Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1851-08-11
worcester County Mechanics Fair.

EDw. L. KEYEs, Sec'y.
III
Worcester County Mechanics Fair.
But little more than month remains for completing
the preparations for opening the Third E1HlRITIoN of
MANUFACTURES and MECHANIC ARTS, under the
auspices Of the Worcester County Mechanics Associa.
tion and, il there any mechanics inventors, man.
uacturers, in Worcester County, who yet, are I'M
decided upon the matter Of contributing specimens of
their skill and handy work the Exhibition, we trust
they will give the subject their immediate attention,
and be prepared to add the influence Of their exam
ple and the products of their industry and genius
increase the usefulness, and add the interest of the
OCCASION
That such exhibitions in the highest degree be-
ne6cia to the artizan and to the community large
cannot be reasonably questioned In the fact, that the
article fabric, upon which the skul craftsman ex.
ponds his labor, is to into competition with the
productions of Others skilul as himself and that
is to be examined criticised and praised or condemned
according to the degree of perfection he gives it, thee
Is motive to exertion, above the sorid one Of
do lars and cents The intellectual faculties are sharp
ened in such rivalry, and the products Of human labor
are rendered more valuable by the success which at.
tends the working mans efforts attain to perfection
in his vocation.
The mechanic arts, as we find them to-day, are the
result Of the toll and experience Of hundreds of success
sve generations of intelligent, thinking men. Many
centuries lie between Tribal Cam and James Watt; the
shpbuiders Of the ark and those of the Collins line
FROM New York but the germ Of the steam engine was
in the hammer Of the FIRST blacksmith that we read of in
history, and the stately sides Of the Atlantic were
l,iolc I 4 /.
receiveda and improved upon, from Captain Noah down
to Captain Nye. BY slow and gradual steps, have
mankind attained to their present knowledge Of the
omnipotence of the human intellect OF the capacities OF
the cunning hand, and, by every of these steps,
have the comforts aud enjoymen of the race been mu
tiped, and civilization prom oted. Every time that the
rudest barbarian contrasts the neat cottage Of his
white BROTHER who has settled in the wilderness be-
side him. with his own miserable wgwam, he receive.
lesson Of wisdom that he never forgets and which il
never lost any Of his tribe. In his willingness to pa
hundred otter skins for string of beads or score o
buffalo robes for scarlet handkerchief he unconscious
" pays the highest tribute that divinity of labor
which formed the one from the sands over which h
pursues his game, and the other fro the grave clohe
of an insignificant
Next to the land, human labor is the only Legitimate
element Of wealth, and the fact is now UNIVERSAL
acknowledged, that he who makes Two spears Of gras
grow where only grew before, is public benefac
lori will, time, this other great fact come to be &C
eknowiedged, THAT he who fashions from the raw ma
teria the article Of most value utility to his fellow
men, the least cost, Of MATERIAL or labor, Is publ
benefactor, before whose professions to rank, tn
drones Of society stand aside, though their tile
and their honors have descended to them through
hundred generations.
Ours is an industrial community, and its wealth an
property the products Of the stout arms and clea
heads that ill its workshops and till its farms Ever
working member of such community, has, therefore,
direct interest in every project that is calculated
awaken competition promote the interests Of labor
In whatever department Of mechanical skill he may b
engaged, il is should be, the aim Of every arzan, Il
be at the very head Of his business A man who ha,
not this ambition, is hardly t hold any place in the
ranks Of the worlds industrial armies, and, in no wa,
can man successfully labor to attain that position
as by active participation in all the enterprises, thai
have for their object the progress Of SCIENCE the en-
conragement Of mechanical skill, and the promotion
the arts. ssas asd. .sss.eue ls
90 The previous exhibitions Of the Worcester Count,
Mechanics Asfociation have been universally admir-
W VIC III INC nighest Qegree, the
ofWorcestcr county. No man, with particle Of tina
esprit du corps which should belong them, and whic
sielt by men in occupations and professions less sei
and ennobiug, could behold those large and varied dis
plays Of he products of toll without feeling that Their
was true dignity nabor, that BY such exhibitions
those by the generous rivalry Tor in such tour
nanenss Of skill, the mechanics or Massachusetts am
elsewhere we're doing much 10 entite them to that bes
sing, which is Swallowed firth in the old French pro
verb, which declares that ssEieaven helps those VIII
help themselves
Come then, brother mechanics Of Worcester county
and let % unite in making the coming exhibition NOR
successful than any Of is predecessors. No matte
what may be your occupation; whether you max,
clothes pins steam engines, horn combs or paninl
machines, YET specimens Of your hand -work grace liz
e halls of theexhibion So shall you be instrumental i
pronotng the interests Of labor, and participate ia III,
satisfaction and pleasure, Which all must feel who ar,
8 ,pancipators in spch m texhibion.i NJ ~
ET correspondent OF the Boston Medical and Sur.
gicai Journal, writing from Berlin in Prissa, states
that Hsmboldi The great semles in person.