The inside history of the Carnegie Steel Company, a romance of millions . apacity of his works. At the time of its purchase the Homestead mill was alreadyone of the best-equipped plants of its size in the country; butduring the next few years important additions w^ere made to itwhich put it at the head of the steel works of the world. OnOctober, 1885, a new bar and angle mill was constructed, to four hundred men; and by the middle of July,1886, the converting works, under the skilful management ofMr. Julian Kennedy, were turning out six hundred tons ofBessemer steel a day. In
The inside history of the Carnegie Steel Company, a romance of millions . apacity of his works. At the time of its purchase the Homestead mill was alreadyone of the best-equipped plants of its size in the country; butduring the next few years important additions w^ere made to itwhich put it at the head of the steel works of the world. OnOctober, 1885, a new bar and angle mill was constructed, to four hundred men; and by the middle of July,1886, the converting works, under the skilful management ofMr. Julian Kennedy, were turning out six hundred tons ofBessemer steel a day. In the month of March, 1887, the twofour-ton converters produced the unexampled total of 19,572tons of ingots, and further broke the record with an output of915 tons in one day. During their most active period of growth Mr. Julian Ken-nedy was superintendent of the works; and their success wasm no small degree due to his exceptional engineering as a new era in blast-furnace construction and product wasinaugurated under his management at the Edgar Thomson works. MR. PHJPPS PROGRESSIlENESS 163 in the early 80s, so now was initiated a revolution in rolling-mill practice. The slabbing-mill, already mentioned as thegiant descendant of the little Zimmer mill at Klomans, waserected by him, as was also the 119-inch plate-mill, the largestmachine of its kind that up to that time had been built. A slight modification in the arrangement of the slabbing-mill a machine that cost nearly a million—fitted it for the rolling ofarmor-plate and doubled its usefulness. Mr. Kennedy invented
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