Morning journal and courier., 1888-02-03
ELI wH1rNEY,s RETIREMENr.
He Prefers a Restful Life for His Re. maining Years to the ExactiOns of an ImpOrtant IndugtrV.

He Prefers a Restful Life for Ills Re.
 maining Years to the ExactIOns of an |
 Important Industry.
 Eli Whitney, the president and treasurer of the Whitney Arms company, was asked last evening if the report in New York newspaper yesterday that the plant of the Whitney Arms company had been sold to the Winchester Arms company was true. MT. Whitney said the machinery had been sold and the armory had been leased for term of years to the Winchester company, which will have license to enjoy the benefit of sev- eral patents. "The reasons for making these transactions" said MT. Whitney, ''are that wish to retire from active business aRd have time for rest as age comes on. .", TheNgentle- man was asked if there were better means of transportation from the Winchester com- pany's works than to and from. the Whitney armory as having had an influence ihsselling. He said,. aNo"; the cost of cartagesof ,A ton of coal to either factory would be very little if any different. At the Whitney armory there were advantages of water power; the machinery for the past three years mas been run by water except for month or so, when something was done to the reservoir of the New Haven Water company on hill not far from the Whitney vile dam. The power came from head and fall of 35 feet. It is rumored that the sale and lease mentioned has been hastened by the circumstances that at the Whitney ar- mory there has recently been perfected mag azine gun-the new Whitney repeating rifle -Which good authorities pronounced superior | in a number of points to any other which is < made, and which therefore rendered the Winchester company more desirous of effect | ing the purchase.
 \ Tr ! New Haven, due weight must be given to the great industry st Whitneyville, which for ninety years has employed at different times from one hundred to three hundred and fifty persons, and which has always paid dollar ! for dollar of it's obligations to employees and ! all persons and business concerns in any way ! creditors. During years when other arms manufactories were in failing circumstances such as the Remingtons, the Sharp's rifle \ and Providence Tool company and the ar mory of Lawrence $ Robbins of Windsor, l Nt., the Whitney company never wanted for ! ample means with which to pay every just bill. It was in this arnaory that was first put | in practice the principle of making all the parts of gun with such precision that any one part could be fitted to it's place, thus making all parts interchangeable. The idea
 here worked out has been of great benefit in | all sorts of manufactures where articles are made ln parts. This is the present method | other mechanical productions. This system was the invention of Mr. Eli Whitney, father
 of the present president of the Whitney
 Arms company, whose services to his country by the invention of the gin for cleaning cot
 ton from the seed are we'll known. He took out no patents, but his system of manufac-
 ture has stood the test of century.
 "We have," said Mir. Whitney, ''a maga,
 zine gun, new and fully up to the times. D
 This is the way in which the gentleman
 nodestly spoke of the gun which many pro-
 nounce the best yet produced in the world.
 The Whitney armory was the father of home
 industries in this country. Among it's work
 men have been some of the, most able me-
 chanics of the country, and Mr., Whitney has
 for years been closely attentive to every de-
 tail of 8 work peculiarly liable to require the
 best of judgment and forecast Though the
 retirement of the gentleman from his busi-
 ness activity may excite some surprise, there ! will be many who will approve a course
 likely to lead to the enquiry why he ceased
 so soon from exaeting work-a pleasanter en-
 quiry than why he stayed so long in the
 management of affairs which left no oppor-
 tunity for tranquility in advancing age
 Woman's Board.
 The regular monthly meeting of the wo- mans board of city missions will be held at o'clock this afternoon at the city mission