The Penn's Grove record., 1883-12-29
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BILE Is fast being suf-----
Marble is costly use.
plumber slabs, table, : mahY people
tops and furniture drelruth is q great
boards, dressing cases, etD
The finest quality of marole is i'm.
ported from the Italian quarries OF
Carrara aud Leghorn 1t has been sup
posed that the Italian marble Is the
whitest ever quarried, but lately mar
BILE is quarried mean Rutland, VT, that
v e SURPRISES the Italian in color, but
it is not as free to work as the imported
being stratifed. Italian marble Is
cut off from the quarries in huge blocks
of from ) tons to is tons, and princi-
pally sold in large job lots to foreign
dealers by the palm" a certain
measurement peculiar to that country,
at prices ranging from rs cents to $1.50
per cubic foot. 1t is more easily work
ed when fresh from the quarries on ac-
count of containing a moisture OF sap
which, when it e~vaporates, leaves the
substance more fiinty.
The manufacture of marble sinto ue-
full articles for furnishing purposes has
become considerable of an exclusive
trade in Cleveland of late. Half of
the so-called marble slabs sold - said a
marble cutter, ''are simply this com
mon blue quarry stone marbleized.
The stone slabs are worked down as
smooth as possible, and then a pIepaIa-
ton Is spread ON the stone and a pro-
cess known to the trade as marketing
is gone through with the marble slab is
prepared. Since they commenced to
cut, turn E - smooth by machinery
our occupat 8cxe. There are not
one-fourth ~ met 'sssgble cutters em-
ployed in Cleveland IS, there were
twelve yeats ago. 1her,f are no boys
learning the trade. We were paid from
So to So per day ten and twelve years
ago. Vow $3.50 and Sz.75 rday is
big wages. The polishing machine eau
perform ten mems work in a day, the
turning machine will answer the pur-
pose of twenty men, while a ses of saws
working on a block can get out more
work in the same time than a regiment
of men,"
A piece Of marble is first taken at the
works and roughly cut into shape to
correspond to the requisite size, md ii
for furniture dressing it is then put on
the dressing bed, a large, smooth iron
that looks like a milestone. This re-
yolyes swiftly and is worked by steam.
Fine sand, dampened, is scattered on
the huge revolving apparatus and the
marble firmly placed upon it in a fixed
position. This process works the sur
face to a smooth condition. The mar
BILE is then rubbed with Lake Huron
blue grit, and after that pumice stone
and a gloss is put ON with oxalic acid
and putty powder, which makes the
surface as smooth as glass. If the
material is intended for a monument or
a tombstone, the same procesf Is under
gone, and the moulding -flfe- lie
tering performed a~fterfate ose7famp- u
Of marble are used, y to barsge, And CT
Italian to the Virgf I protected, he OF
lucky n Vermont tarken the wiz VI
The most Of the 8 muslin curtains. l.
shipped from Vernhaew barns, and he II
New Hampshire anenfIa,1 considered Sc
quarries have steam cut arm win W
in connection with the qus. . Imam m
stone is cut into shape ON TT
The principal Eastern qua. 4Repnbli-
works are at Quincy, Mass. Concord,
N. II. J; Rutland. vi, ard Barre, n.
FL. A reddish s~iaaate is GuarTied at
Bay Funda, New Brunswick, It is
mostly used for columns for building
and such like. The Eastern companies
have formed a combination and are con
trolling the granite trade to a great ex-
tent.