Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1879-05-27
For the SPECTATOR.
ChicNy-ag0.

MIR. EDITOR AS I passed through
your town on the morning of the 1Otl
ut, with this as my objective point, ;
pair OF men walked past me, and one O
them suggested the heading of this com
munlcatlon. Years ago, with his mine
travelling in the same channel ARRAYS
like the ancient Jew. who is the mos
striking character in the Merchant O
| Venice" we are sorry we can't nam
him, but whose 21ench0nt for cOuntin.
''shent per shent." and exacting tn
penalty, even to the pound of flesh, h
was not famous for reading anything
except reports of the beef market. III
was far more familiar with the point
OF bullock than either photography @
geography, and, as we suppose, mus
nave seen mention made of the ava
lanche of beeves upon this market. S.
meeting us one day, in his excited
stammering way of talking, said, q
tell you that are place they call Chicky
ago must be a tremendous place."
am sure, Mr.. Editor, you would full
iy concur with him were you to spent
week or two here. Chicago is to-day
the most active business center for 1T
population, half a million, on thi.
continent. In spite of the disastrou:
IRE that made an ashy desert of two
1itths of the business part of the city
Ph@nix-like, it has not only arisen, bu
is to-day the best built and handsomes1
city on this continent. The immense
de6ris. the result of that terrible scourge
has been turned to most admirable ac
count in raising and improving its
streets.
a tn2 t-,i re- ", 10
Exchange is one of more life, excite
ment and business shrewdness. than is
found on Change in New York. You
would be amazed at the youthful APP
| pearance of the actors, and a gray head
among them is an object of remark.
TIE best watered city in the world,
beyond all peradventure Of doubt, il
will be next to impossible for it ever to
be again visited by fire to any serious
extent. That severe and isolated losses
| will occur, permit me to mention one
that took place on the Gay passed thro'
your village, and in which one at least
of your citizens has an interest. Meet
ing friend Grubert, [ made him useful
IN aiding NE in carry ing some of my
baggage to the Baltimore d Ohio depot.
lie mentioned that through the repre-
sensations OF a friend from here, he was
| induced to order sash, doors, newell
posts, ratings, &c, for q new house.
from Palmer, Fuller q Co., of this city.
tie handed me their card, and asked
me to call and see them, and express
his qualification at the quality of the
| dools and sash, and the price, and to
say the balance OF the bill he expected
in few days. At Cambridge, Ohio,
on my way, gentleman on the cars
mentioned there had been a big fire
here, and Palmer, Fuller & Co. were
the principal sufferers. Since my ar
rival, learn it will not Inconvenience
them 4 great deal. a gentleman in that
town, engaged in the same business,
said he COULD order doors, sash, blinds,
&c from them, and sell them at profit,
instead Of manufacturing them.
This city had conc!ave here Oh the
day before our arrival OF d dozen manu-
f cturers CT binding reapers, and
the chapter Of their Proceedings would
be read by your people with much in
terest. Eighty Thousand tons of wire is
ordered by them for the ensuing
harvest Mr. Leander J. Mccormick
told me he HAD ordered q haJ a3aUZton
dollars worth for those sent out by
his firm through the United States and
Canada, the several countries in Europe,
Australia, New Zealand, and Southern
Mexico. Last year he discovered few
weeks before harvest he had not ordered
enough. and III .fjU& weeks before har-
vest be paid $4,000 III express charges
alone 81 wire to supply the deficiency
il time One firm, d. NJ. Osborne &
Co., Auburn, New Yogk, the nanufac
tuEeEs Of the Kirby, pay $4,000 each
-,
circulars. The use of wire i'll binding
has produced great cOlnmotiOn with
the miiiers, because OF the injury to
their boiling cloths from the pieces of
wire going through the burrs. II. E.
Mellen, ESQ, of the firm of MeiIeu. Cook
q Hubert, of Rochester, Mimi, told
the writer that he made use Of the pow
erful magnets. capable OF lifting ten
pounds, made by the Western Flee.
Manuf. Co, OF tnis city and New York,
in his mills on the 18th October last, the
first ever used. He said he had collected
bushels Of the pieces of wire. Miiiers
all over THIS country are using them,
and where no wire binders are used
bottles of bits Of nails and iron gravel
were exhibited, showing that all mills
ought to use them.
The General Millers' Association OF
The United States met here on the 18th,
| and between G0G and 100 millers were in
attendance. Net one mill in Virginia
was represented. although Mr.. Ficklin,
of Fre;ieiicksb urg, was one Of the Vice
Presidents, and Philip Haxali a mem
Der of the Executive Committee. Your
humble servant and his associate were
the only representatives from Virginia.
and are here by invitation of the Exec
utive Committee of the Association to
all patentees Of mill machinery to have
il on exhibition. That energetic and
pubic.spiri;ed firm, Smith 4 Patterson
of Waynesbofo', Va deserve mention
here as tbs fist to take by the hand
their neighbor, the inventor OF the best
miil-dTivGr on exhibition here, and after
testing ii for months, on very trouble
some pair OF burrs, gave him the best
| recommendation In their power, an or
der for one Of each OF The three othe,
burTs. Mr. Patterson ought to have
been here. You would have been
deeply interested, Mr. Editor, ia the
display, at the everyday evidence that
| the appliances to produce the staff OF
life are amazingly improved since the
day when our ancestors made their meal
by hand with Il pair of rude stones The
say that the unobtrusive citizen with
me, who has stamped himself a public
benetactor, will have flower placed on
his NIB, whilst our citizen Of Chicky-
ago fame will nave the passer by to los
tie rude!y the mound Of earth, with the
renar!. the H3Fid was net any the bet
ter that got lived in it.
II the press on your columns is not
800 great, pahiish Mayer Harrison's
brief, Yet ipost happy address to the AS
soci;.tiou, welcoming them to the city.
Mr.. George Balm, its President, was
equally happy in lis reply. He, sir, is
one of the nlost remarkable men OF this
generation. You cannot furnish your
readers Il more interesting piece of read
ing than an article taken from the Lon
don -njt5eT and published in The bitter
and 1IiA'Vright of Cincinnati fer this
month, giving; y brief biography Of him.
i friend froni st. Louis, on the first
day Of the meeting of the Association,
sought for US III the crowd, in company
with Mr., Balm. to present US to him,
and we sincerely regret that It was IN
successful He possesses in q pre-emi-
nent degree that faculty that character
lied Mr.. Clay, the remembrance Of
names and face. He preaides over the
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