The Press., 1883-09-13
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 the plate IS arranged an upright set of teeth,
 by means of which the water is strained, so to speak, or made to leave the plate in small streams. Then, besides these sprinklers, there are hydrants outside the factory connecting with steam and friction pump, either of which will throw stream of water entirely over the mill Inside are kept the ordinary fire extinguishers, and there is also an ar rangement by which steam can be thrown in to all the rooms In addition, the mill is in sured in Mutual Ere Insurance Co.," by ganization is kept up among the mill oper- atives. These precautions seem completely to protect the factory against fire. North of the ,dye-house ground is being prepared for the foundation of new building, 18x3O, of two stories, the lower floor for dyes and chem icals, and the upper for carpentering and gen. eral repairing. Across the river from the mill is the company's boarding house. It is @ basement structure of two stories, built of wood and painted a light green color with brown trimmings. In the basement is the dining room, on one end of which is crock cry pantry, and on the other the kitchen, laun- dry and buttery. On the floor above are rooms for two families, and on the third floor from the basement are the boarders' rooms. In the attic, which is spacious, there are four more apartments. The house can easily ac- commodate thirty boarders, is we'll lighted ,,1a neatly The floors of the halls and rooms are painted red while the rest of the wood work is of light brown color. All the washing water for the house is brought over the river from the mill. Outside, the ground has beeu carefully graded and presents 8 very neat ap- pearance. The boarding house is fitting one for so fine a mill.
 It is this factory, in large part, that has given the Hollow so much life. Property here would probably bring now on sale a fourth more than it would have brought three years ago. At the same time rents have gone up. Tenements which used to rent for $5 a month now bring $7, and cottage rent has risen in the same proportion. Within the last year or two considerable property has changed hands. Cyril Johnson has bought of George Cumming the old Bolton house, Ephraim Squiers has purchased the two ten ement building just north of the Howe house. Amasa Converse has bought of E. O. Pinney the Harrison Cook place, Martin Lumbard the Gaarer Cady homestead, and Lewis and Gil bert Chaffee have bought and live in the Wid- ow Brown house. Dana Cady has purchased the F. N. Andrews house, built two cottages of six and seven rooms just south south of that place. and is now finishing third one. These new houses are very attractive on the exterior, and are well painted, grained and fitted up inside. Eugene O'neil has built himself house opposite Loring Bugbee's place, James Holbrook has erected one by the watering trough on the southwest Springs road and Mrs. Hiram Cady has put up one a little below the hotel, on the east road to the Springs.
 And so things have been turned around and mixed up at the Hollow, until that place hard ly seems or looks like the old one. But it is all for the best of the village, and the residents of that district ought to feel glad that matters are as they are, for now the place has better prospect than it has had for years, perhaps better than it ever had