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zier and Fox have been connected with the Brown
Hoisting Machinery Co., of Cleveland, in the designing
and contracting department. Mr. Spencer
for several years was connected with the engineering
and designing department of the American
Bridge Co.
Mr. Upson A. Andrews, former treasurer of the
Pittsburgn Coal Co., died August IS at Lakeside
hospital. Cleveland, from the effect of an operation.
Mr. Andrews was known for years as one of the
leading coal operators of the country, and he took
a prominent part in the formation of the Pittsburgh
Coal Co. He was 55 years old.
Dr. G. G. Revay, who controls the American
rights of Coppee's patent coke oven, sailed recently
for Europe on an extensive business trip. It is
announced that several large plants are about to
be constructed by the Coppee system, in this
country, for the recovery of by-products.
CIVIC FEDERATION TO LOOK
INTO GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP.
The executive council of the National Civic Federation,
upon request of its departments of industrial
economics and of trade agreements, has decided
to appoint a commission to make a thorough
investigation, in this country and Europe.
of national and municipal ownership and operation
of public utilities. The current discussiorj
and acute agitation of this subject indicate its
hold upon the popular mind and the necessity for
its analytical and comprehensive examination. Its
present debate is often inconclusive, because of
the contradictory or unsatisfactory statements of
fact. It is intended, therefore, that this investigation
shall disclose the actual results of public
ownership and operation, as far as they have been
undertaken in the United States, and of their more
extensive practice in foreign countries. The ascertainment
of these facts will afford a solid basis
upon which to found discussion and conclusions
for the guidance of future policy. The scope of
this inquiry will cover the relative advantages of
public ownership and operation, as compared with
public ownership and private operation and private
ownership and operation. Each system will
be examined with regard to its effect upon, among
other topics: Wages, hours and conditions of labor:
collective bargaining; cost and character of
service; political conditions, civil service, spoils
system and municipal corruption: financial results
and taxation.
The commission will meet early in tne fall to determine
upon its program and methods of work.
THE COAL TRADE BULLETIN. 43
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•j INDUSTRIAL NOTES. (•
The department of commerce and labor is desirous
of securing the co-operation of manufacturers
and other persons interested in the efforts
being made by the department, through its bureau
of manufacturers, to extend the foreign trade of
the United States. It is proposed to establish
a comprehensive card index which will enable the
department, upon application, to furnish information
desired by manufacturers, or by intending
purchasers, and it is contemplated to extend the
system, if the necessary authority shall be granted
by congress, to the principal consulates. To
enable the bureau to prepare such an index a
circular letter is being sent out to manufacturers
and exporters, acquainting them with its purpose
and requesting information to be recorded for
which a blank form is provided.
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The Calumet & Arizona Mining Co., of Bisbee.
Ariz., is installing a Sullivan Corliss cross-compound
steam two-stage air compressor, with a
total piston displacement of 3,660 cubic feet, which
on acount of the altitude at which the compressor
operates, is equivalent to an actual delivered
capacity of 2,700 cubic feet of free air per
minute, against a terminal pressure of 100 pounds
per square inch, while running at 83 R. P. M.
The steam cylinders are 17" and 34", and air
cylinders 20" and 34" in diameter, with a common
stroke of 42". The machine will be used
for operating rock drills and other pneumatic
tools, about the mines. The company already has
three class WB-2 Sullivan straight-line compressors,
giving a total air supply of about 5,700
cubic feet per minute.
A hoisting engine of very heavy design has just
been shipped to the Centennial Copper Co. from
the Chicago works of the Sullivan Machinery Co.
It is of the direct acting type and consists of two
36x60-inch simple, reversible Corliss engines of
the heavy duty type, connected to a straight-faced
drum, 15 feet in diameter by 15 feet winding face.
The drum is grooved for 1%-inch wire rope and
is keyed direct to the engine shaft. The plant
is designed to hoist from a vertical depth of 5,000
feet at the rate of 4,000 feet per minute, with a
boiler pressure of 150 pounds. The brake mechanism
is arranged for steam, hand or gravity operation,
with independent control in each case.
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The Atchison( Kas.) Coal Co. has declared for
the open shop policy and will give employment to
non-union labor in the future.