Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-07-29
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Manufacture. in worcester city.


ment over their condition six months ago,
when it had greatly improved over what it
was six months previous, constituting very
important change for the better within one
year. just at this particular season of the
year, it is not ordinarily expected that business
will be SO brisk, as at later period. Yet
some of the heaviest establishments are driven
with work. and obliged to run the machinery
extra time in order to fill orders.
Among the manufacturing firms doing the
heaviest amount of business in this city, and
employing the largest number of hands, is
that of Nourse, Mason, & Co., who make agri-
cultural implements of every description, and
some other tools, such as drawing knives, CHS
els, wrenches, &C., in their extensive establish
ment, near Lincoln Square. They employ
nearly two hundred and fifty hands. Thier
payroll reaches the sum of between eight
and nine thousand dollars per month. Their
engine is one of sixty horse power, manutac-
tured by Hollis & Nightingale of Providence.
1t has a fourteen inch cylind er, and is of forty
two inch stroke. They have been exceeding
ly pressed of late with the amount of their
orders, and frequently been obliged in conse-
quence to run their engine till nine or ten
o'clock at night, with no diminution at pres
ent in their receipt o. orders, although their
works have now stopped for two or three days
to afford their hands little necessary recrea-
ton at this hot season.
In number Of hands employed, the firm of
Fox & Rice, who manufacture fancy cassi-
meres, on the stream at the junction of Green
and Water streets, comes next. They have
200 hands, and make, on the average, $4,000
yards monthly, their business being now very
good.
Nathan Washburn's rolling mill, tire mill,
and foundry works, near Washington Square,
comprise an immense amount of capital invest
ed. They employ from 10 to 1870 hands, who
turn off, in all, forty tons of iron per day. Mr..
Washburn is making an addition to his rolling
mill, of 40 feet, to contain four new furnaces.
Mr.. H. S. Washburn's wire factory, near the
works of Mr.. Nathan Washburn, employs 81
hands, who work night and day, alternately,
and have done so since January last, so press
ed is the establishment with orders They
turn off about q tons of iron wire per day.
Mr. H. S. Washburn is also making an add.
ton of 40 feet to his mill.
l. Washburn & Co., wire drawers are among
the firms doing the heaviest amout of business,
and employing the largest capital. Their
Grove street mill employs one hundred and
twenty hands, who were making three tons of
iron wire per day when the late explosion oc-
CURED. Their works will be in full operation
again, by next Monday, with increased facil-
ties for doing still larger business. Their
new building to be attached to the main one,
for which the foundation is now being laid is
to be three stories high, and So feet long by 40
wide
l. Washburn & Go. are also making a large
addition to their establishment in South Wor-
cester, where they now employ thirty hands,
in the same manufacture. They are building
a new annealing house, so by 80 feet, and two
stories high. A large addition is also being
made TO the main building.
nccfcT, In0lnas sereeu, orl-
ploys one hundred hands in the manufacture
of machine, railroad, iron, brass, and compost
I ton castings, stoves, and various other kinds
of iron and brass work. His power is from an
engine of his own manufacture.
Goddard, Rice, & Co., near the Boston and
Worcester Railroad on Union street. employ
fifty hands in the manufacture of steam boilers
and machinery for paper mills and calico print
ing works. They are doing a full business,
and have sent off the present week twelve cal
leo printing machines for the Pacific Mills in
Lawrence, (the largest establishment of the
kind in this country,) to print muslins and de-
LANES and they are just finishing off twelve
calico printing machines for New York Their
works are carried by two engines, each of thir-
ty-five horse power, and of forty inch
cylinder, and thirty-six inch stroke.
The senior partner of the above firm, Mr..
Isaac Goddard, has been in the business twen-
ty-three years. He began in 1886 with three
hands, at the Red Mills, the firm then being
Howe & Goddard Six months after starting,
they put in steam engine of six horse power,
the first one ever used for manufacturing in
Worcester County. They used it two years,
and then exchanged it for one of ten horse
power. They kept the latter six years, all the
while using water power in connection with
each. They next in February, 1843, CON-
menced operations at the present location of
Goddard, Rice, & Co., with an engine of twen-
ty-fve horse power. One year and half from
that date, the enlargement of their business
made necessary the putting in of their present
engines. In 1913, they put in the first planning
machine that ever went by power in this coun-
ty. From the small beginning above noted
the present firm grew up; and they have since
done business to the amount of S230,000 per
annum.
Earle Jones, on Union street. adjoining
Goddard, Rice, & Co.'s establishment, employ
sixty-ive hands in the manufacture of castings
for machinery, tools, and other iron work. In
this business they melt three tons of iron per
day.
Osgood Bradley, on Grafton street. is doing
a heavy business in building railroad cars. He
employs seventy hands They are now en-.
gagged upon work to fill large orders for the
Grand Trunk Railway.
forbush & Crompton in the Red Mills, en-
ploy % hands in the manufacture of "Cromp-
ton Looms" AT the present time their bust
ness is unusually good
The above sketch comprises only portion
OF the firms that are manufacturing extensive
ly in this city. AT another time we shall re-
sumo the subject, and give an account of tho