Henry Wilson Storey's History of Cambria County, V.II, p.475

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History of Cambria County, V.2

HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY. 475

generous, public spirited citizen, and on Saturday morning after the flood he was made the Chairman of the first organization for the relief of the distressed people.
    During the month of June the narrow gauge Johnstown and Stonycreek railroad carried all the people free between the city and Moxham, where many persons found temporary homes, and where a large number located permanently.
    On April 28, 1894, the Johnson Company decided to remove its rolling mill to Lorain, and keep its switch department at Moxham, and in the summer of that year the mill was dismantled and taken to that town. At that time the Company had in its employ about 2,000 men, and many of them removed to Lorain.
    The switch department has remained at Moxham and at present is very prosperous, employing 1,300 men.
    A concise directory of its plant on March 1, 1907, is as below:
    The Lorain Steel Company; general offices, Pennsylvania Building, Fifteenth and Chestnut streets, Philadelphia. Officers at Philadelphia: Daniel Coolidge, President, and P. M. Boyd, Secretary and Treasurer. Officers in Johnstown: P. Lavelle, Vice President and General Manager, and H. M. Davies, Auditor.
    Sales Agencies: 74 Broadway, New York; Pennsylvania Building, Philadelphia; Commercial National Bank Building, Chicago; Chemical Building, St. Louis; Frick Building Annex, Pittsburgh; Equitable Building, Atlanta; Rockefeller Building, Cleveland; and Sixteenth and Folsom streets, San Francisco.
    Capital stock. $3,000,000; all common.

FOUNDRIES, SWITCHES, CROSSINGS AND SPECIAL WORK.

    Johnstown Works, Johnstown, Pa. Original works built in 1887-8 and put in operation may 13, 1888; open-hearth steel department started in 1889; two acid furnaces (one 10 and one 15-gross-ton); and one regenerative annealing furnace; product, steel castings; annual capacity, 7,500 tons; fuel, coal and oil. A gray iron foundry is connected with the works; product, castings and rolls for commercial purposes and special track work; annual capacity, 4,680 tons. Also a plant for the manufacture of switches, mates, curve crosses, frogs, split switches, girder crossings, drop forgings, curves, track and machine bolts, and all kinds of special work for steam and street railways; annual capacity, 24,600 tons. Also an electric-welding plant, equipped with portable welding, machines for electrically welding joints in street railway tracks. One 15-gross-ton acid open-hearth furnace is to be added in 1907; annual capacity, 15,000 tons. Other departments of the Johnstown Works are to be enlarged in 1907 and their capacity practically doubled.
    Total annual capacity: 7,500 tons of open-hearth steel

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	HISTORY OF CAMBRIA COUNTY.	475
generous, public spirited citizen, and on Saturday morning after the flood he was made the Chairman of the first organization for the relief of the distressed people. During the month of June the narrow gauge Johnstown and Stonycreek railroad carried all the people free between the city and Moxham, where many persons found temporary homes, and where a large number located permanently. On April 28, 1894, the Johnson Company decided to remove its rolling mill to Lorain, and keep its switch department at Moxham, and in the summer of that year the mill was dismantled and taken to that town. At that time the Company had in its employ about 2,000 men, and many of them removed to Lorain. The switch department has remained at Moxham and at present is very prosperous, employing 1,300 men. A concise directory of its plant on March 1, 1907, is as below: The Lorain Steel Company; general offices, Pennsylvania Building, Fifteenth and Chestnut streets, Philadelphia. Officers at Philadelphia: Daniel Coolidge, President, and P. M. Boyd, Secretary and Treasurer. Officers in Johnstown: P. Lavelle, Vice President and General Manager, and H. M. Davies, Auditor. Sales Agencies: 74 Broadway, New York; Pennsylvania Building, Philadelphia; Commercial National Bank Building, Chicago; Chemical Building, St. Louis; Frick Building Annex, Pittsburgh; Equitable Building, Atlanta; Rockefeller Building, Cleveland; and Sixteenth and Folsom streets, San Francisco. Capital stock. $3,000,000; all common. FOUNDRIES, SWITCHES, CROSSINGS AND SPECIAL WORK. Johnstown Works, Johnstown, Pa. Original works built in 1887-8 and put in operation may 13, 1888; open-hearth steel department started in 1889; two acid furnaces (one 10 and one 15-gross-ton); and one regenerative annealing furnace; product, steel castings; annual capacity, 7,500 tons; fuel, coal and oil. A gray iron foundry is connected with the works; product, castings and rolls for commercial purposes and special track work; annual capacity, 4,680 tons. Also a plant for the manufacture of switches, mates, curve crosses, frogs, split switches, girder crossings, drop forgings, curves, track and machine bolts, and all kinds of special work for steam and street railways; annual capacity, 24,600 tons. Also an electric-welding plant, equipped with portable welding, machines for electrically welding joints in street railway tracks. One 15-gross-ton acid open-hearth furnace is to be added in 1907; annual capacity, 15,000 tons. Other departments of the Johnstown Works are to be enlarged in 1907 and their capacity practically doubled. Total annual capacity: 7,500 tons of open-hearth steel