Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-06-21
A RECORD OF SERVICE.
Louisville, KY, Challenges the
Whole Country.
Hinsdale, N. H., Beats Louisville, Brat
tIeboro Leads IIinsdale, and st. Johns
bury is at the Head of the List.

Hinsdale, N. H., Beats Louisville, Brat
tIeboro Leads Iinsdale, and st. Johns
bury is at the Head of the List.
The Economist, published at Louisville,
KY, stated recently that in the great pillow
works of b. F. Avery & Sons of that city
were SO employees whose total services
amounted to 2003 years. These faithful
workmen, with an average term of %
years, have served from - to Al years EACH
The Economist challenged any concern in
America to show record equal to this.
New England has sent back an answer
through the Springfield Republican, and
to the Halle IL Frost Manufacturing COM
pany of Hinsdale, n. H., belongs the honor
of record excelling that of the Louisville
concern. In the Hinsdale factory, en-
ploying about $50 hands at present and
300 when running full capacity, So en-
ployes have been found who have worked
there altogether POPS years, or an average
of trifie over % years per person. No
less than seven of the Hinsdale employees
have held their places for 40 years or more
G. S. Fay has been there As years. Mrs
w. Sponsors record is A years. T.
Mullins and w. H. Newton have AZ years
each to their credit; and John O'Brien, F.
Stebbins and H. Latham have a record of
40 years each. There are seven other EN-
ployes who have been there 50 years and
more. Let us group the So employees by
distinct periods of years:
Forty years and over, 7 employees
Above 3Oyears and less than 40, II employees
Above 20years and less than 80, % employees
Above y years and less than 20, Al employees
These figures are for years in which the
employees were actually at work. Some
of them went to the war in the early sixties
and returned to their old places. The time
in which they were absent has been de-
| Quoted. This makes the record all the
more remarkable. AS the Louisville paper
| says, it indicates faithfulness on the part
of the employees which is noteworthy, and
also manifestly treatment on the part of
employe by employer which in its kindly
and thoughtful sympathy cannot be too
generally initiated by employers.
As the years of work of the older en-
| ployes indicate, the mill at Hinsdale has
been in operation a long time. Its life runs
nearly up TO half a century. Gov. VIM.
Halle of New Hampshire, the father of
VIM. H. Halle of Springfield, Mass, ex-
lieutenant governor of that state, was one
of its founders, the firm name originally
being Ripley e Halle. Then Gov. Halle
became the senior partner with Mr.. Todd
and later with the late Rufus S. Frost. Gov.
Halle was connected with its affairs "a
years and Mr.. Frost was associated with
him and his son, VIM. H. Halle, upward
of 40 years. Now the third generation Of
Hailes is represented in the conduct of the
business in the person of Henry G.. Halle,
the son of the ex-lieutenant governor of
Massachusetts,. 1t is good record for the
Halle family in point of years and business
success. 1t is better record which is pre-
sented in the remarkable number of old
and loyal and industrious employees, testi-
flying as it does to the cordial and mutually
helpful relations which have been main
tanned between the company and its men
through all these years.