The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-07-08
POWER IS
ENLISTED FOR WAR
A1erica's Greatest Cataract VIII
Contribute in Large Measure
to the Defense.

Washington. D. c., July How
America's greatest cataract has en-
listed for war service Is told In
xtrikirg com munication to the Ma
{ ticnal Geographic society from VIII
lam Josarh showalter, part Ct
which was issued today IS ere OF the
3 ecciety's war geography bulletins. Mr..
Ehcwaiter says:
Tho sorry OF Niagsra's role IN sAe
battle OF the rations IS an ep,c In
the history OF war.
when Niagara power was frst de-
veioped. efforts TO make artificial
/ grinding materials were proving q
failure because Of the lack OF electric
current at price the new venture
could afford TO pay. Those who backed
tho process thereupon went 10 Nj
agara Falls set UP a plant, and found
ed tho artificial abrasive indust ~.
How much its success means 10 Amer
4 lea cannot re oVeTestima'ed
take the grinding machinery out
OF the automobile factories. remove
{ Il from the rnunltior plants eliminate
IL from the locomotive works, car
fcundries and machine shops Of The
= country and YOU would paralTze fhe
nations whole industrial system. AND
that would. have happened ere now
had not Niagaras artificial abrasiSes
4 stepped y to save the day when the
war shut out our natural supply or
emery mi testttf am from a -it ~ +
nor.
Il .There IS not bearing In your nu-
~fa.. 1v@s,-
made grindstones: crankshefts are
foughened and finished with them
pistons and cylinders are made true.
csmshafts likewise and n hundred
4, critical parts Of every car whether
OF the cheapest or the most cXEeU e.
sive make II would lee Impossible 80
biuld anything 10 tool steel on COM
nercial basis without Niagara ab-
fAsves
"No shell goes to Europe whose
rose has not been ground INTO shar"
on Niagara-made sTs0dstores- ldF"-
Wise II is Niagara ahrasiyes that
have done more than any other thing
to master the hot box that bette
noire' Of the American railroad man
and tho worst enemy cf schedule time
4 train transportation the world around.
- ssu-}hile the processes Of Carhor7GH-
dun manufa Cture We're being per
fected another lesson was learned
Quartz. YOU remember rs the gco}o-
ktsf's therm ometer. for u IS found he
tween narrow ranges OF temperature
NJ IN the materials from which nature
makes il are subjected 70 more han
70 much heat, they take OH an en-
Il tirely different character from quart.
4 The same is true II they are subject
II IN t. less than n certain amount ~
heat.
80. also, Il is with carhorundum
In its manufacture n large quan'tt,
of "A mixture of coke and sa M Will
touch OF sawdust and = DASH q
salt, is put into an electric furnace
A heavy current Of electricity is pass
ed through this for forty eight hours
heating 1t to 1850 degrees cen'ri
Il grad. grade ;. {. ,ron.~,v heated 4,or,
forms around the central core ~ coltr
a. great array OF crystals large snt
q small. almost "a hard as diamonds
n TOO much heat IS applied insteaf
a OF forming into crystals. the noate~ta
breaks up into fine particles OF bia~l
1 dust and YOU have graphite.
Therefore. largely by tho SANE
process. the same furnace produce
from the Same materials tho near
diamond af-the- a=t4f44tsf eftetlstt-tf-
aHu IfiF mt FNNf'ff'it tf'tSt 41AfsA 'f'''fi
ssi4ad fcY "a 1>enF51> So}or or - L. hos
for lubricants. ELECTRODES for fhrnhce
and death chairs or a thosan1 otha
things under the manipulations 90 I'm
dustrial science.
"But Niagara's bit In behalf %
4 AMERICAN arms does not end wiz
Il the story of abrasivess indeed, & onC
well begins The story ~ ferro s.
licon IL another illustration of how
beauty under the alchemy Of science
81 IL transmitted into grims'carnd war
'Iast year this country made more
# steel than the whole world produces
when William McKinlov became prest
#s <4ert Of the United States NearN
@x4hree -fourths ~ that steel was mad
~ the open hearth process. and for
@sro-silicon was used as deoNdizcr II
aourify It by driving out the oxygen
IN the making of htl
14Ael castings that alloy Is pro ctioaN'
tndispensa BILE In tire elimination O
s.The entire ferro- silicon industry
Dfactically is conferred at Niagara
Fhicf thus gives pure steel ana SCUM
s3Gaatings as another part ~ America
&onfribution "a the capse ~ NNleJ
1cfDry. Every contract for shell steo
SEhnt has been made IN two wears ralt
&0r a content Of ferro- silicon
ssThere is another alloy ~ iron IN
1lgpensable in war. and weN-niGh s,
#N0 twentieth century peace-ferro
Ehormium. This ia the alloy whl~i
#0Ivcs that peculiar hardness 70 stee
dhich makes II resistant almost he
Und conception. IT has been estl
nnted that a modern fourtee0-irrl
6Au. such as our navy IS over hold
1ag In readiness for a possible dash
German feet has n striving mo