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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



October, 1905 



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"APOLLO BEST BLOOM" 



Galvanized Sheets 



Experience has taught him that paying a little more for 

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 are the best adapted to your purpose. Look for the red 

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\RDWARE CO. 



D RAPIDS, MICH. 



of manufacturing brass globe valves, check, 

 valves, steam and gas cocks. An iron foundry 

 was started, and in a small way the building 

 of machinery and the making of a few articles 

 belonging to the steam fitting line was under- 

 taken. About this time a small butt-weld 

 pipe mill, the first mill west of Pittsburg, was 

 built on ground where the company still has 

 a pipe mill, and where the present brass de- 

 partment is located the first malleable iron 

 foundry outside of the Eastern States was 

 started. This foundry was on the second 

 floor, and it is claimed to be the first instance 

 of a foundry being placed above the ground 

 floor. The fitting industry was then in its 

 infancy in this country. Most of the fittings 

 used were wrought iron and imported from 

 England. About this time the three-way tap- 

 ping machine was invented. Two, with origi- 

 nal improvements, were built by the Crane 

 Company and installed in its shops. In con- 

 nection with the fitting business the company 

 early took up the manufacture of dies and die 

 plates. In 1865 the business was incorporated. 

 In 1870 another building was erected, and in 

 1 88 1 another pipe mill, near railroad facilities. 

 One lap-weld and two butt-weld furnaces 

 were added. In this mill Siemen's Gas Fur- 

 nace was employed in the manufacture of lap- 

 weld pipe. Some years later its machinery 

 was transferred to Pittsburg. The mill was 

 then rebuilt, and the malleable iron and gray 

 iron fitting departments were moved to it, leav- 

 ing larger space in the old building for the 

 brass shop. Although the company was con- 

 centrating upon the manufacture of valves and 

 fittings, the continued growth of the business 

 demanded extensive additions from 1891 to 

 1903, and in the latter year a five-story modern 

 office building was finished. In 1857 it en- 

 tered the steam warming field, manufactured 

 at different times heating coils, wrought-iron 

 pipe radiators, cast-iron radiators and ventila- 

 ting fans. Believing it was not fair to compete 

 with the trade to which it was selling, it re- 

 tired in 1874 from the steam warming contract 

 business. Elevators were made by the firm as 

 early as 1867, and the business grew so rapidly 

 that it soon crowded other work out of the 

 machine shop. In 1870 passenger elevators 

 were commenced. In 1886 this part of the 

 business was incorporated as the Crane Ele- 

 vator Company, and given a complete plant by 

 itself. Ten different types of elevators were 

 introduced. In 1895, with a view to con- 

 centrating on the valve and fitting business, 

 the Crane Elevator Company was sold. The 

 growing demand for air-brake parts led to their 

 manufacture, and in 1891 a full line was car- 

 ried, and the company, at the Columbian Ex- 

 position, exhibited a complete air-brake equip- 

 ment. General business was developing so 

 rapidly, however, that the air-brake parts, 

 being a distinct line in itself, was abandoned. 

 In 1865 it manufactured pulleys, shafting, 

 steam engines and steam pumps. A Corliss 

 engine was built and installed in 1870, and has 

 been in service until the present time. The 

 company, after the great fire, put several 

 pumps along the river and forced water 

 through the city mains. At present machinery 

 is not manufactured for sale, but there are a 

 machine designing department and a machine 

 shop in which special machinery is built that is 

 needed in the business. This great company 

 has, from its inception, constantly added to 

 the varieties and sizes of the products made. 

 Some of the important classes of goods put 

 on the market in more recent years have been 

 stationary, marine and locomotive pop safety 

 valves, drainage fittings, Ferro steel flanged 

 fittings and valves, ammonia fittings, steam 

 traps, steam and oil separators, malleable and 

 Ferro steel companion flanges, electrically and 

 hydraulically operated, and steam actuated 



