Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-07-26
Manufacturer I'm yyorcester North.

The most excessive are the Lancaster Mills
the main building being over 600 feet long,
one room alone covering an area OF an acre
and ouarter. Mr. Franklin Forbes is the
agent of these mills, and they employ nearly
900 hands They manufacture cotton gng-
f hams.
The next in size are the Bigelow Wooden
Carpet Mills, of which H. N. Bigelow is agent,
and C. L. Swan Superintendent, employing
nearly 300 hands. Their carpet looms are
quite curiosity. They have started this
season, the weaving of worsteds, new enter
prise.
The Clinton Company Mill, of which II. N.
Bigelow is agent, and j. H. Vose Superintend-
ent, employs one hundred hands They man.
ufacture cotton ginghams. The above estab-
lishments are all situated in the centre of the
town.
The comb factory of Sidney Harris, in the
northeast village employs from thirty to forty
hands.
The Clinton Wire Cloth Mill, substantial
building of brick, $50 by So feet, just west of
the depot, G. II. Waters agent, is just starting
up anew, after the recent depression which
put stop to the enterprise for while About
dozen hands are now employed, with more
favorable prospect in the future.
The machine shop of J. B. Parker, near the
latter employs about 80 hands. Oliver Stone
is running planning mill in the same vicinity.
In the foundry owned by G. NJ. Palmer, are
employed ten hands. A. l.. Fuller's mills for
making skirt hoops, are doing thriving bust
ness, employing thirty hands, The quilt mills
formerly owned by H. R. Kendall of Boston,
have recently changed hands, with prospect
of soon doing good business.
a The sash and blind shop of G. G. Stone, and
the button factory of Edwin Harris, in the
q north part of the town, are operating with a
limited number of hands.
A shoe mandatory is just starting, by
q Ayory & Co., a new building having been
il erected for the purpose. They will employ a
large. number of hands. Several new dwelling
a houses are also going up, with other indica-
e tons of general prosperity. The Carpet Com
!. pany also contemplate charging their build
q ings, by the addition of new wing.
h There are in Clinton five meeting houses,
n viz: Congregationalist, Unitarian, Metho-
ID dist, Baptist and Catholic, and one hotel, the
d Clinton House, kept by Mr.. w. N. Pierce, at
n. which whoever stops has an irresistible incli-
err nation to call again.
III LANCAsTER.-In old Lancaster, from which
o. Clinton was formerly set off, but little manu-
featuring is done, the principal business being
IS the mandatory of piano forte keys, by G.
q. L. Wilder, who is doing a large business,
10 employing 10 hands and the boot manufac
v tory of Mr.. Furbush, who is doing WELL en-
20 ploying twenty hands. Lancaster has between
m 100 and 1900 inhabitants. Mr.. Nathaniel
i'll Thayer, retired Boston merchant, is erecting
II an elegant mansion near the centre of the
es town, for his future residence. 1t will be a
great addition to the village
H.. The principal attraction of old Lancaster is
" the State Industrial School for Girls, which
Ia has been in operation about three years, and in
va which are now about one hundred pupils. The
trustees are erecting new house, in addition
of to the three already built, for the accommoda
rd ton of larger numbers. The principle adopt
It's ed at this school is the family system, IAN i'm
der the exclusive management of their desig
I'd mated head matron, assistant matron. house
,et keeper, or school teacher, each occupying a
W. separate house. Rev. B. X. Pierce is the Su.
lg perlntendcnt, or general head of this institr
es ton, gentleman admirably adapted for the
he pace, as his great success has shown.
lg HoLDEN.-There are four cotton mills in
this town, viz: That of A. Morse & Co.. in
en- Brick City, employing sixty hands that Of
on "A. L. Colvin two miles NORTH for the manu-
| fnpturn If
20 five hands; that of Deacon Smith, employing
lat thirty hands in the making of calico print
goods at the "French Woods" on the North
branch Of the Quinepoxet; and that of C. M.
~ Pratt, employing forty hands in the making of
ae cotton sheetings, at Unonvile, on the south
B. branch of that stream. Messrs Pratt and
le Smith were formerly at New England Village.
$ The WOODEN mandatory of Theron E. Hail.
,r at Drydenville, on the Asnebumsket stream
% employs thirty hands. This establishment has
e not been stopped one day in ten years.
n ID. f. Parmenter, just below the last named,
e manufactures shoddy, of rag wool, and r. fl.
n Chaffin, on the Unionville stream, EMPLOYS A.
l number of hands in the manufacture of CHS
. tom clothing
e In territory, Holden is one of the largest towns
OF the county, although in population it num-
bers but little over two thousand inhabitants.
WEST BoYLsToN numbers about g. 300 in
d habltants, over small territory, about the
II size of old Boylston, and little larger than
y Clinton. 1t has four cotton manufactures viz
4 The Harris Mills at 0akdae, run by L. NJ.
$ Harris Co., employing so hands, making
\ fooo0O yards of cotton flannels yearly: the
West Boylston Manufacturing Company at
: Oakdale, of which W. White is agent. with
~ looms, employing 60 hands, and making
q 100000 yards of cotton sheetings annually
y the Beaman Mills at the Valley employing
q zoo hands, and making 100000 yards an.
q nually and the mills of Holbrook & Harris Mt
A Centeryile, with 40 looms, employing 40
q hands, and making 100000 yards of light
|, sheeting annually
# The boot business is carried on very extern
q sively by d. G. & II. S. Rawson in the manu-.
4 facture Of 2,4O0 pairs Of boots weekly.
o BorLsToN.-In old Boylston, the only man.
l. ufactory is the Clinton Bigelow Carpet Com
II pany's yarn factory, near the edge of Clinton
r at the north, employing 80 hands in the spin
J. ming OF yarn for the Carpet Company. Levi
~ liolbrook is the Superintendent of tho mill