. Factory and industrial management . r the young work-men their work by day and the full social possibilities found in aconstant succession of lodge meetings and social events fill theirminds. The older men see their wives in comfortable homes and theirchildren in one of the best schools in the world ; the unmarried, ofwhom there are considerable numbers of either sex, have the life theychoose to have ; what more need be said ? South Manchester is not so strait-laced as Whitinsville, and it ispossible that the management at South Manchester is something lessof a special providence to each sep
. Factory and industrial management . r the young work-men their work by day and the full social possibilities found in aconstant succession of lodge meetings and social events fill theirminds. The older men see their wives in comfortable homes and theirchildren in one of the best schools in the world ; the unmarried, ofwhom there are considerable numbers of either sex, have the life theychoose to have ; what more need be said ? South Manchester is not so strait-laced as Whitinsville, and it ispossible that the management at South Manchester is something lessof a special providence to each separate individual than at Whitins-ville ; in both places the women walk with elastic steps and wear redin their cheeks ; easy work, pure water, fresh air, and comfortablehomes are the common lot : what could these workers expect to gainby change ? From the beginning the Cheney mills have had a finely-equippedmachine shop and skilful and ingenious workmen. Christopher , inventor of the Spencer automatic screw machine, of which. A GROUP or - II 284 SUCCESSFUL SHOP MANAGEMENT. a thousand are in use by the Hartford Machine Screw Company alone,was one of the Cheney shop-foremen. He is also the inventor of theSpencer rifle, over 100,000 of which were in the field in the last yearof the war of the rebellion. The Spencer rifle was fostered and devel-oped by the Cheney management, which at one time had half a mil-lion dollars written on the wrong side of the rifle account ; but thelast year of the rebellion the Spencer rifle factory in Boston, under themanagement of one of the Cheney Brothers, ran on an open orderfor unlimited production, and made money to about balance thele-c Ti!. Grant reel, invented by Mr. J. M. Grant, who was
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