The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-08-22


other establishment ON either side OF the Atlantic. VI
these they make all the tins and preparations known
Their manufacturing premises cover Ten acres OF
ground, the necessary buildings occupying two and
half The production OF paints being rather the WORK
OF time and skilful application OF chemical agents, the
capital requisite is in the material more than in the wages
Of labor devoted TO their preparation They manufacture
six descriptions OF dry chrome greens, eght of chrome
greens in OIL -four Paris greens dry five Paris greens in
OIL thirteen blues dry three blues in oil. and three in
water seven yelows dry, three IN OIL and three 10
water ten reds dry, and four in water They also pre-
pare ak different descriptions OF siennas; three burnt
umbers four umbers in oil and some thirty other kinds
Of paints, ochres leads, blacks, verdigris, Nc
As lar one can gain information from an inspection
of their premises, may write that their main ingredients
dissolved by boiling in water with the aid OF steam
They then mixed in due proportions IN huge watts, so
arranged that the contents OF may be drawn OH
into another about six times They left in these watts
to combine length of time determined by the prepara
ton 10 be made The temperature OF the building is
carefully regulated. and at times changed and various
secrets OF the business brought to their aid. In
making Paris greens, they principally suphae OF
copper and arsenic. For making pinks their prnc
pal ingredients carefully prepared chalk, with the
tract of Lima wood for cooring matter The chalk comes
from England, and the Lima wood Ga species OF Brazil
woody is brought from South America in the log carried
TO Connecticut, where it is Clipped up into very fine par
tces by machinery, when It ID brought to New York
ready LOT Inc purposes oil TINS mousse FOR making rose
pnks alone, they employ eight huge watts, which occupy
building 25 by 100 feet. They secret process
for extracting the juice OF the Lima wood, which is
Quoted in huge brick vat wherein the wood is boiled
by steam. Their Prussian blues made principally by
combining copperas with prussate OF poash-the latter
being manufactured for them in Baltimore Philadelphia
and Cncnnat out OF old wooen rags, old shoes, animal
hoos sc. separate building also required for the prep
araton of these coors shades. The building which
they prepare chrome greens is $50 by 80 feet The princ
pal ingredients in these aforementioned tnts chro-
mate of lead and Prusian blues OF their manufacture.
They also have separate buildings for the manufacture of
chrome yellows, the bases OF which lead and chro
mate of potash In all their coors the various tints
secured by slightly changing the relative quantities OF the
principal and minor ingredients, of which, OF course,
great number mostly of chemicals) necessary The
heat at which the ingredients are dissolved and mixed,
the number Of days hours for which they are left in
solution 10 combine, the length of time they after
wards left eTing pans and the temperature at which
that process and the subsequent drying on racks is con-
Quoted, all matters OF Importance varying with the
color being prepared Vinegar enters largely into their
manufacture of paints. They make that article for
themselves, to be certain that il contains just what
they desire, and nothing else They prepare it from
whskey, filtered through the shavngs of beach wood
One large building is devoted 10 this purpose. lis tenn
peature kept very high and they keep secret of
the processes by which they obtain vinegar Of precisely
the kind they require. After the paints filtered, they
generally irdried racks until acquiring certain
consistency, when they placed under press. which
drives from them the removable water remaining in the
combination The building in which most of the prep
araons undergo process of steam-dryng is heated by
waste steam, conducted from their boiler-chamber
while the building in which the air-dryng is con-
Quoted is arranged 10 be open to the wind
from every quarter while kept secure from rains Their
engine is OF fifty horse power, and besides driving their
grinding machinery,& forces twonch stream of water
to the top of the high hill the side of which their
works stand, like steps, as it were This for conve
nence in drawing off the contents OF the va,s those above
being enpiied into .hose OF lower tier. The water
used is pumped from large well on the premises.
They devote two large buildings togrnding the colors
one for the dry grinding, and the other for the paints
ground in oil Their dry grinding is conducted Just
wheat is ground in Virginia. there being difference in
the grinding machinery OF the mills In both these
buildings they keep half dozen pair of burr stones
s,anty in OPERATION from which fact the reader get
idea Of the very large quantity of paints they make
They have also large building the premises in which
they make the packing boxes required wherein they
ploy seam-driven saws, planning machine, and other
improved machinery. Their oil coors all packed in
tin, OF course.
The proprieors are the chemists OF the establishment
their superior skill in that being the basis OF the sue
cess OF the house. Though the paints of d. F. Teman
& Co. used in greater or less quantities in almost
every county of every State in the Unon and many OF
the principal cities OF the West Indies South America
Mexico Germany, and Italy, their counting house 10
Burlng Slip New York city, modest in appear
ance as any here Indeed ii is notorious that houses
really doing business very heavily make the least
"show' among us Every builder knows how greatly
the prices OF paints have fallen of late years, though
he may not know that the progressive chemical dis
coveres and manufacturing improvements OF these
gentlemen have been the chief causes OF that change
in this country. Twenty-Five years ago chrome vel.
lows sold in New York at from six TO seven dol.
lars per pound they furnish better paints Of
that description at from fifteen TO twenty-five cents per
pound may add that the prices to consumers OF al.
most all other articles their line have decreased under
their skillul and en,erprsing management in well nigh
the same RATIO Yet have siaunch free
traders in New York They declare their ability 10
compete with the manufacturers OF paints in all other
countries and do not ask to have their fellow citizens
taxed to enable them carry what otherwise might
be an Improbable business Indeed, question whether
such paints theirs their prices Their business has
increased greatly within the las, two three years. and
day by day the demand from the interior forcing them
to increase their facilities for making coors OF all kinds
Their anti-proectve proclives by means rare
among the leading manufacturers of New York. Within
the last few months have had occasion 10 examine the
arrangements OF fifteen OF most extensive establish
ments, meeting with but single gentleman among all
their propretors who is not out and out freetrader
and he is junior partner, whose capita-not brsnss
invested in of the concerns.
COSMOPOLITE.
A. GREEN, Auct,oncer.