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Peter Gerlach & Co. are the well-known proprietors of the Cleveland Saw Works, have been in existence since 1854, though the present firm style-composed of P. Gerlach, John Gerlach, and A. Knipper-started in 1871. They manufacture largely at the fac- tory-which is located at corner of Columbus, Winter, and Leonard, with warerooms at 51 Center Street-saws, stave, shook and barrel machinery; are also the patentees and manufacturers of the justly celebrated Champion Stave-sawing Machine. They give constant employment to thirty hands, and do a business of $50,000 annually. The Champion Stave-sawing Machine will cut from 5,000 to 7,000 good staves per diem of ten hours, with eight to t velve-horse power. It will cut every stave of a uniform thick- ness and any width of bolt presented to it, without extra fitting to make it fit the carriage, and we can thoroughly recommend it to those in search of such machine.
Akron Chain Works, Akron, O .- These Works were started at Akron in 1869, by L. Chevrier, formerly of Trenton, N. J., where he manufactured chains for twenty years. The ground now occupied by him covers two acres, mostly covered by buildings, and the works employ constantly 120 hands, producing $120,000 to $130,000 annually. The trade of this establishment is coextensive with our vast country, sending their goods as far east as Maine, and west to San Francisco. The goods made by them vary in size from halter to the largest anchor chains, and the works are by far the largest in the United States. The fuel consumed daily amounts to one ton of coal and three tons of coke.
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ALFRED EYEARS, CLEVELAND, O.
. ALFRED EYEAKS, whose emporium of fashion is 352 (new number) Euclid Avenue. where, with his location on Bank and Superior Streets, he has catered to the wants of his customers for the past sixteen years, started in business in this city in 1859, on a very small scale. We suppose there are few among our home readers who do not know Mr. Eyears personally, or by reputation, as taking the lead amongst our merchant-tailors. He has held for several years past the position as acknowledged chief in the art of clothing gentlemen who desire to be gentlemen in dress as well as in money and manners. He has achieved this distinction simply because he has mixed brains with his work. Where others obtain what are called the "fashions" from abroad, and dress up all their customers according to their interpretation of style, irrespective of personal adaptation, Mr. Eyears often treats them as monitions of something to be avoided, in- stead of exemplars to be followed. He knows well that what becomes one man will not look well on another, and that perfection in dress can only be attained by studying the peculiarities of the individual and making the suit accordingly. In this way the true artist can tone down angularities of appearance, heighten the effects of good looks by judicious contrast, and actually frustrate the designs of the Tempter, by making the man the better for his dress, whereas the serpent designed him to be the worse for it. Hence Mr. Eyears is a leader of fashions, and his styles have always been accepted as models of elegance. The leading people of Cleveland and its surroundings are admitted to be among the best dressed in the United States, which fact is largely due to the efforts of Mr. Eyears during the past sixteen years to elevate the standard of taste in dress. How well he has succeeded may be inferred from the fact that, while he commenced in 1859 in a small way, he now occupies a palatial store, where he gives constant employ- ment to twenty-five workmen, besides cutters, salesmen, etc. All these are employed on first-class work, prominent among which we may note wedding outfits, which are a specialty in the establishment. He uses no inferior article whatever, believing that talent and industry are alike wasted in the effort to make bad shoddy into good clothing. His store is stocked with the finest goods and patterns "the spacious world affords," and could not fail to suit the tastes of the most fastidious, which allows Clevelanders and Ohioans generally to get a suit of clothes not to be surpassed anywhere, in style, workmanship. or finish-a fact we ought to be proud of, for "the apparel oft proclaims the man." To our readers who live away from Cleveland we will only say that, if they have taste for dress, they will do themselves injustice if they do not find time to visit this establishment. Mr. Alfred Eyears is in every respect a gentleman of standing; and should our readers call at his establishment, which sparkles like a diamond, he will, we are sure, take great pleasure in showing them the most tastefully selected stock of goods to be seen. They will also meet a liberal dealer, richly deserving the patronage so liberally bestowed upon his house.
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National Flour Mills, Cleveland, O .-- W. H. and H. A. Harvey, under the firm style of WV. H. Harvey & Sons, are proprietors of these mills. The business was started in 1855 in the mill, which is located at 265 Merin Street, and covers an area of 200x 150 feet, and all railroads running into the city have direct connection by means of side-tracks. Wheat is received by rail and water from any part of the country, and handled direct from cars and boats, without carting. Coal is also received as their wheat is, and put down at the boilers without hauling. In shipping they enjoy the same facilities, which allows them to handle all their goods at the minimum of cost. Fifty to sixty per cent of their goods are put up in sacks. Their mill is furnished with seven run of stones, and has capacity to turn off 500 barrels per diem. Their machinery is propelled by a fine 300-horse-power engine, having 40-inch bore and 36-inch stroke, fed by two 7-flue boilers, and great precaution is taken against fire. Having pipes running from ground-floor to top of building, with hose connections on every floor, a few seconds would give them water supply enough to deluge the building if necessary.
Mr. Middletown, who has charge of the milling department, has been with this house twenty years, and is a practical miller and millwright. The engineer is considered one of the best on the Lakes. In the process of manufacturing the greatest cleanliness is observed. The proprietors, though comparatively young, are wide awake to every essential requirement in all modern improvements that will improve or cheapen pro- duction, and there are few mills in the country that are so well arranged and conducted as the National Mills; of Cleveland, O.
Delaware Fence Company, Delaware, O .- Mr. E. Powell is proprietor of these works, which were started in 1873, and they now turn out eight different patterns (one
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of the best we furnish a cut of), ranging in price from $1.25 to $5 per foot. Nothing can be more beautiful and lasting. That the reader may have an idea of their fast- growing popularity, we have only to say they are being put up all over the country. The works give constant employment to twelve hands, and have a capacity to turn out $50,000 worth of work annually. To those about erecting fences we would say that you will do yourselves injustice if you do not first get estimates and plans from this company.
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SANDUSKY WHEEL COMPANY.
As a truly representative house in this great and growing branch of industry, we quote that of the Sandusky Wheel Company, manufacturers of carriage wood-work, at Sandusky, Ohio. The business was first started in 1860, by Olds, Ocobock & Co., F. T. Barney being the Company and the capitalist. They then only manufactured hubs and bent stock. In 1863 the firm changed to Gregg, Ocobock & Co., the firm of Gregg & Torrey being taken in as partners. In 1865 Mr. Barney bought the interest of Mr. Gregg, changing the firm name to Barney, Ocobock & Torrey, and continued as such till 1867, when the present Company was incorporated, with an authorized capital of $200,000, Mr. F. T. Barney being elected President. In 1869 Mr. Barney disposed of a portion of his interest to John R. Miller, who became Treasurer of the Company. Two years later, the health of Mr. Barney compelling his entire withdrawal from busi- ness, he sold his entire interest to the same party, who then undertook the general management of the business of the Company, in which position he has since continued. Their business continued successful till 1872, when the entire stock and shops were destroyed by fire. In the following Spring the works were again in running order. It is sufficient to say that their history of 1860 has but repeated itself each year, only that every succeeding cycle has witnessed a larger growth, a more wide-spread business con- nection, a more extended patronage, a broadening and deepening of the firm foundation on which the house was first built up, till it has assumed such gigantic shape that one would think it required an Argus to keep watch of the multifarious details, a Briareus to handle them, and a very Pluto himself to find the money wherewith to do the busi- ness. The unexampled success of this Company in the manufacture of carriage wood- work, has followed, as the legitimate result of well-digested plans and sound principles of construction. Discarding alike all foreign precedents and crude American examples, the officers of this Company, by the application of scientific principles, careful observa- tion, and mature judgment, influenced and corrected by practical experience, have brought to perfection a class of work which in material, design, proportion, and details of construction have not been excelled in this or any other country.
That the reader may form an idea of the extent of their business, we have only to say they give constant employment to 200 hands, and use in the manufacture of their goods the following machinery : six spoke lathes, sixteen spoke-finishing machines, four- teen saws, five binding machines, five planers, seven special wheel machines, three - mortises, four turning lathes, six special body machines; the whole being driven by a fine 150-horse power engine fed by three large boilers, they using refuse as fuel. Their present buildings and grounds cover an area of 200 by 400 feet, and the aggregate cf their sales amounts to $200,000 annually. By the strictly legitimate basis upon which their commercial and financial traffic is carried on, the officers of this institution have made a reputation that is truly enviable.
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WICK, RIDGWAY & CO., YOUNGSTOWN, O.
THE above firm, which is composed of Caleb B. Wick, C. D. Arms, M. S. Ridgway, H. K. Wick, R. J. Wick, and Peter Gillen, are the proprietors of the Ridgway Iron Works, which were originally started in 1871 as the Valley Iron Company, and changed to present style in 1873. The buildings cover an area of 110 by 7So feet, and are fur- nished with fourteen engines, two rail trains-one 20 and one 16-inch-one 16-inch butt train, one 16-inch bar mill, one 20-inch muck train, twelve heating furnaces, and all the paraphernalia for transacting their colossal business. Their facilities for transportation are unequaled, being located on the Atlantic and Great Western, Lake Shore and Michigan Southern, Pennsylvania and Painesville, and Youngstown Railroads, and have immediate communication with them all. Their capacity is 42, 000 tons of finished rails annually, and they give constant employment to 450 hands, and sell $2,000,000 worth of product annually. On entering the main mill it presents to the unaccustomed an almost awful spectacle, the upper part of the building being one grand piece of net- work, composed of joistings, machinery, shaftings, water and steam pipes. Their efforts will always be directed to the production of material which will compete with any other in the market in the three great essentials of quality, durability, and prices.
A. STEPHAN & CO., BREWERS, TOLEDO, O.
THIS firm, which is composed of A. Stephan and Adam Ulbrich, was started in 1858, under the firm style of A. Stephan & Co., though Mr. Stephan first commenced the brewing business in 1853. From a small commencement they now have one of the · finest breweries in the city of Toledo, having, in 1873, made a very large addition. Their building now covers an area of 200 feet front on Champlain Street by 100 feet on Bush, and contains all the modern and labor-saving improvements known to the trade, including two patent fermenting cellars of 2,000 barrels capacity. Their storing cellars, for the storage of the product, include two 130 feet, long with a capacity for 2,000 barrels; one 40 by 100, 4,000 barrels capacity; and in the latter are eighteen . immense butts, each holding 2,000 gallons of foaming lager. The ice-house is a fine building, 40 feet front, 100 deep, and 28 high, and in which is stored the ice for cooling beer and the cellars during process of manufacture. They give constant employment to twenty hands, and turn out annually 20,000 barrels of beer, worth $200,000.
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EAST LIVERPOOL.
THE principal branch of manufacturing, at this industrious city, is that of potteries engaged in the manufacture of ironstone China, yellow and Rockingham ware, which is shipped all over the United States. The capital employed is over one and a half mill- ions, giving constant employment to nearly one hundred hands. In all there are five white or ironstone China manufacturers, and eighteen who make a specialty of yellow and Rockingham ware. As a representative house in the white ware manufacturers, we quote that of
Laughlin Bros. The firm is composed of Homer and Shakespeare M. Laughlin, proprietors of the Ohio Valley Pottery, and manufacturers of the best ironstone China. The main building covers an area of two hundred and sixty by thirty feet; a fine two- story brick building, furnished with all the latest and most approved patterns, some of which are of their own especial design, besides the latest and best machinery for turning out expeditiously and well; the kiln-sheds cover an area forty by one hundred and forty feet, placing-houses one hundred and twelve by fifteen feet, glaze-house thirty by thirty feet, clay-houses fifty by twenty-four feet; and the works give constant employment to one hundred and twenty-five hands, who produce annually $150,000 worth of ware. A description of the present process of manufacturing ware, that is in every-day use on our tables, may prove interesting to our readers, who, until reading such description, would hardly credit such tedious handlings before being marketable. . The clay, which comes from Missouri and Pennsylvania, is received in bins directly from the cars. One of these clays, the Glen Allen, is the purest and whitest known, in its natural state; then the plastic-ball clay, from Vineland, Missouri, and a whitewashed kaolin, from Chester County, Penn., are put in vats with water to the consistency of cream, and stirred up with arms, representing the operation of the churn. When thoroughly mixed, these clays, in their liquid state, run together into a mixer, when is added the flint and feld- spar, also blue oxide of cobalt for clarifying; then, by means of a siphon-pump, the liquid is elevated to a box above the sifter, from where it runs through a No. 16 silk bolting-cloth into a large cistern underneath; and, while passing through these fine cloths, all foreign particles are extracted. In the cistern is an agitator, which keeps it in solution ; from where it is pumped into a hydraulic press, which forces all the water through canvas, leaving the clay in the shape of putty. It now passes into a patent wedging-machine, containing thirty-two knives, which thoroughly kneads the clay, and prepares it for the workmen. The buildings are furnished with steam elevators for hoist- ing the clay into the upper stories, where it goes in the presses, and is pressed into the hundreds of different shapes for table and chamber sets; after which, they receive handles, tops, etc., which are stuck on while the clay is in a plastic state. Cups, sau- cers, plates, nappies, wash-bowls, ice-creams, mugs, etc., are jiggered in molds; after which they go to the drying-room; after being dried they are sponged and honed, which gives them a fine smooth face ; then they are thoroughly dried and sent to the green-room,
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where they season. Now the ware is placed into seggars and packed in with glass-sand. The seggars are now arranged in stacks in the bisque-kiln, and fired for sixty-five to sev- unity hours. Next we And the goods in the bisque-warehouse, where they are cleaned and stamped; thence to the dipping-house, where they receive the glaze, by being dipped in a solution resembling whitewash, composed of borax, carbonate of lead, whiting, China, clay, flint, and feldspar ; after which they are placed in a glazed seggar, each piece being separated from the other by. "thimbles," "stilts," "spurs," "saddles," etc. ; then they are fired in the gloss-kiln for about thirty hours; and, after being allowed to thoroughly . cool, they are dressed, assorted into firsts, seconds, and thirds, and become merchant- able. Messrs. Laughlin Brothers have a natural gas-well, which furnishes the boilers in part with heat, also the whole buildings with gas; the entire works are heated by steam, doing away entirely with danger from fire. May we witness the growth of hundreds of such establishments, for they bring wealth and reputation to our State.
C. C. Thompson & Co .- Among the largest Rockingham and yellow-ware manu- facturers are C. C. Thompson & Co., who organized their present business and firm in IS72, though the firm was originally started by Thompson & Herbert as early as 1870. The main building, occupied by them, is a fine three-story brick edifice, furnished with all the latest machinery for cheapening labor and making the best of ware. Among the many articles manufactured in yellow ware are plain, pressed, lipped, and pressed lipped bowls; stove-dishes; nappie-dishes, plain and scalloped; butter-pots, bakers-mugs, pie-plates, milk-pans, soaps, chambers, jelly-cans, pitchers, etc .; and in Rockingham ware, spittoons, tea-pots, pressed and plain pitchers, pie-plates, mugs, snuff-jars, milk- pans, and many of the other articles enumerated in yellow ware. They also make a fine quality of terra - cotta ware hanging-basket, and at all times can be found ready for shipping assorted packages, suitable for the jobbing trade, which they serve; and their trade is as extensive as our country. Their aim is to place before the trade the most complete assortment possible, and leave buyers to select for themselves. The factory turns out fifty thousand dollars' worth of product annually, which, to do, gives con- stant employment to forty hands, among which is the best of skilled labor. These works adjoin the C. & P. R. R. passenger and freight depot, at East Liverpool, having every convenience in shipping and receiving the raw material.
S. & W. Bagot .- Among the oldest houses and most extensive manufacturers of yellow and Rockingham ware in East Liverpool is the firm of S. & W. Bagot, who started the business as far back as 1853, on a very small scale. The success of their business may be inferred from the fact that they now give constant employment to thirty- five hands, and produce annually $30,000 worth of ware, which they ship all over the United States. Their manufactured articles stand deservedly high-their wares being known, and, universal favorites, wherever known. The fact that their own productions are superior, does not, however, lead them to place those of other makers in the back- ground. They are liberal dealers, richly deserving the patronage so liberally bestowed upon their house.
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LA BELLE GLASS COMPANY, BRIDGEPORT, OHIO.
THE above Company was incorporated July, 1872, with a capital, paid in, of $100, 000, and an authorized capital of $200,000. The organization was completed for the purpose of manufacturing fine white flintware. Such great favorites are their productions that they sell their goods all over the United States, Canada, and Cuba. The works originally started in Wheeling, West Virginia, in 1870, on a capital of $11, 500; since that time they have earned nearly all their increase-between $57, 300 and $100, 000-besides paying cash dividends amounting to $8,240. This is, indeed, a good showing, and speaks volumes of so new a company ; and the secret of their success lies in the quality and styles of their productions. They own their own coal banks and manufacture their own molds and boxes; in fact, every thing required in the works is made by them. They give constant employment to 140 hands, and turn out annually $132,000 worth. Among the many sciences and branches of mechanic art, there is none, perhaps, so little understood as the manufacture of table glass. It is a science, because its success- ful management requires a thorough knowledge of the chemical combinations; a me- chanic art, because it requires a kno vledge of all the rules pertaining to those avocations that go so far to adorn our homes. The officers of the above Company are, A. H. Boggs, Manager; E. G. Cate, Secretary ; E. P. Rhodes, President; N. B. Scott, Western Agent; O. S. Boggs, Eastern Agent.
Massillon Excelsior Works, Agricultural Implements, Massillon, O .- These Works, which are owned and operated by Edwin Bayliss, are located at Massillon, Ohio, and the ground on which they are located covers 1,000 feet front by 150 deep. They were originally started in 1864, on a small scale compared with their present proportions, which give constant employment to 150 hands, who are engaged in manufacturing various agricultural implements, prominent among which is the Massillon Harvester, they having this year built 1, 500, which they ship all over the United States, and as far east as Scotland and Sweden. The machine, ready for work, weighs only goo pounds; its drive-wheel is over 312 feet in diameter, with a tire 7 inches broad. The works also turn out the Excelsior Reaper and Mower, Bayliss's Patent Wheel Harrow, Rogers's Patent Iron Cultivator and Shovel Plow combined, the Pioneer Stump-puller, and Lyons's Portable Furnace for Summer cooking. Few firms conducting a business of as large : proportions as this make less display in their transactions or move so rapidly forward. The proprietor at the head of it is progressive and enterprising. He did not consider the achievement of one year as a criterion for the future, but looked upon it as an encouragement to try for greater results. Each year sonie new device has been intro- duced, or a change made in the working of the machinery, which, after years of tests, have given them their present perfection.
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C. AULTMAN & CO., AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS, CANTON, O.
AMONG the largest and most useful manufacturing establishments in Ohio, is C. Aultman & Co., of Canton, who were incorporated in 1865, with a capital stock of $100,000, for the purpose of manufacturing the Buckeye Mower and Reaper and Sweep- stakes Thresher. A private firm, bearing same time, and out of which the present organ- ization grew, was started as early as 1853, on a very small scale. The works now cover twenty acres of ground, and give constant employment to five hundred hands-the amount paid out in salaries alone amounting to $20,000 monthly. The foundry covers an area of seventy-five by two hundred feet, in which is cast sixteen tons of iron daily ----- there being one thousand and forty-five different patterns for castings, used in the various sizes of reapers, and in keeping up the repairs of old ones; and the threshers require between five and six hundred castings for this department. They have a stock of over eight hundred tons of pig iron on hand. The blacksmith shop is furnished with seventeen fires, steam-hammers, dies, punches, trip-hammers, and a steam tire-setter, doing away entirely with the old process of heating. The wood-working department is a perfect wonder of discipline, and covers three hundred and eighty-eight feet front, by sixty feet deep-a fine continuous four-story brick building, the machinery in which is propelled by a fine eighty horse-power engine, they having a separate engine of one hundred and twenty horse-power for the iron department.
More attention has been paid, probably, to the development of machinery for facil- itating and economizing farm labor than any one branch of industry; more particularly is this applicable to reaping and mowing machines. For twenty years past the genius of invention has been tasked to produce a combined mower and reaper; and perfection was finally attained-if such a thing is possible-by the world-renowned "Buckeye." The last invention, which has perfected this machine and outrivaled all others, is a self- rake, which owes its grand success to Mr. Lewis Miller, who is the good genius of the " Buckeye." In his fertile mechanical brain was conceived the plan of a light turn- table rake, to supersede the heavy reel-rake, heretofore used in sweeping the platform of the reaper.
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