The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1893-11-16
WORLDS FAIR TROPHIES.

The Mccormick Harvesting Machine Conn |
PAM Awarded Seven Medals and Diplo- !
mas for the Superior Excellence of Their
Binders and Mowers.
CHICAGO, Oct Gath.
At the Worlds Columbian Exposition TO-
day Sc zen medals and seven diplomas were
awarded the Mccormick Harvesting Machine
Company of this city. These honors are In
recognition of the merit of the following
named machines manufactured by the No
Cormck Company: The Machine Of Steel,
BindOchiue, Open Elevator, Mccormick
Simple Knotter, No. Steel Mower, Big 4
SteelMower and the Corn Harvester. These,
the highest awards, are based on the per-
Torrance Of the Mccormick machines be-
fore tho judges In the field, at the regular
field trials of the Exposition, held at Wayne,
Ill, in July last, the machines tested being
those regularly built for the general trade.
It is significant fact that of all the manu-
facturers OF harvesting machinery having
exhibits at the Worlds Fair, the McCor-
mick Company alone complied with the
committee request to show the capabilities
Of their machines In the field. The first
successful reaper was invented by Cyrus
Hall Mccormick in 1881, and from that time
to this the Mccormick machines have had
decided prestige over all others They have
won the grand gold medals and highest
awards at every Worlds Fair, and 1t was
possibly for this reason that sixteen differ
| emit manufacturers Of Binders and Mowers
| did not compete in the field with them.
! Throughout the entire season these sixteen
concerns, in their efforts to have floor
award granted, have done everything posi-
! BILE TO battle the Commission and prevent
1 fair open field exhibit that should test the
WORKING qualities Of the machines. And
| now, after four months fight by the
| makers Of harvesting machines who did not
dare meet Mccormick in the teld-a fight
| in which the United States Commission
voted at every turn that the only way to ex-
| anime machine was by seeing it at work in
the fieM-and after having signed an agree
ment with all the others not to show in the
field, one concern wanted an award so bad
| ly that only two weeks ago 1t went so far as
to get secret permit to pay the expenses
Of new Committee to secretly accompany
their special machines to remote section
Of Colorado, where no other machines could
be shown, and where the crop df there is
any left) must be much lighter, and tho
surface Of the ground firmer, with the evil
dent hope that these conditions would insure
as easy work and as light draft as were
shown by the reg ular Mccormick machines
In the official tests in July, in the very heavy
grain then harvested. The diplomas award
ed the Mccormick machines speak in high
est terms of their efficiency, ease Of hand
ling and extreme light draft. The McCor-
mick No. 4 Mower showed wonderful power
! at work, and a II. cut machine, IN field
averaging three tons to the acre, with a
dynamometer perfectly adjusted by the U.
| s. Custodian of Government Weights and
Measures, drew at work, at an average
draft Of l52 lbs. The judges pronounce TINS
remarkable performance. The McCormicR
Binders, cutting 8 IT. OF heavy oats on up
hill ground, aud carrying bundle carriers
measured by the same standardized dyna
mometer, showed draft as low rs 800 lbs
and none higher than 800 lbs. This wonder
full showing was great revelation to many
distinguished foreigners at the trial, and nj
one present was at a loss TO know why more
machines did not take part in the tests.
ORAToR-"Where else will you find In ONT
spot such products as marble, iron, clay
chalk, copper, lead, slate, glucose, fruits o
all kinds, hemp, fax, and all manner o
grainsr Man in Audence-'ln my boy
| pocket "-Waf.
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