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

Boilers. marine, stationary, locomotive
boilers. are made here. ANY other
sheet iron work Is produced. The
standpipe of the Montgomery water
works. towering far over hundred
feet In the air, Is q work OF this con-
Germ. and stands as a local monument
to the abilities of the local firm.
The boilers Of the Hartley works. are
sold throughout the United States,
practically. and sometimeS outside the
States. Thus. IL is recorded that Mont
g0mery-made boilers are in use In
Michigan. In Misunderstanding the wide
patronage. There are boilers of the
local firm In the West, and in every
State OF the South. Structural iron
work Is also portion of the output of
the Hartley Boiler Works.
And with the showing, there IL none
to dispute Montgomery's claims to
recognition as an industrial town.
1t is a fascinating work. this mold
ing of the raw material of nature, in
to shape as one desires. 1t Is not a
complex operation. not much removed
from the simplicity which was its
quality In the days Of the first IRON
worker, good old Tubal Cain.
There Is perhaps greater dexterity,
care and nicely that has developed
within later years, Dut little compli-
Gated. But It is mans work, healthy,
virile. To go into tne foundry, on the
day of the run" To see the molten
iron spputing out into the pots; to see
the workmen, most OF them bare to
the waist, their bodies glistening with
the bath of perspiration, carry the
pots about the mould. to pour the
white liquid into the vent holes ct the
top. It Is q sight that attracts.
Rushing about the shop, muscles
MI inc az fvfn with tho affnrtS
that comes of lifting hundreds of
pounds of iron. the men toll without
respite on the days of the run"
And on other days there is still the
work, not so strenuous, perhaps, but as
important. Leaning over the moulds,
packing the moulding sand about the
patterns, the workmen labor. with a
care that il intense.
Thus is the process of foundry work.
Simply, 1t Is this. The patterns are
placed between the moulds. with sand
packed tightly above and below. The
pattern is removed, with the greatest
care, to prevent the displacing Of
grain of sand. Thus Is left, In the
packed earth, the imprint of the cast
ing desired to be made.
Into small vent hole the liquid
iron is poured. It settles In the Inn
print made by the removal of the
is broken. and there. in iron, is the
casting.
Machine shop work is more complex.
The lathes, similar to a great extent
to the wood working lathes, the slot
ters. the drill presses, the emery wheels
all are indispensable, all are more or
less complex, and intricate, and sub
stantial, as the work of shaving steel
rods requires.
The railroad work entails a great
variety OF labor, almost every branch
of strictly manual labor known to
man. Crouching beneath the heavy To-
comotives, they file and hammer, with
in the paint shop they lave the boards
of the newly built cars; within the
carpenter shop they saw and chop and
chiseI in the blacksmith shop they
pound with sledge and with round
head hammer or with cold chtsel-in
all every tool adaptable to mans
hands is pressed into service in the
railroad shops. it's generic title OF
shops covering every hand-work, DELI
cate and crude.
But with 1t all, 1t is mans work,
virile. exacting. taxing, and-it is all
done In Montgomery.