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30 MARINE REVIEW AND MARINE RECORD. [Oct. 2, METAL CUTTING MACHINES. The Q. & C. Co. of Chicago, recently placed on the market a line of metal cutting machines that embody many novel features and improvements over those made by them in the past with which the users of this class of machinery have become so fam- iliar. The new machines are of two distinct types--Bryant saws in which the saw blades is driven by a gear or Sprocket wheel engaging with the teeth forward on the periphery of the blade, and -the arbor-driven saws, on which the saw blade is driven by a central mandrel or arbor. -- Both types of these saws are made in two styles, cut-off saws and universal saws. In the cut-off type the blade travel is short and the machine is especially designed for cutting off bars, round and square, structural shapes, etc. In the universal type the travel of the blade is longer and the machine is fitted with an upper side table, on which the work can be cut off for the entire length of the travel of the saw blade, while they are also arranged with V blocks and lower tables for cutting bars and shapes. The illustrations herewith show two views of a Bryant cut-off type of machine, one belt-driven, and the other motor-driven. _ Any machine can, when desired, be mounted on circular base which can be completely rotated by track and pinion, this being a very desirable feature where there is not sufficient room for swinging along beam. Lateral adjustment of side tables can be furnished if required, so that the work can be adjusted for cutting after being secured. -- Special attention has been given to the arrangement of the tables on all machines, so that work can be placed most advantageously for cutting with a minimum distance of blade travel. The lower side tables are of sufficient length to enable beams, etc., to be properly sup- ported when being cut off at any angle up to-45°, and to per- mit of steel castings within the capacity of the machine being secured to it. 'All machines are fitted with the Q. & C. Co.'s latest type of friction feed, giving an automatic feed variable with the machine in motion from: %4 in. to I in. per minute on the Bryant saw and from 3-16 in. to 13-16 in. per minute on the arbor driven saw. 'The feed is powerful in its action and gives a constant driving force throughout its entire range. The feed wheel is connected to the feed screw by a clutch operated by a lever, by moving which it is engaged or disengaged. In the univer- sal saws the clutch also operates the power return movement with which these machines are fitted. A rod attached to this lever engaging' with the carriage, operates an automatic stop in both directions. When the clutch is disengaged, the car- riage can be moved in either direction by hand: The feed nut is solid, 6-in. in length, and bushed with bronze. .. It is bolted and tongued to the carriage, and can be readily removed without dismantling the machine. The Bryant saw carriage is.in two parts, the sprocket shaft bearing being cast in one piece with the worm gear hood, Bryant Cut-off Saw. and moveable 2' in. towards the axis of the blade, allowing for a wear of 5 in. in its diameter. 'The sprocket is removea- ble, and all sprockets on these saws are interchangeable and readily replaced. _ The arbor-driven saw carriage is of good design and exceed- ingly strong and rigid. All bearings are divided at right angles to the direction of the wear and are of extra large proportions. Both arbor gear and pinion are solid with the shaft, the pinion being hardened. The width of the face is large and the liberal proportions employed have produced a very rigid and quiet run- ning machine. ne oe All gears in both types of machines are entirely enclosed avoiding dust and the wear it: entails when machines are not advantageously placed. The shears and tables are of strong and rigid design end are provided with oil troughs so that all lubri- cant is returned to the central trough and underneath the saw blade. As the Q. & C. Co. are the only manufacturers of both these types of machine they are in position to furnish to their customers. that. type of machine which experience has shown to be best adapted to a¢coimplish the required work with the greatest possible economy. Further information and catalogue can be ob- tained from the Q. & C. Co., Western Union building, Chicago, or 114 Liberty street, New York. Bryant Cut-off Saw. INTERVIEW WITH JAY COOKE. Jay Cooke, financier, who has been very ill at his summer home on the island of Gibraltar, Lake Erie, was interviewed re- cently by a correspondent of the New York Herald upon the causes of the present unexampled prosperity of the country and the likelihood of its continuance. Mr. Cooks says that protection has been the secret of the country's rise to industrial greatness and adds that while that principle is maintained it will advance irresistably. The United States is no longer compared with other nations but with the world. With less than 5 per cent. of the population and only 7 per cent. of the area. the United States is, nevertheless, about equal industrially to half the remainder of mankind. With a rehabilitated merchant marine, an Isthmian canal, continued pro- tection, peace and prosperity, the future must hold even more wonderful results for.the United States than any that have transpired. : "My father," said Mr. Cooke, "was a member of congress, a Whig of the Henry Clay school, and from my youth I was brought up to believe in protection as against free trade and such miserable heresies. For seventy years I have watched the growth of the principle until it has reached its logical place and the spread of prosperity has made my conviction 'sure, "This prosperity, then, will last?" Ee "Tt will endure so long as the American people are true to the principle of protection. 'The natural wealth of the country is vast; there are still great areas uncul- tivated, great storehouses of power yet undeveloped. With stable conditions the steady tide of wealth will rise. Some things I achieved in my life which are re- membered, and these [ achieved because I had perfect faith that the American people would establish and cling to the principles that have made the nation industrially great. My belief was justified. "Have I not grounds for my confidence? It has been my fortune to see the country grow. I went to St. Louis as a boy of sixteen, when it had a population of 7,500, and Chicago was still Fort Dearborn and a few shanties. I went to Philadelphia in 1838. Its popula- tion was 225,000 while that of New York was only. 165,000. My father obtained the first charter for a rail- road granted anywhere in the world, and I have had something to do with nearly every railroad since built in the United States. Therefore the wonderful progress we have made unrolls itself before my memory as a great panorama, and when I see the steady growth, the magnificent advance, I can not but believe that the nation is destined to greater things. I know something of our undeveloped resources, and I repeat that few of us have yet grasped the possibilities that lie before us." "Do you see danger in the trusts?" was asked. "None that will-not correct itself. I can not share the alarm expressed by Russell Sage in this regard. 'This is a big country and big capital is needed to operate its industries. Com- bination necessarily works towards the general wealth. You remember the Northern Pacific and-the Great Northern, when Morgan and Hill were fighting for supremacy. By a common