VII. 



' ' TRADE — THE CALM HEALTH OF NATIONS. ' ' 



111 fine stores and well-conducted business enterprises 

 of various sorts Ithaca has never been deficient. But 

 certain products of the Forest City are unique in their 

 interest, and have borne her name into every quarter of 

 the civilized world, and some quarters even of the un- 

 civilized. Chief of these is the Ithaca Calendar Clock. 

 Where has your early lot in life been cast, that you 

 have not heard of or seen an Ithaca Calendar Clock ? 

 Nothing has given the clock-making profession so 

 much fame as this highest product of its skill, and the 

 manufacture of the Ithaca calendar is the aristocracy of 

 clockmaking. The first really successful patent for a 

 perpetual clock calendar, was obtained by Mr. Horton, 

 of Ithaca, in 1865 ; and this, improved and modified, 

 is the one now owned by the Ithaca Calendar Clock Co. 

 As now made it indicates perpetually the da} 7 of the 

 month, the month of the year, and the day of the 

 week. The works on Adams Street, in the northern 

 part of the city, contain much interesting special ma- 

 chinery of exceedingly ingenious construction. 



In the same building is the factory of the Autophone 

 Company, which manufactures the autophone, one of 

 the most ingenious of the many automatic musical in- 

 struments that are so peculiar a product of the latter 

 half of the nineteenth century. 



