Morning herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1837-1840, 1837-09-28

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Mechanics Institute Fair.
We resume notice of the articles sent TO this
excellent institution for exhibition, without further
| comment
At the extremity Of the saloon, on the stage, is
| case containing various descriptions of saws, worth
about $500, manufactured by Worrall, ard equal or
superior TO any thing ever yet imported. There are
but two manufacturers OF saws in this city, and they
employ about 80 hands, exclusively to make saws.
They import all the steel for this purpose to the
amount of nearly $4,000, annually. There have
been two three unsuccessful attempts to establish
saw manufactures at Stonington and Unionville, in
Connecticut but they have not succeeded There
two manufactures Of saws in Philadelphia, of the
| large kind of saw for saw mills &c, made of COM
mon steel. They employ so hands, and have about
$4,000 invested.
from Wickersly, Sheficl! in Y Yorkshire Each
stone IS about 10 inches across by feet in diameter
they cost $50 stone and weigh from Is cw to a ton.
There is about $1,000 invested in the business
this city and it is brought to greater degree of per-
fiction here than in any other part of the u. States,
and will probably be one of the standing manufac-
lures of the country; already have we ceased TO i'm
port oae description OF saw, VIZ, the circular saw;
all other kinds still imported but it should be
borne in mind, nevertheless, that American goods
| command the best price in the Market by 20 per
| cent. over the English goods. A journeyman
grinder has earned with from $50 TO 40 per week
| and there are many who can earn this; the saw
maker does all but the grinding and earns upon an
average Sl2 per week.
Inc saw UuSlleSS e1iHpIseS dTuCleS Iildut OUT
Of sheet steel, Including trowes, squares, corset
busks &c, of which there thirty kinds in Wor
rail s The steel is imported in sheets from Nay
Tors rolling mills, at Sheffield, none other being used
There is one mandatory in Boston, with capl-
! tai OF ten thousand dollars where they get up crcu-
ar saws, but none other in the Union that we know
OF. The manufacture of heavy mill saws, out of Anne
rcan STEEL began in this country about seventeen
years since, but only about four years since they
began TO make of very superior quality equal
TO the best imported from England
Edge Ioots-There is case of most excellent
edge tools sent from Connecticut. The manufacture
of edge tools includes chises, goages, AIDES, hatch
cts, DC. There are only two manufacturers IN New
York of any note who have capital of about forty
thousand dollars invested in the business there
several smaller ones, who would increase the sum
total 10 fifty thousand dollars. These consume an
nually abont ten thousand dollars worth of Shelf
geld steel, and the whole of the articles manu-
featured consumed in New Y DIRK and lis lmmedi-
al vicinity. The article of hatchels is brought
great perfection in Hartford The Collins manulac
turing company of edge TOOLS near Hartford, alone
employs one hundred hands constantly, and have a
capital Of one bundled thousand dollars. journey
man edge tool maker will earn from eight u ten do-
lars per week.
Cloth and Veird caps-The sight Of the beautiful
OF fur caps led into some curious calculations
upon the cap business in this city. We find that
there are over two thousand young girls employed in
cap making in New York. by about fifty manufac
turers one house alone, Luke Daviss, employing
nearly hundred; this house has capital of fifty
thousand dollars and there is total capital invested
in this bus ness Of cap making alone 10 the amount
of half million of dollars. All the cloth of velvet,
| &c. to the amount of five hundred thousand dollars
annually used in the business IS imported, together
with the raw silk, IN skeins, afterwards used up for
tassels; there is generally man cutter, and two
girls, cutters employed in each establishment and
the girls who the caps earn from three TO SIX dol
lars per week Some idea Of the extent of the manu-
facture of caps in this city, may be formed from the
| fact that Davis's house alone sends away 10 the
southern and western markets over enc hundred
MD yat nj md an
small case Of caps at the FAIR is worth nearly one
| hundred dollars.
Linen-Connected with the aforementioned caps
arc some very beautiful shirt bosoms and collars
And insignificant these things may seem, II is a
fact that there are hundred manufacturers
of genllemen's linen residing or doing business IN
this city but all the articles are made in Troy Why
\ in Troy naturally IS asked. Because the girls IN
Troy wash and dry the articles better than they
| can in New York they also probably board mach
cheaper-sl per week and they earn there from 50
\ TO b.
There are at Leaf TIVE thousand girls in Troy employ
| ed constantly in working up linen for the New York
market, and the latter sends unusually TO the south
| linen to the value of Sl00,009. There are over one
| hundred manufacturers getters up OF gentlemen 9
linen in this city, all Of whom have their establish
| ments IN Troy Davss house imports Irish linens to
| the value Of $40 coo annually, and employ two humid
rod girls in their at Troy 10 make IL up
into bosoms and collars. So much for the pretty Troy
i girls and their admirable mode OF getting up gentle
| mems linen we wonder whether they are as good
getters up of small linen.
| Boots and iShoes.-A case ofvery superb boots and
| shoes made by Ryder, Of Beekrnan street. They
/ obtained the first premium, and well deserved it,
However ILL formed mans foot might be, encased
IN one Of Ryders boots shoes II must look WE'LL
No one who Ryder's bootso or shoes, will hesitate
1 TO patronlze him.
! A ladys and gentleman's plush and silk beaver
| hat sent by Johnson from Newark, are most elegant
articles. They may safely defy competition as the
| label on the case imports.
Another very splendid hat is suspended solitary
| and alone" in glass case close by. IL superb
article and we venture veracy that II Is American
| manufacture. We know not by whom il was made,
| nor TO whom il now belongs, but we dare swear II
would fit us 10 a title.
| Near the door is a beautiful working model of the
Danforh Throsile Machine, made by ten apprentices
Of Goodwin, Clark a. Co. of Paterson, New Jersey, in
their hours, in three weeks, and IL worth tl50.
/ Ii is most ingenious-has steam eagne attached,
and rebounds greatly TO the credit Of the young men,
The Danforth throstle TO spin cotton improve
ment on the Lye spindle machine, but different from
IL; the Improvement is in the cap; by 1t the cotton is
taken from the cardng machine,and spun into yarn
fl for the loom. II produces forty per cent more
yard in the same space of time than any other mode
| Of spinning, and has been invented abeul six years.
One machine contains about one hundred and thirty
spndles and there thousand spndles in full
operation in Peterson, N. J. One girl can attend TO
one hundred and thirty spindles; steam engine 10
turn that number would require a cylinder only eight
inches diameter and TO make sir hundred revolutions
N n minute The average cost 3 abort dollars