The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1891-07-22
BRUNSWICKS new COTTON MILL.
The Cabot Company Pushing Work
on Their Addjt on.
sixty-Five Thousand SpindIes To Be
Running Next Year.
The BoWdoin Paper Company Com
peting In English Markets.
Especial In the Press I

toPOSidl W Inc fTeSS.
BRUNSWICK, July 2l.-Brunswick is quiet
THESE summer days In those parts of the
town lying around the colleges, but in the
business parts 1t is more than usually active.
Down at the river end of Main street, on
the old lot where stood old Fort George,
there is great deal of activity. Old Fort
George was the hub Of ancient Brunswick.
From its historic Flagstaff the old surveyors
started their lines when they fixed the metes
ana bounds OF the lands owned by the old
settlers. And as time went on, and the old
flagstaff disappeared, an iron bolt was driv-
en- into the ledge to continue the marking of
the pivot around which the world of Bruins
wick real estate revolved. When, about a
year ago the Cabot Company, which has
been making cotton cloth In Brunswick for a
generation. asked the town for the old fort
lot for an extension to their mill, there were
some OF the old citizens who hated to see the
old landmark covered. But the majority
wanted TO see the new mill 60 up, so the fort
lot was given over with the reservation that
the Cabot Company should preserve for the
use OF future surveyors a visible monument
OF the real estate starting point of Bruins
wick.
The new mill is now going up. Today the
walls are. up beyond the second story,
and people are beginning to see how
the new addition OF the town is
going to look The addition is, to be 196
feet long, 11S3 feet wide and four sto-
ries high. 1t IS to be of brick, built In the
usual sty leIof NewEngland mill architecture
The foundations were laid In April and the
mill will be rooted about October 1st. Then
the machinery, will go In. The agent ex-
Years. - -''"
This addition means great deal for
Brunswick. The Cabot mill is one Of the
OLDEST cotton factories in the state. The
Oldest portion of the mill bears the date 1884.
put 1t was not run by the Cabot company in
those days. This company was formed about
ten years later, and has been making cotton
cloth In Brunswick ever since. With the ad-
aitlon going mp this year the company will
Will employ over 900 hands. This is an in
dqstry OF considerable magnitude for a
Maine town.
The visitor to the Office of the Cabot mills
VIII miss one familiar face. Agent g. Green
mas retired after term of service that is re-
markable In the history of the textile indus-
try OF Maine. In 1866 Mr.. Green took charge
OF tne Cabot mills, and for thirty-five years
continuously he managed the trust, how well
Is It attested by the present flourishing con-
altlon Oh the company. Last year he retired
from the active management OF the mill, al
though he is still quite actively engaged in
business In Brunswick: His successor is
learned the business in the mills of Rhode
Island, and four years previously TO coming
mere was agent OF the Merchants Manufac-
turing Company, operating a large cotton
mill in Montreal. Mr.. Eaton was born in
Readfield, and is about thirty-fiye wears old.
Miles of Paper.
Across the river from the Cabot mill. the
Bowdoin Paper Company's mill is working
full time making newspaper for all parts of
the world. This company has been running
Its works on profit sharing basis for year,
ma has brought the art OF paper making to
me finest point of perfection. With the men
Interested in the profits there is every in
ducement for them to unite their efforts In
bringing the production of the mill to the
highest point. For the last six months this
company has given each of its employees sew
en- and quarter per cent on his earnings,
s isss. over piSn1oa9 sever sro caat
plae bbaaasePs bas ass1toS q the Company thipt
quite enough greater to make up for the di |
vldends paid to the men. The production of |
this mill Is certainly wonderful. There is |
Ians Tne Dig b paper machine; perhaps fifty feet
for the paper in the form of liquid of about |
the consistency of soup. and turns it out at
the other end as continuous sheet of fin
ished paper seventy-two inches wide, and at
the rate OF 100 feet minute. The machine
runs so easily that you do not realize the
speed of this rate. But it is at the rate of
MY VI SlAby mll6S Qay. I0lS Sno6t OF
paper is about as wide as a sidewalk. and the |
machine will produce 1t rate that would |
In twenty.iour hours cover nearly fifty miles
Of sidewalk.
The Bowdoin Paper Company do a large |
business supplying paper to newspapers In |
Australia. Today they were shipping large
burlap covered rolls of paper to a newspaper |
In Sidney, Australia. Lately the company |
has submitted samples and bids to one of the |
largest papers in the city of Bristol, Eng,
and has captured the contract in the face and |
eyes OF the great English and German paper |
makers.
Notes.
They say there will be large demand for
rents in the village next year when the Ca
bot Company's addition gets into operation.
Hitherto the Cabot Company have erected
tenements of their own, but it is thought
that they will not pursue this policy next
year,
At the colleges there is considerable work
going on 10 the way Of repairing and clean
ing fer next fall.
Lemont Hall, the only brick hall In the
place, on the corner of Maine and Pleasant
streets, directly over Byron Stevens's book
store, has been leased by the Knights of
Pythias for 20 years. This lease carries with
It the privilege of buying the entire block at
the end of the time. The fittings are to be
very fine and 1t will be one of the best lodge
rooms in the state.
The Electric Light Company are renoyat-
Ing their plant all over town and putting in
new lights. A great many private houses
are being lighted by the campany.