Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-03-18

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personal, to an amount not to exceed 81,
600, 600" The incorporatUrs at once elected
G. A. Phillips a. treasurer, made assess
ments on their stock, and proceeded to
acquire the water rights and territory
necessary to their plans. Through
formidable difficulties, Mr.. Phillips pro-
ceeded to buy 400 acres of land adjacent to
the falls, which cost $500
The dam now in use by the Lockwood
Company was built in 1868 at cost Of
5000 Then ensued several years of
inaction. during which r. B. Dunn bought
a controlling portion OF the stock at 80
cents on a dollar pledging himself to pay
| the floating debt of $50, 900 and build q
cotton mill Many citizens assisted in
| this contamination for the benefit of
Waterville, one OF the most active and eff
Gent being Reuben Foster. The name of
Ticonic Company was adopted. Mr.. Dunn
became the sole owner paid the debts Of
the old company and built at great ex-
pense what is now Mill No. of the Lock
wood Corporation. Amos d. Lockwood
of Providence, r. l.. became interested and
the present Lockwood Company was
formed in 1874. Mil No. was completed
and began spinning cotton in February,
1876, and made sheet!ng until 1882, when
the additional buildings now standing
were erected. The capital now invested in
this chief Of Watervillcs enterprises Is II, :
500, 600.
The average product OF the Lockwood
mills per annum is in the vicinity Of Is,
900, 900 yards of cotton cloth, the weight
of,which is about 500 tons. The mill CON
tains 300 looms. 80, 600 spindles and
gives employment to 1900 people. From
so to Is skilled mechanics capable of
reconstructing any machine in use in the
mill, are employed.
In evidence of the splendid business
qualifications OF the managers of the Lock-
wood corporation, it is we'll to say that K.
B. Dunn was the first president of the
company and was succeeded by the pres
emit incumbent, J. H. McMullen of Port.
land. Amos d. Lockwood, the first treas
urer, was succeeded at his death In 1882
by the present treasurer, J. W. Danielson
OF Providence, r. I. L. /. abbott of this
city, has continued in the position of agent
from the start and his son, w. Fl. X.
Abbott. has been superintendent since
| 1885,
Another industrial plant that Watervillc
boasts Of is that of the Maine Central
Railroad car shops built in 1861 Any
one who has tray elet on the Maine Cen
trail knows for sure thing that the roll
ing stock of the company is equal to that
of any road in the country. The cars and
engines OF the Maine Central always look
as bright rs new dollars. When any part
of an engine becomes worn in the slightest
degree, the machine is sent to the shops
aud laid off until new part can he sup
piled. When car gets dusty and dull in
| its finish, it is taken to the shops and the
brush brigade set ut work. This keeps the
rolling stock in the incest condition pos
sib!e.
| The shops in this city are $50 feet long,
two stories high and filed with all the
modern machinery necessary for repairing
or building every variety Of cars. This
| department., including the painting and
upholstering OF passenger cars, employs
l25 men. In tho engine department 80
men are employed. To the mechanical
department of the Maine Central Railroad
| is due much Of the credit for making the
Maine Central what 1t is second to none
Of the great railway systems Of America.
Watervills is great brick center. From
the day of Col. Sherwin and Deacon
Dimond of 1902, down to today. bricks
have been made in Waterville. Peter Crab
tree Getchell made the bricks used in the
college buildings. He made the bricks for
the Waterville academy In 1929. George
and Stacy Wentworth bought Getchell out
and continued the business. In 1885,
Norton & Purinton opened brickyard in
the north part Of the town, and the next
year Amos Purinton bought Norton's in
terest. Since then the Purintun Brothers
have made 1, 500, 600 bricks per year The
Proctor 81 Flood yard, near the Fairfield
town line, make 600, 900 brick per year.
Watervi!le makes stoves John Goodell
began the business in 1873 He employed
Edmund ID. Noyes and James p Goddard,
who became Goodell's partners in 1879.
In 1886 the young men bought Mr.. Goodell
out and the firm Of Noyes & Goddard is
away up in the grand opera of stove max
| ing.
| This city is getting along in the literary
| line; besides that educational institution
Colby university, it has two weekly and
one daily paper, the Sawyer Publishing
House is doing its best to enlighten the
world. and then there are reading rooms
and literary societies too numerous to-
mention, and really going to-be free pub
| lie library. Watcrville regrets that the
new city building is not completed, hut the
next meeting of the State board Of trade
will be held in 1t. If there IL anything in
the line Of secret societies that Water
ville's honorcd guests can think OF that
the city does not now possess, the bare
suggestion Of the name of the order Is all
that Is necessary and it will be bloom in q
night. The city ia generously provided
with banking institutions and 1t is to be-
hoped that the visitors of WedBc day will.
make substantial deposits. The first post
Office in Watcrville was established, Oct. !
3, 1896. with Asa Retlington as postmas
ter The present postmaster is Frank H.
Thayer.
In 1911 1t cost Wstcrville $l2. 95 to care
for the poor In 1887 the town voted
THAT the poor be sold ut auction for one
year." The poor were bid off by Samuel
| H. Bachelor for $685..