The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1847-06-10
Meeting of Inventors.


Last night, ut eight, meeting of Inventors
and their friends, was held in the lecture
room. Clinton Hall, to consider the report OF
Select Committee appointed at a former
meeting to visit Perth Amboy, and consider
three propositions made by DIR. Solomon An
drews for the establishment of an Inventors
Institute at that place. The committee re-
ported that the Doctors property is worth
$4,000, and suggested plan which, as the
Doctor refused to agree toit, we need not
state fully. The committee consider this city
the great workshop and mart of inventors
that it owes to them its present greatness,and
is their great school, possessing manufactures
OF every possible variety, from the basement
to the seventh story
The Chair was filed by Mr. Sewall Short
of Connecticut, and it was moved that the
report of the committee, Of which Mr., Samu-
ell Fleet was Chairman, be accepted, or re-
ceived. Carried. DR.. Solomon Andrews is
the inventor of the present U. 5. Mail Lock,
and the agent of the Perth Amboy Manulac-
turing Co. which manufacture these locks, as
also 500 two,gallon kegs per day from the
rough timber. The company have atitty-year
charter for general manufacturing purposes,
authorizing capital of 100000. DIR, A. is
a Vice President of the National Association
Of Inventors
IT was next moved that the Report be adopt
ell, Oh which
Dr.. Andrews asked for the resolution of the
list meeting Of Inventors, appointing the COM
mitt2e.
1t was read by Mr.. Buel, and was to the
effect that the undersigned agree to establish
an Inventors Institute, upon one of the plans
proposed by DR.. A. or one more feasible, IN
case their Committee should report tayorably
on such plan.
DH Andrews objected to the Committees
views. He was already in possession Of a
charter under which the proposed object could
be carried out. If his third proposition were
accepted it would be a joint stock company
till charter were obtained, each being lia-
bic for the other During next winter char
ter could be got from the state. He was OPP
posed to the adoption of the report. 1t ap-
peared to him that there was labored effort
t. show that New York was the great place
for inventions. This he did not concur IN.
Else why had not the principal inventions
been discovered here ? Where are your
machine shops of goods for foreign export?
Tn New York? No. Why? Will not the
interest on the land on which you put your
work shops eat up profits? Can you hire
workmen as cheap as in country place p
What did the inventor gain who came here
to exhibit his invention He would often 90
out of the city, poorer perhaps by $50, than
when he came into it, with a paltry medal
which never gave and never would give adj
dtional value to an invention, though 1T had
often served to humbug thousands. Cheers.
lie preferred the country-but any other
place would do as we'll as Perth Amboy,whcre
ground, &c could be obtained-lf not fur dis
tant from New York.
Mr.. S. Fleet said that the committee had
unanimously agreed to the report-that they
were willing to advance money on DR.. An
dlews' notes-that when a charter was OBJ
tanned, next winter, the money advanced
could be converted into stock at par. 1he
Committee repoied the fullest confidence in
the Doctor, as their report shows-but the
people of Perth Amooy are not manutac-
turing population, nor is it desirable place
for Young inventors. Places nearer the city
la considered preferable for the establish
mclt of ain Inventors Institute. Perth Am
bov is % miles from New York "a seaport, with
a rool harbor, IS miles from the Atlantc,and
steamboats, run to and from New York dali
" in two hours. DR.. AS idea is to establish
the chief warehouse of the INSTITUTION the eX-
hbition and disposal Of the products OF skill
and industry in New York
Several other gentlemen delivered their
opinions, and plan for an Institute was
read.
The report of the Committee was then re-
iectel almost unanimously, and DIR. Andrews
received the thanks of the meeting for the
interest he had taken in the cause of invent
orS. =
Dr.. \, then proposed that they establish an
Inventors Institute with $1,000 capital, and
that books be opened forthwith and Directors
elected early in June. He would take S27,-
500 stock himself, and would pat in his Am
boy properly at $25, 900. To an inquiry
whether he would do this under a Constitu-
ton that had been read that night, he replied
that he would. The meeting then accepted
that Constitution, or, in other words, agreed
to it.
Mr.. Porter proposed that those who were
SO disposed should subscribe to the Constitu-
tion, and take stock under it's provisions.
Ga motion Of Mr.. Clifford, the meeting re-
commended cooperation with Dr. Andrews
in his plan, which leaves $4,000 to be sub
soriaod for, the Doctors stock also being, 1t
is presumed, partly in the market
A gentleman having expressed a regret
that DR.. 4. had spoken as he had of the
American Institute, he replied that lie was
not opposed 10 lt-he hau pVcii an oA"'i''t'0'
in it, and merely expressed his judgment, but
might be in error.
At ten the meeting aljournel.-N T. Trt-
June, 27M uh
REGlsrRY OF BIRTHS, MARRIAGES AND
DEATHS. The bill recently enacted for this
purpose, makes it the duty Of the Clerks OF
the several districts in the state,for compen-
ea!ion to be allowed by the Supervisors, to
report to the Town Clerk, or the Aldermen
in cities by the 18th Of January in each year,
IL hirLhs marrianes and deNths which have