The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-03-18
MANY USES FOB JUNK.
HOW WORKOUT AND DIseARDEE
5sa@ METAL is UTILIZED! II ~

Ola H0rseshOes May Reappear az RAJ
Gors, and Battered Kitchen stoves
May Go UP I'm SkyscraperS-LucIxy
Finds In the Junkshops. 46H3 ,s8J5
/ The other day l wandered into a
large yard containing great heaps OF
scrap iron and old metals of different
kinds. Workmen were sorting out the
masses of rusty, misshapen and tam
| gled metals, each of which evidently
had it's particular value in the market.
/ wondered what became Of all the
/ castaway metal and what peculiar
transformations it underwent. In seek
4 ing some information on the point
| from the proprietor of the place he
said: sa9 l1sa3sa6
i 'This business doesn't look as if It
/ possessed any elements of interest, ed
ucational or romantic, and yet 1t has
| something of both Of these, Now,
/ there's an old horseshoe. 1t may
shave a Monaghan in China, though
/ what a Monaghan has to shave don't
clearly see. OF course it will be con-
verted first into a razor, | ship large
quantities of these WORKOUT horseshoes
and wagon tires to the Celestial king.
1 dom to be worked up into razors,
knives and other useful domestic arti-
/ Giles. The Chinaman engaged In this
/ particular industry gets IL cents a day
l for his labor. These horseshoes and
wagon tires are wrought iron and are
preferred to other forms Of this metal,
because they are the most conveniently
/ handled. ., - !. 49,,
| when you go across the bridge to
the borough OF Manhattan, you proba-
bly, notice, some Of the new 20 or 80
story buildings going up there and the
/ big iron columns and Orders used In
| their construction. You probably think
| that those columns and Orders are all
new metal, but 1t Is likely that they are
not. They are scrap iron, pure and
| simple. or may be mixed with some
1 new ore in the melting and recasting
4 Of the scrap metal In the foundry or
| rolling mill where all the scrap goes.
Your discarded kitchen stove may re-
| appear In one Of the columns or grid
ers of a skyscraper. The owners of
these lofty buildings may think they
are getting new iron material and may
pay for 1t, but they are probably not
getting it Perhaps there isn't much
difference in the durability Of the re-
cast metal and the new.
"When you are riding In a trolley car,
you may reflect that the metal in the
axles Of the wheels and in the railroad
tracks may have formerly served in
stove CRATES. Such are some of the
new forms and uses which scrap metal
assumes
1--WE dealers alight upon some strange
finds among the old metal which we
gather. I have at home six solid
bronze plaques, as one of this class of
finds, which I wouldn't take $75 for.
I've also got at home an iron and
bronze aquarium, another of these pc
culiar discoveries. which I wouldn't
part with for $50. U
ut is curious to think how such valu-
able articles get into such poor COM
pany as scrap iron Perhaps the orig
inal owners carelessly permit them to
get mixed up with some old junk
which they disposed of to the junk
man who brings his collection of stock
to us. or perhaps they deliberately
throw them away through simple
WEAKNESS of their possession. Then.
again. the articles may possibly be
stolen and sold to the junkman g}Kti
'sThere are other interesting finds we
meet with in our business A Not only
the common but the finer metals, such
L D. fa ~
as jewelry and silverware. fall into our
hands. bly~you'y We heard your
wife remark one day that there was
silver spoon missing and she might
suspect that the servant has stolen it.
But the truth is the spoon has acct,
dentally gone astray and passed un-
noticed into the ash can Or garbage
tub and in the course ofstime. possibly.
we pick il up out OF the dumps. Many
a spoon, knife and fork with Tiffany's
or Benedict's stamp on 1t have
bought at Barren island after being
taken. out of these dumps. Other stray
waits In this class which have gath.
cred from the Barren island dumps
are silver pocketlsnives and match;
boxes. gold and silver thimbles and
cuff buttons, gold rings and a ladies'
gold purse which l sold for 500 as old
gold Some time ago ring with a
transparent stone was picked out of
the dumps A business rival Of mine
Just got ahead Of me In the purchase
of the ring. which he got for $40. The
stone proved no be genuine diamond.
and the purchaser got $3.50 for the
ring. II looked like ladies' engage
ment ring and the sympathetic thought
struck me that Its possibly fair owner
was at that moment suffering unim.
aginable distress at Its loss. ~
$50 you see" continued the dealer.
there are affew interesting and some
what romantic features associated
with our very prosy looking business"
Brooklyn Citizen.
Curing a Cold.