Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-09-18

House Of Fuller, Warren & Co., Troy,
N. Y, and its Branches.
An Interesting Popular Statement Relatice
to the Manufacture Of the Leading
,Stoge IN the World.
THE OTHER INVENTIONS. OF THE FIRM

been or ever will be written! OF course, we shall
always have accounts of the rise and fall OF nations.
And while this is true, we are occasionally re-
minded by the appearance of articles in the cur
rent literature of the day, with what profit the pen
can be turned to the everyday topics in the life of
man, and what funds of instruction lie concealed,
like dimonds in the native earth, in the small
things which make up the aggregate OF life. The
question was once raised among the learned and
curious, "What becomes OF all tbs pins?' and
discussion followed which interested the best
minds, and afforded much curious and valuable
information to all. 1.-The History of Cent"
was the title of an article published some years
ago in one Of the English magazines. and perhaps
no single magazine article was ever read more
widely or with more satisfaction and instruction.
An article in the Adatic, more recently, by James
Parton, on 1.-THE History of the Sewing Ma
chine, is full of interesting facts. To know its
whole history, as Mr.. Parton tells it, is of quite as
much service to the American youth as to be
familiar with Homer's Iliad, or Gibbons Rise, De-
cline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
Let us take up, briefly we may, another arti-
Gle of household utility-the STOVE.
1t is probable that to Northern Europe belongs
the credit of conceiving and making the first stove,
IN the seventeenth century. These stoves were
built of brick and tiles, and were probably what
we would now call movable ovens. In 1716,
treatise, translated from the French, appeared in
LONDON, setting forth the great advantages of
modifying the then common fireplace by supply
ing them with hollow backs, hearths and jams of
1ron so as to adapt them to the burning of coal
we'll as wood The most crude specimens of
stoves, of various models, continued to be
brought out after this, and knowledge of what
was going on at home ~ naturally excited the
interest Of the American colonists In the Capitol
OF Virginia there is now long, rude box stove,
which was presented to the colonists of Virginia
by George Ill, and which bears the royal coat-of-
arms. Among the very early American expert
mentors to devise some plan for warming apart
ments other than by the fireplace, was DR.. Frank
lin, who commenced writing and experimenting
on the subject as early as 1745. His first complete
stove he brought out and used in London in TIL.
For many years after stoves were first thought Of
the whole idea was their use for warming apart
ments. Benz Thompson Rumford, Count, who
was born in Woburn, Mass, in 1853, throughout
his whole life gave great attention to the study of
the laws of light and heat On the breaking out
of the revolutionary troubles, he was virtually
banished from the country, retired to England,
and subsequently spent much of his time on the
Continent. In his later years he became cele-
brated for the improvements which he introduced
in stoves as culinary appqrtenances to the house
Der of pots over the boilers and fues proceeding
| from single fire, and the method of roasting
| meat in ovens or sheet iron stoves without their
acquiring disagreeable taste gentle current of
air being allowed to circulate through the ovens
To Rumford, native of Massachusetts and an ad-
! herring loyaiist Of George Ill, may fairly be
ascribed the invention of the cooking stove.
| In 1870, Daniel Pettibone, of Philadelphia, Sc
cured patent for stove for rarifying air, and
for warming houses by fre-heated air. THIS stove
/ was afterwards put up in the almshouse of Phila-
| delphia, and prominent men gave testimonials of
its utility for general use, particularly for
| ing and ventilating churches, courts of Justice
hospitals, manufactures, etc.
For very many years stoves of any kind made
little progress in public favor. Wood was album
dant, and people chung to the old fireplace with
| hereditary affection. Innovations on the old
Franklin stove were from time to time made, with
q view of adapting them to cooking purposes.
The most popular Improvement of the kind was
in shape an oblong affair, having an oven run
ming the whole length, and having also boiler
hole on the back part of the top, near the pipe.
Afterwards another style was brought out, having
/ swelling or eliptical sides, and became known as
ne nTe P made St AboSt @ cooking
Hoxie, who was the first to elevate the fire box
above the bottom. This improvement was pat
| ented. In this stove the fire was made above and
| upon the oven, and was the first stove in which
the flame was made to descend from the top to the
bottom of the oven. In 1915, William t. James,
| OF Lanslngburgh, afterwards of Troy, made a
stove known as the James stove, which continued
| favorite for nearly or quite quarter of CEN
| fury.
THE PRESENT STOVE CENTRE OF THE UNITED
! STATES.
/ 1t was in the nature of things that so meritori-
| Gus an invention as the stove, should at length
triumph over all opposition. From about 1920,
the demand for cooking stoves began to grow, the
''James stove, " manufactured in Troy, having at
tracted attention and favor. From this acorn
grew the great oak of the present. stove BUSINESS of
the country, which had its centre in the cities of
Troy and Albany, New York. This business as
! exclusively belongs to these places as does the
West India trade to Boston, the cotton cloth man.
| ufaCture to Lowell, the boot and shoe trade to
I Lynn. ACur6J, Albany laQ Jne most stove found
ries and made the most stoves; but within the last
ten years, the business there has shown less vigor
| than formerly; considerable capital has been
withdrawn from it, and invested in other pursuits
while Troy has multiplied her foundries and vast
| ly increased the number and variety of stoves
manufactured. 1t is doubtless true that to-day,
| this small city on the Hudson (Troy, N. " en-
ploys far more capital and men in making stoves
than any single city in the world. The progress
of the business at this single point may be attrb-
uted to the fact that Troy capitalists have made
| stove-making a speciality that we'll conducted
! firms have generally been successful thereby in
dueing others to invest their capital in the bust
ness and to the other fact that the transportation
facilities of Troy by way of river, canal and rail-
road connections with the North, South, East and
West, have made her accessible to the iron and
coal, and given her means for the rapid and cheap
distribution of her manufactures to every part of
the country. HEt
THE FIRST STOVE FIRM AND THE FIRST STOVE MAN
IN THE UNION. "'itrds
1t is consonant with propriety that in every
branch of industry, in every human pursuit. there
should be leaders. And while leadership implies,
as rule, superiority in resources, capacity, and
excellence, it does not imply that those who are
in the rear have not meritorious claims. In what
may follow, we wish it distinctly understood that
no disparagement is intended of others. Unless
our data is wholly deceptive, there is one firm
which, OF all in the United States, stands pre-em
inent whether reference be had to the vastness OF
its operations the excellence and varetyofits
ufactures, or its capacity for production. The
great success of this firm is no reflection others
engaged in the same general business x and as its
position in trade, both in this and in foreign
countries leaves it without rival, there can be
no object on the part OF any one to make indivd-
ious comparisons for its benefit. An essay on the
stove manufacture in America, without reference
to FULLER, WARREN 81 Co. and PHILo P. STEWART
would be like writing of the laws of gravitation
without mentioning NEWTON, or of astronomy
without naming HERsCHEL, of the magnetic telc-
graph and forgetting MORSE, or of the American
Iron-clads and ignoring ERICSSON and GRIswoLD
That we do not exaggerate, we cite the fact that
the Troy firm in question paid OnetOentjetb of the
total tax levied in the United States stoves and
castings, in the year 1866. For the correctness of
Internal Revenue Commissioner, Washington,
d. C. a
CLINTON STOVE FOUNDRY, TROY N. Y,-FULLER,
WARREN & CO., PRoPRIEToRs.
The members of the firm are j. W. Fuller, j. II.
Warren, and G. A. Wells Their Foundry Works
are 800 feet on River street, and thence down the
oank OF the river 800 feet. In the full working
season over four hundred operatives are employ
ed IN the various departments; and the weekly
pay roll amounts to about $4,000 Five large
cupolas, capable of melting fifty tons of iron for
engine and q vast amount of valuable and curious
machinery, make up some OF the main features of |
the vast concern The three lofts, a by 400 feet
In which are stored the stoves as they are finished
Ine pattern department. and, literally, the acres
OF moulding floors. impress the visitor with the
magnitude of the operations. The existence of |
such an establishment presupposes business |
which can have nothing less than the whole Union |
Tor its field which must require not only large |
capital and the aggregation OF great mechanical |
Skill but also at its head, business talent and ca
pacity of the highest order. And, it stands to rea7
son, that underlying all, the wares. the demand |
for which justifes such facilities of production,
m ust themselves have unusual merit
WHAT IS MANUFACTURED-THE GREAT STOVE OF
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