The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1871-07-06
Tovzsmps ems AND vIrrAors.
Alliance.

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In company with our brethren of the
press in attendance at the convention last
week, on Thursday, we visited several oil
the large and fouriahing institutions. oil
the town. ~Conveyanees were furnished,
and we were accompanied by a number Of
prominent citizens OF, the place, among
whom we remember Mayor Laughlin, Z.
Teeters, A. w. Coates, DR.. j. B. Wilson,
p. III. Barr, ]. B. Miner, S. G. Mckee, &c.
We first visited the
ROLLING MILL,
A largo and tiourishing establishment un-
der the management Of Hon. John Hun
ter, President of the company, a gentle
man every way worthy to fill the respon-
sible positions. This IS the largest manu-
featuring establishment in the town, and
We are glad to see it properly appreciated
by tie citizens there. 1t has been in ex-
istence three or four years, and has been a
great success. They manufacture railway
iron=aII which we saw demonstrated un-
der most favorable circumstances, directed
with shat view by Mr.. Hunter himself
We learned from him the company en-
ploy in the works about 300 men, while
the same number are engaged in supply
ing coal, &c. From $500 to 5000 souls
are dependent for support upon the ALI
ance Rolling Mill Works. These MIDST
take considerable interest in the working
mp of molten and red-hot iron.
H ALLIANCE RAGING MILLS
Were next visited. They are situated in
the north part of town. The material
made at this establishment is for the
southern market and used mostly to bag
the cotton. There are five looms in the
mill, and they turn out some 1900 yards
a day. The most of the labor is in pre-
pairing the tow for the loom, and a large
force of young girls is employed at this
work. The hands number IS or 40. Mr..
Philip Case is superintendent, and the
stockholders are Teeters, Case, Ely, and
Ellison, Of Canton.
THE RAKE FACTORY -
OF Coates, Gray & Co. was next visited
by The fraternity. This is one the most
successful establishments of the kind in
the country. They make a speciality of
Horse Hay Rakes, turning out some 1000
a year, which meet with a ready sale all
over. the West The arrangements for
turning out work are most excellent.
They can take green timber from the for
est and in one week have it perfectly sea
sened and made up into a rake. This is
quick work, and then 50 much Of the la
Dor is done by machinery. But then, that
IS the case ] n all departments of manu-
featuring. -
After being shown through the fine AL
lance College building, suspended for the
present, the entire company, under the
lead of Doctor Hartshorn, went to Mount
Union, a mile and a half south, to visit
s MOUNT UNION COLLEGE.
This lourishing Institution is vet in
session, having adopted the la1dable plan
of continuing the Summer term to the last
of Juiy to accommodate the students,
many OF whom teach in the winter. Some
800 students are yet in attendance, and of
course give life and animation to the town.
The College Building (properg and the
boarding half are fine structures each
most admirably and conveniently con-
structed for the purpose to which it is ded-
icated, and far enough removed from the
other to afford a necessary share CT air and
exercise. As to the different departments
of learning, a word of praise would be per-
haps a work of su-pererogation when 1t is
known that the institution has now spread
over the broad Union more than seven
thousand of her children, who drank fin
their learning and knowledge at her copi-
ously flowing fountain, and are for the
most part. imparting that learning to 9TH
ers, or filing honorable positions and hold
respectable places in society.
The soul of the institution-the man to
whom Mount Union College owes its ex-
istence-is the President, ON. Hartshorn,
D. d. We may say this without dispar-
agement to other capable gentlemen con-
with the faculty. The college is
with a powerful telescope and
with. other scientific apparatus speei-
mems from the mineral, vegetable and an
lmai kingdoms relies from antiquity and
these We're exceedingly attractive
We enjoyed the singing of the young la
dies and gentlemen, and the fine recitation
Of the Professor of Elocution. May we
visit Mount Union College again.
Time p~revented-a visit at this time Co
the White Lead Mills-the Carriage Fac
tory and other establishments.