Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-03-16
CHICAGO CORRESPONDENCE.

| Meeting-Amusements.
| CHICAGO, March IL, ,1S71.-Sunshine warm
weather, winds, clouds, rain, thunder and
| lightning, snow-f1akes and no frost in the
ground, sunshine again-this is the record of
| the week. The indications now in favor
of an early spring.
No. 2 is quoted at SLIPS, with an active
market.
| is abundant for legitimate business, and
| regular customers find no difficulty in get
| ting discounts at the banks.
| BUSINESS
| Shows signs of considerable activity, and
| though it is yet early for the opening of the
spring trade, there are a good many mer-
| chants in the city purchasing supplies. The
country is said to be quite bare of goods,
| and the promise of large trade this season,
at tremunerative prices, is better than last year.
MANUFATUUREs
| have contributed largely to the prosperity
| of Chicago. Many manufacturing establish
| ments have grown from small beginnings to
| mammoth proportions, sending out their
products ever all the land. Articles trifling
| in themselves, yet of prime necessity, play
an important part in the industrial and COM
mercial progress of the country. The
! simplest instrument often undergoes a great
| variety of processes before it is transformed
from the raw material into perfect shape,
ready for use. Take the manufacture of
HORSE NAILS
! by the Patent..Hammering Machines, for
| illustration They are made of Benzon"
| iron-the best Norway iron-imported into
Boston in bars an inch and one-eighth
| square, are there drawn into bars three-six-
teenths by seven-sixteenths of an inch, and
| nine feet long, and in that shape are brought
| to Chicago. They are here taken to a large
factory, heated red hot in coke-blast furnaces,
putinto patent hammering machine, which
| holds the bar, feeds it, strikes it eighteen
blows, and then it cuts off perfect nail, all
in the space of one second, and this process
is repeated till from eight to twelve nails
are made, when the bar is returned to the
furnace, and another taken out. They are
essentially hammered nails, being drawn
from the end of the rod on the same princi-
pie that the blacksmith makes them. One
man tends a machine and keeps eight rods
/ in usej and, as he takes little time in
changing rods, he can make only about fifty
nails minute. There is one foreman to
i've machines, to grind the dies and keep
everything in order. These machines are
operated by shafts making LOO revolutions
minute, belted on to the main shaft, which
Is driven by a steam-engine of 75-horse-
power. When the nail rods are worked up
till about two feet long, they are taken
to a forge, the ends heated and four of
them welded together by machines, which
straighten them and make the welded parts
of a uniform size with the original bar,
and then they are worked up as before, SO
that no ends are lost The nails, as fast as
made, are dropped into an iron box, which,
when full, is carried into the separating
room, and emptied upon iron-covered tables,
where all the imperfect nails rre picked out
and thrown aside as scrap iron; The nails
are thar. f-.14rcd in z5 ID -h~sEos and labeled
for market There are six Sizes numbered
from to 10 inclusive, being the medium
size. -
The only Horse Nail Mandatory in the
West is that of the
NoRTHwEsrERN HORSE NAIL CO.,
At 56 to SO West Van Burcn street, Chicago,
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1854, and has a working capital of about
$4,000. The officers of the company-N.
Corwith, President; G. L. Smalley, Superin-
tendent, and A. W. Kingsland, Secretary
are all stockholders, and the nails are made
under their immediate supervision. Mr..
Smalley superintends the factory, and un-
derstands his business thoroughly. Mr..
KingBland, one of the originators of the
terprise, manages the financial department
and the general business of the company.
He was bred to the iron manufacturing busi-
ness, and utilizes his knowledge and expe-
rience for the benefit of the company and
the public. They have the most perfect ma
chinery, give constant employment to some
so skillful work1nen, who, by long practice
like those employed on particular part of
a wstch-become perfect The makers of
their iron are under heavy bonds that every
bar of iron furnished shall be perfect. Their
style of nails is adapted to the Western trade,
and their sales extend over all the country
south of the great lakes and west of the Al
leghanies. And as they spare no pains or
expense to make every nail perfect, and
every package is warranted, no other horse
nail has the reputation of being SO uniformly
good and of SO desirable a shape 1t is the
most popular and reliable horse nail in the
country, is a staple article with all leading
houses, and, as it is sold at New York prices,
it supersedes all other kinds wherever its
merits are known. They run twenty-five
machines, day aud night, most of the year,
and can make two tons of nails in ten hours.
They made 900 tons last year, but will ex-
ceed that amount this year. The establish
ment is not only a curiosity and a credit to
Chicago-it is a public benefaction.
EFFECTS OF THE FRANCo-PRUssIAN WAR
The Franco Prussian war has destroyed
and disabled so many skilled laborers, and
interrupted the manufacture of French and
German goods, SO that there will be a search
ty, especially of silks and the finest fabrics,
for some time to come. The hrst effect of
the war was to throw large quantities of
these goods on the English market, thereby
lowering the price. But now, though peace
is restored, a long time must intervene before
production will reach its former amount, and
these goods must necessarily advance in
price. Fortunately, some of our leading silk
manufacturers, anticipating this state of
affairs, laid in a large stock of raw silk at
ante-war prices, and will, for the present,
supply their customers at the old rates, and
purchasers should take advantage of this
opportunity to lay in supplies. AT the head
Of this class is the firm of -'
BELDING BROS. CO.,
the largest manufacturers of sewing silk and
machine twist in America. The sales of
their Wholesale houses in Chicago, New York
and Cincinnati, last year, reached $3.50, 200,
their Chicago house, at Sc and So Wabash
avenue, taking the lead. Purchasers should
always ask for Belongs sewing silk, noted
throughout the whole country for being the
best in the market. .'
THE PARKS
Chicago is in a muddle about her parks.
The Park Commissioners have used up all
their money and have not paid for the land,
and are besieging the Legislature for power
to raise more to enable them to complete the
purchase according to law. They were en-
powered to assess contiguous property, under
the name of benefit" to a sufficient amount
to pay for the condemned land, and thought
they had done SO, but the enhanced value of
the property taken leaves them in the vocaR
tive, and now they want authority to revise
and increase their original assessments.
MUSICAL MATTERS .....
We have had a surfeit of public music,
including lectures by George Francis Train
who is Just now undergoing imprisonment
in the County Jail for debt of some $4OI
incurred in bill-posting him some two years
ago, which he refuses to pay. Then we
have
TWO DAYS WOMAN SUFFRAGE MEETING
of the Cook County Association, being the
anniversary meeting, with Mrs. Stanton,
oJr in