. Review of reviews and world's work. d air for blast furnaces, which i)romisesto rival the hot-blast stoves in the saving offuel and the increase of output, the Jones &Laughlin Company is testing a new continuousopen-hearth process, which may possibly hastenthe final extinction of that hitherto remarkableand mammoth of steel manufac-ture,—tlu Hessemer converter. Space does not permit detailed reference toother important steel and iron works of theIittsburg district : the Crucible Steel Companyof America, which recently built the Clairtonplant of blast and open-hearth furnaces a
. Review of reviews and world's work. d air for blast furnaces, which i)romisesto rival the hot-blast stoves in the saving offuel and the increase of output, the Jones &Laughlin Company is testing a new continuousopen-hearth process, which may possibly hastenthe final extinction of that hitherto remarkableand mammoth of steel manufac-ture,—tlu Hessemer converter. Space does not permit detailed reference toother important steel and iron works of theIittsburg district : the Crucible Steel Companyof America, which recently built the Clairtonplant of blast and open-hearth furnaces and soldthem to the United States Steel Corporation ;the celebrated tube works ; the steel-car, wire-fence, nail, and sheet works, which have addedtheir (piota to the growth and wealth of theSteel City, until now,—the business center ofsix hundred thousand inhaliitants,—slu; fur-nishes about one third of all the steel and overone-half of all tin- coke production of the UnitedStates. Nor can we desciil)e the multitude of uses. Copyrii;ht. 19 ..Iy L hautaiu|n,l ) C. MILLIONS OF BUSHELS OF COAL TIED LP ON THE MONONGAHELA RIVEK. (Awaiting a froshet to enable shipment to New Orleans. The section of Pittsburg lies to the left.) 58 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY RE^IEIV OF REyiElVS. which she makes of the three liundrod and liftymillion cubic feet of natural gas annually con-sumed by her industries and homes. In a recent very able and sympathetic address,on Founders Day, at the Carnegie Institute,Mr. John Morley said, in substance, that ideasare greater than iron and steel works antl open-hearth furnaces. With due allowance for hisprobable reference to the truth, that living ideasare in general more potent than material things,we think that the eminent English statesman andauthor, unlike his countryman, Herbert Spencer,when visiting Pittsburg, did not fully appreciatethe great intellectual equipment required for,and the influence exerted by, her industrial mas-terpieces. Gi
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