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

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ussdp SpQrtDon tAooaa.1 tpaA A
white I'D uAnulseeurer of cinsinnati.
Mr.. Goshosa. 49, ne preshasnt Or di-
rector gsn>Esl of ~ PhiIdslpAis az
hsbnkuo
Urphrvllas eourssneed 20 ~ made on
large scale In this county In iS.o by
the Wr4ghtn. Who are still Of L. and
who were -four hspthers. III from On
forvishirs. mgiAnd- For tan pears
they made ouly ons h1sdred umbrol-
Las = day. snd By the tine OF the civil
war msds three sAousand dav.
Ths di0erent shcs sowesu In this
country. such - that In Philadelphia.
were pat up - early ~ isos to the
height Of one hundred and eighty feet.
The genius Of the Pennsylvania me-
ehsnics appeared IT baltimore. where
most Of the early establishments were
Ct Pennsylvania Introduction, and
many Of them are still -. The k,li-
COTS went from Bucks county and
founded Ellicott City. Nd
They were making cannon in 1914 ut
st ths Fort Pitt works. Pittsburgh. 10
be ssed by Commodore Perry on Lake
Erie II was many . year before we
began 20 mako copper and brass out
shere. cay In 1850. after we had devel-
oped Lake SuperiW copper.
Old Peter Cooper. whose green cot
ton umbrella was 20 familiar in New
York. and who left Legacy of graft
sude 70 the many young men who are
being trained 1T his schools, was .
simple smith. who made engines in Bal
timore in the flrst third of our century.
and here we see his descendants still
showing extended rolling mills. etc,
which Cooper and Hewitt control.
The Chicopec works, near Spring
field, Msss-. started in 1880, and began
to manufacture cutlery, and here we
have lots of 10 before our faces sur
rounding everything else; these people
cast the nrst American s4atsAsy. such
~ the gates Of the capitol st Washing
ton, the statue of Warrington In New
York and that Of De Witt Clinton In
Greenwood cemetery.
The rennsylvsnis railroad shows the
earn which originally ran on the Cam
den 4 Amboy railroad. when old Com
modo-c Vanderbilt met with an acci-
dent and got lame for life; Harlan a
Hoilingsworth. of Wilmington. Del.
show an exact reproduction of the first
train Of cars they put On the Delaware
rv,ads- The Transportation building Is
. place tohasc a prayer meeting, and
thank the spirit Of mechanism for the
comfort We have In this day and gen.
cration. and Jet grumblc about IT,
Here are the exhibits Of John Steph-
enson. who began 20 build ears i'm
1881. building his Arst street car In
lisa. 10 run tn Harlem; as long ago as
is$s he moved up 20 his plain works in
Tweuty-sixth street. whence he has
been turning out 20 every nation on
The globe an endless procession of
street cars
We began TO build locomotives az
early A. is.o. and our great factories.
like those Of Baldwin 4 Rogers. go
lack beyond the present generation.
The magnificent performances Of
Roebling In Suspension bridge build
Ing were all consequent upon his living
IN 0est<tH feHb>J .vouSos Suo seeiL2
the futile attempts made 10 dam up n
river 20 pass barvea across L. lie aus
pended the aqucducts on wires. and
his family constructed tho Niagara
aud Brooklyn bridges.
They began Ia make stoves In Albany.
- they ere now doing at many factor
i~~- In isiz. Cornelfs iron works there
was started ia fsiSl
The bells Of Troy. which have rnng
. continual pussn for seventy years,
were being east In fssS.
Chictering pianos were male 10y n
plain New Hsmp~hirs cabinet maker in
1sfo
Oliver Arnss Begin his works In fsss.
End Ia course oe time made thirty
thousand plows year. aud his sons
made four thousnad shcvels OAR OF q
million snd quarter year. which
dug mp California. dug the r.mpsr's q.
the civil var. dug QUE the Comssock
io.ies. and dug III railways W the
Pacific. The third generation of Amese>
IL noe in shos~ works and hss pro-
dUoed Rovevnor~. esr. siBsy-srven
pears oswht sn ~ . sessouabie time "a
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