Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1900 — HIS LAST WORK. [ARTICLE]

HIS LAST WORK.

Mcrgenthalrr Perfect* lL«lirf-M»ki.j Machine Jast Before He Dtea. In the summer of 1896 Ottmar Mergenthaler, the inventor of the linotype machine, who died in Baltimore recently, spent two days at PainesvUle, Ohio, studying the working of a basket machine, whfch he afterward modified and improved, and which was the last work completed just before his death. The machine as completed is as much a revolution in basket making as the linotype has proved to be in typesetting. Where an expert operator formerly produced 300 grape baskets daily by hand, the same operator with the machine, with greater ease, can now produce 4,000 baskets daily, aad these machinemade baskets are said to be superior in every way to the hand-made article. The machine Is of one horse-power, and can easily be attended by a girl. Its capacity being the same as that of twelve hand operator*. It Is practically a self-feeding machine, as the supplies of bottoms, strips for the sides and bands are placed In stocks near enough for the wonderful Iron Lands to reach out and setae, and while one watches these wonderful hands reach out for the material the bosket Is finished, and the machine, as It were, holds its breath, or, rather, Its hands, for n second, while tbs basket Is delivered, whan It Immediately begins again Its wooderfol performance.—Philadelphia Rcc It Is fignred that the wealth po* Burned by Mss than one-third of the United States senators amounts to Staffi fttmonnjfwn