Show little particles of steel float through the air chicago nov 20 doun town chicago just now is experiencing a phase ot the age of steel which is bringing discomfort and danger to many people who use the streets in the central business district somewhere in almost every block a steel bk eleton tor a skyscraper Is rising and in these skeletons pneumatic drills and ri are at work some ot these are at work at such heights that the infinitesimal bits ot steel broken oft drift incredible distances with the winds finding lodgment in the eyes of both man and beast 1 I have had a score of such patients in the last tew weeks said a downtown oculist yesterday 1 I hardly knew what to make ot it at first people came in here with bloodshot eyes suffering intensely yet I 1 wac unable to fand the irritable substance in some 0 these cases the inner lid was cut and crosshatched cross hatched aa with a knite with a glass I 1 discovered a tiny all of steel and aiace that time the matter has been simplified the action of these pneumatic tools is filling the air with particles 0 steel some of them almost too small to be seen with a glass art cutting like a diamond |