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THE ILLIISrOIS F^njyCER. 



of Miles Greenwood, on Wulnut street, 

 north of the canal. It -was at this shop 

 that the new steam plow has heen con- 

 structed, at the expense of, and for the 

 use of M. Greenwood, (the principle 

 member of the firm of M. Greenwood 

 & Co.,) but before it goes out to his 

 farm, which is eight miles from the 

 city, it is to be thoroughly tried on the 

 prairies of our State; when we intend to 

 make it a visit, and to see its working 

 powers, we shall therefore enter into no 

 particulars of its struction at this time. 

 We will give the reader some idea of the 

 extent of these works. First is the en- 

 gine building department, from that we 

 look into the foundry, which covers sev- 

 eral acres, for the casting of steam en- 

 gine work, stoves, house fronts, posts 

 and pillars, door butts in great variety 

 and quantity, sewing machine stands 

 and parts, door locks, malleable iron 

 castings, stools, chairs, and a great va- 

 riety of hardware goods. On the sec- 

 ond floor is the pattern shops, finishing 

 shops, and an almost endless number 

 of door butts are here finished and pack- 

 ed for market. The sewing machine 

 rooms are interesting and employ a large 

 number of workmen. We found it no 

 small task to get through the whole es- 

 tablishment. 



From there we visited the market on 

 Fourth street, which we found a monster 

 show of almost every thing one could 

 desire in the eating line. The market 

 house extends one entire block, and in 

 addition the market wagons were closely 

 packed, side by side, with the hind end 

 to the side-walk, for the distance of three 

 squares. Vegetables, butter, cheese, 

 6gg*5 poultry, hams, bacon, strawberries, 

 currants, gooseberries, cherries, etc., in 

 great abundance. The fish market was 

 poorly supplied. Every thing appeared 

 to command a good price and ready 

 sale, and about eleven o'clock the 

 wagons began to move out of place 

 emptied of their contents, and at twelve 

 scarcely a thing could be found m the 

 market. 



After dinner we visited the Niles 

 Works to see the big bell that had been 

 cast yesterday, it had just been taken 

 from the bed, and the men Avere clean- 

 ing it; the casting was perfect in all re- 

 spects, and the workmen think they can 

 get one up of any size required. In mold- 

 ing the bell no pattern is used, but made | 

 true by what is called sweeping. The 



molds arc made of sand mortcr, finish- 

 ed smooth, and then run into a huge 

 oven and baked until the moisture is 

 completely driven off, in this way the 

 outside coating of the casting which is 

 generally hardened in the process of 

 casting, remains as soft as any part of 

 it, nor does the melted metal pufi" up or 

 become full of air holes produced by the 

 gasses arising from wet sand, as in the 

 old process. We also witnessed the 

 casting of a large shaft. This is now 

 done from the end, the metal running in 

 at the lower end, the upper end being 

 open allows all impurities to float to the 

 top end, and as the metal settles away, 

 it is renewed at the top, and thus a solid 

 shaft is made, without a flaw or imper- 

 fect place m it. 



We noAv took the Walnut Hill Omni- 

 bus to the nursery and garden of Mr. 

 J. S. Cook. It was an up hill business 

 to reach the country above the river, and 

 there it is pretty well broken into ravines. 

 Mr. Cook has about seventy acres un- 

 der tree and floral culture. He is a 

 careful propagator, and his plants are 

 remarkably large and fine, making a 

 broad contrast to some of the sickly 

 things sent out by our Rochester friends, 

 and we may as will just hint to them 

 that the West will have better plants 

 sent them, or they will set up for them- 

 selves, and grow their own plants. Mr. 

 Cook has a large stock of the Early 

 May Cherry, which is becomraing so 

 popular. Upon examination we find it 

 identical with the Early May that we 

 have grown for some years, and which 

 is known at Cottage Hill, near Chicago, 

 as the Early Richmond. For Central 

 and Northern Illinois, we look upon this 

 cherry as of more value than all other 

 varieties yet tried put together. Un- 

 forClinately for the city, most of the 

 shade trees are the Ailanthus, which are 

 now in full bloom, and give off an aroma 

 equal to at least a thousand pole cats in 

 full working order, and we see no rea- 

 son why the aroma will not last until 

 pork killing time, unless the city should 

 fortunately he visited by a tornado. — 

 Why the Cincinnatians continue this 

 pestiferous shade tree, and longer toler- 

 ate it in their streets is a mystery. We 

 saw large trees in court yards, poking 

 their flowers in the chamber windows. 

 The side-walk is strewed with the falling 

 polon that gives them anything but a 

 pleasing appearance. Why the Elm and 

 Silver Maple have been overlooked for 

 shade, is beyond our comprehension. 



At six o'clock we left the city behind 

 us, and intended to call on Our friend Dr. 

 Warder, at North Bend, fourteen miles 

 run from the city; but the 0. & I. trains 

 on the track of the 0. & M. road, and 

 trains take only through passengers, and 

 stop to take up passengers going beyond 

 Lawrenceburgh, and to put down pas- 



sengers from points West. Unfortun- 

 ately for us, the conductor of this train 

 had been lately promoted to the respon- 

 sible position of conductor, and thus had 

 command of the world of travel, and 

 refused to let us oflf at North Bend, or 

 to give us a stop over ticket from Law- 

 renceburgh, that we might return to 

 North Bend by the 0. & M. trains, not 

 wishing to submit to either the insolence 

 or extortion of this worthy individual, 

 we came through. We did not enquire 

 his name, but he can be easily known 

 from his close resemblance to a swag- 

 gering river boatman, or a rowdy in a 

 beer saloon. That it was his duty to 

 stop at North Bend, and give us a stop 

 over ticket we well know, and the refus- 

 ing to do so was to deprive us of the 

 principal object of our visit, and hag 

 given us no high opinion of the discrim- 

 ination in the selection of conductors as 

 to their fitness, or the supervision of their 

 acts, in this part of Iloosierdom. At 

 some no distant day, we hope to be more 

 fortunate in reaching North Bend, made 

 so memorable in the political annals of 

 the day, we certainly can fare no worse on 

 the O. & M., and in case of failure, can 

 fall back on the first principles of loco- 

 motion on our own account. 



I.sDiANAPOLis, Ind., June 6th. 



Last evening we arrived from Cincin- 

 nati, of which we gave a hasty state- 

 ment, while riding to this city and from 

 our^note book, but we have failed to give 

 more than a slight impression of the 

 manufacturing facilities of that great in- 

 land city. A fortnight would be too 

 limited to do it full justice. It shows 

 what the west can do, with her cheap 

 food, vast coal fields, and ready facilities 

 for transportation, it will not be long be- 

 fore the west will be a sharp competi- 

 tor in every department of manufac- 

 tures, not only in the north-west, but in 

 the markets of the world. 



INDIANAPOLIS. 



This city is handsomely laid out with 

 broad well graded streets, which are gen- 

 ally shaded with Locust trees. The 

 yards are nearly all well stocked with 

 flowering plants. Among the rose fami- 

 ly the Queen of the Prairies, White 

 Ayershire, Red Boursal, George the 

 Fourth, Harrison, and one or two of the 

 Mosses, are the favorites, and at this time 

 make a grand display of floral beauty. 

 The more recent favorites of the rose 

 family, the perpetuals have not as yet 

 found their way to the gardens of this 

 city. The lots are large, having mostly 

 a front of a hundred feet, thus giving 

 ample space for floral decoration, which 

 with the taste of our Hoosier friends, 

 will soon make their capitol one of the 

 handsomest in the West. 



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