The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-10-28
MOVING N1TRoG1YcER1NE.

Win Not Carry It-Shipped
 i1R a Special Wagon.
 A day win nitroglycerine makers, to say the Id g5t, is nerve exhilarating. The fumes frN+l the acid tanks may cut ones noAEils and stimulate the heart to unus l activity, and the pungent and stiI1 Hating aroma from the mix ing chd icals may make ones head ache t the splitting point, but. not wfthst iing this, there is in the at- mosph sort of air, of unusual risk that al eals to the tenderfoot-that is, after has figured it out with math- ematid precision that the chances are, al but one in million that the plaltpyill be blown out of operation in Fry during his stay. There is, ho CT, a tlrob of gratitude to the DO s that be, in the heart of the ten ,aai It when at last he does get clear
 danger belt with his body intact,
 process of making nitroglycerine
 extra interesting in itself The
 Hartford City plant is one of the
 modern in the country, and the lpIGSSGu otlI dppIlcAliNCS uoSN IAA
 lg the acids and then mixing the
 with the glycerine reduce the
 lacular side of the work. The old
 lof feeding the acid and the glyce-
 into a tank and mixing them with
 living paddles was much more pie $ Sque. At the Hartford City plant
 acids are kept in great iron tanks 4.
 Company in its local storage yards.
 acids are forced from one tank in-
 hnother and are mixed by the appli-
 on of the air pressure, and then
 mixed acid, which throws off a
 i'd of dark, angry looking smoke
 pugh safety vents, is forced through org pipe line into a small, tower
 building. This is the nitroglyce-
 e house itself.
 h this building are the great mixing M Is, which are kept at a uniform tenn x rature of 50 degrees by circulation
 brine forced from 8 refrigerating b1it, which passes in lead pipes Iound and through the tanks. The i'd and glycerine are fed in with pre- : sion and mixed by gently-moving au- matic paddles. It is needless to say ! hat care is exercised by the two men Experimenting this process, but that bare is not so painstaking as the ordi- tnary person would expect to find. When mixed the liquid, which then looks like snoderately thick molasses of a whitisb brown color, is drained off into storage sanlss. asad from the tanks is drained Into ten-quart tin cans.
 The liquid hits the bottom of these cans with that sort of thud that makes one's flesh creep, until one rea- lizes that it is not such a fall as this but 8 peculiar jar or friction that causes trouble. As the can fills the liquid makes a gurgling sound that to the tellderfoot is not reassuring. Not drop of the explosive is permitted to land outside the cans, and these cans, before being used, are carefully in- spected and tested with water for leaks. A feaky can, especially after it is loaded into a wagon for transporta- tion, means loud report that awakes ail entire county, makes a great hole in the scenery, and wipes everything around it out of existence. A drop of nitroglycerine on the floor would prob- ably mean the same thing when the friction of a foot would be applied to it. The capacity of the Hartford City plant is about 5000 quarts of the explo- sive a day. Nine thousand quarts of nitroglyeerine is moving power for sure-perhaps an estimate of what it will do may be gained by the state- ment that the safe crackers who use il carry their supply around in small vialS and use only few drops in blasting their way into a big safe. The nitro. glyoerine clinging to the sides of an empty can, if touched off, is sufficient to jar a whole community. Therefore as much care has to be used with the empty cans as with the filled ones.
 Though the railroads deliver the acids and glycerine to the factories ir carboys and tanks, they do not handle the dangerous commodity that theil In speaking of Indians in the history which he subsequently, wrote, Captain Smith said of this tribe, called Susque. hanocks: But to proceed, sixty ol these Susquehanocks came to us witt skins, bowes, arrowes, targets, bead: swords and tobacco pipes for presents Such great and well proportioned mer are seldom seen, for they seemed like giants to the English, yes, and to tht neighbors, yet seemed an honest anG simple disposition, and with much adot were restrained from adoring us as gods. These are the strangest people of all these countries, both in language and attire, for their language it may
 
 
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