Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-05-09
From tho Cincinnati Gazette,
THE "CHAMPlON."
Signs off Genuine Revival of Bust
ness at Springfield, Ohio.
The Heaviest Shipment OF Reap
ers and Mowers Ever Made i'll
America.
SPRINGFIELD, o., April n.

SPRINGFIELD, o., April n.
Facts are stubborn things, and figures
based upon facts can not lie. After so
much has been said and written in Il way
of predicting q revival Of business, in
which it has seemed hitherto that the wish
was Il father to the thought, it is solid
satisfaction to put on record genuine,
unmistakable proof that the revival OF
business is upon US in tangible form,
which can be seen, measured, and Gnum-
Grated. TO the promise ofabundant grain
crops in all parts of the country. and 60
the energy and fore sight Of the manu-
fucturers, who provides the means OF Sc
curing that harvest, these healthful tokens
are due.
The firm Of Whiteley, Fdssler & Kelley,
OF Springfield, Ohio, manufacturers Of
the acorld-reno,pned Champion Keepers and
lNouers, have to-day dispatched four rail-
way trains loaded with these machipes to
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The four
trains in all comprised seyenty-two cars,
and each car contained twenty-five Cham
pion Reapers and Mowers, making a
grand total Of 1,6l6 reapers and mowers.
This may be safely put down as the larg'
est single shipment of machines on record,
in this or any other country. 1t makes in
itself great industrial pageant, 4 trjum-
phal progress, for which DO other country
but America could furnish the material.
This quadruple train, or railway cara
van, left Springfield to-day at noon, via
the c.. 5. & G. Railway to Columbus;
thence via the 2. c. & st. L. Railway to
Pittsburg; thence via the Pennsylvania
Central Railway to Harrisburg, Fifty out
of the seventy carloads Of machine, are
exclusively for the State Of Pennsylvania,
and the remainder for Delaware and New
Jersey.
1t will be observed that this shipment is
to what may be called Centennial terri
tory. 1t is in Iact the first fruits OF the
signal triumph of the Champion Reapers
and Mowers at the Centennial Exposition,
where their superiority was so fully dem
onstrated in all the grain growing regions
of the world, but especially OF PennSyl-
vania and its neighboring States. The
wheat prospect is unusually fine in that
section, and the same is fortunately true
of nearly all parts Of the continent. And
it should further be stated that to the ell
ergy and ability OF Messrs. l.. Ii. Lee 4
Bros, of Baltimore, the impetus to the
sale of these machines, to which this I'M
mensc shipment is 4 token, is largely to
be attributed.
The European demand for the Champion
Reapers and Mowers is also very exten-
sive and large shipments have been made
to that market the present season. 1t is
probable that 10000 machines or upward,
will be turned out by the champion
Messrs. Whiteley, Fassley & Kelley and
others, manufacturers for the harVests or
1877.
The march Of this huge procession from
Springfield to Harrisburg was a spectacle
worth seeing. The seventy-two cars
were all alike, and all furnished by the
Pan Handle people. Each car was pro
tusely decorated with flags, and also with
placards announcing its destination, and
for whom its quota Of machines is design
ed. While the Car is hurrying forward
his troops to the crossing Of the Prulh,
America may well be thankful Tor no more
warllke sign than this movement Of re-
endorsements to the peaceful grain fields
of Pennsylvania.