The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1853-06-02

tySoA, tncy Ouly Hdue tnFee dollars q Qay:
and hence, one after another, in the contiguous
places above alluded to, they found their way
into the same employment. The mania even
| spread further than Bristol and Waterbury, II
extended to Watertown, Litchfeld, Harrinton,
Southington and Meriden. The clocks more
over, were peddled all over the United States.
| MIR. Terry soon sold out his establishment to
Seth Thomas and Silas Hoadey, two enterpri-
sing young mechanics, who, after making such
changes and adopting such improvements as en-
abled them to manufacture many thousands of
clocks a year, separated like Abraham and Lot
and each had factory of his own. Mr.. Hoad-
ley remained on the old spot, whore he made
| clocks very many years, but subsequently cut
lery; while Mr.. Thomas, his partner, establish
| ed himself in what is called Plymouth Hollow.
The former is far from atfiuence, but the latter
has made himself and many others rich As
did Cain of old, though not in Gains spirit he has
| built quite city. He not only contrives to
manufacture clocks by ten thousands, but cot
| ton also and, l believe, other things. Perhaps
| he has done more good during a quarter of a
century past than any other mechanic in that
whole region Mr.. Terry and his sons continu-
ed IN the business till the death of the father
which happened only n few years since. He
was more fortunate, in a pecuniary point of
view, than most pioneers, though never so veal
thy as some of those who followed the track he
marked out.
Thirty-two years ago, Chauncey Jerome,
young man of enterprise, of the same town.
Plymouth, engaged in the wooden-clock bust
ness 1t is said, in New Haven paper that
he too, made his first clock by hand; but for
the truth of this statement, l cannot vouch, as
the business had been carried on at that time
by machinery about twelve years. In any event,
however, Mr.. Jerome, with his coadiutors all
of whom personally knew, destined, as a
clockmaker, TO eclipse all his predecessors. The
price of clocks had indeed fallen, but not great
ly. 1t was reserved for that gentleman to re-
duce it to three four dollars.
Mr.. Jerome, nearly thirty years ago, reno
we'd from Plymouth to Bristol where he remain
ed until nine or ten years ago, when he removed
to New Haven where he still resides. He has
experienced reverses of fortune: but, like the
fabled Phoenix that rises from its own ashes so
every reverse in his affairs has only served to
increase his energies, and develope and ex-
tend n spirit of enterprise. He has proba-
bly, made twice three times as many wooden
clocks as any man in this country, and more
than any other person in the world; though for
some time past believe his material for clocks
has been brass. Indeed / do not know that
wooden clocks are made. Besides his fac
tory in New Haven, which employs nearly
hundred and fifty hands, Mr.. Jerome employs
more than another hundred in Bristol, Derby
and elsewhere, and his commodity is scattered
all over the country-and L might say all
the civilized and even the half civilized world.
He has, as have lately learned, flor l have
made purchase there,) depository of his
clocks in Hanover street. in this city; also,
in each of the cities of New York, London and
Liverpool l am told by those who ought to
know, that he has for three years past manu-
factured five hundred clocks daily. At this rate
the result of his labors would be about hun
dred and fifty thousand gear. In truth, should
not be greatly surprised to know that he has
manufactured in his whole life nearly MIL
LON!
1t is curious to observe what results some
times follow from the efforts of single man
''tall oaks from little acorns grow How
many social circles in the old United States, in
California, Oregon, Peru, England. Continental
Europe, Turkey, China, Hindostan, and even
Australia, have oeen gladdened and cheered by
the presence of Jeromes clocks Had but one
half many circles been made mourners by
his efforts for thirty years-had he been q means,
like Caesar or Napoleon, of the destruction of
thousands of young, the flower of their respec-
tive famihes-he light long ago have been laud-
ed as a hero, if not crowned an emperor.
But to no such honors does he aspire. He seeks
not his own glory in desoating the earth but
the good of his fellow-men and the glory of God,
in making it the cheerful abode of cheerful and
be sung by another class of men than those who
have lauded Leroism in war, and delighted in
carnage and blood.
While pennng these lines, memory, so often
true to her trust, has brought to me the follow
ing couplet, from the poet Young -
'sIhe CLOCK strikes one,
we take note of time but by its loss;
To give it then a tongue, is wise in man"
To show that / have not exaggerated while
making the statements above, concerning MIR.
jerome, allow me to quote paragraph or two
from the Ne,o Hdpet Journal and Courier OF
about two years ago:-
ssThe entire number of operatives now depen-
dent upon his Mr.. Jeromes) enterprise, is some
thing more than two hundred and sixty, to
whom about Sc, 900 in cash are paid monthly.
Looking at q single clock it would seem that
not very large quantity of material would be
necessary to the manufacture of many thou
sands of these. Yet million and half of pine
lumber; more than third of million of ma
hogany and rosewood veneers; two hundred
thousand pounds of rolled and cast brass; two
hundred barrels of glue and hundred more of
yarnish: three hundred casks of nails, and 9TH
er necessary materials in proportion, will give
some idea of the immense business done by this
single establishments"
Let me finish this brief article by saying that
| the time NAV come and ought to come, when
the lives of such men as Eli Terry, Lette Tho
| mas. and Chauncey Jerome-wlth host OF
! their EQUALS or sattellites-will be written for
the benefit of the rising generation what a
| blessed day it will be when our chhdren anu
| youth delight to read the well-written blogra-
phies of self made men, who moved In usefui,
| though humble spheres, instead OF those con-
ouerors and nsarshals, and, what IS still worse,
| the offspring of heated brain and hcenuous
;marination or of heart, in east or west, which
has prostrated itself ct the shrine OF mammon