The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1870-12-08

failing the arrest OF two DuIgIaIs .hionsn ~.
z ;nstrumeutality of dream. we nave no" te
J record q more singular tale-how a man i iln
fourteen Years has been steadily working with
ono object in view-the perfection OF most
wonderful piece of mecfanlsm-naVing ID the
6rst instance the impression of the idea frem
q dream which wrought such aninfluence upon
his mind that during all these Intervening years
Ia has followed it with an infatuation that
could not be resisted and which was some.
times so great that his daily vocation was neg,
sjeeted, and even his family were left without
( The uecessaries of life For the pastsix months
he has labored almost constantly at his pet ma
chine; and though often disappointed IN the
realization of this grand idea, often casting the
work of months aside as some obstacle inter-
vVeneed TO necessltate change of plans, ne has
never been discouraged or disheartened. 10
the ieers of friends and the pleadings OF his
family he would always respond, My dream
INV DREAM" 1t was to him the gnts Jdfaas
which shone across the marshes and moors OF
disappointment, and proved to him the means
by which one of the most curious and wonder
full mechanical contrivances ever perfected mas
been produced. The name of this man Is 10
seph Bergmann and he lives IN little wooden
house on Farm street, Ida Hill
Yesterday, having previously heard OF Berg
mann's invention or cOntrivance, we TOOK
walk up to the locality with two other gentle
men, and after being nearly mired in mud IN
our efforts to reach the house, we at last found
it and were kindly received by the proprietor.
He ushered US into room about eight feet
square, in which stood his wonder-the result
of DAYS and nights of toil-Occupying goodly
portion of the apartment There was little
Workbench near the window filed with dimin
iltiye tools, with which the curious thing had
been fashioned, and shaped and cut and carved.
But before We describe, even most lmper-
fectly, the machine we had come to see, let us
say something of its author. Bergman is n
German about fifty years of age, and speaks Eng
1ish most Imperfectly He is little diminu-
tive man, with pale, salow complexion, and
q look which speaks of care and thought, i'll
not positive" suffering. He is evidently very
pOor-the house is almost bare of furniture
and in speaking of the dream and the work
which had SO infatuated him, he said it would
have been better for him if he had never ex-
perienced the one nor undertaken the other.
He is cabinet maker by trade, and the skill
of an almost marvellous handiwOrk, as we'll as
the stamp of remarkable inventive genius, is
TO be seen in the construction of the machine
Bergman informed US that fourteen years ago
he dreamt one night of machine such as
stood before us. At first he thought little of
it. Then it began to occupy his mind to the
exclusion of other subjects, and after time
he COMMENCED the wOIk, at first at odd spells,
and then quite continuously for days. Some
inexplicable power was urging him on every
time he thosght of giving it up. When the
spells of infatuatiOn came upon him, everything
had to be abandoned. His ordinary work had
TO be laid aside, even though there was no
bread upon the cupboard-shelf, and many a
night the poor artisan went hungry to bed
But after years of anxious toll, the dream is
work il completed
THE WONDER
We will now attempt to describe the ma
chine. 1t is 50 complicated and does such
things that n perfect description
would ill columns. We hardly know what to
all it, even. 1t beats all the automatons in
me world. The reader must imagine beau
ltnl miniature structure set upon huge mass
If rocks, with road beds winding up the sides
,f the rocks, and streams of running water
,oursing down PERCEPTIONS bluffs This min
AZURE house represents the residence of a
wealthy old miller, with his grist-mill, saw-mI,
'tc., adjoining. There are some thirty figures
o be seen in the foreground, and about the
buildings and mills. There is also little toun.
am In the foreground, with the water playing,
md lake with boat and oarsman All these
mills and hgures and playing waters are set in
notion by means OF combination of machine
y similar TO the works of a clock, and when
hese are wound up and set running every fig.
IRE takes up its automatic movement. The
I'D miller sits In an elegant apartment, reading
newspaper. His eyes follow the column !
downward. His head inclines with a CORES.
,OndIng motion. The column is finished and ;
ne sheet Is turned over and the eyes are at :
racted TO another portion of the paper. Ev.
ny movement is wonderfully ife-like The 9
MIXERS wife sits in another apartment indus. :
rlously spinning. The domestics are going :
loout performing their daily toll The saw.
nil ls facsimile Of such an institution. The
og is 1T ITS place and slides along to meet the G
eetn OF the saw, which is working no and |
Town (, cutting if in two. The attendants are II
II pqssy IN their several duties The grist mill h
Aso gong. One man is tending and feeding g
ne hopper: Every now and then; he goes back '
M forth with tray upon his shoulders. the r
ontents OF which he pours into the mouth of Y
ne hopper. The great water-wheel is moving t
teddily qnder the pressure of the water from b
bove, and the elevator keeps up its show Of +
elleying canal boat of its load of grain q
cams loaded With sacks are seen going 70 and t
rom the mills. a man is perched upon the \
able of the miller's: house, adjusting a little +
ird-eage 20 the. eases, and doing bis work t
'ost perfectly. The old mill is also at work. q
no the figures are all busy about it perform. h
u Melr several missions. The boatlnan upon t
ne lake ls rowing backwards and forwards,
ppatsltly having good time all by himself: q
nus tne entire operations of an immense ca. +
looiisnment are Carried on with as much defin. i
sness ana ann as in real life, every figure d