Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1846-07-30
VERMONT PHOENIX.


CabOtYllle -. It's Factories and Operatives.
Ma EpIroR In communication in your paper las,
Dc ober, headed Springfield, promised time to
give you few paragraphs respecting Cabotvie and its
busy population.
People at distance speak Of the different villages under
the term Of "spring6eld but localities,
may not be amiss state that the Of Springfield is
somewhat extensive in territory, including Springfield viii
sge, Old Springfield il is sometimes called, Cabot
vile, Chicopee Falls and parish called Chicopee Street
Springfield (vlage) contains the Town House, County
Court House. The U Armory, and the Depot Of the Con
neciicut River and Western Railroads Three miles North
is Csbotve the South side of the Chcopee River
its junction with the Connecticut mile and half East
Chcopee Falls village, with lis Cotton Factories and Ma
chine Shops, about half large Cuboville In
featuring Importance these villages together second
only 10 Lowell.
Cabotvile contains above four thousand inhabitants and
for industry and the busy hum Of life is truly beehive
In addition to its Cotton Mills, the Ames Manufacturing
Company have extensive works for making machinery and
Iron Foundry They also manufacture swords, cutie
ry and brass The solid, and bored
out by machinery. When 6niohed they weigh about 800
pounds, and about 800 each They manufactured
for the Government We frequently hear cannonading
down by the river On going to the spot day, saw
tier Of forty OF these bazen pescemakers They
swung time upon the carriage and proved by three
heavy charges; and the violence with which the balls
struck the ledge Of sand and rock the opposite side Of
the river and made the spnter Of and iron
led suppose they might inure the plank Of vessel
il hey should ever be used for such purpose.
The swords of qualities varying in price from
two a thousand dollars Common swords from four
five dollars; Officers swords, from fifteen twenty. Nine
swords Of hundred dollars EACH were manu-
featured here order for the State Of Virginia. present
military officers Ofcourse they of superior quail
ty and got up in superior style The swords are made
steel, and the art of iemPerng, polishing, and
mentng, thoroughly understood that these weapons
equal any thing Of foreign production, excepting
probably the famous Damascus blades When Mr. N. p.
Ames to Europe, few years since, he took
his number with him, and it is said they hacked
cry thing that the cuers To Her Majesty and Louis Phil
ppe azans could produce agans, them and he brought
them home with their edges smooth when he went
away. Whether this is official from Mr. Ames himself or
bit of brsg, rhetorical flourish OF Fourth of
ly orator. not informed At any rate, may safely
claim that only the Yankee blades but the Yankee Boys
that handle them Of metal any that
can be imported in peace or in The Ames Company
extensively engaged in the manufacture of machinery,
not only supply the of the place and but they
have constant orders from various parts of the county
very ingenious and finely constructed machine for
making gun stocks 1t made wholly of ironts
work and all its parts Its cost Think eight
hundred dollars, and it was going TO Windsor, w. This
Company employ in the different departments of their bust
ness, about three hundred workmen.
CoTToS FAoToREs-The statistics of cotton
the different villages of Springfield for the year ending
April ls lea5, given by the Assessors Of the town.
follows Number Of Cotton Mills, 10 Spindes 60 72
Cotton consumed in the year, 62l5,563 bs Cotton cloth
during the year. consisting Of Sheetngs
Shngs, Drilngs, and Printed Cloths, 1884, 35i yds
Gross value Of cloth manufactured, 3ii IA Capital in
vested in the manufacture of Cotton 900 Number
Of Males employed in the business 493j Number of Fe
males employed, 1913
The Males receive about the ordinary wages Of those in
other kinds of business The Females earn, besides board
from 81 % to 50 25 a week Many of the hands the
enterprsng Green Mountain Boys and Girls and theI
reputation for industry, skill, and wohiness fan
that other things being equal the fact of having foH
Vermont will give applicant for employment the prefer
enee others
Those who have visited Cotton Factories will be wei
paid for call. Pass through the Mills and witness the
rous processes OF the manuacturehe picking cardng
spinning weaving dressing, trimming, folding and baling
The buzz of cards. the hum Of spndes, the caer and dir
of looms the ceaseless of active girls with aim
Bile fingers joining the broken threads they wait upoI
their three four tireless all is notion animS
and nanimale-incessant moton-and presents a
as active industry well be imagined. S. G.