The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1873-07-17
The Buggy and Wagon Works
5g of Head & Sutherland.
Large and Well Regulated
Shops--F ABILITIES Unsur-
passed--Their Work.
The Great Hay Barn. Ills construc
ton, presses, etc., etc.


of Kenosha is a subject that interests our
readers, and concerning which the more
thoughtful and stable of the community are
always glad to learn something. We there
fore invite our readers to q review OF the
flourshing establishment of Messrs. Head s.
Sutherland. To enter into Argument to
prove the necessity for manufacture in or.
der TO build up a prosperous city. is entirely
unnecessary. This is q fact, admitted on
all sides. If kenosha is TO make any fur
ther progress in population or wealth, it
must certainly be through the establishment
of more boundaries, mills, tanneries, and
other institutions of the kind that will give
employment to skilled mechanics. 1t is said
that one mandatory EN- ploying hundred
men will support an additional 500 people
Knowing all this to be true, every citizen
must feel some interest in those manuiacto-
ries that we already have among US, and
that have helped to make Kenosha what it
is today. Most of our readers are acquainted
with the history of the firm whose establish
ment we have under consideration In the
present article. Starting in the year 1868 in
tie old Whitemar place, they went to work
not 10 enrich themselves by filling the mar
ket with inferior work, but to claim a reward
tor excellence. To TINS rule,
BEST WORK AT FAIR PRICES,
they have adhered to the present time, and
will not now take a back seat for any buggy
maker in the West. The fact of it is just
this,-they have educated Themselves to un
derstand what good material and good work
is, and appreciate the disadvantage of any
ching, else. Once t heir shops were laid in
ruins by the fire fend, AID the clouds OF mis-
fortune gathered round them, but with a
manly spirit and an enterprise that has al
business, they rebuilt, and are now doing a
business, in comparison with which, that
''betore the fire. seems small indeed.
With George D. Head for chaperon we went
all 'over the ground" the other day, and of
course the wood shop is the first in order.
Here all the woodwork for the bugges is
made. Workmen were at the benches getting
out boxes. Stacked up from floor to ceiling
is to be found the many different parts used
in making up frst-class buggy. Allthese
pieces are made, not of sap-wood, but of
good, solid timber, thoroughly prepared in
the dry-house. Head & Sutherland know full
well that buggy made partly of sap-wood
and the remainder Of solid stuff is worth no
more than if every stick was worthless, and
therefore their buggies are made of a uniform
quality of timber The wheels made and
nsed by this firm will be'r some special no.
tice. A basket maker Cnce declared that
"there were tricks in all Il ldes except bas.
ket making, and that you could see urcughp'
This, applied to any trade, may be true, and
| there are some peculiar people we m eet who
honestly believe they ere tricked in every
purchase they make, whether it be pound
of beef or a steamboat. But could these
people only see through or uader the surface
of things, they would undoubtedly often be
undeceived, aud find that after all there was
more honesty in the world than they had
dreamed of. Every man who xcels in any
thing Is entitled to credit. And so when
many wheeiwrghts are putting two or three
spokes of poor timber into each wheel, Head
& Sutherland are entitled to the gcredit OF
making wheel that is uniform in every par
ticular. By close inspection of these wheels
it will be found that there is a pin on each
side of every spoke which prevents cracking
of the felloes. This is one Of the little
things that peculiar people, looking merely
at the surface, do not see Nrough The
blacksmith shop is large and admirably ar
ranged brick building. 1t is 40 feet wide and
| so feet in length, with room for eight fires.
| The shop is airy nd well lighted fitted up
with every convenience for the sons of Vul-
can. In the blacksmith shop is stock OF
springs and irons Of the very best quality.
The Dry House is brick building 1920 feet.
The largest building is a feet wide and 80
feet long, This is well constructed shop,
two sto ries high, with the Repair Shop, Of
fee and Carriage Repository on the ground
! flo or, and The Paint Shop, Varnish Paror
and Trimming Room up stairs. ALI the
| buildings throughout the establishment have
double floors. The office is neAt, the walls
being boarded all round. and nicely painted.
Entering the paint shop up stairs, we find
the painters at work on buggies. You can
not believe 1t, perhaps, but the buggy boxes
made by Head & Sutherland are given fifteen
coats Of paint, besides many coats of varnish,
In this department. the firm employ first
class workmen, and one of their buggies,
when finished, and on exhibition in the Re-
pository, is worth looking at. The surface OF
an unfinished box in the hands Of work
man was like glass. When you see car
riage or buggy made by this firm on the
streets. you may think that ordinary paint
is used in putting on the scroll