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4 VISIT TO LE ROY & GO'S LEAD PIPE 

 MANUFACTORY. 



To T. B. Wakeman, Esq , 



Superintendent of the Jlmerican Institute. 

 Dear Sir — On Tuesday last, the 14th inst., I availed myself, in 

 company with several others, of the polite invitation from the firm 

 of Le Roy & Co., given to the officers and members of the Ameri- 

 can Institute, to visit their lead pipe establishment, located in this 

 city at 261 & 263 Water^street, near Peck-slip, for the purpose of 

 examining their machinery and mode of operation in manufacturing 

 lead pipe and rolling sheet lead in all their various sizes and thick- 

 ness, required for the numerous purposes to which these useful arti- 

 cles are applied. 



On arriving at this establishment we were received by Messrs. Le 

 Roy and Smith, under whose personal care and superintendence the 

 whole concern is conducted. 



On entering the manufactory you at first glance behold order and 

 method in the arrangement of the various coils of lead pipe of all 

 sizes and thickness, ready for inspection and easy delivery to their 

 customers. 



The pleasing sight ot these coils of lead pipe of all sizes, from | 

 of an inch to 5 inches calibre, methodically arranged for an easy 

 inspection of the article, tends to favorably impress the mind of 

 either visitor or customer, that whatever is made at these works, 

 under the guidance of such care and skill, may be relied on as per- 

 fect and complete in its kind. 



We were informed by Mr. Smith that the lead pipe manufactured 

 at this place will with ease sustain the regularly estimated hydro- 

 static pressure calculated for the various diameters and thickness for 

 such articles, and that the manufacturers run no risk iri warranting 

 their pipes to be equal if not superior to any lead pipe in the world. 



