The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-12-22
The BUSYS!!ATE MILLS.
Items About the Industries of Rhode
Islands Thriving Towns.
NOTES ABOUT MEN IN MILLS.
Little Rhody Always Makes Big show
ing When She Brings Her Big Manu-
featuring Interests to the Front, and
shows the world what She is Doing.

John l.. Shepard, foreman of the cloth
ing department at the National India
Rubber Company, Bristol, leaves there
tonight, accompanied by his son, to
spend Christmas with his friend, Harry
Shepard of the Rubber Clothing Com
pany of New York city.
The Standard Seamless Wire Company y
OF Pawtucket is turning out superior
newly substituted colored stock produced
through change in the alloy.
The Hamlet mill, Woonsocket, has put
in new wheel OF 40 horse power and 90
inches diameter.
The Boston Rubber Company denies n
statement made to the effect that after
the present year it would cease to manu-
facture rubber shoes. T.. III. Cutler, the
Boston selling agent OF the Woonsocket
Rubber Company has just returned from
a visit TO Europe in the interest of the
company, and reports "A good demand for
American manufactured rubber goods
there.
The new steam engine works TO be es-
tablished in this city will have a capital
stock Of s500,0J0. IL is understood that
Walter +. Brown, mechanical eng ineer
of the Providence Steam Engine Com
pany, will be one OF the officers OF the
new company. as will 4. n. Bushn ell,
superintendent of the same establish
ment.
George NJ. Bakers new iron frame gold
and silver refining establishment is fire
proof The refinery has frontage of 65
feet on Page and 40 on Clifford street,
and is said To be one OF the best equipped
in New England. The power plant con-
sists OF a Fowler boiler-the first made
by the company, which recently located
in Providence-and an engine built at
burning down furnaces for reducing
sweepings from jewelers. and silversmiLh's
shops. polishing and buffings.
Robert j. Allen, OF the Allen Fire De-
partment Supply Company of this city,
mas patented an improvement in fire ex-
tinguishers. 1t is made or rubb er or tin
foil. and consists OF the combination with
a valve seat, and valve OF "a thin flexible
seal of impervious material in immediate
contact with aud covering the valve
joint.
A peculiar new instrument intended
only for inside measurements is the new
micrometer caliper manufactured by j.
L. Slocumb aud Company.
The Lonsdale Company will build n
new dam on the Blackstone river at
Lonsdale.
The Warren Manufacturing company
will add 200 new looms to its weaving
department.
The Black stone Woolen Company has
increased it's boiler plant by the purchase
of two Allen boilers of seventy horse
power each.
The woonsocket Machine and Press
Company has secured the right to man
ufacturs the Warrall friction clutch
pulley and cutoff coupling in New Eng
land.
Increased work is being done in the
rubber works of the National India Rub-
ber Company at Bristol.
improvements are To be made in the
plant of the Providence Warehouse Com
pany.
The Rhode Island Locomotive Works
will have three types Of locomotives on
exhibition at the Worlds fair.
Many of the Rhode Island corporations
have abandoned the stop motions on
Crompton and Knowles cashmere looms,
regarding them as nuisance.
Edwin Reynolds has patented a boiler
furnace.
George W. Stafford saws the jacquard
machines are too complicated for use in
American mills.
The Herreshoff Manufacturing Com
pauy will, by the latter part of January,
have the Royal Phelps Carroll yacht so
far advanced az to remove her to another
part of the shop so az to be able to lay
down the moulds of the cup defender.
The National India Rubber Company
are making extensive preparations for
its tennis work. About 100 new sewing
machines aud new tables are being
p ace in the shoe building and they will
soon be put in operation. This company
has always taken the lead in this branch
and has now largely increased orders.
Peter 5. Monast, who has been en-
ployed for the past few years at the mills
OF the Warren Manufacturing Company,
OF Warren, as second hand of the spin
ming room, has severed his connection
with that corporation. Mr.. Monast has
been engaged rs overseer of spinning at
the Quidnick Mills, of Quidnick.
c. +. P.rkins OF North Uxbridge,
Mass, will succeed Samuel l.. Parker as
overseer of spinning for the Forestdale
Manufacturing Company of Forestdale,
and Alba Hopkins of Crompton, will
succeed him as boss of the cardIng.
The Gregory mill AT Wexford has re-
ceived number of Crompton Company's
fancy looms. 1t is said that
some OF the old ones have been shipped
TO a mill in West Virginia.
The A. h. Pitkin Machinery Company
Of this city are now the sole selling age nts
of II. 5. Greene * Sons improved nap
pers.
The last installment OF the new ma
chinery for the River spinning mill at
Woonsocket has arrived from Belgium.
The Centreville Manufacturing Com
pany is turning out about 5000 yards OF
plush every month.
George Singleton OF Woonsocket, has
taken the Saxon mill ut Franklin and is
to refit 10 with new machinery. III, in
tends TO make medium grade worsted
goods TO be sold through Frank Ander-
son of Catlin and Company
The Saxon worsted Company has com.
pleted its new mill in this city and is
now setting M looms. One hundred
and twenty-five looms will to put in and
by the first of January 100 will be in per
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