The last exposition of Newark industries was held in 1875, and 
 for a series of years previous, beginning with 1872, an annual 
 exhibition of the various processes of manufactures, together with 
 samples of the goods made, had been held ; but in consequence 
 of the depressed times, with varying success. So deep and lasting, 
 however, was the impression then made upon our business men 
 and manufacturers, that a renewed interest in the great and good 
 work accomplished by the Board of Managers has latterly devel- 
 oped itself in an urgent request that the first annual report, that 
 of the Exhibition of 1872, which was exclusively of Newark 
 products and resulted in so marked a success, should be reprinted 
 for general information as showing what Newark alone, has ac- 
 complished. 
 
 In a work of this kind it would be impossible to recount in 
 detail the great advantages which Newark derived from these 
 exhibitions, and the time is not far distant when doubtless they 
 will be revived upon a scale fittingly commensurate with the 
 reputation of a city which stands high among all the cities of the 
 Union for the value of its manufactured products, and second, we 
 believe, in point of diversity. 
 
 A summary of the subsequent exhibitions has been added, and 
 though the institution weathered the rough blast of the panic 
 which broke forth in 1873, it was deemed advisable, in view of 
 the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia in 1876, that no local 
 exposition should be held that year, in order that Newark manu- 
 facturers might be free to prepare for that national event. 
 
 This decision (undoubtedly a wise one) was unfortunate in 
 this, that it diverted the attention of citizens to outside matters 
 when most needed here, and made it difficult to enlist their co- 
 operation so readily as otherwise would have been the case. Ten 
 years have almost passed since the first Exhibition of Newark 
 Industries exclusively, was held, and it is frequently asked, Is 
 it not possible to again astonish the world by an exhibition of 
 such magnitude and novelty as to keep the City of Newark 
 prominently before it as " the Birmingham of America?"
 
 M.J. 
 
 Iqdu^trikl Ejxliibitioq, /^7^j 
 
 REPORT AND CATALOGUE 
 
 FIRST EXHIBITION 
 
 NEWARK INDUSTRIES, 
 
 EXCLUSIVELY. 
 
 BKPRINTED BY SPECIAL BEQUEST. 
 
 NEWARK, N. J. : 
 
 HOLBROOKS' STEAM PRINTERY, 
 11 Mechanic. Street. 
 
 1882 .
 
 OFFICERS. 
 
 PRESIDENT,- - MARCUS L, WARD. 
 
 FIRST VICE PRESIDENT, - THOMAS B.PEDDIE. 
 SECOND VICE PRESIDENT, - LEOPOLD GRAF. 
 THIRD VICE PRESIDENT, - DAVID CAMPBELL. 
 SECRETARY, - ALBERT M. IIOLBROOK. 
 
 TREASURER. - - - ISAAC GASTON. 
 
 MANAGERS. 
 THOMAS B. PEDDIE, JOHN M. PHILLIPS, 
 
 EDGAR FARMER, 
 MARCUS L. WARD, 
 NOAH F. BLANCHARD, 
 LEOPOLD GRAF, 
 THEODORE P. HOWELL, 
 JAMES M. DURAND, 
 DANIEL T. CAMPBELL, 
 WILLIAM JOHNSON, 
 ORSON WILSON, 
 HORACE ALLING, 
 DAVID CAMPBELL, 
 MARTIN R. DENNIS, 
 NICHOLAS J. DEMAREST, 
 WALTER L. STARR, 
 JOSEPH J. MEEKER, 
 WALTER M. CONGER, 
 
 FREDERICK REYNOLD, 
 PHILETUS W. VAIL, 
 FERDINAND B. KUEHNHOLD, 
 OSCAR BARNETT, 
 JOHN T. LEVERICH, 
 SAMUEL LAGOWITZ, 
 JOHN C. JOHNSON, 
 JOHN C. BEARDSLEY, 
 ELI H. REYNOLDS, 
 CHRISTOPHER NUGENT, 
 DAVID M. MEEKER, 
 STEPHEN B. SANDERS, 
 JOHN D. HARRISON, 
 W. FOSTER DODGE, 
 ALBERT M. HOLBROOK, 
 ISAAC GASTON.
 
 COMMITTEES. 
 
 Executive. 
 
 DANIEL T. CAMPBELL, CHRISTOPHER NUGENT, 
 
 JOSEPH J. MEEKER, ELI H. EEYNOLDS, 
 
 NOAH F. BLANCHAKD, JOHN D. HARRISON, 
 
 N. J. DEMAREST, DAVID M. MEEKER, 
 
 JOHN T. LEVERICH, WALTER M. CONGER, 
 
 FERDINAND B. KDEHNHOLD, WILLIAM JOHNSON. 
 
 Finance. 
 
 MARTIN R. DENNIS, HORACE ALLING, 
 
 EDGAR FARMER. 
 
 Build-info. 
 
 JOSEPH J. MEEKER, WILLIAM JOHNSON, 
 
 N. J. DEMAREST. 
 
 Exhibition. 
 
 WILLIAM JOHNSON, FREDERICK REYNOLD, 
 
 W. FOSTER DODGE, JOSEPH J. MEEKER, 
 
 OSCAR BARNETT, SAMUEL LAGOWITZ, 
 
 WALTER L. STARR, WALTER M. CONGER, 
 
 STEPHEN B. SANDERS. 
 
 Machinery and Motive Power. 
 DANIEL T. CAMPBELL, W. FOSTER DODGE, 
 
 JOHN D. HARRISON, ELI H. REYNOLDS. 
 
 Public Speakers. 
 
 JOHN M. PHILLIPS, WILLIAM JOHNSON, 
 
 DAVID M. MEEKER. 
 
 Tickets. 
 
 WALTER M. CONGER, DATID M. MEEKER, 
 
 WILLIAM JOHNSON. 
 
 Printing. 
 
 FREDERICK REYNOLD, W. FOSTER DODGE, 
 
 A. M. HOLBROOK, WILLIAM JOHNSON. 
 
 Music. 
 
 LEOPOLD GRAF, N. J. DEMAREST, 
 FERDINAND B. KUEHNHOLD. 
 
 Auditing Committee. 
 
 WILLIAM JOHNSON, WALTER M. CONGER, 
 
 A. M. HOLBROOK.
 
 The first Exhibition of Newark Industries opened at the Rink, 
 on Washington street, August 20th, 1872, and closed on the llth 
 of October following, having had on exhibition articles of an 
 estimated value of about 6900,000 and been visited by some 
 130,000 people, including many of the most illustrious persons 
 of this country, distinguished persons from abroad, representa- 
 tives of the leading journals, and of almost every state and 
 clime of the world. 
 
 The success which attended the Exhibition was beyond the 
 most sanguine anticipations, when is taken into consideration the 
 fact, that, except in the minds of a few citizens, the great ma- 
 jority of our people had not given the subject particular attention, 
 and were therefore not prepared to assist in or endorse the pro- 
 ject ; and that a large number refused to lend their aid to the 
 development of a grand failure, and also, that many thought 
 Newark would be undertaking too great a task, not considering 
 there was material enough at hand to compete in a favorable de- 
 gree with the Expositions held elsewhere ; the difficulties sur- 
 rounding the efforts of the gentlemen who instituted and carried 
 forward the enterprise, can readily be divined, and the brilliant 
 success in which the Exhibition resulted, was exceedingly grati- 
 fying. 
 
 Notwithstanding the many doubts and fears, and the predictions 
 of a failure, the opening night of the Exhibition with the build- 
 ings barely completed and the goods not fully arranged proved 
 not only an unprecedented success in point of numbers, but 
 showed conclusively that the inception of the enterprise was 
 based on a correct appreciation of public taste, and the success 
 of the Exhibition was at once assured. Not only has the Ex- 
 hibition therefore given the people of Newark a better knowledge 
 of the industries carried on within the city's limits, but the nov- 
 elty of the Exhibition as comprising the products of Newark 
 only, attracted the attention of people in other states, and resi- 
 dents abroad, and has given Newark the distinction, as a manu- 
 facturing city, she has so long merited.
 
 The idea of holding an exhibition of local industries exclusively, 
 though not original with Newark, has never before been suc- 
 cessfully inaugurated in this country, or in fact in any other 
 country. To Newark, N. J., therefore, belongs the credit of 
 starting a new feature in this line, and which may eventually 
 result in directing more attention to local industries throughout 
 the country, than has heretofore been the rule. 
 
 In presenting a report of the transactions of the Exhibition, 
 it is but proper, some information relative to the geographical, 
 manufacturing and commercial advantages of Newark, should be 
 given, also a sketch of the Exhibition, together with the motives 
 which prompted its inauguration, and the benefits likely to be 
 derived from its continuance. Having added hereto the ad- 
 dresses of the esteemed president, Ex-Gov. Ward, and other 
 honored gentlemen, together with copious extracts from the 
 press, from which much will be learned, remarks upon these 
 points will be necessarily brief. 
 
 Is situated upon the Passaic Eiver, but nine miles from the 
 great metropolis of the Nation, with railroad facilities probably 
 unsurpassed by any other city of equal importance, and superior 
 to many larger in population. Newark enjoys the reputation of 
 being a great manufacturing city. Its location is admirably 
 adapted for such purposes, and the time is not far distant when 
 all the unoccupied land in the city's limits will be covered with 
 large factories and houses for workingmen. Five railroads con- 
 nect the city with New York, affording a pleasant and rapid 
 transit by which our manufacturers, who have warerooms in that 
 city, are enabled to reach their places of business, with less 
 inconvenience, and in a much shorter time than people living in 
 the vicinity of Central Park can reach the centre of trade. 
 Newark, therefore, possesses a double attraction for men of busi- 
 ness : affording not only an excellent location for workshops and 
 factories, but eligible sites for dwellings within easy reach of 
 both manufactory and New York city. The facilities for trans- 
 portation are equally good. By the Pennsylvania, New Jersey 
 Central, Erie, Delaware, Lackawanna and Western, and Mid- 
 land roads, freight can be despatched to all sections of the
 
 country. The Passaic River affords water communication with 
 seaport towns, and with the completion of the proposed ship 
 canal, surveys for which have already been made, these facili- 
 ties will be largely augmented. 
 
 The rapid growth of the city during the past few years, has 
 extended jurisdiction over new sections, and the rapid advances 
 making in all directions toward Belleville, Bloomfield, Orange 
 and Clinton must eventually result in their consolidation with 
 Newark, their interests even now being x identical. Harrison 
 township, on the east bank of the Passaic, has received a great 
 impetus from the rapid growth of this city, and manufactories, 
 stores and dwellings are erecting there *in great numbers, while 
 the population is being largely increased. On the south, toward 
 Elizabeth, the advance has been so great that both cities virtu- 
 ally meet, and the improvements ordered by Council, when 
 completed, will render A attractive numerous waste places, which 
 will soon become garden spots, and be eagerly sought after. 
 The meadow lands, lying east and southeast of the city, are 
 coming into market as desirable property, owners beginning to 
 realize at last, that its reclamation is possible. On the west 
 bank of the Hackensack, about three miles from Newark, works 
 are now in course of erection by the Pennsylvania Railroad, of 
 large proportions, and which promise in time to develop a new 
 city between Newark [and New York. On this side of the 
 Passaic, that portion of the city now occupied by the Passaic 
 Chemical Works, New Jersey ' Zinc Works, Newark Steel' 
 Works and the Listers' Agricultural Chemical Works with their 
 contemplated improvements, cannot be overestimated. 
 
 The early settlers of Newark were an industrious, persevering 
 people, and from the first, fostered a love for industrial pursuits 
 which has grown with each succeeding'/generation, uutil^to-day, 
 the city occupies a proud position among the manufacturing 
 cities of the world. The great increase in the manufacturing 
 interests of Newark has been of gradual development, and 
 while our citizens have for a long time been cognizant of the 
 fact, that a great variety of articles were produced in the many 
 workshops which abound in the city, they were unable to form 
 any definite idea of the extent of the manufacturing facilities of 
 the city. A complete record of the number of factories, etc., 
 with the total amount of capital invested in buildings, machinery
 
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 and tools, cost of raw materials which (Miter into consumption, 
 the cost of labor, value of manufactured articles, and the num- 
 ber of hands, male aud female, dependent on the industries of 
 the city for support, is highly desirable, and absolutely neces- 
 sary, to correctly determine the real value of manufactures to 
 the prosperity of the city. This information is given, in part, in 
 the census returns, and though these should be correct, it is 
 evident they are not absolutely so. In the absence therefore of 
 any such data, and believing that a greater interest would attach 
 to the city by its own people, and that within its limits, there 
 was confined a certain amount of material out of which history 
 could be made, and Newark, drawn out of the darkness, into 
 which she had heretofore been thrown, from lying so near the 
 great manufacturing aud commercial city of the country, the 
 subject of an Industrial Exhibition for the display of the pro- 
 ducts of our manufactories, where the producers, no matter what 
 their occupation or condition in life, could all meet upon the 
 same plane, and enter specimens of their handiwork, was con- 
 ceived and from which grew 
 
 IST'S. 
 
 The subject of an Industrial Exhibition is an old one. Years 
 ago it received considerable attention, and was agitated and dis- 
 cussed in various circles, but no one appeared to exactly under- 
 stand how to put the ball in motion. Those who gave the sub- 
 ject careful study, were perfectly satisfied it would prove of 
 great benefit to the city, but the public were skeptical, particu- 
 larly that portion who were principally to be depended upon in 
 getting up the exhibition the manufacturers. There were as 
 many opponents, as friends, to the measure, and although one 
 was instituted in a small degree, it is evident, the former 
 possessed the greatest influence, as the subject was finally 
 dropped. 
 
 In the years which followed, Xewark grew into a large manu- 
 facturing city. Xew industries sprang into existence ; the 
 population of the city increased with great rapidity, and it 
 began to attract attention, not as a city which had worked out
 
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 successfully the problem of life, but as a suburb of New York, 
 dependent solely upon the latter city for the prosperity it en- 
 joyed. To correct this false impression, and give to the city its 
 true position among her sister cities, the project of a Newark 
 Industrial. Exhibition was once more advocated. Last January 
 the proposition was renewed, and the press warmly advocated it, 
 but weeks rolled by without anything definite being accom- 
 plished. A few of our leading manufacturers were found who 
 favored the project, but the great mass of our citizens were 
 either too busy to give it attention, and thought the time had not 
 arrived for such a vast undertaking, or could not see wherein 
 any great benefit could be gained. Men were found who ridi 
 culed the idea, called it Quixotic, and said it had better not be 
 attempted ; others held it aloof because of the risk they be- 
 lieved attended it, and thought it too costly an experiment to 
 indulge in ; in fact, the apathy appeared to be so general among 
 those who were considered as most likely to aid in the enterprise, 
 it was decided to appeal direct to the public. Accordingly a 
 special circular was prepared, by the writer, and sent to numer- 
 ous business men, as follows : 
 
 THE PROPOSED EXHIBITION OF NEWARK INDUSTRIES. 
 
 A meeting of manufacturers and citizens in genera], will be held in Upper 
 Library Hall, on Wednesday evening next, April 3d, at 7 1-2 o'clock, that 
 the subject may be more fully brought before them, and enable all to partici- 
 pate in said Exhibition. 
 
 The more thought is given to it, the greater its proportions assume. When 
 the exalted name of Newark, as a manufacturing city, and the great variety of 
 its manufactures are considered, and the bringing of them together for exhibi- 
 tion, the attractive features would open Newark and its manufactures, not 
 only to merchants and others of New York, but to thousands of strangers 
 from afar who would never think of stopping here. The effect upon every 
 interest of the city would be great; the influx of visitors would circulate 
 money among the people ; the manufacturer would feel its effect, and the fact 
 that the industries of Newark were so extensive as to afford an exhibition of 
 their own. might induce other manufacturers to locate among us. The effects 
 upon real estate, and indeed every department of the city, cannot be esti- 
 mated. 
 
 Ey Will you not endeavor to be present and bring your business friends. 
 
 And also the following call for a public meeting which was 
 inserted in the various newspapers : 
 
 NEWARK INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION. 
 
 The project of a Newark Industrial Exhibition having been announced 
 through the public press, a nie^tinir of mani'facturers and citizens generally 
 will be held in Upper Library Hall. <m Wednesday evening next, April 3d,
 
 12 
 
 at seven and a half o'clock, that (he subject may be more fully brought before 
 them, and all enabled to participate in said Exhibition, either b\- entering 
 goods or taking shares therein. 
 
 HKWKS A I'lm.ui-s, T. B. PKDIUK. 
 
 MKKKEK A HEDDKX, Turn. P. HOWI.M.. 
 
 WATTS. CAMPHKLL & Co.. KIH;AI: FAIIMKI: A: Co., 
 
 CAMPIJKLI.. LANK A- Co., ('MAS. X LOCKWOOD & Co., 
 
 and other-. 
 
 This call drew forth a goodly number of citizens, and the 
 meeting organized with Mayor F. W. KICOKD, President, and a 
 large number of Vice Presidents, comprising some of our must 
 prominent manufacturers. 
 
 The object of the meeting was stated by Mayor IficORD iu a 
 few appropriate remarks, in which, among other things, he said : 
 
 It is with no less interest than pleasure I congratulate you upon this occa- 
 sion, assembled to consider the project of a Newark Industrial Exhibition. 
 It is one of great import to our city and well worthy the earnest attention of 
 every citizen. As 1 understand if. a new departure is to be made, and that 
 this Exhibition is to be exclusively of Newark products. Other expositions 
 throughout the country open their' doors to all who wish to enter their wares 
 for exhibition. Therefore, the greater credit will be achieved if Newark 
 should be successful in this undertaking, and I think it will be. 
 
 A general discussion ensued, the result of which was the adop- 
 tion of a resolution unanimously indorsing the proposition, and 
 the appointment of a committee to solicit subscriptions for shares 
 which had been placed at twenty-five dollars each. The cordial 
 support thus given the undertaking stimulated all to renewed 
 action, and the next meeting was ordered for the following 
 Wednesday evening. 
 
 With unbounded faith in the success of the exhibition, the work 
 was carried forward, and at the meeting of the shareholders, 
 called on Wednesday evening, the 17th of April, it was decided 
 to organize by the election of a Board of Managers, and thus 
 place the movement before the public in a more business-like 
 manner. 
 
 Mayor . W. RicoRD presided, and a Board of Managers 
 were elected. 
 
 The organization by thus assuming definite shape, public feel- 
 ing began to work up to the idea. Men began to speak of the 
 exhibition as a fixed fact. This favorable change in sentiment 
 was encouraging. 
 
 At the meeting of the Board of Managers, on the 20th of April, 
 permanent officers were elected. 
 
 The organization being complete, the Hoard went immediately
 
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 to work, and the subject was urged upon the people. It would 
 be useless in recount the experiences of each in this work. After 
 weeks df effort, and the subject becoming better understood each 
 day. it soon became apparent that the Rink building, which had 
 been engaged for the exhibition, would be entirely too small for 
 the purpose. It was at once proposed to erect additional build- 
 ings on the north and south side of the main building, but an 
 apparently insurmountable obstacle was in the way sufficient 
 funds for the purpose. The large amount necessary to put up 
 these new additions exceeded threefold the sum in the treasury. 
 The success of the exhibition, in a pecuniary sense, was still a 
 matter of mere conjecture. The Board of Managers, however, 
 had great faith in the people. They believed if the right kind of 
 an exhibition was gotten up. the people would patronize and sus- 
 tain the enterprise. Among those sharing largely in this feeling 
 was Mr. JOSEPH .1. MEEKER, of the firm of Meeker & Hedden. 
 who. when the subject of erecting additional buildings was con- 
 sidered, with commendable spirit volunteered to put them up 
 and accept the risk of payment at the end of the exhibition. By 
 this magnanimity on their part one great obstacle was removed, 
 and with remarkable energy the buildings were soon completed. 
 It having been decided to open the Exhibition on the night of 
 the 20th of August, for weeks prior to that time the duties of the 
 officers and of the several committees were greatly increased. As 
 the day of opening arrived, it was thought doubtful if the formal 
 opening could really take place on the evening announced, owing 
 to the tardiness of exhibitors. That the public might not be 
 disappointed, it was decided to adhere to the original pro- 
 gramme as made out, and accordingly, on August 2()th, 1*72, 
 
 THE FIRST NEWARK INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION 
 
 was inaugurated. At the hour appointed for the opening exer- 
 cises the halls were crowded with visitors, and though the 
 exhibitors had only partially arranged their goods, the appear- 
 ance of the different departments were such as to call forth ex- 
 clamations of surprise and gratification from all. At 8 o'clock, 
 tin- opening exercises were begun bv Reinhard's band, followed 
 with prayer by Rev. Dr. BRIXSMADE. 
 
 Hon. MARITS L. WARD, President of the Association, then 
 delivered the following address :
 
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 LADIES AND GENTLEMEN : On tin- part of the Managers ( ,f this Exhibi- 
 tion of inaiiufactiirinir skill, the business enterprise and the varied ;n-ts of our 
 city, I congratalate TOU OB th<- opening of tliis novel undertaking. While 
 exhibitions of this character are not new. yet they have never before, in this 
 country, been confined to the manufactures c;f a single city, but have in- 
 creased their attractions by adding the productions of other places. The 
 dty in which we Hve is emphatically a manufacturing one. Its growth, its 
 prosperity, its wealth are inseparably connected with these mechanic art;; 
 which are here developed in a thousand forms of beauty anil taste. 
 
 From its settlement our people have made this department their Held of 
 enterprise. And encouraged by the addition of intelligent and artistic labor 
 which lias come to us from other sections, and even from foreign lands, the 
 value and variety of our productions have increased until to-day no city in 
 the Union can. in this respect, compare with us. I am satisfied that even 
 those among us, who have been most familiar with our manufactures, will be 
 astonished at the variety and beauty of this exhibition. It is stated that there 
 are over three hundred different branches of manufactures carried on in this 
 city. And it is not too much to say that in all this varied list we stand in the 
 front rank. 
 
 Even now we have grown out of all 'dependence upon a single market, 
 which is the bane of manufacturing success, and it is a matter of proper con- 
 gratulation that the products of our manufactories are scattered in every 
 quarter of our country, and find in many instances a profitable market 
 abroad. Neither will it be found that we are wanting in that high culture 
 which produces t works of art of the highest order of merit, and we point with 
 pride to these evidences as proof that the streets which are trodden by honest 
 labor are not unfavorable to the spirit which warms, and the pencil which 
 traces upon canvas forms of enduring life and beauty. Nor are we wanting 
 in the higher elements of inventive art, and we should be unfaithful to our 
 duty on an occasion like this if we failed to give fitting honor to the name of 
 SETH BOYDKN and others, who have given to us new industries by the 
 genius which creates and the skill which adapts. 
 
 The general pursuit of the the mechanic arts has been favored by the ori- 
 ginal founding, the admirable location, and the special advantages of our city. 
 Its broad avenues, its small but beautiful parks, its valuable water communi- 
 cations, its proximity to the great .centre of trade and commerce, have drawn 
 to it those elements of prosperity and wealth of which we justly boast. From 
 its earliest settlement its manufacturers, merchants and artisans have been 
 men of intelligence and integrity. The institutions they formed partook of 
 their sterling character. 
 
 Our Banks, our Insurance Companies, all our institutions have been suc- 
 cessful because they were in the hands of men educated in the rules of busi- 
 ness, honor and integrity. Our churches, our public schools, our asylums. 
 are noble evidences that our material wealth is lavished with liberal hands for 
 the cause of our common humanity. And we may congratulate ourselves as 
 well upon our more recent acquisitions of population, as upon those who 
 founded our city and their descendants. In every respict we have been a 
 fa voied community, growing in material wealth.' not forgetting the higher 
 aims and purer purposes which secure intellectual culture and moral excel- 
 lence. 
 
 It has been said that Newark is one great workshop, and it is in a measure 
 true. Everywhere are costly structures, expensive machiin-ry. and all the 
 arts and appliances by which capital, genius and skill convert the rough ma- 
 terial into the finished and elegant product. Nothing has been left undone to 
 make its manufacturing establishments complete in their requirements, and to 
 this, in a great degree, may be attributed our success. 
 
 It is not thought sulficient to produce an article that will sell, but it must 
 be such as will establish reputation and secure incivased business. And the 
 manufacturer entering upon his labors in this spirit, is efficiently aided by 
 that great body of skillful mechanics and artisans with which our city 
 abounds, who with intelligent and manly purpose, are aiming at something 
 beyond ttinperary support. F.ducated in the schools of art they have learned 
 that the combination of skillful and intelligent labor with capital forms that 
 natural union which secures success looking forward to the time when they
 
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 will take thei: place at the head of establishments where their years of labor 
 have been spent, and confident in their skill, they have the' manliness to 
 maintain their rights and the justice to fulfill all their obligations. As our 
 threat prosperity has been reached through the progress and success of our 
 manufacturers, it behooves us all to seek the further and fuller development 
 of those interests. 
 
 It should be our first pride that this city " stand* at the head, in proportion 
 to its population, of the gieat centres of manufacturing skill and energy. It 
 should be our effort to draw hither from every quarter new industries, thus 
 increasing our growth and resources, and adding to the advantages of the 
 city. 
 
 The young, struggling manufacturer, with little capital except capacity, in- 
 dustry 'and honesty, should be aided and encouraged in his "efforts. Out of 
 this cla.-s have sprung the strong men who stand to-day at the head'of our 
 great industries. And beyond this we have the right to demand that the 
 Government shall do all which it consistently can do to build up and 
 strengthen our trreat interests which affect alike the welfare of capital and 
 laborV 
 
 Belying first upon our own efforts, our industry and skill, we claim that our 
 great interests should be considered, favored and aided, whenever they come 
 in competition with other and foreign productions. Belying upon this, our 
 manufacturers, mechanics and laborers are here to-day with the evidences of 
 their skill and the results of their labors. No exhibition has ever raised 'so 
 just a pride in our city, and we may truly exult at the evidence it affords of 
 our surpassing triumph in the mechanic arts. 
 
 I feel the deepest interest in the success of this exhibition. It should enlist 
 the cordial sympathies of all classes of our people. There is not a public in- 
 stitution nor private citizen in our midst whose interests are not affected by 
 the success of our industries. All are bound together, in a city like ours, by 
 those common ties which in their success or failure raise or depress a commu- 
 nity. Here, then, we hope to see gathered our own citizens to witness what 
 our own manufacturers have accomplished in these beautiful products of skill 
 and taste. And from all quarters \ve shall be glad to welcome those who will 
 find this a good opportunity to form or renew their acquaintance with Newark 
 manufacturers. They can compare our articles with others, and in this 
 respect we challenge examination and scrutiny. 
 
 So we commit this experiment to the public may its favor strengthen the 
 hands of those who originally designed it. and give renewed and continued 
 prosperity to our mechanic arts. 
 
 After the music of the baud, Gen. THEODORE RuNYON was 
 introduced, and delivered the following oration : 
 
 (iKNTLKMKX AND L.VDiKs : The industries of a people are their best and 
 most valuable possessions. Whatever may lie the natural resources of a 
 country, though its hills be filled with shining ores, and its sands glitter with 
 precious stones, and its plains and valleys spontaneously supply all that 
 human wants require, yet. valuable as are these possessions, they are not to 
 be compared in worth with that intelligent self-denying toil a'nd industry 
 which of themselves create wealth, and which of themselves can make a 
 people great. The iron resting in its bed in the mountains is valuable only 
 according to its capabilities in the hands of wonder-working mechanical skill, 
 under whose transforming power the dull clod becomes the ponderous engine 
 rushing with the speed of the tempest over the land, or breas'.ing the billows 
 on the erands of comnier, e. or the slender thread bvjwhose wondrous agency 
 the far-off nations hold converse with each other as friend with friend. 
 
 Especially is it true that our industries are our best possessions in this 
 country, whose development is the order of the day, and will continue to be 
 so for many a year to come, and where the workingman is also the citizen. 
 with a voice in the management of the affairs of the government equal to that 
 of the wealthiest capitalist or the greatest landholder; and where the road, 
 not only to opulence, but also to whatever influence and position his merits 
 may entitle him, lies open before him: and where the success of the
 
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 employer is not, as it is in other countries, wrought out by the distress* of his 
 operatives. Here, the capitalist of to-day was the workman of ycsterdav. 
 who worked out by his own industry and ability the fortune he enjoys. Nay. 
 in this very city, a'nd here around me are men, not a few. who have attained 
 to affluence by the well-directed labor of others, whose cordial esteem they 
 have gained in the relation of employer and workman, and whose success in 
 life in any of their undertakings is half secured by the good will of the hun- 
 dreds, and perhaps thousands, who have been in their employ and remember 
 their fair, just and considerate dealing toward their workmen, and are triad of 
 an opportunity to show their appreciation of it. 
 
 Nor are the beneficent effects of a popular industry confined to the de- 
 velopment of physical resources. It cultivates and ennobles the people 
 themselves, for industry is the handmaid of virtue, and a busy people are 
 necessarily a moral people. The activities of business require for their 
 healthy growth an atmosphere of law and order, and those social conditions 
 which most promote our highest physical and moral culture are indisputably 
 the very best and most advantageous for the employment of those activities. 
 For example : The recognition and prompt enforcement of the rights of the 
 person and of property lie at the foundation of enlightened society, and these 
 are absolutely necessary to the welfare of industrial interests.' Whatever 
 condition of society, therefore, is best for the people in a philosophical and 
 religious point of view is that which is most conducive lo the advancement 
 of those interests ; and when the time shall come when peace and fraternity 
 shall reign throughout the whole earth the great consummation to which the 
 prayers and labors of the Christian world are directed, and for which man- 
 kind at large is earnestly longing the weapons of strife will have wholly 
 given place to the implements of labor. 
 
 If such be the effects and concomitants, and such the destiny of popular 
 industry, it follows that true statesmanship will protect and foster those in- 
 terests, securing to the people, through the care of the Government, tin- 
 means of honorable support by the exercise of their own energies, and to the 
 country the means of national wealth, strength and permanence. Whatever 
 theories political economists may advance and advocate on the subject, the 
 people never fail to regard it as one of the chief duties and purposes of govern- 
 ment to secure to them all reasonable protection in their trade and business 
 interests. And as the design and result of such attention on the part of gov- 
 ernment is to secure to the artisan higher compensation for his labor and 
 skill, it follows that it necessarily attaches the people to their governm -nt. 
 and binds their affections to their institutions-. 
 
 For. comparison of their happier lot with that of those similarly situated in 
 other lands, the contrast of their bright future with tin- dark and dismal 
 hopelessness of the operative in other countries, to whom the future holds 
 out no promise of a competence, nor even of relief from ill-paid toil, not only 
 makes our workman satisfied with the government under which he lives, 
 hut binds him to it by the strong cord of self-interest. Not so. however, 
 with the ill-paid workman. He is. to say the least of it. an uneasy citi/en. 
 He is a discontented citizen. He may be a troublesome citi/.en. He cannot 
 long retain respect for institutions under which, with his best effort.-, his wife 
 
 and children staive before his eves. He cannot long endure a gover ent 
 
 which condemns him and his to a hopeless servitude. 
 
 The fact that the workman of to-day, so to speak, may be the capitalist 
 and employer ..f to-morrow that he who receives wages to-day may be the 
 dispenser of wages to-morrow that the workman of our country is no labor- 
 er in the sense in which the term is used elsewhere as indicating a permanent 
 condition in life, but is a citizen politically in all things equal to any. asking 
 nothing of charity or pity, but only that 'which i* his right, and which it is 
 to the public advantage to concede, invests our industrial interests with an 
 importance and dignity which thos;- of no other country can claim. 
 
 The deep interest which the enthusiastic Newarker takes in his city and all 
 that concerns it. is often a subject of pleasant remark. As the Apostle Paul. 
 when speaking of his native city, could not retrain from asserting its claims 
 to consideration as being " no mean city." so the average Xewarker feels con- 
 strained to make honorable mention of his citv whenever opportunity fairlv 
 presents itself. He pel mils no man to disparage it. He defends it from at-
 
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 tack with indomitable pertinacity. He eulogizes it in glowing description of 
 the magnificent^ dimensions of its principal highway, and of its beautiful 
 parks, with their overarching elms, descants eloquently upon its growth in 
 population, by no means forgetting to mention the fact that since 1820 it has 
 aliiiost doubled its population during every decade. He presents its unparal- 
 leled advantages of intercourse with the great metropolis, its four railroads in 
 being, with their one hundred and seventy trains a day between that city and 
 this, and those other railroads which are in course of construction, and are 
 sure soon to be ; the wisdom, prudence and honesty which characterize the 
 management of our municipal affairs in every department ; the lightness of 
 our burden of taxation compared with that of other cities of equal or even of 
 far less population, and the love of law and morality for which we have al- 
 ways been distinguished, and which has come down to us as a legacy from 
 Puritan ancestors. 
 
 If compelled to admit its inferiority to any other given place, notwithstand- 
 ing all these manifest and undeniable advantages, he falls back, as well he 
 may, upon its manufacturers, and overwhelms his antagonist with a 
 shower of statistics, demonstrating that for number and variety, quantity 
 and quality of manufactures, Newark bears honorable comparison with the 
 very greatest cities of the country, and by far outstrips any of its size in 
 the land. 
 
 This honest pride in the productions of their skill has always been the 
 boast of our citizens, and there has never been a day in all its history when 
 Newark was not distinguished throughout the whole country for excellence 
 in one or more manufactures 
 
 At one time it was distinguished for the manufacture of shoes, at another 
 for hats, at another for carriages, at another for leather and iron, and at 
 length it came to be celebrated, as it is to-day, for the amount and variety of 
 its fabrics. 
 
 In all her history Newark has sought and been emulous of eminence in this 
 direction, and she has been more proud of her mechanics than of any of her 
 natural or acquired advantages, as is witnessed by the honor in which she 
 holds the names and memory of those who laid the foundation of her manu- 
 facturing interests. She has had many citizens, statesmen, orators and di- 
 vines of whom she is proud, and whose fame is dear to her; but of all her 
 distinguished sons is there any who stands higher in her estimation, or any 
 whose memory she more delights to honor than SETH BOYDEN, the ma- 
 chinist f 
 
 She has identified herself with the manufacturing interests of the country so 
 thoroughly that to-day she stands a true representative of those interests. 
 Her very seal, the emblem of her municipality, chosen and devised thirty-six 
 years ago, when her population was less than 20,000, bears as its crest the 
 sinewy arm of the artisan wielding the implement of useful labor; the true 
 and tit emblem of a city, then, as now, the busy workshop of the useful arts, 
 and then, as now, pursuing prosperity by no devious ways, but along the 
 rugged road of honest toil, daily adding to the wealth of the country at large 
 by the products of her skillful industry. Depending for the increase of her 
 population and her advancement, not on accessions from those who, identified 
 with our great neighboring city, seek a suburban home, but on the hundreds 
 and thousands who are attracted hither from the country and from foreign 
 lands by the opportunities for remunerative employment in the mechanic arts 
 which are here afforded, Newark properly regards her manufacturing interests 
 as the source of her greatest prosperity. 
 
 A brief history of some of our principal manufactures may not be out of 
 place. The first manufacturing business carried on here was that of tanning 
 and currying and shoemaking, which was commenced in the early settlement 
 of the place, and carried on by SAMUEL PLUM, and after him by 'others, who 
 obtained the right to use the water of the stream in the "swamp "for the 
 purposes of the business. After them ISRAEL and SAMUEL CURRY and 
 ABIAL CAMPFIELD and his son DAVID continued the business. They were 
 succeeded by MOSES N. COMBS, still remembered by some of our oldest citi- 
 zens as a " 'little black eyed man," who was one of the best and most useful 
 citizens Newark ever had. He introduced night-schools, to the great advan- 
 tage of the apprentice boys. He preached sometimes, although lie belonged
 
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 to no sect. He was a stern utilitarian, and was so thoroughly practical that 
 he refused to have buttons on the back of his coat because they were of 
 ne use. Under his management and in his time the shoe business so increased 
 that the town became famous for the amount and quality of this manufacture. 
 Indeed, it is said that at that period almost everybody in the town who did 
 any work was engaged in shoemaking in some way or other. After him 
 came the firm of HALSEY & UTTER with their large business, and this brings 
 us down to a comparatively recent date. 
 
 Here it is worthy to remark that in the earlier days " the Old Bank," as 
 we call it, was established in aid of our manufactures. Its capital was hardly 
 adequate to the demands of the business of the town, but did well and judi- 
 ciously all it could for the public interest. It is said that when it could not 
 consistently with the demand for discounts made upon it, discount the whole 
 of a note, it would discount half of it on one discount day and the balance the 
 next ; sometimes thus dividing a note of as small an amount as two hundred 
 dollars. The rest of the capital necessary for the business of the town was 
 furnished by the Bergen county farmers on loans on bond and mortgage, and 
 when the rate of interest was at one time lowered from seven to six percent , 
 these lenders called in their loans, to the great consternation of the manufac- 
 turers, who saw ruin staring them in the face. The Old Bank and the State 
 Bank, it is said, stepped -in, however, and relieved the people from their em- 
 
 icnt. 
 
 The carriage making business was in the beginning confined to the manu- 
 facture by EGBERT B. CAMPFIELD of stages for Gen. Cummings, then a great 
 mail contractor. But Gen. Gumming, who was a Democrat, very reprehen- 
 sibly, as I think, carried his politics into his business, and refused to patronize 
 Mr. Campfield, because he was a Federalist. This drove the latter to New 
 York for a market. He found it there, and so laid the foundation of that 
 great business among us. Afterward he associated his son-in-law, Mr. JOHN 
 C. HEDKNBERG, in business with him. Their work attained to such celebrity 
 that state carriages, costing $3,000 a piece (a large sum in those days) for 
 Santa Anna, of Mexico, and Gen. Tacon, then Captain-General of Cuba, which 
 had been ordered in New York, were made by them under the superinten- 
 dence of JOHN CLARK, one of a firm of carriage manufacturers which, about 
 1817, had established itself in business near the bridge. 
 
 In lace weaving, ANDREW KAY was the pioneer among us, and JOSEPH 
 STEWART began the business of silver-plating in Newark. 
 
 The manufacture of jewelry was commenced here by EPAPHRAS HINSDALE, 
 whose work became very celebrated. About the year 1813 lie associated with 
 him JOHN TAYLOR, and they conducted the business under the firm of Hins- 
 dale & Taylor. DOWNING & PHELPS were their cotemporaries in the 
 business, as were CARRINGTON and BALDWIN. Subsequently Taylor and 
 Baldwin established the great business which by many is regarded as the 
 foundation of the jewelry trade in this city. 
 
 To KANKIN & DURYEK belongs the credit of originating in Newark the 
 business of manufacturing hats for outside markets. 
 
 In the clothing business CHICHESTER & Co. and C. AixiNG & Co. are 
 entitled to a like place. 
 
 The manufacture of varnish for general sale was commenced by SAMUEL P. 
 SMITH. 
 
 The malleable iron business owes its origin to SETH BOYDEN, and the trunk 
 business was commenced in Newark about 1805 by JOHN HEDDEN, PRUDEN 
 ALLING being interested with him in it. He was succeeded bv RALPH 
 MORGAN about 1825. Subsequently PETER JACOBUS and RICHARD M. 
 CRANE engaged somewhat extensively in the manufacture, but it wan re- 
 served for the enterprise of the men now among us to bring the business to 
 the present great proportions. 
 
 Of the variety and extent of our manufactures but few persons up to this 
 time have had any adequate conception, and even many of our own citizens 
 will be surprised at the display here made of specimens of important manu- 
 factures hitherto unknown to them as products of Newark industry. 
 
 The occasion which assembles us together is not only a novelty in the his- 
 tory of our city, but is, it is believed, without parallel in the history of the 
 country or the world. Industrial expositions are no new thing, indeed. In
 
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 one shape or another they are of annual occurrence. But an industrial exhi- 
 bition hy which a city of the size of ours undertakes to interest not only its 
 neighbors, but its own citizens also, by a specimen of the productions of its 
 own industry alone is indeed a novelty. Ordinarily for such expositions the 
 whole country is laid under contribution, and samples of manufactures are 
 solicited from every quarter ; none are turned away,, but all are welcome. 
 Here, however, the field is especially limited to our own city, and admission 
 denied to all save the work of our own hands. The wonder is that this initial 
 enterprise, the very first of its peculiar kind, should have been so great a 
 success ; that this immense building, which it was at first supposed would be 
 quite ample for the purpose, should so soon have proved inadequate. 
 
 It would not have been surprising if it had taken years to educate our people 
 up to the appreciation of the merits and advantages of such an enterprise as 
 this ; nor would it have been surprising if, instead of this great display, evinc- 
 ing the interest of our manufacturers in the undertaking, and showing to the 
 country not only what Newark can do, but what Newark is doing daily in the 
 useful arts, this year's exposition had been but a meagre exhibit of our manu- 
 factures. The plan was a bold one, but it was based on a knowledge of the 
 field and the fullest confidence in the intelligence and enterprise of our manu- 
 facturers. 
 
 The object of such exhibitions is, ordinarily, mainly to call the attention of 
 the community at large to the success which has been achieved in industrial 
 pursuits, to the end that due importance may be conceded to them in legisla- 
 lation as well as in commerce. These expositions are not mere displays with 
 no other object than to please idle and curious eyes. If they were they would 
 deserve but little attention, and would receive but little public favor. They 
 are for more than this. They have a commercial aspect, and serve a valuable 
 and important commercial purpose. It is safe to say that no dealer will go 
 abroad for an article which he can get at as low a price and of as good a 
 quality at home. But to secure discrimination in favor of the productions of 
 domestic labor, the dealer must be made acquainted with their merits and 
 must know where to find them. It is the business of the producer to give 
 him this information. Not one who visits this exhibition but will go away 
 from it with more elevated views of the importance of our city and its peculiar 
 interests. Many will here receive their first impressions of the peculiar skill 
 of our manufacturers, and many, drawn here by self interest, will be induced 
 by what is here exhibited to discriminate in favor of our manufactures. By 
 this exhibition we vindicate our claim to excellence. It is the offspring of 
 Newark pride in the achievements of Newark manufacturers. It is the result 
 of a determination to let the country at large know how great are our facili- 
 ties, what a workshop we are, and what a people of skilled artisans our 
 population is. It has been conceived and undertaken in no other spirit and 
 with no other object. Many of our foremost citizens have given to it their 
 time and labor, and its success has been assured from the beginning. Our 
 artists have adorned our walls with the work of their pencils, and have given 
 to our exhibition the aid of their skill and reputation. Our citizens at large 
 will by their patronage signalize their interest in the city and the sources of 
 its prosperity. 
 
 As it has been before suggested the design of this exhibition is not compe- 
 tition, but to apprise the people of the whole country of the extent and variety 
 of our manufactures. They know, indeed, in a general way, that here on the 
 Passaic river, within a few miles of the city of New York, is a city devoted to 
 a very considerable extent at least to industrial pursuits ; and they know that 
 some of its manufacturers have gained celebrity. They may have heard that 
 although it is fourteenth in size among the cities of the United States it i anks 
 third in manufactures. But they do not know and we ourselves have not 
 known how various and extensive are the objects of our skill, and, except 
 in particular instances where particular fabrics or products have become cele- 
 brated, neither they nor we know to what perfection we have attained. 
 
 You who have lived in Newark all your lives will be surprised to learn that 
 there are more than 200 different branches of manufactures carried on here; 
 that the establishments in which they are conducted number about 1,000 : that 
 they employ over 30,000 hands (over one-quarter of the population of 125,000 
 men, women and children), to whom are paid annually wages to the amount
 
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 of about $15,000,000 (an average of $00 to each person), and that capital to 
 the amount of $30,000,000 is employed in these manufactures whose product 
 amount to $70.000,000 a year. Of this $46,000,000 may lie classified as fol- 
 lows, in general terms, but with sufficient accuracy as to amounts : Over 
 $1,250,000 are in drugs and chemicals, over $2,000,000 in boots and shoes. 
 nearly $4,0110,000 in beer and ale. nearly $1.000,000 in cement, lime and 
 plaster, nearly $1.250,000 in enameled cloth, over $3,000,000 in clothing, 
 over $1,250,000 in cotton and silk threads, $2,500,000 in hardware, $2,500,000 
 in hats, over $1,000.000 in carriages, nearly $2,0(10.000 in iion manufactures, 
 $5,000,000 in jewelry, over $6,000,000 in "leather, nearly $2,000,000 in lum- 
 ber, over $1,250,000 in machinery, $2,500,000 in smelting and refining, nearly 
 $1,000,000 in saddlery and harness, $750.000 in sashes, blinds and doore, 
 about $1,500,000 in tobacco and cigars, $1,000,000 in varnish, over s:,(iii.<ino 
 in oxyde of zinc, and $3,000,000 in trunks, traveling bags and valises. Tin- 
 rest is in a large number of useful manufactures, which I will not tire your 
 patience by referring to now. 
 
 Through every year of its existence Newark has added to its importance 
 and reputation as a manufacturing city, until it has attained to its present 
 rank. It will continue to prosper. The bent given to it by the industrious 
 and God-fearing people who laid its foundations it is destined to maintaii:. 
 The enterprise which we inaugurate to-day marks an era in its progress, and 
 is iu itself an achievement. It points us to the source of our strength, our 
 self-reliance and appreciation of the value and dignity of labor.
 
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 UPON THE OPENING OF THE EXHIBITION. 
 
 From the Newark Daily Advertiser. 
 
 There was but one opinion expressed at the Rink last evening in reference 
 to the Exposition, and that was that it would be a grand success. Before 
 eight o'clock an immense throng was seen passing down Broad street, eagerly 
 pressing their way to the centre of attraction, while crowds continually 
 emerged from the cross streets into the main avenue. The calcium light of 
 Mr. J. H. G. Hawes did effective service at the corner of Broad and Marshall 
 streets in directing visitors to the place of exhibition. A large number of 
 entiies had been made late in the afternoon, and though not one half of those 
 who had engaged space hud yet put in their goods, the display was so large 
 and fine that it excited universal admiration. The venerable Capt. DANIEL 
 B. BRUKX. who occupied a seat upon the speakers' stand, said that with 
 his long and intimate knowledge of Newark industries he was surprised at 
 what he s;;\v. 
 
 Somehow the manufactured articles had a different appearance from that 
 which they wore in the factory when seen amid the dust and debris necessary 
 to their creation. The eyes of the men who made them too beheld with a 
 keener appreciation the beautiful things that their hands had wrought, as Ihey 
 walked up and down the avenues attended by their wives and sweethearts. 
 It was a proud night for our mechanics, as they pointed out the lines they had 
 traced, the shapes they had moulded, the delicate pieces they had adjusted, 
 and the surfaces they "had polished during the heat and burthen of the day ; 
 now before them, in the words of ex-Governor Ward, " in a thousand beauti- 
 ful forms.' 7 Hundreds of gas jets, shaded by opal globes, shed a beautiful light 
 through the building. 
 
 The audience was one of the best looking that ever assembled in Newark. 
 Those who came were representatives of the pluck, vim, worth, intelligence 
 and beauty of Newark the capitalist and his family side by side with his 
 workmen and theirs. They came for a common purpose to see what they 
 had made ; to hear about themselves and what most nearly concerned them. 
 It was the story of their lives, told not only in words but in a sort of picture 
 writing, in which the characters had substance as well as shapes of glowing 
 beauty. They fully appreciated the grand occasion by eagerly hurrying to 
 and fro to examine* everything that was to be seen. For at least an ho'ur after 
 the doors were opened there was an incessant trampling of feet. 
 
 French, German. English and American flags waved over the magnificent 
 fountain of marble and silver, that towered a beautiful centre piece in the 
 midst of the building. Reinhard's band never played better. They seemed 
 determined to show what a Newark band could 'do, and played ''Yankee 
 Doodle " and the Star Spangled Banner as these old National airs are sel- 
 dom played. Long after the exercises of the evening had closed the crowd 
 lingered to examine the curious things yet undiscovered. The Art Gallery 
 was the centre of attraction of which we shall speak more fully in our local 
 columns. 
 
 From the Newark Evening Courier. 
 
 If any doubts have heretofore existed in the minds of the managers of the 
 Industrial Exhibition, as to whether their efforts would be appreciated by our 
 citizens, the vast audience which assembled at the Rink last evening must cer- 
 tainly have dispelled them. Between two and thr<?e thousand people were
 
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 present who manifested a lively interest in the exhibition, and among whom 
 none could be found who did not have unbounded faith in its ultimate success 
 both financially and otherwise. 
 
 The inaugural ceremonies were of particular ir.terest, the speeches of Gov. 
 WARD and Gen. BUXYON being listened to attentively by large numbers, who 
 manifested their appreciation by rounds of applause. " Gen. Eunyon's address 
 was of peculiar interest, dealing, as it did, directly of Newark's industry, and 
 in the detailed statements of the growth of our manufactures, furnishing valu- 
 able information. The remarkable growth of Newark, the early efforts of 
 individuals in starting business, the amount of money invested in different 
 branches of industry, and other points were dwelt upon, showing that the 
 speaker had made himself perfectly familiar with his subject and was inter- 
 ested deeply in the work. 
 
 Among the exhibitors but one feeling seemed to prevail, which was that the 
 exhibition was a move in the right direction, and could not fail to prove 
 highly beneficial to the city. 
 
 Among all classes of our citizens a lively interest has been manifested in the 
 exhibition from the first, but it has been highly desirable that the outside 
 world should also know something of what is contemplated. In order to reach 
 those places from whence it was believed visitors would come, ten thousand 
 printed circulais have been mailed to well-known parties in all of the principal 
 cities, and exhibitors and others interested in the success of the exhibition 
 have sent them to all their customers with special invitations to visit Newark. 
 All the New York newspapers this morning favorably notice the opening ex- 
 ercises. That everything in connection with so vast an undertaking should 
 go on with such perfect smoothness is wonderful. The managers have suc- 
 ceeded remarkably well in their efforts to produce a magnificent display. 
 This being the first attempt at anything of the kind the success so far attend- 
 ing it is full of encouragement, and the experience now gained will prove 
 invaluable in the future. 
 
 From the Newark Daily Journal. 
 
 The Industrial Exhibition was inaugurated last night under circumstances 
 most favorable and promising. The liberal and progressive gentlemen who 
 have so nobly worked to establish an institution in our midst, by means of 
 which the mechanical skill of the city can be brought directly under the notice 
 of the general public, were not mistaken in their estimate of the interest our 
 citizens take in the mechanical productions of the city. This fact was 
 thoroughly proved last night by the crowd which assembled in the exhibition 
 buildings and examined the various articles on exhibition with interest and 
 evident delight. 
 
 At 7 o'clock the gas was lighted, and soon after the doors of the Sink were 
 thrown open. Immediately a vast throng of people commenced pouring in, 
 and the prospect thus early presented was that the undertaking would be a 
 success. 
 
 The room was brilliantly lighted by six large reflectors and numberless 
 small gas jets, and the decoration's were simple and pleasing. Stretched 
 across the room in several places were long strings of many colored streamers 
 and bright national bunting, and the flags of all nations were appropriately 
 interwoven together on the railing in front of the Art Gallery and directly 
 over the speakers' stand. Many of the visitors ascended to the galleries 
 which surround the room, and on which chairs for the accommodation of the 
 public are placed, and from thence obtained a splendid view of the busy and 
 everchangiug scene on the floor of the Eink. The opportunity of observing 
 the audience and the general effect of the artistic arrangement of the goods on 
 exhibition was excellent. On numerous tables and stands were arranged 
 large cases of rich and costly articles, and the glitter of gold and silver orna- 
 ments was visible on all sides. 
 
 The wealthiest and lowliest mingled together with good old democratic 
 freedom, and the silk robed wives and daughters of the prosperous manu- 
 facturer examined with as much interest the elegant wares from his establish- 
 ment as did the plain but neatly dressed wives and daughters of the hard
 
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 working mechanic, to whose genius and skill the magnificent goods doubtless 
 owed their elegant finish. Before some of the cases of mechanical articles 
 young mechanics were observed standing in company with their sister, or. 
 perhaps, sweetheart, and pointing out and explaining to the ladies, with evi- 
 dent pride, their own beautiful productions. 
 
 In view of the fact that the exhibition is far from being complete, and con- 
 sidering the beauty and fullness of what we saw last night, we can safely 
 claim that this pioneer effort of a city to get up a grand show of its own will 
 prove a really great success and redound to the credit and profit of our 
 beloved city. Let Newark flourish, and let her reputation be such in skilled 
 labor that when an article goes outside our borders let the stamp " Newark 
 make " be a brevet of its high quality and beauty ! 
 
 From the Newark Morning Register. 
 
 The opening of the Industrial Exhibition last evening was attended by a 
 very large number of Newark's leading citizens. We defVr until some other 
 day a description of what people can see, and shall confine ourselves in this 
 article to the opening exercises. Suffice it to say that the display is magnifi- 
 cent, and will doubtless attract considerable attention from abroad. About 
 2,0(N) persons were in attendance. On the platform erected for speakers 
 were Hon. Marcus L. Ward, His Honor Mayor Ricord, Gen. Theodore 
 Runyon, a number of Aldermen, city officials, and the members of the Board 
 of Managers. Reinhard's orchestra was stationed in the front gallery, and 
 commenced the exercises with the Grand March from Bellisario. After a 
 short pause the band executed a Festival Overture. Rev. Dr. Brinsmade 
 then delivered a very appropriate prayer, after which the band executed a 
 grand Potpourri, which included all the national airs. 
 
 From the New Jersey Freie Zeitung. 
 
 Any one who visited the Rink on Monday, or yesterday forenoon, or last 
 night" was astonished about the work done in such a short time. The appear- 
 ance of the huge building and its contents was most impressive and festive. 
 Although an immense work has yet to be done, and many articles announced 
 to be placed in their several departments, the opening of the exhibition could 
 be called no other than a success. The interior of the Rink, decorated with 
 the flags of all nations, numbering au auditorium of 3,000 to 4,000 persons, 
 rendered a most interesting picture full of life. Reinhard's orchestra opened 
 with a Grand March of the opera of Bellisario, which was followed by the 
 Festival Overture and the prayer of a Reverend. Next came a Potpourri, 
 reproducing the National Hymns of all prominent nations, and then ex- 
 Governor Marcus L. Ward spoke in a neat, excellent manner, followed by an 
 interesting and instructive address from Gen. Runyon. 
 
 From the New Jersey Volksmann. 
 
 The formal opening of the Exhibition of the products of the manufacturers 
 and artisans of our city drew, last night, to the capacious rooms of the Rink 
 Buildings, on Washington street, an intelligent and appreciative audience. 
 The Exhibition shows to great advantage the vast dimensions which the 
 manufacturing interests have taken in our city within the last decade. The 
 excellent addresses by ex-Gov. Ward and Gen. Theodore Runyon were well 
 received, and contained much information relative to our city, which is placed 
 on record as being the first instance in the history of the Union where a city 
 has undertaken an Exhibition of its own products exclusively. 
 
 From the New York World. 
 
 The Newark Industrial Exhibition was formally opened last evening with 
 such exercises as are common on such occasions. Newark is within half an 
 hour's ride of New York, and upwards of 175 trains run forward and back
 
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 every day ; and, as the Exhibition is sure to be a good one, people interested 
 in any way in manufactures may easily pass a pleasant day in looking on this 
 large collection of the products of the industrial arts of a sister city, for all 
 that shall be exhibited there must have been produced in Newark alone. ' 
 
 A large number of persons were present at the opening last night. All 
 were interested, and the prospects cfthe new local enterprise seem to he verv 
 favorable. 
 
 From the New York Herald. 
 
 The much-talked of and long-looked for Industrial Exhibition, composed 
 exclusively of local manufactures, was formally opened in Newark last night, 
 under auspices most favorable. The Rink, a large, commodious wooden 
 building originally built for skating purposes by one Bechtel, of Milwaukee, 
 and a pair of newly-built adjoining buildings, were gayly decked off with 
 flags, and were brilliant with gas jets. As a matter to 'be expected the ar- 
 rangements in the interior are not complete yet, nor will they probably be for 
 a couple of days, but still there are enough specimens of fine workmanship on 
 hand now to warrant the statement that the exhibition is sure to prove a suc- 
 cess as far as the show goes. In the matter of drawing a crowd last night it 
 was also a success. There were present from two thousand to fwentv-five 
 hundred persons. The display consists 
 
 of harness, cutlery, machinery, woodwork and a hundred other articles of 
 general and domestic use. 
 
 From the New York Tribune. 
 
 We give some account this morning of the exercises at the opening of the 
 Newark Industrial Exhibition. Though the arrangements are not yet fully 
 completed, the exhibition promises to be useful and interesting, and the exer- 
 cises yesterday were marked by good taste and impressiveness. 
 
 From the New York Times. 
 
 An Industiial Exhibition was opened in Newark last evening of a kind never 
 before held in this country. It was decided to depend entirely upon the in- 
 terest and importance of the exposition to render it a pecuniary success, the 
 city having a population of over 115,000, and being more largely engaged in 
 the mechanical branches of trade, producing a greater variety of goods than 
 any other city of its size in the United States. 
 
 For the past week, and up to the hour of opening the doors to the public 
 last evening, carpenters, upholsterers and exhibitors have been busy preparing 
 the booths. Two wings were added to the Rink, 
 
 giving about 15,000 additional square feet of exhibition room, making al>out 
 60,000 in all. A very large assemblage 
 
 filled the building last evening, and there was a very general surprise at the 
 number and variety of trades represented. 
 
 From the Newark Daily Advertiser. 
 
 The ceremony of the presentation of the Seth Boyden bust by 
 the artist, Mr. BEITL, was a very interesting occasion. Assem- 
 bled upon the stage were the Managers, Mayor Ricord, ({en. 
 Runyon, Hon. George A. Halsey, Wm. B. Guild, Dr. S. B. 
 Hunt and other members of the press. 
 
 Mayor RICORD, in a few appropriate remarks, introduced ])r. 
 SAN FORD B. HUNT, who made the presentation address, as 
 follows :
 
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 GEN. RUNYON : In behalf of the artist, Mr. BEITL, I present to you and 
 through you to the Committee the bust of SETH BOYDEN. It is a singularly 
 faithful fikeness of a man whom the artist has only seen in photograph. 
 Durimr the latter years of his life it was my good fortune and my honor to be 
 Seth Boyden's friend. I sat by his death bed, and honored the great sim- 
 plicity of the old man's character. With him, the great inventor, death was 
 the chance of the working of a machine. The record of his life, more just 
 than justice itself, is known to you as well as to me. I speak no eulogy 
 Seth Boyden's life-work was worthily done. The artist has, with an honesty 
 that belongs to his subject, given us his homely features as they were. In 
 his name and in the noble memory of Seth Boyden, I present them to the 
 Committee. 
 
 Gen. KUNYON responded as follows : 
 
 This Exhibition of the Industries of the city of Newark is the place 
 of all places where the memory of Seth Boyden should be honored. The 
 design of erecting a memorial to this great mechanic belongs not to any 
 particular body of men among us, but to the whole people. The Committe'e 
 represent the whole city in the desire to do honor to the memory of 
 the man whose name is indissolubly connected with the best and most 
 valued interests of Newark. In the thanks of the Committee, the artist re- 
 ceives the acknowledgments of those whom the Committee represent. He 
 has rendered us a very valuable service in giving us as the result of his 
 toil and artistic skill the rugged features which were so familiar to us. 
 We who knew Seth Boyden can attest to its fidelity. The artist has 
 rendered the sculptor's work easier. The monament we will raise will be 
 best, as it shall be truest to nature, as shall represent most truly the homely 
 features which were the external evidences of the honest simplicity of 
 the great inventor. The memorial will not only witness to the people 
 of this and future generations our admiration of the man and his qualities, 
 but our appreciation of the importance and value of the mechanical skill of 
 which he was so true a representative. As we look about us in this Exposi- 
 tion of our own varied manufactures, we are reminded that it is his spirit 
 infused into our manufacturers to which we are to a great extent indebted for 
 whtit \\v are as a city of industries. He spent his days and nights in labori- 
 ous investigation! to produce results in mechanics which would promote the 
 public welfare. 
 
 The Committee rely upon the co-operation of the citizens of Newark in 
 their undertaking. The artist has made his contribution with a generosity 
 worthy of public recognition, and I, therefore, thus publicly return to him the 
 thanks of the people, expressing the hope that before many months he 
 ;uid we may again assemble for the purpose of inaugurating the memorial 
 which this City of Mechanics is to raise to her Master Mechanic !
 
 3|*ltilriti0tt. 
 
 The Exhibition having thus been auspiciously opened, con- 
 tinued with increased interest (and on several occasions with 
 immense crowds, numbering as high as 10,000 persons,) for fifty- 
 two days, closing on Friday night, the llth day of October, 1872, 
 with the following ceremonies : 
 
 As on the opening night, a large audience assembled, and at 
 the appointed hour the President, Board of Managers and Orator 
 of the evening, CORTLANDT PARKER, Esq., proceeded to the 
 speaker's stand. 
 
 Reinhard's band opened the exercises with choice selections, 
 after which Hon. MARCUS L. WARD delivered the following 
 address : 
 
 At the commencement of this Exposition I expressed my confidence in its 
 success, and now at its close I congratulate all its friends and supporters upon 
 the fulfillment of those expectations. 
 
 This success has been in a measure due to the public-spirited friends of the 
 enterprise, who having in view only the advancement of our industries, early 
 came forward with their subscriptions. 
 
 The prudence, care and energy of those who were chosen as the directors of 
 the Exposition, and especially our Secretary, who have with remarkable de- 
 votion given it their time and attention, has been another element of success. 
 
 We are also indebted to the exhibitors, and to the public who have so 
 generously supported it by their attendance and appreciation. 
 
 All the good expected from it has been realized. The value and character 
 of our manufacturing interests have been clearly shown. The varied and 
 beautiful specimens of our skill presented here have been admired by visitors 
 from all parts of the Union, and our manufacturers and mechanics are ac- 
 knowledged to have few rivals and no superiors. 
 
 It has developed a new interest in our leading public men, which will tend 
 to strengthen their opinions as to the necessity and advantage of protecting 
 and sustaining American interests and American labor. We hope that it has 
 created in our midst a higher appreciation of our resources and our skill. 
 
 CORTLANDT PARKER, Esq., was then introduced, and ad- 
 dressed the audience as follows : 
 
 LADIES AND GENTLEMEN : The first Newark Exposition draw* to its 
 close, and I am honored by being appointed by its Managers to address to you 
 their respectful farewell. 
 
 It has been a most gratifying success. Goods to the value of $900,000 have 
 been exhibited. More than 120.000 people have visited it. They have come 
 from every quarter of the country, and some from continents and islands 
 beyond the sea. The press everywhere has chronicled it existence and ex- 
 pressed its appreciation of its merits. It is beyond doubt that the character 
 of Newark as a city of manufactures is far better and more kindly known 
 throughout the land by means of the existence of this Exposition, and that it 
 will bring pecuniary advantage to the exhibitors for a long time to come. 
 Many already have realized this agreeable result.
 
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 The design of this effort has been largely accomplished. That design was 
 two-fold first, to acquaint the world with the variety and perfection of our 
 manufacturing industry, ar.d next to reveal them to our own eyes. It is hard 
 to say who have been most gratified and surprised, visitors from abroad by 
 whom Newark was here for the first time really seen, or those from the city 
 itself, who. generally absorbed with their own particular employment, have 
 taken no heed of the whirring wheels around them, and who beheld here for 
 the first time the inner life, so to speak, of the city in which they dwell. To 
 the thoughtful among them Newark is no longer' merely, or principally, the 
 citv of beautiful avenues or parks, the city of churches, the rapidly increasing 
 neighbor of the metropolis, the chief city of our beloved State, the home of 
 thrift, comfort and order. Pride in all these will still be indulged, indeed, but 
 a more reasonable and nobler gratification will be ours the thought that our 
 city is the peculiar home of invention, skill, enterprise and progi-ess in all 
 mechanical arts that intellect and energy are here in a greater degree than 
 found elsewhere, and that from their exertion, joined ordinarily with morality 
 and religion, springs the happiness which our daily growing population 
 generally enjoy. 
 
 Two features are especially noticeable in Newark manufactures : their va- 
 riety and the fact that our productions are mainly the result of handicraft 
 rather than the mere creation of machinery. 
 
 It is to be regretted that circumstances have as yet prevented the prepara- 
 tion of a particular catalogue of this Exhibition ; that is a duty yet to come. 
 When it shall be accomplished (and it is now in preparation) we shall per- 
 ceive perhaps still more forcibly than now the variety of which I speak, and 
 shall also more completely rea'ize the fact I have mentioned that our manu- 
 factures are mainly the result rather of handicraft than mere machinery. By 
 handicraft I mean formative skill, including both invention and art in crea- 
 tion. Such art. it is true, originates machinery, and to a smaller extent is 
 necessary in its management and direction. But machinery does the same 
 work with the same perfection whether its director be a person of talent or 
 not. Articles which are the result not of machinery but of craft, what is 
 called in old English the cunning of the workman requires the mechanic to 
 have brain and skill. They differ in perfection when made by different indi- 
 viduals. To be a cunning workman implies talent talent almost as great as 
 that indispensable to the professions. And handicraft, when well under- 
 stood, permits the employment of the mind in a different direction while the 
 hands are pursuing their habitual exertion. Hence, if my theory be not 
 incorrect, and individuals engaged in handicraft are as a class more intelligent 
 than those whose duty is manufacturing by machines, and a city whose 
 manufacturers are mostly of this class will be fuller of intellectual mechanics 
 than one where they are mostly of the other. 
 
 There are some branches of mechanical art which require the highest order 
 of talent in the workman, though they can only be carried on by machinery. 
 Such, for instance, is that of the maker of heavy machinery, whose education 
 and efficiency must be of the highest character. It is equally true Avith those 
 who manage motive power. The master of that wonderful creation, the steam 
 engine, whether stationary or not, must himself be possessed of high intelli- 
 gence. But the operative in the cotton mill, the cotton printing factory, and 
 in many other departments of similar very important industry, needs little 
 intelligence ; enough to perform some simple and monotonous duty is quite 
 sufficient. 
 
 If any one would appreciate the force of this suggestion, let them visit some 
 city where manufactures are mostly of one sort, and performed by machinery, 
 especially where the laborers are of foreign rather than native birth, and 
 therefore' not so generally educated, and mark the character of the crowds who 
 at twelve o'clock swarm* from the factories. Then at the same hour, let him 
 place himself in some central point in Newark, and compare the intelligence 
 of those he sees here with that of the others. He will perceive such a differ- 
 ence as will prompt inquiry for its explanation. And, I think, he can find 
 none so satisfactory as that our people are mainly handicraftsmen, the others 
 mainly machine workers. 
 
 Another consequence arises from the same source a greater disparity be- 
 tween the intellectual character and attainments of mechanics in branches
 
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 specially dependent on machinery ; a sort of aristocracy among them. The 
 leading'men are often of extraordinary cultivation ; the" mass, satisfied with- 
 out progress. In communities, on the other hand, dependent upon handi- 
 craft, intelligence is more diffused. Men in the ranks are constantly rising to 
 command, and the employer and employee are socially and intellectually more 
 equal. 
 
 Our distinction, their in the variety and character of our manufactures is 
 most important. We are not only the third city in the Union in point of 
 amount of manufacturing products it is believed that we are the first in re- 
 gard of variety, and pre-eminently the city of handicraft. And belonging 
 myself to a different walk of life, I can speak justly of my fellow-citizens here 
 without lack of modesty, and say, as I do, that I believe the manufacturing 
 population of Newark more generally intelligent than that of any of her 
 rivals. 
 
 This variety in our products has been brought about gradually and almost 
 imperceptibly. It has seemed to me something like crystallization. We 
 have no water power worthy the name. We have absolutely no natural ad- 
 vantages for manufacturing. We have, indeed, a river, an advantage, by the 
 way, we have appreciated but little. But it is crooked and shallow ; anil the. 
 flats which lie between it and Bergen Hill were in the beginning a most for- 
 midable obstacle to communication with New York. In the early geogi-aphien 
 we are recorded to be a small village where boots and shoes" were made; 
 hence leather, then carriages, harness, saddles, clothing, hats. For many 
 years we were but a factory for the .South ; supplied its luxuries and its 
 necessities. Almost all our manufacturers found their market beyond Mason 
 and Dixon's line. After a while a partial market was obtained elsewhere ; 
 the result very much, I fancy, of the system which grew up, establishing 
 warehouses in New York. The war completed the change. The Govern- 
 ment was then our best customer, and its wants induced much change in the 
 lines of industry. Hence great additional variety ; and it has been found 
 that as each new article was added to our manufactures, establishments were 
 set up for the making of what was needed by way of material. And so it has 
 at last come to pass that almost every conceivable thing can be found in 
 progress of making here. 
 
 The causes which have produced this variety and extent in our manufac- 
 tures are t-till at work accelerated now by railroad connections, not the off- 
 spring of our efforts, but made for us by the capital and energy of others. We 
 Newarkers, and especially the manufacturers of the city, owe much to two 
 individuals, neither of them much honored by the public, through whom 
 transportation is effected without change of bulk to every point reached by 
 the Erie, Briareus of railroads, or any of its numerous feeders. And the 
 Midland is another important work through which a different and almost 
 unopened section of the country will be reached in like manner, while the 
 huge Pennsylvania will likew'ise be of the greatest benefit to the Newark 
 manufacturer, carrying his wares without breaking packages to all its numer- 
 ous and distant connections. 
 
 The growth of Newark in population perfect evidence of its growth in 
 manufactures has been most surprising. In 1840, 17,600 ; in 1850, 38,200 ; 
 in 1860, 71,941; in 1870, by the census, 105,542 ; in 1872, we think, 115,000. 
 Her advance in the future must be still more rapid ; and they are living now 
 who will see the territory eastward of the Orange Mountains and westward of 
 the Passaic swarming wilh an industrious and, for the most part, manufactur- 
 ing population. It is for such a result and for its acceleration that the manu- 
 facturers of Newark should prepare 
 
 The occasion permits, if it does not directly call for a brief suggestion or 
 two as to how those who are interested in our city, and proud of her eminence 
 in mechanic art. can best promote it. 
 
 1. Repeat yearly this Exposition. Encourage a generous'rivalry. Procure 
 the attendance of a committee from elsewhere men distinguished in science 
 and mechanic art and distribute not money prizes, but decorations and cer- 
 tificates, to be awarded by them. Not being citizens of Newark, they will 
 have no prejudices and will be critical. The severer their requisitions the 
 better. And that they may be free from all possible bias, let it be the rule 
 that their examination shall be made together on a late day of the Exhibition,
 
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 and under terms of generate compensation for their services, so that no man 
 may accuse them of favoritism or of possible hostility. 
 
 2. Dignity mechanic art. Inculcate by precept and example that he is the 
 great man among mechanics who attains the greatest success, not in the accu- 
 mulation of wealth, but in the construction of the best manufacture. Build a 
 monument soon to SETH BOYDKN, and insist upon it that he preferred art to 
 money, and died himself poor, though, through his toil of brain and hand, 
 many :, round him grew rich. Such a monument would, or ought to be, the 
 strongest incentive to that love of art and that pride in its achievement 
 through which only will it be triumphantly pursued. 
 
 3o Educate the a'rtisan. Be not content with supplying public schools and 
 with improving education there ; but establish in Newark a school of mechanic 
 art. Let there be instructors as well as lecturers. Teach the apprentices (if, 
 indeed, there be any now !) teach the young and the old, too, the science of 
 mechanics, chemistry, mineralogy. Let there be instruction in machinery. 
 Build and till a museum of inventions and manufactures. Attach to it a 
 library of books upon every topic at all connected with theoretical or practical 
 mechanics. 
 
 What a noble legacy would not that be for a successful mechanic to bestow, 
 through which such an institution as I have hastily depicted should be estab- 
 lished and maintained ! 
 
 4. Cultivate morals in art. Let the workman be regarded as a disgrace to 
 his trade who aims at the cheap and showy, instead of what is perfect and 
 lasting. Let it be the ambition of all that every thing of Newark make shall 
 be expected to be the best of its kind. Despise and treat with the contempt 
 he deserves every workman or master manufacturer who deals in any ap- 
 proach to shoddy. Shoddy is the quackery of manufacturing industry. It is 
 not only sin, but, ruin to the place from which it proceeds. 
 
 5. Strive to generate and cultivate among artisans a love for the fine arts, 
 and for the beautiful. The useful and the beautiful are in the divine economy 
 conjoined. It should be so in human mechanics, and it is so in just the de- 
 gree in which they approach perfection. Architecture and engineering are 
 the bridges, one might say, between the mechanical arts and the arts of taste. 
 The latter develop the mental faculties and adorn life beyond the pursuits 
 which a:-.> simply useful. They soften, refine and elevate. 
 
 6. Let it be the aim of Newark manufacturers and mechanics to require and 
 display a geneious public spirit. They have much, but they might have 
 much more. I have already remarked that our local advantages are not 
 largely natural, and that those of artificial character from which we now reap, 
 and assuredly will hereafter gain so much profit, have come to us through the 
 capital iind labors of others. We have not built, or in any degree contributed 
 to build the great arteries of commerce, through which we are brought near 
 to every quarter of our own country, and even to Japan, China and the world 
 beyond. We should have some cause for greater pride if more of what we 
 enjoy was the result of our own discernment and enterprise. Let us take a 
 lesson from our shortcomings here. Let us welcome and cheerfully aid every 
 project for public improvement. Let us beautify our streets and suburbs. 
 Let us push with energy the plans of the County Board, and make the ave- 
 nues from Newark to the neighboring villages and cities worthy of the beau- 
 tiful country over which they pass. There is scarcely in this land a stretch 
 of territory more lovely than that which extends from the ridge of the Orange 
 Mountain, and the hills lying north and south of it, to the lovely Passaic, 
 which sweeps so gracefully around our city. All this should be, and in truth 
 one day will, be one city, and the most attractive city of the North. Having 
 already at its further extremity a park which is excelled by none, it should 
 possess another, within easy reach of its population, for the recreation of the 
 artisan and all the sons.of toil. I believe the time has come for this great 
 public improvement. Reflection and observation have convinced me that 
 there is the greatest wisdom in supplying every people with encouragement to 
 local pride. Patriotism springs from love of home, and whatever makes us 
 glory in our home tends to intensify it. 
 
 Pardon me, my friends, for these desultory remarks and for wandering into 
 the discussion of topics, not, perhaps, closely enough allied to the occasion and
 
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 the place. I will delay you here no longer. In the name of the managers I 
 thank you for your attendance and interest. 
 
 I ti ust another year will bring you back to witness the evidence of still 
 greater progress by the mechanics of Newark towards perfection in the various 
 arts, and I invoke'your sympathy with every effort to increase a just pride in 
 our city and its inhabitants, and to raise its multitude of toiling artisans in 
 the scale of intellectual and moral being. 
 
 The following extracts appeared in various journals the day 
 following the close of the Exhibition, and also during its con- 
 tinuance : 
 
 From the Newark Daily Advertiser. 
 
 The great Exposition of Newark manufactures closed last night and the 
 time for criticism has come. We have just one to make, and it is the same 
 which we have urged persistently from the beginning, that it was not suffi- 
 ciently advertised in other States to give it its true value to the manufacturers 
 of Newark. The local press have done their entire duty, but they could not 
 reach the audience of purchasers. Every great journal in the country, and 
 every pictorial newspaper worthy of notice, might have been impressed into 
 the service of the Exposition. And that ends all we have to say in criticism, 
 unless we censure the absence of some important manufacturers. 
 
 In praise we have stronger and more emphatic language. The original 
 conception was grand. Its localization, its strict confinement to Newark en- 
 terprise, its liberal system of no payment for entries, its absolute rejection of 
 the miserable bribe and swindle of premiums, its ample space and sufficient 
 outlay at the start, were all that they should have been, and show a good 
 organizing mind. No one has reason to blush at the Newark Exposition, save 
 those who staid away, and they are very few. It was in all regards a beau- 
 tiful thing, such as no other city in the United States could produce, ample, 
 complete and generous in all its parts. Perhaps our opening criticism is un- 
 just. It may be that the Managers, with this vast work upon their hands, 
 were willing to call this an experiment and judge from it what they may be 
 able to accomplish another year. If that is their thought, and if the same 
 ability is displayed, the Newark Exposition will become the event of the 
 year. 
 
 For eight weeks thousands of our people, of every age and rank, have 
 thronged the only too narrow space of that vast edifice. The visitors from 
 abroad were not as numerous as we could have wished, but they were many 
 and they w r ere purchasers, and we venture the assertion that if our manufac- 
 turers had thrown the place open to every stranger without fee they would 
 have been the richer for their enterprise. As it is, they have achieved a grand 
 and permanent success and have " advertised " Newark magnificently. It 
 was a shrewd, clean, commercial enterprise, aside from aims high and noble, 
 and well deserving a success so distinguished. Next year we look forward 
 to something even better. High credit is due to the present management, 
 and great is their claim to the recognition and the gratitude of Newark. 
 
 There is another reason for pride. Our " efficient police" and it was effi- 
 cient, have had no occasion to make an arrest during the whole eight weeks 
 of the Exposition. There has been no brawl nor violence nor any theft. 
 With the closest surveillance and the most careful attantion to duty, the police 
 find their mission gone. Not a theft has been reported nor any violation of 
 the highest decencies of the place. The fact is a singular commentary and 
 evidence of the high educational uses of such an Exposition. We shall have 
 another next year, attended with higher success. The distinguished men 
 who associated their names with this great work of art, Gov. WARD accept- 
 ing the Presidency, deserve the hearty congratulations of every business man 
 in Newark. And so we bid a reluctant farewell to an Exposition which has 
 been almost a perfect satisfaction, and which we shall welcome again another 
 year with hearty greeting and not with the doubtful glance we cast upon a 
 stranger.
 
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 From the Newark Evening Courier. 
 
 After running several weeks and three days the Exhibition was brought to 
 a close last evening with the same simple, fitting ceremonies with which it 
 was opened. It will be remembered that at its inception the announcement 
 was made that the Exposition would be continued one month, and yet many 
 doubted if the patronage would be sufficient to call for so long a continuance 
 of it. But the excellence of the Exhibition and its great popularity have com- 
 pelled the Managers to prolong it till this late day. Few exhibitions run more 
 than thirty days. 
 
 Reinhard's band, which has greatly increased its excellent reputation by 
 the fine music it has furnished throughout the Exhibition, played finely last 
 evening and kept the audience in a lively mood. About eight o'clock the 
 Managers, Mayor RicORD, and other prominent gentlemen appeared upon the 
 platform erected beneath the western gallery of the Rink, and ev-Governor 
 WARD, President of the Board of Managers, delivered an address. 
 
 The Industrial Exhibition which has been in operation since the 20th of 
 August last was brought to a close last evening with appropriate exercises. 
 It is a pleasure to record that the Exhibition has proved a success in every 
 particular, and, to the credit of our citizens be it said, chiefly by their patron- . 
 age. Though visitors from all sections of the country have been drawn to the 
 city, their stay was necessarily brief, but long enough to convince them that 
 Newark's claim to the title of being a great manufacturing city is not exag- 
 gerated. All those from abroad who have honored the city by their attend- 
 
 ance have spoken of the Exhibition in terms of the highest praise. The fame 
 of Newark has therefore spread over the laud, and while it has not, this year, 
 been productive of a very large attendance of strangers that is in numbers 
 
 large enough to add very materially to the income of the Exhibition it will 
 be productive of great results in the future. 
 
 The success of the Exhibition, financially considered, has devolved upon 
 our own people. Nobly indeed have they sustained it. Public spirit is not 
 dead in Newark, and those among us who have always deplored the existence 
 of an old fogy spirit, find that they have been entirely at fault in their estima- 
 tion of Newark enterprise, and frankly confess their mistake. Possessing, 
 therefore, the ability to sustain a first-class place of amusement, and having 
 manifested the deepest regard for Newark's interests, and shown a laudable 
 desire to reward labor and dignify it, it is sincerely to be hoped attention will 
 be given by our citizens at large to a matter indispensable to the intellectual 
 advancement of our people, and by the establishment of which Newark will 
 reflect double honor upon herself and become more attractive to her citizens. 
 We refer to the admirable suggestion of the Hon. CORTLANDT PARKER in his 
 address last evening for the establishment of a School of Mechanic Art, where 
 there shall be instructors as well as lecturers, that the young and the old 
 we are never too old to learn may be taught the science "of mechanics, chem- 
 istry and mineralogy. Where our inventors, architects, draughtsmen and 
 laborers generally can place specimens of their handiwork, thus creating an 
 industrial museum which would perpetuate the name of Newark as a manu- 
 facturing city and call attention to the enterprise and skill of our citizens 
 generally. A library, comprising works of eminent writers on all subjects 
 allied to' art, science, invention and mechanics, would of course be necessary 
 to the success of such an enterprise. 
 
 Is there enough public spirit in Newark to put this movement on its feet if 
 The applause which last evening greeted Mr. PARKER when he made the 
 suggestion is proof that such a feeling has long existed in the minds of many 
 of our citizens. To them we would say, come out and let your light shine. 
 Give what ideas you may have on this subject to the public, and so create 
 discussion. The columns of this paper are open to all who wish to give their 
 views to the public, and if, in connection with the agitation of this subject, a 
 
 Elan be at once submitted to the people on which to work, we have no 
 esitation in saying the movement will be successful and become highly 
 popular. 
 
 We suggest that the Board of Managers of the Industrial Exhibition take
 
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 the subject at once in hand and incorporate it with their proposed Indus-trial 
 Association. The two can very readily be combined, and as the new company 
 for the purpose of holding an annual exhibition in this city contemplates the 
 erection of new buildings, it would not require a great amount of extra capital 
 to arrange for plans which would give a large public hall capable of seating 
 3,000 persons, which could be used by the Exhibition Managers on opening 
 and closing nights for the exercises incident to those occasions, and at other 
 times by the Art Association for lectures, etc. A library, reading-room, mu- 
 seum-department and committee rooms could be combined, and thus simulta- 
 neously with the new Industrial Exhibition enterprise, have a Mechanics' 
 Institute, both under one corporate name. 
 
 In an affair of this kind the workingmen and women of this city must be 
 made interested. Inducements must be offered to secure their co-operation, 
 and the shares should be placed at so reasonable a figure that all could sub- 
 scribe to the capital stock without feeling it burdensome. Among the 80,000 
 intelligent working people of Newark can be found plenty who would cheer- 
 fully assist in such an enterprise. Those who subscribed for a certain number 
 of shares should be made life members, and liberal provision made to secure 
 members among those who by force of circumstances might be unable to sub- 
 scribe to the capital stock. The subject is one of great interest to every 
 Newarker, and should be agitated at once. 
 
 From the Newark Daily Journal. 
 
 The Exhibition brought its story to a close yesterday, after remaining open 
 just six weeks. The ending, like the beginning, was highly gratifying to 
 the management. A large attendance was present last night, including many 
 prominent citizens. The assemblage was called to order by ex-Governor 
 MARCUS L. WARD. 
 
 SKETCH OF THE ENTERPRISE. 
 
 On Tuesday evening, August 20th, there was inaugurated at the Kink, on 
 Washington street, one of the grandest local movements ever conceived in any 
 city in the United States, and that was the establishment of an institution 
 wherein the products of Newark manufacturers could, in one extensive com- 
 bination, be displayed before the public, inviting its inspection and affording 
 
 an excellent opportunity for business men to judge of the superior handiwork 
 of Newark mechanics When the proposition to establish a Newark Industrial 
 Exhibition, in which only the products of Newark manufactories were to be 
 
 displayed, was first entertained by a number of leading citizens and progres- 
 sive business men, there were many who laughed at the idea, and ridiculed 
 the projectors of the enterprise as enthusiasts and visionaries. Many declared 
 that it was utterly impossible for a city like Newark to sustain, unaided, an 
 undertaking of such magnitude, particularly as other cities far exceeding 
 Newark in population had never plucked up sufficient courage to attempt such 
 a stupendous scheme. 
 
 In the face of these facts, and notwithstanding the backwardness of many 
 manufacturers in aiding the project, those gentlemen who had become identi- 
 fied with it from its first inception, resolved to push it forward with courage 
 and energy, and, in spite of all opposition, prove that they were not mere 
 dreamers. 
 
 Money was subscribed, the Rink rented, and Messrs. MEEKER &. HEDDEN 
 generously came forward, and without any assurance of recompense for their 
 labor and materials, other than their own confidence in the ultimate triumph 
 of the undertaking, erected the additional buildings necessary for the Exhi- 
 bition. Through the unceasing efforts of the Executive Committee and Board 
 of Managers, a large number of manufacturers were induced to contribute 
 specimens of their productions, and, as stated in the opening of this article, 
 the Exhibition was formally opened on the evening of August 20th, on which 
 occasion General THEODORE RuNYON delivered the opening address. The 
 JOURNAL, and other local papers, as well as many of the metropolitan sheets, 
 added the weight of their mighty influence to the undertaking, and in a few 
 days after its formal inauguration the Newark Industrial Exhibition became
 
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 :i success, and those who had been the slowest in perceiving the great results 
 that would follow from its triumph, then became its most earnest and enthu- 
 siastic admirers and supporters. Hundreds of our manufacturers immediately 
 poured into the buildings the most elegant samples of their handiwork that it 
 was possible for them to produce, and, owing to limited space, many were 
 unable to display their goods ; but those exhibitors that were lucky enough 
 to engage space, displayed their goods in the most attractive manner possible, 
 and the Industrial buildings became a bower of mechanical and artistic 
 beauties a veritable " Temple of Industries." The foregoing is a matter of 
 locul history, of which Newarkers may well be proud, and one and all cau 
 review with pleasure the history of the Industrial Exhibition. 
 
 Among the more noticeable reminiscences of the institution are the visit of 
 the President of the United States ; the hearty reception of Honest HORACE 
 GKEELEY, the learned philosopher and prominent editor; the visit of the 
 United States Commissioner to the World's Fair, which is to be held in 
 Vienna ; and the delightful vocal and instrumental concerts that were gotten 
 up by the Board of Managers for the amusement of the thousands of visitors 
 to the Exhibition. Among these latter amusements the performance of the 
 New York artists were, to be sure, very fine, but the programmes rendered by 
 our own musicians were fully as finely executed and as rapturously received 
 by the evening assemblages in attendance at the Rink. In the art gallery, 
 about the Rink, through the carriage department, and winding listlessly 
 among the mechanical mysteries of the machine room, thousands of delighted 
 visitors have daily and nightly promenaded, and so popular has the Exhibi- 
 tion become that the Managers seriously entertained the idea of continuing it 
 as a permanent sample room of Newark manufacturers, where business men 
 could examine our productions at will ; but this idea, after much discussion, 
 was abandoned. 
 
 From the Sunday Call. 
 
 The able and comprehensive address of Hon. CORTLANDT PARKER, at the 
 Rink, on Friday night, and the appropriation of the receipts for two days to 
 charitable institutions was a fit close of, perhaps, the grandest enterprise ever 
 undertaken by the people of Newark. The benefits growing out of the Ex- 
 position cannot be estimated now, as they will probably continue to flow back 
 upon the exhibitors for years to come. The strenuous efforts of the Secretary 
 and the Board of Managers deserve the highest praise. It is no disparage- 
 ment to them to say that to the exhibitors themselves, without whose goods 
 no Exposition could have been held, the success of this splendid undertaking 
 is mainly attributed. Their names deserve to be preserved in history as par- 
 ticipators in an enterprise that has already made Newark famous throughout 
 the world. 
 
 It is somewhat remarkable that during the fifty-four days and nights which 
 the Exposition has been open, not a single arrest has been made, and there 
 has not been the slightest cause for an arrest. No goods have been damaged 
 or lost. Though 130,000 persons have visited the Rink, and night after 
 night immense crowds have assembled, nothing has occurred to mar the 
 harmony of any day or evening. While this surprising exhibition of good 
 conduct on the part of our citizens has been owing to their general character 
 for peacefulness, it is impossible to tell what disturbance might have occurred 
 from outside parties, had not Chief Glasby watched the building with great 
 vigilance, keeping some of his best men there, and being himself always 
 present at night when crowds were passing in and out. 
 
 From the New Jersey Freie Zeitung. 
 
 Yesterday evening, for the last time, a large assemblage visited the rooms 
 in which the products of Newark's Art and Industry were on exhibition, 
 which for nearly two months had been the centre of attraction for those who 
 felt for the future welfare of their manufacturing interests. In this Exhibition 
 the city of Newark has achieved an enviable prominence among her sister 
 cities. She has thus demonstrated that the name of a " great manufacturing
 
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 city/' which she has already borne, was no empty title, and the beneficial 
 effects upon its industries is wide-spread and lasting. 
 
 f We cannot abstain, at the close of this exhibition, once more 
 to give favorable notice to its management, and especially to the valuable 
 services which were so efficiently rendered by the Chief of Police, WILLIAM 
 B. GLASBY, and his subordinates, in maintaining order and in guarding faith- 
 fully the articles exhibited. When we consider that during a visit of at least 
 130,000 persons, which often occasioned a thronging of people, there never 
 occurred a disturbance of order and decorum, not a single arrest being neces- 
 sary, and not an article stolen or damaged, we deem this not only as an hon- 
 orable testimonial for the population of our city, but no less for the efficacy of 
 the police regulation. 
 
 We published during the progress of the exhibition a number of leaders in 
 which the different branches of Newark's manufacturing interests were in de- 
 tail described, and the great facilities of the city for manufacturing purposes 
 was thorougly elucidated. 
 
 Bishop Odenheimer and Newark Industries. 
 
 When HORACE GREELEY visited the Newark Industrial Exhibition he 
 contrasted the magnificence of American handiwork now and forty years ago, 
 when he first stood in the streets of the Jersey Birmingham when' President 
 GRANT stood within the inc!osure of the same institution, he said. " Newark 
 has done well ;" but it was left for another distinguished gentleman to sav 
 something about the Exhibition itself which would be of interest to the people 
 and particularly to Newarkers. This gentleman is the Eight Eeverend 
 WILLIAM HENRY ODENHEIMER, Episcopal Bishop of New Jersey, whose 
 deep interest for the spiritual welfare of his State does not prevent him from 
 feeling a keen solicitude for its material prosperity as well. A few days ago 
 this eminent divine, accompaniediby Kev. J. N. STANSBURY, of Christ Church, 
 Newark, visited the Rink, and was so impressed with the character of the 
 display, that he has written a communication as follows : 
 
 "Allow a non-resident of Newark, but one who takes a just pride in the 
 progress of your beautiful ciiy, to congratulate the community on the success 
 of your Industrial Exhibition. A visit of a few hours under the intelligent 
 and critical direction of the energetic and indefatigable Secretary, was quite 
 sufficient to demonstrate the importance of this Exhibition to all classes in 
 Newark. Capital and labor are alike concerned in sustaining and developing 
 this attempt to bring face to face the producer and the buyer, and to benefit 
 both alike. The superb specimens of skilled handicraft, ranging from the 
 most delicate to the most ponderous, all displayed with remarkable taste, must 
 place Newark workmen and workwomen in the first rank of inventive and 
 operative genius. Considered simply as a sample room, this Industrial Exhi- 
 bition will make its permanent mark on the commercial interests of Newark, 
 and, in the best sense of the phrase, will prove itself to be a ' mammoth ad- 
 vertiser ' of its gifted mechanics, and the attractive productions of their rare 
 skill. But, in other points of view, this Exhibition must be productive of 
 permanent and valuable results to the community. It is not only a sample 
 room for practical business purposes, but it is also a school of instruction for all 
 classes of people, young and old. To the young mechanic anxious to perfect 
 himself not only in the highest developments of his own particular trade, but 
 also to inform himself of the progress of skilled labor in the other and corre- 
 lated departments of work ; to the students in the schools in Newark whose 
 eyes should be made familiar with the workmanship and productions con- 
 cerning which they hear and read ; to professional men, doctors, lawyers and 
 clergymen, who, in common with all classes, ought to take a leading interest in 
 the development of the resources and the maintenance of the fair fame of their 
 city and State ; and even to people of leisure who desire to spend an hour, or 
 to pass an evening amid pleasant scenes that will amuse and instruct them, 
 the Newark Industrial Exhibition rooms afford a most attractive and whole- 
 some place of resort. 
 
 " This subject might be pursued into still higher departments of political 
 application, but the patience of the reader must be considered. I will only say
 
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 that there is high moral instruction to be derived from a thoughtful study of 
 the beautiful and valuable results of patient toil and inventive genius dis- 
 played in this Industrial Exhibition. When one stands before the machinery 
 that -works with mighty power, yet noiselessly, there is suggested to the mind 
 how in life and life's work the noblest work for the good of the commonwealth 
 and of the Church is done, silently and without much popular excitement. 
 And when again, in passing through the exhibition, we pause to notice the 
 thoroughly-trained workman as he handles his complicated machine with 
 perfect ease, and even whilst, you are looking on completes some specimen of 
 his craft, there is no one who is toiling in the more spiritual departments of 
 labor who will not take a lesson from that gifted mechanic, and seek to do his 
 spiritual work with something of the same freedom and ability. 
 
 " If any one impression beyond all others was left on my mind, after a short 
 but deeply interesting visit to the Exhibition, it was this -perfection of 
 Newark work. Wherever I turned the exhibition of this element of perfection 
 met my eye. The brazen padlocks glittered like gold ; the huge shears were 
 ornamented as if for simple beauty ; the carriages and harness seemed as if 
 they might have been made for a perpetual show-case. The thread and silk 
 were attractive iu the variety of their colors and in their artistic arrangement. 
 The cutlery and the iron and steel work of every description were perfect in 
 their departments, even to the arrangement of the objects in lines and forms of 
 beauty. Even the trunk department had its beauty, and the perfection of 
 workmanship was seen in a trunk that could be converted, by a very simple 
 process, into a baby's cradle and bath-tub. 
 
 'The department of waiters, something entirely peculiar to a Newark 
 factory, presented in the style and arrangement of articles this same token of 
 perfection. All around, in the different cases and departments, there seemed 
 to me, a mere stranger and novice, the perfection of the skilled work and 
 workmen of Newark, and the Exhibition rose in my judgment from the 
 'sample room ' and 'the school of instruction ' to a p'lace where excellent 
 moral teaching was to be had. The great lesson which may be learned from 
 every department is this : ' Whatsoever the hand findeth to do. do it with all 
 thy might.' But I forbear, and will only suggest that the highest credit is 
 due to all the distinguished gentlemen who have had a share in this most 
 honorable municipal enterprise, but especial acknowledgment is due to the 
 unwearied energy and labor of the Secretary, whose thoughts, day and night, 
 have been freely given to assisting in perfecting this Exhibition. He has 
 worked hard to do that which might benefit his native city and develop her 
 magnificent resources. If something like the present Exhibition could become 
 a permanent institution, only increased in its scope, so as to include the manu- 
 factures of other parts of the State, that which is now the pride of Newark 
 might become the pride of the State of New Jersey, and help to develop the 
 splendid resources of our noble commonwealth, as rich in materials as in men." 
 Newark Daily Journal. 
 
 From the New York Times. 
 
 This exceedingly interesting Exhibition was opened at the latter end of 
 August, and is at present in full tide of success. New Yorkers and the United 
 States at large, though familiar with the undoubted excellence of the Newark 
 manufactures, can hardly conceive of the variety of goods turned out there. 
 With a population of 120,000, fully thirty per cent, of its inhabitants devote 
 their attention to manufactures. It produces no less than 1,000 different arti- 
 cles, representing 312 distinct branches of trade. For its population it is 
 undoubtedly the largest manufacturing centre in the United States. The 
 trunk you travel with is, nine cases out often, of Newark manufacture ; the 
 hat you wear was made there, the buttons on your coat, the shirt on your 
 back, your brush, the tinware you use in your kitchen, the oil-cloth you 
 walk on, the harness and bit you drive with, all owe to Newark their origin ; 
 and as to your wife's chain, bracelets, ear rings and pendants, they have been 
 fashioned by some cunning Newark goldsmith. The Industrial Exhibition, 
 situated on Washington and Court streets, has for its central building the 
 Rink, with two large additions on each side, covering a total area of over 
 50,000 square feet. The arrangement of the various departments is well
 
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 planned, and every object can be seen in detail. A fifty-horse engine, from 
 the I 'assaic Machine Works, runs the shafting in the main building, and 
 alongside of it, as if in contrast with its sturdy yet silent motion, puffs away a 
 little two horse baby Baxter, which, consuming but sixty pounds of coal, is 
 capable of running exactly as many sewing-machines as it burns up pounds 
 of coal. The display of machinery is excellent ; noticeable among them is one 
 which winds the thread on spools, cuts it off at the proper length, makes a 
 slit in the spool, secures the thread there, and accomplishes everything by 
 that curious automatic power which makes an observer think hands are 
 almost superfluous. It is, however, in harness and the hardware belonging 
 to this branch of business, and to carriage-making, that Newark excels. 
 Here are displayed all the varieties of bits used in America, from the polished 
 steel bit for the race-horse, to the powerful but torturing device which curbs in 
 the mustang. The display of hard rubber harness trimmings is exceedingly 
 beautiful, and we should think in time would take the place of leather-cov- 
 ered articles. In glazed and enameled leathers, Newark's superiority over all 
 competitors is fully shown. In articles of hardware, such as knives, saws, 
 tools of every description, for carpenters, machinists, leather workers, curriers, 
 the articles exhibited are innumerable. If in the dry goods department the 
 specimens shown were rather limited, certain woven shawls of brilliant colors 
 and fine texture were to be admired. Newark has almost the monopoly of 
 extracting from the waste of jewelers, from their sweepings, from the water 
 the workmen wash their hands in, the precious metals, and the Committee 
 have very wisely, whenever the opportunity presented itself, induced their 
 contributors to show their niethods of treating the raw material, through all 
 its various stages. It was interesting to see the various phases throuiih 
 which something in which gold could scarcely be suspected, when cleared at 
 last of its superfluous substances, giving for resull a small globule of gold or 
 silver. There are several products which Newark manufactures alone, 
 among which is a peculiar make of paper, having quite the appearance and 
 strength of leather. The carriages exhibited are worthy of more than a pass- 
 ing comment, notably a handsome coupe built by Leverich & Enders. The 
 collection of silver and plated ware is excellent. The lapidary's art, a novel 
 one in the United States, at least in its finer branches, is displayed in all its 
 excellence. It must be a source of congratulation to the officers of the enter- 
 prise that, originating but a few months ago the conception of an Industrial 
 Exhibition, their success has been so complete. Starting first with the idea 
 that the Rink alone would suffice for their wants, the 500 contributors soon 
 obliged them to have more space. Over 100,000 persons have already at- 
 tended the Exhibition. 
 
 From the Newark Daily Advertiser. 
 
 The Grand Concert of Newark's best and sweetest singers, at the Rink. 
 drew together an immense multitude of the best of our population. It is esti- 
 mated that more than eight thousand people were present. The people 
 streamed in at all of the doors for more than an hour, till every part of the 
 buildings was crowded eo that it was difficult to pass from one department to 
 another. Many went away, unable to gain admittance. 
 
 The following well-selected programme, by over one hundred performers, 
 under the leadership of T. 8. MOKRELL, Esq., was excellently rendered, and 
 highly appreciated by the delighted audience : 
 
 1. Gloria, 12th Mass, - - Mozart. 
 
 2. The Heart Bowed Down, Balfe. 
 
 Mr. Fred. Jones. 
 
 3. The Marvelous Work, .... . Haydn. 
 
 4. Song, Ye Merry Birds, - - - Gumbert. 
 
 Madam Bouligny. 
 
 5. The Heavens are Telling, - - - - - Haydn. 
 
 6. Song, Once Again, Sullivan. 
 
 Mrs. Grashof.
 
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 7. La Favorita Morceaux De Concert, Piano, - 
 
 Madam Fernandez. 
 
 8. Then You'll Remember Me, Balfe. 
 
 Mr. D. P. Hughes. 
 
 9. Te Deuin. ... Carozzi. 
 
 Madam Bouligny. Mrs. Grashof, Messrs. Hughes and Jones. 
 
 10. Inflammatiis. Rossini. 
 
 Obligate Solo, Madam Bouligny. 
 
 Those who have visited the Rink nightly found new objects to admire, 
 while those who came for the first time were almost bewildered by the sight. 
 While from the orchestra the voices of the singers were heard, from the 
 hearts of the people came up a responsive chorus, and this is the song they 
 sung : 
 
 Now glory to workingmen, whose cunning hands to-day 
 
 Have wrought the wondrous things we see spread out in grand array ; 
 
 Not as of old the conqueror came with blood-bought tiophies deck'd 
 
 Appears this scene, the wealth of skill of many an architect. 
 
 For freemen's hands have forged the iron and worked the shining gold, 
 
 In wood and leather, glass and brass, each labored to unfold 
 
 Some different fabric, deftly planned, and fair and useful too ; 
 
 And each has fairly triumphed builded better than he knew. 
 
 For this was the triumph of the thousands of men, women and children 
 who each morning inarch through our streets to the sound of the screaming 
 whistle and the notes of the deep-toned bell. For this the anvil chorus rang, 
 spindles have hummed, all kinds of intricate machinery performed their work, 
 the forge fires gleamed, the wheel of the lapidary whirled, and the busy hand 
 of the furnisher plied his task. Even the dowers, the shells of the ocean and 
 the living waters have been brought in to make the place a palace beautiful. 
 The very apparel of .the vast audience was one of the best exhibitions of 
 Newark" industry. Many of the best fabrics were made by those who toil and 
 spin in our city. And busy indeed were the hands that shaped and stitched 
 and ruffled these beautiful garments. 
 
 No object in the building escaped the closest attention. It was gratifying 
 to see that thus the useful as well as the beautiful things were duly appreci- 
 ated. At no time during the evening was the machinery department without 
 its crowd. One of the prettiest and most admired things in the building, 
 aside from the fine display of JAMES M DURAND & Co.'s case of diamonds 
 and exquisitely fine jewelry, valued at some $120,000, was a case of silk 
 thread on spools, placed on exhibition yesterday by the Singer Manufacturing 
 Company. The goods are valued at $^,500. The case is of black walnut, 
 made in the form of a pavilion, the pillars of which are of different colored 
 spools arranged in octagonal form. Every layer of spools is of a different 
 shade. In the centre is a pedestal of spools eighteen inches in diameter, and 
 over this is a cone surmounted by a vase. 
 
 The manufacture of machine sewing silks is growing to be an immense 
 business in Newark. The cocoons are raised in California, and shipped to 
 the silk-growing countries of Europe to mature. The fibre is then wound off 
 and the raw silk sent to this country. In the case on exhibition are shown 
 specimens of silk in different stages of manufacture. The Clark Thread 
 Company are similarly represented, together with an automatic spooling 
 machine in motion, and the many other works of industry worthy of special 
 note will appear hereafter. 
 
 From the New York Tribune. 
 
 Newark, almost a ward of New York, has undertaken an enterprise which 
 we believe has no precedent in American history. It is an Industrial Expo- 
 sition of the manufactures of a single town only. Even the sister city, Pat- 
 erson. is forbidden to exhibit. It is simply a"n exhibition of what Newark 
 alone can do. The whole plan is unique. What is made, not what is grown, 
 in the city of Newark is the sole qualification for exhibition. The exhibitors
 
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 pay no entry fee and secure free admission, and the whole of the 50,000 
 square feet of ground floor is crowded with articles, even the galleries having 
 been invaded. During the day the place can be visited comfortable. At 
 night immense crowds attend, and the spectator sees more of the people than 
 of the articles exhibited. To our Southern and Western tradesmen espe- 
 cially, who are now in New York for the Fall trade, this show will be ex- 
 tremely interesting. Some three hundred different styles of manufactures an- 
 on exhibition, many of them beautiful, and all of them useful. As a display 
 of what a single city can do in the way of manufactures, the Newark Exposi- 
 on is certainly a remarkable success. 
 
 From the Harness and Carriage Journal. 
 
 The efforts being made by the manufacturing interests of Newark, N. J., to 
 get up an exhibition exclusively of home productions are likely to meet with 
 success. The large Rink has been secured, and two additional buildings, 
 having about 15.000 square feet of floor, are being erected. * 
 This is the first instance in the history of our country where an Exhibition 
 has been limited to the productions of any one city, and its success will mark 
 a new era in industrial fairs. The scheme has been deemed visionary by 
 many unacquainted with the mechanical productions of Newark, but they 
 have already changed their views, while those not residing in that city will 
 soon have an opportunity to learn how little they knew of its industrial 
 interests. 
 
 There are very few who have a correct idea as to the range of the manufac- 
 turing interests of Newark. * * * Every article entering into the 
 construction of harness or carriages, as well as the vehicles and harness them- 
 selves, will be exhibited, the management having wisely determined to devote 
 ample space for a display of this kind, which, on account of the room required, 
 is often prohibited in Industrial Exhibitions, and we hope all interested in the 
 production of these articles will embrace the opportunity to see a display that 
 will probably surpass any similar one ever made in this country. We give 
 below the names of the Board of Managers, all ranking among the most en- 
 terprising of Newark's business men, many of whom are well known to the 
 harness and carriage trades throughout the" country, and whose names are a 
 guarantee of the success of the enterprise. 
 
 From the Springfield [Mass.] Union. 
 
 The manufacturers of the city of Newark, N. J., propose to hold in that 
 city an exhibition of their products ; said exhibition to open on the 20th of 
 August, and continue several weeks. Newark, with its population of 115,000, 
 is engaged in a greater variety of manufactures ih&n any other city of equal 
 size in the United States. There is scarcely any species of human handicraft 
 which is not represented there. The time selected for the Exhibition is that 
 at which buyers from all parts of the country are in the metropolis purchasing 
 their Fall and Winter stocks. The Exhibition, should it prove successful, 
 will be annually repeated. There will be no awards of premiums or medals, 
 the advertisement of the industries of Newark being the only object of the 
 Exhibition. We have enlarged to this extent, because we welcome the exam- 
 ple of Newark as one which should be widely followed by the manufacturing 
 cities of this country. Nothing tends so much to encourage invention, to 
 spread the knowledge of improvements, and thus stimulate trade and manu- 
 facture, as these great Industrial pageants. They are the modern substitute 
 for the fairs of our ancestors, and are destined to play a part not less import- 
 ant, in modern mercantile and manufacturing development. 
 
 From the Iron Age. 
 
 The Exhibition now in progress in Newark, N. J., is in all respects one of 
 which the people of that enterprising city have good reason to be proud. The 
 opening exercises were held on Tuesday evening in the presence of a large 
 company of exhibitors and visitors. The articles displayed are in such
 
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 variety, and the commodious buildings prepared for the Exhibition are so well 
 filled, that a description, to do justice to the subject, would require a great 
 deal more space than is now at our command. The iron manufactures of the 
 city, of which we hope to speak at greater length in a future issue, are well 
 represented, and the goods shown will compare favorably with the best of 
 them elsewhere produced. 
 
 From the Coal and Iron Record. 
 
 On Tuesday last we visited our sister city of Newark, N. J., for the purpose, 
 of inspecting" her first attempt to inaugurate an annual Exposition of her 
 industrial products, and was greatly surprised at the extent and completeness 
 of the expose, indicating that those who have had matters in charge were no 
 boys at the business, but experienced hands. We were received by the 
 worthy Secretary of the Exhibition, who took us in charge. A little time 
 was spent in desultory conversation in the "Press Koom," a neatly-fitted up 
 apartment designed especially for the use of " the Press ;" and where are 
 kept on file THE COAL AND IRON RECORD and the principal papers devoted 
 to industrial affairs. There is also accommodation for writing etc., which is a 
 capital idea, and one that will be found to be well appreciated. We were next 
 conducted to a neatly-fitted up and apparently well-conducted restaurant on 
 the premises. Everything here was scrupulously clean, and the attendants 
 very attentive and polite. In any enterprise with which there are culinary 
 matters in any wise connected, be it hotel, steamer, excursion or fair, the 
 general character and popularity of them seems to be determined by what is 
 given the guest to eat, and whether or not it is well prepared and properly 
 served ; and it is generally until after the first meal that we reserve our de- 
 cision as to whether it is a " hog-pen or hotel ;" and to the American, always 
 lean, lank and hungry, this department is likely to be his guide. It is a fact, 
 that where proper care is given to culinary matters, the balance of the '' bill 
 of fare " is not apt to be a whit behind time ; and thus, we are pleased to say, 
 we found it here. We were a little early in the Exhibition to give a detailed 
 report yet. The various machines have not yet got in running order, as well 
 as many other exhibitors being engaged in arranging their wares. We have 
 several times called attention to this tardiness on the part of exhibitors in not 
 being ready for visitors on the opening day. It is a great injustice to those 
 who patrorrze and pay a full admission price the first week or two of the 
 fairs. The fact is becoming notorious, too, so much so that you can scarcely 
 get the public to come to any of these fairs for the first two or three weeks 
 after their opening. These tardy exhibitors should be noted, and when 
 premiums are given out, the fact should be remembered ; and, in future years, 
 they sliould, when applying for space, be given a back seat, where their late 
 arrival will not inconvenience or disturb any one. A hasty run through the 
 various departments of the Newark Exposition, convinces us that it is inau- 
 gurated under extraordinarily favorable circumstances, and Newark should 
 be proud of her new-born child. The departments are artistically grouped, 
 and the whole is arranged with due regard for the convenience, comfort and 
 pleasure of visitors. We observed a total absence of all street vending side 
 shows, shooting galleries and whiskey holes, innovations which have been 
 allowed in our Industrial Exhibitions of late years, either from a fondness of 
 the management for such things, or too great greed for gain, or both. 
 
 As we before remarked, we have space this week only for these few pre- 
 liminary remarks, and shall reserve the major part of our story till next 
 week. There is the usual display of engines, boilers, pumps, wood and iron 
 working machinery, tools, agricultural implements, carriages, pianos, pic- 
 tures, minerals, jewelry, saddlery, and what not. The entrance fee is only 
 thirty cents, and even in its present unsettled state the Exhibition is well 
 worth the price. This is Newark's first attempt, and we believe the first at- 
 tempt made by any city to hold an Exhibition exclusively of its own manu- 
 factures ; but we know of no other city of which we expect so much, and one 
 so fully capable of carrying it out. Newark has about 115,000 inhabitants ; 
 every one of which should visit this Exhibition once at least, if only to give 
 that moral support all new public enterprises should have by way of encour- 
 ment for '' better and nobler deeds " hereafter. The Exhibition is held in the
 
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 Rink, to which has been added 22,000 square feet of adjoining ground, which 
 allows ample room and opportunity for excellent display. It is easy of access 
 from all parts of the city by horse-cars, and can be read'ily reached from New 
 York any hour in the day from foot of Liberty or Barclay streets. We hope 
 the management will be greeted with a full attendance every day until the 
 time of closing, that the enterprise may be recorded as a success financially 
 from the start, which is not usually the case with undertakings of this 
 character. 
 
 From the Manufacturers' Gazette, Newark. 
 
 The few determined individuals who inaugurated the meeting of manufac- 
 turers at Library Hall, on April 3d, 1872, for the purpose of considering the 
 practicability of "the holding of an Exposition confined exclusively to articles 
 of Newark manufacture, and who, in the face of lukewarmness, and of direct 
 opposition, have carried the project to asucceFsful and triumphant conclusion, 
 have reason to be proud of the success of the Newark Industrial Exposition. 
 
 Through it Newark is, to-day, more celebrated as a Great Manufacturing 
 Centre than any other city in the Union, and no one knows better than does 
 the indefatigable Secretary of the Exposition, the amount of labor required to 
 bring the enterprise through the "slough of despond," up " the hill of diffi- 
 culty," to the final consummation of the Pilgrim's Progress in the triumphant 
 success of the enterprise. 
 
 The Newark Exposition is particularly noticeable by reason of its being the 
 first instance in which any city of the United States has attempted a display 
 confined exclusively to its o'wn manufacturers, no articles being received 
 from any other quarter. 
 
 The entries of goods have gradually increased from day to day, until all the 
 available space is now occupied, the number of exhibitors reaching over 500. 
 No restriction as to time of entry was made, and undoubtedly many who came 
 in at the eleventh hour, did so from the display already made by their more 
 enterprising neighbors. 
 
 The time for the final closing of the Exposition has been fixed for the 9th 
 of October, but we trust that before that day arrives measures will be renewed 
 to establish a permanent institution, with a good working capital. The 
 beneficial results of the present experiment have been so manifest to all, that 
 we cannot believe our manufacturers and business men generally will hesitate 
 to improve the opportunity. Let us hope that the establishment of what we 
 would like to see named the " SETH BOYDEN INSTITUTE," may not be far 
 distant. Let it be an Institute which shall furnish free instruction to appren- 
 tices in mechanical drawing, and coincident branches of instruction, with a 
 library and reading-room, lectures, &c. The expense of such an institution 
 would be more than returned in the increased value of the apprentice to the 
 employer, by reason of the advantages afforded for acquiring a thorough 
 knowledge of the elements which help to make the finished workman. 
 
 Such an Institute might embrace a sample-room for our manufacturers, 
 from which the visiting purchaser could make up his list of goods required, 
 and with a first-class man as general manager, such as the Secretary has 
 shown himself to be, we conceive that the benefit to our manufacturers would 
 be beyond calculation.
 
 A record of the Exhibition of 1872 would not be complete 
 without reference to the distinguished persons who have honored 
 it by their presence : still a complete list of all cannot be given. 
 On Tuesday, September 10th, Gen. THOS. B. VAX BUREN, 
 I'nited States Commissioner to Vienna, paid a visit in his offi- 
 cial capacity. After a most thorough examination of the various 
 departments, accompanied by the President, Gov. WARD, and 
 Board of Managers, they assembled in the Managers' rooms, and 
 Gen. VAN BUREN made an address, the substance of which was 
 as follows : 
 
 After declaring that he was exceedingly astonished at the immense display 
 of mechanical wonders in the buildings, and the grandeur and extent of the 
 undertaking, he said that a visitor at the Exhibition must form a wonderful 
 idea of the extent of Newark's industries from what they saw in the buildings. 
 If any one wonders at the extent of the display, they should remember that 
 only about one-third, and certainly not over one-half of the manufacturers of 
 this city are represented at the Rink. He had been so dazzled with the beau- 
 tiful things that he had seen in the short time that he had spent in the various 
 departments, that he feared his head would be filled for some days with visions 
 of carriages, harness and revolving mechanical inventions. It was a pleas- 
 ant occasion to him, as he was completely wrapped up in the industries of 
 this State, as was natural, since he had been a lover of industry from boy- 
 hood. 
 
 The subject of exhibitions was an interesting one to all peoples, and the 
 display of Newark's manufacturers naturally strikes the spectators with 
 amazement and surprise. Europeans have no conception of American indus- 
 tries as exhibited here. If the people of Europe could go through the hall, 
 and view the samples of work here shown, they would be amazed at the per- 
 fection of American mechanism ; they would be astounded at the extent of 
 the productions of one single city of this country. Newark has reached the 
 highest top of excellence iii manufactures, but when Europeans realize that 
 Newark that New Jersey is only a minute atom of America, what an idea 
 they must form of this great country! All the yearly emigration to this 
 country, numbering over 50,00(1, all but a trifle of which is self-sustaining, 
 being composed of artisans, mechanics and other tradesmen, is enriching and 
 adding to the mechanical reputation of the country. They come from all 
 lands, and when the samples of our industries are displayed in Vienna the 
 effect on the Austrians. the French, and all Europeans who visit the World's 
 Fail' must be great and useful. The people of Austria, the speaker declared, 
 were dying to ascertain advices concerning our manufactures and resources. 
 Therefore he held that all Americans should be proud to send samples of their 
 manufactures to Vienna in order to educate the Austrians. Many Americans 
 object to sending their goods to the World's Fair, because, they say, that the 
 Europeans can make the same articles cheaper, and that, secondly, American 
 patents are not protected in Europe, and that the foreigners would copy our 
 inventions. To these objections he would say that it was true that some 
 things could be made and sold cheaper in Europe than here, but Americans 
 make things they cannot make. There is also ingeniously constructed ma- 
 chinery in "America that Europeans know nothing about. The General here
 
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 spoke of the opposition that at one time existed to labor-saving machines. 
 That has all died away, as each invention produces a half-a-dozen other in- 
 dustries, and the people, realizing this, are proud of each mechanical produc- 
 tion. 
 
 Hungary is waking up to a realization of the necessities of agriculture, but 
 in Greece, Rome and other places, nothing new has been learned, and it is the 
 duty of Americans to give them an idea of the power of mechanical aid. The 
 coming World's Fair is a great institution, said the speaker ; it is not a great 
 baby show. It is an educational institution. It will be a great aid in estab- 
 lishing a lasting peace between nations. 
 
 Ministers and titled gentlemen from all nations are sent as commissioners 
 to it. I am the only one that bears no title, but I go there as a king, because 
 I am a representative of freedom. [Cheers.] I am proud of the public 
 schools of this country, and a model school from America will be exhibited at 
 the fair, and circulars will be sent to all the Governors of States, requesting 
 copies of the school books used in their State schools, so that the Austrians 
 can form an idea of our schools. The great aim of the Exposition is to edu- 
 cate the Europeans, as many of them will, in time, become citizens of this 
 country. Newarkers should exhibit machinery at the World's Fair, so that 
 when people see the samples there they will ask, " Where did these come 
 from ?" " From Newark, New Jersey," will be the reply, and Newark will 
 be thus advertised, and in time true questioners will come to this country to 
 Newark educated by our public school system, perhaps, and dazzled by the 
 fame of our manufactures. Congress, the speaker said, had made no appro- 
 priation for paying the commissioners from this country, and they would have 
 to pay their own expenses ; but contributors to the Exposition should keep 
 receipts for their expenses, and, no doubt, Congress would make an appropri- 
 ation to pay them back. Freights will be reduced one-half, and men will be 
 appointed to watch all goods from this country free of cost. 
 
 In conclusion, the General described the Palace of Industry at Vienna. The 
 main building is 3.000 feet long, 82 feet wide. It has 32 transepts, running 
 at right angles from it, which are each 247 feet long and 50 feet wide. Each 
 transept will represent a country or nation. America has the part near the 
 city of Vienna, and therefore visitors to the building must pass through the 
 American Exhibition the first and there see Yankee industry. The central 
 rotunda has iron columns, 80 feet in length ; the roof is one unbroken span of 
 354 feet from pillar to pillar, and from the floor to the summit is a distance of 
 250 feet, thus making the greatest building ever seen. The machine hall is 
 2,600 feet long, l. r >0 feet wide, and has one line of tracks for large machinery 
 and two for small. 
 
 In closing, Gen. VAN BUREN said he was proud of being a Jerseyman, and 
 was also proud of Newark's Exhibition, which he declared equal to the 
 American Institute in New York. 
 
 Monday evening, September 17th, Hon. HORACE GREELEY, 
 then a candidate for the Presidency, also honored the Exhibition 
 by his presence. The vast audience that assembled, and the 
 scenes of that night, have become more deeply impressed upon 
 the minds of our citizens by reason of his sudden death. Mr. 
 GREELEY, accompanied by ex-Gov. WARD and the Managers, 
 inspected the various articles on exhibition, and after a thorough 
 examination, the distinguished guest was conducted to a platform 
 at the west end of the Kink, whence he delivered the following 
 address : 
 
 LADIES AND GENTLEMEN : It would be utterly impossible for one-tenth of 
 this vast audience to hear, and I would suggest to those who cannot hear to 
 move quietly away and thus secure more silence to those who wish to hear. 
 On an occasion like this the first, I believe, in the world of an industrial fair
 
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 in a city made up of that city's manufactures alone it is natural for those of 
 us who are growing old to recall the valuable reminiscences of our younger 
 days, and view the improvements that have been made since then. It is now 
 forty years since I first strolled in the streets of Newark. I had come here 
 from New York to attend the dedication of the first Universalist Church, and 
 succeeded in reaching Newark on Sunday only by going afoot. I found it 
 then a smart, rather struggling but busy village (on week days) of about ten 
 thousand inhabitants one-twelfth of its present population and bearing about 
 the same characteristics it now does. Forty years ago no great steamships 
 crossed the ocean as now. One. possibly two, had made the voyage, but in 
 the main, intercourse with the Old World was carried on by sailing vessels, 
 taking up five or six weeks on the passage. New York was five weeks from 
 Liverpool 
 
 Liverpool in the Summer time and in the Winter more. Europe was practi 
 cally further away than Africa is now, and intercourse with Europe then was 
 not much more regular than it is with Africa now. There were a few canals 
 in the country then. The Erie and the Champlain Avere the pioneers, and 
 were the most important avenues of communication in the country. The Erie 
 Canal then was a fanner's ditch compared with the Erie Canal now. The 
 Delaware Canal, I believe, had not yet been completed. In the whole United 
 States there were somewhere between fifty and one hundred miles of railroad. 
 The mails, where steamboats were not available, were carried in stage 
 coaches and on horseback, traveling thus some sixty miles a day. Boston 
 and Washington were then several days from New York. To-day our steam- 
 boats ply in all our navigable rivers, we have 50,000 miles of railroads, an 
 extent e'qual to all others in the world combined, costing not less than $2,500,- 
 000,000, not counting the amounts stolen, and aggregating a value exceeding 
 our national debt. The population of the United States then was not quite 
 fourteen millions, one-third of the present amount. Our wealth has increased 
 in larger proportion than our population, and our country can produce now 
 six times what it could forty years ago. Not a mile of telegraph was upon 
 the face of the earth then.. 'The idea of sending messages by electricity had 
 scarcely entered the brain of the visionary. Some years after my first visit 
 here Professor SAMUEL F. B. MORSE invited me, with several other gentle- 
 men, to witness the fact that messages could be transmitted ten miles and an 
 answer could be returned. Telegraphs have been the product of the last 
 thirty years. The world is now girdled by electric wires, and intelligence 
 flashes across continents and under seas. Pekin, Stamboul, Vienna, London, 
 flash their intelligence daily to our doors, and the newspapers spread before 
 you every day a^nirror of the casualties, the revolutions, the catastrophes of 
 the day before in every distant city .of the globe. By means of the telegraph 
 the world is becoming one commonwealth. What is known in one land is 
 known almost simultaneously in all others, and the interests, aspirations and 
 conceptions of the people of all countries are becoming closely interwoven. 
 Agricultural industry forty years ago was rude and simple. The American 
 farmer with $200 invested in farm implements then was well -to-do among his 
 neighbors. Now $2,000 are required for the same relative use. The work- 
 shops of to-day are assisting the farmer, lightening his toil, and every year 
 sees this process go on. To-day steam is toiling in shop and mill, taking the 
 place of human sweat, and can it be doubted that to-morrow the field as'well 
 as the workshop will resound to the snorting of engines. The question is 
 only one of time. This Rink will doubtless within ten years be the scene of 
 exhibitions containing implements reducing the labor of farmers. I witnessed 
 twenty years ago in England the first great display on foreign soil of Ameri- 
 can reapers and mowers. The gentlemen farmers of England were aston- 
 ished to find that Americans could teach them how to cut grain. An impulse 
 was given to their agriculture by those implements invented by American 
 people. 
 
 Mr. GREELEY dwelt upon the invention of the sewing-machine and then 
 inquired if the workingmen have been benefitted by these great improve- 
 ments. He felt sure of this, that the compensation for artisan labor is greater 
 than twenty years ago. Not more money is paid laborers, perhaps, and that 
 is an unsatisfactory test, but they received more of the comforts of life. 
 While their compensation is doubled, the cost of living is not doubled. The 
 mechanic eats better food, wears better clothes and may save a portion of his
 
 44 
 
 earnings. Yet. said Mr. GKKEI.KY, lie does not feel satisfied, and believes 
 that in the not far distant future the condition of the workingman will In- 
 bettered, a better system will prevail, under which he will receive a portion 
 of the products of his labor. In all departments of industry we are still to 
 advance. The relations of labor to capital will be improved, and our people 
 will rejoice over achievements vast in their efticiencv. 
 
 Friday evening, September 20th, was one also long to lie re- 
 membered by our citizens, as on that occasion the Chief Magis- 
 trate of the country, Gen. U. S. GRANT, attended the Exhibition, 
 accompanied by ex-Gov. WARD and the Board of Managers. 
 Before his arrival thousands of persons had congregated to do 
 honor to their President. He was at once escorted to the 
 Managers' room, and after the formal reception, and words of 
 welcome addressed to him by Gov. WARD, the President re- 
 plied as follows : 
 
 GEXTLKMKX : I am most happy to he here to night to witness this display 
 of Newark manufactures. This 'far-famed city of Newark has done well 
 The excellency of your manufactures is working a large influence on the 
 importation of foreign manufacture. I heartily thank you for this great 
 pleasure. 
 
 Mayor RicORDthen welcomed the President in behalf of the 
 city, to which he also appropriately replied. These ceremonies 
 gone through with, in company with Gov. WARD, Mayor RICORD, 
 the Secretary, and Chief of Police GLASBT, followed by the 
 Board of Managers, the President made an extended tour of the 
 buildings. The crowd was so immense and the desire of the 
 people so great to do honor to the distinguished visitor, that a 
 satisfactory examination of the various articles on exhibition was 
 impossible, and a further inspection was made the next day. 
 Friday, as on the day previous, a large concourse of people were 
 present. Senator F. T. FRELIXGHFYSEN, Judge JOSEPH P. 
 BRADLEY, Congressmen GEORGE A. HALSEY and JOHN HILL, 
 with the President's Private Secretary, Gen. PORTER, accompa- 
 nied the President on this occasion. The Exhibition surprised 
 them all, not so much on account of the extensive as the varied 
 display set forth, and the highest encomiums were freely be- 
 stowed upon the enterprise. 
 
 Thursday evening the President was publicly welcomed at the 
 residence of Gov. WARD. Senator FREDERICK T. FRELING- 
 HUYSEN delivered an address on the occasion, portions of which, 
 as relating directly to Newark and its industries, we extract as 
 follows : 
 
 To-day the Chief Magistrate of the great Kepublic has done us the honor of 
 reviewing the industries of New Jersey. At Waverly he has inspected the
 
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 products of the earth the trophies of the plough at Newark he has paid the 
 tribute of hi* presence to the triumph* of human skill and energy and it, 
 must he as pleasinir to him to see these happy results of the wise and peaceful 
 administration over a nation he did so much to rescue from destruction, as his 
 visit is grateful to us. While we do not want to he boastful, we may properly 
 say that we are ashamed of neither our State nor city. 
 
 The progress we have made ill cultivating the soil is manifested by the fact 
 that the statistics of the nation:.] census show that the average value of an 
 acre of land in New Jersey is greater than that of any other State; and the 
 return of the Collector of Revenue develops the fact that this is only the sec- 
 ond revenue district in the Tinted States in the value of mechanical pro- 
 ductions. 
 
 As to our traditional devotion to the nation, it is enough to say that New 
 Jersey in the fearful struggle of the Revolution received the cognomen of 
 " The Battle Ground of the Union," and there is hardly an ancient spire that 
 does not cast its shadow over patriots who have Biitish bullets encoffined 
 with them, and in the more recent and fearful contest for the life of the nation 
 New Jersey regiments were always found where victory was the reward of 
 prowess. 
 
 And of our city we are not ashamed. Settled, after a fair purchase from 
 the Indians in 1603 by a band of resolute men of Connecticut, among whom 
 was the ancestor of our excellent host, it has always been distinguished for 
 its order and morality, and for a long period for its enterprise, prosperity and 
 rapid growth. 
 
 And if it be true, as political economists say. that that society is most, per- 
 fect in which the largest relative number of persons are prosperously em- 
 ployed in the greatest variety of ways, then we give the palm of excellency 
 to no community everv one works and all prosper, and as to the variety of 
 ways, the lever! the wheel, the pulley, the plane, the screw and the wedge, 
 are forced and beguiled into thousands of uses, while steam as strong as the 
 elements, pumps and draws, hammers and weaves, and spins, and. as Web- 
 ster said, seems to say to men, " Leave off your manual labor, give over your 
 bodily toil, bestow your skill and reason to the direction of my power, and I 
 will bear the toil with no muscle to grow weary, no nerve to relax, and no 
 breast to feel faintness." 
 
 And all around us we see the happy results of this varied industry. The 
 comfort-speaking abodes of the artisan, the well-spread board around which 
 sit the germs of future men, and she whose comely presence and gentle bear- 
 ing prove her the n't companion of a freeman's heart. Let us rejoice that this 
 pin.-peri'v is not confined to our home but extends all over our land. Com- 
 petency is everywhere and poveity is only found by being sought for. The 
 remuneration of the industrial classes is satisfactory. The products of the 
 tarn i and artisan iind a ready market and prompt payment, and the bills of 
 the merchant are readily pai'd. 
 
 Friday. October 9th, Gen. BEXJ. F. BUTLEK, M. (_'., from 
 Massachusetts, also (but unexpectedly) visited the Exhibition. 
 (Jen. BFTLER is a remarkably close observer, but he understands 
 also the value of an impartial opinion, and when he departed he 
 frankly said he did not believe "' any other city in the United 
 States would do what Newark had done in the way of an Indus- 
 trial Exhibition." 
 
 Among other unexpected visitors of note was Gov. JOEL PAR- 
 KER : also, Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary 
 from foreign countries, heads of the Government Depart- 
 ments at Washington, and members of our State Legislature, all 
 of whom departed with expressions of gratification and praise.
 
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 The Right Rev. \V. H. ODEXHEIMER, of this State, also 
 visited the Exhibition during its continuance, whose opinion of 
 it w'll be found expressed on page 34. 
 
 In this connection of the visit of the great and distinguished 
 men to the Exhibition, mention might be made of the wise ar- 
 rangements of the Board of Managers, for a visit of all the 
 children of the Public Schools, to implant in their young and 
 tender minds those useful lessons which might be derived from 
 witnessing this first Exhibition of the Industries of this city. 
 
 In the foregoing account, brief in many respects, but necessa- 
 rily so, the principal events which have occurred since the 
 opening of the Exhibition of 1872, have been recorded. It is 
 unnecessary to ask, in the light of what has transpired, " What 
 beneficial results have accrued to Newark by reason of it f but 
 a few, which have suggested themselves, will be briefly given : 
 
 In the first place Newark has demonstrated, in the successful 
 inauguration of an Industrial Exhibition, that she is fairly enti- 
 tled to the distinction of being one of the largest manufacturing 
 cities in the world, all things carefully considered. It was 
 deemed a rash undertaking by some to lay claim to so great a 
 title, but it has been freely accorded the city by the press of the 
 country. 
 
 Second. It has been most conclusively established, that no other 
 city in the United States can show so great a variety of goods 
 manufactured in its limits as are accredited to Newark. A few 
 other cities can show a larger population and greater value in 
 real and personal property, and also in the aggregated annual 
 value of manufactured goods, but Newark can safely challenge 
 them all to imitate her example with as good results. 
 
 Third. It has been the means of increasing confidence among 
 our manufacturers and artisans generally, as shown in the in- 
 creased interest manifested in the various departments of 
 industry.
 
 47 
 
 Fourth. The reputation of Newark has been extended abroad, 
 and matters of interest pertaining to the industries of the city are 
 sought after not only by people in remote sections, of this country, 
 but other countries, and the press have sent special correspond 
 cuts here to note what progress has been and is now making. 
 
 Fifth. Trade has largely increased in many branches, and 
 there is a good prospect of its being still larger than ever before, 
 not only in the value of manufactured goods, but in the number 
 of industries, the attention of large manufacturers and capitalists 
 having been drawn hither mainly through the influence exerted 
 by the Exhibition of 1872. 
 
 The Exhibition proved immediately beneficial to many exhi- 
 bitors, drawing, as it did, merchants, business men and strangers 
 from distant parts of the country, and though most dealers had 
 previously supplied their wants for seasonable goods, a large 
 number of orders were received by various firms. One man was 
 heard to exclaim (and the case is not an isolated one), " I have 
 purchased goods of this kind in New York for the last twenty- 
 five years, and never before knew I had passed directly through 
 the city where they were made." Manufacturers from other 
 States who had previously thought Newark only a way station, 
 were surprised at the facilities for manufacturing Newark pre- 
 sented, and spoke highly of the advantages to be derived from 
 the Exhibition of its industries, and thought the question of 
 locating here well worthy of consideration. Nor was it alone 
 confined to this country. Its visitors were from every quarter of 
 the globe. One stranger, in particular, being interrogated, 
 stated that he had arrived from London the evening before ; that 
 he had seen mention in a London paper of a city in America nine 
 miles from New York, with a population of only 115,000 inhabi- 
 tants, holding an Exposition exclusively of its own products, that 
 he made an early visit, concluding that if a single small city 
 contained variety of manufactures sufficient to hold an Exposi- 
 tion of its own products, he could form some idea of the greatness 
 of this country. 
 
 Sales of goods on exhibition were frequent, and many manu- 
 facturers of limited means greatly augmented their business 
 solely by the patronage of persons visiting the Exhibition. Nu- 
 merous and large orders were taken by the Secretary for different 
 manufacturers from the exhibition of their goods, and stationary
 
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 goods were sold to be delivered at the close of the Exhibition, 
 chief among these being the large engine which furnished power 
 to the machinery, which was purchased by parties in Xew York 
 and selected over those inspected at other exhibitions. 
 
 The exhibitors, individually and collectively, displayed com- 
 mendable energy in this the first Exhibition of Newark Indus- 
 tries, by which it has been proven that Newark has it in its 
 power to rival far more pretentious affairs of this kind, even 
 though they depend upon other cities for their principal display. 
 
 One other feature of this Exhibition should be referred to. 
 Long before the time announced for the opening, letters were re- 
 ceived from large manufacturing firms desiring the privilege of 
 contributing to the display. Letters have been received by the 
 Secretary even from California, but though these would have 
 afforded a greater attraction, it was deemed best to confine the 
 Exhibition solely to Newark, that what honor or discredit might 
 fall upon the enterprise should be borne by Newark alone. The 
 latter was prevented by the enterprising spirit displayed ; and 
 from the interest now manifested in the cause, there is every 
 reason to believe the Exhibition of 1873 will surpass that of 
 1872, and be tlie event of the year in our local history. 
 
 To the Press, the management as well as the city at large are 
 deeply indebted for the faithful and intelligent manner in which 
 it wielded its powerful influence in aid of the cause. 
 
 Before closing this report it is proper some allusions should be 
 made to the manner in which the various committees performed 
 their duties. The duties of the Executive, Exhibition. Music 
 Hind Ticket committees were very arduous, and while each did 
 much in the interest of the Exhibition, it is without disparage- 
 ment of any of the others that especial mention is made of the 
 Ticket Committee, whose duties were not only arduous, but ex- 
 tremely vexatious. They devoted much time, with other duties, 
 to the particular work devolving upon them, all of which was
 
 4!) 
 
 performed in the most efficient manner and much to the advantage 
 of the Institution. 
 
 It is gratifying to the Board of Directors that their efforts 
 have met with so signal success, and while citizens generally 
 were active, it is not improper to allude to those manufacturing 
 houses who were most prominent and devoted their energies to 
 the interest of the Exposition : Hewes & Phillips, Meeker & 
 Hedden, Watts, Campbell & Co., Campbell, Lane & Co., Thos. 
 B. Peddle & Co., Edgar Farmer & Co., Theo. P. Howell & Co., 
 Chas. N. Lockwood & Co., C. H. & J. D. Harrison, R. Ward & 
 Co., L. Graf & Bro., James M. Durand & Co., Leverich & 
 Endc rs, H. Sauerbier & Co., Blanchard, Bro. & Lane, N. J. 
 Demarest & Co., E. Simon & Brother, E. L. Starr & Co., 
 Newark Tea Tray Co., Clark Thread Co., Atlas Manufacturing 
 Co., William Johnson, The Baxter Engine Co., Atha, Hughes 
 & Spanier, Ailing Brothers & Co., S. G-. Sturges and Co., 
 Wiener & Co., Hendricks Bros.. Lister Bros., C. Cooper & Co., 
 with others. 
 
 ALBERT M. HOLBROOK, Secretary. 
 
 Iu tliis connection, the Secretary expresses his thanks for the Public 
 Testimonal tendered liiin as a lecognition of his efforts in forwarding the Ex- 
 hibition, and also to the Exhibitors for the generous tokens of regard as 
 presented on that occasion. 
 
 The different circulars printed and published, a list of sub- 
 scribers, together with a financial exhibit of the Exhibition, ap- 
 pear a few pages further on. 
 
 As a part of the history of those jubilant days, the fact can 
 hardly be ignored that Mr. HOLBROOK, the Secretary of the 
 Association, was the surprised and gratified recipient of a tes- 
 timonial. The story is best told in the words of one of the local 
 reports, which, after a long eulogy of the closing days of the Ex- 
 hibition, goes on to say : 
 
 " It was eminently proper then, that Secretary HOLBROOK 
 should receive from the people of Newark a testimonial commen-
 
 50 
 
 surate with his efforts. The feeling that prompted one of the 
 most courteous and generous of the Board of Managers to suggest 
 that a handsome present of jewelry was worthy of the man who 
 made it, and the promptness with which it was responded to was 
 highly creditable to those who contributed towards the purch?se 
 of the gift. The address of Mr. PETER F. SPEER, on presenting 
 to Mr. HOLBROOK, on behalf of the Exhibitors, a magnificent 
 gold watch and chain on Wednesday night, contained a true ex- 
 pression of the feeling of the people of Newark in reference to his 
 services. Mr. SPEER said : 
 
 " Mr. HOLBROOK, Secretary of the Industrial Exhibition of the City of 
 Newark : I appear hefore you, sir, in behalf of the Exhibitors of this Indus- 
 trial Exhibition to tender you their heaity thanks and grateful acknowledg- 
 ments for the valuable services you have rendered in making this laudable 
 enterprise a great success. For to you, sir, more than any one man, is due 
 credit of making this Exhibition a complete success. This, sir, is no dispar- 
 agement to the valuable services rendered by the Managers, the committees 
 and the Exhibitors themselves. This spacious hall, this great showcase of 
 the manufactories and workshops of the city of Newark, has been opened to 
 the public for forty-three days, during which time it has been visited by 100,- 
 000 persons. So great are its attractions that people come and spend hours 
 with pleasure and delight. 
 
 " So well satisfied are they that they go away to come again and again. It is 
 not my purpose to speak of the effect that this great enterprise will have on 
 the future prosperity of Newark ; time will settle this. But, sir, this much 
 can be said it has made Newark famous, and placed her foremost among the 
 cities of this country and stamps her as the Birmingham of America. And, 
 sir, as no words of mine can express to you their high appreciation of your 
 valuable services, your courtesy and attention to them as Exhibitors and 
 their employees, to visitors, strangers, and our own citizens alike ; for your 
 zeal, fidelity and perseverance in this enterprise, they have placed in my hand 
 for presentation a magnificent gold watch and chain, made in Newark, by 
 Newark mechanics, purchased of a Newark manufacturer by the generous 
 contributions of these exhibitors, many of whom are now before you, and of 
 whom I can say, a better and more ge'nerous body of men God never made. 
 Take it, sir, as coming from generous hearts into worthy hands."
 
 CATALOG UE 
 
 OF 
 
 Ifnlered jfor 
 
 AT THE 
 
 FIRST NEWARK INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION, 
 
 IS'ZS. 
 
 Xo. 
 
 1 
 
 Exhibitors. 
 Benjamin J. Mayo 
 
 2 William Johnson . . 
 
 do. 
 
 do. 
 
 Joseph B. Mayo 
 
 Newark Tea Tray Co .. 
 
 Amos II. Searfoss 
 
 Johnston & Sutphen ... 
 J. T. Van Arsdale & Co 
 FornesB, Bannister & Co 
 Mrs. J. Harrison .. 
 
 12 
 13 
 
 14 
 
 15 
 16 
 17 
 
 18 
 lit 
 80 
 81 
 22 
 23 
 
 -,'4 
 25 
 
 26 
 
 2? 
 28 
 W 
 30 
 
 31 
 32 
 33 
 
 :54 
 35 
 
 Brooks & Harper 
 Michael Schnitzel- 
 
 Meeker & Hedden 
 do. 
 do. 
 do. 
 
 George W. Case .... 
 
 L. O. Colvin 
 
 Mrs. J. R. Holmes . 
 Mahlon S. Drake ... 
 Charles W. Lovatt . 
 Durand & Co ... 
 
 Honestus M. Albee . . 
 
 Miss J. Pool 
 
 Mi<s.M. Pool 
 
 John L. Hampson ... 
 
 do. 
 
 do. 
 Edwards & Smith . . . 
 
 A. H. Clark & Sons 
 
 H. F. Edwards 
 
 Edwin Reed 
 
 A. V. Gorum 
 
 Herman Voelker . . . 
 
 Articles Exhibited. 
 .Sterling Silver, and Silver Plated Ware in 
 
 variety. 
 
 .Mechanics' Tools and Hardware, comprising 
 Plumbs and Levels, Gauges.Spokeshaves, 
 Screw Drivers, Compass Dividers, Turn- 
 ing Saw Frames and other Tools, and a 
 variety of House Furnishing Hardware. 
 . Six Pastel Paintings. 
 .Specimens Ornamental Pen Work. 
 .Fine Silver Plated Ware, in variety. 
 .Tea Trays, Dust Pans, Crumb Trays. &c. 
 .Two Vertical Portable Grinding Mills. 
 . Shirts, Collars, Cuffs, &c. 
 .Plumbers'BrassWork, Silver Plated and Plain. 
 .Fine Table Cutlery. 
 
 ..Wax Cross, supported by two anchors en- 
 twined with wax and hair flowers. 
 ..Patent Burglar and Fire Alarm. 
 . .Bouffets in Black Walnut, carved and orna- 
 mented. 
 
 ..Carved Wood Mantels. 
 . . Mirror Frame Mantels. 
 . . Hard Wood Doors, Mantels. 
 ..Mouldings and Brackets, in variety, and In- 
 side Work. 
 
 . . Key Checks and Dyes. 
 . . Patent Baby Chair Jumper and Walker. 
 ..Two Oil Paintings. 
 . .Patent Steam Bolt Cutter. 
 . .Machine Twist and Sewing Silk, in variety. 
 ..Fine Diamonds, set and unset, and Jewelry, a 
 
 rich and valuable display. 
 ..Two Models, Elliptical Staircase of Walnut. 
 . .Frame of Pith Work, artistically arranged. 
 ..Fancy Mat. 
 
 . . Improved Smoothing Iron. 
 . .Jar of Fruit, preserved fourteen years. 
 ..Improved Solution for Water Stiffening Hats. 
 . . Iron Cresting, Chairs, Settees, Newels, Hitch- 
 ing Posts, &c. 
 . . Patent Hod Elevator. 
 . .Model, Full Rigged Ship. 
 ..Model, Steam Ship. 
 . . Wax Hyacinths. 
 . .Patent Tube Scrapers, for Steam Boilers.
 
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 No. Exhibitors. Articles Exhibited. 
 
 36 Newark Rubber M'f g Co Rubber Boots and Shoes. 
 
 37 Henry I). Taylor Child's Carriage of Inlaid Wood, made with 
 
 Shoe Knife. 
 
 38 do. Table of Inlaid Wood, made with Shoe Knife. 
 
 39 Speer & Mattner Shawl Straps, in variety. 
 
 40 C. M. Theberath & Bro .Gilt Sleigh Chimes, in variety. 
 
 41 do. .Martingale Chains. Gilt and Silver Plated. 
 
 42 do. .Patent Star Bridle Bits. 
 
 43 do. .Gig Saddles and Pads. 
 
 44 do. .Brass Castings. 
 
 45 do. .Harness Mountings, in Sets and variety, Gold, 
 
 Silver and Nickel Plated, Leather Cov- 
 ered and Lined. 
 
 46 William Roemer Traveling Bags and Satchels, various styles 
 
 and finish. 
 
 47 Stephen S. Thorn Bonnet Wire, in variety. 
 
 48 Romer & Co Patent Key Hole Lock. 
 
 49 do. Patent Combination Lock. 
 
 50 do Railroad Locks, Brass and Iron Patent Pad 
 
 and Door Locks.Door Knobs, &c., Nickel 
 Plated, Japanned and Brass Finished. 
 
 51 Joseph Baldwin & Co ..Wrought and Mexican Bits and Spurs. 
 
 52 do. ..Saddlery Hardware. Steel Polished, Silver, 
 
 Nickel Plated and Oreide. 
 
 53 do. ..Baldwin's Patent Bit. 
 
 54 Miss Nettie Burning Wax Flowers. 
 
 55 Arnold Stivers Coach Locks. 
 
 56 do Hub Bands, Nickel Plated. 
 
 57 W. Haskell King Model, bash Balance and Lock. 
 
 58 do. Lathe Chuck. 
 
 59 Harrington & Co Shirts, Collars, Cuffs. A c. 
 
 60 William Lorenz Three Patent Lathe DOITS. 
 
 61 Marley & Cook Shirts, Collars, Cuffs, A c. 
 
 62 Anna W. Pignolet Six Colored Crayon Pictures. 
 
 63 Langstroth & Crane Builders' Hardware, in variety. 
 
 64 T. Benedict Fine Harness, in variety. 
 
 65 John Thielemann & Co .Coach Locks and Spring Boxes. 
 
 66 Henry Klein Rag Carpet. 
 
 67 Miss Emma Bundstein ..Worsted Work, Picture. 
 
 68 C. F. & R. Burnett .... Fine Furs and Goods. 
 
 do. Hair Work, Braids, Curls, Jewelry. AT. 
 
 70 George Palliser Architectural Drawings. 
 
 71 E. J. Kisling Model, Firemen's Monument, in Plaster. 
 
 72 Amelia Sommers Wax Flowers. 
 
 73 James Graves Earthern Force and Well Pumps. 
 
 74 Theresa Korb Spice Flowers, artistically arranged. 
 
 75 R. H. Platt Natural Autumn Leaves, artistically arranged. 
 
 76 U. B. Brewster Collection of Butterflies, artistically arranged. 
 
 77 William Cleveland & Co.Hunt's Patent Metalic Refrigerators. 
 
 78 J. G. Freeman Ladies' and Children's Furnishing Goods. 
 
 79 Ferdinand Unz Vest, without Back. 
 
 80 Miss M. L. Newton Wax Flowers, artistically arranged. 
 
 81 Oscar Barnett Foot and Drop Presses, for Tniners' and 
 
 Jewelers' use. 
 
 82 do. Malleable and Gray Iron Castings. Plain, 
 
 Tinned, Japanned and Bronzed. 
 
 83 do. Shaping Machine, ten-inch stroke. 
 
 84 do. Radial Drill Press. 
 
 85 do. Trunk Makers' Press. 
 
 86 do Brass Moulders' Flasks. 
 
 do. Barnett's Blind Hinges. 
 
 88 do. Lemon Squeezers, Iron Frame and Porcelain 
 
 Lined.
 
 53 
 
 No. Exhibitors. Articles Exhibited. 
 
 89 Oscar Barnctt Coach and Carriage Makers' Clamps. 
 
 90 Blanchanl A Boylan Coach and Carriage Hardware, Nickel Plated 
 
 Pole Tips, Bolt Heads, &c. 
 
 1M S. E. Tompkins & Co ..Saddlery Hardware, Nickel, Gold and Silver 
 Plated and Japanned, Leather Covered 
 and Lined. 
 
 92 do. ..Patent Gig Trees. 
 
 93 do. ..Tompkins' Patent Gig Saddles. 
 
 94 E. A. Adam Trunk Pockets. 
 
 95 Henrv Warrick Ho-se Brushes, Leather Back, in variety. 
 
 96 Theodosia Tucker Bracket of artistic Leather Work. 
 
 1*7 Wuesthon', Wright A 
 
 Kuehnhold Wrought Bits, Buckles, Hames, &c., &c., 
 
 Nickel, Gold and Silver Plated and Steel 
 Polished. 
 
 98 do. Saddlery Hardware, in variety. 
 
 99 H. Lamh Architectural Drawings. 
 
 100 John Kay & Co Files and Rasps. 
 
 101 .:'>. Patent Lead 1 '.at h Pot, for Hardening Files. 
 
 ll2 John Schnlmerich Gi oup of Stuffed Birds. 
 
 103 William A. Tipson Oil Paintings. " Studies from Nature." 
 
 104 Turner & Brown Bedstead^, Tables. A <. 
 
 105 J. Brockie &, Co Window Awnings and Frame. 
 
 106 G. W. Moore Improved Patent Pincers, in variety. 
 
 107 Lister Brothers Chemicals. 
 
 107)^ do. Bone Fertilizers. Glue, &c., in vari< tv. 
 
 108 "John A. Rubles Patent Well Pump. 
 
 109 C. F. Murphy Bamboo Fishing Rod, with case. 
 
 110 BrandenburgluVNovelle .Platform Spring Wagons. 
 
 111 J. J. Mills : Specimens of Dentistry. 
 
 112 Butler A Wards Patent Leather Bridle Fronts, Winkers, Ro- 
 
 settes. Ac. 
 
 113 Wiirhtman Brothers Walker's Patent Window Screens. 
 
 114 B. P. Holmes Oil Painting. 
 
 115 John Toler, Sons & Co .Furniture Castors, in variety. 
 
 11(5 Charles Cooper & Co .. .Chemicals, for Photographic. Pharmaceutical 
 and Technical purposes. 
 
 1 17 C. Sullivan Steel Engravers' Plates. 
 
 118 Samuel O. Crane Skeleton', Buggy and Hearse Wheels. 
 
 119 C. L. S. Walker Patent Mosquito Bars. 
 
 120 Mrs. Ulbright Spice Flowers, artistically arranged. 
 
 121 Foerster & Kraeuter Mechanics' Tools, in variety. 
 
 122 do. .. ..Pinking Irons, in variety. 
 12:; Miss Mai'-v Ham. Wax Flowers. 
 
 124 A. Hayden Rolled Gold, Silver. Brass and Oreide, for 
 
 Haters' use, Plated Metal, Silver Brick 
 1.000 fine. 
 
 125 Arthur Wadsworth Storm Signal Barometers. 
 
 126 L. Steiner Model, Church with interior complete. 
 
 127 M. H. Soott Architectural Drawings. 
 
 128 Miss E. Yolk Fine Needle Work. 
 
 129 C. G. Bruemrner Mechanics' Tools, in variety. 
 
 130 H. H. Jones Patent Flexible Whip Protector. 
 
 131 Hockenjos & Co Coopers' Work Barrels, Kegs. iVc. 
 
 132 George Price Ornamental Glass Sign. 
 
 133 Rud Mussehl Mattrass. made by Blind Man. 
 
 134 Henry Nichols Ornamental Plaster Work. 
 
 135 Ziegler & Otto Coach Locks, Hinges, Spring Barrels, Dove- 
 
 tails, &c. 
 
 136 R. J. Jollry A- Co Shirts. Collars, Cuffs, &c. 
 
 137 Bernard Saupe Rope and Twine, in variety. 
 
 138 J. Wiss Knives, Shears, Pruning Hooks and Fancy 
 
 Cutlery, in variety.
 
 54 
 
 No. Exhibitors. Articles Exhibited. 
 
 139 T. S. Morrell Collection of Rare Coin. 
 
 140 Alston & Burnett Carved Hoarse Urns. 
 
 141 Atha, Hughes & Spanier Enameled Table Oil Cloth, in variety. 
 
 142 Weiner & Co Saddlery Hardware, in variety, Gold, Silver 
 
 and Nickel Plated, Leather Covered and 
 Japanned and Lined. 
 
 143 do. Wrought Bits, in variety. 
 
 144 Amelia Windisch Wax Flowers and Cross. 
 
 145 Tomlinson Spring Co . . .Springs, Elliptic, C, French Pl'tfm, Coach, Ac. 
 
 146 do. .. .Axles, Steel and Iron, in variety. 
 
 147 Thomas Slaight Patent Railroad Pad Locks, 'Door Locks. 
 
 Nickel Plated, Brass, Japanned and 
 Bronze, also Door Knobs. 
 148 Helen Hedden Wreath of Seeds, artistically arranged. 
 
 149 David Hedden Large Fig Tree, in full bearing. 
 
 150 N. Van Ness Hooks, Terretb, Hames, &c., Gold and Silver 
 
 Plated, Leather Covered and Lined. 
 
 151 Henry Roberts Wire, in variety, one roll for Miller's Bolting 
 
 Cloth, 20% miles in length. 
 
 152 A. B. Holmes Silver Basket and Wax Flowers. 
 
 153 F. C. Callen Feather Flowers, artistically arranged. 
 
 154 Fred. Meisselbach Three Electric Machines, one large Ruhmcorf 
 
 Coil, capable of throwing one-half inch 
 Spark and lighting two Geissler Tubes. 
 
 155 Spaeth & Guelicher Patent Clamps and other Skates, in variety. 
 
 156 Spaeth & Co Mattrasses, Bo!sters, &c. 
 
 157 do. Samples Curled Hair. 
 
 158 George N. Bannister Gents' Fancv Toilet Slippers, in variety. 
 
 159 Snow, Hopper & Co Fine Shoes. 
 
 160 William D. Russell Baxter Steam Engines, two, five and eight 
 
 horse power. 
 
 161 do. Baxter Diagonal Wrench. 
 
 162 do. Baxter S Wrench. 
 
 163 Lee A. Smith Nickel Plating, (samples of) Saddlery Hard- 
 
 ware, Gun, House Furnishing and other 
 work. 
 
 164 John Duncker Toilet Tables, round and oval. 
 
 165 Samuel Clark Apparatus for administering Sulphur or Medi- 
 
 cated Vapor Baths. 
 
 166 S. Hartshorne Patent Adjustable Window Shade Roller. 
 
 167 Charles Kreitler Rope and Twine, in variety. 
 
 168 Alfred E. Allen Sugar Work. 
 
 169 Lucius D. Gould Patent Sash Fastener. 
 
 170 Traugott Leibe Fancy Wooden Boxes and Me'dicine Chests, 
 
 171 C. M. Northrup Northrup's Patent Combination Grate Bars. 
 
 172 do. Tube Brushes. 
 
 173 do. Patent Valve Refitting Machines. 
 
 174 C. Kirchoff Ornamental Toy Candlesticks and Blast Guns. 
 
 175 A. Schwartz Rag and List Carpet. 
 
 176 John Hagny Oil Painting, "Politicians." 
 
 177 do. Oil Painting, " Landscape." 
 
 178 do Oil Painting, " St. Barbara." 
 
 179 do Oil Painting, " Portrait." 
 
 180 H. P. Jones, (apprentice) Fine Goat Harness. 
 
 181 Booth Brothers Pocket and Pen Knives, in variety. 
 
 182 E. F. Beck Harness, Single and Double. 
 
 183 D. & G. Delany Springs, Elliptic, C, Platform, Coach, A- c. 
 
 184 Moses Kinsey Skates, " Young America." 
 
 185 F. Meyer Scales Counter, Druggist, Platform (from 
 
 one pound to six tons), and others, in 
 variety. 
 
 186 Miss Eugenia Goken Fancy Silk Quilts. 
 
 187 M. Price Shirts, Collars, Cuffs, &c.
 
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 No Exhibitors. Articles Exhibited. 
 
 188 A. E. Hedden Butterflies and Moths, artistically arranged in 
 
 frame. 
 
 189 James Marks Samples of Graining. 
 
 190 Finter, Biu-hler & Co. . . . Spring Wagons, for express and heavy work. 
 
 191 Warner A- Kadclitfe Buttons, in variety. 
 
 192 do. ....Hooks and Eyes. 
 
 193 do. Fancy Metal Ornaments. 
 
 194 do. Campaign Badges. 
 
 195 do. Picture Nails, in variety, and other articles. 
 
 196 E. G. Koenig Specimens Engraving on Steel, Pistols, &c. 
 
 197 William DeCamp Picture Frames, in variety. 
 
 198 W. L. Starr & Co ^..Patent Trace Buckles, Nickel, Gold and Sil- 
 
 ver Plated. 
 
 199 do. Saddlery Hardware. 
 
 200 Bergerow & Jahnke Rustic Work Flower Stands, &c., in variety. 
 
 2il Gi-e-rorv & Cox Rustic Marble Work. 
 
 21*2 John l"). Fitz-Gerald Varnishes Copal and other varieties. 
 
 203 Martin & Baldwin Patent Step Ladders various sizes. 
 
 204 J. Rompe Architectural Drawings. 
 
 205 Bryant. Stratton & Whit- 
 
 ney Specimens of Penmanship. 
 
 206 E. Balbach & Son Specimens of Refined Gold, Silver 1,000 fine. 
 
 Copper and Lead. 
 
 207 do. Specimens of the various processes in Smelting 
 
 208 do. Specimens of Bullion, as received from the 
 
 Mines, for Smelting. 
 
 209 do. Specimens of rare Minerals, in great variety. 
 
 210 Henry Lefort Hat Sizing Machine. 
 
 211 C. Haidle & Co Pottery Drain Pipes, &c., in variety. 
 
 212 Homer Warden Ink variety of Colors 
 
 213 Gorren & Dengler Photographic Family Register. 
 
 2T4 C. N. Lock wood & Co ..Coach Lamps, in variety. 
 
 215 do. ..Carriage Hardware, in variety, Gold and Sil- 
 
 ver Plated. 
 
 216 William Brotherson Feather Back Mattrass. 
 
 217 D.W.Wilson Pearl Buttons, Studs and Ornaments, in 
 
 variety. 
 
 218 Eagle Winker Co Winkers, Blinds, Fronts, &c. 
 
 219 I >odire A. Meyer Toy Steamboat, in motion. 
 
 220 R. M. Grummon Patent Combination Top Prop. 
 
 221 do. Saddlery and Coach Hardware, Gold, Silver 
 
 and Nickel Plated and Japanned. 
 
 222 Henry J. Weeks Gilt Picture Frames. 
 
 223 Miss Minnie Duncker ...Ladies' Underwear. 
 
 224 Heller, Merz & Co Ultra Marine Blue, " the only manufactory in 
 
 the United States." 
 
 225 do. Colors and Chemicals, in variety. 
 
 226 De \Vitt Stevens Patent Ash Sifter. 
 
 227 do. Medallions, Portraits, in plaster, life size. 
 
 228 do. Plaster Model Dog, life size. 
 
 229 Hinds A: Sou Piano Fortes. 
 
 230 D. V. P. Cadmus Ornamental Sugar Work. 
 
 231 P. H. Vroom Carriage Woodwork Bodies, Wheels,Spokes. 
 
 232 Miss E. C. Woolson Water Color Picture, "Autumn Leaves." 
 
 233 A. Camerer Water Color Picture, " Rural Scene." 
 
 234 F. H. Smith, Jr Shirts, Collars, Cuffs, &c. 
 
 235 Mrs. Lillie M. Spencer ..Oil Painting, "Truth unveiling Falsehood." 
 
 236 do. . . Oil Painting, " We both must Fade." 
 
 237 do. ..Oil Painting, "Innocence." 
 
 238 John W. Bolles Oil Painting, " Mile Standish's Courtship." 
 
 239 J. F. Wilde Steam Engine, five horse power. 
 
 240 Mrs. J. A. McDougal .. .Wax Work, "Autumn Leaves."
 
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 No. Exhibitors. Articles Exhibited. 
 
 241 A. F. Conery Jewelers', Machine and other Brushes, in 
 
 variety, and the process of manufacturing 
 Brushes. 
 
 242 do. Conery's Improved Paint Brusl i. 
 
 243 Mellen & Jacobus Shepherd's Patent Spring Bed Bottom. 
 
 244 John A. Horschell Burglar and Fire Proof Safes. 
 
 245 C. H. & J. D. Harrison .Patent and Enameled Leather, in variety. 
 
 246 H. C. &W. W. Ketcham .Dinner Pail and Lantern combined. 
 
 247 Herman Kreitler Architectural Drawings. 
 
 248 L. Graf & Bro Fine Shoes, 
 
 249 Meeker & Kearney Patent Railroad Switch Frame. 
 
 250 L. F. Hurd Oil Painting, " Ctfft Scene/' by a Boy. 
 
 251 Wright & Smith Three Wright's vlfiable Power Attachments, 
 
 for Sewing Machines. 
 
 252 do. Watch Case Lathes and Benches. 
 
 253 do. Polishing Lathe. 
 
 254 do. Jewelers' Lap. 
 
 255 do. Oval Chucks. 
 
 256 do. Foot Power Scroll ,Saws. 
 
 257 do. Small Power Scroll Saw. 
 
 258 do. Model Vertical Steam Engine. 
 
 259 Lysander Wright Patent Three Wheel Velocipede. 
 
 260 E. Regad Lapidary Work. 
 
 261 W. C. Eaton Photographs, in variety. 
 
 262 do Ferreotypes. 
 
 263 James Traphagen Optical Goods. 
 
 264 Blanchard Bro. & Lane .Patent and Enameled Leather, in variety. 
 
 265 S. Kehl Worsted Work Pictures 
 
 266 Douglas, Sons & Co Furniture Fine Parlor and Bedroom Suites. 
 
 267 E. R. T. Williams Patent Yeast Powder. 
 
 268 John B. Lee Pharmaceutical Preparations, in variety. 
 
 269 B. Myer & Co Plows Road, Stubble, Sub-soil and Corn. 
 
 270 do. Twenty-two inch deep Tiller Plow. 
 
 271 do. Cider Mills. 
 
 272 do. Pulverizing Harrows. 
 
 273 do. Hay, Straw and Stalk Cutters, various sizes. 
 
 274 David Tobin Collection of Rare Coins and Currency. 
 
 275 Charles Beck Piano Fortes. 
 
 276 J . E. White Mourning Goods. 
 
 277 Thomas Dusel Shirts, Collars, Cuffs, &c. 
 
 278 D. G. Griffith Patent Extension Step and Platform Ladders. 
 
 279 Adam Hay Iron Columns, round and square. 
 
 280 do Lamp Posts. 
 
 281 do. Hatters' Flues, square and round. 
 
 282 do. Hatters' Drying- Room Stoves. 
 
 283 do. Dumb Bells, fourteen sizes. 
 
 284 do. Blacksmiths' Tire Irons, two sixes. 
 
 285 do Hatters' Iron Stand. 
 
 286 do Iron Stable Fixtures Partition, Hay Rack 
 
 and Feed Box. 
 
 287 Charles W. Walker Leather Belting, in variety. 
 
 288 Thomas Pole Umbrellas, Parasols, Canes, &c. 
 
 289 W.G.Stewart Patent Water Meter. 
 
 290 Heller & Brothers Files and Rasps. 
 
 291 R. Neumann & Co Traveling Bag and Satchel Frames. 
 
 292 Louis Lang Oil Painting, " Portrait." 
 
 293 Carlewitz & Husk Ornamental Plaster Designs. 
 
 294 A. Turner & Co Tin Ware, in variety. Planished and Japanned. 
 
 295 J. R. Denman Bent Glass, for Carriage and other work. 
 
 298 do. Convex Distorting Mirrors. 
 
 297 do. Glass Kerosene Globes. 
 
 298 do. Glass Lanterns. 
 
 299 do Glass Signs.
 
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 No. Exhibitors. Articles Exhibited. 
 
 300 Mrs. L. A. Lyman Hair Jewelry, in variety. 
 
 301 D. B. Coles & Son Crystals Prussiate Potash. 
 
 302 E. & W. Dixon Jewelers', Machine and other Brushes, in 
 
 variety. 
 
 303 J. Clements &, Bro Riding Bridles, Martingales, &c. 
 
 304 E. B. Hotchkiss Paper Boxes, variety styles and finish. 
 
 305 do. Process of making Paper Boxes. 
 
 306 Tuers & Cooper White Lead and Colors, in great variety. 
 
 307 Mockridge & Son Builders' Tools and Planes, in variety. 
 
 308 S. A. Farrington Reed Organ. 
 
 309 A. Judson & Son Reed Organ. 
 
 310 Atchison & Ogden Drain Pipes and Pottery, in variety. 
 
 311 T. A. Roberts Architectural Drawings. 
 
 312 S. L. Hubbell Patent Clothes Horse. 
 
 313 Bannister & Tichenor ..Fine Boots and Shoes. 
 
 314 do. ..Pair Boots, made by Daniel Bruen, Esq., 50 
 
 years ago. 
 
 315 A. W. Lindsley Plumbing Work. 
 
 316 Kate E. Meeker Worsted Work Portrait of Washington. 
 
 317 John Flock Boot and Shoe Uppers. 
 
 318 W. T. & J. Mersereau ..Stair Rods, twenty -four varieties, Gold and 
 
 Sil ver Plated, Bronze and Brass. 
 
 319 do. ..Metal Bridle Fronts. 
 
 320 do. ..Trunk Hardware. 
 
 321 do. . . Brass Stair Plates, of crescent form. 
 
 322 do. ..Metal Dog Collars. 
 
 323 T. B. Peddie Trunks, Valises, Traveling Bags, Satchels, 
 
 &c., in variety. 
 
 324 H. Sauerbier & Son Saddlers' and Shoemakers' Tools. 
 
 325 do. Tanners' and Curriers' Tools. 
 
 326 do. ....Saddle Press. 
 
 327 do. Imposing Press. 
 
 328 do. Trunk Shears. 
 
 329 do. Trunk Punch . 
 
 330 do. Crimping Machines, for Shoemakers' use. 
 
 331 do. Roll Machine, for Shoemakers. 
 
 332 do. Clock Motor, for Show Windows. 
 
 333 do. Fluting Machines, with variety styles Rollers. 
 
 334 L. Lelong & Brother Gold, Silver and Sweepings, showing the 
 
 various processes of refining from the 
 Sweeps to the pure Gold and Silver. 
 
 335 Adolph O. Decle Artistic Hair Work, forty-three specimens. 
 
 336 Thomas Cressey Architectural Drawings. 
 
 337 John Young & Son Morocco, in variety. 
 
 338 John Charlton Hardware and Mechanics' Tools, in variety. 
 
 339 do. Pinking Irons. 
 
 340 do. Fluting Irons. 
 
 341 do. Patent Breech Loading Cannon. 
 
 342 Surerus & Co Electric Machine. 
 
 343 do. Sausage Filling Machine. 
 
 344 do. Hat Blocking Machines. 
 
 345 Hedges & Brother Plumbers' Brass Work, Nickel and Silver 
 
 Plated and Bras*. 
 
 346 do. Hedges' Patent Self-Closing Faucet. 
 
 347 M. & G. Helmstaedter ..Galvanized Iron Goods. 
 
 348 Reynold & Zahn Martingale Chains, Gold and Silver Plated. 
 
 349 do. Saddlery and Coach Ornaments, Gold and 
 
 Silver Plated and Brass. 
 
 350 David Thompson Carbons, for Electrical Batteries. 
 
 351 Mrs. H. Sutro Worsted Work. 
 
 352 Henry Spiess Fancy Foils, Masks and Gloves. 
 
 353 Goddard Bros. Mfg. Co.. Fancy Brass Ornaments. 
 
 354 do. ..Buttons, in variety.
 
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 No. Exhibitors. Articles Exhibited. 
 
 355 Goddard Bros. Mfg. Co.. Hooks and Eyes. 
 
 356 Charles H. Bright Architectural Drawing*. 
 
 357 Louis Stein Engraving and Design, for Diamond Jewel IT. 
 
 358 F. W. Meeker Wax Work. 
 
 359 do. Bust of Lincoln, in Wax. 
 
 360 Smith & Hedges Furniture " Enameled Bed Room Suites." 
 
 361 Miss Anna M. Dickerson Seed Wreath, artistically arranged. 
 
 362 Edward N. Wrigley . . . .Patent Jack Screws. 
 
 363 Joseph Woodruff Patent Balance Draft Regulator, for Steam 
 
 Boilers. 
 
 364 M. Drummond & Co Patent Refrigerators. 
 
 365 Anton Stolz Patent Lounge*. 
 
 366 Henrietta Horstmaun Wreath and Bouquet, in Hair Work. 
 
 367 W. T. Crane & Co Carriage Bolts, in variety. 
 
 368 John Middleton Newels, Balusters, &c., ornamental and plain. 
 
 369 Browe Brothers & Co ..Gas Fixtures and Chandeliers. 
 
 370 E. C. Meeker Emblems and Views. 
 
 371 C. D. Lathrop Rare Collection of Coins. 
 
 372 Miss S. Carton Wax and Hair Flowers. 
 
 373 Samuel Lagowitz Bag and Satchel Frames, in variety. 
 
 374 John A. McDougal Oil Painting, Landscape. 
 
 375 Bender & Helfrecht Shawl Straps, in variety. 
 
 376 William White Edge Tools, in variety. 
 
 377 Hewson Brothers & Co.. Varnishes Copal and other varieties. 
 
 378 A. Hinman Wax Flowers. 
 
 379 M. Gabriel Carriage Hardware, in variety. 
 
 380 Star Gas Machine Co .... Portable Gas Machine. 
 
 381 Cyrus Currier & Son Paper Machinery. 
 
 382 do. Patent Rubber Valve Stuff Pump. 
 
 383 do. Kingsland's Patent Pulp Engine. 
 
 384 do. Engravers' Trransfer Press. 
 
 385 do. Beacher's Patent Straw Beating Machine. 
 
 386 Pierson & Hermann Hat Blocks. 
 
 387 do. Hatters' Tools, in variety. 
 
 388 C. C. Paxton Wood Mouldings, in variety. 
 
 389 do Floor Clamps. 
 
 390 S. P. Belcher & Co Stained and Bent Glass. 
 
 391 do. Painting on Glass, for Church Windows. 
 
 392 Cole & Ballard Children's Carriages and Sleighs. 
 
 393 Hayden & Osborne Masonic Altar Piece and Candlesticks. 
 
 394 J. H. Balevre Children's Shoes. 
 
 395 Theodore Dufford Harness, Single and Double. 
 
 396 Miss Hattie Demarest Wax Flowers. 
 
 397 Watts, Campbell & Co.. Vertical Steam Engine. 
 
 398 do. . . Horizontal Steam Engine. 
 
 399 do. ..Shafting, Hangers and Pullies. 
 
 400 do. ..Steam Valves and Fittings. 
 
 401 do. ..Assortment of Brass Work. 
 
 402 do. ..Machinists' Tools. 
 
 403 Richardson Brothers Saws Circular and other varieties. 
 
 404 David Walker Patent Self-Rocking Cradles. 
 
 405 do Children's Cribs. 
 
 406 Joseph Kirk Photographs, in variety. 
 
 407 do Photographs. Portraits of Prominent Citizens. 
 
 408 William A. Kipp Specimens of Lithographic Work. 
 
 409 H. B. Kimball Shirts, Collars. Cuffs, &c. 
 
 410 J. B. Van Patten Gas Illuminator. 
 
 41 1 do. Inlaid Work Boxes. 
 
 412 do. Patent Combination Pad Lock. 
 
 413 Ridler & Co Patent Pump Valves, &c. 
 
 414 Edgar Farmer & Co Trunks, Valises, Traveling Bags, Satchels, 
 
 \c., in variety. 
 
 415 Edward Frohner Oil Paintings.
 
 59 
 
 Xo. Exhibitors. Articles Exhibited. 
 
 416 Edward P. Merrett Collection of Rare Minerals. 
 
 417 William C. Creamer Oil Paintings. 
 
 418 Frederick Keer Gilt and Walnut Picture Frames. 
 
 419 B. W. Jeffrey Steam Engines, two-horse power, made by 
 
 two Boys, eighteen years of age. 
 
 420 Belcher, Brother & Co . . Rules and Paper Cutters, in variety. 
 
 421 Miss Hattie Campbell .... Wax Flowers. 
 
 422 F. L. Huff Photographs, in variety. 
 
 423 C. Stengel & Sons Patent and Enameled Leather, in variety. 
 
 424 A. Vincent Horn Buttons, in variety, also specimens of 
 
 the Raw Material. 
 
 425 Hawkins & Dodge Hunt's Concentric Printing Press. 
 
 426 do. " Little Jobber " Printing Press. 
 
 427 do. Lead Cutter, for Printers. 
 
 428 do. Dodge's Section and Force Pump. 
 
 429 do. Mitre Machine, for Wood Mouldings. 
 
 430 do. Blind Slat Wiring Machine. 
 
 431 do. Shafting, Hangers and Pullies. 
 
 432 do. Belt Machine, for Grinding and Polishing 
 
 Wood and Metals. 
 432 } o do. Machinery and Machinists' Tools. 
 
 433 "Taylor & Williams Boots and Shoes, in variety. 
 
 434 Philip Bower Patent Clothes Dryer. 
 
 435 Thomas Gay & Son Artificial Stone. 
 
 436 Miss Ida Stanbery Wax Cross, entwined with Flowers. 
 
 437 R. -Ward & Co Patent and Enameled Leather, in vaiiety. 
 
 438 John Ruckelhaus Bed Lounges. 
 
 439 Alfred F. Munn Cart Harness. 
 
 440 do Saddles, English and American. 
 
 441 J. Walden Waldeii's Patent Shoe Fitting Machine. 
 
 442 George W. Hubert Collection of Rare Coins and Currency. 
 
 443 A. J. Doty Oil Painting, " Fruit." 
 
 444 do Oil Painting, [' Landscape." 
 
 445 Dickinson & Rowden .. .Two Geometrical Engraving Lathes. 
 
 446 McDermit & Looker Furniture -Fine Parlor and Bedroom Suites. 
 
 447 M. Ortel Springs Elliptic, C, Platform, Coach, &c. 
 
 448 David C. McMillen Axles, in variety. 
 
 449 James Marshall & Co Gents' and Boys' Clothing, in suits. 
 
 450 I. D. Weed Brooms, in variety. 
 
 450 *< do Process of manufacturing Brooms. 
 
 451 Wheeler & Crane Saddlery Hardware, Gold, Silver, Crystal 
 
 Pla'ted and Japanned, Wrought Bits, &c. 
 
 452 ^Seymour & Whitlock Seymour's Patent Sash Dove-Tailing Machine. 
 
 453 do. . . . Friction Motor, for driving Sewing Machines. 
 
 454 Miss M. Stanbery Masonic Emblems, in Wax, with Flowers. 
 
 455 Hoi-ace Harris Patent Perpetual Calendar. 
 
 456 G. W. Gorum Patent Liquid Measurer. 
 
 457 E. Simon & Brothers Trunks, Valises, Traveling Bags, Satchels 
 
 and Sportsmen's Goods, in variety. 
 
 458 do. Patent Trunk, Cradle and Bath Tub com- 
 
 bined. 
 
 459 The Singer Man'f 'g Co . . Sewing Machine Twist, artistically arranged, 
 
 also the Raw Material, through the dif- 
 ferent stages of manufacture. 
 
 460 Albreoht & Koch Specimens of Book Binding. 
 
 461 John Y. Johnson Files and Rasps, in variety. 
 
 462 T. W. R. Rayuor Patent Tin Washing machine. 
 
 463 L. R. Sanders Church and Hotel Lanterns. 
 
 464 do. Patent Machine for administering Medicine to 
 
 Horses. 
 
 465 Christopher Roberts Fancy Rubber Goods, for Stationers and 
 
 Druggists, three hundred varieties. 
 
 466 Peter W. Weida Smoothing and Polishing Irons, Nickel Plated.
 
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 No. Exhibitors. Articles Exhibited. 
 
 467 Charles Munson Natural Flowers and Plants. 
 
 468 H. Stanbery Specimen of Sign Writing. 
 
 469 Lowrie, Clawson&TuckerFluting Machines, assorted sizes. 
 
 470 Joseph Manz List Carpets. 
 
 471 Benjamin Frazee Patent Window Sash and Frame. 
 
 472 Mi H. M. T. Dcvine Paper Dress Patterns. 
 
 473 Adam Helmstaedter Wood Turning, in variely. 
 
 474 Misses Best Millinery and Fancy Goo'ds. 
 
 475 Mui ry & Edison Telegraph Instruments. 
 
 476 Bolen, Crane & Co Steam Pump. 
 
 477 do. Bolt Cutter, steam power. 
 
 478 A.Albright Hard Rubber Coated Harness and Carriage 
 
 Mountings, " only Manufactory in the 
 W T orld." 
 
 479 Julius Pape Signs and Show Cards. 
 
 480 Mary Saubott Agricultural Wreath, in frame of Leather. 
 
 481 Mrs, Arnold Embroidery. 
 
 482 Mrs. H. F. Osborne Fancy Quilt, Specimen of Hand Needle Work. 
 
 483 August Becker Lapidary Work, in varietv. 
 
 484 Frederick Schrafft Variety 'of Rare Plants. 
 
 485 Benjamin Atha & Co Harr.mered and Rolled Cast Steel, ingots and 
 
 bars. 
 
 486 William Dietrichsen Photographs, in variety. 
 
 487 George W. Marshall Saddles Gig, Express and Coupe. 
 
 488 Charles G. Campbell Gilt and Walnut Picture Frames, in variety. 
 
 489 do. Pier Glass, Mirror and Mantel Glass Frames. 
 
 490 Frederick Rieker Fine Confectionery and Sugar Work. 
 
 491 Thomas Jones Oil Painting, '' The Donnybrook Jig." 
 
 492 J. J. Spurr Marble Bust of Abraham Lincoln. 
 
 493 do Marble Mantels. 
 
 494 do Mosaic Inlaid Table. 
 
 495 J. G. Beitl Paintings and Drawings. 
 
 496 David M. Meeker Malleable and Gray Iron Castings, in variety. 
 
 497 do. Brass and Composition Castings, in variety. 
 
 498 'do. Mill Castings. 
 
 499 do. Patent Stamp Presses. 
 
 500 do. Appliance for Splicing Wire Rope. 
 
 501 do. Patent Carriage Umbrella Holder. 
 
 do. Patent Tube Scraper. 
 
 503 do. Attachment, for Sewing Machine. 
 
 504 Kirkpatrick & Ailing .... Shirts, Collars and Cuffs. 
 
 05 S. G. Sturges, Son & Co. Buckles, Hames, &c., Silver and Crystal 
 Plated and Japanned. 
 
 506 . do. .Saddlery Hardware. 
 
 507 Oliver B. Marsh Astronomical Clock. 
 
 508 do. Eight Day Watch, Movement of Steel, Chro- 
 
 nometer Escapement. 
 
 509 R. Heinisch's Sons Heinisch's Patent Tailor Shears. 
 
 510 do. Trimmers and Scissors. 
 
 511 do. Razors. 
 
 512 James Crisp Mills' Patent Adjustable Treadles, tor Sewing 
 
 Machines. 
 
 513 L. B. Miller Mattrasses, in variety. 
 
 514 M. Gould's Sons Stair Rods, with Patent Fastenings, in variety, 
 
 Gold, Silver, Bronze and Lacquered. 
 
 515 William J. Dudley Fine Boots and Shoes. 
 
 516 H. F. Wood Oil Paintings. 
 
 do. Photographs, in variety. 
 
 518 do. Porcelain Pictures, in variety. 
 
 519 P. S. Van Patten Flavoring Extracts. 
 
 520 S. B. Greacen Model of Propeller Engine, of Steel. 
 
 521 Dowden & Brother Dowden's Prepared Flour. 
 
 522 * P. Lowentraut Mechanics' Tools, in variety.
 
 61 
 
 No. Exhibitors. Articles Exhibited. 
 
 523 Mrs. Jam.es Holmes Worsted Work, " Flowers." 
 
 524 do. Worsted "Work, " Animals." 
 
 525 Samuel Patterson The Attractor, a Novel Game of Marbles, 
 
 equally attractive for Adults as Children. 
 
 526 T.W. & G. Bodenschatz. Copper Range Boilers. 
 
 527 A. Buermaim Mexican Bits and Spurs, Nickel and Silver 
 
 Plated. 
 
 528 Caroline Winkler Worsted Work, " Moses Delivering' the Ten 
 
 Commandments.'' 
 
 529 William H. Hedden Lemon Tree, laden with Fruit. 
 
 nHO John R. S. Denton Sea Shells and Shell Work, in extensive va- 
 riety. 
 
 531 William H. Campbell Elevators, for Hotels, Dwellings, Ware- 
 
 houses, &c. 
 
 532 Mrs. J. W. Hawn Millinery Goods. 
 
 533 William King & Co Paper Boxes. 
 
 534 Charles Upton Segars, in variety. 
 
 535 D. & . G. Delany Springs C, Coach, Elliptic, &c. 
 
 536 S. B. & M. C. Crane Wood Hames, in variety. 
 
 537 Thomas Van Wagoner ..Target Rifle, ' Stock made from wood grown 
 
 in Newark." 
 
 538 Bless & Drake Sad Iron, self-heating and other styles. 
 
 539 Stauiar & Laffey Brass and Copper Wire Cloth, Rope and 
 
 Twine, in variety, also the Raw Material 
 of Copper and Zinc, and running through 
 the various stages to manufactured Cloth. 
 r>4<) William F. Rowden Steam Engine, one-halt horse power. 
 
 541 N. J. Demarest & Co .... Harness and Saddlery. 
 
 542 Joseph Christl Fine Metal Carving, " Battle of Bunker Hill." 
 
 543 do. Medallion, " Portrait of Washington." 
 
 544 do. Medallion, "Portrait of Lincoln." 
 
 545 Charles Voigt Natural Flowers and Plants. 
 
 546 Adelia Cone Fancy Calico Quilts. 
 
 547 Bradford Peck Oil Painting, " Portrait." 
 
 548 E. A. Young Brooms, in variety. 
 
 549 Man* J. Conkliu Fancy Quilt. 
 
 550 J. W. Stickel Dental Material and Artificial Teeth. 
 
 551 Edward S. Clymer Miniature Ship and Yacht. 
 
 552 August Doru * Fancy Scroll Work, in variety. 
 
 553 Mary J. Creamer Oil Painting. 
 
 554 Mrs. E. A. Graham Oil Painting. 
 
 555 E. & R. J. Gould Lathe. 
 
 556 do. Twenty-four inch Gear Cutter. 
 
 557 do. One and one-quarter inch Bolt Cutter. 
 
 558 do. Sixteen inch Drill Press, with S. 
 
 559 R. J. Gould Steam Fire Engine, second-class, with Gould's 
 
 Patent Double Pump. 
 
 560 Matthew Waters Specimens of rich Gold, Silver, Lead and Cop- 
 
 per Ores. 
 
 561 do. Jewelers' Sweepings, with the different pro- 
 
 cesses passed through before the pure 
 Gold and Silver could be obtained. 
 
 562 Sargeant Man'f'g Co. ...Novelty Gig Trees (new), with Pads and 
 
 Saddles. 
 
 563 do. Cole's Wedge Tongue Trace Buckles. 
 
 564 do. Saddlery Hardware, in variety. 
 
 565 Hewes & Phillips Upright Boring Mill. 
 
 566 do. Gear Cutting Machines. 
 
 567 do. Nine and tnirteen inch Shaping Machines, 
 
 with circular motion. 
 
 568 do. Twel ve inch Lathe. 
 
 569 do. Pipe Cutter. 
 
 570 do. Planing Machine, cross head.
 
 62 
 
 No. Exhibitors. Articles Exhibited. 
 
 571 Hewes & Phillips Fourteen and eighteen inch Chucks. 
 
 572 do. One and one-half, two. three, four inch Kx- 
 
 pansion Taps. 
 
 573 do. Hewes' Patent Self-Cleaning Water Stops. 
 
 574 do. Hydrants. 
 
 575 do. Brass Goods, in variety. 
 
 576 do. Four engravings of the original Engine made 
 
 by Seth Boyden. 
 
 577 do. Engravings, " Monitor." 
 
 578 do. Engraving, " Machinery of a Steamer." 
 
 579 E. C. Duelly Confectionery. 
 
 580 George D. DeVore Patent Cloth Measurer. 
 
 581 B. Osborne Patent Paper Boxes, for Ice Cream, Confec- 
 
 tionery, &c. 
 
 582 Mrs. A very Smith Moss Cottage. 
 
 583 S. A. Darrach Patent Four Wheel Crutch, for Invalids. 
 
 584 Mrs. D. Hunter Hair Work Jewelry, Wigs, Curls, &c. 
 
 585 William M. Edwards Brass Faucets, in variety. 
 
 586 Hinman & Walsh Mourning Goods. 
 
 587 John Stewart Specimens of Scraping on Surface Plates 
 
 588 Smith & Ten-ell Bobbin Machines. 
 
 589 M. C. Burt Miniature Ship, Full Kigged, Standing Rig- 
 
 ging of Copper Wire. 
 
 590 H. C. Ball Door Plat; s, Silver Plated, in variety 
 
 591 J. H. G. Hawes Wash Bowl and Stand, complete. 
 
 592 do. Water Closet, complete. 
 
 593 do. Bathing Apparatus, complete. 
 
 594 Morns & Doty Comfortables and Bed Spreads. 
 
 595 E. H. Landell " Grant Tent." 
 
 593 do. .Awnings, Flags, &c. 
 
 597 Casper Birkle .Hand Carving Brackets, Heads, &c. 
 
 598 Henry Haurey Coyle's Patent Flue Brushes. 
 
 599 Emma Carhuff Wax Flowers. 
 
 600 Ella Doremus W T reath of Wax Flowers. 
 
 601 Frederick P. Fowle Lead Pencil Drawing. 
 
 602 Westervelt & Hapward. . Specimen of Sign Writing. 
 
 603 Pellet & Conover Rustic Work, in variety. 
 
 604 E. H. Hammond Chalk Crayons, for Schools. 
 
 605 John Jelliff & Co Fine Furniture, in variety. 
 
 606 George Post . Specimens of Wood Carving 
 
 607 Washoe Tool Co Miners' Tools Picks, &c. 
 
 608 Nettie Scarlett Fancy Quilt. 
 
 609 Sarah Price Fancy Quilts. 
 
 610 Christopher Sippel Ivory and Wood Turning, for Carriage Work, 
 
 &c. 
 
 611 Charles Oppel Segar Boxes. 
 
 612 i William J. Aschenbach .. Harness. 
 
 613 Sinclair & McClellan Spool Cotton. 
 
 614 Clough, Kendall & Co.. -Stationers' Fancy Goods. 
 
 615 J. T. Crane, Jr Specimen Crayon Drawing. 
 
 616 Charles Waterbury Rustic Picture. 
 
 617 M. B. Tidcy Sash, Blind and Doormakers' Variety Ma- 
 
 chine, with five Attachments. 
 
 618 do. Circular Saw Table, with eleven Attachments. 
 
 619 do. Adjustable Counter Sh:ift. 
 
 620 do. Pendulum or Swing Cross-cut Saw. 
 
 621 Erastus W. Roff Moulding Machine, with power. 
 
 622 Katherine Horter Worsted Work " Picture." 
 
 623 James G. Lucas^ Lucas' Patent Adjustable Copy Holder. 
 
 624 Passmore & Meeker ....Marble Mantels. 
 
 625 Emma J. Coles Pond Lilies, in wax. 
 
 626 Macknet, Wilson & Co. . .General Hardware. 
 
 627 Theodore M. Ely Machinery Oils.
 
 63 
 
 No. Exhibitors. Articles Exhibited. 
 
 6*28 James M. Quinby & Co.Landaulett on Combination Springe. 
 
 629 do. .Light six-seat, one-half top Phaeton. 
 
 630 do. .Liijht four-seat, extension Top Phaeton. 
 
 631 do. .Two Side Bar Top Buggies, weight 140 and 
 
 142 pounds. 
 
 632 William H. Cleveland.. .Crayon Picture. 
 
 633 Frank Wilson Miniature Ship. 
 
 634 C. Lawrenz Machine for administering Medicine to Horses. 
 
 635 Stevens. Roberts & Havell,Portmonnaie and Satchel Frames. 
 
 636 do. Steel Buttons. 
 
 637 do. Steel Hat Buckles. 
 
 638 do. Steel Satchel Locks. 
 
 639 do. Button Hooks. 
 
 640 do. Belt and Gaiter Clasps, 
 
 641 do. Trunk and Bag Trimmings. 
 
 642 do. Patent Skates. 
 
 643 do. Pinking Irons. 
 
 644 Miss Eveline L. Dennis.. Fine Afghan. 
 
 645 do. . . Hair Wreath. 
 
 646 Ward, Huntington & 
 
 Dunham Trunk Boxes, Wood Mouldings and Brackets. 
 
 647 William R. Withers Patent Toy Ball Tosser. 
 
 648 C. H. Tyler Tents, Awnings and Flags. 
 
 649 R. A. Hutchinson Patent Grate Bars. 
 
 650 Stephen Grimes Washing Machines. 
 
 651 Hartmann, Schuetz & Co. Fine Jewelry. 
 
 652 Golder & Post Landau. 
 
 653 do Brett. 
 
 654 do Close Quarter Coach. 
 
 655 do. Two Piano Body Buggies. 
 
 656 William King & Co Doors, Sashes, Blinds, Scroll W r ork, Brack- 
 
 ets, &c. 
 
 657 ^Charles Courtois Oil Painting, " Basket Peaches," by Bennett. 
 
 0;> do. Oil Painting, " Parepa Rosa," by G. Gerhard. 
 
 659 do. Oil Painting, " The Old Church," by Wm. M 
 
 Brown. 
 
 660 do. Oil Painting, " The Tale," by Wm. M.Brown. 
 
 661 do. Oil Painting, " View on Long Island," do. 
 
 662 do. Oil Painting, " Study of Oxhearts," do. 
 
 663 do. Oil Painting, " Sheep," by Coe A. Drake. 
 
 664 do Oil Painting, " Shady Brook," do. 
 
 665 do. Oil Painting, " Kitten," do. 
 
 666 do. Oil Painting, "Summer," by John Hagny. 
 
 667 do. Oil Painting, Washington's " Copy of Gilbert 
 
 Stuarts," by John Hagny. 
 
 668 do. Oil Painting, "View on the Passaic," by J. 
 
 Hagny. 
 
 669 Frederick Keifer Galleric Settings and Mountings for Jewels, 
 
 670 Ishain Peterson Washing Soap. 
 
 671 Frederick E. Johnson .. .Upright Steam Engines. 
 
 672 Chas. H. Shipman'& Bro. Varnishes Copal and other varieties. 
 
 673 E. P. Spahn Oil Paintings, Portraits. 
 
 674 do Photographs. 
 
 675 Isaac B. Kilburn Carriage Bent Work Rims, Bows, &c. 
 
 676 Danklesson, Brack & 
 
 Schaffer Wood Turning, in variety. 
 
 677 George Peters Patent Harness Pads. 
 
 678 do. Saddles, American and Mexican. 
 
 679 Mrs. Arnold Fancy Caps. 
 
 680 Elmer C. Ward Lead Pencil Drawing. 
 
 681 B. Assman Hatters' Kettle. 
 
 682 do Copper Pans, &c., for Jewelers. 
 
 683 Charles B. Smith Chemists' and Druggists' Articles.
 
 64 
 
 No. Exhibitors. Articles Exhibited. 
 
 684 James G. It-win Gold Pens and Gold and Silver Pencil Cases. 
 
 685 E. C. Robertson Varnishes Copal and other varieties. 
 
 686 George A. Schachtel Patent Extension Platform Step Ladder. 
 
 687 John W. Dennison Steam Fire Engine. 
 
 688 Mrs. Maria Kirk patrick.. Shell Flowers, artistically arranged. 
 
 689 J. Cole Model Full Rigged Ship. 
 
 690 S. B. Miller & Co Well Pumps. 
 
 691 C. F. Eichhorn Two Oil Paintings. ' ' Fruit." 
 
 692 Joseph Beitl Bust, " Seth Boy den." 
 
 693 Charles Leroy Plain and Broche Shawls, " the only Broche 
 
 Shawl manufactory in the country." 
 
 694 Maria Dusel Fancy Rosettes. 
 
 695 George Donack Tubs* Well Buckets and Kegs. 
 
 696 John Roberts Self-Balancing Window. 
 
 697 Helen Hune Fancy Tidies. 
 
 698 Elenora Geiger Sample Tidy. 
 
 699 New Jersey Zinc Co Spelter. 
 
 700 do. Samples Oxide of Zinc. 
 
 701 do. Samples Zinc Ore. 
 
 702 do. Franklinite or Speigelisen. 
 
 703 Aaron B. Williams Patent Double Action Spring. 
 
 704 Arnold Shaw Patent Hangings, for Sliding Doors. 
 
 705 A. B. Underwood Crystal Pens and Indelible Ink. 
 
 706 Henry Taylor Platfonn Spring Wagon. 
 
 707 J. Colyer & Co Prince Albert Phaeton. 
 
 708 do. Extension Top Cabriolet. 
 
 709 do. Track Sulky (56 Pounds). 
 
 710 do. Doctor's Phaeton. 
 
 711 do. Top Buggy. 
 
 712 do. Skeleton Wagon. 
 
 713 do. Short Top Brett. 
 
 714 John P. Brooks Chair Couplings or Portable Settees. 
 
 715 Phineas Jones & Co Wheels, Spokes, &c. % 
 
 716 Phineas Jones Jones' Patent Hub. 
 
 717 Eagle & Allen Plastic Slate Roofing. 
 
 718 Charles S. Weldon Model No Top Trotting Buggy. 
 
 719 Kassian Wagner Specimen of Wood Carving, "Amazon and 
 
 Lion." 
 
 720 do. Silk Spindle in Bottle, very ingenious. 
 
 721 Taylor Brothers Mattrasses, Pillows and Bolsters. 
 
 722 Sommer & Co Fluting Machines. 
 
 723 Theo. F. Johnson & Co. . Coffee, Spices and Baking Powder. 
 
 724 Terence Devine Specimen of Cut Glass.for Doors and Windows 
 
 725 Lutz & Schultheis ...... Balusters, Newels, Hitching Posts, &c. 
 
 726 George Gerhard Oil Painting, Portrait " Groff and Lady." 
 
 727 do. Oil Painting, ' ' Portrait . " 
 
 728 Nenninger & Son Table and Stair Oil Cloth, in variety. 
 
 729 Lillie Desosway Crochet Tidy. 
 
 730 Walter M. Conger Conger's Patent Stove Platforms, in variety. 
 
 731 William S. Meeker Boot and Shoe Uppers. 
 
 732 Riley & Lynch Fancy Gilt, Steel and Brass Ornaments. 
 
 733 do. " Masonic Emblems. 
 
 734 do. Campaign Badges. 
 
 735 do. Military Trimmings. 
 
 736 do. Pond Lillies, in Wax. 
 
 737 Miss C. Sherwood Wax Cross. 
 
 738 Louisa J. Martz Wax Flowers. 
 
 739 Catharine Horn Wax Fruit. 
 
 740 do. Worsted Picture. 
 
 741 do. ...Hair Picture. 
 
 742 John G. Crawford Segars, in variety. 
 
 743 Katy Sauerwein Large Counterpane. 
 
 744 William Discho Improved Patent Culinary Boiler or Steamer.
 
 65 
 
 No. Exhibitors. Articles Exhibited. 
 
 745 Miss Huttie Sunders .... Wreath and Cross, in Wax. 
 
 748 Michael Schnitzer Fancy Walnut Bird Cages. 
 
 737 Leverich &- Enders Piano Box, Side Bar Trotting Buggy, weight 
 
 135 pounds. 
 71- do. Prince Albert Phaeton. 
 
 749 do. Park Phaeton (for four persons). 
 
 750 do. Sundown Platform Carriage, pole and shafts. 
 
 751 do. Three-quarter Coup^ Clarence Platform Car- 
 
 riage, pole and shafts. 
 
 7. r rt> do. Light Top, Side Bar Buggy, weight 250 
 
 pounds. 
 
 753 Will i-mi B. Douglass Patent Whittietree Coupling. 
 
 754 Anna G. W. Kane Oil Pointing, " The First Lesson." 
 
 755 William James & Co Morticed Hubs, in variety. 
 
 756 William Steveley & Co.. Carriage Bent Work, in variety. 
 
 757 do. ..Wheels and Spokes. 
 
 758 Isaac P. Frink Prismatic Reflecting Chandelier, for Parlors. 
 
 759 Emma L. Curtis Fancy Qm'lt. 
 
 761 1 Rue & McKechnie Files and Rasps. 
 
 761 Charles Garrabrant Fine Boots and Shoes. 
 
 76'<J Clark Thread Co Automatic Spooling Machine, in motion. 
 
 763 do. Machine for Turning Spools, in motion. 
 
 7R4 do. Spool Cotton, also the Raw Material in the 
 
 different stages of manufacture. 
 
 7;i"> Mrs. Benjamin J. Mayo.. Pond Lillies, in Wax, 
 
 736 Patrick Murphy Patent Horse Shoes, for Race Horses, &c. 
 
 737 Elizabeth Stager Seed Flowers, artistically arranged. 
 
 768 J. B. Cockefair Specimen of Marbleizing. 
 
 769 Newark Lime and Cement 
 
 Company Farmers' Plaster. 
 
 770 do.' Cement. 
 
 771 do Calcined Plaster. 
 
 772 do Dentists' Plaster. 
 
 773 Manhattan Cloth & Paper 
 
 Company Specimens of Russialine Goods, imitation of 
 
 Leather, made from Paper. 
 
 John C. Crane Vase Silkworm Cocoons. 
 
 Batten, Downing & Co.. Ornamental Enameled Window Glass. 
 Wm. J. Gunning & Co.. Composition Boxes. 
 777 Miss Sophie B. Ricord.. .Life Size Bust of her Father, Hon. F. W. 
 
 Ricord, Mayor of Newark. 
 77 1* .John M. Enzingmuller ..Oil Painting, "'Death of Abel." 
 
 779 do. ..Oil Painting, "Christ in the Temple." 
 
 780 do. . . Steel Engraving, " History of the United 
 
 States." 
 
 781 C. H. Leonard Looking Glass and Picture Frames, in variety. 
 
 78-J Sam'l Hall's Sons & Co. .Doyle's Patent Pulley Block. 
 
 783 Atlas Manufacturing Co. .Two Wool Burring Machines. 
 
 7^4 Yates, Wharton & Co ...Gents' Felt Hats, in variety, also the Raw 
 
 Material through the different stages of 
 
 manufacture. 
 
 785 Mrs. A. Mace Wax Cross. 
 
 786 L. Van Buskirk Patent Clothes Dryer. 
 
 787 Joseph W. Van Sant Reversible Oscillating Steam Engine. 
 
 788 Henry T. Peck Artificial Teeth and Dentists' Goods. 
 
 7S9 Halsej Patent Box and 
 
 Ca'se Co Vulcanized Rubber Watch Cases and Lockets, 
 
 " the only Manufactory in the United 
 States." 
 7 ( J( W. F. Bauer .*. Steel Restorative Compound. 
 
 791 Charles Schopfer Cooperage Barrels, one, one-half, one-quar- 
 
 ter and one-sixth size. 
 
 792 do. Churning Machines.
 
 66 
 
 No. Exhibitors. Articles Exhibited. 
 
 793 Charles Schopfer ........ Patent Tub, for Pickling Cabbage. 
 
 794 Miss Mary Maynard ____ Hand Knit Curtain, by a Lady eighty years 
 
 of age. 
 
 795 do. ____ Three Hand Knit Tidies, by same Lady. 
 
 796 John Geiger ....... . . ___ Files and Rasps, in variety. 
 
 797 John H. Edwards ....... Patent Clothes Dryer. 
 
 798 Julius Bartos ........... Crayon Portrait, *' General Grant." 
 
 799 Miss Bertha Locher ..... Flowers and Wreath, in Wax. 
 
 800 J. F. Dodd ............. Crystal Prussiate Potash. 
 
 801 Benedict & Mitchell ____ Patent Trunk Buckles and Loops. 
 
 802 Mrs. G H. Bannister ____ Flowers, in Wax. 
 
 803 James H. Thomas ....... Machinery Oils. 
 
 804 A. Matzinger ........... Crayon Drawing. 
 
 805 Noon Brothers .......... Conger's Patent Water Filter. 
 
 806 Nicholas Groel .......... Patent Trunk and Life Boat, combined. 
 
 807 Thomas Ring ........... Model Full Rigged Yacht. 
 
 808 Michael Sheridan ....... Horse Shoes, for Winter and Summer use. 
 
 809 Jones Manufacturing Co. Patent Scraper Plane. 
 
 810 do. .Double Action Work Holder, for Woodwork- 
 
 ers' Bench. 
 
 811 do. -Patent Gem Laundry Irons. 
 
 812 Stephen B. Sanders ..... Platform Barouche. 
 
 813 do. ..... Perch Barouche. 
 
 814 Dobbins & Van Ness ____ Square Box Buggy. 
 
 815 Augustus Will .......... Bouquet, in Hair. 
 
 816 G. W. Scardefield ....... Oil Paintings, by McDougal. 
 
 817 do. ....... Burnishing Stones, in variety. 
 
 819 Mrs. H. M. Cook ....... Agricultural Wreath. 
 
 820 Passmore & Meeker ..... Specimens of California Marble. 
 
 821 Sarah Price ............ Carriage Robe. 
 
 822 Mrs. Wm. B. Archer ____ Worsted Picture, "Mary Queen of Scots, la- 
 
 menting the Death of the dying Douglass.'' 
 
 823 James R. Say re, Jr. &Co . Marble Dust. 
 
 824 do. .Calcined Plaster. 
 
 825 do. .Hydraulic Cement. 
 do. .Fire Brick. 
 
 826 "Thomas Van Wagoner.. .Patent Skates. 
 
 827 do. ...Patent Shade Roller. 
 
 828 do. ...Patent Jewelers' Benches. 
 
 829 Turner & Brown ....... Extension Tables. 
 
 830 Dr. J. Weigand ........ Specimens of Dentistry. 
 
 831 W. L. Fish ............ Patent Sewing Machine Attachment. 
 
 832 Mrs. E. C. Woolsou ..... Water Color Picture, " Fruit." 
 
 833 do. ..... Water Color Picture, ' ' Flowers." 
 
 834 do. ...... Water Color Picture, " Easter Morning." 
 
 835 Aaron H. Roff .......... Pair of Boots, joined together as one, without 
 
 seam. 
 
 836 W. L. Chase & Co ...... Foot Lathe. 
 
 837 do. ...... Adj ustable Scroll Saw. 
 
 838 do. ' ...... Adj ustable Slide Rest. 
 
 839 John Sommer .......... Wood Faucets, in variety. 
 
 840 Wm. Drummond & Son .Patent Ash Sifter. 
 
 841 W. H. Coates .......... Harp and Flowers, in Wax. 
 
 842 C. Nugent & Co ........ Morocco, in variety. 
 
 843 do. ........ Alligator Skins, Tanned and Finished. 
 
 844 Jeremiah O'Rourke. .... .Perspective Views, " Interior Roman Catholic 
 
 Cathedral." 
 
 845 do. ...... "Bishop's Palace, Newark." 
 
 846 do. ...... " New St. Joseph's Church, Newark." 
 
 847 do. ...... " Seton Hall College." 
 
 848 do. ...... View of Hospital Sisters of Charity, of St. 
 
 Paul's Church, Princeton. N. J. 
 
 849 do. ...... View Interior same Building.
 
 67 
 
 No. Exhibitors. Articles Exhibited. 
 
 850 do. Crayon Drawing, "Lady in the time of 
 
 Henry VIII." 
 
 851 do. Crayon Drawing, " Turkish Prince." 
 
 852 Charles Foect Calla Plant. 
 
 853 Henry F. Edwards Model of Schooner, Full Eigged. 
 
 854 John E. McGrath Pearl Buttons, in variety. 
 
 855 A. E. Hedden Taxidermy Butcher Bird and Sparrow. 
 
 856 A. Bertram Architectural Drawing. 
 
 857 M. Gabriel Huh Bands, Gold and Silver Plated. 
 
 858 Bosch Brothers Door Locks, in variety. 
 
 859 do. Door Plates.Knobs and Numbers, Silver Plated. 
 
 860 C. O. Ripley Telegraph Arms, Brackets and Pins. 
 
 861 do. " Base Ball Bats, &c. 
 
 86-2 William Blum Patent Harness and Trace Buckles. 
 
 863 Theresa Korb Afghan. 
 
 864 P. W. Vail & Co Gents' Felt Hats and Hat Materials, from the 
 
 Fine Fur to the manufactured article. 
 
 865 T. P. Howell & Co Fancy Wool Mats, in variety. 
 
 866 do. Fancy Wool Foot Muffs. 
 
 867 Corey & Stewart Hats. Caps, Furs, dec. 
 
 868 Daniel Troxell Child's Carriage, with Patent Brake. 
 
 869 E. S. Nelson (colored) . .Gold Ear Drops and Knobs. 
 
 870 I. W. Nuttman Oil Painting, " Fruits." 
 
 871 do. Chinese Fan, cut from one piece of wood. 
 
 S7-> Miss Elizabeth Neumann. Worsted Work Slippers. 
 
 873 Miss Abby Dodd Burr Picture Frames. 
 
 874 E. A. Underwood Photographic Views, "Keaper, Binder and 
 
 Mower." 
 
 875 Howard W. Ilsley Drawing, "Locomotive Engine.'' 
 
 876 John Hough Ancient Castle, composed of Metal.
 
 The following is a copy of Agreement of Subscribers to the 
 Enterprise : 
 
 The undersigned, believing an Exhibition of the Products of Newark 
 Industry exclusively ; to be held at the Rink Grounds in August next, at a 
 season of the year when customers and strangers from all parts of the world 
 visit the City of New York ; and the attractive features of a NEWARK EXHI- 
 BITION, where would be brought together the great variety of Newark Manu- 
 factures (the extent of which in no other manner can be realized), would draw 
 to this city a multitude of visitors, thereby adding wealth in various ways, 
 and be beneficial, not only to the public in general, but to the great MANU- 
 FACTURING IXTKKESTS through which Newark holds its rank ; 
 
 Therefore, we do hereby agree to place in the aforesaid Exhibition, articles 
 of our own manufacture, and 
 
 To further the aforesaid Exhibition, we do hereby agree to pay the amount 
 opposite our respective names, or such per cent, of the same as may be re- 
 quired. 
 
 The par value of each share to be twenty -five (25) dollars, and all persons 
 subscribing that sum to become Shareholders. 
 
 The Shareholders to elect from their number a Boaul of Managers, and they, 
 such other officers as they may deem expedient for the management, of the 
 said Exhibition, at a meeting of said Shareholders to be called by notice duly 
 given through the public press ; at which meeting the election shall be decided 
 by a majority of the Shareholders then and there represented. 
 
 To the end that the benefits arising from said Exhibition may be still fur- 
 ther extended, we do agree that after all expenses of the said Exhibition are 
 paid, the sum of one hundred (100) dollars (or more, as a majority of the 
 
 each of t 
 
 hares represented may determine), shall be donated to each of the several 
 Benevolent Institutions of this City, to ' 
 
 Michael's Hospital," ' Newark Orphan 
 
 Benevolent Institutions of this City, to wit : " St. Barnabas' Hospital," "St. 
 n Asylum, " Foster Home," "German 
 
 Hospital," " Home for Aged Women," "Female Charitable Society," " St. 
 Mary's Orphan Asylum," " Boy's Lodging House," and " Home for the 
 Friendless ;" the surplus to be divided pro rata among the Shareholders. 
 
 The restrictive character of the said Exhibition, as to the entries of articles, 
 is understood not to apply to particular individuals or branches of Manufac- 
 ture, but is opened to all citizens, all branches of industry of Newark, subject 
 to such rules and regulations as the said Board of Managers may prescribe. 
 
 The following Circulars were also prepared and extensively 
 circulated: 
 
 meeting of the citizens of Newark, held in Library Hall on Wednesday 
 g, April 3d. the Mayor, F. W. RicoRD, presiding, the project of a 
 
 Atai 
 evening, 
 
 Newark Industrial Exhibition was heartily indorsed, and it was unanimously 
 decided to hold an Exhibition of Newark "industries. At a subsequent meet- 
 ing of subscribers, a Board of Managers was chosen, who organized and 
 elected permanent officers of the Institution. 
 
 The design of this enterprise is : 
 
 First. To inaugurate a series of Annual Exhibitions at which the mechan- 
 ical ait of the citv nt' Newark, in all its departments, may be shown upon an 
 extended scale, and under circumstances most favorable" for comparison and 
 study similar in character to those so successful in Birmingham and 
 Manchester.
 
 69 
 
 Second. To demonstrate that in the city of Newark, with a population of 
 115,000, there are, to he found productions embracing almost the entire range 
 of man's handicraft. 
 
 The geographical position of Newark is peculiarly favorable for manufac- 
 turing, being adjacent to the great city of New York, while its facilities for 
 transportation and travel at all times, by rail, water or free road communica- 
 tion, are unequalled in this country. 
 
 The Exhibition will be held at the Rink, the location of which is unexcep- 
 tionable, while its size and construction, together with the adjacent grounds, 
 will afford an excellent opportunity for display, comfort and security. 
 
 Ample steam power will be provided, thus securing the advantages of dis- 
 playing machinery in full operation, also everything necessary for the accom- 
 modation of exhibitors. 
 
 The restrictive character of the Exhibition as to the entries of articles, is not 
 to apply to particular individuals or branches of manufacture, but it is open to 
 all citizens, all branches of industry of Newark, subject to such rules as the 
 Boaid of Managers- may prescribe.' 
 
 The mechanic, the inventor, the manufacturer, the artist and others of 
 Newark are invited to bring the products of their minds and industry, from 
 the mighty engine to the delicate productions of the female hand. 
 
 The distribution of medals and the award of premiums of whatsoever kind 
 to exhibitors having been dispensed with, will enable all to present their 
 manufactures and productions to the public view upon their respective merits, 
 and without fear of biased judgment or unjust comparison. 
 
 In its conception it is liberal. While its doors are open to exhibitors with- 
 out price, it enables the manufacturer wrth limited means (by subscribing for 
 one or more shares) to reap a benefit from the surplus he helps to create, 
 aside from the publicity it gives his name and business. 
 
 The shares are but twenty-five (25) dollars each, ten per cent, of same to 
 be paid the first of July. 
 
 This Exhibition is intended for the benefit of Newark, to stimulate all 
 branches of industry hence the Board of Managers deem it for the best 
 interests of our city that there should be a full representation of all its produc- 
 tions. They do therefore earnestly request all who feel an interest in our 
 progress and future prosperity, to make this, the first Exhibition of Newark 
 Industries, a success so complete that it will appear before the world as one 
 worthy of the city. This can be done by every one within its limits who 
 manufactures any article whatsoever, placing such upon exhibition. All 
 should therefore signify their intention to participate therein immediately, or 
 before June 1st, to enable the Board of Managers to make the necessary 
 arrangements in accordance therewith. 
 
 It is particularly desired that all who have already signified their purpose 
 to exhibit tioods, or intend so to do, will communicate to the SECRETARY a 
 clear and brief account, in writing, of their respective peculiar merits and 
 novelties, a description of the same, and the space required. THE SECRE- 
 TARY WILL GIVE ANY DESIRED INFORMATION RELATIVE THERETO, and 
 will receive and file all applications for space. The Board of Managers re- 
 serve the right to regulate the amount of space to be occupied by each 
 exhibitor. 
 
 To tht Mercantile (.'nmmunity throughout the Country : 
 
 The manufacturers of the city of Newark, N. J., have made arrangements 
 to hold, during the latter part of August, extending into September, an exhi- 
 bition of their manufactured products. These embrace almost everything 
 within range of the mechanical arts. There is scarcely a mercantile estab- 
 lishment iii the country whose stock consists of manufactured articles, which 
 will not be able to find' manufactured in Newark, or its immediate vicinity, 
 enough variety of goods to largely replenish that stock. This can be done at 
 prices which would make it to the interest of the parties concerned to purchase 
 to the full extent of their requirements the goods manufactured here. The 
 demonstration of this fact to the entire mercantile community is one of the 
 objects of this Industrial Exhibition.
 
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 It is designed to carry out the affair in a manner liitlierto unexampled in 
 this country ; it being intended to equal any previous efforts of this nature by 
 the exhibition of the manufactured products of this city alone. 
 
 Newark, in proportion to its size, its population being over 115,000, is more 
 largely engaged in the mechanical branches, and produces goods in greater 
 variety than any other city in the United States. Its nearness to the great 
 centre* of exchange and commerce, has in part over-shadowed these facts : and 
 the abundant manufacturing resources of the city have not hitherto been fully 
 realized by the trade of the country, even not fully appreciated by its own 
 citizens. The trade throughout the country are hereby fully assured that all 
 concerned in Newark realize the importance of making the Exhibition;! great 
 sample-house, so to speak, of their manufactured goods. It will at once be 
 seen that the opportunity is a grand one for the trade to inspect in a collected 
 mass the manufactures of Newark, and thus gather infoimation that cannot 
 but be of the first importance to them. The time selected is when the large 
 proportion of the buyers of the country visit New York for the selection of 
 their Fall and Winter purchases. It is urged upon all such to so arrange 
 their trips that they may stop a short time at Newark during the continu- 
 ance of the Exhibition. Newark is within half an hour's ride of the great 
 metropolis, by upwards of one hundred and seventy-five trains a day. running 
 from early morning till midnight, leaving New York by the Liberty, Court - 
 landt, Barclay and Desbrosses streets ferries. 
 
 The accompanying circular originally addressed to the manufacturers here, 
 will show that the management is in control of gentlemen fully responsible for 
 the complete success of the undertaking. 
 
 While laudable municipal pride is, in large part, a prompting motive with 
 the manufacturers in getting up this display of their wares, it would be idle- 
 in this utilitarian age to pretend that the advantages to be derived from an 
 increase of business, have not all the force which belongs to them. They are 
 satisfied, however, that whoever may become their customers through their 
 visit then, will derive that benefit which always arises from purchasing in the 
 best markets. 
 
 NEWARK, N. J., June 1st. 1872. 
 
 RULES AND REGULATIONS. 
 
 1. The Rink and grounds will be open for the reception of Goods every day, 
 Sundays excepted, from the 10th until the 20th day of August. 
 
 2. The Committee on Reception of Goods will receive, at their discretion, 
 all articles offered for exhibition. 
 
 3. There will be no entrance fee or charge for space, excepting for those 
 who may derive an income therefrom, by sales then and there made. 
 
 The Board of Managers reserve the right to regulate the amount of space 
 occupied by each exhibitor, or to change the location as exigencies may re- 
 quire ; also to admit, if deemed advisable, manufacturers from outside the 
 city to exhibit their goods, where in their judgment they do not conflict with 
 those of Newark. 
 
 4. The name and residence of the exhibitor and manufacturer or producer, 
 must be entered in a blank form of certificate, and be signed by the exhibitor 
 or his agent. If this certificate is approved, a member of the committee will 
 countersign it, and designate the department in which each article is to be 
 located. 
 
 The Secretary will then make out a card or label to be attached to suoh 
 article, which s'hall state its name, by whom entered, and the department to 
 which it has been assigned. 
 
 5. A season ticket shall then be furnished to the exhibitor or his agent, on 
 which he must place his signature, and upon which shall be printed the 
 following : 
 
 This ticket admits one person only, is not transferable, and will be retained 
 by the doorkeeper when presented by any other person than the one whose 
 signature it bears, unless it is accompanied bv a note from the owner thereof, 
 certifying that the bearer is charged with the care of his goods.
 
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 In case of the loss of such ticket, the exhibitor is requested to give immedi- 
 ate notice in writing to that effect to the Secretary of the Board, to prevent 
 the lor-s of goods, as such tickets are taken as sufficient evidence of ownership 
 i>: delivering articles at the close of the Exhibition. 
 
 6. Exhibitors requiring assistants to be in constant attendance, must apply 
 to the Committee on Exhibition for tickets of admission for such assistants. 
 
 7. The classification of articles on exhibition is divided into the several 
 departments, as follows : 
 
 I. DEPARTMENT OK FlNE AltTS AND EDUCATION. 
 
 II. DEPARTMENT OF DWELLINGS. 
 
 III. DEPARTMENT OF DRESS AND HANDICRAFT. 
 
 IV. DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY AND MINERALOGY. 
 
 V. DEPARTMENT OF ENGINES AND MACHINERY. 
 
 VI. DEPARTMENT OF INTERCOMMUNICATION. 
 
 VII. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE. 
 
 VIII. DEPARTMENT OF TOOLS AND HARDWARE. 
 
 8. The space set apart for the display of articles on exhibition, will be ap- 
 portioned so as to best accommodate the several departments designated in the 
 classification. 
 
 No exhibitor will be allowed to remove any article on exhibition without 
 the consent of the Board of Managers, until after the close of the Exhibition. 
 
 9. Ample steam power will be provided to operate machinery. To secure 
 the right to show a machine in motion, the proprietor of such machine should 
 state in his application for space the width of his driving belt, the diameter of 
 the pulley, its speed, and the power required to drive it. 
 
 10. The Managers will erect the main line of shafting and provide the main 
 line of gas and water pipes, but any attachments to either must be made 
 under their direction, at the expense of the exhibitor to be benefitted thereby. 
 
 11. Whenever practicable, articles should be placed in glass cases. 
 
 \'Z. Apprentices offering articles of their own workmanship must give, at 
 the lime of the entry, a certificate from their employers, stating their age and 
 the time they served at the art. 
 
 13. No nostrums or articles of that nature, made and sold exclusivelv by the 
 inventor or his agent, will be allowed a place in the Exhibition. Spirit gas, 
 burning fluids, benzine, volatile hydro-carbons, fireworks, gunpowder, gun- 
 cotton, nitro-glycerine, and all other explosive compounds peremptorily ex- 
 cluded, No petroleum shall be exhibited, unless it will stand the fire-teet of 
 110 degrees Fall, required by the State law, and then only in quantities not 
 exceeding ten ounces, unless by permission of the Board of Managers. 
 They also reserve the right to reject any other articles they may deem ob- 
 jectionable. 
 
 14. The Managers wish it distinctly understood that all articles on exhibi- 
 tion are at the entire risk of the owners. 
 
 Efficient measures will, however, be taken to protect the property of each 
 exhibitor, which will be always under his charge, but in no case will the 
 Managers become responsible for such property. 
 
 15. Proper order will at all times be preserved by an efficient police, who 
 will be present to prevent offenses against exhibitors and visitors. 
 
 Persons who witness any violations of order are earnestly requested to re- 
 port the same to the General Superintendent or to the Managers. 
 
 16. Applications embracing a license to sell commodities upon the grounds 
 of the Exhibition, shall be ret'eired to the Board of Managers, who will regu- 
 late the same and affix a proper fee for such privileges, but no spirituous or 
 malt liquors of any kind or character shall be sold in or upon the premises 
 under their jurisdiction. 
 
 17. The Exhibition will be open every dav, Sundays excepted, from 9 
 A.M. to 10.i s P.M. 
 
 18. No premium or anything in lieu thereof, will be awarded or given to any 
 exhibitor or anv others connected with the Exhibition.
 
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 19. Letters relating to the Exhibition should be addressed to the Secretary 
 of the Newark Industrial Exhibition, who will give any desired information 
 and file all applications for space and entry. 
 
 20. The prices of admission will be : Single admission, 30 cents ; Children, 
 under 12 years of age, half price. Schools will be admitted as a body, in 
 charge of their teachers, at reduced rates, made known by the Secretary upon 
 application. 
 
 CIRCULAR SENT TO SUBSCRIBERS. 
 NEWAEK INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION, 
 
 NEWARK, N. J., Dec. 4, 1872. 
 
 M 
 
 DEAR SIR : 
 
 There is placed to your credit $ , 
 
 the same awaiting your order at the office of the Secretary, 758 
 
 Broad Street. 
 
 A. M. HOLBROOK, Sec'y. 
 
 Cy The Board of Managers met recently to hear a report of the Finance 
 Committee, the report having been deferred in order to enable the committee 
 to dispose of the building materials and other property belonging to the old 
 organization to the best advantage, so as to commence anew as a chartered 
 Institution. The report shows very gratifying results, when it is taken into 
 consideration that the real source of income (unlike expositions held else- 
 where, where exhibitors are charged for entry and space), was the mere 
 pittance of twenty-five cents at the door. The single admission was thirty 
 cents ; but since a large majority of the tickets were sold four for one dollar, 
 the average was about twenty-five cents ; and also considering the great ex- 
 pense attending the first Exhibition of this nature, in putting up buildings to 
 be torn down, thereby necessitating much loss, in placing the grounds and 
 buildings in proper order, and otherwise rendering the same agreeable for 
 exhibitors and visitors. 
 
 The exhibit shows, that had it not been for the obligation in the agreement 
 of subscribers, donating One Hundred Dollars to each of the Benevolent Insti- 
 tutions of the city (one Institution not specified in the agreement " St. 
 Peter's Orphan Asylum and Kindergarten " also receiving donation), there 
 would have been a dividend of nearly 11 per cent, for the shareholders. 
 Tliev will, however, feel a pride and satisfaction in knowing that (aside from 
 receiving back every dollar) their investment was not idle, but served a two- 
 fold purpose ; that, while furthering the Exhibition, which has proven so 
 beneficial to the city at large, its earnings will go to objects of charity. 
 
 The Board will call a meeting of the Subscribers to hear a detailed report 
 of the finances, when matters are fully settled. 
 
 It is earnestly desired that all the subscribers in the Exhibition of 1872 
 should become subscribers in the new organization for 1873. The par value 
 of the stock ($25) and conditions of payment are the same as of 1872, and it 
 is hoped the new Institution will be productive of far greater results than that 
 of 1872.
 
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 FINANCIAL EXHIBIT. 
 
 The following is a condensed statement of the Financial Fep )rt. and the 
 resolution adopted at the final meeting of Subscribers to the Exhibition held 
 in Upper Library Hall. Friday evening, Feb. 21, 1873. 
 
 Building Materials and other Property 
 Sundry Sources 
 
 3,700 00 
 
 l.M-> 45 
 
 
 
 
 30.794 46 
 
 $41,269 4 
 
 DISBURSEMENTS. 
 
 Advei tising. Printing. &e 
 
 Concerts and Instrumental .Music 
 
 Postage. Stationery, Books, etc 
 
 Clerk Hire, Collecting, Canvassing, etc 
 
 Rents..... : 
 
 New Buildings 
 
 (nts and Water 
 
 Fi ink's Patent Reflectors 
 
 Gas Fixtures, Plumbing, etc 
 
 ( 'oal and Wood 
 
 Insurance 
 
 Machinery, etc 
 
 Extra work. Ticket and other offices, Galleries. 
 Tables, &c., and various repairs in and 
 about the Exhibition grounds, tearing down 
 and disposing of buildings, also other ex- 
 penses incidental thereto, such as Patent 
 Tickets. Ticket Agents, Watchmen, and 
 other he:p, Labor, Furniture, Decorations. 
 Signs, Flags, and other incidentals 
 
 To the several Charitable Institutions 
 
 St. Barnabas' Hospital 
 
 St. Michael's Hospital 
 
 Newark Orphan Asylum 
 
 Foster Home 1 
 
 German Hospital 
 
 Home for Aged Women 
 
 Female Charitable Society 
 
 St. Mary's Orphan Asylum 
 
 Boys' Lodging House 
 
 Home for the Friendless 
 
 St. Peter's Orphan Asylum and Kindergarten 
 Subscriptions 
 
 $3,725 62 
 
 2.789 50 
 
 300 00 
 
 982, 
 
 3,415 00 
 
 6,692 53 
 
 1,222 59 
 
 1,580 00 
 
 1.435 42 
 
 127 02 
 
 340 21 
 
 1,272 49 
 
 5,831 58 
 
 $29,694 46 
 
 100 00 
 100 00 
 
 100 00 
 100 00 
 100 00 
 100 00 
 100 00 
 100 00 
 100 00 
 100 00 
 100 00 
 10,175 00 
 
 $41,269 46 
 
 Resolved, That as subscribers to the fund raised for the purpose of making 
 a collective display of the manufacturing industries of Newark, we desire to 
 expre-s our gratification and pride at the complete success of the undertaking 
 and wtf hereby tender our thanks and congratulations to the efficient Board of 
 Managers, both for the good of Newark advanced thereby and for its financial 
 success, believing, that while the interests of the subscribers were ever 
 zealously guarded, no short-sighted policy of economy ever characterized the 
 
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 LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS. 
 
 Atha B. & Co. Demarest N. J. & Co. 
 
 Adam E. A. Dunn Samuel 
 
 Ailing Bros. & Co. Dorsch William 
 
 Atlia, Hughes & Spanier Duelly E. C. 
 Atwater & Carter Dixon E. & W. 
 
 Assmann B. Dunn William 
 
 Ayres David Delany D. & G. 
 
 Blancliard Bro. *fc Lane Drake M. S. 
 
 Barnett Oscar 
 Burnett William 
 Butler & Wards 
 Belcher Bros. & Co. 
 Balbach E. & Son 
 Bannister & Tichenor 
 Barlow John H. 
 Baldwin Albert 
 Browe Bros. 
 Ballantine P. & Sons 
 Bless & Drake 
 Bosch Bros. 
 Bender Peter 
 Berla Elias 
 Baldwin Oscar L. 
 Beck E. F. 
 Benedict T. 
 
 Durand James M. 
 Dufford Thi'o. 
 Dougherty H. M. 
 Davy Joseph 
 Douglas' Sons & Co. 
 Doll Martin 
 Dobbins & Van Xrss 
 Denman J. R. 
 Dovell's Sons & Co. 
 Dobbins J. A. 
 De Vine M. T. Mrs. 
 Eagle Winker Co. 
 Ely T. M. 
 Edison & linger 
 
 Ilawrs J. H. G. 
 Hotchkiss E. B. 
 Heller Bros. 
 Heaton B. F. 
 Holbn.ok A. S. 
 Hinds & Son 
 Hurschell J. A. 
 Halsey Jos. A. 
 Hays James L. 
 Harrison C. H. & J. D. 
 Hea.ll.-y Wm. O. & Son 
 Hunter D. 
 Hill Gottli.-b 
 Hawkins & Dodge - 
 Hunt Geo. W. 
 Heath & Drake 
 Howell T. P. & Co. 
 Hoi brook A. M. 
 Johnson Wm. 
 Judson Agur 
 Joy Chas. & Son 
 Kreitler Chas. 
 
 Furness, Bannister & Co. Kreitler Herman 
 Farmer Edgar & Co. King C. W. 
 Foerster & Kraeuter 
 
 Braudenburgh & Novelle Freeman J. G. 
 
 Brockie J. & Co. 
 Beck C. 
 Brewster U. B. 
 Bruemmer C. G. 
 Belcher S. P. 
 Brisbin John 
 Baker Moses 
 Clark A. H. & Sons 
 Condit & Hanson 
 Campbell, Lane & Co. 
 Charlton John 
 Cleveland Wm. & Co. 
 deal-man P. S. 
 Cooper Chas. & Co. 
 Crane Samuel O. 
 Conger Walter M. 
 Camp & Osborn 
 Conery A. F. 
 Campbell C. G. 
 Cadmus D. V. P. 
 Dennis M. R. & Co. 
 
 Fitz-Gerald W. N. 
 Fleischer Samuel 
 Frink I. P. 
 Gerth Julius 
 Gould E. & R. J. 
 Gunning W. J. & Co. 
 Graves C. W. 
 GobleL. Spencer 
 Gay Thos. & Son 
 Guerin Samuel T. 
 Graf L. & Bro. 
 Goeken Francis 
 Golder & Post 
 Gould's M. Sons 
 Grover Lewis C. 
 GiffordJolm A. 
 Gauch J. Bros. 
 Germania Ins. Co. 
 Gaston Isaac 
 Griffith D. G. 
 Heaton J. W. 
 
 Kelly, Hughes & Moran 
 Ivaas J. B. & Co. 
 Kimball H B. 
 
 Kruger Gottfreid 
 KaseJoh H. 
 Leonard C. H. 
 Lelong L. & Bro. 
 Lindsley A. W. 
 Loelmberg & Neumann 
 Loi-kwood C. N. & Co. 
 Lcibe Traugott 
 Lache Jos. A. 
 Lnngstrotb A; Crane 
 Lyon L. J. & Co. 
 Lagowitz Samuel 
 [.yon 1). M. &-Son 
 Leverich A; Enders 
 Lyon Chas. K. 
 Mockridge & Son 
 
 McGregor John 
 Mar.juet J. B. 
 Merry M. & Bro. 
 Meiselbach F.
 
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 Meeker David M. 
 
 Rockwood C. G. 
 
 Titsworth C. S. 
 
 Macknet, Wilson & Co. 
 
 Robotham & Greacen 
 
 Tom! bison Spring Co. 
 
 Mayer 8. 
 
 Righter \Vm. A. 
 
 Taylor Henry D. 
 
 Mercer W. T. & Son 
 
 Roemer William 
 
 Thompson David 
 
 Metz A. 
 
 Rowbotham John 
 
 Titus William 
 
 Mayo .1. B. 
 
 Riley &, Lynch 
 
 Tuers & Cooper 
 
 Mutin A. F. 
 
 Ricord F. W. 
 
 Tompkins S. E. & Co. 
 
 Miller Benj. C. 
 
 Reynolds A. M. 
 
 Una William 
 
 M<>rsereau W. T. & J. 
 
 Starr W. L. 
 
 Van Patten P. S. 
 
 Mackin Francis 
 
 Sinclair John 
 
 Van Arsdale J. T. 
 
 McDermit & Looker 
 
 Sanders L. R. 
 
 Vroom P. H. 
 
 Marshall James & Co. 
 
 Slaight Thos. 
 
 Wuesthoff, Wright & 
 
 Meeker &. Hedden 
 
 Scott A. 
 
 Kuehnhold 
 
 Newark Lime &. C. Co. 
 
 Sayre Bros. 
 
 Ward William 
 
 Neumann Chas. 
 
 Smith L. A. 
 
 Ward R. & Co. 
 
 Nichols Isaac A. 
 
 Sargeant Mfg. Co. 
 
 Walker Chas. W. 
 
 Nugent Christopher 
 
 Sayre James R. Jr.&Co. 
 
 Warrick Henry 
 
 Ortel M. 
 
 Surerus A; Co. 
 
 Wakeman J. P. 
 
 Pole Thus. 
 
 Spaeth & Guelicher 
 
 Woodhull A. W. 
 
 Phillips J. M. 
 
 Scott M. H. 
 
 Wood H. T. 
 
 Price Linus M. 
 
 Searfoss A. H. 
 
 Ward T. M. 
 
 Peddie Thos. B. 
 
 Skinner,Leary &Lindsley Wright & Smith 
 
 Peters George 
 
 Spahn E. P. 
 
 Ward A. H. 
 
 Pell F. & J. 
 
 Spurr J. J. 
 
 Wiener & Co. 
 
 Quinby J. M. &. Co. 
 
 Smith W. A. 
 
 Waldmann F. 
 
 Eichard John 
 
 Simon Ed. & Bro. 
 
 Watts, Campbell & Co. 
 
 Roberts Christopher 
 
 Sayre Marcus 
 
 W T arner & Radcliffe 
 
 Richardson Bros. 
 
 Strauss M. 
 
 White James H. 
 
 Rhodes & Doremus 
 
 Schnellbacher J. A. 
 
 Ward E. P. 
 
 Romer & Co. 
 
 Spaetli A. F. 
 
 Ward Marcus L. 
 
 Richardson E. & Co. 
 
 Sonnekalb A. 
 
 Young John & Son 
 
 Russell W. D. 
 
 Sauerbier H. & Son 
 
 Young John I. 
 
 Reynold & Zahn 
 
 Staniar & Laffey 
 
 Zeigler & Otto 
 
 Rieker Frederick 
 

 
 The success which crowned tlic Exhibition of 187:2, was so 
 marked, that at its close a permanent association met with 
 prompt support. " The Newark Industrial Institute " was or- 
 ganized, a charter obtained, and it continued the great work 
 under the following officers and Board of Directors : 
 
 OFFICERS : 
 
 President, HON. GEORGE A, HAI.SKY. 
 
 1st VicePres't, THOMAS B. PEDDIE. 'M Vice Pres't, JAMES M. DURAXD. 
 Secretary, ALBERT M. HOLBROOK. Treannrer, ISAAC GASTON. 
 
 BOARD OF DIRKCTOKS : 
 
 MAIJCTS L. WARD. 
 
 GEORGE A. HAI.SKY. 
 
 GEORGE I'EI i:i:s. 
 
 THOMAS B. PKDDIE, 
 
 JOSEPH ,). MEEKER. 
 
 ('HAS X. Lot. KWOOD, 
 
 EDGAR FAHMEI:. 
 
 JOHN M. I'mu.ii's. 
 
 .JOHN I) HARRISON, 
 
 NOAH F. BLANCIIARD, 
 
 WALTER M. CONGKR. 
 
 JOHN T. LEVERICH, 
 
 JAMKS V M. DURAND, 
 
 I'lIlXF.AS JONES, 
 
 JAMES W. COREY, 
 
 EDWARD SIMON, 
 
 DAVID M. MEEKER. 
 
 CHRISTOPHER Xl'GEXT 
 
 MARTIN E. DENNIS, 
 
 ELI H. REYNOLDS, 
 
 STEPHEN Ji. SANDERS, 
 
 WILLIAM JOHNSON, 
 
 F. B. KUKITXIIOLD, 
 
 JAMES C. LIDI.OW. 
 
 NICH. J. DEM A REST, 
 
 MKNRY J. YAT?:S. 
 
 A. M. HOLBROOK. 
 
 Stock was promptly subscribed, property purchased and build- 
 ings erected. September 29, 1873. the Second Exhibition was 
 formally opened with prayer by Rev. Dr. I. H. MclLVAiNE and a 
 brief address by President HALSEY, who introduced Hon. F. T. 
 FBELINGHUYSEX, the orator of the evening. 
 
 Mr. FRELINGHUYSBN spoke as follows : 
 
 MR. PRESIDENT, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN : 
 
 Invited to address you at an hour too late, with my other engageim'iit*, to 
 make such preparation as I consider worthy of the occasion, I yet could not 
 to my fellow-citizens refuse to give expression to the congratulations which 
 the occasion calls forth. We have not come to-night to pay our court to the 
 Muses, or to do special homage to high art, hut we have come to devote this 
 spacious and well-ordered building to the skill and industry of the Newark 
 mechanic. And now to those mechanical arts and employments wl.ijh tend 
 to develop the hidden wealth of nature, to embellish social life, and to fur- 
 nish much of that variety of convenience and pleasure we dearly enjoy. 
 
 After an allusion to the purposes of the building, Mr. FRE- 
 LIXUUVYSEN" continued thus :
 
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 Hereafter, while the poet, the orator and the historian shall, from year to 
 year, at the appointed time, in the Lyceum enjoy their classic enchantments, 
 while our worthy farmers, from many a fruitful hill and fertile valley^shall 
 gather the fruits of the ground and lay them on the altar of Ceres, here the 
 manufacturers of this Birmingham of America will exhibit the products of 
 their toil and the specimens of the progress of mechanical skill ; while the 
 young journeyman will bring forward the evidence of his ingenuity and 
 handiwork, until old Vulcan shall be propitiated, and his charming spouse, 
 Venus, through the agency of many a fair daughter, will smile upon the young 
 mechanic. 
 
 This Institution and the prosperity it evidences are the result and out- 
 growth of the sterling integrity and frugal industry which characterized the 
 men of New England who, more than two centuries ago, moored their barks 
 to the shores of the Passaic, horrestly purchased the land of the aborigines, 
 and then planted the germ of this prosperous city. It is pleasant to stop and 
 contemplate the example and character of these father's, to consider the trying, 
 toilsome antecedents which made them the men to found a city, and thus call 
 to mind our alliance with much departed excellence. 
 
 In our broad streets and beautiful parks we have the evidence of the liber- 
 ality of their views. In their setting apart a range of lots to be given to the 
 first mechanics that permanently settled among them, we have the beginning 
 of our present extended manufacturers, and in the early entry in the book of 
 Selectmen, in the words, " Resolved that John Collins be employed to in- 
 struct our children aud servants in as much of English reading, writing and 
 arithmetic as he can teach," we have the beginning of a public school instruc- 
 tion which is probably as perfect and as efficient as that of any other city. 
 In their establishing courts of justice of their own and a representative muni- 
 cipal government, we have that spirit of independence which soon culminated 
 all over the land in the great Declaration ; and from their simple and devout 
 worship has sprung the hundred churches of the living God, which bring us 
 blessings and bespeak our gratitude. The settlement of our town was char- 
 acterized by the fullest liberty and purest religion. 
 
 It must have been a beaut ful sight to have seen on a peaceful Sabbath a 
 whole community in its best attire meeting on the plane of equality, which is 
 alike unfriendly to pride and servility, and offering up its devotions at a 
 common altar. Such institutions as we enjoy could only have been estab- 
 lished by such men ; and let us never forget that the same moral influence is 
 necessary to establish and to perpetuate. 
 
 When, as now. we behold around us a desolation of character undermining 
 the very foundation of public confidence, when each day reveals some violation 
 of trust, some defalcation, shaking the strong man and bringing penury and 
 want to infirm widowhood and piteous orphanage ; when a guilt v haste to be 
 rich is poisoning the very foundations of integrity, it is assuredly no time to 
 weaken any moral influence and to suffer the ramparts of virtue to be broken 
 down. 
 
 It is a matter of congratulation, which I may not omit to state, that in half 
 half a century not one of our monetary institutions has passed into the hands 
 of a receiver ; that no defalcation of one of their officers has been revealed, and 
 that* our people as a mass, content with the legitimate rewards of honest in- 
 dustrv, have not fallen victims to the guilty, gambling greed for wealth. 
 
 Formerly, when almost the entire trade of the city was with the Southern 
 States, on several occasions our manufacturers lost the entire work of years 
 by the defaults of the South, but they only redoubled] their energy, paid their 
 debt, continued their industries, aud seemed to wrench prosperity from mis- 
 fortune ; and, at the beginning of the war, when the market for our manufac- 
 tures was destroyed by the secession of the South, it is wonderful with what 
 versatility our industries were directed into hundreds of new channels, so that 
 to-day I suppose there is as great a variety of manufactures in Newark as in 
 any city of like size. 
 
 Not to mention the numerous nooks and corners where the individual me- 
 chanic plies his manly toil, we have a thousand manufacturing establishments 
 em ploying 30,000 hands in two hundred different branches of manufacture, 
 with an annual pay-roll of $15,000,000 and a capital of $30,000,000, which 
 give an annual product of $70,000,000 of wealth.
 
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 Sir, there is everything in our origin, our past history and our present con- 
 dition, to induce us to stand by the bulwarks of our prosperity, industry, 
 temperance and integrity. 
 
 The prosperity of this city is further attributable to that wise system of 
 fostering American industry which has, to a greater or less degree, been the 
 policy of every Administration. Eegular and remunerative labor for the 
 people is the greatest of our national blessings. The school in which a man 
 is taught to contend with hunger and cold, and with the difficulties which 
 physical laws present, and to overcome them, is of more importance than any 
 other. The citizen thus not only secures for himself and his the comforts of 
 life, but gains that energy, endurance and conscious dignity which are essen- 
 tial to the character of a free man. 
 
 It is the law of our being that we must labor or perish. The idler every- 
 where must $>ive way to the man of industry, just as the fishing, dancing tribe 
 must move oft' at the approach of the regulated labor of civilization. 
 
 Industry, too, whether of the hands or head, is ordained of Heaven to drain 
 society of vice and to give growth to virtue, and is sacred. It is the noble 
 channel cut through the mud swamps of existence, drawing the sour, festering 
 water from every blade of grass, until the pestilential morass is converted into 
 a fertile meadow with its clear flowing river. 
 
 It is the business of a government to look after its industrial interests. It 
 has something more to do than to suppress crime and keep the peace, knowing 
 that it is of the first importance that the people should possess the many and 
 varied blessings that flow from industry. The Government can properly see to 
 it that the American artisan buys his food of the American farmer, and that the 
 American farmer buys his manufactured articles of the American artisan, by 
 enacting laws making it the interest of each to do so. 
 
 As to the extremely benign and charitable view which holds that we 
 should remember that the subjects of other governments are our brethren, and 
 that we should not discriminate against their labor, my reply to the people of 
 other countries is that we have opened the portals of our land and told them 
 to come and bid them welcome ; and to other governments we say, " If you 
 wish to reduce your labor to the starvation standard, and if, by reason of the 
 effect which time and the aggregation of capital has given your manufacturers, 
 you propose to crush our comparatively immature industries, we will close 
 our doors against your aggression, and we do not violate true charity in so 
 doing." 
 
 While the price of labor in competing nations is materially less than in this 
 country. I cannot avoid the conclusion that non-protection' is discrimination 
 against American industry. 
 
 But our example is having and will continue to have its effect in other 
 lands ; and when the price of labor abroad shall be the same as labor here, 
 then, if they want free trade, let it come, and you will see American enterprise 
 triumphant. 
 
 Mr. President, whatever may be the conclusions of thoughtless vanity, the 
 pursuits of the mechanic are of equal dignity with any other. Man has a 
 spiritual and physical nature, and those avocations which improve the latter 
 merit high consideration as well as those that have the former for their object, 
 because the two natures of man constitute a unit. The part the mechanic has 
 performed in the history of the world's progress does not solicit but commands 
 our respect. Look at it. In former ages the ability to read was confined to 
 very few. Books were rare and expensive, and tlfe living oracles of God 
 were chained in the cloister or hidden in the monastery. The knowledge that 
 existed was transient, depending on the living teacher, or on some single 
 manuscript that was always liable to be destroyed. The type and the printing 
 press are the mighty power that has dispelled ignorance, and is the power 
 that has multiplied copies of valuable books, so that no hostile hordes can now 
 extinguish the light of knowledge any more than they can put out the million 
 stars that glow and twinkle in the " Milky Way." 
 
 Holding fast to each step of progress, the course of knowledge is now on- 
 ward. It is the press that has placed not the book but the library at every 
 man's disposal ; that has enabled one mind to reach a million, and that every 
 morning gives us a diary of the world's thoughts and doings for the day pre- 
 ceding.
 
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 It is the mechanic that constructs the press and the type ; he smelts the 
 ores of which they are constructed : he builds the furnaces, the wagons, the 
 implements, and all the paraphernalia necessary to the supply of this " lever 
 of Archimedes that is moving the world." 
 
 Formerly the several kingdoms of the earth were insulated localities, with 
 little intercourse or sympathy. The timid navigator crept along the shore 
 and trembled as he looked at the expanse before him. Now the different peo- 
 ple of the earth are merged into the World's Republic, and such a human 
 sympathy is awakened that every cry of oppression vibrates from heart to 
 heart around the planet. The mechanic art has supplied the world with the 
 magnetic needle, the ocean steamer, the submarine telegraph, and these are 
 the instrumentalities that have made the world one family and warmed into 
 being the brotherhood of man. 
 
 Science demands our respect, almost our reverence, but it is nothing but 
 vain theory without the mechanical arts as its handmaiden. The astronomer 
 without his telescope, his object glass and chronometer is a dreamer, the 
 chemist without his crucible and instruments for nicely measuring quanti- 
 ties is a mere guesser. Science, without the aid of the" mechanic, is mere 
 speculation. 
 
 Let no one depreciate the usefulness and dignity of a mechanic's life. I 
 take, it is true, a striking example when I mention SETH BoYDEN, whom it 
 is well to remember to-night. By reason of his invention of the " cut off" to 
 control steam, the machine to split leather and make hat bodies, his process of 
 making patent leather, malleable iron and Russia iron, if measured by the 
 scale of practical usefulness, he was the peer of any man. 
 
 I find in an old book this sentiment : '* In the eye of reason and of the uni- 
 versal patent every honest station of life is equally honorable, since they are 
 all parts of the great social body which His wisdom planned and His power 
 preserved." 
 
 The demand for the labor of mechanics is constantly increasing and his field 
 of usefulness widening. For ages the progress of true mechanical arts was 
 slow. The application of water to turn a wheel was not known to the let- 
 tered Greeks, and not known in Rome until about the beginning of the Chris- 
 tian era. The wind-mill was an invention of many centuries later, the saw- 
 mill dates about the sixteenth century, the suction pump was not known in 
 China until introduced by Europeans, and is not now used in Asia. But at 
 this day nature from her storehouse of hidden wealth seems inclined to sup- 
 ply every want of man. and the mechanic stands ready to aid her. 
 
 Human muscle becoming unequal to the demands of labor, the gigantic 
 power of steam is revealed. The use of steam has created the necessity of 
 more fuel, and the inexhaustible mines of coal are opened. Frequent and 
 quick intercourse created by steam has made a demand for a more speedy 
 communication of intelligence, and the telegragh meets the call. The increased 
 commerce of the world creates the demand for more gold to represent it, and 
 California opens her treasures. Who can estimate the multitudinous de- 
 mands these developments have made on the mechanical art in its thousand 
 branches ? 
 
 And now, again, another demand is to be made. The farmer of the West 
 having subdued the forests and cultivated his land, prodigal nature pours into 
 his lap her wealth until there is not room enough to receive it. Thus is cre- 
 ated a demand for increased facilities to send the surplus products to the sea- 
 board that they may reach the markets of the world. The prosperity of the 
 farmer, the interests of the nation, and the obligations of philanthropy to the 
 world, all require that this demand should be met, and it assuredly will be ; 
 not, however, by the confiscation of existing highways not by the destruc- 
 tion of public confidence, so that capital will shun enterprise. It will not be 
 accomplished by impairing contracts or by a war on vested rights. No, sir ; 
 no matter what may be the petulant expressions of an hour of excitement, the 
 farmers of this country have proven that they hate repudiation and that public 
 faith is as clear to them as their sacred honor, and they will never vio- 
 late it. 
 
 No ! This great demand for transportation is to be met by the improve- 
 ment of our natural channels by helping internal navigation here and there. 
 The States bordering on the lakes can reach the seaboard by the lakes, the
 
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 St. Lawrence and the Erie Canal. The States on the Mississippi can reach 
 the ocean by that river and the Gulf; and the vast and fertile garden between 
 those waters, by connecting by canal the Ohio, Kenawba and the James 
 rivers, and thus reach the sea at Hampton Roads ; and, still further, by a 
 great trunk road across the continent elevated so as to avoid snow obstruc- 
 tion by excavation on either side of the road, and fed by the roads which 
 ramify each State. 
 
 The railroad companies of the land have no monopoly. Capital stands 
 ready to invest wherever it can be protected and where it can get a return. 
 This problem of transportation will soon be solved, and by aid of the pick and 
 shovel-makers, the wagon -makers, the furnace-builders, the iron-forgers, the 
 car and engine manufacturers, and one thousand other branches of mechanical 
 art, the soTution will soon be an existing reality. 
 
 But how preposterous it would be to attempt these enterprises without the 
 brawny arm of the American mechanic ! 
 
 There^is one other subject to which this Institution should not be indifferent. 
 Having called your attention to that, I have done. This nation is yet in its 
 infancy, and this is the time to give direction to its important interests. It is, 
 however, rapidly maturing. In the vear 1900 it is estimated we will have a 
 population of 100,000,000. Of our public lands 162,000,000 acres have been 
 sold. 260,000,000 of acres have been granted, properly or improperly, to rail- 
 roads as subsidies. We have given of swamp lands 43,000,000 to the States 
 in which they are supposed to lie ; 50,000,000 of acres for military services ; 
 20,000,000 have been entered as homesteads to actual settlers. We shall have 
 1,400,000,000 of acres, one-half of which, however, is in Alaska and in the 
 great American Desert, and at the present time of little value. Now, in my 
 opinion, enough of the remaining lands should be devoted to endowing in 
 each State a National School, affording scientific instruction adapted to the 
 mechanical and agricultural requirements of the age and country. These 
 schools should give systematic instruction in n-athematics as applied to phy- 
 sics, in chemistry, in mineralogy, metallurgy, as applied to manufactures, and 
 in the modern languages. Mere purely literary instruction should be ex- 
 cluded, being abundantly provided for in our numerous excellent colleges. 
 
 It is the right of the bone and sinew of the country that a portion of the 
 remnant ot the public domain should be rescued from misappropriation and 
 applied to instructing the sons of the industrial classes in a practical knowl- 
 edge which will afford benefit as enduring as the firm earth from which the 
 endowment is sought. 
 
 This is a republic of knowledge as well as of government ; and the fact 
 that the sons of those devoted to the pursuits of industry have not the time or 
 the means to go through a course of instruction in Greek, Latin, logic, rhet- 
 oric, history and abstract mathematics, is no reason why they should not be 
 instructed m practical science, especially hi the principles of the art to which 
 they propose to devote their lives and energies. Thus instructed the me- 
 chanic finds other and better modes of doing that which is before him, he gains 
 new skill, and difficulties are more easily remedied. 
 
 His mind is awake ; the light of science has fallen upon him. Profiting by 
 the experience of others and by his own inventions, his avocation is his de- 
 light. He is, iu fact, a more elevated and intelligent man, and better pre- 
 pared to receive that sublime truth, the acceptance of which is the end and 
 object of life. 
 
 The measure will be before the coming Congress. Let this Institution see 
 to it that the children of the mechanics of Newark and their children's children 
 have secured to them, in a shape that will bring nothing but blessing, their 
 share of the public domain. [Immense applause.] 
 
 The Exposition thus auspiciously opened continued until De- 
 cember 2d, a period of nine weeks and three days, and it was 
 numerously attended and highly successful. The display of 
 manufactured goods was the most remarkable ever witnessed, 
 and great interest was manifested by the visitors in the processes
 
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 of manufacturing given in the building, clearly indicating that 
 this feature of the Exhibition was not only attractive but con- 
 veyed much information to both old and young. Exhibitions 
 were also held during 1874 and 1875. The aggregate value of 
 goods exhibited during these exhibitions was $2,000,000 ; the 
 number of visitors 350,000. Changes were made in the Board 
 of Directors: Mr. DAVID M. MEEKER was chosen President. 
 PHINEAS JONES and CHARLES X. LOCKWOOD First and Second 
 Vice Presidents, and LORENZO BOTDEX, CHARLES E. Y>i \.,. 
 CYRUS CURRIER and HENRY H. MILLER were added to the 
 Board of Directors. 
 
 The Exhibition of 1875 was opened to the State, with re- 
 markably tine exhibits from various sections. All were marked 
 with stirring events, aside from the display of industries, and 
 accomplished the good purpose for which they were designed. 
 The greatest Miecess. however, attended that of 1873. which was 
 so auspiciously opened before the great wave of financial cuV 
 >\vept over the country. Prominent among the events were the 
 visits of rhe President of the United States and Secretary of the 
 Navy ; the Methodist Board of Bishops ; the National Carriage 
 Makers' Association. repreNenting firms from all parts of the 
 country : the Trenton Board of Trade, in a body ; General W. 
 T. Sherman, with his aid-de-camp. Gen. Audenreid : Gen. Geo. 
 A. Custer ; delegation of sixteen Indian Chiefs from the Arapa- 
 hoe and Cheyenne tribes, who were on their way to Washing- 
 ton to see the Great Father :" the " Press " night, when nearly 
 all the newspapers in New Jersey and many in New York were 
 represented ; the visit of the Austrian Ambassador and Chief 
 Manager of the Vienna Exposition ; Minister of State of Guate- 
 mala. Central America, and other distinguished heads of Depart- 
 ments of Siate of this and other countries ; and all were enthusi- 
 astic in their admiration and praises of the Exhibition. 
 
 The entertainments of vocal and instrumental concerts and lec- 
 t ures were of the highest order. Among the performers were Mme. 
 Titieus. Mme. Marie Salvotti. Mdll'e Rideuti, Miss Clementine 
 Lasar. Miss Clara Louise Kellogg. Miss Anna Drasdil, Mrs. 
 Dora Steele, Miss Annie Borie. Miss Lena Luckstoue. Miss 
 Annie Buckley. Miss Annie Mackenzie. Mine. Bouligny. Mme. 
 De Lusson, Miss Emma Cranch. Miss Hannah Moore Sproston. 
 Mrs. Ellen Grashof, Mrs. Cannon, Frank Remmertz, Ch. Fritsch. 
 Fred. Steins. Fred. Haendel, Daniel Reichel, Geo. Simpson, W.
 
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 J. Hill, Frank Bartlett. Concerts were given by 200 of New- 
 ark's best musicians, by the Aurora, Eintraeht, Arion and Ger- 
 mania Singing Societies ; the Young Apollo Club of 25 boys ; 
 Newark Choral Union ; the Centennial Union ; Crescent Quar- 
 tet Club ; Old Folks ; Theodore Thomas' superb orchestra ; the 
 musical drama "Belshazzar," and by David Lyon, the Boy Pian- 
 ist. Levy, Arbuckle, Bent and Ward were the cornetists; Le- 
 Faber, saxophone ; Boehm, Morelli, clariouetists ; Mollach, eu- 
 phonium ; Jasper, oboe ; Stoll, althorn ; l)e Carlo, Carl Wehner. ^ 
 flutists ; Von Billow, Miss Pauline Stobaeus, pianists ; \Yieniow- 
 ski, Herr Sander, Miss Matilda Toedt, Colin, violinists. There 
 were entertainments also by noted bands, the famous Gilmore's 
 Twenty -second Regiment; Downiuir's Ninth Regiment; Graful- 
 la's Seventh Regiment ; Dodsworth's of New York ; Reinhard's, 
 Jefferson, Second Regiment and Thistle bands of Newark ; the 
 Weber, Strauss and Wagner concerts ; aside from musical en- 
 tertainments, a grand Floral display ; a rare collection of ani- 
 mals and birds ; paintings " The Prodigal Son," by Dubufe, 
 "The Last Judgment," by Lockwood, "Pope Pius IX.," by 
 Healy, and other works of art were exhibited. 
 
 A paper, " The Newark Industrial Programme," edited by 
 SAMUEL TOOMBS, was daily published on the premises. 
 
 Tfie panic of 1873 was a serious misfortune which the enter- 
 prise of the Board of Directors could not avert. It fell upon the 
 Exhibition in the very midst of its brilliant career. That disas- 
 ter, which cast its baneful effects upon almost every branch of 
 industry, paralyzing trade, wrecking fortunes, and blasting the 
 prosperity and hopes of thousands, showed its effects still more 
 seriously in our Newark industries in 1874. This feeling in- 
 creased with the pressure of hard times, and 1875 found a major- 
 ity of the manufacturers in a condition that would not warrant 
 any extra expense, and those who could, desired to participate in 
 the great Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia in 1876, and 
 could not devote the time necessary to prepare for both exhibi- 
 tions, and so bent all their energies in that direction. The 
 officers and Board of Directors were indefatigable in their exer- 
 tions, nobly devoting their time and means to this great enter- 
 prise which added so much to the renown of our city, and the 
 good effects of which will extend to future generations. Not 
 unfrequently have manufacturers informed the writer of the re- 
 ceipt of foreign orders based upon the exhibition of their wares
 
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 at the Newark Exposition, and aside from the financial or busi- 
 ness benefit derived therefrom, its educational character is uni- 
 versally admitted to have been of the highest type, and that our 
 citizens in general, both old and young, have realized its elevating 
 and refining influences. 
 
 After the Exhibition of 1875, under influences of the distressed 
 times, it was decided to temporarily suspend operations. Though 
 the Institute still exists as a corporate body, with its valuable 
 charter covering a wide field of usefulness, and although kept 
 alive and a Board of Directors annually elected in accordance 
 with the law, no effort to renew an Exhibition of Industries has 
 since been made. But, with a revival of business a new interest 
 is awakened and the inquiry is, When shall w r e have another Ex- 
 hibition that will astonish the world? 
 
 The local press, be it remembered, with a due appreciation 
 of the importance of these exhibitions of industries to Newark, 
 ever lent their powerful influence to the cause. 
 
 A. M. HOLBROOK, 
 
 Secretary. 
 
 Appended are a few of the many extracts from the press, 
 showing the good accomplished for Newark and the benefits 
 derived from these Exhibitions. 
 
 From the Newark Daily Advertiser. 
 
 It is not to satisfy a local or personal pride, or to make a pretty raree-show 
 for young ladies ami children to walk through and say, " How nice !" Its 
 real purpose is to encourage industry by advertising the excellence of our 
 
 work and so selling our goods. There is nothing of the braggart or the sen- 
 timentalist about it. We are a manufacturing people. Our version of the 
 " pursuit of happiness " is to enlarge the market for our products and to let 
 all purchasers know that " Newark make " is synonymous with excellence. 
 The Fair is a legitimate and honest advertisement for all our commercial en- 
 terprises and means business. It should be supported on that principle and 
 its name and fame should be sounded in the ears of customers throughout the 
 land. At the same time there mingles with this practical spirit a high feeling 
 of what we mav call local patriotism, a love of the home ways and a pride in 
 home achievements. The man who dues not love his city will probably have 
 no deep affection for his country. 
 
 From the Coal and Iron Record. 
 
 Industrial exhibitions usually comprehend the results of National, State or 
 district industries, gaining importance from extent of territory, as well as the 
 larger number of exhibitors. But in this instance the city of Newark rejects 
 all beyond the confines of her own city limits, boldly, and' not without justifi- 
 cation, depending upon the celebrity of her own manufactories, as well for 
 varietv and merit as for number and importance. Impressed with the magni- 
 tude of her rt sources in this respect, many of the most estimable and energetic 
 citizens of the place provided an Exhibition Building sufficient to cover two
 
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 acres, planned in the most liberal manner, for the disposition and display of 
 articles exclusively of Newark manufacture and machinery in motion and the 
 active processes of manufactures carried out by skilled operators. * ' The 
 manufactured articles displayed is in great variety and of the highest finish. 
 The visitor cannot fail to be astonished at the multitude of articles handsomely 
 arranged, in collections embracing all the varieties of tools, implements, ma- 
 chines, hardware, cutlery, clothing, jewelry, and household ware, manufac- 
 tured by each of the many manufactories represented. And when it is re- 
 membered that all these things came from establishments located in this one 
 city, the conclusion must be most favorable to the enterprise, skill and capacity 
 of Newark as a manufacturing centre. * * The leather and harness de- 
 partment is one of exceeding interest, as well for the wonderful variety of 
 goods as for their superior excellence. The display of carriages of the most 
 expensive style of finish amply proves the skill of Newark mechanics in this 
 line, equal to the highest demands of cultivated taste seekingthe most recherche 
 in equipment. 
 
 The Exhibition is most creditable to the enterprise and intelligence of those 
 directly concerned in its management, and as a display of the industrial pro- 
 gress of a single city, unmatched hitherto by any other city in the Union of 
 like population. 
 
 From the New Jersey Frele Zeitung. 
 
 Industrial exhibitions are admitted by all to be of inestimable value in de- 
 veloping the arts and sciences, and in elevating the standard of public taste. 
 To the youth of the land, the time devoted to a daily examination of the 
 exhibits will be well spent, and will do more toward expanding the mind and 
 developing habits of thought than months of study from books. While the 
 great majority of visitors are led to visit the exhibition from an idle curiosity, 
 or the desire to be seen, there is another and much smaller number, the scien- 
 tists, engineers and mechanics, who are ever on the alert to discover, and 
 adapt to their own particular branch of industry any new principle or process 
 having for its object the lessening of expense of production or of the time re- 
 quired to manipulate. These men carefully examine each and every new 
 appliance, to discover, if possible, how such may be improved upon and made 
 subservient to the benefit of the public. Many of the inventions which are 
 now in general use were first brought prominently to view through the direct 
 agency of an industrial exhibition, and many of our most successful inventors 
 might to-day have been struggling unhonored, but for the agency just men- 
 tioned. Our own recent Exposition is no exception to this, as must be ad- 
 mitted by any person who will take the trouble to investigate the matter. Far 
 more than one entirely new and valuable invention might be cited as having 
 been for the first time shown within its doors and thus introduced successfully 
 to the attention of the general public ; inventions of undoubted value and im- 
 portance to the respective industries to wboni they appertain. 
 
 From the Shoe and Leather Reporter. 
 
 The Exhibition in Newark, N. J., is one of the most important and inter- 
 esting ever held in this country important because of the great variety of 
 fine goods displayed, and interesting from the fact that it represents the 
 industries of a single city. Other exhibitions may have a larger display of 
 articles, but we doubt if any excel it in variety and in the taste shown in ar- 
 ranging the goods. Machinery in motion, workmen engaged in 
 various occupations, beautiful specimens of handicraft, as well as rare plants 
 and flowers, are seen on every side, presenting a panorama where the me- 
 chanic, the scientist and the lover of the beautiful in nature and arts may alike 
 enjoy themselves and add to their store of useful knowledge. * * 
 Notwithstanding the large number of exhibitors, the goods displayed do not 
 represent all the interests of Newark, but we are at a loss to understand how 
 a manufacturer can afford thus to absent himself or his productions; neither 
 can we see how any person so situated as to be able to visit this wonderful 
 display of the productions of a single city can allow the opportunity to pass 
 without availing himself of* it.
 
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 From the New York Daily Graphic. 
 
 Newark has already accomplished what no other city in the country could 
 possibly do in the way of a local exhibition, for it must be remembere'd exhi- 
 bitors were confined exclusively to thejutisdiction of Newark. The Exhibi- 
 tion of 1873 was one of the most remarkable and interesting given in the 
 United States, and was deemed worthy of a special visit by the President, 
 members of his Cabinet, General Sherman, members of Congress, and the 
 representatives of the leading trades of the country, all ofwhom have expressed 
 themselves highly gratified with their visit. 
 
 We do not wonder that Newarkers take pride in this enterprise. It has 
 been the means, indirectly, of benefiting the city to a great extent, while its 
 direct influence upon trade and local business must in time become very great. 
 ' The reputation already achieved will influence many from various sec- 
 tions of the country to make a visit to this truly remarkable city, whose 
 manufactures comprise almost everything from a button to a steam engine. 
 
 From the Trenton Gazette. 
 
 Newark's Exposition of her industrial products is a really magnificent 
 show. That which most forcibly strikes the visitor, and which is almost be- 
 wildering, is the great variety of her manufacturing products. The visitor can 
 scarcely realize that these hundreds of different articles of utility, of beauty 
 and of superb finish, are specimens of what are constantly being manufactured 
 in the dingy workshops of this single city. It is with feelings of profound 
 satisfaction that he contemplates these beautiful and valuable results of the 
 handicraft of a New Jersey city ; and he gets a conception of the achievements 
 of human industry and skill which fills his heart, with astonishment and 
 pride. He realizes the meaning of the stacks of tall chimneys, clouds of 
 smoke, and ceaseless thrill of the thousand cogs and wheels of the humming 
 machinery of Newark. He obtains a broader and more definite comprehen- 
 sion of the capabilities of his race, and sees with amazement the endless 
 vistas of future possibilities that are suggested. 
 
 From the Newark Local Press. 
 
 The closing days of the great Industrial Exposition bring with them a reali- 
 zation of the importance of the undertaking, and will lift our fair city up from 
 under the shadows of the Metropolis to show her individuality in most 
 glorious features to the world. The display of manufactured goods, both as 
 regards variety and excellence stamps Newark as one of the finest manufac- 
 turing cities in America. The prestige of this grand success will not die away 
 when the goods that make up such a brilliant display are returned to the 
 factories and stores of their owners. 
 
 The last note of the bugle and tap of the drum heard there this season will 
 not wind up the story of the Exposition. That story is already written in the 
 
 our city's in- 
 the splendid 
 
 fabrics of Tyre, though many other ancient splendid cities of the East are 
 only now mentioned by the occasional searcher of ruins. The great cities of 
 Europe that owe their greatness to their permanent manufacturing interests, 
 have borne the shock and devastations of war for centuries and have pros- 
 
 " the 
 nored 
 
 character for industry, she will continue to grow and flourish. 
 The result is that we have a display more magnificent in point of real utility 
 than the treasures victors of old were wont to pile in the streets of their impe- 
 rial cities. Here is the gold refined in our own furnaces, and wrought into 
 elegant things by our own workmen. Here iron, assuming every variety of 
 foi\Ts of usefulness known to the world, and many of these the result of New- 
 ark inventions. The workers in wood have done their occupation lasting 
 honor, while the display of leather challenges the admiration of the world. 
 Art has, with her delicate fingers, given the place some touches that would 
 not disgrace some more pretentious galleries. And through all, music has 
 
 not wind up the story of the Exposition. That story is already 
 page of our country's history as an evidence of the triumph of 
 dustry, and timejshall not erase it ! We still frequently read of 
 
 pered when others have fallen to rise no more forever. So surely doth " the 
 hand of the diligent make rich." While Newark maintains her time-hono
 
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 thrilled and charmed the tens of thousands who have visited the place music 
 from our own performers not excelled by any,'and contributed to make the 
 enterprise one of profit, instruction and enjoyment. 
 
 From the New York Commercial Advertiser. 
 
 The interest of the manufacturers of Newark for some time has been absorbed 
 in the Exhibition of the labors of its mechanic.*, and they have worked faith- 
 fully to render it what it has proved itself a wonderful" display of industry 
 and ingenuity. Some years ago, when Theodore Cuyler was attending school 
 in Jersey, he spoke of Newark as the "little city across the meadows :" on 
 approaching it now, its appearance tells the story of its laboring population. 
 The immense manufactories tower above the ordinary buildings, and high 
 chimneys, smoking furiously, bespeak busy scenes below. It is estimated 
 that there are over one thousand flourishing manufactories in Newark, and its 
 mechanics are of great skill and expertness. 
 
 From the Paterson Guardian. 
 
 This wonderful Exhibition of the mechanical skill of Newark, and Newark 
 alone, marks an advance in the path of progressive civilization and national 
 wealth. We cannot now even attempt to enumerate the articles on exhibi- 
 tion, which are the proud products of the factories and shops of this one 
 New Jersey city. It will well repay a visit from any one. They will be 
 surprised at the numerous articles of use and ornament, the construction of 
 which calls for the highest mechanical ingenuity and artistic skill, that will be 
 found there. 
 
 From the Boston Commercial Bulletin. 
 
 No city of its size in America is more forward in manufacturing industry, 
 and no city can show greater diversity of industrial interest. It may seem a 
 little exclusive on Newark's pait to forbid the work of outsiders to be shown 
 within the precincts of its own show, but this very rule has done much to 
 encourage home industries, and to make their importance and extent a source 
 of local pride. 
 
 From the New York Express. 
 
 Now being the season for expositions, industrial exhibitions, agricultural 
 horse trots and the like, some of which subserve a more and some a less use- 
 ful purpose, it is worth while to notice one in our immediate neighborhood 
 which will be, in many respects, a model for all similar enterprises. We 
 allude to the Exposition in our pleasant suburb, Newark. 
 
 A peculiarity of this Newark Exposition, and the one which seems to us 
 worth copying, is its entire local character, none but Newark manufacturers 
 being allowed space in the building. This gives visitors a clear idea of what 
 the city itself can do and is doing, and stimulates the local pride of the citi- 
 zens in genera], as well as of the manufacturers themselves. A very instruc- 
 tive feature is the a'ctual processes of manufacture. This was done to a certain 
 extent last year, notably by the Clark Thread Works, who had machinery 
 running for the making of spools, as well as the filling them. 
 
 From the New Jersey Mirror. 
 
 From our knowledge of New Jersey's metropolis, we were prepared to see 
 an exhibition of her products, great in magnitude, diversity and excellence, 
 but we placed a limit to Newark's producing capacity, quite too contracted in 
 view of this grand display of the results of the genius, industry and enterprise 
 of her people. The scene presented is truly wonderful, when it is remembered 
 that the great collection of machinery and manufactured wares is solelv tin- 
 product of Newark's inventive skill and industry. Not an article comes in 
 , from abroad nothing but the handiwork and* taste of Newark's sons and
 
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 daughters. Such a display was never attempted by any other 
 
 city, in the New World or the Old, and Jerseymen may justly express pride 
 and a little exultation at the success of Newark's effort in this line. 
 
 From the New York Tribune. 
 
 The manufactures of Newark comprise almost every branch of industry, the 
 value of its manufactured goods amounting to millions of dollars annually. 
 The leading industries are jewelry, carriages, leather, and all its subsidiary 
 branches, saddlery and carriage hardware, agricultural implements and ma- 
 chinery. These goods find a ready market in all parts of the world, and in 
 every city of prominence in the United States the' products of Newark's work- 
 shops are certain to be found. The special feature which has given celebrity 
 to this enterprise is that the goods exhibited are of Newark manufacture, and 
 though a large and more imposing display could be made should all the man- 
 ufacturers of the city enter into the work, still the present Exposition far 
 surpasses all attempts ever made by any municipality to organize a strictly 
 local affair of this kind. 
 
 From the Philadelphia Bulletin. 
 
 Situate on the Passaic River, nine miles from New York and seventy-eight 
 from Philadelphia, Newark is justly styled the liveliest city of New Jersey. 
 With all the rush and gush of New York and the solid business tact so indica- 
 tive of Philadelphia, the city is fast becoming the second in rank among the 
 manufacturing centres of the country. * Ranged systematically and with 
 much taste wen- fancy and ornamental goods, gold and silver in their purity, 
 implements of agriculture, light and heavy machinery, and everything in the 
 mechanical line. ' Workmen actively engaged in manufacturing nails, 
 
 grinding, weaving hair cloth, lithographing, making pottery, drilling rock, 
 making shoes by machinery, turning ivory, brush making, broom making, file 
 cutting, telegraphing, metal moulding, paper-box making, both by hand and 
 machinery, iron turning, iron planing, iron shaping and many other branches, 
 forming a hive of industry and a school of instruction for the people, not only 
 of Newark, but of the whole country, at once instructive, elevating and re- 
 fining. When the visitor recalls the fact that all he sees is the production of 
 the people of Newark, he very naturally concludes that Newark certainly 
 commands attention and respect as a manufacturing centre. Of patent 
 leather, leather, harness, hardware, jewelry and carriages there is a profuse 
 display. 
 
 From the Newark Local Press. 
 
 * * At the Exhibition was a scene of unusual interest. The visit of the 
 Bishops of the American Missionary Association of the M. E. Church, now 
 convened in this city, who were received by the President and Board of Di- 
 rectors, and escorted throughout the spacious edifice. They examined 
 closely the articles on exhibition and the processes of manufactures, and 
 best o \vi-d high praise upon the wonderful display of mechanical skill thus ex- 
 hibited, and which was fully in accord with their own sacred calling. After 
 their visit to the Exposition, the following communication was addressed to 
 the Managers : 
 
 To the Directors of the Newark Industrial. Institute : 
 
 GENTLEMEN : The Board of Bishops of the M. E. Church passed the fol- 
 lowing resolution : 
 
 RESOLVED, That our thanks are hereby tendered to the Directors of the 
 Newark Institute of Industry for the invitation to visit their remarkable col- 
 lection of the manufactures of Newark, and we express our admiration of the 
 enterprise and skill which have yielded such varied and excellent results, and 
 placed their citv in the front rank of American manufacturing communities. 
 
 I. W. WILEY, Sec'y.
 
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 From the Newark Morning Register. 
 
 Although the public mind has been engaged with the activities of a lively 
 and hotly-contested political campaign, and the times have been dull, the Ex- 
 hibition has done well. Visitors from nearly every State in the Union, from 
 the British Possessions, from South America, from China, Japan, Media, 
 Persia, Hindostan, and the countries of Europe have wandered through the 
 buildings and examined the grand combination and immense centralization of 
 the vast industries of this great city. Among the honorable guests who are 
 registered in the office of the Exhibition was Baron Von Schwarz-Senborn, 
 Minister of the Austrian Empire to this country, and several gentlemen con- 
 nected with the Austrian Legation at Washington. The Baron was Chief 
 Manager of the Vienna Exposition, and has for years taken a warm interest 
 in industrial exhibitions, and has visited many enterprises of this character in 
 different parts of the world; he expressed himself highly pleased with our 
 Exhibition, and seemed surprised that one city should be able to make such a 
 creditable show. Also Senor Nicholas Imeno Collante Barranquillo, U. S. of 
 Columbia, and D. H. Dovale, U. S. of Columbia. One of our distinguished 
 visitors to the Exposition has just decided to take to his home in a far distant 
 country an elegant and substantial memento of his visit to this citv. This 
 gentleman, Senor Marco Soto, Minister of State of Guatemala, Central 
 America, has purchased of Golder & Post the beautiful landau which has been 
 on exhibition at the Rink. Senor Soto, in making a careful examination of 
 articles on exhibition, noticed this carriage and admired it so much that he 
 bought it, paying $1,800 for it. Dr. Fred. Volck, of Munich, Bavaria, and 
 Mr. Henry Nash, of Liverpool, were also visitors. Two names are registered 
 as Hindoo and Persian, in the characters of the native language. The ver- 
 dict of all the distinguished guests has been one of unqualified approval. One 
 gentleman, a man of wealth and leisure, and who delights in visiting such 
 exhibitions, stated that he had seen every exhibition of the kind in this 
 country, and never had found anything to equal the Newark Exhibition. 
 
 Numerous fine concerts have been given during the progress of the Exhi- 
 bition. These concerts have been by the finest military bands in the country, 
 and by some of the best musical talent of the country and of our own city. 
 The vocal concerts have proved particularly successful, one of them being 
 attended by over 6,000 persons. 
 
 From the New Jersey Republican. 
 
 And it must be remembered that the articles on exhibition are the production 
 of Newark, and that they are gathered there with no hope to the exhibitors of 
 fee or reward in the way of prize or medal. One would hardly imagine in 
 walking through the long halls, the naves and galleries, where one is arrested 
 at every step by novelties in the way of machinery or the products of ma- 
 chinery, that it was possible that one city could accomplish so much. Those 
 who have visited the Industrial Exhibition at New York and have seen what 
 could be brought there by a drag net thrown over the whole country ; those 
 who have seen, at the Cincinnati Exhibition, the products of the Ohio Valley, 
 and at St. Louis the results of the industries of the Great West those persons 
 can appreciate and realize the gigantic efforts which have been put forth to 
 make Newark the centre of such an enormous and diversified system of acti- 
 vities. The visitor is apt to say to himself, If the chief city of the State can 
 do thus well, what can not the rest of the State accomplish ? 
 
 From the Boonton Weekly Bulletin. 
 
 We visited the Exhibition of Newark Industries, and were convinced that 
 the glowing accounts given of said Exhibition were not in the least exagger- 
 ated. We hardly believed our own eyes and rather doubted our being in an 
 exhibition of the'manufacturing products of one of our own cities. The dis- 
 play of manufactured articles is surprising. Almost every thing is on exhibi- 
 tion, arranged in a manner calculated to draw loud praises from the most quiet 
 and reserved. The Exhibition is really one of much interest to the State at 
 large. Here hi our own little but noble State is an Exhibition of the products
 
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 of the manufactories of a single city. It would be praiseworthy if it was made 
 up of the productions of the State at large, and would receive praises even 
 then. If that is the case, how much more should it he appreciated consider- 
 ing the tact that it is but the result of the enterprise and genius of a sinyle 
 city. 
 
 From the New York Daily Graphic. 
 
 Newark claims to be, while only the third city in the I'nion in point of 
 amount of manufacturing products, the first in regard of variety, and pre- 
 eminently the city ot handicraft. It is giatitying to note also that the classes 
 of citizens outside of mechanical industry do not hesitate to acknowledge that 
 all that they have rests upon the welfare of labor. That eminent New Jersey 
 advocate, Cortlandt Parker, in his address closing the first Newark Exhibition 
 in 1872, uttered an eloquent plea to the need of raising Newark's multitude of 
 toiling artisans in the scale of intellectual a::d moral being. Dignity mechanic 
 art was his counsel ; educate the artisan : cultivate morals in art, producing 
 the perfect and lasting rather than the cheap and showy ; strive to generate 
 and cultivate among artisans a love for the fine arts ; and for the beautiful 
 the useful and the beautiful being in the divine economy conjoined. We 
 believe that the famous public spirit and pride in home of Newark capitalists 
 and manufacturers will look constantly to the well-being and contentment of 
 labor as the corner-stone of their prosperity. 
 
 From the Newark Press. 
 
 VISIT OF GENERAL SHERMAN. 
 
 lu the evening the people of Newark responded and tendered 
 him a hundred thousand welcomes indeed. Never in the history of the city 
 has there been euch enthusiasm manifested. It is safe to say that 10,000 peo- 
 ple participated in the ovation extended to him, and it is equally safe to say 
 that not one in that vast crowd but went home more enthusiastic in their 
 admiration alike of the General and the man than they had ever been before. 
 To the citizens of Newark he must forever hereafter he the beau ideal of a 
 great and gracious hero. It was a wonderful instance of the magic of a name, 
 and if ever a name was potent to call forth the enthusiasm of the people of 
 Newark, it is that of SHERMAN. The General's arrival at the Market street 
 depot met with a warm welcome from the soldiers of Newark and an immense 
 gathering of people. The President, Secretary and a committee of the Board 
 of Managers, fought their way through the throng, and led the General to a 
 carriage in waiting. 
 
 In order to give the military time to form, and also to allow the General to 
 see the city on this his first visit, he was driven up Broad street and round the 
 Park, when he expressed great surprise at and admiration of the city. Said 
 the General, " I have passed through many times, and thought Newark a 
 way station, but I find it ' an important city.' " Returning to the station, the 
 military had formed, and were in readiness to escort him. 
 
 The carriage, in which were the General, his aid-de-camp Gen. AUDEN- 
 REID, President HALSEY and Secretary HoLBROOK, of the Institute, then 
 proceeded slowly to the residence of Mr. HALSEY, on Broad street, accompa- 
 nied by the military singing the '' March to the Sea," and other war songs, 
 amid the most unbounded enthusiasm. Among the guests assembled at 
 President HALSEY'S house were Senator FRELINGHUYSEN, Congressman M. 
 L. WARD, Chancellor RUNYON, Judge DEPUE, Hon. H. N. CONGAR, Hon. 
 A. Q. KEASBEY and THOMAS T. KINNEY, Esq. In the evening, at an 
 early hour, the Exhibition began to be the centre of attraction for thousands 
 of our citizens. For hours a constant stream poured into the doors of en- 
 trance, till the halls, passages and avenues of the vast building actually over- 
 flowed with an ever-moving, eager and far-stretching throng. 
 
 From the first moment of the entrance of General WILLIAM TECUMSEH 
 SHERMAN, escorted by the Board of Directors, Mayor RICORD, Gens. PLUME, 
 HARRIS, WARD, Colonel DAVIS, and others, there seemed to be a magic 
 influence exerted by his presence on the entire assemblage. He took the
 
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 hearts of the multitude absolutely by storm. The crowd surged toward him 
 like steel filings rushing to a loadstone, andlike the hemrned-in water of a flood 
 that carries everything before it, swept around and after him in a torrent. 
 
 The General was dressed in full uniform. He had removed his hat, how- 
 ever, and remained uncovered during the entire evening. He looked re- 
 markably well, almost his first glance was a smiling one, and his first words 
 a hearty expression of satisfaction, and he laughed the heartiest of laughs 
 when hemmed in by the crowd and swept away by the flood. 
 
 An inspection of the machinery was commenced, and the General closely 
 examined several of the more prominent aiticles, asking many questions with 
 the evident desire to master everything novel that fell under his notice, but 
 the citizens were not going to let him off so. They would see, and they would 
 shake hands with him. At last hp good-naturedly and in a manner most 
 genial and hearty met the wish of the people, and the procession became from 
 thenceforth one of handshaking and congratulation. Before the General was 
 through he must have had a more wearied arm than when he cut his way to 
 the sea. Every passage of the Exhibition was traversed, happy jokes and 
 witty sayings being continually indulged in by the General, who had at last 
 to pull the glove from his left hand and extend both to the eager crowds. 
 The General's mode of hand-shaking was conducted in a way that expedited 
 the business very much. He crossed arms and paid out his greetings on both 
 sides in the same style that a skillful mariner pays out cable. As he passed 
 en route through the surging crowd, all eager to grasp his hand, two little 
 boys were held aloft by their parents in order to see and take the General's 
 hand, some burly fellows pushed them far in the rear, exclaiming, " Make 
 room ; no place for children." The General espied the movement, and imme- 
 diately reached for the boys, taking them in his arms and kissing them, and 
 passed the fellows in contempt. * * * 
 
 It was nearly 11 o'clock before the quiet of the Directors' room was reached, 
 and here the soldiers and many citizens had to be received again. The Gen- 
 eral sat down in an easy chair, and, though very much fatigued, still retained 
 his vivacity and had a pleasant word to say to everybody. The reception 
 there was more like a genial family party than a formal presentation to a great 
 man. 
 
 " I went to see President GRANT a day or two ago," said SHERMAN, ''and 
 asked him what this Newark Exhibition amounted to anyhow. General 
 GRANT said it was a good thing : that it was entirely different from all other 
 exhibitions, as it was made up exclusively from productions of one city, and 
 he added. ' You had better go and see it. ' I told him ] would, and I am 
 surprised to see what I have seen. Some other fairs that I have just visited 
 are filled up with pictures from all over the country, and even from Europe, 
 but you have done all this yourselves." 
 
 After quiet had been restored, he made the round of the buildings, and 
 spent an hour in the examination of the numerous articles on exhibition. He 
 expressed the greatest satisfaction with everything, and particularly examined 
 the samples of leather, saddlery, hardware, carriages and the display of tools. 
 
 As a matter of interest to the public, we insert here two ex- 
 tracts from letters received from General SHERMAN at different 
 times. In his letter from Washington to the Board of Managers 
 he says : 
 
 " I can hardly realize that your people should feel any curiosity to see one 
 who wishes to avoid notoriety and to glide along life's current as smoothly as 
 possible. I had supposed the Industrial Exhibition to be a sort of fair, local 
 in its nature and lasting but a few days ; but I learn it is something more. * 
 I will come over Friday evening. I would bring with me only one aid, and 
 prefer not to see any military parade on the streets, but to meet your military 
 in a social way." 
 
 In a letter from St. Louis he says :
 
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 " In St. Louis, to which place I have removed, in hope.s that I may pass the 
 rest of my life in comparative peace * I must therefore in a measure 
 
 subside from public notice * * so that I am reassured that St. Louis is 
 the true place for an old soldier to settle down. Nevertheless no political or 
 geographical bonds can limit my feelings of fraternity and friendship, and I 
 shall ever preserve a most lively recollection of my visit to Newark, and shall 
 always pray that all the blessings due intelligent industry may fall on the 
 heads of your good people." 
 
 From the Harness and Carriage Journal. 
 
 * * It was universally admitted to have been one of the most inter- 
 esting displays of mechanical industry held in this country. It has done 
 much toward familiarizing Newark with dealers and consumers in all parts of 
 the United States, and must tend to attract attention to that city as one of the 
 most important manufacturing centres. But this is not all. It has done far 
 more in convincing the people that a combination of instruction with amuse- 
 ment affords the most rational as well as the most advantageous schools for 
 study that can be inaugurated. In this respect the Newark Exhibition has 
 set an example for older and stronger institutions. The Directors, after se- 
 curing the finest collection of manufactured articles ever exhibited by a single 
 city, set to work to make it doubly attractive by giving a series of concerts, 
 vocal and instrumental, that exceeded everything in the w r ay of variety before 
 offered in that city. The best talentMn the country was employed, drawing 
 together at different times 5,000 to 10,000 people in an evening. No person 
 could visit that Exhibition without being pleased and instructed ; the close 
 student in mechanics, the admirer of all that is artistic in mechanical produc- 
 tions, all found in this Exhibition food for their taste. Great praise is due the 
 entire Board of Directors for their energy and liberality, and the citizens of 
 Newark should see to it that there comes a return of this instructive and 
 elevating Exhibition, while other cities, following the example thus set, 
 should organize exhibitions of like nature ; by so doing they will encourage 
 their native industries and afford instruction to their citizens. 
 
 From the Newark Daily Advertiser. 
 
 EDITOR DAILY ADVERTISER : Much has been said about our "' Newark 
 Industrial Exhibition " opening its doors to exhibitors throughout the State. 
 Under some circumstances it might do, but the purposes of the Exhibition in 
 its local character, i. e., the elevation of the name of Newark as a manufactur- 
 ing centre, must not be lost sight of. Cities, like individuals, vie with each other 
 for supremacy, and are classed according to ability for production. It is one 
 thing to profess to be able to accomplish much, but to prove it quite another. 
 
 Newark has long been considered as a suburb of New York, and under the 
 shadow of the Great Metropolis, was thought to be a quiet little village, and 
 to claim for it any prominence was thought visionarv. Few kind words were 
 ever lisped for it ; even the State was long ruled '' 6ut of the Union." 
 
 But an exposition of its manufactured products, which by the way, no other 
 city of the country has ever done or dared to undertake, has placed its name 
 high on the roll of manufacturing cities. It demonstrated that Newark is 
 capable of producing a far greater variety and of superior workmanship than 
 any other city of the Union, which fact was acknowledged by visitors as well 
 as the press throughout the country. The fairs or expositions which are held 
 in different cities draw upon a wide extent of country to fill their halls, and 
 even in that are not remarkably successful. How different with Newark, as 
 was demonstrated last year ; success attended it in the highest degree, and as 
 Newarkers. all should feel a pride in its accomplishments. 
 
 The thousands who were wont to pass through its borders on their way to 
 New York, knew little of its manufacturing worth until their attention was 
 arrested by the Exposition of its products, and through that Exposition the 
 name of Newark has become known throughout the world. Why not con- 
 tinue in this line of well doing f Let time decide the propriety of receiving 
 outside exhibitors. 
 
 I believe the interest among the manufacturers is on the increase, and with
 
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 just pride do they cling to the local character. The time is not far distant 
 when the " Army of Purchasers " who hie to New York, will learn that the 
 half-hour's distance with its half-dozen railroads, although in another State, is 
 nearer the centre of trade than an hour's ride to Central Park. Let the Man- 
 agers for the present, at least, preserve its local character. 
 
 " NEWARK EXHIBITOR." 
 
 From the Newark Daily Courier. 
 
 The past history of this Institution is familiar to all our readers. The Ex- 
 hibition of 1872, though simply an experiment, devised, planned and carried 
 forward to a most gratifying success, resulted in creating the Newark Indus- 
 trial Institute, under whose auspices the succeeding exhibitions, those of 1873 
 and 1874, were held. These two years were peculiarly trying to the new 
 organization, and the fact that, in spite of a disastrous financial panic, from 
 which resulted a general prostration of all industries, and which was severely 
 felt by the manufacturing interests of Newark in spite of all this, the fact 
 that the exhibitions were continued during this period and were largely patron- 
 ized by visitors from other sections of the country as well as by the citizens of 
 our own State, speaks volumes in its favor. 
 
 When these exhibitions were first started the intention was, and the general 
 desire among our people was, to keep them confined exclusively to Newark. 
 As such they have been productive of very much general good, by giving a 
 new importance and attractiveness to our city. Since their establishment more 
 attention has been paid us by sister cities throughout the country than we 
 have ever before received, and the press not alone the newspaper press, 
 which photographs daily every important occurrence of whatevei nature, but 
 the publishers of magazines and books, who create standard works and seek 
 important matters, in order to impart instruction and collate material for 
 reference have sought us out and given to the world more knowledge of our 
 internal life and general characteristics than thousands of our people deemed 
 possible to obtain. In fact, Newark has been BO frequently illustrated and 
 written about, that people who ten years ago were ignorant even of our exist- 
 ence, would laugh at any one who should attempt to make them believe other- 
 wise than that they had always had a good opinion of that manufacturing city 
 on the Passaic. 
 
 Newark now has a history of its own, and a place on the map of the coun- 
 try out of the shadow of the Great Metropolis. From a " suburb " of New 
 York city, it has suddenly sprung into life as an " independent" municipality, 
 having as good and substantial claims to the dignity of a city, in fact as well 
 as in name, as any settlement a thousand miles away from the Hudson. A 
 great change has been created within the past few years, and mainly the result 
 of the Newark Industrial Exhibition. 
 
 From the Newark Evening Courier. 
 
 VISIT OF GEN. CUSTER. 
 
 Of all the prominent Generals of the late war, none achieved a higher repu- 
 tation than the dashing cavalry officer, Gen. GKO. A. CUSTER. It was fitting 
 that Newark should tender some recognition of his services to the country, 
 and the Managers of the Industrial Institute very properly extended him an 
 invitation to visit the Exhibition, which was accepted. Shortly before nine 
 o'clock the sound of music announced the approach of the General and escort, 
 and the visitors assembled around the main entrance to catch a glimpse of the 
 bold raider. Soon Reinhard's band, led by Prof. Voss, marched in and took 
 up position at the foot of the broad staircase, and on the appearance of the 
 Genera], struck up " Hail to the Chief." The Fifth Veteran Regiment, who 
 escorted the General, then filed in, and, after stacking arms, were temporarily 
 dismissed. 
 
 After a short sojourn in the Manager's room, where the General was intro- 
 duced by President MEEKER to a number of our prominent citizens, the Board 
 of Directors President MEEKER escorting the General and Secretary HOL- 
 BROOK leading conducted their distinguished guest through the various de-
 
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 partments, where all objects of interest were carefully shown. The General 
 was then escorted to the stage, where, among others of our well-known citi- 
 zens present, were noticed CORTLANDT PARKER, Esq., Alderman C. N. 
 LOCKWOOD, ANDREW ALBRIGHT, CHARLES E. YOUNG, ELI H. REYNOLDS, 
 WM. JOHNSON, JOHN M. PHILLIPS, JOHN D. HARRISON, N. F. BLANC n- 
 ARD, A. Q. KEASBEY, J. T. LEVERICH, Rev. Mr. GOODWIN, ex-Sheriff 
 WM. A. BALDWIN, ex-Sheriff WM. BUSH, ELIAS HALSEY, THEO. MACKNET, 
 Col. EDWARD II. WRIGHT, Gen. PLUME, Col. BINGHAM, Col. BARNARD, 
 Capt. OLIVER, of the Fifty-fourth Mass., Major GEO. B. HALSTED. The 
 military forming in hollow square, Hon. CORTLANDT PARKER was announced, 
 who in'troduced Gen. CUSTER to the assemblage in a few appropriate remarks. 
 The General came forward and responded as follows : 
 
 " CITIZENS AND SOLDIERS : I thank you for this attention. It is not often 
 that I make public speeches, nor is it a custom of mine. This reception I 
 deem a great honor, for I see among you those who are not entire strangers. 
 I am glad to see what New Jersey can do, for I have often heard of the inde- 
 pendence of New Jersey, and what I have seen here to-night of the handi- 
 work of her mechanics leads me to proclaim her independent indeed. I was 
 early in the war attached to the First New Jersey Brigade, under the glorious 
 Phil Kearny a brigade for chivalry and dash not surpassed by any other 
 and it took'its impress from Phil Kearny. I had the proud honor, later in the 
 war, of leading the gallant New Jersey Third Cavalry, and, although they 
 were usually on escort duty, and from their showy uniform had been styled 
 ' The Butterflies,' there came a time when they proved they were worthy the 
 name and fame of Jerseymen, and that they could and did fight. 
 
 " On the ninth of September, 1864, nearly all the cavalry of both armies met 
 in hostile array in the valley of the Shenandoah. The victory was with the 
 North, and the Southerners were driven twenty miles away. As they .were 
 returning from th.-? pursuit under their then commander, Colonel Robeson, 
 brother of the present Secretary of the Navy, I met them carrying a flag 
 captured from the enemy. They halted, and said : ' General, doe's this look 
 as though we could fight?' waving at the same time the captured flag, and 
 Col. Robeson said, ' General, if you will look a little further back you will 
 see munitions, horses, equipments and a full battery, with Butterflies astride 
 the guns.' 
 
 " Gentlemen, I again thank you for this pleasing and most cordial recep- 
 tion." 
 
 From the Burlington (N. J.) Enterprise. 
 
 Few people in West Jersey yet realize the growing value and importance 
 of the manufacturing interests of New Jersey, in the counties and towns bor- 
 dering on New York Bay and the Hudson River. Many have heard of the 
 wealth and population which have been driven out of' New York by high 
 taxes and rents and the general insecurity of life and property, so that the 
 commercial rival of New York city on the soil of New Jersey is no longer a 
 wild dream of pal riotic and far-seeing Jerseymen. But it has been reserved 
 for Newark, with its teeming population of 125,000 and its manifold railroad 
 connections, to develop the manufacturing interests of East Jersey. By judi- 
 cious management the industrial interests of Newark have been united in an 
 Exposition of manufactures of all classes and descriptions, from a needle to an 
 anchor, from a plobular clock which keeps the time of the four quarters of the 
 earth, to a noiseless steam engine, which furnishes power to the great and 
 small machines which crowd the Industrial Building and bewilder the be- 
 holder of this mammoth hive of industry, presenting a floor surface of over 
 two acres. The Newark Exposition contains almost every article which the 
 necessity, comforter taste of civilized man in the Nineteenth Century has de- 
 vised or invented. 
 
 From the Boston Commercial Bulletin. 
 
 This Exhibition differs from those that are usually given, having been 
 thoroughly local in its character, no goods or machinery being admitted that
 
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 were not of Newark production. Exhibitors are not charged for space, and 
 are given the privilege of making sales. 
 
 The very many strangers constantly arriving gives a zest to the suppoiters 
 in the large daily average of investments thev make. Our reporter witnessed 
 the sale of an $1,800 landau carriage ; $33,000 steam engine; the agreement 
 on an 800-feet iron-fence contract ; sales of five sewing-machines, and negoti- 
 ation for seven $430 double-truck harnesses. * * The Carriage 
 Makers' Association of the United States, 105 strong, assembled here, and 
 rumor says they left over $60,000 worth of orders in the building, our New 
 England interest being represented by the following manufacturers : Joseph 
 F. Pray, Howard Slade, A. F. Ham, C. E. Mori-ill, Boston ; C. P. Kimball, 
 Portland ; George L. Browne!!, New Bedford ; John D. Ames, Fall River ; 
 Chas. H. Stevens, Bridgeport : T. Parker, Norwich ; F. W. Bishop, West 
 Haven ; Z. Simmons, Union, Me. * * The masses en masse have 
 constantly thronged the hall. Twentv day and five night public schools have 
 been admitted, in all 5>0,000 children, in squads of 1,500 at a time, on special 
 afternoons and evenings. The asylums and hospitals of the city have been 
 enabled also to give the beneficents a view of the Exhibition. 
 
 The machinery was run by a fifty hoi-se power Hewes & Phillips steam 
 engine, the attractive feature of which, aside from its elegance of finish, being 
 the exact nicety at which the cut-off responded to the "momentary varying 
 loads, instantly acting upon the governor without strain or jar, the* fly-wheel 
 never varying a fraction in its rate of speed. L.Wright's five horse" power 
 vertical engine, putting through a seven horse-power strain with uniform and 
 rapid speed, their jeweler's case lathe being a bewitching piece of mechanism. 
 Gould's Machine Co.'s gear cutter, gouging into and through one to one and 
 one-eighth inch cast iron, with precision and strength, making from one to 
 six-inch cogs without perceptible jarring. The Passaic Iron Works five-foot 
 planer and a turbine water wheel. 
 
 The exhibition of leather was headed by several extra-large enameled 
 splits, T. P. Howell & Co. showing a perfect side with 108 square feet ; R. 
 Ward & Co., one each 91 and 84; and S. Halsey & Son, 80 square feet. 
 Newark is a great centre of the enameled leather business, and the respective 
 displays of Howell, Nugent, Halsey, Ward, Strauss, Lang, Palmer, Smith, 
 Harrison and Blanchard were very fine. 
 
 Boots and shoes by L. Boyden*& Co., Bannister & Tichenor and L. Graf. 
 The peculiarities of the pebbling of manufactures in upper splits was no- 
 ticeable, and in one or two cases was a remarkable following to the natural 
 grain. This department alone was worth the expense of a visit from New 
 England. 
 
 The harness department was also a notable one. Benedict's double harness, 
 with light saddles ; Dufford's ditto, still less in weight ; Demarest's heavy 
 double truck ; Marshall's specialty in team saddles ; Peters' Mexican trap- 
 pings, and a host of others. 
 
 Quinby's coaches, Brandenburgh's light wagons, Golder & Post's Bretts, 
 Leverich's phaeton and Brett, Colyer's road buggy, Phineas Jones, hubs and 
 wheels, Crane's carriage wood work, Tomlinson's springs, and Spurr's mar- 
 ble work, made this department very creditable. 
 
 Among the articles exhibited may be mentioned O. Barnet and D. M. 
 Meeker &. Sons, malleable irons ; Wm. Johnson, tools ; Richardson, saws ; 
 Char! ton, small hardware ; Roemer, locks ; Crane, bolts ; Price, edge tools ; 
 saddlery hardware, by Theberath & Bro., Wiener & Co., Joseph Baldwin, 
 Crane & Co., Sturges & Son, and Reynolds & Zahn ; trunk hardware, by 
 Ballard & Minchin. Riley & Lynch and Roberts & Havell ; tools, by Sauer- 
 bier & Son ; Mockridge & Son, planes ; Wm. Blume, buckle tongues ; 
 Alex. McGregor, jewelers' dies ; H. Heinisch and J. Wiss, shears ; Charles 
 Si ppel, carved goods; F. S. Osborn, cutlery; Walton Bros., lanterns; 
 Hedges Bros., Cumbers' wares ; M. GouldlSons, W.T. & J. Mersercaii. stair 
 rods, and Spaeth & Guelicher, skates. h Oscar Barnet's radial drill ; 
 
 Hendrick's single copper circle, 1'25 inches in diameter ; Edwards & Smitn's 
 and Ely's railings ; Sayre's fire brick ; Newark pottery pipes ; Robertson's 
 and Osborn's varnishes ; Connery's brushes ; Chase &' Co.'s lathes; Edgar 
 Farmer, T. B. Peddie, Simon Bros., McCormick. Poinier and Thatcher, 
 trunks, bags. &c. ; McGregor & Drummond, langes; Ward's stable fit tings;
 
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 C. Cooper & Co., chemicals ; Lister Bros., agricultural chemicals ; Heller, 
 ultramarine blue; B. Atha & Co., ingots and rolled steel, enumerate but a 
 tithe of the attractions. 
 
 From the State Press. 
 
 THE "PRESS" NIGHT. 
 
 * * ' The banquet and reception tendered to the representatives of 
 " The Press " was one of the prominent and distinguished social features of 
 the Exhibition. Every newspaper in the State and the prominent papers of 
 New York were worthily represented. Gilmore's famous Twenty-second 
 Regiment Band were specially secured for this occasion, and during the 
 evening interpreted an excellent programme. 
 
 The guests were received by the Press Reception Committee, consisting of 
 THOMAS T. KINNKV. Dr. S. B. HUNT, WM. B. GUILD, JOHN Y. FOSTER, 
 BENEDICT PRIHTH, J. A. BEECHER, E. H. CLEMENT and WM. HUTCHIN- 
 SON, each provided with a handsome badge bearing the inscription in gold, 
 " Our Guests." After viewing and admiring the many processes of manu- 
 facturing in full operation, and the thousands of samples of Newark's in- 
 dustries, and listening to the delightful music, they found their way through 
 the surging throng of people to the Director's room, where a bountiful enter- 
 tainment awaited them. The room was tastefully decorated with American 
 Hags, encircling at the head a finely painted portrait, by Hagny, of Hon. WM. 
 B. KINNEY, the founder of the first daily newspaper in the State. The tables 
 were decorated with flowers, fruits, and emblematical devices in confectionery. 
 These included a pyramid of nougat with the motto, "The pen is mightier 
 than thes\vord." There were also beehives, suggestive of industry, &c., &c. 
 The guests were here welcomed by President HALSEY on behalf of the Board 
 in the following remarks : 
 
 " GENTLEMEN OF THE PRESS: In behalf of the Directors of the Industrial 
 Exhibition I cordially invite you here to-night. We feel that we are greatly 
 indebted to you for the success which has attended our undertaking. You 
 have not fai'led to appreciate the importance of such an exhibition of the me- 
 chanical skill and business enterprise of our city, and you have drawn public- 
 attention to the true elements of our growth and prosperity. It is thus that 
 the press becomes the support of that real enterprise which finds its greatest 
 triumph in the development of the mechanic arts. Here in these varied forms 
 of beauty and art we present to you the result of that culture and skill which 
 our mechanics and artisans have attained, W T hether intended for use or orna- 
 ment they will compare favorably with the production of any other city. The 
 art preservative of all arts ' should here be fittingly recognized, and we 
 tender you our thanks for courtesies received at your hands and for your 
 presence here to-night." 
 
 Mr. JOHN Y. FOSTER, on behalf of the Press Reception Committee, made a 
 speech in which he argued the mutual help and interdependence of the press 
 with other departments of labor, and giving some interesting information 
 about the Exhibition. He made graceful reference to the presence of the first 
 editor of the oldest daily newspaper in the State, Hon. W. B. KINNEY, of 
 the Advertiser, recently returned from his post as his country's representative 
 at an important Court abroad. He was followed by 
 
 Col. MORRIS R. HAMILTON, one of the veteran newspaper men of the 
 State, who made a pleasant address, contrasting the Newark Exposition, 
 which was the exclusive production of a single city, with that of St. Louis, 
 which he had seen, and which would be more appropriately termed an Expo- 
 sition of the Great West. 
 
 Judge GUILD, of the Newark Journal, responded in a neat speech in his 
 fluent and happy vein, dilating upon the importance of the Exhibition to 
 Newark. 
 
 Mr. WM. HuTCinxfcox, of the Newark Register, alluded to art and science 
 as exhibited in the products of skilled workmen and their importance, not 
 only in showing to the world the quality of Newark manufactures, but fos- 
 tering a taste for the beautiful as well as the useful.
 
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 Professor PHIN, of New York, was called upon, and he stated that he was 
 much pleased with the Exhibition in the Birmingham of America. He 
 noticed many improvements over the Exhibition of last year, and the progress 
 made was like the finishing touch of the sculptor. 
 
 Dr. KEMPSON, of the New York Insurance Journal, said that he was a 
 native of Birmingham, England. He was free to confess that Newark 
 eclipsed Birmingham in the variety of manufactured articles and in the quality 
 of the goods. Newark's growth had been wonderful. He had seen the exhi- 
 bitions in other cities, and this Exhibition was equal if not superior to them all. 
 
 Other addresses were made by A. B. JOHNSON, J. A. BEECHER, F. FER- 
 01 >ux. B. R. WESTON, of New York, W. N. FITZGERALD, OBA WOOD- 
 RUFF, P. T. QriNN. 
 
 Among those present were members of Common Council, officers of the 
 leading banking institutions, and a number of prominent manufacturers. 
 
 From the State Gazette. 
 
 Newark's Exposition of her industrial products is a really magnificent 
 show. That which most forcibly strikes the visitor, and which is almost be- 
 wildering, is the great variety of her manufacturing products. The visitor can 
 scai-cely realize that these hundreds of different articles of utility, of beauty 
 and of superb finish, are specimens of what are being constantly manufactured 
 in the dingy workshops of this single city. It is with feelings of profound 
 satisfaction that he contemplates these beautiful and valuable results of the 
 handicraft of a New Jersey city ; and he gets a conception of the achievements 
 of human industry and skill which fills his heart with astonishment and pride. 
 He realizes the meaning of the stacks of tall chimneys, clouds of smoke and 
 ceaseless thrill of the thousand cogs and wheels of the humming machinery of 
 Newark. He obtains a broader and more definite comprehension of the capa- 
 bilities of his race, and sees with amazement the endless vistas of future 
 possibilities that are suggested. 
 
 From the Newark Evening Courier. 
 
 There can be no better way to become acquainted with the progress the 
 country is making in science, art and manufacture, than an inspection of the 
 best products of every class. In the rapid and constant strides toward per- 
 fecting the various appliances for the comfort or pleasure of the world, the 
 ordinary student is left behind, and only those who closely study the publica- 
 tions of the inventors and the scientific works of the day have an adequate 
 idea of the improvements a year brings forth. A few hours passed among 
 the wonders of this Exposition will give the spectator a better idea of the 
 progress made in these pursuits than even the closest reading. It will not 
 only abundantly repay the visitor, but do much toward developing the latent 
 skill now lying dormant for want of due appreciation and encouragement. 
 
 From the State Gazette. 
 
 The chief source of this country's prosperity and growth is our industrial 
 interest. Since the discovery and application of steam as a motive power, 
 and the invention of labor-saving machinery which naturally followed, the 
 wealth of this country has increased with unparalleled rapidity. Everything, 
 therefore, which fosters the development of these interests is highly commen- 
 dable. * No one familiar with the great variety of the industrial 
 inoduets of Newark could form the faintest conception of the scores and hun- 
 dreds of different curious and beautiful results of her skilled handicrafts. * 
 It will be a school for those who have aspirations for manufacturing pursuits 
 which should not be neglected. 
 
 From the Elizabeth Herald.. 
 
 The Exhibition is one of the very best ever given in the Tinted States, and 
 is strictly* an Exposition of Newark Industries, showing conclusively that, as 
 a manufacturing city, Newark may be called the Birmingham of America. *
 
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 From the Newark Local Press. 
 
 To eny that it has been a successful enterprise, would but poorly express 
 the meed it has earned and the benefits it has dispensed. * * It is 
 due to the excellent Board of Managers that the Exhibition has subserved the 
 purpose for which it was organized so thoroughly and satisfactorily. The 
 manufacturers of Newark have received a wider recognition and appreciation, 
 and the skill of the laborer has been held up to the admiration and respect of 
 all classes of society. Through this and similar exhibitions elsewhere the 
 world is receiving new impressions of the character, dignity and genius of 
 labor that will go far, finally, to elevate and ennoble any pursuit, however 
 humble and obscure. Last Thursday evening witnessed a peculiar and inter- 
 esting scene at the Exhibition, being a visit of inspection by the delegation of 
 Indians in charge of Gen. JOHN* E. SMITH, that recently arrived East on a 
 visit to the " Great Fathers." At first, the visitors were stoical and indiffer- 
 ent, but in the hands of the Managers they soon melted into good humor, and 
 appeared interested and pleased. The "Thistle Band, of Clark's Thread 
 Works, discoursed sweet music during the evening. 
 
 The names of these sixteen Indian Chiefs were " Plenty Bear," " Old 
 Eagle," " Crazy Bull," " Iron," " Friday," " Dull Knife," " Little Wolf," 
 " Crazy Head," li Spotted Wolf," " Wild Hog," " Lamed by White Man," 
 " Bold Bear," " Cut Foot," " Old Crow," " Pile of Bones," and " Half Bear." 
 The first five of the above-named represented the Arapahoes, and the re- 
 mainder the Cheyennes. Having been sumptuously entertained by the Board 
 of Managers, they were received in a few neat words of welcome by President 
 HALSEY, J. C. LUDLOW, of the Directors, and the Secretary, and responded 
 to by " Crazy Bull," " Bold Bear," and others, in which they expressed 
 sentiments of joy, and said : " We have been better treated here than since 
 our advent among the white man." That they might carry to their far-off 
 homes in the West some memento of their visit to Newark and the Exhibi- 
 tion, an ornament of neck-wear, consisting of a nickel-plated chain with a 
 medallion head and plate representing the sun, with the name of the Exhibi- 
 tion on one side, on the reverse the name of the chief; each was provided 
 with this emblem, which they treasured " above rubies," and was worn by 
 them in their councils and in war. After the lapse of years the following ap- 
 peared in the newspapers : 
 
 " Wild Hog, who, with his wife and three children, are now prisoners at 
 Fort Leavenworth, is one of the Cheyenne Chiefs who visited the Industrial 
 Exhibition in this city in 1873. He is remembered by his stalwart proportions 
 and good features. The memory of that visit is also revived by a meeting of 
 Mr. CilARLES F. HOLBROOK, a son of the Secretary, with the chieftain at 
 his camp several months ago. The young man recognized upon the neck of 
 the savage a medal and chain a souvenir of the Exhibition that his father 
 had struck off purposely for the visiting chiefs. When voung HOLBROOK 
 made himself known as the son of the donor of the medal, Wild Hog embraced 
 him with true Indian cordiality, and treated him with the greatest honor. * 
 Wild Hog, when he reached the camp of his captivity, shook hands all 
 around, as if it was the pleasantest moment in his life. His eldest daughter, 
 a girl of sixteen, is of exceptionally beautiful type. She was taken from the 
 entrenchment after the last fight, having a severe flesh wound in the arm, 
 rendering her sick. This brave attracted much attention, and 
 
 a New York Herald correspondent says : Most prominent among his decora- 
 tions was a large metal star attached to a nickel chain, bearing Wild Hog's 
 name on one side, and on the other ' Newark Industrial Exhibition, 1873, 
 Newark, N. J.' This was presented to Wild Hog on his visit East." 
 
 From the Sunday Call. 
 
 Newark manufacturers should be strong advocates for the protection of 
 home manufacturers, and feel pledged to the support of every enterprise 
 tending to this result. It is folly, in this progressive age, to say that we can 
 "get along" in the same manner we did twenty, or even ten, years since. 
 Business is progressive, else it would not be business, and business men must
 
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 adapt themselves to and keep up with the age. Advertising in some way 
 must be resorted to, elf trade will seek other channels. It is folly to say 
 that certain branches of trade must come to Newark, when we all know that 
 other places are manufacturing the same goods and are making efforts to secure 
 custom. We must show our wares and maintain our rank among the manu- 
 facturing cities. * * 
 
 From the New York Press. 
 
 Thrift and steady habits have brought wealth, and wealth has 
 brought culture, in succeeding generations, so that refinement and intelli- 
 gence of a high order are not wanting to Newark society. Newark has won, 
 through the able men she has trained in business and at'the bar, her prizes in 
 this field also, as in the cases of Judge BRADLEY, of the Superior Court, and 
 Senator FRELIXGHUYSEN. 
 
 But the industry of Newark is her true boast. The city prides itself on 
 being a workshop. Its monuments are its chimneys ; its palaces its hives of 
 workers. Two yer.rs ago Newark proposed to prove to the world her claim 
 to the title of the " Birmingham of America." The Industrial Exhibition was 
 the result, and it was the willing verdict that no single city in the country 
 could produce a show of its own manufactures exclusively of greater extent 
 and more multifarious variety. Even those who had lived in Newark all 
 their lives were surprised to learn at this Exposition that there are more than 
 '200 different manufactures carried on there ; that the establishments in which 
 they are conducted number about 1,000 ; that they employ over 30,000 hands, 
 to whom are paid annually wages to the amount of about $15,000,000, and 
 that capital to the amount of fi. to, 000, 000 is invested in these manufactories, 
 whose products amount to $90,000,000 a year. 
 
 From the New York Evening Post. 
 
 The third annual exhibition of the Newark Industrial Exhibition was for- 
 mally opened on Tuesday evening, and attracted a large company of visitors. 
 
 * This association is a local institution solely, and was organized for the 
 exhibition and encouragement of Newark manufacturers. * Newark 
 
 is probably one of the most enterprising manufacturing cities in this country, 
 and the variety of its products is also very great. In the Exhibition last year 
 the display wa* as varied as that of the American Institute in this city, and 
 the judgment of the Managers in restricting the admission of goods to thoseof 
 Newark manufacture was fully justified by (he result. 
 
 The machinery depaitment is run by an engine and boiler of Messrs. 
 Hughes & Phillips' manufacture (who were from the first eauiest workers in 
 the Exhibition). Several Baxter engines are in place, and any number of 
 lathes, planes and other useful machines. * Carriage building is 
 
 an important branch of industry in Newark. Hearse building is a Newark 
 specialty, and there is some good work of this kind. * * In metal 
 articles, such as mechanics' tools, coach hardware, horse and harness trim- 
 mings, etc.. th display is very fine. Sauerbier & Son, a large display of 
 tools, dies and other objects. Thomas Slaight, a case of padlocks, door locks 
 and other fastenings. Messrs. TZomer, a case of similar goods, together with 
 some excellent samples of bronze door knobs. There are also cases of gray 
 iron castings and other trimmings, by D. M. Meeker; carpenters' tools of all 
 kinds from John Chailton : buckles of iron, and silver and nickel-plated, in 
 infinhv vaiiey, by Messrs. Sturges, Sun & Co. ; a great case of carpenters' 
 and other 1ols. by William Johnson ; a large assortment of files, by J. Y. 
 Johnson; gi eat variety of coach and carriage lamps and ornamental trim- 
 mings fur all sorts >f vehicles, by C. N. Lockwood & Co. ; a case of fine 
 boots and shoes, by Messr*. L. Boyden & Co.. also Bannister & Tichenor, and 
 a fine show "f trunks, hagp. leather, harness, plated wares, gold, jewelry, and 
 other manufactures for which Newark is celebrated. 
 
 From the Newark Local Press. 
 
 The impmtarc? of this Exhibition of Industries to Newark cannot be over- 
 estimated. The fact of its being exclusively of Newark products has made
 
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 known the name of Newark as a great manufacturing centre throughout the 
 world, and has drawn hither visitois fiom every clime. The display is re- 
 markable. As our space is limited, we can mention only a few of the leading 
 exhibits. 
 
 MACHINERY. Hewes & Phillips, Currier, Gould & Co.. Hawkins. Ohl & 
 Co., Chase, Skinner. Leary & Lindsley. Watts. Campbell & Co.. W light, 
 Dodd, M. B. Lidy. Boleri & Crane, ftowden. Atlas Manufacturing Co, 
 Wrigley, The Baxter Engine < 'o. STEAM BOILERS. Hewis A Phillips, 
 Burnett, Lyons. FIRE APPARATUS. Hewes & Phillips, Gould & Co., De^i- 
 nisson. HARDWARE AND CASTINGS. D. M. Meeker. Barnttt, Ward & Co., 
 Donaldson. Adam Hay. TOOLS AND HARDWARE. Win. Johnson, Charl- 
 ton, Foerster, Washoe Mannfactuiing Co.. White, Mockiidere. SADDLERS' 
 TOOLS, &c. Sauerbier & S>n, Osborne. R. R. LOCKS. Slaight, Roemer. 
 SADDLERY HARDWARE. Starves, Son & Co., J. Baldwin & Co., Wiener 
 & Co., Theberath & Co., Reynolds & Zahn. Buermann, Wheeler & Crane, 
 Sargeant Manufacturing Co.. Van Ntss, Hayden, Wuesthoff, Wright & 
 Kuehnhold, S. E. Tompkins & Co. CARRIAGE HARDWARE. Otto, Thiel- 
 mann, Purcell, Blancliard & Boylan, Stivers, Lockwood & Co., Crane & Co. 
 COACH LAMPS. C. N. Lockwo. d &, Co. CARRIAGES. Leverich & En- 
 ders, Colyer & Co., Marsh. Sanders, Quinby& Co., Smith. Golder & Post. 
 WAGONS. Finter & Buehler. Dobbins, Brandenburgb. COACH LOCKS. 
 Stivers. Bosch. SPRINGS. Delany. Tomlinson & Co. HUBS, WHEELS 
 AND CARRIAGE WOODWORK. P. Jones & Co., Wm. James. Steveley, 
 Crane. Whittemore, Vroom. FOOT LATHES. Chase, Greenfield. Dors. 
 HAT MACHINERY. Yule, Surerus. BRASS AND STEEL GOODS. Roberts & 
 Havell. Riley & Lynch. LEATHER. S. Halsey & Son, C. H. & J. D. Har- 
 lison, Blanchard, Bro. & Lane. T. P. Howe]] & Co. Palmer & Smith, 
 Nugent, Stengle, R. Ward & Co MOROCCO. John Young & Son, Nugent. 
 HARNESS. Peters &. Co., Demarest & Co., Dufford, Benedict. Marshall, 
 Roubaud, Aschenbach, E. F. Beck. HARNESS BUCKIES. Blume. BOOTS 
 AND SHOES. L. Boyden & Co.. Bannister & Tichenor, L. Graf. G. W. 
 Bannister, W. J. Dudley, Garrabrant, Miller, Ellison. Felch. FANCY WOOL 
 MATS AND MUFFS. T. P. Howcll & Co. TRUNKS, BAGS, ETC. T. B. 
 Peddie, E. Simon & Bros., E. Farmer & Co., J. Lagowitz& Co., McCormick, 
 Poinier, Thatcher. FURNITURE. Jelliff & Co., Douglas. McDermit & 
 Looker, Ruckelshaus, Smith & Hedges, Stolz, Conger. FURNITURE HARD- 
 WARE Toler & Co. CLOTHING. Stontenburgh & Co., Marshall & Co. 
 BED SPREADS. Morris & Doty. SHIRTS. Johnston & Sutphen, Jolley 
 & Co., Kirkpatrick, Dusal, Price, Kimball, Marley. HATS. Yates, Whar- 
 ton &, Co., P.- W. Vail & Co. BRUSHES. Conery, Dixon. FURS, HATS, 
 ETC. Corey & Stewart, Ehlers. FURS AND HAIRWORK. W. H. & R. 
 Burnett. JEWELERS' LATHES. Hart, Rowden. STEP LADDERS. Doug- 
 las, Martin, Griffith. PHOTOGRAPHS. -Kirk, Spahn, Huff. PAINTS. 
 Tuen & Cooper. CHEMICALS. C. Cooper & Co., Passaic Chemical Co., 
 Smith, Heller & Merz, D. B. Coles. STAIR RODS AND BRASS GOODS. 
 Mersereau, Gould. WIRE AND WIRE GOODS. Roberts, Stanier. FLUTING 
 MACHINES. Loweiee, Sauerbier, Sommer. SAD IRONS. Bless & Drake. 
 SEWING MACHINES. Domestic Co. SPOOL COTTON. Clark Thread Co. 
 SEWING MACHINE MOTORS. Seymour & Whitlock, Wright. BUILDERS' 
 WOODWORK. Meeker & iledden. Wm. King. Whitman. TRUNK TRIM- 
 MINGS. Adams. TRAVELING BAG FRAMES. Neumann & Co. PLUMB- 
 ERS' BRASS WORK. Hedges Bros., Edwards. WOOD FAUCETS Sommer. 
 FILES AND RASPS. Ray, Johnson, McKechnie, Heller. ULTRAMARINE 
 BLUE. Heller & Merz. AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS. Lister Bros. ORES 
 AND MINERALS, GOLD AND SILVER. Ed. Balbach & Son. ORES AND 
 PAINTS. N. J. Zinc Co. SWEEP SMELTERS AND REFINERS. Lelong 
 Bros., Dennis. BURGLAR ALARMS. Biittian. Lipps, Dowden. ELECTRIC 
 MACHINES. Edison & Murray, Drake. W'ATER MOTORS. Backus. RUB- 
 BER CLOTHING. Joy & Co. RUBBER GOODS. C. Roberts. LEATHER 
 BELTING. C. Walker. SAFES. Horschel. HARD RUBBER HARNESS 
 TRIMMINGS. A. Albright. CELLULOID. Celluloid Co. HARNESS ORNA- 
 MENTS. Butler & Wards. TENTS AND AWNINGS. Brockie & Co. MAT- 
 TRASSES. Spaeth, Miller, Taylor. SKATES Spaeth. Kinsey. BROOMS. 
 I. D. Weed. ORNAMENTAL AND CUT GLASS. Belcher, Battin & Downing.
 
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 Denman. CUTLERY. Heinisch, Wiss, Furness & Co. BRITTANIA WARE. 
 M. Doll. HAIR CLOTH. Shirriff. SILVERPLATED AND STERLING SILVER. 
 B. J. Mayo, J. B. Mayo. TABLE OIL CLOTHS. Atha & Hughes, 
 Haines, Hyde Mt'g. Co. SCALES. Meyer. TELEGRAPH BRACKETS, PINS, 
 ETC. D. Ripley & Son. SOAP. Ledwith. MARBLE WORK. J. J. Spurr, 
 Passmore & Meeker, Stevens, Church & Williams. LAPIDARY WORK. 
 Regad. PIANOS. Hinds, Beck. SCROLL SAWING. Dalrymple, Meeker 
 & Hedden, Dorn. WOOD TURNING. Helms! aedter, Dunklefesen, Meeker 
 & Hedden. IVORY TURNING. J. B. Oelkers, Sippel. COPPER WORK. 
 Perpente, Assniann. POTTERY. Haidle, Osborne, Ogden. CARRIAGE 
 Bows, ETC. Kilburn. JAPANNING. Turne--, Armitage. HAMES. Jaco- 
 bus. Crane. REFRIGERATORS. Drummond. TEA TRAYS AND STOVE PLAT- 
 FORMS. Walter M. Conger. PLOWS. Myer. SAWS. Richardson. IN- 
 GOTS AND ROLLED STEEL. B. Atha & Co. ROLLED COPPER. Hendricks 
 Bro. VARNISHES. Robertson, Fitzgerald, Osborne, Hewson. LIGHTNING 
 RODS. Demorest. GRINDING MILLS. Searfoss. IRON WORK. Edwards 
 & Smith. METALLIC BINDING. Underwood. BRUSH BLOCKS. Speer. 
 BOOT AND SHOE UPPERS. Meeker, Flock. BOOT SEWING MACHINE. 
 Dudley. PUMPS. Miller. PUMP VALVES. Evans. BEDSTEADS. 
 Turner, Walker, Reeves, Miller. BRASS BEDSTEADS. Benwell, Mertereau. 
 BUTTONS. Warner & Radcliffe, Vincent. SHELLS. Denton. INVALID 
 CRUTCHES. Darrach. RULES. Belcher & Co. GOLD PENS. J. G. Ir- 
 win. PAINTINGS. Hagny, Spencer, Moran, Enzingmuller, Bolles, Lang, 
 Coe Drake, Gehardt. PAPER BOXES. Hotchkiss, Wm. King, Osborne. 
 PLASTER AND CEMENT. J. R. Sayre, Jr. & Co., Lime & Cement Co. 
 
 From the Newark Daily Advertiser. 
 
 A SIGNIFICANT LETTER. 
 
 A. M. HOLBROOK, Secretary Newark Industrial Exhibition : 
 
 DEAR SIR : Always on the go, I have but now fulfilled the promise made 
 myself to remember your Exhibition and kind attentions in a few lines. In 
 my travels I have been greatly impressed with the importance of the Indus- 
 trial Exhibition to your beautiful and manufacturing city, Newark. Probably 
 no one has a better opportunity to learn the sentiment of the people than he 
 who travels on business, as, necessarily, he must commingle with all classes. 
 Newark has always borne a fair reputation as a manufacturing city among 
 dealers in its varied products, but in proportion to their number they are 
 indeed limited ; in fact, to thousands I have met, Newark was unknown, and 
 very many who were accustomed to pass through its borders en route to the 
 great Metropolis, knew it only as a " way station." 
 
 Prior to the Exhibition, how many had asked the question when presenting 
 goods, Where are they made 'I In Newark ! Where is Newark f which was 
 answered by a long explanation and description of the place. But since the 
 Exhibition, when told the goods were made in Newark, the unanimous ex- 
 clamation is, " Oh ! yes, I remember ; Newark is near New York, where they 
 held such a grand Exposition of mechanical arts. It must be a place of im- 
 portance to be able to have so successful an Exposition exclusively of its own 
 manufactures." You will thus observe the Exhibition has, as it were, intro- 
 duced Newark throughout the country, and, I might say, even the world, as 
 the same exclamation was made on my visit to Europe. It must be gratifying 
 to your citizens that their city thus holds so high a position among its sister 
 cities. It is very true, cities, like individuals, are rated in proportion to their 
 ability for producing, and surely your manufactories have done well for them- 
 selves in thus bringing together for exhibition their products, and in variety 
 that no other city in the Union has as yet done, and I doubt their ability so to 
 do. By the by, I notice by the papers the city of Portland, Me., is about to 
 emulate your example and inaugurate a similar exhibition to that of Newark. 
 I will try and visit it and '' com pare notes." 
 
 1 am inclined to believe, from the size of Newark, your manufacturers could 
 make a much more extended and varied display if they only realized its im- 
 portance as a means to individualize, so to speak, and elevate their city. I 
 remember with pleasure my visit to your Exhibition, and the kind attention
 
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 extended to me by your President, Mr, HALSKY, and others of the manage- 
 ment, and trust to be enabled to repeat it this Fall. 
 
 Trul v yours, 
 CHICAGO, March 22d, 1874. T. WILLIS. 
 
 From the Local Press. 
 
 THE FLOWER EXHIBIT. 
 
 About three thousand persons admired the Floral display last evening. The 
 management of the Industrial Exhibition acted exceedingly wise in inaugu- 
 rating an exhibition of this kind, which was so fully in keeping with the 
 spirit of the Institute. A mass of humanity surged around the various plants 
 and flowers, the display ot which was exquisitely beautiful. Exclamations 
 were the order of the occasion, and admiration was distributed in a lavish 
 manner. Notable among them was a very large and fine display of dahlias 
 of every kind and color, rare and beautiful roses, bouquet and basket cut 
 flowers, elegant ferned designs, pot flowers and plnnts of the choicest kind, 
 violets the perfume of these dainty flowers is amomg the very sweetest 
 and flowering begonias. The Night Blooming Cereus was also present and 
 blooming. 
 
 From the Newark Evening Courier. 
 
 The New York Evening Post devotes a column to a description of our In- 
 dustrial Exhibition. It says, among other things : " As Newark is essen- 
 tially a manufacturing city, it is not surprising that its artisans are capable of 
 making a demonstrative exhibition, and yet to the stranger it is a matter of 
 surprise that any town in the near neighborhood of New York has within its 
 limits creative resources such as are exemplified at this Exhibition." 
 
 From the New York Tribune. 
 
 The Industrial Exhibition is now in its fourth year. At the opening last 
 year it was suggested that the doors of the Exhibition should be thrown open 
 to the entire State, but the idea was not then carried out. The wisdom of 
 inviting the manufacturers of the entire State to participate in the Exhibition 
 of this year was fully sustained, it was thought, last night. The interest 
 manifested by those outside of Newark was brought about mainly by the 
 energy of President MEEKER and the Board of Directors, who personally 
 visited the larger manufacturing districts and placed the objects of the Exhi- 
 bition directly before the manufacturers. * President MEEKER, 
 who is seriously ill, and contracted his sickness in the service of the Exhibi- 
 tion, was absent last evening. The Hon. PHINEAS JONES will perform the 
 duties of President during Mr. MEEKER'S illness. The following are the 
 officers of the Exhibition : DAVID M. MEEKER, President ; PHIXEAS JONES 
 and CHARLES N. LOCKWOOD, Vice Presidents ; ALBERT M. HOLBROOK, 
 Secretary ; ISAAC GASTON, Treasurer, and twenty-seven Directors. * 
 At 8:30 P. M. Governor BEDLE, escorted by Vice President JONES, Chan- 
 cellor RUNYON, United States District Attorney KEASBEY, Judge DEPUE, 
 the Hon. JOHN HILL, the Rev. Dr. SIMS, Mayor CREVELING, of Trenton, 
 THOMAS C. HENRY,Directors J. M. PHILLIPS, J. D. HARRISON, ELI H. 
 REYNOLDS and J. C. LUDLOW, a number of city aldermen and State legis- 
 lators, and leading business men of Newark, entered the hall and were re- 
 ceived with loud applause. 
 
 The exercises were formally opened by the Rev. Dr. CHARLES N. SIMS, 
 pastor of St. Paul's M. E. Church, with prayer. Vice President JONES then 
 introduced Governor BEDLE. of New Jersey, in the following remarks : 
 
 '' LADIES AND GENTLEMEN' : Owing to the illness of Our worthy President, 
 the duty falls upon me to call your attention to the opening of the fourth 
 annual Exhibition of the Newark Industrial Institute, and the first of the 
 State at large. We have taken a new departure and opened the Exhibition to 
 the entire commonwealth. * * As the Exhibition has been thrown 
 open to the State, it was fitting that we should invite the Chief Magistrate oi
 
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 the State to deliver the opening address, whom I now have the pleasure to 
 introduce to you." 
 
 The Governor was greeted with prolonged applause as he arose and spoke 
 substantially as follows : 
 
 " LADIES AND GENTLEMEN : It was a great undertaking for those gentle- 
 men who. in the year 1872. began this Exhibition. To confine it, so far as 
 the exhibitors were concerned, to the city of Newark alone, with a population 
 at that time of only about 120.000, and to invite people from everywhere to 
 witness it, either showed undue vanity or a consciousness of ability to make 
 the Exhibition a complete success and a credit to the city. It was not vanity 
 that projected this enterprise. It resuhed from a deep-seated conviction that 
 here was a city with a population alive and active with industry and intelli- 
 gence, that capital was busy here, producing in multitudinous ways and forms 
 the fruits of mechanical labor and skill ; that Newark had in reality become a 
 great manufacturing centre, and from it the country at large was being 
 materially supplied ; that for variety and quality of workmanship and 
 skill, and business thrift and stability in the management of its industries, 
 no city in the United States with an equal population could excel it. The 
 experiment, if it may be so called, was tried, and for three years it has 
 been a wonueiful success. The expectations of those who originated it 
 have been more than realized. Newark is now known as one of the first 
 manufacturing cities of the world, and in none, I believe, is there a more 
 substantial growth. This year it is not restricted to Newark, but manufac- 
 turers throughout the State are invited to participate in its benefits. 
 
 " This is an Exhibition literally. No premiums for competition are offered. 
 None need refrain fro n sending their wares and handiwork for fear of any 
 unfair prejudice or design on the part of committees of award. Whoever 
 exhibits here has the public for his judge and critic. The public is not slow 
 to appreciate and reward genuine worth, whether in material things or in 
 character. In mechanical arts the world is advancing with rapid strides. 
 The lawyer, or theologian, or physician, or philosopher must have the advan- 
 tage of others' researches, and so must the mechanic of another's judgment 
 and skill. No people catch and appropriate the force of an idea quicker than 
 the American. An Exhibition like this is a grand advertisement." 
 
 From the Newark Journal. 
 
 Through its Exhibition of Mechanics. Arts and Science, it has 
 placed the name of Newark high on the roll of manufacturing cities. The 
 manufacturing interest is the foundation, the strength of Newark, and every 
 business man should feel its importance and extend all aid in his power to 
 strengthen the arm of the Directors, who have, during tsvo or three years 
 past, devoted their time and means to this patriotic and philanthropic work. 
 As an Exposition of Industries it has accomplished much, not only as an 
 Exhibition of manufactures in their perfection, but as an educator of the 
 people. It is to such expositions that the many important inventions of the 
 day owe their origin. As citizens we feel a growing interest in the welfare of 
 the Exhibition which has in it the germ of moral and intellectual advance- 
 ment. With the extended benefits of the Exhibition to the State, a more 
 extended interest may be made manifest, ami the Exhibition placed in a posi- 
 tion to carry out the provision of its charter " to establish in said city of 
 Newark a series of lectures and experiments on chemistry, physics and natural 
 history, and their application to manufactures and the arts." 
 
 From the New York Daily Graphic. 
 
 The Institution furnishes an opportunity to learn what they are making in 
 the wilderness of factories in Newark, and in many instances illustrates the 
 method of manufacture. They say Newark has contributed more useful in- 
 ventions to industrial progress than any other city in America. The display 
 of carriages and of carriage and harness ornaments is exceptionally fine. 
 Nearly every description of vehicle, from a fann wagon to a clarence coach 
 and landaulet, give in their testimony to Newark industry. Patent, ena-
 
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 meled. harness, trunk and shoe leather are on exhibition ; also morocco. 
 While the'specimens are excellent, they give one but very little idea of the 
 acres of Newark soil which are covered with vast tanning and leather-making 
 establishments. The building? occupied by a single farm spread over seven 
 acres. Newark virtually supplies the whole United States with patent and 
 enameled leather, and it is exported largely to the West Indies, South 
 America and Europe- 
 
 From leather it is but a step to boots and shoes, one of prominence and one 
 through which Newark has attained much of her present celebrity. And the 
 same may be said of trunks, bags, &c. Newark has the largest trunk and 
 bag factories in the world. 
 
 Furniture, pianos and church organs and steam engines are lights which 
 are by no means hid under a bushel. The silversmiths and jewelers exhibit 
 some elegant and purely original work. The popular notion that new and 
 unique styles originate in foreign countries would be quickly dispelled by one 
 tour of exploration. The importation of precious stones and the perfection of 
 diamond setting such as Newark can congratulate herself upon is rarely ex- 
 celled in this or any other country. Stoves, tea-trays, stair-rods, locks and 
 sharp-edged tools possess interest, since they are all indispensable to human 
 comfort. The Celluloid and the Hard Rubber Harness Trimming companies 
 have not forgotten themselves on this occasion. 
 
 From the New York Presj. 
 
 Through great pressure the directors of the Newark Exhibition 
 Association have been induced to open their Exposition of Industries (which 
 hitherto has been confined to those exclusively of Newark) to the State at 
 large. The eminent success that has attended the several exhibitions fully 
 demonstrate its ability in that line, and it can afford to be liberal. They can 
 well afford to open its doors to the State and say to the world that, while the 
 Exhibition was intended to show up our Newark products, we are willing 
 to extend its benefits to our sister cities. New Jersey contains many large 
 and important manufacturing interests, and, as members of one largefamilv 
 in benefiting one we benefit all. This generous departure has brought forth 
 many exceedingly fine exhibits from various parts ot the State. We can 
 make mention only of a few of the largest displays. Carpets in great variety 
 and delicacy of finish by Arnold, Constable fe Co., New Brunswick Carpet 
 Mills ; also Beattie, Roberts & Co., Little Falls ; India rubber, Fred. A. Can- 
 field, Dover ; pottery plain and decorative, an extensive variety Isaac 
 Davis. Tienton ; Lake Side satin finish doeskins and doeskin cashmerettes, 
 Uhl & Bull, Bridgeton ; rubber hose, belting, etc., in profusion, Hamilton 
 Rubber Works, Trenton ; organs, in great variety of styles, Peloubet & 
 Pelton. Bloomfield ; chains and nails. Wliittaker & Skirm. Trenton ; nails in 
 process of manufacturing, Dover Iron Mills; cloths, cassimeres, etc., in great 
 variety, Wm. Duncan & Sons, Franklin ; table oil cloths, Hyde Manufactur- 
 ing Co., Harrison ; fancy soaps and perfumery, Colgate & Co., Jersey City. 
 
 From the Newark Press. 
 
 If we were asked the question, " What has made New England great, and 
 given her an enviable reputation throughout the civilized world '!" we should 
 answer, ' The energy of her people and a just estimate of their own merit." 
 No man ever blushed to say, " I am a New Englander." It is true to a great 
 extent that se'f-respect commands respect from others, provided there is that 
 in a man which entitles him to consideration and esteem. It is the local pride 
 oi New England that has done much to establish her character at home and 
 abroad. 
 
 This spirit of local pride should be fostered. The existence of it unites a 
 community for the good of all. It creates and establishes and elevates public 
 opinion. *By the estimate given of a place by its own people will strangers 
 judge, to a large extent, of what it really is. This is that which leads every 
 man of spirit to take an interest and feel a pride in every thing that concerns 
 the welfare of his city and State.
 
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 It is something which should gratify any man to see the pride and interest 
 taken by people generally in our Industrial Exhibition. To a perfeon whose 
 range of thought is more extended than his eyes, ears and mouth, our Expo- 
 sition of Newark industry and skill is a small matter in itself. But when is 
 added to its really intrinsic interest the consideration that it lifts our city into 
 eminence before the whole country, and even attracts the comment and atten- 
 tion of other nations, there is something grand in the Newark Industrial 
 Exhibition. 
 
 In furtherance of this idea, the visit of the President of the United States 
 was something which has an interest and importance above and beyond the 
 mere honor attaching to the highest office in the world, or the gratification of 
 the crowd of curious people who came to see the President of the United 
 States. * * It is not General GRANT, not the successful candidate 
 of the Republican party, but the President of a great Republic, who sets 
 Newark in motion towards the Exhibition, and puts her name, her industries 
 and her eminence in the mouths of millions, through the pen, the telegraph 
 and the press. Let us strive for larger views and more generous appreciation 
 of the importance and value of Newark's Exhibition of her industries to the 
 city and all her interests, as well as to the State at large. 
 
 From the Newark Local Press. 
 
 Every citizen of Newark remembers with pleasure the Exhibition ; and 
 there are few, probably, who cannot recall, like a pleasant dream, the almost 
 fairy-like spectacle of the great fountain, the cases of blazing diamonds, the 
 pyramid of shells, the canopies, the carriages, the whirling and whirring ma- 
 chinery, the beautiful display of industries, the paintings and the statuary, 
 the music rising and swelling, or growing fainter as the listener, following 
 the gay throng, drew near or passed from its vicinity. The gala nights, 
 when distinguished visitors were present, come back again, and we re-enter- 
 tain, with Newark's highest honors, the President of the United States and 
 his venerable competitor, whose pale face silver-fringed we shall never see 
 again. 
 
 Those were glorious days and nights for Newark, and reflected more credit 
 upon the originators and managers of the grand enterprise than could ever be 
 expressed. They added more to the renown of our fair city than any and all 
 revious efforts combined. All honor, say we, to the men who 
 
 ve pushed forward this great enterprise. Their self-sacrificing zeal and 
 herculean labors merit and will receive the lasting remembrance of the whole 
 community. They should and will stand in the history of Newark as the 
 greatest of her public benefactors. 
 
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