. The watch factories of America, past and present. A complete history of watchmaking in America, from 1809 to 1888 . tion of a watchfactory. Messrs. Louis S. Fellows & Schell became inter-ested in the idea and decided to try the experiment. Aroom was rented and Mr. Sherwood started building themachinery for the new enterprise. He had under him acorps of efficient -workmen, but after a few months some misunderstanding arose, andMr. Arthur Wadsworth suc-ceeded him. Messrs. Fellows & Schellpurchased a building inNewark, N. J., and alteredit over to serve as a fac-tory. The machinery
. The watch factories of America, past and present. A complete history of watchmaking in America, from 1809 to 1888 . tion of a watchfactory. Messrs. Louis S. Fellows & Schell became inter-ested in the idea and decided to try the experiment. Aroom was rented and Mr. Sherwood started building themachinery for the new enterprise. He had under him acorps of efficient -workmen, but after a few months some misunderstanding arose, andMr. Arthur Wadsworth suc-ceeded him. Messrs. Fellows & Schellpurchased a building inNewark, N. J., and alteredit over to serve as a fac-tory. The machinery andtools were moved into itin 1S64, and the name, TheNewark Watch CompanyTHE NEWARK WATCH. ^vas adoptcd. The parties interested were Augustus, Robert and Edward Schell,and Lewis S. Fellows. The original model was madeby Mr. Wadsworth, and was iS-size, and closely re-sembled an English watch then on the market. Thefirst watches were finished in 1867. These watches wereall key-wind; but later on a stem-wind movement wasmade, but was pronounced a failure. The movementswere called, Robert Fellows, Edward Bevin, and (45). 46 THE WATCH FACTORIES OF AMERICA Newark Watch Company. The stem-wind was named, The Arthur Wadsworth, after the uiventor. The com-pany manufactured in all about 3,000 watches, but wasgradually running behind. Accordingly, in 1869, negotia-tions were entered into with the Cornell Watch Company,then organizing at Chicago. Mr. Paul Cornell, after whom the new factory wasnamed, was a wealthy real-estate dealer of Chicago, own-ing large tracts of land in the vicinity of Grand Crossing,a fe\v miles south of Chicago. He conceived the idea thata watch factory would be a good speculation, and if locatedon his property would boom its sale. In company withJ. C. Adams he set about organizing a company, and in1870 one was formed with a capital of $200,000. Previousto the organization of the company, Mr. Adams negotiatedwith the Newark Company, and the result was that theCornel
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