The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-11-10
OUR OWN INDUSTRIES.
What Rhode Island Mills and facto-
ries Have Been and Are Doing.
FROM ALL ABOUT THE STATE.
The Election of Cleveland VIII Not stop
the Growth OF Our Mills, but Check
Their Expansion They are Doing
Very Wei at Present, However.


Hill OF Edwin c. Sayles, and will start
weeks. The mill has forty-six looms.
Finishing machinery will be set up at
once, but should the cloth roll from the
looms before this machinery is ready, the
finishing will be done at Nasonville.
James Scott, ovcrseer OF weaving in
Slatersvlile No. | mill. has resigned to
accept better place at Lowell. Mass.
1t is reported that Horace A. Kimball
will rebuild the old mill in scoag =,
DESTROYED by fire many years ago. The
work will commence N the spring, and
the mill will be in operation by early
fall.
The Lorraine mills, Pawtucket, are to
be equipped with revolving fiat cards,
electric stop-motion, drawing frames,
rowing and jack frames.
TIE firm of Baker * Drew, Woon-
socket, has dissolved.
The Woonsocket Reed Company has
ordered machinery for the manufacture
of shuttles.
The new electric light plant Of the
Clark thread mill, Westerly, has begun
operations.
Il. j. Gardiner. Jr., has withdrawn
from the manufacturing jewelry firm of
j. II. Stone & Co.
ID. n. Graffman has removed his jew
elry business from Friendship street TO
quarters in the rear of ~ Page street.
A. +. Covell and w. ii. Lamb, have
bought out the plant OF the late W. G.
Evans, Pawtucket. Mr. Covell has rep
resented the estate in the market for the
last year, and has done excellent work
under somewhat adverse circumstances.
He will continue 10 represent the new
firm.
Steam at the Wampanoag mills, Fall
River. is to be superseded by the aerophor
air moistening apparatus. manufactured
in this city.
Company OF this city, has an improved
loom among the exhibits at the Mechan-
ics' Fair, Boston.
The William Clark Thread Company.
Westerly, recently purchased a Westing-
house standard engine.
Lincoln q Co., of Hartford are manu-
featuring machine for more thoroughly
oxydizng textile fabrics, patented lasG
week by h. A Rusden OF this city. The
objection to the oxydizing apparatus used
at present Is that the oxygen admit ed
cannot be regulated in quantity and that
the acids and gases are not properly with
drawn. These difficulties are overcome
by the new machine.
Charles X Phillips recently patented a
been assigned TO the Brown & Sharpe
Manufacturing Company. IL is designed
TO secure the necessary firm and steady
support for the cutter-arbor in all direc-
tions.
ID. +. Longstreet read paper recently
at meeting of the American Street Rail
way Association. recalling the trial of an
engine on street cars in this city.
The work on the block-sign system
over the Shore Line road is progressing
so favorably that it is expected to have
everything in working order by Dec. 1st.
Then there will be a complete line of sig
nails between New York and Boston.
A mining craze has struck West Clio
cester. Recently experts have been look
ing into the old Wallum mine, on Page
Hill, the highest land i'm RHODE ISLAND. |
which was first opened a century and a |
half ago, and valuable ores, including |
gold, silver and copper, have been found. |
assaying from SIG TO $50 per ton.
The Potter 81 Atherton Machine Com
pany of Pawtucket will be furnish the |
revolving hat cards, cotton openers aud |
lappers for the Armory Manufacturing
Company of Manchester, and will fur
nish the cotton openers and lappers for
the Hamilton Woolen Company of Ames-
bury, Mass.
The Durham, n. c., Bobbn and Trust
Companl's suit % declare the American
Bobbin Company of Woonsocket insol-
vent has been dismissed in an insolvency
court. This suit was brought last Sep
tember Tor the purpose of invaldating
the second mortgage bonds issued by the
American Company, which second mort
gage bonds constitute the principal Sc
curities or the heavy loans by certain
Boston banks The effect OF the decision
Is TO reinstate these second mortgages
and improve the collateral held by par
ticular banks.
William 5 Spofford e. Son. manufac-
turing jewelers., now located at new No
~ rage street, are 10 move into the first
hoor of the new building at 144 Chestnut
street.
8 George NJ. Baker has removed his re-
hnery from the corner Of Mathewson and
-Sabin streets TO -the-eeFHeF- of Page anti
Clifford streets.
The doublers in the Greene & Daniels
thread mill at Pawtucket have been
equipped with improved stop motion de
vices.
The annual meeting of the National
Association of Wooden and Worsted
Overseers will be held at Elk Hall. ID
Hayward place, Boston, Wednesday, Nov.
~, at 10 o'clock A. NJ. The election of
officers for the ensuing year will take
place aud other business will be trans
acted.
Fred Cooper has been admitted into
paEthcIsulp Win VI. IL. hcau, manufaC- |
turing leweler and the firm name here.
after will be VI. l. Read q Co. Mr..
Cooper is take charge of the road, while
Mr.. Read Is To manage the factory Mr.
cooper is now West on his initial trip
for the firm.
The Cranston Worsted Mills, Bristol,
are very busy at the present time and are
obligec To run overtime in order TO keep
up with the numerous orders
Mellor a. Prendergast, manufacturers
OF worsted goods, at Pascoag are adding
more looms 10 the machinery, which they
have Kept humming ever since they
started In business nearly two years ago.
A new spool and bobbin mandatory
Is Co be located in Woonsocket. Joseph
j. Herbert and others have leased tine
building formerly occupied by the Woon
socket Spool aud Bobbin Company and
VIII soon commence active operations
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