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Bulletin 53-A, describing the various types of
air compressors made by the Sullivan Machinery
Co., of Chicago, is being circulated. It is the
second of a series in course of preparation, the
various numbers of which will be devoted to particular
products of the Sullivan company. It is
in neat form, well illustrated, and contains a
large amount of useful information The last official
act of the Panama Canal commission before
resigning was to close a contract with the Ingersoll-Sergeant
Drill Co., of New York, for 50 standard
rock drills of that company's manufacture,
complete with mountings and equipment. These
machines are to be used in the removal of rock
in the great Culebra cut through the crest of the
Isthmus. The commission furthermore authorized
the same company to remodel a large number
of the French-Ingersoll drills, built in France
under the patents of the American manufacturers.
These machines remain from the original equipment
of the old French company formerly operating
on the canal.
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The Laidlaw-Dunn-Gordon Co. recently completed
two direct-connected air compressors which
have been remarkably successful. One of them is
a double-end, two-stage compressor, built for direct
connection to a gas engine operating at 170
revolutions per minute. The cylinders of this machine
are 21 and 12 inches in diameter with a 12inch
stroke, giving a displacement of 810 cubic
feet per minute, against 100 lbs. air pressure.
The other machine, which is slightly smaller, is
connected with an electric motor.
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The New Pittsburgh Coal Co. is sending its
friends and patrons a group of pictures representing
the important phases of the mining industry.
They include views of the homes of
some of the miners employed by the company, the
mine tipple at Monday, Ohio, which gives an outside
view of one of the mines where the coal is
prepared and loaded and a view of one of the company
stores at Buchtel. Ohio, where the miner
purchases a share of his provisions.
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The Ohio Brass Co., of Mansfield, O., is circulating
a booklet entitled "Buying Bearings," and
which, as stated under the title, contains common
sense arguments about quality and price in the
matter of bearings, together with a catalogue and
price list of the firm's products in this line. The
lists include a numher of bearings for the older
types of motors, etc., and which are offered at
special low prices.
THE COAL TRADE BULLETIN. 47
The Sullivan Machinery Co., of Chicago, announces
the establishment of a new branch office in
Salt Lake City, with John C. Taylor, formerly of
the Denver office, manager. A full line of Sullivan
straight-line air compressors and rock drills
with mountings, equipment and duplicate parts,
will be carried in stock, and inquiries for diamond
core drills, heavy hoisting engines, coal cutting
machines, and quarrying machinery will receive
prompt attention.
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A pretty souvenir, illustrative of the trade mark
of Castner, Curran & Bullitt is being circulated by
that firm. It is a handsomely mounted copy of
the original portrait of the Indian Princess Pocahontas,
painted from life in England, in 1616. The
coloring of the painting is faithfully preserved,
together with the inscriptions which are appended
to it.
HAYWOOD'S REPLY TO GOMPERS.
William D. Haywood, secretary-treasurer of the
Western Federation of Miners, emphatically denied
a statement attributed to him to the effect, that
he expected to replenish the treasury of that organization
with contributions sent by other unions
to aid the strikers in Colorado.
"The Western Federation of Miners, from July
1, 1903, up to January 1, 1905, received from
sources outside the federation the sum of $182,628.
Outside of the United Brewery Workers and the
United Mine Workers the American Federation of
Labor contributed a very small proportion of the
sum named.
"We have put into relief funds in Colorado, and
into the distribution of them, practically the whole
of the amount collected. My annual report.
printed after the annual meeting of the federation
board, held here early in the year, gives a
detailed statement of all receipts and disbursements.
"President Gompers is needlessly excited over
the plan to organize an international industrial
union. We are merely planning a broader union
than any now in existence. There are 20,000,000
wage earners in the United States. Approximately
1,500,000 are members of a union. The unions
limit the number of apprentices and then refuse
a man a union card unless he has served an apprenticeship.
We propose to organize the workers
everywhere. We are not attacking the unions,
formed in skilled trades. In fact, they are not
eligible to membership. Ours will be an industrial
union which will include in its membership
all men working in any branch of a trade or industry."