Identifier: newyorkmetropoli00spra_0 (find matches)
Title: New York, the metropolis : its noted business and professional men.
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Sprague, John Franklin.
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Publisher: (New York) : New York Recorder
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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ndin successful operation. While his business is to manu-facture machinery to order, he still maintains his interest inspecialties, his favorites being wood-vvorking and brass-working machinery, and appliances for the transmission ofpower. He manufactures a very large variety of machinesin his line—perhaps more than any other house in thiscountry. He has made machinery for every branch of thepiano industry, and lately brought out a machine for drill-ing the i)lates, which is exjjected to i)ractically revolution-ize the business. With this machine a boy can produce asmuch but better work as two skilled mechanics are able todo on the best machine now in use. Many others of hiswood-working machines have increased the production andimproved the cpiality of certain kinds of ornamental woodwork to such an extent, that what was formerly within thereach of only those who were well able to jiay a high price cannow be obtained by people of very moderate means. He NEW YORK, THE METROPOLIS. 125
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126 NEW YORK, THE METROPOLIS. takes a lively interest in i)assing events and kee))s wellinformed on current progress in many branches, but theconstant progress in modern machine-shop practice recjuiresthat he who would keep up with it must give to it hisundivided attention, and Mr. Pryibil not only aims to movealong with the procession, but to keep his place in the frontranks. What he loses in social circles he more than gainsin popularity among the scientific and business classes, bywhom the e.xtent and solid worth of his attainments aregreatly ai)preciated. He is a frequent contributor to themechanical jjapers. As he is only in his fifty-eighth year,and in possession of a rugged constitution, it would seemthat there is still a great future before liim. ORLANDO P. DORMAN. There is no truer type of the deservedly successful NewEnglander than Orlando P. Dorman, President of the Gil-bert Manufacturing Company. Mr. Dormans ancestorswe-e of two famous New England families. His mother corp

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