. Factory and industrial management . I THE 1847 SHOPS, FROM THE NORTHEAST. was soon added, and a large smithy, and in 1883 the new shop onthe south bank of the river, 386 feet by 86 feet, was built, giving atotal floor area of nearly eleven acres in 1889, which has been in-creased to about sixteen acres at this writing,—September, 1896,—while extensive additions are even now in progress. In 1870 the bus-iness was organized as a stock company, with a capital of $600,000,now owned by eight share-holders. The history of the Whitin concern, as here sketched, gives strongindications of the Whitin
. Factory and industrial management . I THE 1847 SHOPS, FROM THE NORTHEAST. was soon added, and a large smithy, and in 1883 the new shop onthe south bank of the river, 386 feet by 86 feet, was built, giving atotal floor area of nearly eleven acres in 1889, which has been in-creased to about sixteen acres at this writing,—September, 1896,—while extensive additions are even now in progress. In 1870 the bus-iness was organized as a stock company, with a capital of $600,000,now owned by eight share-holders. The history of the Whitin concern, as here sketched, gives strongindications of the Whitin characteristics of fair-dealing and consider-ation of the rights of others, which alone could make the long-con-tinued and amicable association of Col. Paul Whitin and his THE WHITIN IRON WORKS. SUCCESSFUL SHOP MANAGEMENT. 75 and their sons, and their sons sons, possible, so that now the fourthgeneration of the family is in control of the great business which hasgrown up from the small beginnings in the little iron-Avorks at thefalls of Mumford river at the place commonly called in its fierce and uncompromising disapproval of Medford rumand all allied beverages which makes it impossible to alleviate a nine-teenth-century normal thirst in Whitinsville of to-day by open pur-chase, the Whitin character is marked by a spirit of broad tolerationin all directions,—a full and generous interpretation of the rights ofothers, no matter how dependent their position, or how feeble theirpowers for the maintenance of those rights.
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