The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1909-11-18
MACHINE SHOP STARTED

/ s"fVahsht hANitfoCo iVtu NthuoOi
on Occasion of Breaking Ground
For Building Of Windsor Machine
Company.
' Windsor, Nov 15.-Business was
suspended for while today, the
schools closed and nearly a thousand
people went to the O'Brien and Nc
,arty meadow, where informal exer-
cises were held, incidental to break.
| ing ground for the new machine shop
which is to be erected by the Wind
sor Machine Company. Charles A.
Moore, of New York, president of the
over the first sod on the site of the
new building, while the team, fine
pair of greys, was driven by Maxwell
Evarts, their owner and vice-presi-
dent of the company. The Windsor
Military Band was in attendance, the
250 workmen employed by the COM
pany were out in force and it will
be long remembered as one of the
most important events industrially
in the history of Windsor
F. S. Hale, Esq, opened the cere.
monies by calling the assemblage to
order and introduced M. o. Perkins,
President of the Village of Windsor,
who welcomed the people in behalf of
the town, the workmen and all who
were interested in a bigger, better
| and more prosperous community. The
scholars then sang America" and
Vice-President Evarts was introduc-
| ed as one who had done more than
any one else to bring about the new
enterprise for Windsor Mr.. Evarts
said he was glad to be among his
Vermont friends on this occasion, as
it was his birthday, and told his hear
ers that it would be the best machine
shop in Vermont and it would be op-
Grated by Vermont men. He said
that he would do the driving and his
up, said he was driven into locating
as had been illustrated in the plow-
ing.
President Moore, upon being called
up, said he was driven in to locating
the new shop in Windsor by Mr.. Ev-
arts, and now that it was settled, he
work along.
He said the people of this town
| uaro yorv oordiol ond ,,,,,ct do tbair
share in making the enterprise a
success.
I G. o. Gridley, inventor of the auto
matte turret lathe made by the COM
pany, F. l.. Cone, superintendent of
the shop and w. H. S. Craven, man
lager of Craven Bros. Machine Works,
limited, of Manchester, England, also
spoke briefly. The latter represents
the Windsor Machine Company in
Great Britain and promised to push
the sale of their machine in that
country. The band played God Save
the King" in honor of tL.s visitor.
The new shop was designed by
Lockwood Green and Company, ar
chitects and engineers of Boston, and
the plans call for brick building 5S4
feet long and 134 wide with solid ce-
ment floor and foundations. The
walls are to be 16 inches thick, 16
, feet high and covered with a saw
tooth roof of hard pine with glass
space of over $4,000 square feet and
window space around the building Of
nearly as much more. There will be
a modern power house in one end Of
te building and it will be equipped
with all the latest machinery and
travelling cranes for handling the
: heavy machines. A spur track rail-
road will run the entire length, and
: at the south end coal bunker into
which carload of coal may be dump
ed at time, will be erected.
On the west side will be small ad-
dition S5 by 25 in which will be built
individual lockers for the accommo-
dation of 500 workmen and all to-
gether this will be one of the largest,
best equipped and the largest single
machine shops in Vermont.
The Flint Building and Construc-
tion Company, Of Palmer, Mass, has
the contract for constructing the
plant, which must be completed by
the first of June. 1910. ]. c. Sulli-
van, the manager, is here for few
days and estimates that it will take
10000 barrels of Atlas Portland ce-
ment to do the job. The work of ex-
cavating has begun under the super
; vision of William Whitman and sand
and gravel from the Connecticut riv-
. er are being hauled. Temporary
buildings for fifty Italian laborers
will be erected within few days An
office will also be built and the work
pushed as fast as possible.
| OLDEST GRAND MASTER DEAD.