The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1873-02-05
A SIGHT FROM NEWARK RAY

In sailing over Newark Bay aside from all that the
landscape affords the observer is likely to be attracted
by the Elizabethpor mandatory of the Singer Manu-
featuring Company who well known and repre-
scented throughout the civilized world that it is hardly
necessary to say they makers of sewing machines
Before saying word more about the building in view,
let briefly allude to the beginning of that Companys
business 1t began in Boston many ago with little
capital and in apartments which would i'll contrast
with the fine edifee in the Of construction in
small by comparison. Little did the orgfnaors think
that some day there would be mandatory built which,
not including the machinery 1t is to contain will cost
not less and probably good deal more than million
dollars The machinery must of necessity be very ex-
pensye Most of II will be automatic and made specially
for the manufacture of sewing machines whose delicate
parts have be finished with extreme accuracy before
holds not only in favored land but in all parts
of Christendom permitted forth its mission
usefulness Few would think in looking at the wonder
full little instrument simple In structure what
pendture of thought it has cost to bring to present
thousands of hundreds of different kinds Of ma
Chimes specially constructed for the making of its differ
ent parts with precision would to-day be employed in its
The business beginning on so small scale in Boston,
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
prospecting materially they bought land a they could
ge in Mott street. where of their large manufacto
ries standsa building of erea stories high and two
under ground 1t was thought that such struc-
ture in which nearly thirty of pig iron daily
used would have capacity for the making OF sewing ma
chlnes tof company necessary
to have other establishments in Delaney and Spring
streets Besides these there three outside factories
three cabinetcase shops and box factory constantly
employed for them They have also re'y large case
factory of their own in South Bend, Indiana, the
walnut and other forests the manufacture cases for
the West and Northwest So too, they have extensive
Of twist alone the of the reess sewing machine
They had also to have mandatory in Glasgow Scot
shment660 feet ong-is now in full operation, equip
ped with American tools and machinery; and to Ameri
ca belongs the honor through the Singer Manufacturing
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. w ,A
with all these facilities it might that the world
could be amply supplied, but it is not-he demand
constantly increasing and hence the Singer Manufacture
ing Company determined to erect in Eizabethport the
vast building now in the course Of construction and
which there has been already expended years labor
When finished it will contain eight acres of floor
ing The foundry facing the railroad is 400 feet long
100 feet wide with two wings each 100 feet square,
ing 600 feet frontage Next to that building used for
cleaning castings forging Japanning etc. $50 feet long
with wings Of 70 by lbs feet each The build
ing, at the corner of Trumbuil and First streets is in
rapid progress extending SO feet Trunlbul street,
and go First street. and there Is cabnetcase shop
200 feet long three stories high and at Its end is box
factory 200 feet long These buildings the total frontage
of which is nearly 5000 three thousand feet all
fine material the main building being fre-proof. They
will contain stationary engines and the grounds
which contain 80 there will be nearly
miles of railroad track The frontage is fine and
nearly thousand feet in length. The facilities for
cevng coal and iron direct both by railroad and water
very great those for shipment to all parts of
The calculation is TO make not less than five thousand
MACHINES week and to employ from 800 to 5000 men
Guiding their valuable machinery The spacious grounds
the workmen viii have comfortable homes. What a con-
this will be TO their dngy and unventated abodes
in the city where they seldom breathe fresh air enjoy
the music and eompalonship Of Nature, Farm and Fire
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