Connecticut western news., 1872-09-27

technic display, the brawney operatives Illustrating the triumph of muscle over matter, ard the weired music of hammers and sledges forever executing the Simon Pure Anvil Chorus, have strange fascina- tion for the lovers of progress and the ad- mirers of advancement in mechanical arts.
 The machinery is of the most perfect de- scription throughout the establishment. Whatever will cheapen labor and reduce the cost of blows to the farmers IS eagerly seized upon. From the pondrous and beautiful forty-horse power engine which drives the works down to the steaming and bending apparatus, everything is just what it should be. Through the shops where the wooden portions of the blows are fashion ed and shaped as in the blacksmith shop, everything is complete. In the grinding room where twelve huge stones are drawing sheets of fire from blow point and share the machinery is perfect. Each stone is test ed at terrible velocity, and there have cen no frightful deaths by bursting of grindstones in this establishment. The dry dust, so fatal to the health of the grinders, is carried off to great extent by numerous air chimneys, constructed for that purpose. The visitor cannot fail to notice the re- markable and unusual cleanliness of the works. One may traverse the great black l ishing and paint shops, the steaming aud bending rooms, the engine room, the store rooms-any or all of them-without find ing any evidences of slovenliness. No dirt, no cobwebs in the entire establishment.
 As & matter of course the best work is turned out, and the reputation of the blows and cultivators manufactured by the Peru blow works is worldwide. They are in use throughout the entire country, and act ing upon the suggestions received. at the Agricultural Bureau, the purchasing agent for the Japanese Government ordered lot of blows and cultivators from this estab- lishment.
 Among the Improvements that are being introduced into the works are two new mammoth steam boilers, manutactared on the spot, and newly invented furnace fol tempering molding boards.
 Another valuable improvement is the sub
 stitution of steel for iro8beam blows. AS iron is rapidly approaching wood, on ac
 count of it's greater strength, so steel wil
 superce0e iron on account of it's greater
 strength and elasticity, and greater light
 ess. A steel beam blow weighs tifteer
 pounds less than an iron beam blow, and i
 SO elastic that when striking a solid root ol
 rock the shock is less severe upon botl blow and horses.
 The firm is composed of T. D. Brewste and Job Dodge. The former came iron Salisbury, Connecticut to Illinois in 1885 when Chicago and Illinois were compara ! lively wilderness. He is one of the old est and most highly respected settlers O our State, and turns the slope of life as senior partner in the Peru Flow Works an' President of the First National bank il this city.
 The visitor to Peru who fails to inspec f the blow works will miss seeing the mode
 manufacturing establishment of America [As singular as it may seem, after tn :, above copy was prepared, and before it wa ' in type, we learned that Mir. Brewster wa
 in town on a short visit. It cannot but b pleasure to "Old Salisbury" to welcom home such of its illustrious sons as MT. : D. Brewster, of Peru, nllnois.-Ed Neaos