The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-08-02

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CAPSULE NO. XIX.

TT SOME certain product, whether liquid or otherwise. has actually made a
/ city amous then the man who began its manufacture does n of a right
ought to loom large in he ctys history. He who forged the first Toledo blade
so mperlatfvey we'll that thi Spanish city is ever associated with III weapon
lis naturally ono of he great historical figures of the town. The beginning and
the continued story o hi industry is more interesting than the record of the
ctys mayor BY the same tokens n product which has Ong been known by
the name of the city where it is made, blown in the bottle, deserves dignihed
historical treatment beyond even a record of vars n changing dynastes.
with Newark nov manufacturing some 25 distinct n separate articles of
commerce it's history from this time Oh must be pofusdy peppered sailed
with ccOun of thu beginning of Industries IN their first promoters
Beginnings in things Industrial we're happening with great rapidly along
about this Hme Foundations we're being lat which would later support nam
moth enterprises
AS early al 1883 prizes had been offered to wool-growers by the town Of
hcils for the m@tg good o off their W sheep The W instncuvay felt
that much wooden goods were to be manufactured here's nd wished to see a
much raw material as possible running around within reach.
In 1901 Epaphras Hinsdale started the manufacture of jewery in Newark
MI. Hinsdale gathered to himself n the additional distinction in that he
wa the first to establish a exclusive jewehy factory in America. There are
10 of the in Newark today and their anua product is valued 1T sloOoooo
The seeming miracle which wrought the marvaou advance n increase in the
manufacture of jewelry here in one hundred years vas equally active in man.
other industres-much more SC, in fact, in some of them. The simple fact nay
as merely al Indicator which registers tn general progress in te
dred-odd years which a to follow
stephen Wheeler Cyrus Beach were engaged in the anufacture of
carriages here as early As 1904 IN that yea furnished hi first record Of such
a manufacturing interest in the town
Shortly aferward the first iron foundry ws established, in Washington
street facng the park 1t vas the forerunner of establishments which 10
max in this city products worth 100000 annually.
William Rankin was another fardghtd man who about this time say the
possibilities of Newark. He had been living gin Elizabeth but when the happy
thought struck hin he hurried right overh here's and started hat factory. This
industry was already pretty well established in the Orange. a fact which does
not in the east deuact ron Mr. Rankins exploit or cast the famt@t breath
on the ustre of his place in local history.
1t is customary for n positive thing to have a reason for it's existence
and growth. The strong young industries of Newark we're not exceptions to
this rule. They were bristing With xcuse for being here ad prospering. Lo-
lcation "a the 6rsta n Iforemot Of these reasons. Thu first settlers who came
up the Passaic in their three little boats had chosen well after ALL despite the
meadows Perhaps those sam meadows we're blessings in disguise-they
were well disguised, too; anyone who thought he a fairly familiar with most
blessings might have passed them on the street without recognizing them as
such-to fight and harry city toward greatness.
No people set down in a smiling country where the ham tree bears the year
have a chance to come through when they must fight for even pure air and
water as vas he case in Newark.