The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-12-06
OUR MANUFACTURERS.
What they are Doing.

One day this week we deemed it expedient and
profitable to our readers, in the way of getting
information of public interest, to visit the various
manufactures at Ottawa to ascertain what they
are doing.
The Paper Mill of Williams Il Farrar is run
ung with the usual force of men, and will not
stop.
j. ID, Vettc, the wagon maker, has not reduced
his force Of workmcn, and does not intend to.
The Telegraph Instrument Factory is running,
but rather slowly. Collections are hard to make,
and Mr.. Henning does not feel like trying to car
ry too much paper promises to pay.
King ~ Hamilton are running with only their
summer force. They are making the usual sorts
Of agricultural implements, and though times
are dull, do not feel that they will be compelled
to shut down.
The Glass Works are all right, and will remain
so. The pew buildings are all about completed
and in nearly full running order. With the new
brick buildings which have been put up this fall
in place Of the wooden rookerics that were burn
ed down, the Glass Works now will compare IA
yorably with the very best in the United States.
The buildings that have been put up there re-
Gently are rs follows:
A cutting room, 130x45 feet, Of brick.
Flattcning room, l0sx60 feet.
New factory room, 75xs5 feet The other, built
last season, S5Y93 feet.
Saw room, 14x24 feet This building is OF cor
rugatcd iron, with brick floor, and is fire proof.
The other buildings above and those following
are all brick, and nearly if not quite fre-proof.
Packing room, u feet by 80 feet brick floor.
Shipping room, 12xS2 feet, brick floor.
Straw room, 10Xl5 feet tre-proof.
Engine room, 32x24, with boiler and II horse
power engine, and largest force pump in Otta-
wa, capable of throwing a stream of water 200
feet through an inch and 4 quarter nozzle. In
this same room are the sand dricr and washer.
The sand room is l2xlS feet.
The batch room is 3jx85 feet, less the corner
taken out by the sand room.
The box shop is lSx2S feet, and tre-prooi.
The clay room is 35X75 feet.
The pot room is very large-two stories high,
and at present contains one hundred and forty
hand made pots. These are built Of clay, by a
Swede, who thoroughly understands his bust
ness. The clay out of which they are made, first
having been properly prepared, is spread out
near the workman, who starts ten pots at time,
doing every particle of the work Of building these
pots up from the platforms on which they stand
by hand, lie carries the work along evenly with
each, keeping each of the ten pots in about the
same stage of completion until the ten are neatly
fashioned and of a uniform size, which at the
top is AZ in hes Each of these pots weigh when
dry eight hundred pounds. These pots are said
to be as good lot as has ever been made here,
or even in the United States These pots. as our
readers will generally understand, are put in the
furnaces and subjected to an enormous heat
while the sand, &c, in them is being melted into
glass.
The ire in the west furnace was started nearly
two weeks ago. and to-day it is expected to start
the factory with sixty men at work. This will
be all that will be employed this season, owing
to the hard times The working capacity of the
Glass Works is 100 men,
The new oven in the fattenng room perhaps
deserves special notice. 1t is model of excel
lcnce 1t has eight fattcAing stones, which are
44X1O inches, and it works to charm.
Acknowledging oursclf duly obliged to Mr..
Turner, who obligngly answered all our CUES
tons, which were wise and otherwise, and pour
ing into our uncnlishtencd mind perfect etful-
geuce of brillancy, We moved on.
King IL Brown were saving timber and making
pumps at their Pump Works, the only establish
a pump is done at home,
II. c. King ~ Co.'S Pump shop was running
about as heretofore, and is resolved not to close
this season.
Stormonts Foundry continues to do very
heavy business The usual number of hand.
find constant cmpoymcnt-in fact, greater
number than heretofore, owing to the new NAL
leablc iron mandatory lately added to this es-
tablshment The process of transferring cast
and requires about ten days time to accomplish
with any given batch of articles.
The Ottawa Machine Shops and Foundry have
closed the knitting machir2 factory branch, and
are running at present with reduced force and
upon ordinary custom work, repairs, &c
Maicrhofer, Dent Il Co. are running their Plow
Shops with full set Of hands, and are making
plows, hurrows, &C., for next springs trade.
Geo. II Rugg makes finer show than any one
not boast either, for the facts are with him
Though money is scarce and payments slow
Mr.. Rugg finds himself obliged to add to his force
of hand, right in the midst of the panic and un
able to keep pace with the increasing orders that
weekly pour in from all quarters. He has just
finished 400 chairs for public hall at Gcnesco
in this state Nj. Rugg also deserves credit fol
A novel Grc apparatus. He has a tank in The
roof or third story Of his factory which holds q
bbls ~ 50 of water, and is kept constantly full
! Leading from this tank are series of two-incl
pipes running along the ceiling Of each room a
a distance Of five or six feet part. These pipe
are perforated with little holes, so that when tn
water is let INTO the pipe a spray of water j.
forced out in various directions and falls upol
| cvcrythng in the room, to the tiosr. Along b,
the sides of these pipes are strips Of cloth whicl
connect with valve Of The tank at the mou h O
| the pipe which leads TO each set OF pipe, in ever
room. \ ire, originating in any particular room
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