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Jacobus & Nimick Manufacturing Co.
| Name | Jacobus & Nimick Manufacturing Co. |
| Ortssitz | Pittsburgh (Pa.) |
| Straße | Wood Street |
| Art des Unternehmens | Metallwarenfabrik |
| Anmerkungen | Verwaltung: Bank fo Commerce Building, Wood Street; Lage der Fabrik anfangs in der Diamond Street, seit 1877 Jacobus Station. |
| Quellenangaben | [Industries of Pittsburgh (1879) 180] |
| Zeit |
Ereignis |
| 1863 |
Eingetragen mit einem Kapital von $150.000 unter den Gesetzen von Pennsylvania |
| 1877 |
Umzug von der Diamond Street zur Jacobus Station |
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Bem. |
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Kommentar |
| Eisenwaren |
1863 |
Beginn |
1879 |
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| Kaffeemühlen |
1863 |
Beginn |
1879 |
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| Riegel |
1863 |
Beginn |
1879 |
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| Schlösser |
1863 |
Beginn |
1879 |
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| Waagen |
1863 |
Beginn |
1879 |
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| Zeit |
gesamt |
Arbeiter |
Angest. |
Lehrl. |
männl. |
weibl. |
Kommentar |
| 1879 |
350 |
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Lohnsumme: $1.500 pro Woche |
| ZEIT | 1879 |
| THEMA | Beschreibung |
| TEXT | A careful, detailed examination or review of the various enterprises of a manufacturing character that have given
Pittsburgh the celebrity it enjoys, will invariably produce a constant succession of surprises. This in a great measure may be owing lo the fact that as the population in tlie city proper increases, the works that were formerly on the outskirts become closely environed and crowded upon; property increases in value out of all proportion to its original
cost, and liable to taxation upon a new basis every few years is finally sold, the plant re-located in the suburbs on an extended scale and the business goes on with renewed impetus. So the daily evidences of its existence in volumes of
smoke and the roar of machinery are no longer so many illustrations of industrial thrift; the works that vibrated with
the clash of labor are unsuggestet by the quiet commerce that fills their place, and when in its new position, grown
almost out of recognition, the establishment demands attention, a slight shock of pleased astonishment can hardly be
avoided. Among the many manufacturing enterprises to which these remarks apply, perhaps none affords a more striking
example of their truth than the Jacobus & Nimick Manufacturing Co., whose plant for years on Diamond street, was removed in 1877 to Jacobus Station, a few miles west of the city, on the P. U. & St. L. R.R., where, with greater facilities and more ample resources, the business increases at a rapid ratio. Aside from the present and past importance of its operations his corporation is entitled to more than brief mention, from the fact of its historical relation with the developments of the manufacturing interests here and the character of its products, which it is perfectly safe to assert are not excelled in finish or quality, if equalled by any contemporaneous concern in the world. The origin of tlie company will be found in the novelty works established almost half acentury since, and the variety works founded in 1855, both coutributiug after several changes to the formation of the Jacobus & Nimick Manuf'g. Co. in 1863. Chartered under the mining and manufacturing laws of Penn'a, with a capital stock of 150,000, the officers being Alexander Nimick, President; Samuel H. Jacobus, General Manager and Treasurer; and A. H. Elwell, Superintendent, for the past two years. The buildings of the company were erected with the sole view of being entirely adapted to the rapid, convenient and effective manufacture of tue special wares produced by the concern. The main structure is an imposing brick editice, four stories high with a central tower, smoke stacks, and covering an area 40x400 feet, and adjoining the foundry which is a one-story building of the same material 70x280 feet. The japaning building is two-stories high 40x80 feet; the engine room an entirely separate erection, is of one-story and 30x60 feet, besides which there are gas houses, tanks and apparatus for lighting the establishment, a tin house and numerous other buildings of less importance for packing, finishing, storing, etc., covering in all a grand total area of about three acres. Here are constantly employed 350 operatives, requiring an outlay for labor alone on the part of the company of over 1,500 per week, and here also will be found machinery which is in splendid adaptation to the work required, and mathematic accuracy as well as speed in action is justly considered as perfect as modern invention joined to capital and enterprise could devise; kept in motion by a steam engine of 125-horse power, supplied by two boilers of great strength and magnitude, and during a larger part of the year is operated night and day. A mere list of the hundreds of separate articles manufactured by the concern would fill several pages of this volume, the illustrated catalogue of its wares contains over 33 pages imperial octavo, substantially bound, and may be had upon application by mail or otherwise free of charge; the main products, however, consist of door locks, latches, butts, knobs, scales, coffee mills and genuine bronze metal, hardware used by builders in public and private buildings, besides book racks for church pews and railroad coaches, scale weights, tine irons, shutter and bolt drops for steamboats, Fairbanks and Union combination platform scales, shutter knobs, bars and flush and hook sash lifts; special attention being given to the production of new and choice designs in bronze, silver and nickle plated and builders hardware generally. The confessed superiority of these goods in elegance, durability and cheapness, has resulted in a trade that extends not only over the entire United States, but leads to large and increasing exports to English, French, German, Russian and other markets, and sales that aggregate nearly a quarter of a million annually, three branchhouses having been established to facilitate these operations - New York, Graham & Haines, No. 113 Chambers street; Baltimore, Arthur Emory, No. 9 German street, and Philadelphia, Shields & Bro., No. 119 North Third street ; besides three traveling salesmen constantly upon the road. Mr. Nimick, who is regarded as a pioneer in this branch of manufacture, has been connected with the company as president since its origin. Mr. Jacobus, who directs the general business management of tlie concern, is a native of Brooklyn, N. Y., where he was born in 1844, coming to this city with his father, Rev. M. W. Jacobus, D. D., L. L. D., in 1851, his connection with the company dating from 1864. In all its departments the operations of the company are managed with tact, ability and signal success, contributing in a large degree not only to the reputation ot Pittsburgh as a manufacturing centre, but greatly promoting the industry and wealth of the community. In its special line of product the Jacobus & Nimick Manufacturing Co. has no competitor west of the Allegheny mountains, and none anywhere that can either otter such marked advantages in price, or supply goods of such unequalled perfection. Determined to be in advance of its cotemporaries in every respect, it is no adulation to say that the company achieves this object beyond all cavil, and this, together with the high standard of commercial honor and enterprise upon which it is conducted, may well deserve the respect universally accorded to it. |
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