The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . uth Worcester station having expired, the business of the latterwas transferred to the Grafton street factory, and is run by the AmericanCard Clothing Company in connection with the purchased of theT. K. Earle Manufacturing Company. The Sargent factory was one of thelargest in the State, and was equipped entirely with modern machinery,and now being connected with the Grafton street factory under onemanagement, it becomes one of the best arranged establishments in thecountry. The largest of the American Card Cloth
The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . uth Worcester station having expired, the business of the latterwas transferred to the Grafton street factory, and is run by the AmericanCard Clothing Company in connection with the purchased of theT. K. Earle Manufacturing Company. The Sargent factory was one of thelargest in the State, and was equipped entirely with modern machinery,and now being connected with the Grafton street factory under onemanagement, it becomes one of the best arranged establishments in thecountry. The largest of the American Card Clothing factories is located in Worces-ter, and naturally is the one in which Worcester people, as a whole, are mostinterested. The building was erected by T. K. Earle & Company in 1857,and enlargements to the original building have several times been members of this firm, Messrs. T. K. and Edward Earle, were descendedfrom Pliny Earle of Leicester, who in 1790 was the first in America toengage in the manufacture of machine card-clothing. In his time !Mr. IMOTHY K. EARLE. The Worcester of li 47 E K. Earle was the acknowledged head of the card-clothing industry in thiscountry; his factory was one of the best eciuipped, and in it many importantimprovements originated. The equipment of all of the American card-clothing factories has beenthoroughly modernized, improvements are constantly being introduced, andthe companys directors and the managers of its several factories are menof large experience. Not only card-clothing of a superior quality is pro-duced, but the machines used are also manufactured in the companysmachine-shops, and these machines are covered by patents in this countryand foreign countries. The organization of this great corporation has been of benefit to textilemanufacturers. It has resulted in uniformity and reduction in prices,betterment in quality of production, and has tended toward a feeling ofsecurity and reliability in textile business generally. A
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