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A steam elevator runs to the highest floor, where are located the machines used in the manufacture of jewelry and watch-cases. The latter is a specialty of' this house and one in which they do a large trade. Numerous automatic machines are here at work, and skilled workmen, each at his special duty, turn out a constaut stream of costly work. Watch chains-some with links like log-chains, and others with meshes so fine as to be almost invisible-rings and pius of all kiuds are made here. Here is the machine for engine- turning, engaged in turning out its beautiful and cor- rect designs. Here is also the repairing department, which employs constantly a force at work. About twenty females are usually employed in burnishing watch cases, and they are very dexterous in their occupation. In the wholesale department are dup- licates of all articles which we have seen, and many which we have not space to mention, but in large quantities are piled np elegant toilet articles, mirrors framed in Royal Dresden china ; ent glass- ware for perfumeries, jewel caskets, square and round, with sides and top of French plate glass, candlesticks and candelabra, fans, vases in metal, etc.
The members of the firm are Herman Duhme and R. H. Galbreath.
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ERKENBRECHER, A.
daily, that is to say, about 600,000 per annum, and when the new building is completed it will rise to from 2900 to 3100 bushels per diem, forming a grand total of nearly 1,000,000 per annum. The improvements in machinery have also been very great of late ycars. Where twenty-one hands were once employed for the production of 2000 pounds of starch, the labor of only three and one-half is now required, and the result is a better and more uniform article at a greatly reduced expense.
The St. Bernard Starch Works are at St. Bernard, a prosperous village on the outskirts of Cincinnati, and the city offices at Nos. 12 and 14 West Second steet. The business was established by Mr. Andrew Erkenbrecher in 1843, and has ever since increased with amazing rapidity. The Works are 325 feet in front by 150 feet in depth, containing floor room of not less than 97,500 square feet. The average of the daily run is 50,000 pounds, or 15,000,000 pounds per annum. But in spite of these facilities of so large a Among other brands the corn starch for food man- ufactured by Mr. Erkenbrecher has won a world-wide reputation as the most nutritious and palatable of all preparations from maize extant. It is incomparably pure, economical, and wholesome, providing the most delicious food for both the healthy and the sick, and production, the reputation of the starch is so high and so widely extended that the demand is always in excess of the supply. A new building adjoining the old is now, however, in course of erection. It will be 125x75 feet, two stories in height, with a floor area of 18,750 square feet; the total of both old and new both children and adults. It adds a peculiar and
ST.BERNARD
STAACH WORKS
ST. BERNARD STARCH WORKS.
will therefore be 116,245 square feet, and when completed the new building will provide further means for turning out an additional fifteen tons daily, or 9,000,000 pounds per annum, the aggregate of the old and new works being thus 24,000,000 pounds per annum. More starch is thus manufactured in less space than in any other factory in the world.
The entire establishment is worked by steam power. Numerous patents have been granted to the proprie- tors by the government of the United States, and also by England, Austria, Germany, France, Rus- sia, and other countries of the old world. The water supply is furnished by five wells, yielding 25.000 barrels a day, of the temperature of 54° Fahrenheit. The consumption of corn for the manu- facture is enormous ; it is now from 1900 to 2100 bushels
delicate flavor to pastry and dessert dishes, such as blanc-mange, ice creams, puddings, custards, pies, etc., etc., is of a quality at once so pleasing to the palate and strengthening to the whole system, that it is alike a necessity and luxury in every household.
The Bon Ton Starch, for the laundry, is another triumph of the St. Bernard Works. It is snow white, odorless, and chemically pure, susceptible of the high- est and most lasting polish, and of greater strength of body than any other brands.
Regnlar agencies have been established at Liver- pool, Glasgow, Havre, Antwerp, Bremen, Hamburg, Stettin, St. Petersburg, the Cape of Good Hope, Rio Janeiro, and other commercial centers, and their business in Europe and' South America as well as the United States, is steadily increasing.
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EVANS, C. B., MANTEL AND GRATE CO.
The C. B. Evans Mantel and Grate Co., located at the N. W. cor. Elm and Pearl streets, are the pioneer manufacturers of Slate Mantels west of the Alle- ghanies. They also manufacture Iron Mantels and fine Parlor Grates, making a specialty, however, of slate work, not only for mantels, but steps, wainscoting and tiling for buildings. No material has ever been used for mantels which combine so many advantages as slate. The following extract, from a contributor to a late number of the Carpenter and Builder, will explain some of its advantages: "I like slate mantels better than marble mantels. I prefer a marbleized slate mantel to a genuine marble mantel. It is of slate as a material for mantels that I propose to speak, and I shall attempt to give adequate reasons for my be- lief that slate is better for the pur- pose than marble. Slate is one of the best materials we have, although its merits are not C.B.EVANS. so thoroughly un- derstood as they deserve. It is a MANTEL& GRATE material that does not warp, it is im- COMPANY. pervious to acids and oils, it can be worked to almost any form that is de- sirable. It is capa- ble of decoration to an extent that very few under- stand, and its dec- oration is entirely C. B. EVANS MANTEL AND GRATE CO. legitimate. It is quite as proper as the painting of | in large pieces." Iron mantels, with a slate finish, and wood work. It is possible, by marbleizing slate, to retaining the enamel, are now made equal to the slate. produce prettier marble than can be got out of a This firm has one of the most skillful marbleizers in the country, Mr. E. S. Chapman, whose reputation for taste and perfect imitation, is well-known through- out the entire country, and this is a sufficient guar- antee that all work coming from their manufactory will be the best of the kind. quarry. The imitation is so good that there is no one who can take two pieces, one of marbleized slate and the other of marble, and, placing them side by side, tell which is marble and which is slate. The only point of difference discernable to the eye, might be that the slate will be the more beautiful of the two. This applies to any and all kinds of marble. Most of our inarbleizers have adhered very closely to the best ex- | Company, who will take pleasure in showing their work, amples of natural marble.
They have been very faithful in this respect. A
marbleized is better than a marble surface for many reasons, but chiefly because it is acid and oil proof. Marble is more subject to injury than slate. In taste- ful decorations marble harmonizes best with white walls. If wood is much desired, it is possible to pro- duce on slate, treated in the general way to which I have referred, very excellent imitations of wood. Walnut and various light colors have been success- fully imitated in a number of instances. It should not be considered that the so called marbleizing pro- cess is only useful in the imitation of marble. Slate can be decorated by painting in oil colors, and after- wards enameled with good effect, rendering the paint- ing more perman- ent than can be done by any other process whatever. If it were desirable to decorate a n an- tel, or the pilaster and jambs of a fire- place with land scapes, birds, flow- ers or fruits, or in any other manner, it could be done upon slate with oil colors, and then enameled, produc- ing a result that would stand for any length of time, and endure all or- dinary usage which it would be likely to receive. For the purpose for which tiles are used, slate posses- ses material advan- tages in the fact that tile are neccs- sarily small, while slate is to be had
The stranger will be amply repaid by a visit to the establishment of the C. B. Evans Mantel and Grate and explaining the process through which it goes to reach perfection.
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FAVORITE STOVE WORKS.
The great representative stove manufactory of Cin- cinnati, owned by W. C. Davis, W. K. Boal, S. Phelps Cheseldine, and R. A. Holden (special), and known all over the United States as the Favorite Stove Works, is located on the square bounded by Third, John, Smith and Webb streets, of which we present here a faithful illustration, affording a good idea of the immense proportions of their works. This com- pany was formed in the year 1848, and by reason of the superior quality, style, and finish of its products, the business rapidly assumed a magnitude of the first importance, necessitating the erection of more con- venient and commodious buildings, as above noted, into which this firm recently moved. That it is a model manufactory in every respect, we propose to demonstrate further along.
The dimensions of the main building are 60x160 feet, of five stories. A spiral stairway leads from the lower floor up through the building to the top. On the roof is an immense water tank, 7 feet in width and depth, extending the whole length of the structure, | Davis & Co. control-one being in the use of cast- into which pow- erful hydraulic pumps are con- stantly forcing water for the use of the Works in various opera- tions, in the molding room, for supplying the engines, etc. On each floor, in close proximity to the central MCFEE & CO.CINO. staircase, is a FAVORITE STOVE WORKS. coil of hose attached to a stand pipe connecting with the city main, so that in the exigency of fire on the premises or in adjoining buildings, this apparatus is always ready for service.
The molding room is of very great capacity, and con- tains one and one-fourth acres, with two cupolas, the larger melting twenty tons of metal per day, while the smaller is used for melting cast steel for stove backs, having a capacity of five tons per day. This mam- moth apartment is admirable and complete in all its arrangement's and appointments, and they plainly indicate the enormous operations of this concern.
On the first floor are the spacious and handsomely furnished offices, where a force of competent corre- spondents and accountants are busily at work record- ing the transactions, and answering the numerous letters daily received from the patrons of this vast establishment. Contiguous to the offices is the ad- vertising room, where are systematically kept all the elegant posters, catalogues, circulars, placards and electrotypes of the house, showing how extensively
this firm advertise their wares throughout the country, and demonstrating their faith in the potency of printers' ink. Their catalogues are gotten up in a style of artistic elegance rarely equaled, with fac- simile illustrations of their celebrated stoves finished in bronze, and clearly showing every ornament, ap- pliance and advantageous feature thereof.
On the third, fourth and fifth floors is carried on the polishing and finishing of stoves, and the pattern work. The erecting rooms are large and convenient. The balance of the building is occupied for sample rooms and storage. In every department there is evidence of perfect system and order, economy in all details, and every requisite facility for conducting the business on a scale of magnitude seldom equaled.
We will now enter upon a brief description of some of the celebrated patterns of stoves made here. All the cook stoves are known by the appropriate brand of " FAVORITE."
These elegant stoves possess all the latest patents and improvements, including several which Messrs. steel fire-backs and movable bed plates to the fire- box. Another is a cross-plate on top of the stove, made in two sec- tions, having a substantial rest in the center, making it much more convenient to remove, and preventing the top of the stove from warping. These stoves are furnished with a copper reservoir or boiler, which is corrugated to prevent denting and to make it stronger and more durable. They also have a cast-iron warming oven. The oven doors are filled with concrete between the outer and inner surfaces, which retains the heat of the oven much longer than the ordinary stove. These doors are also provided with a neat circular damper, by which the heat of the oven can be kept uniform and preventing any burning at the top. They are likewise provided with an automatic oven shelf, for the convenience of dishes being removed from or placed in the oven, opening and closing with the movement of the door. The construction of the front of the stove may be said to be substantially new- the ungainly and unartistically designed fronts of ordinary stoves being replaced with useful and orna- mental attachments, consisting of a combination of parts for toasting bread and broiling meats. When thus used they are closed from sight, preventing the escape of smoke into the room and without affecting
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the draft of the stove-the broiler in the hearth being so arranged as to permit a draft through the coals thus used, keeping them alive and embracing all essentials for this use. A nickel-plated swinging towel rack projects from the rear of the stove, and may be pushed out of sight when not in usc.
These elegant stoves are constructed for wood or coal, have perfect arrangements for draft and all culinary purposes, and their great durability is se- cured by the use of the best materials exposed to the action of the fire. They are exceedingly ornamental in appearance, the knobs being nickel plated and all projections finely finished. It would seem that every pound of metal used in the construction of thesc stoves contributes to produce strength, beauty, and varied utility. They are very compact and complete, and constitute the handsomest of kitchen adorn- ments-a thing of matchless beauty. They are made in various styles and designs, embodying more or less of their new improvements, according to price and the objects for which they are designed.
The "Favorite" cooking stoves are beyond all question the paragon stoves of the world. They stand peerless in point of economy, durability, and conven- ience, and are imitated in all quarters, but never equaled. Upon them can be found every improve- ment common to other stoves, and scores of valuable patented devices used exclusively on "Favorite" stoves. That Messrs. Davis & Co. are determined that their stoves shall continue to "lead all the rest" is evinced by their adoption of all positive improve- ments as soon as projected.
They also manufacture a great variety of heating stoves, furnaces, sugar, lard, washing, and farmers' boilers, all of the best approved designs. One of their latest and most promising inventions is a port- able furnace, being a large heating stove, furnace, and open grate combined, a base burner, for either wood or coal. They also manufacture all their own tin and copper stove furniture. Their business oper- ations extend over a vast and constantly expanding territory in the Middle, Western, Northwestern, and Southern States, and they find cach succeeding season a largely increased demand for the "Favorite." They have general agencies in all the principal cities of the United States.
The " Favorite " Stove Works give employment to three hundred and fifty hands. The capacity of the "Favorite" Stove Works is about seven thousand tons of iron annually. Employing none but the best materials and thoroughly experienced workmen, ex- crcising the utmost care and skill in every detail of manufacture, with the aid of improved machinery and appliances, this enterprising firm finds it practicable to produce the best stoves in the market at minimum cost, which is the great secret of their remarkable success in the industry they have so long intelligently pursued.
To build up this immense business and perfect the manufacture of the " Favorite " stove, has necessarily involved the full resources of a great capital, and the practiced experience resulting from long experience devoted to particular branches of an immense trade. The completion of the design finally adopted for the "Favorite" was not reached until all modern improve- ments had been most diligently examined and all their best features exhausted. During the process, patterns and models were made and re-made until nothing seemed omitted calculated to add to conven- ience, beauty, and utility. The skill of the mechani- cian has been added to the vigor infused by the determination of the capitalist, and the natural result has been scen in another triumph of American inge- nuity and enterprise. Wherever the best cooking, wherever the choicest delicacies of the table are prepared with the most moderate expense in fuel, and the greatest economy in the stove itself, there the "Favorite" is used; and wherever it has once been employed, the capable and intelligent house- wife is content with no other. Its services arc mani- fold, capable, indeed, of such almost indefinite ex- pansion, that it is equally valuable in the mansions of the wealthy and the humbler homes of the poor, who look to the future rather than to the present, as the era at which they must seek a reward for their labors.
The "Favorite" is, in fact, properly named, for it has become a household word in the thousands of American homes, and its reputation as great in Europe as upon this side of the Atlantic. It is the lady's household companion-the indisputable ad- junct of every well-ordered household.
The universal verdict of the housekeepers of America is not open to contradiction. The con- stantly increasing demand for the manufactures of this company, support and strengthen the popular opinion, and the proprietors have no hesitation what- ever in repeating the assertion that for all purposes the "Favorite" is unequaled, without a rival, indeed, in the land.
The illustrated catalogue of the firm, gotten np principally for the information of dealers, is ac- knowledged to be the most complete specimen of art illustration in the stove business, ever pub- lished in the United States; indeed, nothing is left to the imagination, the various styles of the "Favor- ite" are to be seen as perfect almost in the cu- graving, as if they were actually before the eye. A brief description of each stove, including mcasure- ment, style of finish, etc., aecompanies cach engrav- ing. The catalogue is superbly bound, and reflects high credit on the enterprise and spirit of the firm.
The wide celebrity obtained by the firm of Davis & Co. has made the name of Cincinnati familiar wherever good cooking stoves are sought for, or used throughout the length and breadth of the land.
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FAIRBANKS, MORSE & CO.
It is nearly half a century since the invention of the Fairbanks Scales, and the construction of the first instrument for securing that absolute accuracy of weight which has made the "Fairbanks " a household word all over the land. The scales have, indeed, acquired a world-wide celebrity, and are found upon the farm, in the public squares of the towns, in and about the great warehouses, in the rail- way depots, and along the lines, in the stores of the wholesale merchants, and on the counters of the re- tail dealers. Their thorough excellence and universal adaptability is clearly proved by the single fact that during the last four years over 11,000 of them have been purchased for the service of the Govern- ment alone. Within the past five years forty-five new im- provements have been intro- duced into their manufacture, and patented so that the very height of perfection may be said to have been fairly reached. The great business now carried on at 125 Walnut street, in Cincinnati, with branches at Chicago, Louis- ville, Cleveland, St. Paul, Indi- anapolis, and St. Louis, com- menced, as most permanently successful enterprises have done, from small beginnings.
FAIRBANKS
STANDARD
SCALES
FAIRBANKS, MORSE & CO.
eight hundred different modifications of scales have been made, and in the thirty-five years between 1840 and 1875, the number of scales turned ont increased from about 900 in the former year, to 50,000 in the latter, at the close of which their aggregate value at price lists reached the sum of $24,000,000, This ex-
traordinary growth is accounted for by the fact that the Fairbanks' are recognized as the standard scales, not only by the most careful private individuals and corporations, but also by our own Government in the Post-office, War and Treasury Department, and the authorities in Russia, Cuba, Siam, Japan, and other countries. From the Exposition at London, in 1851, to that at Paris in 1878, they have received the highest medals; at Paris, twice as many as any other scales, and a special gold medal at a higher rating than any other, while at the distribution of awards it was the only specimen of the manufacture placed in the Palace of Industry as a trophy of American skill and mechanism. Every scale now sold carries with it a respon- sible guarantee, the best pos- sible safeguard for the inter- ests of the purchaser.
Beginning with the deter- mination that none but the best goods should bear their name, and sternly refusing all temptations to lower the qual- ity of their scales to meet the many calls for cheap or sec- ond-class goods, their great reputation seems well and justly earned and deserved.
Success upon their part de- veloped many imitators, as some of our readers perhaps know to their cost, for the argument of the many imita- tors being to offer a " lower price than Fairbanks"' has perhaps tempted some.
In 1830 all 'the Fairbanks Scales were made and sold in a single wooden building, 60 by 25 feet in size; but ten men and a capital of only $4,600 But Messrs. Fairbanks & Co. owned facilities (in the largest and most complete scale factories in the world) for the production of the best goods at a minimum cost. were employed. There are now ten buildings of brick, covering but little less than four acres of ground, which, with the immense lumber yard, And as their selling prices FAIRBANKS, MORSE & CO. were fairly based upon the tors could not produce as good an article for the same money, and must make a much inferior article when they sell it at lower prices. and the large acreage of stand- ing timber, and a village for the accommodation of a number of the 500 men work- | quality of goods, it naturally followed that competi- ing for the firm, represent an investment of over $2,000,000. In fact, no similar establishment in the world approaches this, either in the variety or extent of its manufactures. The business transacted is
The intrinsic value of inferior articles is sooner or simply enormous. . Since its commencement more than later discovered by the public, and thus generations of manufacturers of that class of goods have passed away, leaving behind them only an unpleasant re- membrance in the minds of those who had " weighed in their balances and found them wanting,"
The demand for their goods from all parts of the world is constantly increasing,
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or less with butter, yeast, milk, sugar, spice, earro- way, carbonate of ammonia, cssences, etc., but all of the operations are conducted in the cleanest manner. Many of these are made light and spongy and almost all are baked with very little browness of color.
The extensive and widely-known eracker manu- factory of Mr. D. Foerster is located at No. 94 West Second street, and is the largest establishment in this business in Cincinnati or the State of Olio. The building has a frontage of about twenty-five The following are some of the principal lines of goods manufactured: Crackers - Lemon, Boston, Cream, Scolloped, Butter, Tea, A Butter, C Butter, XXX Butter, Kenosha, Pearl Oyster, Farina Oyster, Pienic Oyster; Biscuits - Ginger, Orange, Boston, Milk, Graham, Soda; Cracknells, fancy, plain, London fancy, Corn Hill, Nie-nac Crackers, Imperial, Impe- feet, and a depth of over one hundred, and is, ineluding the basement, six stories in height. The house was established in 1855, or nearly a quarter of a century ago. The reputation of the goods of D. Foerster extends to almost every State in the union, and ship- ments are made to the most remote quarters of the country and to the Pacific slope. The manufactory | rial Ornamented, Lady Fingers, Lady Fingers Orna- is the most complete of mented; Jumbles-Arrow Root, Butter, Cream, Orange, Spice; Lemon Snaps, Ginger Snaps, Ginger Nuts, Strawberry Drops, Fancy Assorted Cakes, Ginger Cakes, Cracker Meal; Sugar, plain and faney. its kind in the country. Every portion of the work that ean be done by ma- ehinery is manipulated by the newest devices driven by steam power. The various processes through which the flour passes before being pre- The goods of Foerster's manufacture are reeog- nized as possessing stand- ard excellence. The trade of the house ex- tends over a wide teri- tory, embracing New York, Maryland, Penn- sylvania, Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin, Kentucky, In- diana, Virginia, Missis- as sippi, Michigan, North Carolina, Tennessee, and 94. D. FOERSTER 94 Missouri. sented in the shape of a sweet cracker or biscuit is exceedingly interesting. The cracker, as a flat cake of unleavened bread, is the American representa- tive of a kind of bread used nearly all over the world. The manufacture, carried on at the factory of D. Foerster, is the largest branch of the trade. The flour is first emptied through a hopper It is a fact, however little known it may be, that one of the earliest recog- nitions of the progress of American manufactures FOERSTERS in Europe, was due to American Crackers. They were found to possess qualities impossible of imitation by the most ex- into the mixing troughs, water is thien added, re- volving arms speedily mix the two ingredients, the mixture flows out on a table where iron rollers knead it into a flat layer of dough, cutting stamp- ers descend and eut this D. FOERSTER. layer into biseuits, either circular or hexagonal, the perienced bakers of London, Paris, and Vienna. The biseuits travel along a revolving apron and enter an oven, they advance through the oven very slowly and emerge at the other end hot, brown, and well baked. No hand touches the flour or the dough from first to last. A little bran and a little salt are some- times added to the wheaten flour.
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