The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1844-07-01

BnIsroL BRIcK.-A Restaurants FACT.
Some OF our citizens have doubt noticed boxes Of
bricks Of precisely the same character OF the impor-
ted Bristol brick, passing through town occasionally,
on their way to Boston and the South. We had the
curiosity the other day to trace back these bricks to
the source from whence they came 1t ia said that
the only place in the world in which these bricks have
been made, (except, of course, those we are hero
speaking off, is Bristol, England. small vein Of
sand was many years ago found near Liverpool, hut
il was soon all worked up and exhausted. Some
where about the year 1920, an Eugshman, who had
been concerned either owner or operative in the
works at Bristol, over to this country thinking
that he might discover something which would ena-
BILE him TO share the monopoly Of trade with the
Bristol manufacturers He travelled in the United
States five years. making dlligent inquiry and nves-
tgation, without being able TO discover the object of
his search. Just as he ready to return, disap-
pointed, while standing in the doorway of store in
Boston, cart full of sand stopped at the door. He
Immediately went to it, and putting his hand into the
sand pronounced unhesitatlngy that it was tho very
article for which he had been long searching. He
asccrtuned that il came from the land Of Elhu French
of Southhampton, N. H. and at once repaired to the
sand, reaching to much greater depth than at Brs-
tol, and the sand being in good demand among foun-
ders, tho owner had been in the habit of supplying
several foundries with it. He attempted to purchase
the land, and fung in this, offered to 60 into part
nership with the OF it, in the manufacturer
But with true New Hampshire pertinacity Mr. French
turned deaf ear to all propositions. lie was oppos-
ed to all partnerships, all innovations, and all magni
fcent specnlations and would have nothing to do
with them; but If the Englishman would go TO work
and make some bricks for him he would pay him a
good price for his labor Accordingly, the English
manufactured considerable quantity and re-
ceived his pay, the Yankee looking the work and
probably supposng that he had learned the art But
after the Englishman, having given up all hopes Of
purchasing, had departed, Mr. French found he had
not learned the secret of the manufacturer; he could
not make single brick. The work was then
pended until two years afterwards, when the same
man came from England again, in the hope of
bringing the Yankee to terms. But he found him as
obstinate cver and after ascertaning that he could
do nothing with the owner of the land, very good
turedly impaired to him the secret of the manuac-
ture for a bonus Of S 1900. This in 1927, and
from that time to the present, Mr. French has been
constantly engaged in the manufacture, and Doing
most ofthe labor himself, and hiring but very little
or course the quantity made has been limited, but
the demand has been steadily increasing, and he in
tends to make 100, 900 bricks this year.
The bricks made by sr French every way g.
quail to the imported Bristol article, and by some
esteemed superior, They command the same Price !