Wilmington daily commercial. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1866-1877, 1872-10-17
SKILLED INDUSTRY.
How to Promote tho Enoinence of
Manufacturing City.
Brief Pertinent, and Admirable Suggestions.

At the celebration on Friday evening" of the
close of the Industrial Expiration at Newark
Courtlandt Parker Esq, delivered an excellent
address, in the course of which he said 1.-THE
occasion permits, IL it does not directly call for
brief suggestion or two az to how those who
are interested in our city, and proud Of her emil
nence in mechanic art, can best promote it
1. Repeat yearly this Exposition. Encourage
a generous rivalry. Procure the attendance Of
a committee from elsewhere-men distinguished
in science and mechanic art-and distribute, not
money prizes, but decorations and certificates
to be awarded by them. Not being citizens of
Newark they will have no prejudices and will be
critical. The severer their acquisitions the bet
ter. And that they may bo FREQ from all possi-
BILE bias let it be the rule that their examination
shall be made together on late day OF ths Ex-
hibition, and under terms Of generous compen-
sation for their services so that no man NAV ac-
cuse them Of fayoritsm or Of possible hostility.
WHAT CONSTITUTES GREAT MECHANIC.
2. Dignity mechanic art. Inculcate by precept
and example that he is the great man among
mechanics who attain the greatest success, not
in the accumulation of wealth, but in the con-
struction Of the best manufactures Build a
monument soon to Seth Blyden, and inscibe
upon il that he preferred art to money, aud died
himself poor, though, through his toll of brain
and hand, many around him grew rich. Such
monument would, or ought to be, the strongest
incentive to that love of art and that pride in its
achievement through which only will it be tri-
umphanty pursued.
A SCHOOL OF MECHANIC ART A NECESSITY.
g. Educate the artisan. Be not content with
supplying public schools and with improving ed
ucation there but establish in Newark school
of mechanic art. Let there be Instructors IA
well as lecturers. Teach the apprentices Cf, in
deed, there be any now y teach the young and
the old. too, the sciences of mechanics, chems-
try, mineralogy. Let there be instruction in
machinery. Build aud fill museum of invon-
tions and manufactures. Attach to it a library of
books on every topic at all connected with theor-
etical or practical mechanics.
What a Loble legacy would that be for a
successful mechanic to bestow, through which
such an institution as | have hastily depicted
should be established aud maintained
MANUFACTURES SHOULD BE THE BEST.
A. Cultivate morals in art. Let the workman
be regarded as disgrace to his trade who aims
at the cheap and SNOWY, instead of what is per-
feet and lasting. Let it be the ambition of all
that every thing of Newark make shall be expec-
ted to be the best of its kind. Despse and treat
with the contempt he deserves every workman
or manufacturer who deals in any approach to
shoddy Shoddy is the quackery of mauufac-
turing industry. 1t is not only sin, but ruin to
the place from which it proceeds.
LOVE OF THE BEAUTIFUL IN ART
5 Strive to generate and cultivate among ar
tisans a love for the fine arts and for the beau
tful The useful and the beaulful are in di-
Nlno economy cOnlOlneu. IL should DO 30 IN the
human mechanics, and 1t ID so in Just the degree
in which they approach perfection. Architec-
ture and engineering are the bridges, one might
say betwRsn the mechanic arts aud the arts of
taste. The latter develop the mental faculties,
and adorn life beyond the pursuits which are
simply useful. They soften, refine and elevate.
WHAT SHOULD BE OUR AIM-PUBLIc IMPROVEMENT Is
6. Let it be the aim OF Newark manufacturers
| aud mechanics to require and display a gener-
Gus public spirit. They have much, but they
might have much mU.e l have already re-
marked that our local advantages are not large
ly natural, and that those of artificial character
from which we now reap, and assuredly will
hereafter gain so much profit have come to Ills
| through the capital and labors of others. We
i have not built. or in any degree contributed tC
| build the great arteries of commerce, through
| which We are brought near to every quarter ol
/ our country, and even to Japan, China anC
| the world beyond We should have some cause
/ for greater pride if more of what we enjoy was
| the result of our own discernment and enter
/ prise. Let lis take lesson from our short
/ comings here. Let US welcome and cheerfully
| aid every project for public Improvement Let
us beautlfy our streets and suburbs Let
us push with energy the plans of the County
| Board, and make the avenues from Newark to
the neighboriug villages and cities worthy of the
/ beautiful country over which they pass There
| is scarcely in this land a stretch of territory
| more lovely than that which extends from the
| Orange mountain and the hills lying north anC
south of it, to the lovely Passaic which sweep
| 80 gracefully around our city. All this should
| be, and in truth one day will be, one city, and
the most attractive city of the North Having
already at its further extremity park which il
exceled by none, it should possess another
| within easy reach of its population, for the rec
reation OF the artsan and all the SONS of toll.
believe the time has come for this great publ
Improvement Reelection and observation have
convinced me that there is tine greatest wisdom
| in supplying every people with encouragement
to local pride Patriotism springs from love Of
home, and whatever makes us gloryin our home
| tends to intensity it.