, gas producer and electrical plant. All pow ] CT will be furnished by electricity. The capacity at first will be derived from two 25-ton furnaces. Baking ovens will ! be built for drying the moulds, and these will be situated between the moulding room and casting department. The cast l ing department, which will contain the open hearth furnaces for melting and
 recarbonizing the metal, will have suf- l ficient floor space for, the proper distri-
 button of the prepared moulds in front of the furnaces. All buildings will be fully equipped with travelling cranes and other necessary appliances for the
 rapid and economical handling of ma terials.
 I There also will be built a gas plant
 containing producers for generating the fuel gas, which liquifies the metal in the l open, hearth furnaces. Adjacent to the
 main buildings there will be suitable I cleaning and shipping rooms and power
 house.
 The ultimate cost of the plant will be
 between s75,000 and s1oO,00O. The site 1 selected combines all the advantages of
 a good dumping ground for disposing of the slag and other waste materials. as well as combined water and rail facil- I ities for transportation, and in the near
 future it is confidently expected that the government will dredge the already ex-
 cellent channel. making it possible to
 dock the largest tramp freighters.
 l The plant will commence operations with a daily capacity of thirty five tons of finished steel castings. The buildings 1 are to be arranged So as to permit of I extensions from time to time as an in-
 creased business may require, withou. lnecessitating shut down or alterations
 Of the general plans. Sufficient land
 has been obtained to permit of all need ed extensions in the future. With slight I notifications, as 1t is enlarged it is hoped to make 1t the basis of the spec
 ial quality steel supply for the National Steel and Wire company, who are in themselves large consumers of bfllets. l Various kinds of the best steel are used l for the manufacture of rope wire, I spring wire, telegraph and telephone wire, as well as many other grades of high quality wire of every description. All of these grades may be produced in lconnection with the manufacture of
 steel castings to great advantage.
 l The steel casting industry is capable I of great development, but will be com- pleted whole as soon as the first build- 1 ing and first furnaces are in operation. As will be seen by glance at the di-
 rectorate, 1t contains the names of men
 who have been prominent in the world
 of finance and trade for over genera | ton and have always been foremost in
 many important and stable local enter prises. The directorate consists of Henry l.. Hotehklss, president L.. Candee & Co.,, president Union Trust Co.,, president
 Shoe Hardware O., etc: Frank L.
 Brown. vice president and treasurer l National Steel and Wire Co.,; Frederick iB. Farnsworth, president McLagon foundry, treasurer Eastern Machinery l Co.,; H. Stuart Hotchkiss, vice president
 and secretary l.. Candee Co.,: Eugene
 Buchanan, M. Sims, H. Sanborn Smith, second vice president National Steel and
 Wire Co.,, all of New Haven, and E. H.
 watethouse, I. W. Dyer of Portland, Maine. -s-.s. +, Following compose the executive com- mittee: H. Stuart Hotchkiss, chairman;
 Frank l.. Brown. H. Sanborn Smith,
 Frederick B. Farnsworth, M. Sims.
 l The present officers are: Henry L.
 Hotchkiss, president; Frederick B..
 Farnsworth, vice president; H. Stuart Hotchkiss, treasurer; Eugene Buck
 mann, secretary; M. Sims, manager.
 As may be inferred from the forego-
 ing the company will be closely affiliat-
 ed with the National Steel and Wire
 company, which will be large custom
 CT, and it will maintain selling depart
 ment in New York. Chicago, Boston.
 San Francisco, Kansas City, De Kalb,
 H., as well as at New Haven. It is ex-
 pected that the plant will be completed
 and producing castings by the first of
 January 1904.
 | The company has purchased the build- l ing adjoining the office of the National
 Wire company, and has entirely remod-
 eled the structure. The upper part has I been atted sor offices and the officials
 are now occupying quarters there.
 ARRESTED FOR HORSE STEALING. A young man about twenty-one years | old was arrested in Westyille last evan-