. Factory and industrial management . onnecticut, as a whole, is a most beautiful piece of ground, andthe stretch east of Hartford through South Manchester, where theCheney silk-mills are located, is perhaps the most beautiful spot inConnecticut; and this beauty of the earths surface at that place is,I believe, more potent than any other one agent in maintaining theharmonious relations existing between the Cheney management andits 2,500 workmen and workwomen, and in making the numerousmembers of the Cheney family content to remain now as closely resi-dent owners as they were when in 1838 the f
. Factory and industrial management . onnecticut, as a whole, is a most beautiful piece of ground, andthe stretch east of Hartford through South Manchester, where theCheney silk-mills are located, is perhaps the most beautiful spot inConnecticut; and this beauty of the earths surface at that place is,I believe, more potent than any other one agent in maintaining theharmonious relations existing between the Cheney management andits 2,500 workmen and workwomen, and in making the numerousmembers of the Cheney family content to remain now as closely resi-dent owners as they were when in 1838 the four Cheney brothers,—Ward, Charles, Frank, and Rush,—impoverished by the bursting ofthe Morus Multicaulis bubble, returned to this charming scene oftheir boyhood days, and with dififlculty gathered the few dollars neededto begin the manufacture of sewing-silk, with five or six girls at $ week as their entire force of workers. The Cheney family is an old one in South Manchester, Timothy, 270 SUCCESSFUL SHOP MANAGEAIENT. 271. THE OLD CHENEY HOMESTEAD. Benjamin, and Silas Cheney, three brothers, having farms side by sidein Manchester in 1753. Timothy and Benjamin, in addition to beingfarmers, were makers of tall wooden clocks; the one example whichI saw bears the name of Timothy on its dial, and now stands in acorner of the old homestead, located a short bow-shot to the eastwardof the lower mills, which was first built after the little sewing-silk-venture had expanded to the necessity of larger quarters. John Fitch, whose invention of the steamboat preceded Fultonsconception of steam navigation, was an apprentice in TimothyCheneys clock shop; Fulton has the honor of the application ofsteam to boat propulsion, and Fitch, though earlier in the field, is,almost forgotten by the public. In the latter part of last century Timothy Cheney moved fromhis farm, near the middle of South Manchester, to a new house, whichhe built near Hop-brook, where he had just erected a saw and g
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