The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1877-01-03
gtry.IINlIIEG ~ AMERICA

IL, - ia ITiDnIy d"lI'Er'i a.
n,Uy d" F0n' >, In'shHy, the IAN
AT N0,e" Der, by N, kG0unrd FHVrr
,IoI, Npmb'r 81 Ihc International
tur, on watch, sat the LNnioIIiou ~
rni sucIpbi", amt one al the Swis
,uUmissIoheTs 40 Ihs IniIed ,InI"s
IA Foreigners testimony
Mr.. Arnold Grosjean, President o
thp Board Of Commerce, announce,
that NJ. Edouard Ftvre.Perret, mem
her of the International Jury OF
Watches Of the Exhibition at Phila
delphia, had krnuly consented 10 re
rr.t, At Ia ChsuX dc Fords, thespeecl
already delivered hS him ut Luclr ant
Nuchattl, on the situation oi the In
,u.iry 0t WM,hm kllg IN The Cnllec
State:
THE Address,
"GENTLEMEN 1 must, to start with,
announce 10 uu that SUu have not NJ
,ratul hriuIe Suu, hut II N Iuuiuctuier,
ud sru,h ak your uuu gtuce
shall give you IIiuIuHt Uu wh'Cl, uh
luckily, 10 not cheerful uL the COudI
mi. vi ~ Iss Matchmaking compared
with the American competition |
,Inll urd YOU ut Is simply sucu n
lnyt sttu them, 'uch NJ | lave u dci
sioYG Tia, N Fiui kbtrH L. htTt muii
n.Cs.tIS tnHn i. ytung rIsc, t"r { l.
n. hJ lalittihg he uuh sides IL b
a. HIND Al..,t...4.
IT, improving II.
Fur long time We have hearu
hr.e ot nn American competition,
without r'lleNlrs IT. Tue sk,fli.~
M.a Ihtu w r. q Huy ut them Uct H.,
l.r p,,rIu'Ity II cumpturi,u .
urr, ~ iapld ana 81 imp"rlhht l.,
d,N W. are tor ed to beil,vt the pruck
a. it, anal to achn"wI, dye the eArleuc.
,fa To- nj, uallc manufacture.
1--WE have had the proofs ~ Il UHIe,
avn ~, :; We have 81 I'll the AmeIica
nu.,rIes, mud W have teen ,hle T.,
tAtlsN ourselves exactly Ms to tht.I
rover We have lrea''d The America.
n nIu'HClute Ms We have lrerttd III,
IeIght urIug manufactures Ia the u
llr,. 1t which W. did not " iSh t. ut
lave nj hnt, ana Wul,h torn to day d
n.usl stIl'u' competition. | re- er e.
lf.,arcun, BIenle, 81. lmier, Moral
,'d Schutl hansen.
"t0r long tine America has been
II { principal market Tor our watches
0lrmIIk GOV, 50 TO sptak To-day We
Dust earnestly prepare to struggle with
tie Americans on the fields where
lIhtItU We have Teen the nlasteTs
some of you have known Mr.. Denui
son, " no was, We may say, the father
Ui Amt rIcun matchmaking Mr. Den
rsun travelled thruIgh the Canton Of
Nturhatel, Atu0ying our mode OF man
uinrIurlDg seeking 10 inform himself
Of t\rTylhing, md carefully noting
the Wtnk parts in cur industry. After
his Itluln 10 the United States, he
founded II factory vi Boston III he Is
ton Watch Corpsny This WIS II
1851. The capital scarcely SlUO,UOO
Was sutscr he'd 10y cal ltaIlsls mare than
~ y actIcal husIIess men III the he
tIiuli x the company turned out ohlA
the rough sktIe on m0'einehl, ana
.uended to the Fishing; oil other
pHr ,, such A. traiilr, balances, jewels,
rte etc were imported from SWIFT
baud Little by ntIle, however, the
factory extended its operations, hnu
produced Other parts NotwltIstahd
IIvuli Tins pr, gress, this mode OF do
INK things Ut sulIing the Amerlcah
Character, 80 li,t!e inclined to let rapl
tnl remain alm, 81 unpr0hucuVe, the
capitalists abandoned the factory, AMI
it failed ~ 1856.
"Anuther A / eriran, Mr. Robbins,
whum, you have also known, grl to-
men, " hen he hau businrss rel IONS
WIIn IT,, SCENTED n good speruIo' on,
aud b, ught IN the tnIire fHC'Ory, oIs
u cluded fJI S75,CUO a new crmlHLy
The American Watch Company
Mar nTt, wards formed, with "hpltaI
OF 500 iOO. Soon tins capital bechlhe
Insufficient, Md IL was Increased u"
500, go b, furt the VAR OF seretsloH'
lhls = III, Whlt h seemed calculated L"
destroy such All enterprise, was Oh
Me contrary, the O. USE OF lis prosperity
America put on foot m,llloh OF
soldiers, and, as every one wanted MS
watch, there was great al inlatlhn III
the watch business. AT this june
turp, WDIch might have been luck
une Tor our industry, we iHiItn |"
con prehtid our real Interests. lhsleh
Ui stuuing good watches TO the Aihe'
rirbns, the worst trpsh WAS sent I'M"
u eIe skeleton movements uteh seh'
M raers iheI would hHVe men thought
ptou rI uIph! The American =, INV
even, Wtul To- wuIk GA All ehtlIelS h'|
ieItItIlnu. The conl any Increase"
Their plant, and tutnrh cut het'ei Or
dubIy watch than the S"i's watch
Al he end oi several Yeas, and WIN
tie nIu OF pat i,lIm, the American
watch II joy eG goo" ltlu'"l"n'" "'e
GU rWt Was disc rtdiitd every "ht'e
j. lh65 he Cnll al WAS lhrtHee" !"
$50 ,UUu, hnd the tpsTatlOh" 81 Tue ne"
company gitw 10 mmtISt FI'P''
tuLs. lluling the t'II"wl x year" hu
sii err vent on 81 veil that every htr
teW watch factories sprung up Every
ID, WAITED 10 Il axe watch,s. Ih'IaA
Niu,uh Court Mh,ut eleven lai lotl''
The mot in pOrlart, after the wa
tnnm ,,u,pni,N, Isthe one ~ ElGln
VIII, h ia us cut nr' Ut three nun ""
hrN'n,euls cay The NnlIhaIn con,
pahA give emp 'yment u Line mum.
reH Uurkn eli, ard make ABOUT Iou'
huLur, Il auu twenty nve movements
PET day. The company AGAIN 'here"T'
I'd thtn capital III lo72; IT nn' uh's
to-day /, 81 .6OJ WU ,r-lh's SSu wv ~
reserve una, era caiiIai "i 9,OO",Voo
franc. This watch factory IL - rtN'
poMtr: there If none like itin Europe
We have seen It IN all It's dtlH''s MI"
. have admired its splel ala olsa,''
on. Last May, on the eve 81 'ht
gShIhitiuu. upnliil .eemed master o.
tie eirunti"u. One event, h"WeVer
dealt lis Il mortal ulow. Be 1t lhroOeh u
the fleet IT the crisis, or from any
other motive, tie Elgin COMPANY
made, all of II sudden, reduction Oh
the price Of their movements 81 ior's
per cent, 10 fifty per cent, 30 tliaI al
stocks ofSwiSs watches were seriously
Al a.. "A Il mn