Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-07-26
No. 526

another building where they hardened in large fanacs
and then tempered In oil QsD bsh, and mithsd
and hammered, ready for grinding. ana Il
ter being ground, are machine polished 4
being process rendering them auklessy y
work is done. By of the machines us In MS00
rous processes they believed by many 70 b hou
peto for the palm of the chespnes and exceenco Of their
saws In England owing to combinations among workmen,
all similar establishments have aled in introducing the
tom Of grinding by machinery They employ hiry-six
n this branch Of their business and annually turn out
kn. ives extensively for Southern On the Sheriff street
side Of his story Of the main building they work engines for
cut ,g teeth in wheels and rack for which, requiring such
nice cannot the common cast gearing Here
they also Eve machines for planning ison and doliing
or sha, ing machine The second story principally used
for the ,uanufactue ofsngle and double cylinder printing
mschn and hydraulic machines These rooms sso contain
quite nuber Of self acting side lsthes drilling and planning
achnas rs.chnes fJ cutting bolts and and ms-
chine for boyng and polshng roller mouds The room on
the Sherf st1ee sde Of the third story s devoted principally
Ito the nan ssssre Of Hoes lssi fast Press which, whsu
.as @sds 49, sss q .. X sss wids The sev q Ibis
story fopsn Broone strest h devoted to the snafsc
Of the We shhgton' sd Smith hand preses Standing
pre.ses, sc singuir. BY sheby, shsi Notwithstanding
the OF peF presses the demand for hand presses
corpues ere,ty To- Increase. Ia this sso many
nng athes kn shaPDg Irregular pieces Of scn Ihey also
construct in th small steam engines Tor driving presses
m we'll as the e hter parts of the large machines manuac-
tured below. -
On,bs shern reet de Of he fourth ssoy their seaking
machine md machine card presses are made
and the Broon. street sds thl: story @ me S Os ps,'
storing rooms Thsir iron and brass foundry in different
buiIs2 one huDd ed b forty feet wherein oil their cast
work Is moulded Still ano.her bSng srty By thirty feet
and four in heish occupsed BY the nsrs olns
~ and nate shops wherein twevehor power engine
drives tbe machinery Tie for this engine, which
IN the basemen 10 BID ught In pipe, under ground from
the seven bcss bsoa eHoneds distance Of one hundred
and sixty feet before teDg s TINS TO oov.
ae the necessity for e being at sny time brought
into this building on the first f0er here they make more
than thss thousand pa of cases Psy annu and on the
the wood work apeEtanng to their various machine
presses constructed Cn the third o0r hor patterns are
made and the patterns injected with their double and sim
se cyndcp presses kept The huth hoor the place
depoeite for miscellaneous patterns used 10 the foundry
Their blscksmahs shop occupies sun another puldng IN
he centre Of the yard sixty by fifty feet One rotary blower
ss he conduit pipes unnng under ground
Here are or course PLANNERS Of the establishment
sod slso furnace which, for econoDy sake every bit o.
refuse iron. small and large, ON the PREMISES
aad turned out in Dss state Croon water runs through
ali these buildings, with pipes convenient for the extngus
ment Of an accidental fire. In The s one Of
Morses tecxrsphin Instruments from which the wires ak
tend to their office in o street. near Two miles oown
TINS enabling the popeto to communicate with each other
~ touch Of magnet This most valuable servant has not
employed the Popsietors Of any ether Of the many
great workshops located up town. all the buslne. oces
of which Of cuusse being in the lower part OF the city
yhe ofice 10 in s old location I'M Gold street. occupying
bx one hundrea fact Of ground The front building.
d four stories used the counting and warerooms
re being occupied by their wohmen, employed for tho
most part in repairing the machinery Of the cs printing Of
Secs powerful engas drives the machinery here Isqued
Thess buildings up and down town, are 6rsproohe Gof
workshsvns bss heretofore destroyed BY FIRE more than
once They enpoy 10 all, thsir premises more thar
III three hundred men, many Of whom have worked for III
Aeu.. twenty, and some than thirty pears
Uni few years ego their hands generally sreir
bor o, as it ives dcs to 6nd Americans suiciensy we
ned to their bss1s Now, quits half are native, man.
of them having learned their trade to hsse gen
temen is esated ha, they turn out work worth NOR
than $780, 600 per annpm and their machinery stock AM
buildings are valued upwards of $780, in CITY satis
tics worthy of remark that in each room ofsvery build
ing occupied the Sees in large letters sant
him in the face notices Order is Heaven Grst law
and place for every thing and every thing in s place
THE firm now consists Of R. NJ Hoe and bis brothers Rober
y and Peter s., his original partners being dead
need hardly add that this house at the bead Of thsi
business in the United States, thsir facilities afoding then
the opportunity furnish their al least as cheapy
they can be obtaed in this country from any where unde
"a the sum- while ,hsage demand for them from oil cvilze
of The globe show that Europe s not believed
As to embrace similar establishment turning o.
,e superior work NJ Hoe the inventor and head OF IA
he beae does not appear to be more than thirty
ih seven years Of age W. " W