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Brick masons at East Chicago, Ind., slashed at mortar with their trowels last week, plumped bricks down to form the stringer courses of a 500-foot surface tunnel; pipe fitters twirled threads onto gas lines with their tap-&-die threader; freight gondolas dumped clay and ganister-Harbison-Walker, $36,000,000 brickmaking corporation, was having constructed a new type of kiln to burn silica brick. Corporation President J. E. Lewis had heard of the kiln operating at Dusseldorf, Germany, and after a talk with his Board Chairman H. W. Croft in their Pittsburgh offices had hurried to Dusseldorf...
...Harbison-Walker in shaping their bricks squeeze their clay or ganister mixture into a long greyish bar which, as it crawls out the mold, resembles a creeping crocodile. A slicer armed with steel wires cuts the firm bar into separate bricks just as a string cuts a bar of Ivory soap...
Those raw bricks are to be placed on small cars and slowly passed through the 500-foot tunnel kiln which Harbison-Walker's President Lewis is having built at East Chicago. In passage they will endure a heat of 2,700° Fahrenheit. (Temperature of boiling water is 212° F.) Spoilage of bricks is expected to be trivial...
...Harbison, A. W., Winthrop...
...there remain good men in every event. If there is any cause for worry, it lies in the fact that there is a lack of good second and third-string material in some of the events. The following men did not return this year: W. F. Potter, hurdler, H. Harbison, shot-putter, R. Cook, broad-jumper, R. A. Douglas, high-jumper, and F. G. Hartswick, high-jumper. This leaves a large number of veterans of the team which defeated the University and Princeton and finished fifth in the intercollegiates. These are: Captain W. M. Shedden '15, G. E. Brown...