The Iron and steel magazine . only 31 per cent of the combined output of these two classesof steel was open-hearth steel, in 1904 it had grown to 52 percent, or more than half. The Engineering Building. — The public competition insti-tuted by the Joint Committee for the selection of architects forthe planning and erection of the buildings presented by Carnegie for the American Institute of ElectricalEngineers, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, theAmerican Institute of Mining Engineers and the Engineers Club,resulted in the presentation of twenty-six sets of plans for theb
The Iron and steel magazine . only 31 per cent of the combined output of these two classesof steel was open-hearth steel, in 1904 it had grown to 52 percent, or more than half. The Engineering Building. — The public competition insti-tuted by the Joint Committee for the selection of architects forthe planning and erection of the buildings presented by Carnegie for the American Institute of ElectricalEngineers, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, theAmerican Institute of Mining Engineers and the Engineers Club,resulted in the presentation of twenty-six sets of plans for thebuilding. After a careful examination of these plans, the com-mittee appointed Messrs. Hale and Rogers and Henry G. Morse,associate, architects, for the three engineering societies, andWhitfield & King, architects, for the Engineers Club. The frontage of the Engineering Building on 39th Street,between Fifth and Sixth avenues, covers five city lots, or 125feet front and 100 feet deep. Metallurgical Notes and ( ontniente V. The contract for construction was signed in July, theexcavation for the foundations was started at cnce and the 72 The Iron and Steel Magazine work of construction has now commenced. The contract limitis fifteen months to date of expected completion. Carnegie Steel Companys Steel Tie.* — The manufacturersexhibit at the International Railway Congress held at Washing-ton last Mav developed considerable interest in improved crossties. The growing scarcity and consequent increase in theprice of wooden ties have caused the railroad managements toresort to methods by which they could overcome this tendency,and for the past twenty years experiments have been made withvarious types of metal and concrete ties, the most of which haveproven failures. Six years ago, steel ties made with a 4-inch I-beam, havinga plate 4^ inches wide riveted on the top, and one 8 inches wideon the bottom, were placed in the tracks of the L. S. & M. S.,at Sandusky, Ohio. These ties still
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