The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1872-10-22
A SIGHT FROM NEWARK BAY.

In sailing Newark Bay aside from all that the
landscape Affords the observer is likely to be attracted
by the Elizabethpor nianufactory Of the Singer Manu-
featuring Company who are so well known and repre-
necessary say they makers of sewing machines.
Before saying word more about the building in view
let briefly alude to the beginning of that Gompanys
business 1t began in Boston many years with little
capital and in apartments which would Ill contrast
with the ine edihce in the OF construction in
Ezabethport Nor do we forget that things great
small by comparison. Little did the orginators think
that some day there would be mandatory built which,
not including the machinery it is to contain will cost
not less and probably good deal more than million
dollars The machinery must of necessity be very ex-
pensve 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 in many house,
holds only in our own favored land but in all parts
usefulness Few would think in looking at the wonder
full little instrument so simple in structure, what
pendture of thought 1t has cost to bring to its
perfection Few thought in its early history, that
thousands of men and hundreds OF different kinds of
chimes specially constructed the making differ
emit parts with precision would to-day be employed in its
The business beginning on so small scale in Boston,
soon found its way New York and the manufacture
some 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 the business
prospecting materially they bought land a they could
get In Mott street, where of their large
ses now standsa building Of seven stories high and two
more under ground It was thought that such strue-
ture in which nearly thirty tons of pig iron daily
chimes for the world but the Company found it
to have other establishments in Delaney and Spring
streets Besides these there are three outside factories
in which most of the castings made and there
three eabnecase shops and one box factory constantly
employed for them They have also gery large case
walnut 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 reess sewing machine
They had also to have mandatory in Glasgow, Scot
lishment600 feet longis now in full operation, equip
ped with American tools and machinery; and to Aer-
the honor. through the Singer
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 advantages over
| others in the European market.
with all these facilities 1t might that the world
could be amply supplied but it is notthe demand is
constantly increasing and hence the Singer Manufacture
ing Company determined to erect in Elzabehport the
building in the of construction and
which there has been already expended years labor.
When finished it will contain eight of floor
ing The foundry, facing the railroad is 400 feet long
100 feet wde with two wings each 100 feet square, MAX
cleaning castings forging Japannng etc, $50 feet long
with two wings of % by 125 feet each The main build
ing Z, the corner Of @ Ia ana flTss streets IN
and $50 First street. and there's cabnet-case shop
zoo feet Jo ong three stories and a. rs END e box
of which is nearly 5000 three thousand feet all of
fine material the main building being fre-proof They
will contain stationary engines and on the grounds
which contain 80 acres there win be nearly two
miles of railroad track The water frontage is fine and
ceiving iron direct both by railroad and water
great those for shipment to all parts OF
The calculation make not less than five thousand
machines week and e employ from 500 to 5000 men
finished in year, at cost of at least Million not in
Guiding their valuable machinery The spacious grounds
will be well used and in the Immediate neighborhood
the workmen will have comfortable homes. What
rst this will be TO their dngy and unventated abodes
in the city where they seldom breathe fresh enjoy
the music and companionship Of NatureFun and Fire
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| Sept. "a 1879,