. The watch factories of America, past and present. A complete history of watchmaking in America, from 1809 to 1888 . THE COLUMBUS WATCH. Il6 THE WATCH FACTORIES OF AMERICA Supt. Three hundred hands are employed, and the outputis about one hundred and fifty finished movements per day. The various departments of the factory are presided overas follovs^s: The escapement, screw and flat steel, JohnWalsh; pinion roughing and pinion cutting, W. C. Her-man; pinion finishing, Wm. Keene; balance, W. Clarke;jeweling and motion, F. Bergmann; stem wind, Wm. Sauer;dial, W. Sherwood; adjusting,
. The watch factories of America, past and present. A complete history of watchmaking in America, from 1809 to 1888 . THE COLUMBUS WATCH. Il6 THE WATCH FACTORIES OF AMERICA Supt. Three hundred hands are employed, and the outputis about one hundred and fifty finished movements per day. The various departments of the factory are presided overas follovs^s: The escapement, screw and flat steel, JohnWalsh; pinion roughing and pinion cutting, W. C. Her-man; pinion finishing, Wm. Keene; balance, W. Clarke;jeweling and motion, F. Bergmann; stem wind, Wm. Sauer;dial, W. Sherwood; adjusting, H. Ziplinski; finishing, The main offices of the Company are located at Colum-bus, Ohio, and 43 Maiden Lane, New York. The goodsmanufactured by this company bear an excellent reputationas time-keepers and sell CHAPTER XXII. IN June, 1883, the Aurora Watch Company, of Aurora,111., was incorporated, with a capital stock of $250,000 inshares of $100 each. The projectors of the company hadin view an idea which had been advanced on several occa-sions, but had never come to a successful issue, /. e., a strictlytrade watch company, or in other words, a company whoseproducts should be controlled by the retail trade, doing awaywith the middle-man orjobber. The capital stockof this company is largelyowned and controlled byretail dealers, who handlethe product. One dealeronly in each town is allowedthe privilege of sellingtheir goods, preferencebeing given to the dealerswho are stockholders. The incorporators wereE. W. Trask, A. Somarin-dyck, F. L. Pond, H. H. Evans, D. F. Van Liew,H. Miller,and Hopkins. The first officers were E. W. Trask,President; Albert H. Pike, Vice-President; Maurice Wen-dell, Treasurer and Business Manager; Geo. F. Johnson,Superintendent. The first directors were M. Huffma
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