The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1900-04-18
FINE MACHINE EXHIBIT.
Johnston Harvester Company to Make
Que at Paris.

Batavia has always been and ever will
be justly proud of its many factories and
especially of its largest one, the Johnston
Harvester company's, the rapid growth
of which promises to make it the largest
concern of its kind in the world. The
work this company is now completing
for its exhibit of the Paris Exposition is
not alone credit to itself and the town
in which it is located, but to the whole
country it represents.
The company's exhibit will be COM
posed of eight machines, las follows: Bon
ME binder, with truck and bundle carri-
er; Continental binder; No. chain
drive mower, with reaper attachment; !;
No. chain-drive mower, with dropper
attachment Mayhower chain-drive
mower; No. Continental reaper, 2S-
tooth Globe rake, and hay tedder. The
wood used in these machines is all selec-
ted stock and includes oak, white ash and
maple, some of which even in the rough
presents neat appearance in the regu-
larity and distinctness Of the grain.
The platform and tool box on the Bon
ME binder is of curly maple, highly pol
ished and trimmed with copper, the top
of the box being surmounted by an en-
graved silver plate, with the company's
name and place of manufacture. The
beauty of this machine will be further
enhanced by handsome engraved cop
per hood. The base color of the metal
parts of this machine, as well as the 9TH
ers, is called lake, and greatly resem-
bles maroon. This work is striped
with gold leaf and decorated with trans
iers in moderate proportion.
The platform of the No. 3 combined
reaper and the Continental reaper are of
natural oak, with tool boxes to match,
polished and trimmed like the Bonnie,
with engraved silver name plates. The
high mirror-like polish this wood has re-
ceived does not surpas the artistic skill
displayed in the arrangements of the dif-
ferent boards. These platforms, unless
carefully scrutinized, appears to be con-
structed of single piece, so neatly and
cleverly is the grain in each board iJined
to that of its neighbors. The woodwork
OF the Maynower is of natural ash, pol
ished and finished like its companions.
In the coloring of the Globe rake an ex.
ception is taken, it being a navy blue, but
otherwise finished the same as the others.
The only wooden parts of this machine
are the thills and whiffletrees.
The nickel parts of the machines have
not yet been completed. All the parts
will be carefully wrapped in tissue paper
and tightly packed in wooden cases to
prevent the least injury during their long
ocean voyage. They will leave America
on or about March 18th and on reaching
Paris each machine will be set up and
placed upon jacks TO facilitate the expla-
nation Of its action. The companys ex-
hibit is numbered 81 ,0l0 and will be To-
Gated on the second floor of the United
States Annex, Palace Of Agriculture. The
company has been very fortunate in Sc
curing space when compared with many
of its competitors. Its location is not as
desirable as one unfamiliar with the
trouble Americans have in securing
space might expect, or as it is entitled to,
but with one or two exceptions it is the
best the building afIol Batavia tN.
" NetUS.