AWAEDS OF PEEMIUMS. 45 



Ornamental Street Lamp, Wm. Westlake, Milwaukee, 1 00 

 Eailroad Platform and other Scales, Erastus Fairbanks — 



B. H. Chadbourn, Ag't, Milwaukee, . . . Dip. 

 Box of Salaratus, Piper, Hastings & Co., Isonia, . . Dip. 

 Force Pump & Fire engine, Scbwauniger & Christensea, Mil. 3 00 

 Articles of Gentlemen's Clothing, Samuel Shojer, Mil., Dip. 

 Platina and Silver Pointed Lightning Eods, C. L. Herring, 



Milwaukee, . . * 2 00 



Improved Iron Window Shutter, Geo. F. Austin, Mil., Dip. 

 Specimens of Cultivated Grasses, (in seed and straw), Thomas 



Hislop, Milwaukee, 2 00 



EEPOET OF THE COMMITTEE 



ON THE MISCELLANEOUS AND DISCRETIONARY DEPARTMENT, 1857 



No. OF Entries, 93. 



No. 1. — The first entry in this department of the State Fair 

 was the "Badger State Safe," represented, and no doubt truly, 

 as fire, thief and powder proof, manufactured by Messrs. Berlin- 

 er & Bruno, No. 225 East Water"Street, Milwaukee. It was a 

 beautiful and highly ornamental article, so well painted in imi- 

 tation of rosewood that many careless observers passed by it 

 with the impression that it was a wardrobe, or some similar- 

 piece of household furniture. One of these safes was tested on 

 the market square in Milwaukee, on the 2d of September last, 

 and the result is stated in the following certificate, signed by 

 sixteen of the most respectable business men of that city, who 

 were present and witnessed the experiment. 



" We the undersigned, being requested to act as a committee 

 at the trial of " The Badger State Fire Proof Safe," by the 

 Manufacturers, Messrs. Berliner & Bruno, of this city, would 

 report : 



"That the Safe was placed about one and a-half feet from 

 the ground, surrounded by six cords of hard wood, and sub- 

 jected to a strong fire. Before lighting the fire, papers, books, 

 bank bills, and some silver, were put into the Safe in our pres- 

 ence. The fire burned fiercely for four hours, causing the Safe 

 to be red hot, melting off all the ornamental brass parts. A 



