Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1879-10-10
THE CINCINNATI EXPOSE
TION,
A Spoiled BOy-SeIr BInders-WhOIe-
sale washing.

sale W9shinE.
In the printing department of Power
Hall, there is a neat little platform about
eight feet square, covered with Brussels
carpet. The railing around the enclosure
is heavy black walnut, finely oiled and fin
ished. Along one side is a silver mounted
show case filled with handsome cards and
specimens of printing. Within the rail-
ing Is a bright little fellow about ten years
old, with bis toy printing press. He Is
child of fortune, the only son of one of
the Exposition commissioners, who be-
came wealthy in business, and who now
seems to live but for him. The boy spends
part of the time here each day printing
visiting cards for persons who walt and
watch him do the work, The first day he
made five dollars clear, which is not bad
wages for one ten years old. Having so
much money he does not appreciate its
value, however. He is the boy who has
been seen throwing ten cent pieces into
the crowd for the fun of seeing the scram-
bic for the money. Those who know Of
his family and its history might think that
the money were better employed in re-
lieving the wants Of an only, older sister.
an outcast from home, unrecognIzed by
her parents, and living in abject poverty
after being raised in the lap of luxury. |
have wondered. that if in that surging
crowd, the sister should pass by. would
that brother know her, would he recognize
her? 1t is but matter of time, however.
As far as poverty is concerned, both, be-
fore many years, will be on the same level.
The boy who, when but six years old, has
an allowance of twenty-five cents a day
which he spends, is not the boy who, when
a man, will keep together the fortune he
has inherited.
The increased demand for labor-saving
machinery for agricultural purposes is
shown by the number of devises to accom-
plish that object shown in the department
over Power Hall. One Of these, a twine
self-binder is very ingenious. 1t is the
patent of an Ohio man, and was in sue
cessful use last season, so he says. Out on
the great DalYrimple farm on the North
ern Pacific Railroad leYee, they put TWEEN
ty-fiYe of them, one behind the other, when
they march into thousand acre wheat
field. The manufacturers are Hoover &
Co. The wheat falls after being cut, onto
a canvas platform, which, being in motion,
carries it up an incline to where it is
caught, pressed very tight, bound with
tWine and dropped. In the hall it works
put through over and over again. The
sheaves are fiat like brick and are of un-
form weight, the frequency of binding be-
ing regulated by that. the great advan-
tage Of twine over wire for binding, is in
the fact that the twine need not be kept
out of the separator in threshing while wire
must. If the machine really will work as
well as they claim, it is surely good thing,
as little calculating will demonstrate the
cutting hundred acre field it would save
the wages Of four men for ten days, which
at dollar and quarter per day, makes
fifty dollars. The board of the four men
is sufficient to pay for the use of the ad
ditiOnal horse necessary to pull the reaper,
as three horses are sufficient. The excess
of the cost of one of the self binders over
an ordinary one is a hundred and five dol
lars. Valuing the old style reaper at
hundred and sixty-fve dollars, which is
the average cost, at this rate the self bind
er pays for itself out of the additional saw
ing in four years.
The ladies are greatly interested in a
display Of laundry machinery. All the
utensils necessaryin washing, ironing and
starching, are shown in operation, and
lady, by their use, may wash the family
clothing, starch, dry, iron. and fold the
pieces away without once getting her hands
wet, and all too, in the course Of three or
four hours. The largest of them is
washer. The clothes are put in a cylinder
which revolves in a great box of water,
heated by steam pipes running through it.
As soon as the clothes are clean, the water
is let out and the cylinder kept revolving
at high rate of speed until they are dried
| by the centrifugal force and the heat.
| This machine costs three hundred dollars.
Next the linen is starched by a pair Of
rollers. Here Is one of the secrets of the
gloss Of laundried goods. The starch is
put on when boiling hot. Then in order
-comes the process of ironing. For this
there are variety of devises. All however,
have hollow cylinder, inside of which,
burning gas supplies the heat. One of
these will IRON a thousand dozen collars
per day giving polish on both sides. 1t
costs fifteen hundred dollars. Besides
this there is a large ironer for bed and ta-
BILE linen, and such articles as window
shades and busters. It has a capacity of
twenty thousand napkins per day. To
! see one of the shirt ironers at work is a
sight. The ironing boards for the bosoms
is of rubber half an inch thick, and the
pressure brought to bear by the steel pol
isher is as great as it could be with an old
fashioned iron, though it weighed hun
dred pounds. It will not be many years
before the perfection of laundry machin-
cry will do away with wash-tubs, wash
boards, and what is better, washing day.