Show from the NY N Y Mp atch shot tower in center street ab the le origin it of the art and mystery of making round 8 shot h ot has been ascribed to a wo womans comans dream who having witnessed many expert of her husband to perfect those petite pet ets i ts used by a sportsmen p for the purpose of fesui nig rig small game ame very considerately went t at s rep tp t p one nigil night t and upon awaking in the oil all nol noi wn ning detailed minutely the whole process I 1 lu hal ual 1 geen seen been revealed to her during the visions vision wh h darkness engenders and up to the present i m me but litie lit se IM improvement ro has been made in ela lif original me method T kt ill mil evel level is 03 dich sich bich a statement has been ga elv ely promulgated in various scientific works hafi hafl an il limich the name of the lady has now es d 1 the w glois wills il ris memory yet et the fact of a Sap sae ismeit Ip melt men iosif is pro probably baIlly familiar to L fu L r v N who ho wi i p pi r rdse ruse I 1 s this article I 1 V lording a the che story goes the husband vl vt was a mb 0 pile ic of considerable ingenuity hia hii lwi lo 10 ig en ivoree fruitlessly to produce r ji 11 sat hot by a s me more expeditious mode 1 1 1 the he ted a process of casting castings but al f f vit vii lit his defors f ins approximated perfection tl fi e t re stil eti J m ny iv serious difficulties in his i i li hicha aich h i ivr iv i v r could overcome until this i rious re rp i toi tol io i from the spirit world t at i 11 i in in pc i on i i of the important secret wa 1 at ones d J d his lug way to 0 o fame and fort I 1 v far th as r may be truthful tr withful or how far i i phal jhai ihal i 1 i 1 t tile the present resent purpose to in i 1 1 it bei P s focient to indicate that the ri in t i lecture f those little spherical bits of li Is ad iid in use ar elz elc i gunners runners to shoot birds and 4 1 En B nailer aller a ai j i ia is is based ona on a purely natural ope operatic ratio i ii od d by the appliances of art anal LI d directed i ay iy i v science As natural as it is for ih h rain ram t fal fai f ill ili I 1 in drops or the hail to sd desi f d in glob 3 the round shot of the sports n r is forme i 1 in i I 1 in view of he the extreme sim pi y v of the i the method medhod is one of great i i reat leat and bi bf i tv v the liquid n i 1 la I 1 is merely poured through a a F ave ye sh aped v i 1 the holt holes a in which divide fh lead into r mite nute drops which fallin falling ta a ih a sp siv or of still air for a hundred hundred feet fee t or orn err r re assi fi a perfectly spherical phel ahei ical conforth r i and I 1 c n ie cooled or congealed in the 1 in 11 are r ived in a large reservoir of w i r tile the latt lau i being used for the purpose of pi ting tip tie tl P p pellets liets from infringing on one a j h r 1 too f lyv after thy have fallen so s st f I 1 ly v and s f ir 1 I 1 ap manefa ma nufA tre ire of sporting shot is there f as will I 1 s a sen en n hy by this brief description nearly indent indents il with the production of borsum sum r V ei b h nl al the 1 p difficulty being a ir an haight of tower to cool the molten drops re they re ih b the vat or reservoir ID ii the cons r rl it ion of such a tower the cost s cf of course a considerable item and this ob jc je loy joined ewh the fact that all the lead a 3 tari turl for impi ine ins the same must be raised to th h top of the structure thence to be returned b bf v il i a own gravity has induced many suase q t t experiment pv perla peria its a for the purpose of providing a s hb atut fr r the immense height necessary hn in the successful prosecution of the t IP 4 it was waa at one ti timet hought bought that the problem li had hid id ben been solved by the erect erection imi imy of a shaft of cum sarat ively moderate elevation and forcing a ac c wrent of air upward through its center it einz eing claimed that with the air ascending with fht hr same ity as the descending metal a fa I 1 ol 01 fifty fen fert fer t was waa equal to one of one h hundred un dred through though th ough a still atmosphere the ne theory vvs 3 plausible but it must have eventuated in a p pirl pid pi irl d I 1 i d failure since the tower now under cona cons i a nn oa is of recent origin and it is not to be a ased ri ad the mcculloch shot and lead C ganv n any adv woud would be at the trouble and expense f erechin a column reaching nearly two hundred feet toward owa athe the stars when a building oi 01 L quarter th the height would have an answered swereS answered w it 11 I 1 i the prod warl wari ir ton ion of round shot it seems to 1 i e cf of the t f ins ing of the proposition that the I 1 r the pellet the further it must fall and th h e andears i to be even a limit in this respect bi vod 0 o which it is impossible impossible to togo logo go musket brusket bat ban j i fitle ldla bullets bulla ia ald and buckshot buck uck shot are cast mryr or LF geed it bei bpi being bring ng impossible to form them of a 8 nat lent ic il 1 accuracy b by any other mete meta th re e are physical difficulties did curties interi nim ning which never hive hilve been bren overcome and p pi I 1 lly liy ily bly never val N ill lil he be but if one wishes to aness A niss the neolus operandi by which the surlier a u der er disc of leaden hail get their sl B pe e and ad pr 1 1 irions it ions undoubtedly no where i th s count y V can such curiosity be more con v ile lle loy lov or pe pye gratified than by an b T r or two E s ji ut in in the inspection of the th va noia q operate ns 13 and ard manipulations each day nui cui ii i forward at the i iron ron to tower of me Cul cui lochs EA shat and leal laal C copany Cn pany in center street near rol roi 1 D win rin ing a reen rien lt visit made to this establish ei MA it every fitl if n alty lity ty was extended for a minute wi iril v y of thee the e ire premises and seldom has at a ft 1 ii n ebent mp ost bly and a 3 r fabi bl ii buildt are arc a recent v ion on or rather ih th adapts of cist iron 0 archie dri hie tural rr 1 s s seap sea ly dates babli baal the first hilf half f flu G h hc cr iviry and the innovation vc a 3 1 r s ane years with exceed T oi rhion i on T IP f t a sa s1 bruc eruc turf now recollect u as berec s i ls ils ivl s s cita on it the corner of i ar r and T s 11 rf it st ta rene uis uit q a atril cf ot 0 th euler eaLer enterprise prise aill b alofia il of ofia 1 3 mi me bogardus but 1 finity n inley were slow stow to adopt the material ipri erb erh ipg of tle the effect of atmospheric 1 pc ilar to his 0 the i vot ire n 1 cArac c tra athe alne tite properties of the brittle J the prejudice hio tio however wever is gradually grad grai nally and not only girders and store fronts fonts are now fabricated in the iron foundry but ut several bell towers for the purposes of fire alarms alarms at the present fay day day rear their graceful ro portions rations high in in air fight ligat open structures ampo consisting of sets of cokins columns edone upon apon the ot other heryet yet withal firm and stable as the he ancient hills whence tile the adamantine sub stance originated I 1 the success attending these initial efforts I 1 undoubtedly induced mr mcculloch tv te contract with mr bogardus for the erection oi of the beautiful and tower shift ab aft or column which now graces the ion lon louir lr p re ri ot the city and wh cb heing iii lit me its t chiu chube proportions options far above all the surrounding nung objects forms forms a remarkable rp feature in the architectural embellishments of new york city whether viewed from points upon the island itsel itself for or I 1 from the adjacent shores of jersy jers y staten island an and 1 long lalni entering through an archway in in center street and passing back ia 11 the direction ot I 1 broadway twenty paces or thereabout there about brings aps t thew then he visitor to toa a gate of wooden pa palings paling lings 8 which bars further progress enthat in that direction A short turn tarn to the richt however through a narrow door and st rs sand wand u N in 11 the hi ili ill iii cs office sur s ir round edby k sal sai s alm aia bags bass of the li mashed nahed shot eui regularly eul arly mai mat lif lit ked and ai d labeled for the wants waists ot of I 1 the he trade in the room beyond bey ond a neat aneal and coin pact steam en engine lne is nois dols noiselessly rois lessly performing its ceaseless labor a quiet but most efficient helper in the various operations of hoisting the metal and coal to the summit of bf the tower pumping in water n ater and propelling the machinery eia qia chinery for screening polishing e further on and immediately surrounding the base of the main shaft is tile the finishing room the packing department and an immense caul dron filled with the seething fluid lead kead which several operators are arc industriously ladling into moulds for the purpose of forming buckshot uck buck shot so called and which perform an important item in the service charge of the american musket muskets three of these effective and dangerous customers being dropped upon the bullet in I 1 most of our army musket cartridges these buckshot are manufactured very fast the moulds forming 0 over er one hundred at alime a time the they y can be filled several times in in a minute the mafrici madrict a opening like the finfera fingers hin fin gerb gera and dropping pin the shot into boxes underneath I 1 in other parts of the room rectangular boxes manufactured of boiler plate are revolving when the smaller sized pellets are being polished orgather or rather covered with a coating of plumbago and which gires gives them that peculiarly I 1 smooth and greasy feeling feeling while all around are scattered the other machinery and appliances applias ces of this mammoth manufactory a concern that uses tons of lead per month and whose principal business is is the fop foj formation mation matlon of destruct tives tn cs of animal life lf the tower itself has its foundations within this room it is twenty tw enty feet in diameter at the ba seand reaching up up up one hundred and eighty feet is reduced to a diameter ot of fourteen feet there it terminates in a deck surrounded by an iron iron rail A small spiral staircase winds from the ground to the summit and as one ascends this thia corkscrew arrangement a continued hissing of the falling falling shot is eternally at the elbow so cl close 0 se in in fact fact that the outstretched hand might reach the semi molten stream it is is a long a weary and a dizzy journey this climbing and climbing around around twisting and turning taming and soaring seemingly forever but once aloft the magnificence of the prospect repays all the labor the e tower proper is is a ten sided obelisk fabricated of iron columns and cross ties these columns are eacil some bome fourteen or fifteen feet in length and weigh nearly a tun ten apiece piece a the total weight of the iron bein being more than tons they are firmly bol boi bolletto bolted teTto to each other at the ends and form a skeleton structure of im immense strength the spaces between the columns are fired filled in in with a wall of single bricks only four inches in in thickness the uses of this wall being not to add to the stability of the structure but simply to gaard the falling shot from the action of the vind wind which otherwise might swerre swerve the metallic shower from the necessary perpendicular des deb descent cent cert and be productive of waste or loss well toward the top is another big melting kettle in which the lead is kept in a state of constant fusion by a fire underneath an iron vessel nearly the size stze size of a half bushel measure mease re with its bottom punched p inched full of holes is 13 hung beside the chepo pot of liquid lead and into this affair the molten metal meli is word wort di dipped d T nearly early as fast as one operative opera can work 1 while l i 1 e h his i a companion fires up and feds the caldron with great greab se a t pigs of lead as heavy as a stout man can fi kift lift ft the 9 e gleaming mass drips through the perforated bottom of the receptacle and falls prone down the wella well weil a shaped lia lla ped passage in a never nevar ceasing ceasing Z shower of shining rain a hundred and fifty fet more or less until it plum plunges plumes eg vilh A ith a hissing SU 1 screams scream into the tb extensive re arvor r below so swift is 13 its descent deseri after the first second or two that the eye can only detect a stream of falling particles chasing each oher other with an indescribable veo ve beocity 0 I 1 o city while the hum is in c ss an it t aid almost painfully panf pint illy deaf ir liv G i g i tl th vr 11 h 1 ai ni srul hr sr i ni i riv alv immediately beneath the drip of this fearful hail is is seen the pigmy proy ploy form of a man foreshortened into an unrecognizable lump ile he is is engaged bergae 1 wih wi h a long lons copper corper co per ving tt the tee a c co i 1 1 i 1 blot shot f on olt the r 9 to an inch pi P i i i v L r I 1 lo 10 L left to drain awhile before tz t y 41 r other process A sort of queer wierd sensation creeps through the frame as the eye becomes partially accustomed io to tho the great distance down below which this L mand nand and for a moment one forg forgets ets eta that ive lve ie is upon the surface of this mn re a while ie hi stands so high aloft alofa but rather that the man the scoop is fir far down in ebe ebb bowels of the earth a sort of subterranean worker in the realms of the plutonian and there is something akin to a temptation into tb alf ulf Us ic ci c arent for the p purpose a apo a beof of makin i na k ing tb e a alvin vist vast tb th experiment however tiu llo wever nt not be a safe 8 ife one oise precisely and the freak flits as rapid rapidly ly a and 11 d strangely 0 as it came it is a lonesome place tip there with those two bw b w bit b it girnt workmen wi amm the th beavy heavy pigs pa go 0 o nito i i 0 the ih caldron wi h d a illon lil ill ii anil and i thi act ot dipping out ont on theil the fl lid nd galena galend is pi r nois l there is 1 sy tto splash of con sequence cf but ever a and nd anon aenoi a ladle Iddle tuli tull is is returned turned to the melting in ettin eltin pot to be replaced with a hotter quantity and the work progresses saes with un chitin indeli industry itry ibry and ana remil larity tivis lii is aitro nd shot in fie hie bcd cd almost precisely os a the rain fain raindrop r nii nil drop s are lire anade globular viz n by fallin m igli ai a space III in the atmosphere which litch if it be sufficiently destitute of calorific influences freezes the tidy sphere into a hailstone electrical action has something to do with the formation of he raindrop in 11 the clouds sirce sn ce it has never yet been as ar i lined dined that the storm king keeps that per borated f or cited vessel tip up aloft to sift his showers of blessings down downin in away similar to the method of the man in in the shot tower but barring this difference the rain globules glo bules and bird shot are manufactured on similar principles indeed all natural objects of a plastic constitution seem inclined to resolve themselves in into to 8 ph e acal shapes when left free to move untrammeled and the pellet of melted lead which while falling through air assumes the form of a globe is is probably governed by the same laws which operated when the sun moon our own arth earth and the other planets emerged from chaotic masses into their present regular 0 and beautiful proportions but the process of manufacturing shot is by no means the most interesting feature of the iron tower located in in the midst of one of the most dense ly populated neighborhoods in new york and lifting itself high in air above all the surrounding spires or workshops the view from the summit is most and exciting far below and apparently uprising like ghostly amanati |