The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-10
HAMILTON ITEMS
OF INTEREST
Workmen are Progressing Rapidly on
the Buildings for the Ham
ilton Clay Manufacture
ing Company.
THE VISITING LIST
Workmen Stopped on the construc-
| ton OF Odd Fellows Building Be-
cause They Were Not Com
mencing Right.
THE VISITING LIST
LIST OFFICERS

Keokuk, and probably few of the
Hamilton people realize the big num-
Der of Improvements that are going
On in all parts Of Hamilton. Since
the first day of April of this year there
has been finished, or are under con-
struction now, thirty-two new resi-
dences. Many of the older places are
also being improved and cement walks
laid.
One of the biggest improvements
the town has secured is the brick and
tile factory that is being constructed
on the O'Harra addition. All of the
workmen that it has been possible for
the promoters to secure are kept busy
working on the construction of the
buildings and they have finished a
part of the grading, and the engine
and mixing rooms of the factory. The
drying shed and the kilns will be
completed in few weeks. The grad
ing for the switch to the yards from
the T., P. & w. tracks has been com
pleted and the track will be laid be-
fore long.
The factory will be one of the most
up-to-date in the country, following
the same plan as that in use by the
big burlington Brick company. The
clay or shale will be loaded into dump
cars at the shaie pit and hauled UP
an incline to the top of the building
and dumped into a storage room. From
the storage room it is thrown into
the pulverizing room, where 1t is
crushed by large wheel making 1,O0C
revolutions per minute. From the
pulverizing room it is taken and made
into brick or tile by the stiff mud
process. AS soon as the brick are
nodded they are loaded onto belt
that carries them out and onto small
steel cars. The brick are now ready
| for the dryer.
The drying shed consists Of long
structure divided into lanes or alleys
At the farthest end of the shed i:
located a suction fan that draws the
heated air from the kilns and forces
| 1t up under and between the brick
4 At the closest end and the end a
! which the brick enter the shed is 10
Gated another fan that draws the al
out.
The brick enter at the closest enc
of the shed and slowly move the
length through the heat and are take1
out at the farthest end in a condition
too hot to handle. 1t takes twenty-foul
! hours to dry the brick in this manner
They are allowed to cool and are theI
taken to the kilns, where they are re
moved from the steel cars and the
cars sent back for another load.
The company expects to be in com
plete running order by the middle O.
August or the first of September ant
will give employment to about sixty
men all of the year. The storage room
makes the factory practically indie
pendent of the weather, as. enough
shale can be stored in it to keep TIL.
plant running for about ten days. Mr.
/ Henry Plumb will be in charge o
this new industry. He is man who
knows his business thoroughly, havin,
spent most of his life in the maxim,
of brick and the studying of the diff
| ferent processes.
| Nine new houses are in the cours
of construction on the addition of tn,
Hamilton Realty and improvement
company. The streets have been sur
4 veyed and part of the grading fin
lished. Trees have been planted IL
long avenues and 10000 feet of cemen
walks will be laid as soon as the con
tractors can get time to attend to tn,
work. Seventeenth street is destined
to become one of the most beautiful
streets in the city. because of it
height and the view that may be OBJ
tanned by driving over it.
The workmen started on the founda
! tion of the new Odd Fellows buildin,
Saturday morning, but the start wa.
not according to the specifications an
the men were promptly stopped by tn,
committee in charge OF the building
The trouble arose over the name
of laying the cement on which thu
/ foundation proper Is to rest The con
tractors arrived from Keokuk and me
with the committee and after shor
consultation came to an understanding
and the workmen started again.
Mr.. David Sweet of Worthington
Mo-, is visiting at the home of hi
cousin, Mrs Ham Young. He will re
turn to his home next Monday morr
ing.
Earl Pence is visiting at the HON
of his parents. He graduated fror
the University OF Illinois this sprin
and has secured charge and
preaching,
K. H. Louis hurt his hand, and a
| the time of the accident paid littl
attention to it. In some manner tn
wound became poisoned and at pres
ent is giving him considerable tro,
BILE.
/ H. H. Huntley of Cincinnati, Ohio
and Hosea Huntley of Nashville
4 Tenn. are visiting with their siste,
Mrs. L. ] T,effler. 1t has been fit,
six years since the three were togetl
err Mrs. Alice Bliss, daughter of Mr..
Leffler. and her son Roy are also visi
ing with her.
/ Mrs Harry Rencnler of Chicago