This picture was taken at Bethlehem, Pa., and gives, in a comparatively short length of film, a comprehensive revision of this absorbing industry. A panorama of the numerous buildings and immense stock yards containing 1,000,000 tons of oil and limestone is followed by an excellent view of a 550 ft. traveling crane with a 14-ton capacity carriage in operation. By means of gigantic ladles, the molten iron is poured into a converter. The foreign substances, silicon, carbon and manganese, are burned out by blowing cold air through the molten metal, which causes myriads of sparks to issue from the throat of the converter, not unlike an enormous pyrotechnical floral display. It is then poured into ignots, which are rolled down in the blooming mill and subsequently finished in a rail mill. The pictures shows the rail stock yards, from which the rails are loaded into cars by mean of the electric magnet. - Moving Picture World, November 1913
Split reel documentary with "Tale of the Ticker." This short may have been purchased from an outside producer as there is no indication that the studio ever sent crews east of Chicago.