. The street railway review . en anyone willing to state that the company ever builta poor car of either kind. Thomas Whitridge Wason. to whomthe present Wason Manufacturing Co. owes its creation and muchof its prominence, was a carpenter, and, at the age of thirty wasa foreman in the repair shops of the Cabotville cotton mills. In1845, Thomas Wason and his brother, Charles, foreseeing the fu-ture development of steam railroads, conceived the idea of the car building business. They located in Springfield,Mass., and started business in a shop so small that only half of acar could be
. The street railway review . en anyone willing to state that the company ever builta poor car of either kind. Thomas Whitridge Wason. to whomthe present Wason Manufacturing Co. owes its creation and muchof its prominence, was a carpenter, and, at the age of thirty wasa foreman in the repair shops of the Cabotville cotton mills. In1845, Thomas Wason and his brother, Charles, foreseeing the fu-ture development of steam railroads, conceived the idea of the car building business. They located in Springfield,Mass., and started business in a shop so small that only half of acar could be kept under cover. Their first years output consistedof six box cars and several platform cars for the ConnecticutRiver Railroad, the entire years output amounting in value toabout one-third the average cost of a single car such as the com-pany now builds. The establishment soon gained a wide repu-tation for the excellence of its work and grew rapidly from yearto year. In 1S81, the capital was increased to $.10(1,000 and a new. IJIRECTORS OP THE WASON MANtlPACTURINQ CO. :.o. c. pink. C. A. FlMk. I. I Hyilc, Henry I>nr«i>n. H S. HyiloPriiildvnt. Dt-Tpaneil. VU-o-Irc8. Trt-iif-urcr. l>oard wa3 chosen, consisting of George C. Flsk. H. S. Hyde, G. Davis, I cwis J. Powers, Charles A. Flsk. In 188n, the deathof Mr. Uavij necessitated a new board of directors. Mr. Powerswithdrew and the two men brought in were Henry Pearson C. Hyde. This board continued until July 30, 1I»(I4, when oc-curred the death of Charles A. Flsk. In 1893, the company began building cars for electric railwayservice, anil this is now an important branch of the year the output of the shops Included 51 steam railroad cars,453 cars for the Manhattan Elevated, 15 cars for the RapidTransit Co, of New York, G4 closed and 4J open electric railwaycarif, 4 freight cars and 50 snow-plows. «-•-• NERNST LAMP COS. EXHIBIT. The main exhibit of the Nernst Lamp Co. Is localeil In a corner
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