New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-02-09
sorJTHERv ErrERPRIsE.

"a few days since wftook s,,u through another
n t IT,. .Arge manufacturing establishments which
have sprung up here iINew Orleans and by energy,
industry and perseverance,, reached the top efnnence
Of public usefnlnessaHl popularity. We mean the
establishment of NJ. Daniel Edwards, occupying the
large building running Though from New Levee to
Fulton street, between Po!dras and Gravier being |
Nos IS, 30 and 81 on New Ievee street, and Moss
SO and Al on Fultu street
Here combination, of metallic work is carried on,
such as is; not exceeded elsewhere IN the country.
The different brandes Of work in iron, copper, tin,
sheetiron, brass moulding and finishing, and black
smithng are carrhd on, ea.h distinct in itself but
so well conducted 1d systenzed, under MIR. EDWARDS
constant personal supervision, as to form one harmo-
NOUS whole. Thebuildingis admirably adapted to
its various purpose having built on the site OF
the old one, destroed by fir year or two since, and
internally arrange after tie most substantial and
modern plan. Tasn all through, the establishment
is an admirable illustration of what a man may do,
when he has mechaical gnius to begin with, and
the will and Determination to push his projects
through. The rest of sush spirit is now, and in
this particular instnce as it always has been-the
most triumphant sccess. ,4.......,
| We first take ok though the brass department,
which is divided iro three branchespatternm making,
moulding and fishing. The pattern-shop is filled
| with an infnity owooden models, and men at work
upon new ones very shape in which brass is seen
in connection wi machinery, here has its counter
part or embryo, wood not to mention the numer-
Gus other artcleaat put to isolated uses. This is
| M stairs On ground floor we find the brass
foundry. Men at work with the models, placing
/ them in boxes cohesive sand, removing them care
fully and puttinm the finishing touch OF smoothness
and regularity VII their little delicate trowels. As
no brass castingare large, the moulding is a small
and dainty kind work. Near by is the furnace,
with its row of ccbles in which the brass is melted
The melting of b metal and filling of the moulds we
do not see that Tk being always left to the evening
In another direon is the finishing shop. Here are
turning laths, which the mouldings have their
rough coats reBed, and vices and other machines,
in which anguand irregular shaped articles are fin
!. ished. The aries finished and ready for use are
very great in tn variety. There brass cocks of
every descriptiowith couplings and fittings for ma
chinery and pip Of all kinds, and steam whistles for
d steamboats,.
y Next we visit .eoppcrshop. great deal of work
is going on here irnaking stills and worms for dis
tilleries and large titles and pipes for making
= we mere ndu au pOrtuuLy Vi setluS dilu uuuei-
9 standing the meriiof Mr.. Edwards invention, the
J. steamtrain, which has patented, and which is in
! such high favor withe different planters who now
d have it in use. Itcssts of two more large cop
per kettles with sct Of pipe in the bottom through
which hot steam r(lates, causing the juice in which
;, it is immersed bill regularly and rapidly. The
= boiling process tcarsa, we did not see: but some
4 some time previelywe beheld of the trains in
r operation at MIhmpsons Melasses Refinery on
Commerce stree Though at the time we did not
know that it W Mr.. Edwards invention. 1t is a
great invention, more respects than one. The ex-
pensive and troesome process of boiling cane juice
h. in iron kettles fires built underneath, is entirely
superseded. boiling is done by steam, as We
IL have described d but small quantity Of steam is
" requisite at thaThe saving in fuel thus reduces the
t. expense of sugDoilng one-third. Then, the labo-
n rious process dipping is obviated if the train is
:, used for boinolasses The kettles are drained
bv cocks in thettom and in a few minutes may be
washed out, loog as bright and clean as new. So
sh much for ther'ing of fuel and labor Their other
he advantage is a,at one. Owing to the Geanness Of
30 the kettles annie regularity of the steamboiling
the sugar prodd is Of a much finer quality than
that turned Guy the old process, the juice being the
etc same. Some s,r produced by the steamtrain We
at have sampled ind it to be Of very superior
quality it has, deed, invariably commanded a pre-
of MUM over sngmale by the old process. The puri
ITS, flying nature ole boiling done by steam may bs
c. seen at the ons Refinery any day. Let any one
go there sample molasses before it is boiled anG
art sample it afterds, and he will quickly make W
lis his mind as ihe great superiority of Edwards
q steamtrain
ia Mr. Edwards still another invention in progress
mo and nearing cdetion. 1t is large, square evapo
Ir rating pan Of oer with flat copper pipes running
is crosswse like ge bars, and as close together, mid
mo way between top and bottom Of the pan. These
pipes are to do their steam from an iron mair
pipe running I'd the pan; and as each pipe con
In meets with thOain pipe by a cock, any desired
70 rapidly Or slows in boiling may he had according
OIL to the number sipes opened to the steam. This is
if anything, .at improvement upon the steam
lar train and Mdwards expects to have it in opera
he ton in one of city reiineres in few days, We
shall feel somerset in being present aud reporting
nd the result.
ca Adjacent to copper shop is the plumbing shop
/. Here are madd kinds and sizes of lead pipe, il
addition to theieties of copper and sheetiron pip
- made in the OF parts OF the establishment. Ih
res pipes made are all possible uses-for distllerie
ND and machinernd for steam, water and gas, OF
Wv; steamboats, or otels or wherever else such thing
are needed. assortment of gas-pipe is very large
and the sizes oore vary from three.eighths of al
inch to three les in diameter. There are brass
"a fittings to suit pipes in all kinds of ramifcation:
- Next to the ndng department comes that of th
n tin and copper u'ework; rainspouts, cutters, ett
les, Here portion TIE men are at work whilst tn
zen other portion broad putting up and fastenin
non the articles mad
With the exceA of the brass moulding and fiji
csc ishing, the above X is done in the upper part
Nc. the building. WeF descend to the ground foo
low again, and find ouTes in the sheetron departmeu
See Chimneys and as ms for steamboats, are here i
process of constI13n; some of the men being
of work with power4 machines which cut the cold iroi
Of bend it into angIshd drill it with rivet hoest
"s others hatnmcriBgay at the rivets. Besides Il
into steamboat work,tfe was considerable plantatio
and work going on. IRE were some large sheetiro
YER CHARTERS and tanso be used in sugar making ar
"'f, alarge gasometa hich, with a gas-genemtor-s
apparatus not l7S than q good-siled st0vc-w;
of also intended fohntation use. The bulk of thes
fer articles compelE Edwards to use an adjacent 10
"'' on which he ests to build an extension of Ii
establishment 40 distant day.
Der Finally we the blacksmith shop, where Il
his FORCES roar annie hammers clang. The variety
resh 49, n0 4'1 N'P'' '''''t - 'Iu"' w s' " "
,om of the others. ,me extra work which We saw her