The Lambertville record., 1872-11-26
A SIGHT FROM NEWARK BAY.

In sailing over Newark Bay aside from all that the
landscape affords the observer likely to be attracted
featuring Company, who well known and repre-
sented throughout the civilized world that it is hardly
necessary say they makers of sewing machines
Before saying word more about the building in view,
let briefly allude to the beginning of that Copanys
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 constructions in
small by comparison Little did the orignators think
that day there would be amanufactory built which,
not less and probably good deal more than million
dollars The machinery must of necessity be very ex-
pensye Most of it viii be automatic and made specially
FOR the manufacture of sewing acnes whose delicate
parts have to be finished with extreme accuracy before
the little machine which has favor in many house.
holds not only in favored land but in ali PARTS
of permitted to forth on its mission OF
l little instrument, simple in structure what
penditure of thought it has bring
honsands of mem and Of Of ersn hnds If a. na
Chimes specially constructed for the making of its differ
ent parts with precision would to-day be employed in its
The business beginning so small a scale in Boston,
soon found its way to New York and the to
extent and the demand to still greater have like
the Star of Empire been gradually finding their way
In New York. the firm of Isaac NJ Singer & Co. rented
the Harlem Railroad Depot but the business
prospering materially they bought land a they could
res standsa building of stories high and
under ground. It thought that such strue-
used would have capacity for the making Of sewing ma
chimes for the world but the Company found 1t necessary
to have other establishments in Delaney and Spring
streets Besides these there three outside factories
in which most of the castings are made and there
three shops and one box factory constantly
factory of their in South Bend Indiana near the
walnut and other forests for the manufacture of cases for
the West and Northwest So too they have extensive
silk mills in Newark New Jersey for the manufacture
of twist alone for the the treess sewing machine
They had also to have mandatory in Glasgow, Scot
land to supply foreign markets; and the Glasgow estab
shnient-600 feet ongis now in full operation equip
With American tools and machinery, and Ameri
belongs the honor through the Singer Manufacturing
Company of standing preemnent throughout the world
in the sewing machine manufacture while that Company
in return 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 notthe demand is
constantly increasing and hence the Singer Manuactur-
ing Company determined to erect in Ezabehport the
which there has been already expended years labor
When finished it will contain eight acres of floor
@ ahs s c 400 5 ons
ing 600 feet frontage Next that is building used for
CLEANING castings orgng R 81 I stS S $50 feet
ing at the corner of Trumbul and First streets is in
rapid progress extending $50 feet on Trnmbu street
200 feet long three stories high and at its end is box
"a factory 2Go feet long 1 These budngs the total frontage
fine material the main building being fre-proof. They
will contain eren stationary engines and on the grounds
which contain over 30 acres there will be nearly two
miles of railroad track The water frontage Is fine and
& thousand a r feet in length 18th The facilities for
are very great those for shipment to all parts of
the country.
The calculation to make not than Ave thousand
machines week and to employ from $500 to 5000 men,
II Is supposed that the Eizabethport edhces will be
finished in year, at cost of at least million, not in
cuding their valuable machinery The spacious grounds
will be well used and in the immediate neghborhood
rast this will be to their dngy and unFentated abodes
in the city where they seldom breathe fresh air enjoy
the music and companionship of and Fire
side JossSidA
J Sept. "a, 1872