The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-12-22
All Automatic Masterpiece.

JOSEPH BERGMAN, who lives III little
wooden house on Farm street, Job Hill,
has for fourteen years been steadily work
ing with one object in vicw-the periec-
ton of a wonderful piece of mechanism.
One night, fourteen years ago, he dreamed
of il machine such rs he has constructed.
At first he thought little oft Then il be-
gan to occupy his mind to the exclusion of
other subjects, and after time he began
the work at first at odd spells and then
continuously for days. Some inexplicable
power was urging him on whenever he
thought of giving it up When the spells
of infatuatiOn came upon him everything
had to be abandoned. His ordinary work
had to he laid aside, even though there
vas no bread upon the cupboard shelf and
many a night the poor artisan went hungry
10 bed But after years OF anxious toll the
dream is verified, the work is completed.
Bergman is German about fifty years
of age, and speaks English impertectly.
He is a little diminutive man, with a pale.
saltow countenance, and n look which
speaks of care and thought, if not of posi-
tive suffering. He is very poor-the house
is almost bare of furniture-and in speak
inc of the dream and the work which had
So infatuated him, he said il would have
been better for him if ne had never eX-
pericnCed the one or undertaken the other
lie is a cabinet maker, ard the skill of an
almost marvellous handiwork, as well as
tie stamp of remarkable inventive genius
is to he seen in the construction OF the
machine
The machine eclipses all the automatons
in the world. The reader must imagine a
beautiful miniature structure set upon q
/ - ha1c md
| INC up me sides or The rocks, and Streams
Of running water coursing down prccipit-
oIis bluffs. This miniature house repre-
sents the residence ola wealthy old miller
with his grist mill, saw mill. oil mill, etc
adjoining There are some thirty figure,
To he seen in the foreground and about the
buildings and mills There is also q little
| fountain in the foreground, with the water
| playing, and a lake with boat and oars
men.
All these mills and figures and playing
waters are set in motion by means of
combination of machinery similar to the
works OF clock, and when these are
wound up and set running every figure
takes up its automatic movement. The
old miller sits in an elegant apartment
reading a newspaper His eyes follow the
column downward His head inclnes with
corresponding notion The column is
| finished, and the sheet is turned over, and
the eyes are attracted to another portion
OF the paper Every movement is wonder
| fully lite-like
The miller's wife sits in another apart.
ment industriously spinning. The dOmes
| tics are going about performing their daily
toll. The saw mill is a tdc-sjmde of such
an institution. The log is in its place, and
| slides along to meet the teeth of the saw,
which is working up and down cutting il
in two. The attendants are all busy in
their several duties. The grist mill is also
going. One man is tending and feeding
the hopper. Every now and then nc goes
back and forth with tray upon his Shout
ders, the contents of which he pOurs into
the mouth of the hopper
The great water wheel is moving steadi-
| ~ under the pressure of water from above
and the elevator keeps up its show of re
lieviDg a canal boat Of its load of grain
| Teams loaded with sacks are seen goina
to and from the mills. A man is perchcd
upon the gable of the miller's home, adj
| lusting a little bird cage to the caves and
doing his work most perfectly.
The oil mill is also at work. and the flo
ures are all busy about ii performing theil
several missions. The boatman on the
lake is rowing backwards and forwards
and apparently having a good time all by
/ himself. Thus the entire operations d
an immense establishment are carried on
with rs much definiteness and aim as il
r. al life, every figure doing its work Will
The utmost exactneSS-the whole forming
a wonderful combination of machinery. :
Troy Times.