The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-04-27

contributions of the present family, are some
gifts to the universities, Ito tho Butler Hospital,
and the Rhode Island Hospital, just completed.
Though John Carter Brown and Robert h.
Ives are the sole partners OF the firm, the
whole family connections are Familiarity spoken
of here as s:Brown & Ives" Mrs. Goddard is O
sister of Mrs. Ives She has five sons, 1hom-
as, William, Moses B. l., Frank and Robert
and two daughters, one Of whom married
Thomas B. Sheppard, and the other William
Binney, son of Horace Bnney, ESQ.,, ofPhila-
delphia. A daughter of MIR. Ives married Pro.
fessor Gammell, formerly OF brown UmTeTsl-
ty. and now supposed TO lend the force Of his
intellectual abilities 20 the Journal newspaper
wherever the interests of Brown & Ives are
concerned. John Carter Brown and Robert Il.
Ives NAV be the sole partners, though it is
asserted that Mrs. Goddsrd's money remains in
the house, and the Goddards nre the agents
of the great mill at Lonsdale; but oil these are
the people whom Sprague had IN his mind as
Brown & Ives, the great family, the million
dollars. may as we'll say here as at any other
place that the person referred to by Senator
Sprapue as losing his life in the late war by a
mistake of 'sthe million dollars" in the char
acter of the man on whose staff he was placed,
was son Of Mr.. Robert b. Ives. The young
man served with General Rodman, of Rhode
Island, and was killedat Antietam:
Nobody knows anything with absolute GER
tainty in relation to the business of Brown &
Ives, even their employees being sworn to Sc
crecy in these matters. They have very few
outside investments, and cannot be said to be
extended even in the sense in which it may
be truly said of the Spragues. Their property
is mostly in landed estates. aud it ia an cid
saving here that ''Brcwn & Ives buy and buy,
but never SELL" Almost in the very heart of
this city there are acres of land lying like the
Iaborers in the Scripture, all the day idle, which
they will neither sell nor improve. Many Of
their houses have look of antiquity about
them wonderfully in contrast to the elegance OF
their mills, as described in one Of Spragues
speeches; but it they seldom make repairs for
the accommodation Of their tenants, neither do
thoy raise the rents. But when thoy turned
their attention from commercial enterprises to
cotton spinning, ''shamed;" Sprague says,
''into employing some OF their i'm nense re-
sources in the business OF the people about
them" they built what are here called very
fine mills,'' though their rival calls them ex
travagant to degree as to incite others to imi-
tate them to their ruin. Their print-works are
at Lonsdale, where they have also large mill
and village. There they have the "Hope" mill,
called after the maternal branch Of the Ives
family, at Phoenix, on the Pawtuxet, and the
.Ashton" mill on the line Of the Providence
anil Worcester Railroad, in tho valley of the
Blackstone. They have also o large interest
in the Blackstone Manufacturing Company,
MIR. Alexander Duncan, the father OF William
Duncan, of Duncan, Sherman & Co., being the
other member. This establishment was built
by the old firm OF Brown j. Ives, and Mr. But
Ter, the father of Mrs. Duncan. These EN-,
brace all the great mills Of Brown & Ives, and
employ about 1900 persons. The number Of
spindles may be approximately estimated at
15n mn