Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1891 — No Tin Plate In Philadelphia. [ARTICLE]

No Tin Plate In Philadelphia.

The National Provistoner, a trade journal of New York, recently published a letter from the N. & G. Taylor Coinpany, of Philadelphia, declaring their readiness to supply American tin plate from their own mill tr their customers and to the public generally. In consequence of this, it says it has been flooded with letters from all parts of the country urging it to look more closely into this manufacture of American tin plate. “We have dbne so,” it continues, “anil we state today from,., positive knowledge of the facts? and beyond any question or doubt, that there is no Jin plate mill in Philadelphia* and consequently no American Ain plate is made there.” The, Provlsioner publishes verbatim an interview with the N. &G. Taylor Company. The latter refused to permit anybody to see their tin-plate works, but finally admitted that they bought their sheets from other parties. Being asked who manufactured the sheets, they said they were made in Pennsylvania, but declined to give the names of the maker. Being asked where their tin came from, they said California, but could not show any invoice of If. * Being ask how many men they employed in the manufacture of tin plate, they said seven men and six boys, and that the space occupied by their mill was 60x30 feet. Mr. C. Merchant, of Philadelphia, being interviewed said that this kind of making of tin plate was no new thing in this country, as the firm of H. W. Butterworth & Son had been doing it for the last fifteen or eighteen years. Yet this firm goes on advertising its tin plate, and saying: “We are making this brand in Philadelphia.”