The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-06-28

prosperity in q degree more than IL
designated by the railroad shops, in
asmuch as they are private establish
| ments. are the foundries, machine shops
and boiler works of the city. All are
! launched on sound basis. the three
foundries and machine shops. and the
\ one boiler making establishment
IL In true there Is talk of dull times
at present, there Is still rumblings Of
| the late panic" which, they say. anect-
| ed the iron-working Industry more
than any other branch of the CONNER
cial world. But there are years OF
| substantial growth and progress back
of the panic" and there Is the prom
tse of years yet to come OF FUR
| Their growth and progress, promise
which even now, with panic" echoes
reverberating. Is beginning its fulni-
ment.
The IRON working industry In Mont
gomery, dates back to the early .4e's,
| long before the Civil War. y was then
that A. A. Janney. founder OF the
Janney foundry. cleared the trees for
the site of his shop. on what is now
the corner OF Court and Pollard
Streets
The foundry was started, which has
run. continuously. from that day until
this, without suspension, except Tor
Sundays and Christmas. with an occa-
sional Thanksgiving respite.
And. 1t is even recorded, that more
than one Christmas has seen the work.
men grimy and busy. tamping the sand
in the moulds, and sweating about the
furnace making run" to accommo-
date the rush order of a beseeching
patron.
Even during the times of Civil War
stress, the foundry did not close. Then
II was that a patriotic duty was full
Allied. Shot and shell for the use Of the
Confederate army and navy were cast
at Janney's foundry In Montgomery. 1t
Is told.
The story runs, that deep in the mast
of the Kearsarge. the famous Union
ship which sunk the Alabama in one of
the most desperate sea-battles OF the
Nineteenth Century, there is shell
Embedded. On the shell. in the raised
letters of the moulder, there Is the
name :"Janney. Montgomery" Many
claim to have seen the evidence of
the Montgomery foundry's patriotic
work, for the mast of the Kearsarge is
even now on exhibition in Washington,
among the National archives.
Janney's foundry is the Oldest in OPP
Grafton In the State. 1t Is operated now
by the son of the founder, and sixty
four years have passed since the first
"run' was made.
Janney's employs from fifteen to
twenty men in the foundry and machine
shop. There are young men, appren-
tices, and old men. veterans. And the
most of the employees, 1t Is recorded,
grow old in its service, and some have
died In the harness after years of work
in the yard.
machine shop has been added to
the original foundry, and here II Is
that almost every conceivable pattern
in steel is turned out.
The foundry proper possesses ca
~, MI r7off cd
put OF iron castings. A fly wheel or To-
connective fittings, of magnitude, can be
turned out, or 1t may be that the
moulds are pressed into service to fash
ion a tiny iron toy. Either, or both.
can be done at this foundry of Mont
gomery.
At present. with the ordinary trend
Of business, and with the dullness
which has settled on the trade, a
run" is made, that is the pig iron IL
melted in the great furnace. and the
molten metal is poured into the moulds,
every other day. At each run 5000
pounds of the pigs, more or less. ac-
cording to the work in hand, is melted.
Machine shops.
Another of Montgomery's foundries
and machine shops, is the Capital city
Foundry, and the Capital City Machine
Shops. Though both are of the same
proprietorship, they are operated at
different localities. the foundry sta
toned on North Court Street. near the
Western shops. and the machine shops
on Lee Street.
The joint enterprise was established
in Montgomery about twenty years ago.
Lately the works have come entirely
into the hands Of Bernard. MeAdams,
his partner, Mrs. Lum OF Birmingham
retiring from the venture.
The Capital City Machine Shop, on
Lee Street, is probably the largest
private machine shop in the city. Fiji
teen to twenty men are employed at