The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1872-10-29
A SIGHT FROM NEWARK BAY.

In sailing Newark Bay, aside from all that the
landscape affords the observer likely to be attracted
featuring Company, who well known and repre-
scented throughout the civilized world that it is hardly
necessary to they makers of sewing machines
Before saying word more about the building in vew
let briefly aude to the beginning of that Companys
business 1t began in Boston many years with little
capital and in apartments which would i'll contrast
with the fine edifce in the of construction in
small BY comparison Little did the originators think
that day there would be mandatory built which,
not including the machinery it is to contain, viii cost
not less and probably good deal oie than million
dollars. The machinery must of necessity be very
pensiye Most of it will be automatic and made specially
for the Manufacture OF sewing machines whose delicate
parts have to be finished with extreme accuracy before
the little machine which has favor many house
holds not only in our own favored land but in all parts
of Chrstendoni permitted to forth its mission OF
usefulness. Few would think in looking at the wonder
full little instrument so simple in structure what
pendure OF thought it has cost to bring ii to its
perfection. Few thought in its early history, that
thousands of and hundreds of different kinds
Chimes specially constructed for the making of its differ
en parts with precision would to-day be employed in its
The business beginning on so small scale in Boston,
soon found its to New York. and the manufacture
extent and the demand still greater have like
the Star OF Empire, been gradually finding their way
In New York, the firm of Isaac NJ Singer & Co rented
rooms over the Harlem Railroad Depot but the business
prospecting materially they bought land GALL they could
get in Mott street. where one of their large manufco
res now standsa building of stories high and two
ture in which nearly thirty tons Of PIG iron are daily
used, would have capacity for the making of sewing
chimes for the world but the Company found
to have other establishments in Delaney and Spring
streets Besides these there three outside factories
Whcn most Oh the castings are made and there are
three ca6netease shops and one box factory constantly
employed for Them They have also ueyy large case
factory of their own in South Bend Indiana the
walnut and other forests for the manufacture of for
the West and Northwest So too they have extensive
silk mills in Newark New Jersey for the manufacture
of twist alone for the of the eless sewing machine
They had also TO have mandatory in Glasgow Scot
land to supply foreign markets and the Glasgow estab
lishment500 feet ongis now in full operation equip
ped with American tools and machnery and to Ameri
belongs the honor through the Singer Manufacturing
Company OF standing preeminent throughout the world
in the sewing machine manufacture while that Company
in for their early and enlightened enterprise
repaid in having substantial commercial advantages
Others in the European market
With all these facilities it might seem that the world
could be amply supplied but it is Dot-the demand is
constantly increasing the Singer Manufacture
ing Company determined to erect in Ezabethpor the
vast building in the of construction, and
which there has been already expended years labor
When finished it will contain eight acres of floor
ing. The foundry facing the railroad is 400 feet long
100 feet WIDE with wings each 100 feet square, max
ing 600 feet frontage Next to that is building used for
cleaning castings forging Japannng etc. $50 feet long,
with two wings Of rs BY 125 feet each The main build
ing, at the Of 1rumbu and First streets is in
rapid progress extending $50 feet Trumbun street.
and $50 First street and there cabnetcase shop
200 feet long three stories high and at its end is box
factory feet long These buildings the total frontage
of which nearly 5000 three thousand feet all of
fine material the main building being fre-proof They
will contain stationary engines on grounds
which contain 30 acres, there will be nearly two
miles of railroad track The water frontage is fine and
nearly thousand in length The facilities for
eeivng coal and iron direct both by railroad and water
very great those for shipment to all parts of
the country.
The calculation is make less than five thousand
machines week, and to employ from $500 70 1900 men
1t is supposed that the Elizabethport ediqes will be
finished in year at a cost least million, in
Guiding their valuable machinery The spacious grounds
viii be we'll used, and in the immediate nsghborhood
the workmen will have comfortable homes Whit con-
this will be to their dngy and ansentated abodes
the music and eompanonship of NatureEarm and Fire
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