Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-08-09

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manufacturing industry in many other places
within the past year, Worcester City has ex-
hibited still greater change. The comparative
amount of business done in the extensive range
OF buildings, on Union, Exchange, Cyprus and
Foster streets, in which room and power are
leased by our enterprising townsman, VIM. T..
Mortified, is an evidence of this These
buildings, if in a continuous row, would
measure over eleven hundred feet in
length, fifty in width, and three stories in
height. The aggregate area of the floors in
the several rooms is over four acres and
half. The power is obtained from powerful
engine of $50 horse power, As inch cylinder,
and Y inch stroke, manufactured by the Law
renee Machine Shop Company in 1854, for
Mr. Merrifield, at an expense of $4,000.
Threefourths of the rooms in these buildings,
are now occupied. being a great advance over
the condition of things one year since, and
decided improvement over what it was six
months ago.
! Mr.. Mortified has leased rooms and power
in his buildings to over fifty firms each en-
ploying hands ranging in number from two to
fifty. Among the firms here located doing
the most business, is Mr. Alzirus Brown, on
the corner of Union and Exchange streets,
who, with fifty hands, has for some time been
manufacturing Mannys patent mower and
reaper combined, at the rate of sixteen per
day, without being able to supply all orders.
On Union street, Mr.. Daniel fainter en-
ploys thirty hands in making wooden carding
machines and jacks and Messrs. johnson & Co.
twenty hands, in making jacks for wooden
machinery. Their business is brisk as ever.
Messrs. Richardson & Mawhiney, on the same
street, employ twenty-four hands on lasts and
boot trees.
L. w. Pond occupies some 200 feet of the
first floor, under the preceding, for the manu-
facture of engine lathes, planning machines,
| &C., doing an extensive business with twenty
seven hands. He uses a lathe thirty seven
feet long, capable Of cutting screws of any
| length from one to thirty-three feet. He also
uses the largest and heaviest planning machine
in the city, thirty-seven feet long, six feet wide
and four feet high, and weighing forty tons.
| He has within four months completed and sold
two boring machines, adapted both for boring
and turning, and this instrument is considered
much superior to previous inventions 1t was
invented by Mr.. Isaac D. Mathews, foreman
in the shop. Another machine like these has
been ordered for Cincinnati. The cost of one
is 500, and it is claimed that one of them
will do the work of S1100 lathe.
Prouty & Allen in the room north of Mr..
Ponds establishment, employ from five to six
hands in making iron and zinc shoe nails, of
which they turn off from 1000 to 1900 pounds
per day.
Battelle Co., in the third story, have five
hands engaged in the manufacture of sewing
machines.
j. L. l. n. Reyes, on the east side of
Union street, do an extensive business, with
eighteen hands, in board planning &c. Hamil-
ton Holt, in rooms over them, has four hands
engaged in making patent cutters, or conduct
ors of water from the roofs of buildings, an
entirely new thing.
On the corner of Exchange and Cypress
streets, c. Whitcomb & Co. are now doing an
unusually brisk business in making machinists'
tools and letter copying presses, having in en-
ploy fifteen hands. In the latter enterprise,
particularly, their business is uncommonly
good. Towne & Harrington are busy, with
ten hands, making moving machine knives.
Dresser & Wilson have about six hands,
making Jillson's patent animal traps, man
ufacturing 200 per day.
On Cyprus street, S. g. Reed & Co. employ
twenty hands in making carriage wheels and
wheel spokes, Of all kinds. They run an i'm
proved machine for making spokes newly in
vented, and never before used in this city,
which appears to be very great Improvement,
both in speed and nicely of work, over other
modes of operation. George f. Rice employs
about ten hands, on an average, in the manu-
facture of Hovey's patent hay cutters, corn
shelters, and winnowing mills, and very SUI
perior article of boring machine of his own in
vention. Joel w. Upham has from six to eight
hands, generally, engaged in making very
large water wheels for manufacturing estab-
lishments, averaging from twenty to thirty per
year Edward Lamb has about ten hands Ell
gagged in house building and carpenter work
generally. A portion of them are now at.work
upon the new Town House at West Brook
field. Isaac Fiske employs six hands, making
musical (wind) instruments. ID. d. Allen &
Co., who manufacture boot forms, are doing
twice the business they did six months ago.
S. C. & S. Winslow employ from six to twelve
hands, in gear cutting and light jobbing.
Thomas Smith & Co. have four hands making
patent bitt pieces, and doing cold iron punch
ing
On Exchange street, the Machine Lathe Co.
of which Jason Chaplin is President, and A.
l.. Burbank Treasurer, employ seven hands in
making beadstead lathes and in iron job work
generally. Charles L. Staples, with seven
hands, makes bit stocks and window springs,
and does light jobbing and Charles L. Wilder
has few hands in the manufacture of boot
crimphlg machines. Franklin Wesson has
three hands in the gun manufacture. p.
Goulding with six hands on the opposite side
of the street, makes thirty dozen of shuttes
per week; U. T. & c. II. Smith make chair
latles and do machine jobbing, with four
hands. VIM II. Brown has model and job.
bling shop with three or more hands.
Several other enterprises of n mechanical
Kind are carried on in "Merrifeld's buildings"
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| HE SUPERIOR CoURT, Chief Justice Allen
presiding commenced its firstsessonf for the trial
of civil causes in this county, at Fitchburg, yes
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