The Portland daily press., 1893-07-17

bly, remain unrivaled."
8. The location of Baltimore in Mary
land Is in much due to the proximity
of iron ore, and iron was made there
as early as 1872.
The furnaces in western Maryland,
about the Antietam, date to 1765, and
furnished many of the earliest iron
workers for Pittsburgh and the west.
In IT'S there were twelve gunsmith
shops in Maryland, of which five were
in FTedericktown and two in Hagers-
town and four in Baltimore and George
town. The gunsmiths existed on the
eastern shore.
The year Washington was born Col.
Spottswood was making iron on the
Rappahannock, the commencement of
the present extensive iron industry in
Virginia; he imported Germans; FORCES
were built about 1757 in the Shenan-
doah valley.
We have been making combs for our
selves here in America since 1891, when
we made 5000 dozens in one place in
Massachusetts,.
! Packet boats began to run from
Pittsburgh to Cincinnati in 1894, once
every four weeks two boats, made bull
let proof, each boat armed with six
cannon. carrying each pound ball.
Robert Fulton patented double in
clined plane for transportation in 1874.
We began calico printing in Provi-
dence during Washington's presidency,
Frenchman starting it, who had mar
ried in that country, and using the de-
vises he knew in Alsace; the cloth to
be printed was imported from Calcutta
The French Dupont came to Whining
ton, Del, about 1901, and commenced
the manufacture of gunpowder, and a
long time ago could make five thousand
pounds a day of sporting powder alone,
and IN all their works forty-fve THOU
sand pounds s
The first fuIl-hlooded Merino buck
imported into this country was Don
Pedro, in 1901. The French govern
ment had just compelled Spain to give
her six Thousand Merino sheep. On
arrival, one of these sheep was bought
by Dupont for sixty dollars, and began
to disseminate his species. Chancellor
Livingston bought the ewes to cross
with his Rau1bouillet stock which he
had imported.
Plaster of paris was introduced into
this country IN 1877 by Judge Peters,
Of Philadelphia, and Oliver Evans
ground it.
Latrobe, of Baltimore, ridiculed the
steam mania of Oliver Evans, who COM
pleted his locomotive in 1904
The first carriage built in the United
States was in 1904, a chariot, made
much lighter than abroad, in Massa-
chusetts.
The year we first established the
steamboat, 1867, the Milan decree came
out and the British orders in council,
closing the ocean to our trade, which
thereupon developed inwards, as the
railroads have done since the civil war,
when the British and their allies de-
stroyed our shipping.
Perhaps some of the evils which have
followed from the potent influence of
the interior and its rapid development
are being repeated in our own time
through the agency of the Pacific rail-
road.
Before Jefferson was out of Office the
glass works were extensive in Pitts
burgh.
The-carbonated mineral waters, arti-
fcially made, were introduced into
America in 1907 by Joseph Hawkins.
He soon had a rival, and they made
seltzer, soda, peppermint and Ballston
waters at six cents glass.
Ashot tower one hundred and seven
ty feet high was on the SchuyIkin, in
1907. The first turnpike was opened to
any extent in this country in t794, from
Philadelphia to Lancaster. Our bridges,
thrown by Burr across the wide rivers,
were particularly noted In Europe, and
several of them yet stand, as atsTren-
ton, Harrisburg and Brownsville.
Large cotton mills were built near
Baltimore and other places in 1908
when the gin had got in it's fine work.
observation-disclosures exceeded one
hundred and twenty million dollars in
1910, Gallatin reported The popula-
ton was then somewhat over seven
millions.
ngs3banks,started in England in
1904, and were in 1910 proposed for
America.
In 1918 Lowell was commenced, the
greatssest of the cotton factories, and
partly as a result of the war with Eng
land. In 1875 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 at Pittsburgh in 1915, and that
year five steamboats, were built on the
western rivers and one on Lake
Ontario.
An impending panic in 1917 called
for reprotec4ipn and the navigation
act was passed, the president ap-
peared in Rhode Island native cloth
and the whole legislature of Connecti-
cut WAS clothed In domestic fabrics.
The Erie canal was started.
The first manufacturers journal was
started by Prof. Silliman in 1918, and
still exists.
The Franklin institute of Philadel-
phia was INCORPORATED in 1924 tba fret