Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1890 — Saw Making in Pennsylvania. [ARTICLE]

Saw Making in Pennsylvania.

Mr. E. Dickinson, of Sheffield, England, was recently in America attending the meeting of the Iron and Steel Institute in New York. After visiting a number of our manufacturing establishments he returned to Sheffield and has given some account of what he saw in America. Among other things he saw a machine in the establishment of Dlsston & Sons at Tacony, Pa., for cutting and at the same time graduating the teeth of hand saws. The machine is fed by a boy and cuts 1,500 teeth per minute. The Englishman found that the Pennsylvania establishment was much superior in the rapidity and cheapness with which saws are turned out; and he saw packages of finished saws addressed to England. The queer part of all this is that Dlsston has high protection against the English, and more than thai, he is in a trust for maintaining prices on his saws. We Americans are a queer people!