The star. (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1874-1875, 1875-05-27
Clock. Making In the Black Forest.


4 A French contemporary gives the fol-
lowing interesting account of clock max
ing in the Black Forest, which industry
Is, at the present day, concentrated in
Dittishausen, Eisenach, Furtwangen, st.
Georges, LeutZkirch, Neustadt, Friberg,
Villingen and Rohzenbach. Essentially
a domestic occupation at its origin, and
employing whole families, it is only
thirty years since watch and clock-mak-
ing have been carried on in factories.
Leutzkirch produces a great number Of
zinc for the case being sent from Paris
and gilded here. The cases, wheels and
| all the necessary items are made sepa-
rately, and the work is divided into vari-
GUS kinds; the separate pieces are car
ried into the workshops, where they
are put together, when the clocks are
sucoessively mounted, tested and regu-
lated.
The different sorts OF clocks manufao-
tured in the Black Forest comprise:
The clocks with weights, clocks in cases,
clocks, 8 day clocks, clocks which go for
| a month, toyer clocks, regulators, the
spring clocks Of English and French
CONSTRUCTION, ship clocks, and figure
clocks, among which may be classed
cuckoo and trumpet clocks.
The Importance of this branch OF In
dustry will be seen by the following fig
ures: In 1871 the Black Forest num-
bered ], ,429 free manufacturers of clocks
and watches, employing 1925 hands; in
dependent OF women and children, who
were occupied In the small details; 49,
900 persons lived by this industry alone.
The number OF articles produced had
risen in 1874 to 1890, 900, of which 100, 900
were of flrst-class workmanship. The
total represented value OF ten million
fortns.
The most curious branch OF this art
lis. without exception, the manufacture
OF automaton clocks, and the ingenuity
Of the Germans has produced some Won
derful mechanical CLOCKS. The great
musical clocks are called orchestrals
Vaucanson, who made the first at Bless.
ing. In the manufacture Of these clocks
the work is not divided, at least for the
essential parts. The masters execute
: nearly all In their workshops, with the
:. exception OF the metallic pipes. Las
! year there we're 81 masters and 224 hands
employed In making these clocks. The
, great factories of orchestral clocks pro
] ducc instruments of and registers, o.
, which the price varies from l.ooo Y
demand In America and in Russia.
II It is calculated that there are at least
! dozen private collections of pigeons II
t}New York worth $1,000 each, ranginI
Z over $1,000, and one or two as high q
100000. Altogether there are fifty o
sixty varieties Of fancy pigeons Know
to New Yorkers. Game fowl are not 8,
Q popular in New York how as formerly
Still some fine specimens are to be found
b as much ais $1,000 being refused for
single hen. Among the varieties of fancy
k fowl most affected by the rurally dispose
New Yorker, are the black Spanish, th
r white Leghofn and the Cochin. Thes
average in price from $6 head upward
!, There are many New York merchant
\ ed $500 to 5000 in their stock OF fanc.
fowls. As TO singing birds, there is NJ
city In the Union where they are so nu
j. lmerous and. appreciated. The favorit
!. song bird OF New Yorkers Is the canary
Attempts have been made to rear cana
+, lries, but SO far unsuecessfully. The
o are brought over in the steamers fror
Germany, in coops, by thousands at
j. time. In Germany canary costs fro1
six to fifteen cents; in this city canarie
:. cost from $40 to $50 dozen. A good ca
age SIS. One lady on Twenty.fouft
street has collection OF seYenty-tw
oanaries valued altogether at $1,000. BE
sides the canary, the mook1ng birt
which 70 of southern origin, the nightir
gale, and the startling, are Well know
IMocking birds range in value from
to $500. A good starting that can tai
and whistle is worth from $40 to $9'
Nightingales cost frop $l5 to $40
iTkrushes, goldfuches. blackbirds an
Iiinuets Have also attracted the atte
ton Of our bird fanciers to greater
less degree. Highly trained parrots al
not uncommon, aud some are valued
sxtravagant sums:
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To.illustrate the 6cceftricity of jaime
Lick, the California millionaire, it
said that he hired two men to work Il
him aud set then to work planting ca
IN bages, directing them to put the plant
q tops dpWn, roots up. One of the me
n obeyed the order strictly. The otht
/. thought IT a mistake and put tho PLAN
Il in the soil Just as any. sensible Peret
NJ would do. BY and by the employer can
" along. Seeing the work Of tie latter,
y inquired, ..WAo DID thatSy " did,
"a said the man confidently. vYoH can p
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