New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-03-26

But since the development or CaiuOrna We "o 'o"sol
despo the gorgeous OF her gold; and before many
years our barbarc pearl too. will come from tno AJ
| Mountains where many a settlers wife can PICK up
tumbsIful OF garnets within dozen yards OF her door
First these precious stones cut into thln paIeS
Here are miniature mills which convert logs OF upJ
and garnet into panks exactly as the giant saw-hS VI
Puget Sound make huge pines and redwoods into DOauS
This atom OF circular saw, no larger than pearl shlrt
button though terrible Is just relentless as the
giant circular saw OF our great lumber regions eight
feet in diameter which has brought instant and nor
| rible death To many needless workman VenturlhS
within reach of its twonch teeth These tiny cutters IKE
most little people, are very exact Ihey kno" just
where stop They tcse saws and modern instances
The jewel pianks sawed again. into long, square,
slender oists which are afterward broken into cubes
One Of these cubes placed turning lathe, the work
man presses the whrlng stone with diamond chisel
when presto it Is smoothly turned out exactly as nun
or spoke is turned wagon factory Then REMOVING
microscopic drill bOres the hole into IT. THIS Is pOshed
by a steel wire charged with diamond dust which re-
wolves way while the jewel whirls the other. Inc
two combined make 1900 revolutions minute Job
mourned that his days swift as weavers shuttle
but If they wero swift as this watchmakers jewel his Life
must have been very fast indeed.
After the jewel is set its hole is measured by register
80 minute that it will give the diameter OF any hair of
your head or even the nnitessimal thread OF spider
web if is less than the onetweny nvehundfedth
OF an nch Here delicate sapphire knives used for
cutting brass because they leave polished surface
pnions axles barely visible to the naked eye
which the workman only handles with pincers and ex-
arnines through magnifyng glass They are made Of
WIRE first fed TO hungry little wolf with muscles OF
iron and teeth OF Steel which ravenousy bites them off at
proper lengths and then turned in ridicuously tiny
| lathes.
Here are scores and OF the most minute and
complicated machines. each containing wheels within
wheels, to a distracting degree. They wonderfully
| hoy IN do ll-
| telligence-when one process is completed suddenly
shifting another quite opposite in nature Some arc
actually startling, II new FraDkensten had pro-
duced senten being whom he could neither escape nor
| control
Indeed the whole factory il bewilderng It Ia like
extravagant dream The watch has hundred parts It's
manufacture involves a thousand processes Absolute
exactness is indispensable. The Emperor OF liput,
SAYS CULVER with fine touch OF hunor Is by
the breadth Of my nail than any Of his court which is
enough strike into the beholder In one ofthese
minute wheels pinons variation OF the hundredth
part of nails breadth will strike an ave. into the
| owner, If not into the behOlder
Here are tiny screws OF hardened steel shapey and
perfect as the piston OF steam engine Each has In It's
head furOw for the screwdrver Each contains seven
wcened threads 2GO to an inch but they are nvIsi'
BILE TO the naked eye Indeed without magnylng glass
the screw itself looks like mere filing OF steel pound
of steel in mass costs 81 Apouud these screws costs
81 500 But then there 1ii 900 screws TO the pound
II was my good fortune go through the factory with
Mr. Mosecy himself. 1t il, perhaps, most wonderful
OF all to remember that this quiet oyial, embarrassed
gentleman, hardly in the prime OF life, carries all these
machines in his head The first cOtOnmil in America
was run by horse power. It built by an ingenious
mechanic who had worked in English factory, and who
constructed all the American machinery without draw
ngs or models the midst Of his work he forgot tue
form and function OF indispensable piece Tradition
affirm, that himself in little room and refused
food drink sleep for ~ hours until besieged memory
! was starved out and supplied the missing link
II the Egin factory 10 burn tomorrow fancy
the serene Moseey could reproduce every nice implement.
every intricate bcwildering machine, without losing
meal or an hours sleep Yet in showing some or these
creatures of his his eye fingers lovingly upon them,
and he conceal the genuine paternal feeling
Most OF us are diused Yankees lie is concentrated
Yankee The European seeks recreation IN a new
| oDera a new salad or dissipation. The American
man finds relief from toll ldeneSs by sitting down ana
inventng something Thus 1t is that our Governments
sues 10000 patents yearly against 5000 granted by the
British Government. Thus Is that most OF Us number
among our acquaintance lawyer clergyman, or
journalist whose conscience IS never easy unless he
patens something at least three months Thus 1t
| has been from Benjamin Franklin, who originated a
cookingst0ve down TO Abraham Lincoln, who patented
new steamboat Nothing Is more American than sam
uel Colt the runaway sailor boy whiting out nodeltor
his revolver on shpboard, during the clear tropical
through years OF poverty encouragement and loving
it only than he loved his eounry-E whitney frlt
tering away half life the cotton gin. ana then
| growing rich by making improved muskets-Robert
Fulton. hooed a mailman for years, but conquer
ing the world at lastand poor John Fitch building
steamers long before him. but he lacked Fultons
tact and responsiveness dying by his own hand weary
| broken-hearted man.
The Elgin factory employs $50 persons half Of them
women. The latter chiefly farmers daughters One
rode alone in u buggy 80 mile 10 Elgn to find what 80
many of her American sisters looking fOr-Oppor-
uny They receive from cents to 81 IS per day. They
show special capacity for the work. look tidy and cheer
| full and find pleasant homes in the pleasant town.
The men earn 81 per day and upward. Several heads
OF departments have cooperative as well as saaried
interes-a wise introduction Of this principle by the pro
| prietOrs.
| How skilled labor respects itself! These workmen
dress tastefy have notceaby intelligent faces, and
geptlemanlike manners. They respected socially and
politically one is Alderman Of Elgn, and incredible
AS il may seem 70 NewYorker in the rural West one
| may be- an Alderman and yet an honest man.
The company employs capital of half million dol
lars The managers and proprietors include b. W. Ray
mond b. F. Lawrence, g.. NJ Wheeler, H. q. Culver, H. H.
Taylor T. Ryerson, T. NJ Avery and other leading bus
mess men OF Chicago. They make six different grades
OF which the b. W. Raymond" is the best They sell
only movements" leaving the local dealer to case the
watch according the purchasers taste They propose
to supply al reputable houses III tue Cnlteu o'aes WIN
their watches.
| DO these watches keep time9 That of is the
alpha and omega. We confident that they dO-fnom
the character of the men, machinery and workmen and
the testimony OF dnterested dealers and railway
gneers Several dozen locomotives the Pennsylvania
Railway already by them and Western roads with
just pride the products of their section be-
| ginning TO introduce them.
The London illustrated Ners insists that watches can.
be made successfully by machinery. The best
to that theory lies in the fact that hundred thousand