New-York tribune., 1907-12-01

undertake similar development enterprises In many
other sections OF tho metropolitan district in that
Long Island City is amply provided not only with
depots of supply in building construction equip
ment material. but with the forces needed TO apply
install II. Some OF these supply people have had
much and varied experience in their trades. and
quite competent to fill even in competition with
the larger concerns OF Manhattan-and promptly.
too-v"ry considerable orders for goods in their
lines. and they also able 70 undertake and sat
isfactorly execute work OF the most important de-
Sach a one ls J. W Petry. who does business
Nos g. and - Vernon avenue, his activities
iron work, steam heating installation ana plumb
ing. He has been located at his present place OF
business since 1874. beginning there mis- appren-
ucesip. and subsequently-tWeuty years later
He has done the steam heating ana plumbing
for The Sandblom Building the Long Island Rail
road depot. the Long Island city Savings Bank IN
Long Island City; the steam heating in the pres
court Hoase. the Garden city Hotel the Long
COUNT curt House when the latter was remod-
eled In 1886 Long Island Besides which he
p1rtant butdings in Manhattan among which may
be noted the Robert Hoe Building IN Broome
candy factory uu 3lst street. near Tenth avenue
and n Haas Building dn 2lst street near Sixth
The constant demand upon him for mill and
l@riggn l@rr9rg necates his carryins soo stock
even so near the original sources OF supptyIhs ms
trucks-while his contract work gives employment
to from forty TO sixty hands.
MAKERS OF OILLEsS BEARINGS.
In q central location. at the corner of West ave-
nue. and 18th street opposite the great power house
Of the Pennsylvania Railroad. in Long Island City.
'q TO be found four-story - by 100 factory OF
the North American Metaline Company-R. ".
Rhoades & Co. Iessees-which manufactures an oil
less bearing that shipped literally all these
United States The company was Incorporated in
1883 and firm established lcsseeS) eight years
la ter The business mCvcd here from Man
haitian when this building erected 10 house IL
In 1888 The plant is equipped with lU7-horsepower
WorthinEton tube boiler and automatic en-
t;nes and has ample equipment To make all of it's
castings, which are of Il superior quality of
gun metal" bronze.
Its product which is especially adapted to sta
tionary shafts that have their bearings i'll motion.
is a combination of anti-frictioH metals reduced to
an impaIpabIe powder and solidited, under heavy
pressure, into cylindrical plug shape. the latter
being inserted into holes nests. drilled into the
bearing surface of the 'bushings." The distribu-
tion of these plugs is such to completely cover
all points of contact between the bushngs-or bear
Ings-and the shaft. While this oiless bearing costs
probably double the market price OF oil bearings
cleanliness its frictioneSs operation and its
sequent saving of repair charges in plants have
created such a demand for II that the business has
increased least 80 cent in the past two years
A remarkable evidence of the endurance given ma
chinery bearings by this system of fabrication is
found in the history of a pair of ''idler" puieys
a Pratt & Whitney drill whch have run con-
tinuously a a speed of about 800 revolutions
teen years-no oil having been used in all that
time.
BIG LUMBER COMPANY.
With a dockage front of 500 feet and a plant
which occupies nearly a city block. the Roscoe
Lumber Company has an establishment in Long
Island City capable of supplying builders and