The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-06-10


In addition to these buildings is dry
house 1Oix50 feet, two stories high, built
of wood, and one, 130x25 feet two stories,
built of wood and covered with slate. There
are also barns, sheds, and out buildings in
abundance, and gas house, in which is
made the gas that is used for lighting the
buildings and the street in front.
HANDS AND STOCK.
At present there are employed 500 hands,
the production being from 500 TO 1000 or
gans per month the monthly pay roll
being from s25, 900 to 100000. They an
nualy use 5000 900 feet of black walnut
and pine lumber, 10000 pounds of brass,
and a large quantity of ivory. which is
used on the keys, and which is procured
by them already cut for that purpose.
FIRE APPARATUS.
The precautions against fire, are what
one would expect in keeping with con-
Germ of this size, and are OF the most i'm
proved kind. IIydrants are placed in diff
fercnt parts of the yards the water to sup
ply them coming from pond situated on
hill in the rear of the buildings. There
is fall of 1O4 feet, which gives velocity
and power enough to throw stream over
any of the buildings. On each floor in
every building are rows OF water pals,
which are kept filled with water, u
Babcock fire entinguishcr, and running
water enters into every room. In the cen
ter of the grounds in rear of the bindings
is brick engine house, in which, as a
greater security against fire, is frst-class
steam fire engine of the Amoskeag pattern
named j.. Estey' which is kept ready Tor
use at a moments warning, and company
selected from among the workmen, are
regularly drilled in its management, 1000
feet of the best hose are ready at all times
fcr use.
The firm of Estey & Co. have invented
and adopted more valuable improvements
in Reed instruments than any other house
in the world. Other would-be prominent
establishments after vainly endeavoring to
depricate them. have tried to initiate them,
but with what success can be imagined
when it is known that the demand for the
Estey organs is so great that in the month
of May 500 organs the value of which was
$50, 900 were shipped from the house, and
the shipments too,eir agencies in Europe
alone, average 80 per month, it being now
well understood that the credit for origin
ality and superior excellence in all things
belongs to the EsTEY ORGAN
IMPROVEMENTS.
Among the many great improvements, in
| i,:.:-- 80 .Lo ..Vov Urmnna which en-
| tirely changes the reed tone and gives it
the sympathetic sweetness of the human
voice, its tones vibrating so melodious and
pure that it fairly enchants the listener,
which Improvement after vainly endeavor-
ing to decry certain firms have been COM
pelled to adopt paying for the use of the
same liberal royalty, is the "Vox Jubil-
ante" which new and beautiful stop is pc
culiar to the Estey organ alone, and which
after critical examination by scientific
men and the best of judges has been pro-
nounced a complete success, and has ere
ated a great revolution in the manufacture
of reed organs, There is the Harmonic
attachment which doubles the power of the
instrument without increasing the number
or the size of its reeds, the patent Knee
Swell, the Patent Reed board and others,
all of which enter into the construction of
their organs, of which there 30 varieties
that vary in price from SlG0 to 5000.
The days of the old fashioned Melodeon
are gone, and the great Improvement in
modern Reed organs have placed them in
the front rank of musical instruments.
CASES AND MACHINERY.
The case may be costly and stylish but
unless the tone be pure, sweet and musical
it is little else than n failure. The supe-
riority of its tone is prc-eminent in the Es-
tey organ, whose sweetness purity and
pipe like quality, are the wonder of all.
This is principally on account of the reeds
used by them the making of which caused
hours of long and patient study. The
stock used is OF fine peculiar texture
made especially for their use The machin-
cry used in their construction is the most
costly and exact known to modern times
After they are fashioned by machinery,
as far as possible, skillful hands manipulate
them in the most delicate manner. Their
tuners have spent their whole lives in this
particular business, which enables them to
produce a tone that others have vainly
tried to initiate, and with the elegant styles
of cases, which for elaborate embellish-
ment, chasteness of design and beauty of
finish have never been excellcd With
the best OF material used in the entire con-
struction of their organs, with the rcputa-
ton that they have for furnishing only SUI
perior work, and not by paming off upon
the public, goods which are cheap, trashy,
day they stand high above all others, an
example of what energy and industry will
do, an honor to the town, the state, ana
the country.
TIE FACTORIES.
The buildings are all connected together
by wide walk which extends from the
second story of each building, and every
building is provided with an elevator run
ming from the ground to the upper floor.
Building No. for they are all number
eds used mostly as II finishing and case
room. In building No. 2, on the first floor,
the reeds are made and it is well worth
visit here, to watch the process of making
these, the most important part of the or
gan, to watch the cutting of the brass, the
making of the tongues, their rveting into