The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1842-10-16
Fifteenth Annual Fair OF the American In
stitute At Niblo's Gardeu-Is42.


The fair still continues be increasing in interest
and in the catalogue of articles exhibited. Even
Friday, the day of the great celebration, the In
stute took in over 500
In the morning of the day the fair was visited in
body by the pupils OF the Deaf and Dumb Asylum.
We did not arrive at the garden in season TO see
them, but Mr.. Holmes, OF the clerks Of the In
sttute, says he conversed with one OF them in
writing as follows
"Where do you come 'front.'"
" came from The Institution
" How many scholars came down."
- 64 females and 81 males"
II was said hey appeared to be highly delighted
with every thing excepting the music.
We shall now proceed TO speak Of some few ar
uces specially interesting and deserving the atten-
ton OF visitors.
YOU'VE LEEcHes the clerks desk in the
main saloon, the visitor will see a vase of young
| eeches, attended by some of larger growth, whom
we suppose to be their fathers and mothers or they
may be friends and acquaintances certainly they
are grown up people They look very curious and
funny, mean the little babies some of them not
more than half an inch long. They purport 10 be a
vase of young eeches, with the capsules in which
they enclosed. 1t is said TO be first and
cessfu experiment TO breed, and acclimate the TO-
reign eech from the reservoir, which has been es-
tablshed on an extensive scale in the vicinity OF
| New York, for two years last past, by John Alay-
! ola " Co., No. l06 Bowery. They are undoubtedly
| uoHtStc manufactures, as we are assured tnSy
| cannot be imported in their present state. PLY
| slclans will please TO take notice of them.
CLOTH RooM.-Here you will not fail TO notice,
No. III, an article called Saxony Beaver, and Ash
land Beaver cloth, two specimens, manufacture d
without spinning or weaving it being beaten up like
the material OF a hat by the Union Company,
Norwalk, CT. One OF the pieces is made OF goats
hair and Saxony wool, and the other of wool alone.
The Ashland beaver piece is the Identical piece from
which the Hon Henry Clay had piece cut of where
witha to make himself an overcoat. 1t looks as if
1t would protect man from every thing butpolincal
No. 169 is an American black figured shawl, ma
nutactured by Messrs. Duncans and Cunningham
of Bellve, N. j.; it is much admired as an elegant
specimen of workmanship.
In this room also various ribbed cassimeres,
broad cloths, felt cloths, musins, bleached and un
bleached chintzes, calicoes &c. &c, together with
some specimens of magnificent glass staining, by
Messrs Case and Weston in particular, large
centre piece for a wlndow-very beautiful.
MACHINE RooM,-We intend at the earliest mo-
ment, TO give full and accurate report of this room
or at least OF such articles are worthy OF 1t.
We saw to-day in this room what we have not
seen before, new dynamometer, invented by G.
James. AS this Is machine newly introduced into
the arts, and not yet perfected we may say that 1t
is an instrument to measure the power necessary to
move, draw, or drive any other machine, including
poughs, harrows, DC. This particular dynamome-
ter, OF which we are now speaking, has recently be-
come the property of the American Institute, at
expense of about $500 And it is constructed and
arranged in the room that by it, the force power
necessary to drive any one or more collectively, Of
the machines exhibiting at the Fair can be in
simultaneously ascertained
In the horticultural r DOM Mr.. Thorburn's dahlIas
have come out in an entire new dress, at the head
of the room. 1t is splendid framework of fresh
dahhas, tastefully arranged in the form OF large
diamond of solid flowers, on the top of which is
horizontal cross with stars at the exremties, sur
mounted with an inverted balloon of solid flowers
In the whole frame work there are about five hun
dred dahlias. Thorburn and dahlias, dahlias and
Thorburn.
Mr.. Kent, of Brooklyn, also he's stand of beauti-
full dahlias
AS you ascend from the main saloon, to enter the
Horticultural room, you will not tail to notice the
magnificent display upon the wall of the Hoe"
saws &c, of which we shall have more to say
hereafter. They constitute very attractive feature
Of the fair