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tables, tombs, head-stones, and mantles, etc., in American and Italian
marbles, German, Scotch and Texas granites ; affording purchasers an
admirable assortment from which to select. A visit to their workshops
will repay those who are interested in really artistic designs and elegant
finish. This business was established in 1882 by Brennan, Dellamare
& Co., who were succeeded by Brennan & Bukoski, and again in 1885 by
the present firm ; composed of M. C. Brennan & Teich. They employ
15 workmen, some of them skilled artists. The business transactions will
reach $25,000 annually. They have executed the ornamental work on the
following buildings : J. H. Kampmann's building, on Commerce, bank
building, on corner of Commerce and Soledad, Col. J. H. Wither's build-
ing, corner Commerce and Navarro ; the White Elephant, on Main Plaza.

F. F. COLLINS—General Agent For the Eclipse Wind Mills and Pumps
and Fairbanks' Standard Scales. Manufacturers' Agent far Gas
and Water Pipes, Steam Pumps, Horse-Powers, etc. Railway
Water Supplies a Specialty; 1, 3 and 5 East Houston Street.
Invention, the hand-maiden of civilization, is constantly adding im-
provements, to old devices, which have about run their day, to necessary
facilities for man's comfort and convenience, and in no direction have
they been more marked or beneficial than in wind mills and pumps. In
sections where power is not readily available,
as well as in all agricultural districts, where
running streams and living springs do not exist,
they are of inestimable value. The history of
hydraulic pumps and wind mills cannot be clear-
ly traced, they are the oldest mechanical devices
that have come down to us from the ancients.
Methods of raising water by wheels, with
buckets attached to their periphery ; the power
supplied by wind-mills were used by the ancient
Egyptians and Assyrians. The chain pump was
derived from the Chinese. The improvements
in pumps and wind-mills in modern times,
have been many and various. In an experience
in collecting statistics and investigating claims
during the past six years, we have met none
that so completely fill the bill, to use a semi-
slangy expression, as the Eclipse, handled by F.
F. Collins, which are without a rival for sim-
plicity, durability and satisfactory working.
They are in use by many railroads and exten-
sive ranchmen, and have universally given
satisfaction. In fact, they are without rivals.
The " Eclipse" was the original and the
first solid wheel mill patented, and its