. The railroad and engineering journal . amer shank is fitted. After the cylinders are in position, an expert man withhelper can set the machine, drill and ream all the holes re-•quircd to bolt the cylinder to boiler in from 4 to 5 hours ; thissame work, done without this machine, takes about 2>^ daystime. N. J., were destroyed by lire May 12, the buildings beingburned down and the machinery badly damaged. The Com-pany had an extensive plant for heavy forgings and a rollingmill. The works are to be rebuilt. The Grant Locomotive Works, of Paterson, N. J., recentlyshipped through Messrs. Russ
. The railroad and engineering journal . amer shank is fitted. After the cylinders are in position, an expert man withhelper can set the machine, drill and ream all the holes re-•quircd to bolt the cylinder to boiler in from 4 to 5 hours ; thissame work, done without this machine, takes about 2>^ daystime. N. J., were destroyed by lire May 12, the buildings beingburned down and the machinery badly damaged. The Com-pany had an extensive plant for heavy forgings and a rollingmill. The works are to be rebuilt. The Grant Locomotive Works, of Paterson, N. J., recentlyshipped through Messrs. Russell & Co., of China, the firstlocomotive engine ever built in America for use in China. Itgoes to the Kaiping Railway Company, limited, which con-trols the Kaiping coal mines, about 75 miles northeast ofTien-tsin, in the province of Cbih-Ii, and has a light railroadof standard gauge, 29 miles long, and used for haulingcoal. The first steel rails ever made in the South vv made atthe new mill of the Roane Iron Company, in C tanooga,. Fig. 16. rieppels portable drilling machi The above machines are made by Messrs. Pedrick & Ayer,proprietors of the L. B. Flanders Machine Works, of Phila-•delphia. Manufacturing Notes. The Lappin Brake Shoe Company, has started up its newworks at Bloomfield, N. J., and has already began shipping tofill orders. The works are fitted with every modern improve-ment for turning out the product with economy and plant has a capacity of 25 tons a day. The Philadelphia Gas Company has begun the building ofextensive works in Pittsburgh for the manufacture of the fix-tures, regulators, castings, etc., used in its business. Thesehave heretofore been supplied by the Westinghouse AirBrake Company, but that Companys works are now fully oc-cupied on brake work. The Pratt & Whitney Company, in Hartford, Conn., ismaking 150 Gardner improved machine guns for the ItalianGovernment. The Sanderson Brothers Steel Company is rebuilding andenlarging its work
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