Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1858-08-18
CITY & NEWS ITEMS
MORNING, AUG. is, 1888
Cleveland nIanufactures.

WILLIAM HAIRS CABINET WARE MANuFAc
rOEY.-MR. HAEr's Mandatory has front OF
st. Clair Street of over twenty-five feet, is one
hundred feet in depth, four stories high, ant
built ofbriek. The machinery in the establish.
ment is run BY one of Holt's engines-twenty.
five horse power-and one of the best engines
in the city. The fuel which serves to keep the
engine in motion is almost exclusively in the
shape of the shavings made in the various de-
departments of the establishment, together with
a small quantity Of coal. The engine-rOOm and
boiler room are in the first story of the building
and the former contains large cisteTn, which
communicates with the boiler by means Of q
water-Pipe from the wster works. Hose are
attached to this pipe, aud in case of fire, can be
made of efficient service.
The first floor of Mr. HART's building is
principally occupied by heavy machinery for
blocking heavy work, g., and among which
we noticed one of Daniels Planning Machines.
This room also contains a number of lathes, bor-
ing and turning machines, saws and jig saws,
DC. All the lumber, or nearly all, is prepared
in this department before it is sent to the up
per floors, where it is fitted, joined and finished
The second floor also contains large amount
of machinery used in the manufacture of superb
or articles ofeabinet ware and it is here that the
first processes in making chairs, tables, sofas,
bereaus, &c, are gone through with. After it
reaches the third floor, it is put together and
finished ready for the final touches by the fn-
ishers, painters and varnisheTs, who occupy the
fourth story, with the exception of about one
third of it which is set off for storing purposes
Just over the boiler room of this building is
drying kiln, arranged and built in a manner
which is strong assurance against fire, and
very economical. The drying process is per
formed by means of heavy sheet iron pipe
communicating with the fire place of the boiler,
and through which passes the surplus heat and
smoke This pipe is about two feet in diane
ter and is an excellent contrivace for the drying
oflumber.
In the rear of this building Mr.. HARr has his
lumber-yard-and communicates also with his
slore-room on Water Street. The Manufactory
on st. Clair Street and the Ware-rOOm on
Water Street communicate with each other by
means of a broad and strongly constructed plat
form-way from the fourth story of one to the
fourth story of the other. The bnilding on
Water Street has front of twenty-five feet,
eighty feet in depth, and five stories high, in
cluding the basement. In the fourth story Of
this building, the upholstery work for the
whole establishment is performed, and requires
the services of seve.al Persous. The third story
is occupied in storing away the finest and su-
perior qualities of cabinet wares-bureaus, mar
ble-top tables, sofas, rocking and other chairs,
DC, &c. Among the work stored in this room
we noticed some of the most elegant descrip-
ton fnlly equal to the New York or Boston
manufacture Tue second story is used for
storing away the less costly articles of furniture,
the first story for the eOnmonest, and the base
ment for the storage exclusively of chairs. All
these various departments are filed with manu-
factured articles, and as rapidly as they are re-
moved, their places are filled with others.
Ma. HART employs, in prosperous times, from
fifty to sixty men present, owing to the IN
fortunate and prOtracted financial eOnvulsion,"
his force is necessarily reduced to about thirty
persons. His outlay for the payment Oflabor-
ers alone, for a year past, has amounted to
over sixteen thousand dollars, and the aggre-
gate of the sales TO nearly eighty thousand dol
lars.
The work manufactured in his establishment
is inferior TO none manufactured here or i'm
ported, and much of it finds market in the
central part of this and other states. NJ
HAEr is a reliable, straight-dealing man, and
his success in his business is as gratifying to
his many warm personal friends as it is to HIM
self