The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1876-10-20
CENTENNIAL CORRESPONDENCE,
Exhibitors and Awards-J. Estey & Co.'s
Orgs -Boomer n Boschert's Power
Cider Press

Exhibitors and Awards-J. Estey & Co.'s
Organs-B oomer Il Boschert's Power
Cider Press.
To say that the great majority OF exhibitors
here are dissatisfied with the awards OF the
judges is stating the case very mildly. That
all could not DC pleased was inevitable because
all could not get medals. But as three-fourth.
OF the exhibitors received awards, and the
medals are of equal merit many Of the prize
holders are displeased, because when awar Is
are so nearly universal they become CON-
paratively worthless. Indeed. there is more
dissatisfaction among those who received
medals than among those who received
none. Those who had superior exhibits
are offended because those having inferior
goods, in the same class. received equal
honors. And some OF the really deserving got
no medals, while some that every intelligent
person hat has examined their exhibits knows
did not deserve medals got them. And 30 little
confidence had come Of the most deserving and
worthy exhibitors in the justice and valoo OF
tho awards that they refused to compete. pre-
ferring to let their goods stand on their own
merits, having more faith in discriminating
public than in the decision of the judges. APP
pointed as they are under this system. That
many Of the recipients of medals eminently de-
served them is undoubtedly true. And III some
departments the distinguished scientific char
scter of the judges was strikingly illustrated
by the discriminating yer licts they rendered
But there was not enough OF this class to re-
deem the general and wholesale bestowsl Of
medals from being looked upon as a farce. 1t
il hoped that the reports which are to contain
the reasons for awarding the medals viii on
tighten the puzzled and dissatisfied exhibitors
As the really distingui. he'd exhibitors are the
few who received no medals, l examined with
sonie care many of the exhibits of this class, and
found not few, without medals, decidedly
superior TO those which had received them.
And especially was this true of the exhibits OF
those who declined to compete for prizes, pre-
fer1ing the verdict Of that comprehensive and
impartial jury who have tested the character Of
their goods for years.
AS good representative OF this class ex.
amined the exhibit OF a we'll known house OF
worldwide reputation as organ manufacturers
who have boon in the business thirty years.
whose goods are sold not only all over the
United States and Canada, but this present
year have exported to Europe nea ~ as many
organs as all other American manufacturers
combined l refer to the celobia ei organ
manufacturers,
EsTEY AND Co., OF BRATTLEBoRo, VT.
the clear, sweet, inspiring tones of whose
parlor and church organs ere familiar to 80
hemispheres. Their psr!or organs are die, in
guished for their great compass, from smooth
soft and almost inaudible notes to the loudest
sounds, sufficient to fill church, for the purity
and exquisite sweetness of their tones and also
for the instantaneous response they give to the
touch. 30 that quick music, a waltz or march,
can be played on them As well rs on a piano
So great is the popularity of these organs that
their sales are constantly increasing, even in
these dull times, being larger the last month
than ever before. Their prices range from $40
to 81 $50. Unceasing care that all their goods
shall be perfect in material and workmanship,
has won for them public confidence--a prize
worth moro than the medals Of Thousand
Expeditions.
A very enterprising firm here, whose exhibit
took the first and only prize in their line at this
Exposition, have excited lively interest among
fruit growers and farmers, by publishing the
following notice:
.CIDER-MAKrNG EXTRAORDINARY
The Boomer & Boschert Press Co., of SYRIA
cuse, n. Y, will exhibit their Power Cider Press
in Agricultural Hall, Philadelphia, Thursday,
Oct 26, 1876, when they propose to perform
the unprecedented feat OF pressing 700 barrels
Of cider from 800 bushels ofapplee, in ten hours.
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