The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1883-07-11
WhLKS AND TALKS
With the Manufacturers, Bankers and Mer-
chants of Lambertville and Vicinity.
A RECORD REPORTER WRITES OF MEN AND
THINGS AS HE FINDS THEM.
THE NEW HOPE AGRICULTURAL
WORKS.

: WORKS.
If Lambertville cannot boast possession
of a factory devoted to the manufacture
of agricultural implements, our neighbor-
ing village Of New Hope can, and, as THE
RECORD is attempting to make fair,
impartial review of the prominent indus
tries of this section, it to-day deyotes a
considerable amount of space to the en-
terprise named above, and which is under
the proprietorship and Management of
CHAS. s. ATKINSON.
The New Hope Agricultural Works
have had long and busy career. They
were originally established in the year
1888 by the firm of VIM. and Charles
Crook and the first location occupied was
in the close vicinity of the Cotton Mills,
from which site they were removed to
about where tho Union Paper Mills
now are, and it must be nearly or quite
twenty-five years since the present cen-
trail location was taken.
There have been quite q number of
changes III proprietorship of the Works
since they were established. The Messrs.
Crook were succeeded by Crook S Throp;
then came Throp & Murray then two or
three changes in firm style followed,
when tho late Mahlon Atkinson became
proprietor. Mr.. Atkinson was a man
who is we'll remembered in this and adj
Joining communities. His life was one
of busy usefulness and of business success,
and his death, which occurred November
G, 1879, made noticeable gap in the
business circles of this vicinity.
For some years prior to this time, Mr..
Chas. S. Atkinson had been more or less
identified with the New Hope Agricultural
Works, and he became manufacturer
without having had previous training in
that direction. Born and raised farm
er's boy, farm life and farm occupations
barring his connection with the factory
occupied his time until the Spring of
1880, when he became full tledged man
ufacturer-in other words, in that year he
assumed sole proprietorship and charge
of the business to which we refer.
Mr.. Atkinson is to be reckoned as be-
longing to the army of workers. 1t is
very true that he doesn't go into the shop
at Z clock each morning, don work
man S suit, and labor at machine or bench
all day, but he is worker in this: He
directs the work of nearly n score of
others. He appreciates the relations that,
as q manufacturer, he holds to the craft ;
he has not only to look carefully to the
machines turned out in his own factory
but to those which emanate from rival
manufacturers in other words, he
realizes that this is an age in which the
survival of the fittest is not merely a
theory but fact to be looked squarely in
the face. So we think we are justified in
calling him worker.
But the general reader is doubtless in
terested in knowing as to what the New
Hope Agricultural Works produce. If
we had at our hand a catalogue published
by Mr.. Atkinson, we should be tempted
to quote from that--as we have not, we
write from memory.
We may, then, state AS general prop
osition, that the product of the Works
comprises general range of agricultural
implements. Doubtless a leading il not
lie leading machine is the thresher and
thresher and cleaner combined. In the
construction of this machine principles
and action are embodied that are not
found in any other, as those who are
familiar with threshers are well aware.
Not only this, but every component part
of the machine is home made, and thus
every guarantee regarding it holds good.
1t is claimed for it-and this claim seems
to be an ipdsputable one-that not only
is the first cost of the thresher whether
of / -, 9 or 3-horse power less than that of
any rival machine, but that it does its
work far quicker, far better, and its use
entails no waste. Some threshers, as
practical farmers know, waste enough
grain each year to pay for them.
IIalenbeck' Self. Dumb Hay Rake =
is another specially. This is, unques-
tionably, the best horse hay rake in the
market. 1t is recent invention, and is
as far ahead of other makes as they are in
advance of the old hand method.
The celebrated - Crooks Horse Pow
ers y are not to be ignored in such re-
view as we here make. They have long
been weighed in the balances of public
opinion, and they never yet have been
found wanting 1t is the same machine
that has achieved such well won reputa-
tion in the past, and it can well stand up
on its reputation.
| Corn shelters are made in considerable
quantities in fact quite specially is
made of them the same is true of fodder
cutters and of grain fans--in brief, the
Works aim at supplying farmers with the
best attainable machinery. Flows are moi
made in such quantities as they were some
years ago, but the "Syracuse - and the
Advance, two of the best makes Of
chilled plows, are sold.
The market for the implements or ma
chinery made by Mr.. Atkinson is wide
reaching one. The territory largely re-
lied upon is the States Of Pennsylvania
New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia ant
Delaware. Within this territory the
products of the New Hope Agricultural
Implement Works hold their own against
all corners. Their reputation is assured
and Mr.. Atkinson deserves many thanks
from the people generally for the efforts
he constantly puts forth to advance the
scope of influence and usefulness of tho
enterprise with which his name is asso
ciated.
r. l.. JOHNSON.
The gentleman to whom we now refel
is one of the representatives of the drug