Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-06-27
The Industry Of Burlington.
THE MARBLE BUSINESS. W. GooDELL AND
COMPANY.

vious. The shores of Lake Champlain, on
both sides, abound in variegated and colored
marbles in great variety. The quarries of
white and clouded marbles, which are the
foundation of the great marble business of
Vermont, begin just south of us and extend
for sixty miles or more, many of them in
near proximity TO the Rutland railroad, at
blocks where they can be best worked and
marketed. This city offers cheap freights
from competing land and water routes cheap
fuel from the lumber mills for generating
power, and plenty of water.
The Burlington Manufacturing Company,
some years ago, first began the business
of saving and finishing marble on n some
what extensive scale at this point. Three
years ago. intending to confine themselves
chiefly to saving marble and TO marble tiles,
they turned over the finishing business to
the firm of
j. W. GooDELL AND COMPANY.
Messrs Goodell & CO. began with eight
hands, which was sufficient force for their
moderate business. Under the careful
management and genuine enterprise of Mr..
Goodell, their business has steadily grown
till it now employs eighty hands, and has be
come one of the most active, extensive and
successful of our manufacturing enterprises
The firm hire their rooms and power from
the Burlington Manufacturing Company;
and buy largely of rough stock from that
company. They buy also wherever choice
variegated marbles are to be obtained in this
region-and also quarry to some extent for
themselves, where peculiar shades and quail
ties of marble are needed not offered by the
marble men. The improvements in ma
chinery for dressing and finishing marble
have been very great during the last ten
years: and have affected almost as great
changes in the business as the substitution of
machinery for hand-work has made in furni-
ture, wood work and other branches of in.
dustry The machinery of the establishment
VIC are describing comprises a large and
powerful turning lathe, for turning columns
and cylindrical shafts for monuments, etc.
This will turn column nine feet long and
two feet in diameter, as readily, though
not as rapidly, as common wood
lathe turns curtain roller. They run
two moulding cutters for cutting into 'ogee'
mouldings the edges of table tops. etc. These
cutters, under the press of orders, are run
every hour of the twent y-four, stopping not
for nights or meals There are three polish
ing lathes for polishing cylindrical work of
all sorts two large rubbing beds" in which
great circular iron tables are driven swiftly,
and upon which flat pieces of marble TO be
polished or brought TO plane surface are
placed, with plenty of sand and water, and
are thus rapidly ground down to the smooth,
fiat surface required. If the pieces of marble
are to be polished they are taken to the pol
ishing machines OF these, five are in con-
slant use, which will polish fifty good sized
pieces at one time In these machines,
polishers, covered with felt and coated with
polishing putty, are drawn to and fro, rapid
ly over the surface to be finished, giving it
in time what is called a putty finish"
which for beauty and glossy smoothness can
not be surpassed. In addition to these there
are two polishing machines of different con-
struction, for polishing granite. In these
the polishing surface is disk,
covered with felt, coated with polishing
powder or putty. which revolves at
at high rate Of speed and is moved at the
will of the workman over the surface of the
stone by means of an ingenious arrangement
of belts, pulleys and levers. The polishing
machinery of this concern is called the best in
the United States, and the work turned out
by it is unsurpassed in finish and perfection.
In addition to the stoneworks, the concern
has box department, supplied with suitable
machinery, in which several hands are con-
stantly employed in making the boxes
in which the finished marble work is shipped
to all parts of the country. Messrs. Goodell
& Co. turn out table tops, wash-stand tops.
and tops and brackets for fine furniture, of
white and variegated marbles in i'm
mense quantities and in very great varie-
ty of colors and shades. In grave stone
and monumental work they do a large bust
ness. Their designer is continually produc-
ing new designs for monuments and some
of these now in process of finishing, in
which shafts, columns and dies of the dark
Isle La Motto stone and Vermont Black Mar
BILE, highly polished, are relieved with deli
cate trscery Of twining vines, carved in the
stone, are of marked beauty. The granite
department of this concern-in which Mr..
Daniel Hewitt formerly of Montpelier, and
well-known as one of the best granite work
ers in the country is foreman-is turn
ing out some very admirable work,
including a large granite monument, for
the grave of the late Judge Bottom of
Addison county. Messrs. Goodell have
shipped to order some fifty monuments
since the first of January; and their bust
ness in this, as in other branches, is constant
ly increasing. They ship largely to the
West, 10 Boston and other points, and doing
business on the square, figuring close, and
satisfied with moderate profits, they are apt
when they get customer to keep him.
Their success is due TO honest industry,
energy, enterprise and tact, and We doubt
not future years will see as great growth
in their business as has marked the past.
THE BURLINGTON MANUFACTURING COMPANY
This company, also, reports steadily in
creasing business. In three years past they
have found enough TO do, in saving marble
and in supplying marble tile for floors. The
saving department now runs ten gangs of
saws, and is driven with orders to its full
capacity The marble sawed is principally
from the Pittsford quarry, in which the
company have large interest. For finish
ing tile, two large circular rubbing beds are
in constant use, and of late have been driven
night and day. The motive power is Cor
liss engine of $50 horse power, shavings
from the lumber mills being used for fuel.
The company make large shipments of
black and white marble tile to CALIFORNIA; and
other States. They have supplied floors for
many of the principal public buildings in the
United States. and they have now on hand
in their storehouses awaiting shipment,
probably the largest stock of tile flooring in
the United States The company employs
now about fifty hands. 1t is controlled by
Lawrence Barnes and his sons-in law, +. W
Smith and G. X. Hayward, and, it is need
less TO say, is managed with energy and
thorough enterprise.
TIE FLAYDRRs AND LANG PUMP Con-
PASY has been organized to conduct the
business Of manufacturing the famous
Flanders pumps which for some time have
been constructed at Nergennes by the Yer
gennes Machine Company. The pumps have
a well-deserved fame for their strength
and durability and the speed they show
in operation. As the superintendent of the |
water works of Ogdensburg, n Y, remark |
ed they never could wear out" The |
water works of South Bend, Indiana, Piqua,
Ohio Ogdensburg. N. Y, Meadville, Pa,
Peekskill, n. Y, Troy, n. Y. Lake View,
ILL.,, Nashua, n, H., ST. Johnsbury, Vt, are