Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-01-27
THE LORD PROVIDES,

A splendid belief indeed, but only
when it is accepted in its true
meaning!
The great trouble is that many
people fail to find the spirit OF the
word" and take, as the full truth.
the saying as it is spoken. Thus
we have people possessed of the
idea that the world owes them a
living.
Thus we have people who are
shiftless; who work not at all OF in
a half-hearted manner; who fail be-
cause they do not understand the
real plan Of life.
The truth of the matter is that
our Creator does provide, abundant
~ n measure, for all OF
the lawful needs of man.
He provides, upon this earth, all
CT the materials needed for both
our pleasure of body and happiness
Of mind!
He provides US with the continual
desire for better things, which lifts
US upward to q higher plane of
living.
He provides us with the instinct
for work and the knowledge Of how
to do things!
He provides us with skill Of hand,
strength of body and OF brain-that
the work may be done
So you see, we are provided not
only with the materials, but are
given the understanding of what to
do and the knowledge of how to do
it.
What more can any reasonable
man or woma expect
And how can anyone hope to get
his share Of the worlds goods, with
out using his gifts OF skill and
strength to get it?
Consider, for a moment, but o few
of our most ordinary needs. The
soil must be titled, the seed planted,
the crops harvested, and the grain
ties into larger units or added de-
partments should be easy. There
are four stationary open-hearth fur
naces, two being of fifty tons and
two of thirty-1ve tons nominal ca
pacity, one Of each now being OPP
Grated. These furnaces are being
pushed beyond their normal rating,
as much as sixty tons being taken
out of the ffty-tOn furnace.
The 16x18-inch ingots after strip
ping are heated in soaking pits OF
the usual type (bu. fired with coal,
and using waste-heat boilers to con
serve fuel), and then run through q
34-inch blooming mill, which pro-
dues billets from AKA inches up to
larger sizes, as required. When
small sizes are desired, these bill
lets are then reheated in a non-con-
tinuous furnace anu run through q
2O-inch breaking-down mill. This
turns them INTO III Inch or 2-inch
billets, which are given a wash heat
in another non-continuous furncae
before being passed into the 9-inch
finishing mill. The latter consiS1%
of five set of stands, three OF which
are S-high and the other two, 3
high. The main output of this mill
consists of hot rolled bars for the
sold finishing departments, and fats
and small angles, as well as de-
formed bars for reinforced con-
crete work, ranking through all the
sizes required for building construc-
ton. Patented "numeraI" bars are
turned out OF this mill.
Another finishing mill, 12-inch,
also with I'VE sets of stands, with
a. continuous furnace heating its
steel, lie used for producing both
drawing or cold rolling. In both
cases, cooling beds, shears and hand
ling equipment generally are worked
out along adequate lines.
AS the plant is located alongside
tracks OF the Lehigh Valley
railroad and has direct connections
with the Pennsylvania and the Cen
trail Railroad of New Jersey, both
incoming and outgoing shipments
can he handled advantageously.
Mainly, however, the strategic I'M
portance of the unit lies in Its being
twenty-five miles of e
York, which makes it perfectly a
ible to swing materials from the
bed onto a motor truck, send
them over the road to any point in
the city, whether it be a. warehouse,
construction job or what not, and
deliver the steel the same day 1t
is loaded, and without any interme-
date handling of any portion OF the
load. This lei a large saving in
both lost and time as compared with
he methods necessarily employed
under other conditions. The New
Jersey state highway will parallel
the north side of the property, plac-
ing it on the main thoroughfare, be-
tween New York and Atlantic City.
Contemplated expansion OF this
plant will include the manufacture
OF alloy steeIs, blue annealed sheets
ana strip steel, for all of which 1t is
felt that there is a nearby market
1.-THE Iron Age"