The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1863-08-07
INTERESTING FROM HAMBURG.
The international Agricul-
tural Exhibition.
AMERICANS AMONG THE GERMANS.
FESTIVITIES AND SPEECHES.
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Prizes Awarded to Americans a
the Exhibition.
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Letter from German Residents Of
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Incidents and Close Of the
Exhibition,
Our Hamburg Correspondence.

Our Hamburg Correspondence.
HAMBURG, July IL, 1858.
This morning grand trial of strength between
street locomotives came OIL upon one Of the highways
loading from the city, and a section where heavy
grade Of LA Six Of the engines English
make the seventh from German Berlin, Mr. schwarz
kop The first (of Garrett Sons) carried the members
OF the Executive Committee, and drew besides 25 600
pounds Charles Burrers of Thetford Norfok) follow
3D. drawing two heavy threshng machines then Fowlcrs
drawing two steam poughs, Aveing Porter with
trucks attached TO IT, L. schwarzkopf with lighter load
but moving quicker and easier Boydes engine
and endless railway, drawing IS 900 pounds and last
Richardson Darley's, with truck laden with iron
rails The of steering the running round in short
of these engnes-describng complete circles Of
only 1--WE six PAGES dameterwere universally admired
They left the exhibition grounds like many omnibuses
at the foot OF Broadway, took in water street
hydrant, and returned in the procession after
the trial, attended by thousands OF curious spectators
Fowls, James Co., Victoria Works (of London), ex
hib beautifully working mortsng and boring machines
which constantly surrounded by dense mass Of
mechanics and many noted English factories have
complete Of their agricultural other
machines, worked partly by steam and partly by hand
The German firm Of Pnrus Co. (of Bradenburg, Prus
sa), have sold already the ground Ave Of their re-
given TO the different exhibitors for their engines
and implements. Pntus h Co. will soon manufacture
kind Of cast steel boilers for locomotives and
portable steam engines with double expansion and
double safety valves
Buss h Rohrmann (of Osterode, Brunswick), exhibit
horsestable, with room for attendant above the
whole being cast of annalth gypsum, forming strong
solid, durable building the material costing only about
six cents hundred weight each hundred weight giving
TX feet Of solid wall These walls and the arched roof
above have been tosted regards strength dura
bility and withstood the severest trials
trotting horse OF mechanical construction, by Harry
Rec patented in France and England attracts
the curious though rather toylkc. Upon mount
ing and taking hold OF the rens steel spring touched
by which jumping motion Is given TO tho saddle seat
which continues upon pulling at the rens 1t may
In bad weather for old and equity who fear
leave their rooms for other purposes seems map
plicabie.
An interesting match between four steam ploughs took
place large farm in the envrons OF Hamburg. and
attracted numerous spectators, who had to pay
fee Of thaier. The King OF Greece Ohio
and other princes and noblemen attended, as such
performance has never been In this country.
Thore were self moving pouqhsone Of Fowler and
the other Of Richardson Darleyand without direct
power by Howard and Ransom Sims. The result was
altogether In favor Of the moving The other, being
too complicated met with various accidents The soil Ia
this country b. not made sufficiently level for the
these poughs, and II generally conceded that they
would answer only very extensive farms, with well
prepared level grounds
Another trial. which may be interesting to the fireman
reader, had to-day between some German Danish,
English Swedish and Hamburg city fire engines. There
also steam fire engine exhibited by Egerstord (of
Linden Kingdom Of Hanover the performance OF which
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me the benefit Of aforesaid gentlemen give details
respecting trial. Three had been erected stand
inn triangle and supporting at the respective heights
OF thirty y and seventy feet large mouthed tunnels
sailduck, somewhat like those board OF ships for
airing the hold held the outside Of wiro frame
emptying the water thrown into them by hose which
reached into vat below, where the quantity Of water
could be measured by gauge
The best performance that OF a Hamburg city
CINE. with twelve men at the brakes With thirty
strokes minute 1t threw cubic feet Of
into the funnel thirty height other engines
averaged with from ten TO sixteen men at the brakes
and with forty to twenty FIVE strokes a minute, only
four and half cubic feet.
Then the fro engine tried. and asions shed
the lookers-on, II threw IN fifty seconds, with
ono hundred and thirty revolutions and pressure Il
one hundred and I've pounds the square inch with
stream inch aud quarter, twca'y cubic feet
at the thirty feet height.
~ second trial she same Hamburg engine, swclve
men working, thirty strokes IA minute threw cubic
into the funnel al atty feet height The English
ginc, exhibited by W. McCleman, with ten Il he
brakes, ,wontysix strokes in minute, could not throw
one cubic foot 20 that height.
Again the Dire engine o. Hanover showed il
perior,y throwing, by hundred aud eighteen
lutious IN minute, With n stream and eighth
inch ten cubic feet OF water into the funnel hriy
high an, 9Th hundred and ave revelations
minute, TO cubic feet seventy feet high. The force o.
the stream caused much Of the 70 rebound from tho
funnel AM IL consequently not counted in the
saremeut The water cylinder of this engine seventy
f,ur inches in diameter th- steam cylinder eight and
I'LL inches. Within twenty minutes steam be 60, up
ready for operation