"blown out" after a blast was called a campaign; the length of a campaign always attracted much attention. In the days when a furnace could go bad in a day or two, an endurance record of two years was a newsworthy event. Lacking modern knowledge of chemistry, early ironmasters and their employees tended

puddlers until it became a "spongy, plastic mass impregnated with the liquid slag.'" Quality of the iron depended on the skill and experience of the puddler— the "aristocrat" among rolling mill employees) The pasty iron was gathered into a large ball after one and three-quarter hours of puddling, and put

parts of the building are floored with brick. The audience room is furnished with chairs and a table for use of ministers or the officers of societies having charge of the ceremonies at cremation; the walls are decorated with pictures and urns of various designs. The waiting room is provided with chairs

84/3, 1981 131 An Unusual Discovery Prisoner-of-War Barracks in Lancaster Used During the Revolutionary War By Albert G. Overton and J. W.W. Loose Although historians have known for a long time barracks to house British and Hessian prisoners-of-war during the American Revolution were located at the

that year, employees of the Columbia Rolling Mill struck, and were discharged for trying to make their own rules. Of the strike, the Spy thought "it is probably one of the most foolish on record, when the circumstances and depressed condition of the money market are considered." The puddlers were

assault and battery. Linville was fined two pounds and costs. Perrin was fined three pounds and costs. Both were directed to post bonds for surety of the peace. Pfarr paid a fine of two shillings six pence and costs. Mauck, who obviously was not much of an aggressor in the fracas, was fined one shilling