The indicator., 1904-12-10
Great Activity Among the Half Hidden De-
partments All Over the Steel Works
and Will Get Buster.
STOCK MARKET SLUMPHAS NO EFFECT
Some General Information About What Is
Going on and What Is Likely to Go
on in the Days to Come.

supply is now adequate for al
demands.
The wire mill is still running
more than regular turns. Foul
days in the week the operatives
in the drawing room, the barb
wire and nail departments work
until eight o'clock in the evening
and the balance OF the time on
eleven hour shifts. The bolt
wire and galvanizing and anneal-
ing departments are on double
shifts. The addition TO the rod
stock yard at the wire mill is
now. ready for service, and the
buggy tracks have been laid. This
addition doubles the capacity OF
the stock yard and greatly facili-
tates the taking OF the rods from
the conveyor that leads from the
rod mill. The latter department
is still on day and night turns, and
from present indications is liable
to remain so indefinitely.
-Four OF the six furnaces OF the
open hearth department are in
commission and the output OF the
day and night supplies all present
demand Tor the product. The
two other furnaces are held in re-
iservc in case OF emergency. There
was quite a serious accident at
the open hearth Tuesday morning
which fortunately resulted in nc
loss OF life, though couple OF
men were badly burned. a ladle
of molten metal from the blast
furnace, which was being raised
to pour into the open hearth ladle
stopped" and the metal spread in
all directions. By good luck all
save two men got out OF the fiery
path, and they were not seriously
scorched.
The switching crews of the &
& w. in the yards are virtually
worked to death these days
There are but five switch engines
now doing the work that ten did
last year and there is more ac-
tivitv than there was then. Two
crews do the work in the north
wards under Assistant Yard
master Al. Bowers, and two at
tend to the south end OF the
plant. whwile the fifth dcvotes its
time entirely to handling the
cars OF coke, limestone and ore
on the high line over the furnace
hunkers. The switching crews
are kept on the jump from the
time they start in the morning
until quitting time at night, and
they get away with a tremen'
dous amount of work. Road
master Woods of the c. Il w
saws that work will soon be com
menced to raise the tracks OF the
high line, or circle road, leading
from the south yards. This will
require hundreds OF car loads o
ashes and cinders which are no"
being loaded in c. & 5. cars a
the various boiler houses and be
, ing hauled out by that company
for ballasting and yard purposes
in the vicinity of Trinidad, wher'
these tracks were so badly flood
| ed last summer.
The 4o-inch mill is on day
r time and is handling all the meta
that comes to it from the opei
hearth. The 4o-inch men had !
| rather easy when the rail mil
S was taking soft steel for ligh
e rails. but now the converter /
!. on and about all the opel
, hearth steel goes to the 4o-incl
t for the wire mill and what |
r needed in the merchant depart
i ment. =,
: Tracks were moved on Mon
dav on the "cjnder dump mort
n of Harlem, and on the extrem
d eastern limits of the plant, an
v now all refuse matter from tn
: mill. such as dirt from the bot
S tom house. Stag being cleane
!. from "B" furnace. and brick frot
q repair work at the open heart
c furnace as well as all refuse fror
: the various departments is she
S. from the drop cars. down a PEI
,,d;cuI,r e,nbankment, 75 fee
/" high. A single gang can unioa
:e from fifteen to eighteen cars eac