Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-12-21

power. His factory furnishes employment TO five /
hands.
c. Hunt is also engaged in the manufacture OF
hand cards. his factory being located near the post
office.
Although the production of cards at the above
factories is very large they all deal directly with
the consumers.
The wooden business is the largest branch of in
dustry and the largest number OF the entire popu-
lation engaged in the production of goods for the
market, mere find employment. Water is chiefly
employed as power more than half of the factories
being situated upon Kettle brook, to which the city
of Worcester is looking with an enyious eye as
means Of increasing its supply of water.
Approaching the town from Worcester, the first
factory passed is operated by james A. smith, in
the manufacture of fancy cassimeres. Steam as
well as water is employed to drive the machinery,
and 100 operatives are kept busy. This mill pro-
duces about $50 900 square yards annually the largest
portion of them being shipped to New York.
Next comes the Leicester mill, operated by S L.
Hodges. Tweeds and repelents are here produced,
IS persons being engaged Steam and water are
both used as power. The mill has been in operation
thirty-hve years. and 100000 square yards are
ally manufactured New York furnishes market
where they sold
Near the junction OF Towtaid street with the
Dain road is a small mill run by James A. Smith,
where fifteen hands are employed. One hundred
thousand square yards are annually produced, and
the largest portion of them find market in New
York.
Another mill situated near the one last mentioned
is also run by james A. Smith, satinets being pro-
duced. The factory is of the same capacity as the
other and the goods are sold in the same market.
Kents shoddy mill is the first the line OF Kettle
brook after it leaves the neighborhood OF the main
road The goods manufactured here are disposed of
in Worcester county.
Bottomley's mill, operated by E. D. Thayer, fur
nishes employment to ninety operatives, who are
engaged in the production of fancy cassimeres;
100000 square yards are annually produced and
shipped to New York.
The village of Meanwhile takes its name from the
senior member of the firm of Mann & Marshall,
who are engaged in the manufacture of satinets.
The annual productions amount to 10000 square
yards, which find a market in Boston and New
York
The stream known as French river runs through
the village of Greenville, where Joseph Peel runs
large factory for the manufacture of satinets. This
mill furnishes employment 10 twenty-three hands
and has been in operation since last March.
A. nankey & Co. are also located in the vii
laSe anu oCCupy laiSe Dullulhg III INT
ture of planning knives and machinery for paper
mills.
AT Rochdale are two large mills, known as the
Rochdale upper and lower mills. They are owned
by the heirs of Il. Daes of Boston, and operated
under the direction of h. T. Carlton Thirty opera
tives employed at the upper mill, all the goods
being finished and shipped from the lower, where
100 hands are engaged. Flannels alone are manu-
featured the annual productions amounting to
nearly one and half million square yards, The
goods are disposed of in Boston and New York.
The French river, upon which the mills in Roch-
dale and Greenville situated, is supplied with
water from three large reservoirs, covering NEARLY
seven hundred acres OF ground
The Leicester national bank furnishes banking
accommodations to the town of Spgn eer as well as
to Leicester. The capital is $500 900. Cheney
Hatch is president of the institution, and D. E.
Merriam, cashier.
The savings bank, which is located in the same
building as the national bank has S17O eco on de-
post. Cheney Hatch is the president, and D. f.
Merriam, treasurer.
A free public library, containing $500 volumes, is
located at the centre, and greatly appreciated by
the citizens. The Leicester academy, under the
charge of c. A. Wetmore, is now in fOurishing
condition, with excellent prospects for the future
At Leicester centre a room in the town hall has
been handsomely fitted up as a memorial hall at
an expense of $1,000, and is to be dedicated Monday
evening, with appropriate ceremonies. The room
is handsomely Grescoed, the centre design bearing
the coats of arms of the United States and Massa
chusetts. The names of the actions in which the
soldiers who went from the town participated are
painted upon the sides of the ROOM and at the rear
in such position as TO be seen as the door
is opened, are the memorial tablets, surrounded by
heavy black walnut mouldings The tablets are
made of marble, the names of the soldiers who lost
their lives during the rebellion, and the manner Of
their death, being neatly carved upon them. Upon
three sides Of the room are heavy black walnut
bookcases protected by railing of the same mate
rial, and designed for the accommodation of the