70 MECHANICS AND MANUFACTURED ARTICLES. 



MECHANICS AND MANUFACTURED ARTICLES. 



The Committee on Meohanics and Manufactured 

 articles submit the following report. 



The display of mechanical and manufactured articles 

 was not so large as on previous exhibitions. Of nearly 

 one half the departments to which* premiums were 

 assigned for distribution, no specimens were presented. 

 This deficiency was undoubtedly partly owing to a 

 want of room for the proper disposal of the bulkier 

 articles. 



Of the specimens exhibited, many displayed a 

 highly creditable degree of taste and ingenuity. Many 

 articles, too, were presented, which though not coming 

 under the prescribed departments, were thought worthy 

 of notice, and gratuities, and a considerable list of them 

 will be found among the awards of the Committee. 



It would be impossible to notice in a report neces- 

 sarily so brief as the present, all the articles deserving 

 of particular mention, or do more than call attention to 

 a few of the more prominent. 



Chiefly among these, we would notice the ^^Venti- 

 lating Stove and Furnace " patented by our townsman, 

 Mr. C. B. Sawyer; and to which we have assigned a 

 gratuity of three dollars. It claims to combine extra- 

 ordinary heating capacity and economy of fuel, with 

 thorough ventilation, and equal disti'ibution of heat, 

 and in the judgment of your Committee, based upon a 

 necessarily somewhat brief examination, the claim is well 

 sustained. The ventilation is supplied by the introduc- 

 tion of pure air from out doors, while by the happy 

 innovation of placing the ventilating registers in the 



