The Press., 1885-08-06
Issued Every Thursday Evening.
LOCAL TOPICS cs-pENN,D AND sCIssoRED

HOLLAND COUNTY MEN IN HARTFORD.
 In looking over our city of Hartford I find Holland County furnishes goodly number of its business men.
 Ernest Cady, secretary and treasurer of the Pratt x Cady Co.,, who are the success OTIS to the Steam Boiler Appliance Co.,, is a native of Stafford, well known in your town. He married daughter of Hon. D. H. Hyde. The Pratt X Cady Co., occu- pied rooms on Union Place. The business soon began to expand, and the firm con- menced to build brick block on Sig ourney-st., corner of Capitolave. The building is 14O feet long, of brick, and well adapted to the business. They man. ufacture number of articles for steam and water appliances, most of them patented, and of great utility to manufacturers. Hence the steady progress and growth of the business. The company have erected brick foundry in the rear forty-fve by fifty. This Is used for the brass castings, as large amount of the specialties are straightway stops and check valves, "iron and brass, ," return steam traps, boiler feeders, feed water heaters, &c., &c When in full running force they employ about one hundred and fifty men. MT. R. N. Pratt, the president, is a gentleman who is practical, and also of an inventive genius. The business is an important one, in aid of our mechanical industries. MT. Cady has erected fine home on Farmington-ave. On his first advent to Hartford he formed co-partnership with l.. G. Cummings of your town, and opened 8 grocery house on Albany-ave. This business has passed in- to the hands of Cady X Lombard, both former residents of your town.
 In my rambles over the city my memo randum of present residents in business, who formerly resided in Holland County, IS nearly fifty. As general thing the working, successful element ill the profess sional, mercantile or other branches of most or all of our cities are the ones who come to us from the country. The men who attain to eminence, native born, you can count on @ very small string. The reason is easy of solution Hartford be- ing largely 8 monied center, looking to its dividends from stocks and bonds, the schools (and none are better). Many, af- ter course at some of our colleges, are then finished, having dividends from the old estates, which render any exertion on their part not necessary.
 Hence we must continue to rely on fresh blood from the country in order to de- velop man to something higher and loftier than mere society man, whose highest ambition is to dress elegantly, waltz finely, and make his mark as a society man,
 Another successful Stafford man is A. T. Cushman, who formerly resided in West Stafford, and came to Hartford about 1S6O MT. c. first worked at carriage making, or any work that kept him busy for the time. He then got situation at Colts factory. This place left him several hours or all his evenings unemployed. He went to work and made him foot lathe, and one so complete in all its details that he could finish in complete order one of his chatcks. which now find @ market in Australia. New Zealand, Japan, &c. While at work in this modest way in his house he found purchasers for his work as fast as he could turn them out. His work at home was earning him much more than his regular ways. He now gave up his situation in shop, and his foot lathe, commencing ill 6 small way to make the now famous C,tsh- a7aa1a chuck. When the war commenced business boomed, and MT. c. found his quarters too contracted. He purchased a lot on Sigourney-st., and erected brick factory, employing some 50 men. This business comes from genius, persistence, and energy, under we'll balanced mind.
 MT. Cushman makes over one hundred varieties and sizes of chucks, and ships to all the markets of the world In order to fill. all orders at once he finds it best to keep on hand at all times from $40, ,OOO to $50, ,O00 worth of goods, so that orders can be forwarded at once. MT. Cushman's s residence is on Sigourney-st. Many fine places are on this street.
 The factories are south of the railroad tracks. The street runs north and south, or nearly so, and is crossed by Farming ton-ave. and Asylum-ave. Stafford resi- dents can take 8 Farmington-ave. car west west as far as Sigollrney-st., then short walk south brings you right among our thriving manufacturing interests.