Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-01-17
ENTHUSIASTIC CHAMBER MEET
INDICATES EARLY SOLUTION OF
MANY PROBLEMS IN WATERv|LLE

year. The coming of the Lockwood
mills in 1874 mark the dividing line
between the sleepy old college town
and the busy industrial city. with it's
college awake also. and leading in the
rapid progress Of the new century.
The water power OF the Kennebec
| made the great mills possible and
now by the new dam and power
house and the transformation of the
! power into electricity to be used
again as power, is employing the
, river to utmost advantage. The
| Lockwood has eight employees who
have been with it over 40 years.
| Twenty five over 35 years, SO over
so years and so on. It is notable that
| in the business depression that fol-
| lowed the war the Lockwood mills
ran on full time with no curtail-
ment and no shutdown. The unem-
| ployed who have come to this mill
and other Waterville industries have
! been from outside the city. Our own
| people have been provided for. The
| Lockwood Company has 116 tene-
| ments which it rents to it's employees
at very low rates. Some of the OPP
| years.
During the recent scarcity of wood
more than a thousand cords were
secured by the company and sold to
the employees at cost.
The present wages are about dou-
| h1o u,hot ratI haf
| The Lockwood Company has o217
| looms, 1925 broad. and 992 narrow.
There are $4,000 spindles. Seven mil
| lion pounds of cotton per year are
used in the manufacture of standard
| clothes, Lockwood" and Cast
I Iron
| There ar $50 persons on the pay
roll and $4,000 are disbursed weekly
| in wages.
c. F. Hathaway Company
| This is one of the oldest of the
! reliable industries of the city found
ed by c. +. Hathaway. 1t was great
. ly increased in the long ownership
and management of the Leightons
father and son. Its manager. Frank
| W .oiliitil JSSIl Will Tic COIllpd llN
40 years. White and fancy shirts
are manufactured that are sold all
over New England and at many
western points. The output is 1OC
dozen shirts per day. One hundred
and sixty persons are employed and
the payrolls arc over $500 per week
The equipment and the machines are
of the best and latest order.
! The HoIinssworth E. Whitney Paper
Company
! This great firm is known through
, out the paper making world as one
of the largest and most prosperous
corporations in the trade. The vas,
area of timber lands owned by the
company give assurance that tho
supply of wood will not fail and
make it probable also that on the
kenncbec river highway, that brings
4; the logs to the mill. there will be
> neither strikes nor hold ups. The
null never shuts down like Tenny-
sons brook, lit goes on forever al
| least so the Chamber selfishIy and
| unselhshly hopes. The Hollings-
worth Il Whitney did not stop to en-
ter the discussion about depression
! following the war it kept right on
! making paper--and selling it too
! Two hundred and forty tons of papcr
arc the daily output New buildings
ana engagements of the plant mark
every year until it has come to re-
/ Semble medieval castle with its
city gathered at its foot, an idea the
more appropriate when at evening
the miles of electric lights shine
| through the windows. The relation
between the men and the managers
have always been that of co-opcra-
| ton. strikes are unknown. What is
called "Wclfare Work" in some quar-
tcrs is here only cooperation. The
! club house with it's many activities
is an evidence in point. The COM
| pany helps finance the building of
homes by its employees and sells ifs
stock to those who by length of SER
vice IN official position have proved
their fitness. The amount of the
weekly payroll is nearly $4,000 or
something over two millions of dol
! lars per year. The number Of en-
ployees varies from 1850 to 1900.
Maine Central Railroad Shops
! There is a passage in Holy Writ
! "a city that is set on an hill cannot
be hid" The shops of the Maine
Central railroad are on the plain by
! the river bank and are so complete
! ly hidden that the majority of Wa
tervillc-Winslow people have never
visited them and have little idea of
! their character and extent.
! The are equipped to do and ac-
! tually do nearly all the repair work
on the Maine Central. Railroad sys-
! tenn. They have the largest machine
shop on the system and one OF the
, best equipped in the State of Maine.
; They have been more fortunate than
most shops in the way of steady
work. They employ 62J men in the
shops. The payroll amounts TO ST.
O0O weekly. In the yard crews SO
! more men are employed at weekly
payroll of $500. The maintenance
OF way" takes 81 men more at an
expense of S7S7 per week. In all de-
partments the Waterville payrolls Of
the Maine Central Railroad Company
amounts to about $4,000 weekly.
The shops were built in 1886 and
their capacity has been increased
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