Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-10-01
LOCAL NEWS

! New WoRcEsTER.-During the past year of
unprecedented business depression in and about
| Worcester, we are glad to know that the south
part of the city has been steadily looking up
Real estate in New Worcester has not only 'sheld
its own" but has rapidly increased in value.
number of new houses have been built, or are in
process of completion, and everything in the
shape OF a tenement has been, and is occupied
all (which circumstances are.unmistakable signs
OF prosperity. Much of this has been mainly ow-
ing to an important addition TO the manufacture
ing business of the village by the removal thither
OF the extensive portmonaie and pocket book man
ufactory of Messrs. Johnson, Brown, & Co., from
Millbury, and by the establishment there, under
the management of the same enterprsing firm, of
large mandatory of sale jewelry Mr.. John
son, the senior member of the firm was one of the
first in this country to engage in the manufacture
of portmonaies, and it is mainly through the
exercise of his mechanical skill and perseverance
that the manufacture has been brought to such
a state of perfection as to make the BUSH
ness remuneratiye, in the face of powerful
competition from abroad. A walk through their
extensive and well appointed work rooms, would
satisfy any one that the propretors understand
their business. The rooms are well lighted, and
the most scrupuous att ention is paid to cleanli.
ness there appears to be place for everything,
and everything is kept in its place. good por-
ton of the portmonaie work is done by females,
and both males and females earn good wages.
In the Porte Monnaie department, much of the
work is done by foreign workmen, Germans, who
have learned the BUSINESS in the old country, and
brought with them the mechanical skill and
knowledge that enables them to prosecute with
success this branch of business in the country of
their adoption. They are a steady industrious
and likely looking set of men any master
workman in he.country could wish to see or have
| in his employ.
In the jewelry department, it is surprising to be-
I hold with what facility the various articles of
pins seals, finger rings, &c., are struck out and
finished off ready for the market. Here the work
men are mostly Americans. The business is a
light and agreeable one, but affords good an
opportunity for the exercise of ingenuity and
skill, as almost any mechanical trade.
In both the branches of their business Messrs
Johnson & Co. employ about seventy hands, and
in connection with their extensive manufacturing
business here, they have house in New York,
whence their goods shipped to all parts of the
South and West,where they find ready sale at re-
munerating prices. 1t gives us pleasure thus to
chronicle the success of one of our youngest but
most energetic business firms, who from small be-
nings, have built up large and constantly in
creasing business, and who in their onward career
of prosperity, are benefting the community as
well as themselves, and we close this brief and
hastily writtennotice of their establishment, with
the expression of our best wishes for their con-
tinued success and prosperity which they so well
deserve.