The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-07-06

FIRST BELL RUNG IN AMERICA.
try, and at the end of the civil war we
white lead manufacturer of Cincinnati,
Mr.. Goshorn, was the president or di-
rector general of the Philadelphia ex-
hibition.
Umbrellas commenced to be made on
large scale in this country in 1920 by
the Wrights, who are still at it, and
who were four brothers, all from Ok
fordshire, England. For ten years
they made only one hundred umbrel-
las day, and by the time Of the civil
war made three thousand day.
The different shot towers in this
country, such as that in Philadelphia,
were put up as early as 1908 to the
height of one hundred and eighty feet
The genius of the Pennsylvania me-
chanics appeared at Baltimore, where
most of the early ablishments were
of Pennsylvania Introduction, and
many of them are still so. The Eli
colts went from Bucks county and
founded Ellicott City, Md.
They were making cannon in 1914 at
at the Fort Pitt works, Pittsburgh, to
be used by Commodore Perry on Lake
Erie. 1t was many a year. before we
began to make copper and brass out
there, say in 1850, after we had devel-
oped Lake Superior copper.
Old Peter Cooper, whose green cot.
ton umbrella was $50 familiar in New
York, and who left a legacy of graft
tude to the many young men who are
being trained at his schools, was 8
simple smith, who made engines in Bal
timore in the first third of our century,
and here we see his descendants still
showing extended rolling mills, ETC.,
which Cooper and Hewitt control
The Chicopee works, near SPRING
field, Mass, started in 1929, and began
to manufacture cutlery, and here we
have lots of it before our faces sur
rounding everything else; these people
cast the first American statuary, such
as the gates of the capitol at Washing
ton, the statue of Washington in New
York and that of De Witt Clinton in
Greenwood cemetery.
Lie Sy1VduId EdllIOdQ SHOWS the
cars which originally ran on the Cam
den & Amboy railroad, when old Com
modore Vanderbilt met with an acct
dent and got lame for life; Harlan &
Hollingsworth, of Wilmington, Del,
show an exact reproduction of the first
train of cars they put on the Delaware
roads. The Transportation building is
n y,1o Tn houa a axy6,. uaonfir,cr
thank the spirit Of mechanism for the
comfort we have in this day and gen.
GRAFTON, and yet grumble about it.
Here are the exhibits of John Steph-
enson, who began to build cars in
1881, building his first street car in
1882, to run to Harlem; as long ago as
1s4S he moved up to his plain works in
Twenty-sixth street, whence he has
been turning out to every nation on
the globe an endless procession of
street cars.
We began to build locomotives as
early as 1929, and our great factories,
like those OF Baldwin g. Rogers, go
back beyond the present generation.
The magnificent performances of
Roebling in suspension bridge build
ing were all consequent upon his living
in western Pennsylvania, and seeing
the futile attempts made to dam up a
river to pass barges across it. He sus-
pended the aqueducts on wires, and
his family constructed the Niagara
and Brooklyn bridges.
They began to make stoves in Albany,
as they are now doing at many factor
les, in 1872. Cornell's iron works there
was started in 1919.
The bells Of Troy, which have rung
continual psean for seventy years,
were being cast in 1926.
Chickering pianos were made by
plain New Hampshire cabinet maker in
1919.
Oliver Ames began his works in 1888,
and in course Of time made thirty
thousand plows a year, and his sons
made four thousand shovels day or
million and quarter year, which
dug up California, Ding the ramparts of
the civil war, dug out the Comstock
lodes, and dug the railways to the
Pacific. The third generation of Ameses
is now in those works and has pro-
duced governors, etc. Sixty-seven
years ought to be a reasonable time to
have established works.