Trenton Times, The (Newspaper) - September 15, 1883, Trenton, New Jersey il I Tl II VOL I XO W5 THEXTON SEPTEMBER Ib 1883 TWO First POTTERY PRODUCTION lost SOME OF THE LATE HANDSOME DESIGNS The Decorated Dinner that the Have of the Company's Work and ItH In of the show windows of t jewelry store the Union Pottery of this city have placed on exhibition for a few days previous to shipping it to a decorated dinner set known as the design the latest production ol their pottery which in the opinion of tent judges is not only entitled to rank as the most artistic production in design finish ever placed iu the market by an American pottery but is the iu every respect to the best English and French This superior made and ally designed aud decorated dinner set which embodies in the highest degree the perfection and rapid progress attained by the potters of Trenton in the past few years has attracted so attention and elicited such unstinted words of praise and universal admiration from the people who have stopped to it that a representative of this paper paid a visit to the works of the company ttp obtain whatever information it was possible concerning thu by potters production of line grades of ware and learn best American productions compare with the best productions of the pottery English and French potteries In many re- spects the Union Co s establishment which was put in tour years ago by the New Jersey Pottery chased in February last by the present pany composed of Henry T Cook President John Taylor Treas and O O Secy is entitled to rauk as one of the model kind in and J 1 1 nf industry in the United States this statement covers the entire country as well The works pt the company are admirably located along the Belvidere division of the Pennsylvania Railroad on avenue within a stone's throw of several other leading potteries and the premises occupied comprise an area of ground feet in dimensions nearly every foot of which is covered by a series of substantial brick buildings all of which are supplied with the most modern approved im- that will tend to facilitate speed in the preparation of clay gloss and coloring materials and the perfection uf the product and in this respect the works are among tin most complete of any in the country aud whatever the modern worker in can produce or the artist beautify whether of old or new design has attained the highest stage of perfection in this pottery mainly on count of the care exercised in every stage of the process even to the minor details which in potteries OK riiK COMPANY'S The greatest care is not only exercised in the preparation of the clay which is one of the most essential features necessary to successful productions but every improvement of a labor saving character in the preparation of the clay and introduced throughout every portion of the works and the buildings comprising the plant are arranged to avoid all unnecessary handling which is another feature too frequently lost sight of in most American potteries Ill this establishment the buildings are so arranged that from the time the raw clay and other every step in the process of manufacture and handling of the product ig a forward one which well arranged system not only tates speed in all departments but it prevents unnecessary confusion and great tendency to enforce the best of order and discipline all of which is highly essential to successful but heretofore has received too little attention from the proprietors of potteries in this country A leading English pottery who takes a broad and sensible view of the numerous alleged advantages the ters of that country claim to possess over American potteries in the production of fine ware Any vantage point the English may possess has been attained through long experience and the systematic training and habits of their which points are all the more readily acquired where thorough order and discipline prevails good order and discipline arc marked of the employees of the Union Pottery Co Among the more prominent improvements introduced into the Union Pottery Company's works is a blowing fan for cooling kilns by the aid of which they are able to lire and four 16 ft 0 in kilns a week out of a total of four kilns both in Summer and Winter which it is claimed has never been iu any other pottery either at home or abroad In addition to a engine supplies the motive to the tery aud drives the blowing fan to cool two biscuit and two gloss kilns the pug mills in the department where the saggers are factored which branch of industry is ted some distance away the pottery are driven by a power engine Both engines are fed by two boilers which have a combined capacity equivalent to horse power and with the exception of the under the kilns six iu all including two decorating the tires under the boilers are the only fires allowed about the The buildings aud drying rooms are all heated by steam which requires over feet of nothing undone to attain the highest standard of perfection iu the production of The products of their works in addition to a full line of white granite ware consists of the celebrated Union Pottery Company's thin ware the of ware now on exhibition in the show window of Cook jewelry store which every THE NEW YORK LETTER Coney Inland lii General About the Metropolis m 1 if K TIMKS NKW YORK September 14 How tlic Coney Island are ing ami grumbling and with good and diced mind must admit reason therefor September is one of any English potteries This ware is now in stock in plain and decorated dinner tea and sets in the following Newport i patented i Koyal Dresden and East lake A examination of the Newport design must convince every un- biassed person that the only superiority the English ware possesses over American exists entirely in the minds of who prefer the English simply because it possesses that potent but sooner or later like everything else undertaken in this country the production of our potteries will out-sell the best English ware entirely on its merits The Company's port design possesses every requisite that is desirable in fine ware and is simply perfect there is just tion to make it attractive to both the artist und the most casual observer At present this company employ 175 people including dec- orators whose combined weekly wages amount to from to and trade is ex- tending to all parts if the United States The company t-s but people who are encouraged ill every way to take a pride in the quantity of good ware they produce A feature worthy of special is the air of every department which is one of the results of the thorough system governing this model THK TO Third LATEST NEWS BY AN OCEAN CITY HOTEL DESTROYED The of in the Fifth Place Trenton's in the race is now about li She will come in tilth un- less some unusual disaster should intervene Secretary decided the ritt is first Either Brooklyn or Harrisburg will be secondhand the Active will hold fourth place Tlie contest between Harrisburg and Brooklyn continues very close and is about the only feature of interest among the Inter- State Harrisburg at present has best of the tight The Anthracite is sixth in rank and the Quickstep still keep the rear end up This is the schedule to CLUBS A f Harr of M of i Trent m of 1 Jl Out of town games yesterday land Philadelphia 3 and Cleveland delphia 1 New York 1 Detroit 1 Brooklyn 11 Quickstep Anthracite li The Tri play in Easton to-day Oji Monday and Tuesday Die Quickstep of mington will come here in quest of honors two more of season remain Umpire MeCafferty was mobbed in mington yesterday for alleged unfair decisions against the Quickstep iu its game with Coming On Monday and Tuesday evenings next the produced at the Opera House The play was written by 1 R Sims author of the Lights o and that alone assures its success In addition it is presented with much ot the handsome scenery that was used during tht long run of the play at Booth's Theater last Winter There are performers in the play which is one of unusual interest and merit The spectacular portion of the play b decidedly superior Frank Mayo will appear on the 24th the American on the and Mat lack iu the Two Orphans on of their best paying months for so many have returned to town are glad to enjoy the delights of the loaches True the cold weather Drought plenty of folks back to the city but the temperature luis been such that Coney is not at all to be desired It luis been cool enough in New York without going to the Island to lie completely The Oriental closed Tuesday aud its guests were transferred to the tan which will remain open a week or ten days longer Brighton Beach Hotel has ready dosed its doors for this season John H popular resort in the Sound was open Sunday of this week for the h-st time til There is plenty to amuse the spare time of for the past New Yorkers in town now The theatres are pretty generally and the size of the audiences shows the majority of people are in town again The Beais have tried to make a good deal of capital out of tlie reports ot the great age and injury to the crops by the recent have not been altogether in attempt It turns now that reports were is usually the case very mud exaggerated The corn aud tomato this Staie were damaged to extent although nearly so much as Aas on Tuesday To tiu list of banks in this city still another been added this week The New Produce Exchange Bank commenced on Wednesday Mr Forrest H Parker it- are in duee building on Whitehall It was for the convenience of bers of the Produce Exchange as there is no bank within convenient of their Others than of ill to open accounts It w ill b- great convenience and Advantage to the business community in vicinity While affairs in your State are in such a commotion and excitement over the conventions and nominations such matters here arc being stirred up by the party leaders import uit question is whether the between the can be arranged Tammany Hall has mule the towards harmony by committee of conference tor a united delegation from tlie Metropolis County do not seem proposed plan It is that the latter organization want to the control of the city delegation so that hey forward next year in tlie Convention the of A brain S Hewitt They are to be solid for him uid for that reason aie anxious to be as the true leaders of Democracy in this ily At the other day the York Real Estate and Traders Exchange was formally opened with appropriate exercises Algernon S Sullivan the Public tor delivered the address upon the His eloquent speech was very interesting aud thoroughly appreciated by his Every lay at certain hours there will be regular calls at the Exchange and once a month there will be sales of real estate It is also proposed to deal in unlisted ties There are about members on the roil Hardly half that number were present Haven Along With the of H -A ful Millionaire Hunn 111 By Associated to TIMES N J September The House Ocean and H cot taco owned i nf were to the ground shortly after midnight The on the Haven House is on the furniture The loss on thv and furniture is Lenneg family hud mi exceedingly narrow cape from the The tire was of incendiary origin The Haven House was owned by of but has been unoccupied An attempt was TIIK MORNING Glances the Leading of the World for President Arthur is in New York The festival closed last Freddie lebhardt is following Mrs around There is tierce fighting in Hayti between insurgents and Government troops Two proselyting Mormon elders have been and in Indiana C Keenan Treasurer of Jackson Ohio hiis disappeared The Bankers Merchants and American Rapid Telegraph Company have consolidated The latest theories of the detectives point to Lewis Kose us her murderer Castle in Scotland owned the Karl of Aislie has been burned Loss Parnell has paid oil a mortgage on to burn tin.1 House last July and much excitement prevails here and at Ocean City A Fatal Collision Hy to THK Tints CITY Mo East and West bound passenger train col- last at Arnold Station seven miles A and express were killed It is also reported that some of the passengers were killed and many deny this The particulars received so far arti meagre Lieutenant is blamed for the of the Proteus Arctic expedition which commanded his estate from the proceeds of the Fund The French have had a three days light with the have been victorious Lieutenant Danenhower of the Jeannette and Mr Tyson of the Polaris polar expeditions have expressed a join an tion for of the FORWARD The foregoing are a few of the more nent that the ing and spirit displayed by the THK II A C S Clarke Ki has been elected President of Princeton's base ball team for next year The Turner Riile Club will hold its annua target practice at Park on o next month The Catholic Young Men's Association o South Trenton aru rein n piny to be pro about the first of November Pythias Lodge No il will go with friends on an excursion to Switchback aud on September James Ronan and wife who have been abroad all Summer to this country on the City of Rome Thursday evening A little lad giving his name as fell into the unprotected basin at Third mid streets last night aud had a narrow escape from drowning The attaches of the Western Union office iff this ify several invited guests on a t'i Grove last night A tune was enjoyed Five hundred and ninety-seven messages containing over words the Gubernatorial Convention were sent fiom the Union office in this city Wednesday and Thursday The German Societies of city are pre- to celebrate the ten ma an ni versa rv of first landing of countrymen in tin's city on October ith next A meet inu to the project will held in Turner Hall row Professor N H who i- in charge of the music b of Penni net n Semi- nary I 1 i his advanced pupils in itnnental ui city Professor studied three Ht Stuttgart aud been two at too at the an- of other Exchanges also and this may account for their absence The throngs that daily stream up and down serious at a plain-looking building on the corner of sau street Underneath the lettering New York Commercial Advertiser founded the black drapery passers-by that its editor Mr Hugh Hastings is dead No ter what political views aud consequent pre- judices any one may entertain it must be ad- mitted that Mr Hastings made his paper equal without any exception to any evening newspaper in the country and theie aie few that can compare with it to-day It is a newsy paper It always all the news and presents it in a pleasing and readable way On that account alone it Js patronized by many who are opposed its political views Its editorials were frequently and tisan but they were always consistent You could not fail to notice a ami frankness about those written by the that tlum as his In his death the one of its most untiring advocates He never faltered or hesitated in In- devotion to the ment of its Il is now almost twenty years since he took charge ol the itm For several years past he owned a controlling interest in the paper His voice has been so long heard in the many exciting political contests of this city and State well as the Nation thai it seemed as if a political landmark had been removed His connection with the Republican party dates back to in foundation He never held any political except Clerk of the State Irom to While he was Clerk the Senate tenant Governor E Church wards Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals and J Raymond Thurlow Weed anil A Youthful millionaire Kims Away By Tress lo THE TIMKS YOKK The police of this city have been notified ti look for S the sixti of the President of t he Nut from He to half a million dollars County Solid for Boom for Senator The Republicans of Mercer county held their primaries last night for the election of delegates to the Republican Convention next Tuesday All of the delegates so far as can be ascertained favor the nomination of John Taylor for Governor Following us a list of the delegates chosen in this city and in as many of townships as have been heard from up to noon First Ward John Taylor F A Magowan and ex-Judge James Buchanan The tion were empowered to their own cies Second Ward William Hancock mund Craft Third P Wilson George W Lanning and Peter A Spracklin Dr Lyman Leavitt John B Warner Fifth Ward William H Skirm A j Byram Jr Edward Mr Ginder Carter Robert B Bonney C C Abrahams John Patterson Millham Delegate William G Irvine ternate William Tage The primaries of township were held at the Irving House Pennington Geo Corvine was and John M Titus Secretary The delegates elected were Frank EC Bar Anthony G Fetters and Hiram k and the alternates were Joseph Barlow Horatio N Barrows and Archibald Stout The delegation is for tirst lawt the time A dispatch received from Red Bank says that the delegates elected last night were in- for State Senator Applegate A NKW in with Character Inj at Stewart A College Some interesting and highly ant exercises were held at Stewart mond's Business yesterday building seems to a in their system Tiny place character above and hood is preferable to a ship without stability and in cordance with this idea instituted weekly exercise which requires the to ixe themselves with the oT Tie and good of this and oilier The under discussion was the Father of Our Country Some of the students made able but the leading feature of this ex- was the able address by the Rev George K Morris He discussed the ing characteristics of this great and good man iu a masterly manner and the attention of the pupils gave evidence that the example of was of study and imita tion to through this exercise the most gratifying re- sults Mr James Buchanan also favored the stu dents of this institution with his introductory lecture on Commercial Law It is needless to it was nil able and highly instructive discourse ami was listened to with great at- tention and interest by the pupils This new institution is rapidly grow ing in popular favor Slie Turned Hie Hie Wrong Wuy Second A FORTUNE IN FOR OLD STAMPS AND COINS Collections which Him H of Many ties of Slumped Tin Foil Edward B Sterling the note teller at Trenton Bank on Warren street has a book that hv values at It is not a bank book nor is it a manuscript copy of the Bible It is simply a of some two hundred blank pages upon each of which a number of revenue stamps some used some unused and some mutilated are pasted Mr Sterling is one of the largest individual collectors of stamps and like curious things in the country He has a list of two sand correspondents who deal in stamps more or less extensively It is that there are a hundred thousand persons in the United Stales who culled either for amusement or profit Mr Sterling began with coins for mere amusement before the War of the Re- bellion He next turned his attention to postage and revenue stamps and finally took up ago the comparatively new branch of the which includes all kinds of tin foil ami other tobacco wrappers To give an idea of the extent the craze for collections has grow ii it need only be stated that bis last year netted him a clear revenue of His expenses for printing if his stock run an- the hundreds He is classed among v hose col- lections of stamps that nothing can be added to them except by the sale of are only about dealers of any account in the tin branch of the business STr Sterling has a list of tht ir names and they arc corresponding among buying and He hys over 375 of foils Each ol them is stretched out on a pit cc of v bile caul around which a line of border The side is turned out While his ar- rangement gives them a pretty appearance their arises Irom their rarity The rarest of all is the Rose Leaf H ounce of the sixth issue The half ounces of the tirst issue are all rare price running from one to three dollars each vary iu price Irom cents to six dollars The Western biands are generally the rarest It always hard to find the wrappers of such only had a temporary popularity IVing in the bunk all wd Mr to a I have only i to to my collections I spend four hours every at the work While I considerable it is also a labor of love 1 am in receipt every day of from to Railway horse car was on its way twenty letters on the subject from all parts of Charged With Being a Thief JERSKY CITY Sept 15 Terence ald a was arrested in that city yesterday on a charge of larency from the person preferred by Joseph Burns a Pennsylvania Railroad employe Burns alleges that while he was in McDonald's saloon on Thursday night the latter knocked him down and took out of his pockets denies the charge and will have an tion this morning McDonald is a prominent politician and has served two terms in the lower house of the State ture The Cigarette The Fire Department was called out at nine o'clock this morning by jin alarm from State and Willow streets The lire was in a sma 1 frame house at No 55 Quarry alley by Amos and Welch both It appears that a young son of one of the tenants while smoking a cigarette allowed some of lire to drop into a straw The flames however had not time to spread when a bucket of water was applied and quenched them The Department had a run for nothing STOCK The Latent from and New York Ui the of kerx of city so very nearly H if t e from Chambersburg early this morning There were half a passengers in it The windows were all down As the ear neared the Chinese laundry on Broad near Market a woman begun washing the sidewalk with a hose Theie was a good stream on and when a pedestrian she turned the the street A pt approached just as the horse car ambled along The woman did not know to turn the hose so aimed it at the car It struck the mark A received stream on buck of her and a blind man had his ear Hooded The woman in the car screamed and began ing herself and the woman with the hose laughed and turned the stream in the tion a was Ae fun The horse car driver gave a long a smile accompaniment and said Tho Knd of Camp The last of the tents and other ments which were used at the Grand Army at Camp Olden last week were loaded upon cars and to this It is stated that the damage to the property is much less than was anticipated It consists chiefly of of tent pins ropes etc The G A R has to pay lor them The work of taking down the tents wan done by the General's department The loss of the i A R by the ment is now put at 10 Cl juist twi hut little to Mr Hastings weie always warm friends 1 Tlie reduced to a that iis to Inline are alike although for a few years before the A wagon belonging To James er from in a runaway on street III1 Ludwig Meyer agid I fell into tin the State ve He was saved Hanover Rt reet In the United Judge has granted a in i ol r Win A Hall of His -t Hull is held on n that for which he was extradited jeorge Connors a young boy fell from a porch on his parents residence on street yesterday and injured his head so severely that i 14 they differed upon the advisability of machine rule in their party J A S liall Next Year The of the Trenton Rail Club held a meeting at the National Hotel lust tin season The same company will continued and every endeavor meanwhile made to wore a good club A committee to sign players appointed Jt is thought of the club mil be No hv yet iinci-itiiln Mum higher for the North Prn Hinl for of tlie active The lunik statement it led w ill n in the lint nf to have any very on the val of Hre few and h ami t HS if Ami n iv Mint A change one way or other in bound lo and Ui en will have to step upto the to Up a colored IB fit in t Counsellor A G Riehey application before Vice Chancellor Bird yesterday lor a star of proceedings in the City Pottery case till tin appeal is tried haw been reserved James Mendham the entry for the big grape championship He lives at and lias bunches of from nine indies to a foot long weighing pound Johnnie is a bad boy with no ing parents who has making life for Mr Mills to have him nt to tin He form School A Sullivan who had been arrested last for al the Street pit hard for In Police Justice thin to depart tin to city deUy the country Just at that moment the postman brought in a package of t wo of which contained stamps ordered by Mr Sterling One was from the South and the other from the West My correspondence he continued is growing too heavy although 1 guve up my coin collection to my son My favorite tion Is stamps sold two ferent collections and as soon as I dispose of this one which I value at I will begin on another My private collections of all kinds of stamps etc number over Every one of these is a variety In addition of course I keep a stock of each variety for sale A sTAMT It Task to describe the varieties of stamps or foils Mr Sterling The collection is well worth seeing One old match stamp he recently sold for The color of a stamp often gives it value Pink colored medicine stamps bring big simply because it is a rare color pink stamps with a face value of a few nies arc worth each while the same in water color are not worth above 15 cents Husband's two-cent medical l of purple one of the It is valued at by Mr ling He has all the stamps of the States and the Southern Confederacy At a sale in New York last year he cheerfully paid for a black liver pill One of blue color would be worth only ten cents A very document tamp the tirst issue is th of will un pet fora led hich is ii 1 al ted bluts and and Mr Sterling docs not ll: He IMS complete sits of all proofs mounted ui white i and is an sale of sud Mr Sterling by u collector who wants to n tire Irom the business The is very brisk At the P n sale in New York bust year over A rich shade often makes a stamp valuable does the fact that there are not each sub- of it so does a misprint and any oilier oddity to render it rare collecting is also followed by many I stamps I search the bank waste paper baskets for them every I once got several valuable m a barrel of rubbish thrown out from a street store Mr Sterling has a separate room in his residence on Belle vue avenue lor his collections h is a perfect storehouse of carefully arranged and valuable oddities He estimates tV value of bis entire col- lections at and believes they would bring that sum at auction He baa them Insured who to ttf HK unt
