Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1893-06-25

a. = - 81 -. sv<t1ss&st
snn1 ppun<1A
h Asus l,,l->laaaed N~tne heek
iune1seo1 Into tbs ernntyy. No. nsn
ps1uo, - -. n pssneh Uovssor
nsnt Nd - eompslied opnis - givs
~ sfx tkenaooA Msrinn sheep a
asvlsah 80 - 49, shesp = = hoaghs
~ DuDpnt ~ G1xSy dellnsA 81 bogaa
% 1tnnninnoe ~ spsslsa chsnaHow
Ltv,neu1on h>awhs ths swu - eruss
wi1h NJ Dn.bouillss sensk wh6sh -
Asd inpostsd-
plastss u ynsis wss introduoed Into
this epnotzy IL i5y7 By Judge nsters,
81 Fhzls1slphia, and Oliver Evans
Rvound g.
Lsasohs. Of Dsltimors. ridiculsd he
seean msnis u Oliver Evsns, Who con-
$1,000 ~ ioupnoetvs In iso4
The tyst sasstaGs built IA ths United
6taoos Wse - 49,. . chariot 100
much lighter ohsa skgcsd. h Nnasar
ehusseeA
The ysar ~ IRA sstabliahsd The
s4esmboAt. lsp5. The Milnn dscree came
out sud Tie bs1tish osasEs In council,
clos1ng the oe1an - car trude, which
thsssspon Developed hwssds. - De
railspsAs hsvs done since ths civil was.
whsa he BritisA and their allies d.
ssroysA car shipping.
Perhaps sune OF the evils which have
followed hum he potent influence Of
the tntse1nr snd its Nd devs1cpmsnt
ere bsing rspsatsd IN or own time
throngh ths AGsnsy Of the Paci9o rail-
road.
Before JsGssuon was out Of ONCE the
giAss WORKS wssc extensive In Pitts-
burgh-
The carbousted mineral wsters. ard
Acinliy made. were introduced into
America In 1871 By Joseph Hswkins-
He soon had . rival. and they made
seltssr. soda, peppermint aid Ballston
wstsrs ~ SIX cents glsAA-
A shot tower one hundred and seven
~ feet high was ON ~ 6ehuylkin. In
1907. The Dirt turnpike was opened to
any extent In thls country In l70S, from
Philsdelphin 20 Laucastes. Our bridges,
thrown BY burr scross the wide rivers.
were particularly noted In Europe, and
several Of them yet stand, - at Trcp-
ton. Harrisl,ur2 aud Brownsville
Large cotton mills were built near
Baltimore and other places in 1908,
when The gin had got in its fine work.
American manufactures exceeded one
hundred and twenty million dollars in
1910, Gallatin reported. The popula-
ton was then somewhat over seven
millions.
Savings banks started in England in
1904. and were In 1910 proposed for
| America.
| In 1918 lowell was commenced, the
great scat Of the cotton factories, and
| partly as result of the war with Eng
land. In 1873 Cincinnati had six thou
sand people and number Of factories.
The Americans sent plates, scythes
and cradles to England in 1915 which
outthreshed those in use there.
Our first steam paper mill went into
use ut Pittsburgh in 1916, and that
year 1--we steamboats, were built on the
western rivers and one on Lake
| Ontario
An impending panic in 1877 called
for more protection and the navigation
act was passed, the president up.
pearcd in Rhode Island native cloth
and the whole legislature of Connccti.
cut was clothed IN domestic fabrics.
The Erie canal was started.
The first rasnufacturers' journal was
started by Prof Silliman in 1918, and
still exista
The Fssnklin institute of Philodel
phis YVES Incorporated In 1924. the first
important society TO promote me-
chanics and Inventions Pittsburgh
in 1875, had seven rolling mills and
nine foundries. The next year Amer
lean machinery was down to fourteen
dollars spindle. The cohoes com
pany was Incorporated ut this time
and jspanned or pateIt leather wa,
mnde at Newark by Seth Borden.