Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-08-17
Ctr ann County SmteIIlaente.


ing, used for a forge shop and other work, is
two hundred feet long by forty wide. About
seven eighths of the rooms and power here are
now taken up. These shops are eligible and
| pleasantly located, being in close proximity to
the great centre of railroad communication
with all sections of the country. The power
is obtained from two engines from the shop OF
Corliss & Nightingale of Providence, r. l.,
each of fifty horse power. At
Wood, Light, & Co. occupy the two lower
stories in the south end of the main building,
for the manufacture of machinists' tools, water
wheels, mill works, castings, &C., doing a
heavy business with about thirty hands. They
are just commencing work on patterns for
three large steam hammers for Nathan Wash
burns extensive establishment in Toronto.
j. A. Fay & Co. occupy one hundred feet on
the second floor, and do an extensive business
in making wood working machinery, including
planners, machinery for making doors, sashes,
and blinds, &C., &c with thirty hands. They
are full of work, having recently received
large orders from distant places. They have
just completed and sent off saw mill for Rio
Janeiro
Joseph Barrett & Co., in the south end of
the second floor, employs twenty hands in the
manufacture of calico printing machinery,
Woodworth's planning machines, machinists
tools, &c. Their business is good They are
now engaged upon the New England Mower,
which has proved so satisfactory as one horse
moving machine. Shepard, Lathe, & Co.,
occupy one hundred feet of the first floor, un-
der the preceding, with from fifteen to twenty
hands, for the manufacture of engine lathes
and planning machines for iron.
The central portion of the upper story is oc-
cupied by the Whittemore brothers, who en-
ploy twenty hands in manufacturing machines
for pairing, coring, and slicing apples. They
make in all one hundred per day, and the sales
are brisk. They have sold over one thousand
dozen the present season. These machines
require only two revolutions of the apple to
pare it, and five to pare, core, and slice it.
The American Steam Music Company, of
which Arthur s. Denny is general agent, also
in the third story, employ twelve hands in the
manufacture of calliopes and terpsichoreans
The latter is an entirely new thing, and this
company have just completed the first one, as
an experiment. Its notes are agreeable and
pleasant to the ear. The music for these in
struments is arranged by M. Arbuckle, leader
of Fiske's Cornet Band.
On the same floor with the preceding, Hey
wood March employ few hands in making
Holbrook's automatic bank locks, an ingenious
invention, and an entirely new enterprise.
David Mcfarland is also engaged, with two or
three hands, in making card setting machines,
another new enterprise for Worcester. Mr..
Mcfarland is now filling orders from James
Smith of Philadelphia. A. +. Henshaw keeps
several hands busy in the manufacture of ma
chnists' tools and bonnet machinery.
The extensive armory works of Allen &
Wheelock, situated just south of the preceding
shops, and within stones throw of the juno
ton Depot, give employment to about one
hundred and fifty hands. They make revol-
yers guns, single and double pistols, &C., of
all kinds. They manufacture largely Aliens
senior partner. These firearms are used ex-
tensiyeiy. Pie main building for these oper-
ations is 1l2 feet long by 40 wide, and the
forge shop 120 by 40. The power is obtained
from an engine of forty horse power, of Cors
& Nightingale's make.
Thayer, Houghton & Co., in the Washing
ton street machine shop, on the Western and
Providence Railroads, and not far from the
Junction, have forty five hands, doing a much
better business than six months ago, in the
manufacture of machinists' tools, iron planners,
engine lathes, &C. Mr.. Samuel Flagg, on the
second floor, with six workmen, manufactures
hand lathes, hand planners and other tools, and
E. L. Shumway, in a room adjoining, employs
six hands making boot trees, his business being
better now than ever before.
The Arcade Maeable Iron Works at Wash
ington square, Warren Mcfarland agent, give
employment to forty five hands, who do a
heavy business in the manufacture of iron
castings of every description.
f. Willard & Co. in the Union Mill, corner
of Union and School streets, employ thirty
five hands in the manufacture Of all kinds of
wooden machinery. They have all they can
do. Ball & Williams, on School street, next
the preceding, do a driving business with
from fifty 10 sixty hands, in making wood
working machinery of all kinds The power
in both these establishments is obtained from
an engine of sixty horse power. VIM. M.
tnlrf nr1 in tho so h. 4
mill, employs twenty-three hands in building
looms. Mr.. Bickford is one of the Oldest
manufacturers in the city, and has amassed a
large fortune in the business. 1t is now thir-
ty-tive years since he removed from New
Worcester, where he formerly operated, to his
present location.