The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1873-02-19
A SIGHT FROM NEWARK BAY.

In sailing over Newark Bay aside from all that the
landscape Affords the observer is likely to be attracted
by the izabethport mandatory 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 allude to the beginning of that Conpanys
business 1t began in Boston many years ago with little
capital and in apartments which would i'll contrast
with the fine edce in the course of construction i'll
Ezabethport Nor do forget that things great
small by comparison Little did the originators think
that day there would be uactory 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
pensve Most of it will be automatic and made specially
for the manufacture of sewing machines whose delicate
parts have be finished with accuracy before
holds, only in favored land but in all parts
of Chrisendom is permitted forth its mission of
full little instrument, simple in structure what
pendure of thought it has bring it to its present
thousands of men and hundreds of different kinds
chimes specially constructed for the making of its differ
ent parts with precision would to-day be employed IN Its
The business beginning small scale in Boston,
soon found way New York and the manufacture to
extent and the demand to still greater have like
the "Star of Empire been gradually finding their way
westward
In New York the firm of Isaac NJ Singer & Co. rented
rooms the Harlem Railroad Depot but the business
prospcring materially they bought land tall they could
get in Mott street. where of their large manufaco
ries sandsa building of sece stories high and two
ture in which nearly thirty tons Of pig iron are daily
used would have capacity for the making Of sewing ma
to have other establishments in Delaney and Spring
streets Besides these there three outside factories
in which most OF the castings are made ana there are
three cabnetcse shops and one box factory constantly
employed for them. They have also rey large case
walnut and other forests for the of for
the West and Northwest so, too they have extensive
silk mills in Newark, New Jersey, for the manufacture
They had also to have mandatory in Glasgow Scot
land to supply foreign markets and the GLASGOW esta
ped with American tools and maehinery and to Amer-
belongs the honor through the Singer Manufacturing
Company standing pre-emnent throughout the world
in the sewing machine manufacture while that Company
in for their early and enlightened enterprise
repaid in having substantial commercial advantages over
others in the European market
With all these facilities it might that the world
could be amply supplied, but it is nothe demand is
constantly increasing and hence the Singer Manufacture
ing Company determined to erect in Elizabethport the
vast building 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 wings each 100 feet square, max
ing 600 feet frontage. Next to that is building use
with two wings If IS by is ieet each The main build
ing at the corner of rrumbu and First streets, is in
rapid progress extending 500 feet Trmbul street.
and $50 First street and there cabinet-ease shop
30 feet long, three stories high, and at its end is box
factory 200 feet long These buildings the total frontage
of which nearly 5000 hree thousapd feet are all Of
fine material, the main building being fre-proof They
will contain stationary engines and ON the grounds
which contain 80 acres there will be nearly
miles of railroad track The water frontage is fine and
ceving coal and iron direct both by railroad water
very great those for shipment to all parts OF
the country
The calculation is to make not less than five thousand
machines week. and to employ from $500 5000 men,
1t is supposed that the Eizabethport edices will be
finished in year. at cost of at least Million in
Guiding their valuable machinery The spacious grounds
will be well used and in the immediate neighborhood
the workmen will have comfortable homes What con-
rast this will be to their dIngy and unrentiaed abodes
in the city, where they seldom breathe fresh air enjoy
the music and companionship of Nature.-F and FIRE
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Sept, ~ 1874