The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-05-17

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company numbered upwards of three hundred persons
who conducted through the building by Messrs BUR
DAN, NORRIS, STEWART and ARNOLD, who explained the
working and advantages Of the AUTOMATIC OVEN, the
kneader Loaf Cutter, &c, in the fullest and most salts
factory In the fourth story the first operation in
bread making witnessed the flour being through
SITTER rid it of Jumps and other substances into the
kneadHg machine This machine is capable of receiving
ten barrels and is supplied with hot and cold water from
side tank. The cleanliness of the operation sub
ect of remark In the third story the dough discharg
ed from the kneadng machine into the proving trough
which is conveyed by of hosting machine any
of the building where the temperature may be sut
BILE for raising the bread The loafcutter which on this
floor has been in operation but the advantages
to be derived from it, and the great saving labor thereby
in so large enterprise fully set FORTH In the
story where the cutter in operation the Jumps Of dough
received through cylinder sunk through the
the third story, and fall upon apron which passes
long table, and are taken up by wOrkmen who Ground
up; which operation being performed the Jumps put
in the proving boxes in which they shaped and made
ready for baking. On the first and second floors is the
AUToMATIC OVEN, which has heretofore been fully de-
scribed in this Journal through which great number
loaves can be baked with but little fuel whereby, the
bread be sold to the greater advantage
as was fully demonstrated by the inventor.
Having completed survey of the establishment the
company retired to of the upper stories where hand
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done.
Mr. NORRIS, the President of thecompany being called
upon for speech, responded as follows
Gentlemen:
In behalf of the stock holders of the MECHANICAL
kerry Co., 1t Is my agreeable duty to bid all hearty
welcome this occasion. We have invited you in the
hope that you will be grated witnesses of the complete
success OF our enterprise ian enterprise in which every
individual i'll this community has direct personal in
terest; at any rate, whether grated otherwise we
hope that you will give the invention the most minute
and thorough investigation, and that in coming to
clson as to its merits you will 'nothing extenuae,
aught set down in MALICE
1t is little than a year since the first AUTOMATIC
OVEN constructed in Brooklyn by fire after
having been in the most successful operation for period
of five months.
During its short life it had demonstrated not only to
the citizens of New York, but to others each of the
larger cities OF the country that great revolution
about being effected throughout the civilized world
OF the most useful and necessary of the domestic arts the
manufacture of the ''sta of life" Although the present
century has been teeming with useful inventions of every
description for multiplying the comforts of life and for
teaching the modes of their economical enjoyment
little curious to observe that in the art of making its chief
necessity, good and cheap bread, improvement has
been made for 900 years The best Egyptian Bakers the
ARNoLDs \ GILMoURs, of Pharaoh's time and the AR
NoLDS GILMOURs of our own, used the identical appa
ratus Partly by accident the attention
was called to this fact and after many severe
and costly experiment. the beautiful machine, almost in
sunc with life, whose varied and precise and beautiful
NOV constitute the very poetry mechanics was
with the most daring enterprise, erected in the city of
Brooklyn
The great number of workmen required to knead by the
hand sufficient dough for machine great baking
capacity, led invention of the kneadinp ma
chine the practical operation of which Won have inst seen
In fourteen minutes this machine will knead eight barrels
OF Hour in manner much thorough much more uni
form, and much more ceanly than could be effected by
any number of human hands, same time saving
the labor of more than 100 per day. The dough now
thoroughly kneaded and proved is ready be formed into
loaveS; but there is still great desderatum That
menSe mass just thrown from the kneader divided
into loaves of the required size You may not be aware
mat at present each lump of dough is placed balance
and either added taken by the baker until of
the desired weight You therefore readily imagine
the immense saving of labor and time which will ac
complished by machine that shall hourly throw 1000
oaves and which shall not vary from the other by
the fraction of an ounce.
This oafcutter the invention of the same nroIifc brain
and which We are much disappointed in being able
SNOW you today viii not be put in operation, here for
two or three weeks, and that time eng perhaps the
most ingenious and beautiful our aparatus il will
repay you for another visit to this establishment Such
gentlemen is brief history of the AUTOMATIC OVEN and
ITS aduncts and which, within 80 days. will be full oper
alton in every large city of country. And
or two in business point of view With aid ample
capital and these three great laborsaving machines
we profess to be able to supply this entire commu-
nifty with better and cheaper bread, than they have
ever before had The reason for this belief must
be obvious to the most superficial observer: 1st the
very small space occupied the great economy in fuel by
which, in the little of IA by "a feet we are constantly
baking IL barrels of flour The soidty great uniform
y of the heat and the facility with which we increase
ana reduce the temperature almost instantly and which
ables US with S. worth of fuel to bake 100 barrels flour
the fact that the oven always ready service
by day and by nght,he immense saving of labor effect
ed ny taxing IN The bread and dischargng it when baked
by machinery-the absorption Of the oil of alcohol by
winch the nurtlVe properties Of flour increased l6
per cent has been demonstrated by chemical ANALYSIS
and which verify in minutes by actual eX
periment-the fact that in given quantity of flour
gam per cent in weight other known
to be in usethese gentlemen of the great say
ings accomplished by the proper
Next comes the kneader, with its immense power the
absolutely perfect manner in which it performs work
whether the weather be hot cod the great cleanliness
which commends itself every observer these things
constitute portion of its claims for preemnence in its
department. ava
Then the loafcutter in the saving smpv what is
to he on The sid
is always literally allowed for the result is most remark
able. In baking 100 barrels of -four or 5000 oayes
this Clown weight" would amount to Is 600 ounces
TAKE half that quantity or 1900 ounces and $50 lbs
OF Hour saved is the result. Then take into CON
sideration the saving effected by the mere mechanical
division Of the dough- Ito nothing of its being WEIGHED
and ted by the same process and bv which with
force of men bake 100 barrels per day with
very great Then consider the great sayin effected
by such concentration of business in rents lights
fuel, insurance. the commission flour and coal which
such large operations will enable to accomplish: all
these reasons gentlemen induce believe that we will
gre them better and cheaper Tread han thea haze ere be 70
Jore hdd The experience of fortnight during which
under the usual disadvantages of starting enterprise
TINS magntude) our business has been rapidly increasing
hour by hour, even more rapidly than we desired
makes us thnk that the public think the BY
lsng new principle, viz that of isposng bread b
1cegh to the public generally and especially to the moor
principle the utmost Importance the question ots cheap
ness Is reauiy solved The remaining question to
its superiority is equally easy of solution There the
bread which you have seen baked and which YOU can
at once put to the best experimental test viz the
eating thereof To this point invite the most severe
scrutiny and we know what the public verdict will be-
And now word to the Inventor our guest 7 shall
pay him compliments-scarcely vet having reached
the prime of life, to have been the inventor of some
of the successful inventions of this century th
threshing machine, the winnowing machine the best
portion of the apparatus, about be employed in Law
ing the Atlantic Telegraph and above ALL of the Au-
tomatic oven and its adjuncs, which, now established
IN every large city of this Country, is either in
process OF erection, or about to be negotiated
for IN every quarter of the world an invention
richly fraught with blessings as any ever discovered
by human ingenuity and which is destined to lessen the
pangs of poverty and to relieve the wants of millions of
ms creatures; to such the consciousness of
such successes must satisfy the intense yearnng of
honorable and must make all language personal
compliment, Hat, STALE and improbable ] propose his
health and cannot do better than repeat sentiment re
Gently offered in neghboring city upon similar occa
sion, by gentleman whose absence regret propose
Hiram Bardan-may his reward be commensurate with
his genius and his daring.
To this toast Mr.. BURDAN being loudly called for re-
sponded follows:
Mr.. PREsIDENr-I hope may be pardoned if confess
to the weakness f it be one that the COMPLIMENTARY
toast, which has just been received with so much cordial
ity has made me exceedingly happy.
Your appreciation of my inventions, agreeabIv OK
pressed repays all the anxietes my part which have
attended the completion of this enterprise Indeed sir
love and enjoy this kind of praise and appreciation tbev
are flowers strewn by the hand of Friendship along the
pathways of toll and labor whose beauty and
are inspiring and refreshing.
The completion and successful inauguration of n new
system of bread making which substitutes entirely ma
chlnery for muscle must be an important event how
important, it may not become me say but if am not
greatly deceived the time is near at hand when the
gratitude of this Monumental City will be rendered IN
you, gentlemen, who have established this MECHANICAL
BAKERY.
The substitution of machinery manual labor has al
ways met with less opposition. The MECUANIc.1
BAKERY will not probably form exception this rule
although it would that any invention which preatI,
reduced the of making daily bread should be
received with universal favor; nevertheless you NAV re-
ly upon opposition for time, but depend upon il gentle
men, the opposition will not last longhe good peone of
Baltimore will not he slow to find where the best and
cheapest bread be had and with the facilities Of th
establishment bound to give the people have
right to ask and receive at your hands better bread and
at less price than be afforded by any other Balery
in the city '
Mr. President know that Baltimore has long been cee
brated for the superior excellence of wheaton loaf n
venture to predict that under this order of tngs she
Is destined to attain yet higher honor-o take LONGER
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