. COUNTING ROOM ENTRANCEHALL ended at half-past five in the afternoon,with an hours intermission at other factories in town hadmade a change, beginning at sevenoclock and closing at six, as atpresent, and P. & F. Corbin con-formed to the general practice. More buildings! more machin-ery! more goods resulting fromincreased equipment. ^ A planer. 72 HISTORY O F THE HOUSE O F P . & F . C O R B I N. DIRECTORS ROOM weighing 8,800 pounds,a belt 140 feet long andtwenty-nine inches wide,a six-inch main shaft, anda one-hundred horse-
. COUNTING ROOM ENTRANCEHALL ended at half-past five in the afternoon,with an hours intermission at other factories in town hadmade a change, beginning at sevenoclock and closing at six, as atpresent, and P. & F. Corbin con-formed to the general practice. More buildings! more machin-ery! more goods resulting fromincreased equipment. ^ A planer. 72 HISTORY O F THE HOUSE O F P . & F . C O R B I N. DIRECTORS ROOM weighing 8,800 pounds,a belt 140 feet long andtwenty-nine inches wide,a six-inch main shaft, anda one-hundred horse-power boiler, are amongthe articles in the way ofequipment thoughtworthy of record by localchroniclers. A six-storybrick structure, 140 feetlong and 45 feet wide,was built on the west sideof Orchard Street in 18 8 8,together with a 50 x 45-foot wing at the southend. Other minorchanges were made about the works to give more room and a better 1889, a display was made at the Paris Exposition, securing the highestaward — a gold medal. At the annual stockholders meeting, in February of 1891, Chas. H. Par-sons, the present second vice-president, was elected as a director. Mr. Parsonshas been identified with the company since 1873, ^^ which time he left Landers,Frary & Clark to take a position as traveling saleman for P. & F. Corbin, cov-ering New England and Canada. He was only on the road for a part of thetime, and when in the house dev
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