Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-10-25

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How toe Oiu.Iim- iins Were Improved
III. D.. hoe Factory The Great Pm
sh p-Ns~ ~ --rn. Reward uf rerss
We tug ana inticnt Ihv-nti,c Genius.
Cur,es,andc &c to tue rIoba .e = lie
81 do not set my ~ at pins TOO"
lIIamIrt Act /; sccnet
Comes at the last, ami with little pin
Burrs through his castle walt AMI farewell, king
-fiinarII II Acts 'crn'
BrRMrNaHAM Conn, Oct. 2l.-Bcllevuc
HOSPITAL, in New York city, had in its
corp, OF physlcians sixty years ago a
young man who combined professional
zeal sfgacitv in disc tminatiny disease,
skill In its cure. and more than all, SEN
sitive personal sympathy. H. sulere with
the sufr rors, AMI finally he had brniI faver
Alter his retir ment from the strain OF
hosp tai work his memory of 1t was hauntci
by the pin he IDS that TOO Uften came off at
the undoing OF tight lan1ages, and the then
heailcss pins that de.aSe1 matters, dis
turhiny the surgeon and di'tres ing tho in
valid. He had seen Englishm'n in the
almshouss making these miserable pins 10y
. hqri
The oldtime pins of the toilet, "a pir
makers call all our common pins, hal II
round head, n coil o. the wire OF the pin.
| Young Dr. John ireland Howe said to him
self thnt head ought to be put on that
would not come of in any circumstances;
at the least, the same pin, or better,
might be faster made by some con,rivance
of machinery than by the slow hands OF
paupers. He was not stranger in the
chemical laboratory, or in the mach ne shop.
He had Experimental and had invented but
In line where another man, of a name now
well known, Mr.. Goodyear was ahead Of
him SO DR., Howe gave up 1niia rubber,
and with the versatile enthusiasm of the
born inventor he turned to the little matter
Of the slow made and inconvenently imper
feet pin of common use.
BE IRE long his minis eve saw four little
iron fingers which handed n pnhead to four
other little iron fingers " hiCh were holding
pin wire He set up the requisite mach.
merry in on" OF the downtown streets in
New York citv, now fllcl with Wholesale
commercial houses. He gave the world its
first fat-h'ad pin.
The mex. thing was to look for one Of tho
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wheels OF TINS new manufacture, which he
now ahop'ci aS an aNocation. lie found
the suitab'" pioc' IN Connecticut, where the
dashing NIuyatuCk joins its force to the
larger and longer Owsatonuck or, as the
pale fncfs' caught the name, "Ousatonic.n
ana, 10 MAKE IL stlll longer AMI roughar.
hou"a'olic Ana ON high, stop bank
overlooking the Nautatuck's ancl'ntly wide
channel, there in the village encloSei be-
tween the fork OF the rivers, he built
hpm"!lke, r"omy stonc cottage whore his
on" emu no" llN'S, ana whore the triple
hncR OF h'r grandchildren play in the dense
shaie oi oId tr"'S.
lon, steep Hight OF stone stels rake n
short way from th1s street on the hin down
The hIu1 7" the river vail y, where tranCh
CT the no" narrowed Naugatuck has hecn
arhhcallY encouraged to flow accommodate
lngiy There, close among other great fac
ores, stands the Howe pin shon. Its Office,
the store rooms, machine shops, manu-
featuring rooms and solid new ware
houS" arr all combined in an irregu-
lar ciu'hr OF bHldlnSS, which either al
1oin or are connectei. On small scale and
amid moro practical surroundings, it is
like feudal fortltication; its different
parts have been aidei to each other in the
long Course OF the sh prt years. Among
these structures, the h'ghest building has
on the outside starwa'S. orc o''t IN such
shape a' to p'"''nt tine exact appearance Of
deSert"I church'' belrry tower and veSti.
buIe; appropriately, for hoac5t in iuStry,
pay ani work, work anl pay, is ths re.
lIS'on OF this eStabl'hm mt.
ms Is the tnth'r factory II the pin fac
torie' OF This country; am the most of them
were started by workmen VIII had worked
III this establishment One of tho wcalthiest
manufacturing tamtile, on th, Ma ugaluck
ITS numerous brothers and sisters all en-,
rich,i through ther brass, copp r, AMI
other metallic machines and affiliated by
marriage with muc.i of the wealth ami the
ingenious talent of Derby, all claim decent
from hea workman in the Howe pin fac
tory and machine shop, He was Wal.
lace, Perhaps the most profitable small
/ machine of ALL vet shown hy Tn. I..o,