People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1893 — WORLD’S FAIR TROPHIES. [ARTICLE]

WORLD’S FAIR TROPHIES.

Th* McCormick Harvesting Machine Company Awarded Seven Medala and Diploma* tar the Superior Excellence of Their Binder* and Mowara. Chicago, Oct 24th. At the World’s Columbian Exposition today seven medals and seven diplomas were awarded theMcCormick Harvesting Machine Company of this city. These honors are in recognition of the merit of the following named machines manufactured by the McCormick Company: The Machine of Steel, Bindlochine, ( >en Elevator, McCormick Simple Knotter, No. 4 Steel Mower, Big 4 Steel Mower and the Corn Harvester. These, the highest awards, are based on the performance of the McCormick machines before the judges in the field, at the regular field trials of the Exposition, held at Wayne, 111., in July last, the machines tested being those regularly built for the general trade. It is a significant fact that of all the manufacturers of harvesting machinery having exhibits at the World’s Fair, theMcCormick Company alone complied with the committee's request to show the capabilities of their machines in the field. The first successful reaper was invented by Cyrus Hall McCormick in 1831, and from that time to this the McCormick machines have had a decided prestige over all others. They have won the grand gold medals and highest awards at every World’s Fair, and it was possibly for this reason that sixteen different manufacturers of Binders and Mowers did not compete in the field with them. Throughout the entire season these sixteen concerns, in their efforts to have a floor award granted, have done everything possible to baffle the Commission and prevent a fair open field exhibit that should test the working qualities of the machines. And now, after a four months’ fight by the makers of harvesting machines who did not dare meet McCormick in the field—a fight in which the United States Commission voted at every turn that the only way to examine a machine was by seeing it at work in the field—and after having signed an agreement with all the others not to show in the field, one concern wanted an award so badly that only two weeks ago it went so far as to get a secret permit to pay the expenses of a new Committee to secretly accompany their special machines to a remote section of Colorado, where no other machines could be shown, and where the, crop (if there is any left) must be much lighter, and the surface of the ground firmer, with the evident hope that these conditions would insure as easy work and as light draft as were shown by the regular McCormick machines In the official tests in July, in the very heavy grain then harvested. The diplomas awarded the McCormick machines speak in highest terms of their efficiency, esse of handling and extreme light draft. The McCormick No. 4 Mower showed wonderful power at work, and a 5 ft. cut machine, in a field averaging three tons to the acre, with a dynamometer perfectly adjusted by the U. 8. Custodian of Government Weights and Measures, drew at work, at an average draft of 152 lbs. The judges pronounce this a remarkable performance. The McCormick Binders, cutting 6 ft. of heavy oats on uphill ground, and carrying bundle carriers, measured by the same standardized dynamometer, showed a draft as low us 320 lbs., and none higher than 860 lbs. This wonderful showing was a great revelation to many distinguished foreigners at the trial, and no onapresent w*a at a loss to know why more machines did not take part in tho tests. You never can tell what germs of greatness may be in a prison convict, for he isn’t allowed to “let himself out.”—-Glens Falls Republican.