The time of this visit must have been as near as I 

 can fix it in 1827 or 1828 for it was before Charles' 

 marriage which was in the fall of 1829, and at the 

 time John Brandt was living in the first mill house put 

 up at Cardington. Charles and I were both staying 

 with the. Brandts. Charles was working with him on 

 the card machinery and I in a little shop, a leanto 

 of the old Marshall saw mill. 



1 had Robert Beatie and another journeyman 

 working with me making the Squirrel Cage paper 

 cylinders that there was quite a demand for, it 

 being the time of the transition from hand made to 

 machine made paper. We had for our power a 

 small overshot water wheel. In the shop we had our 

 high-headed hand wood-turning lathe and a small 

 wooden-shear chain feed engine lathe. It [the shop] 

 was a small affair and was originally built as a shop 

 for David Jones to make paper mould frames in 

 and was used for that purpose as long as he lived 

 and was able to work, and when he became too 

 feeble in which he taught Samuel Meredith, who 

 continued as frame maker until disqualified by age 

 and loss of sight, when George Rawlings took his 

 place and continued as long as we carried on mould 

 making. 



Making early paper machinery with the facilities 

 we had was a very troublesome business. The shafts 

 for the cylinders and for the apple wood press rolls 

 that were used before it was found that the paper 

 could successfully be worked from metallic rolls, 

 were turned in the engine lathe I have referred to. 

 The press rolls were also finished in it after having 

 been roughed down by hand in the wood lathe, which 

 besides this roughing was used to bore and turn the 

 brass spider wheels for the paper cylinders, the most 

 common size being 2 feet diameter and a few as 

 much as 30 inches. The turning was done by a 

 Maudslav slide rest, but I do not remember how 

 this came in our possession; I rather think it was 

 imported through Mathews. 



While this kind of work was going on Grandfather 

 frequently walked down from Millbank and would 

 sit for hours at a time in the doorway of the little 

 shop watching the work as it went on and he always 

 seemed to take more interest in it than in the work 

 of the card mill. He had taken a liking to my 

 Newfoundland cloy with whom he would play and 

 talk to as if he were human. He placed so much 

 confidence in the dog's sagacity and trustfulness that 

 I have frequently seen him throw a silver half dollar 

 into the mill race for the dog to find and bring out, 

 and I don't think he ever lost one. 



One day when Grandfather was sitting on a stool 

 at his usual place in the doorway he startled me by a 

 scream. On looking I saw Robert Beatie with his 

 head close to the shaft he was turning with his arm 

 and hand frantically trying to reach the belt shifting 

 lever. I jumped quickly to the lever, shifted the belt, 

 backed the lathe by hand and when I got his long 

 ended black silk cravat which had caught in the 

 carrying dog unwound he fell to the floor limp and 

 insensible and it was some time before we brought 

 him to. I had frequently cautioned him against 

 wearing the long ended cravat. This so frightened 

 and unnerved Grandfather that it was a long time 

 before he again came to the shop. He said he could 

 not get rid of the horrid sight of Robert's swollen 

 tongue. 



I have, relerred to the troublesome business of early 

 paper making machinery, the different parts were so 

 scattered about. The housings were cast at Park's 

 foundry, Kensington; most of the gearing at Wilt- 

 berger's foundry, S. E. Corner of Market and 16th 

 Sts. The housings were chipped and filed at Bovl<-"s 

 shop where most of the smith work was done; there 

 were no iron planers at that time. The gear wheels 

 were bored and fitted at our little shop at Cardington 

 and either Jesse Hayes, William Lungren or Caulkins 

 were the millwrights who made the vats and put up 

 and started the machinery. [39] 



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