Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1901-06-03
DEERING AT PARIS IN 1900.

The FRmous Chicago GEarvester
Company Received More and
6Srenter EGonors Ellan We're Ever
Before Accorded an American
Exhibitor i'm the Mastery of Ex-
positions.
America may well feel proud Of tho inter
est which her citizens took in the Paris Expo
sition and the elaborate exhibits which were
prepared with consummate skill and DISPLAYED
In manner not eXcelled by any other country,
Those Of Harvesting Machinery in particular
were most complete and interesting. The
Deering Harvester Company, Of Chicago
Americas foremost manufacturer of this line
Of goods, was accorded tho position of honor,
having contributed more to the advancement
of the art of harvesting than any other manu-
facturer, living or dead, and with greater
array Of important inventions to its credit
than any other company in the world.
Visitors to the Exposition were prompt to
accord the Deering exhibits supreme honors,
and it only remained for official mandate to
ratify the popular verdict, which was done in
3 manner as substantial as it was well-merited
Each one of the seven Deering exhibits secured
the highest award in its class.
In addition to four high decorations. the
Deering Harvester Company received twenty
fve awards, or twenty nine in all, as follows:
Decoration of Officer Of tho Legion of Honor.
Decoration of CheYalier of the Legion of
Honor, Two Decorations of Officer of Merite
hgricole, Special Certificate of Honor, Tho
Grand Prize, Six Gold Medals, Six Silver
Medals and Eleven Bronze Medals, including
Deering Collaboration Medals
The Decoration of Legion of Honor was in
stituted by Napoleon Bonaparte when First
Consul in 1902, and is only conferred in reoog-
milton OF distinguished military or civil achieve
ments. 1t is tho highest distinction in tho gifi
of the French Republic.
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honor of but slightly less importance, which
is conferred upon those who have contributed
greatly to the advancement of agriculture.
An Official Certificate of Honor was accord
ed the Deering Retrospective Exhibit, which
showed the improvements in harvesting ma
chinery during tho past century, and excited
the highest praise of the French Government
Officials who had entrusted to the Deering
Harvester Company the preparation of this
most important exhibit By special request
this exhibit has been presented to the National
Museum Of Arts and Sciences at Paris, where
1t has become permanent future of that
world famed institution.
The DoeriDg Twine Exhibit and Corn Har-
vester Exhibit, both of which received the
highest awards, have by request of the French
Government been presented to the National
Agricultural College of France.
There was no field trial either official or
otherwise, in connection with the Paris Expo
sition, but tie most important foreign contest
the past season was hold under the auspices of
the Russian Expert Commission at the Gov
ernmental Farm of Tomsk, Siberia, August
l4th TO 18th. All the leading American and
European machines participated and were
subjected to the most difficult tests by the
Government Agricultural The Expert Com
mission awarded the Deering Harvester Com
pany tho Grand Silver Medal of the Minister
of Agriculture and Domain, which was tho
highest award
The Deering Harvester Works are tho larg-
est Of their kind in the world, covering eighty
five acres and employing 5000 people. They
are equipped with modern automatic ma
chimes, many of which perform the labor Of
from five TO fifteen hands,
This Company is also the largest manufac-
turar of Binder Twine in the world having
been first to produce single-strand binder
twine, such as is in general use today, making
over q third of the product of the entire
world. The output of its factory for single
day would tie band around the earth at the
equator, with several thousand miles to spare.
The annual production would fill freight
train twenty miles long. Made into mat two
feet wide, 1t would reach across the American
Continent from ocean to ocean.
Deering machines are known as LIGHT
DRAFT DEALS consisting OF Binders, Mowers,
Reapers, Corn HarvestorB, Shredders and
Hakes
This Company exhibited at the Paris Exposi-
zion an Automobile Mower, which attract ed
much attention, and exhibitions were given
With one OF these machines in the vicinity ei
paris throughout the season.