The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . \li!Sl liyg; JMi Um-t•MS; .(jg (Jg tJM it^- ygjiya yg ygtT Qsl jtM. yg; Mg rMBi lys ugi u^ , (Ugf |WjJMl_tS, e Mfii (yg ufc. tasi ^ imi [MB. yg ygifejQaliMgtJg ub/ ^ yis t^s,< c feffll i; I»/ US eg tJ^jt - ,*.«_• A. 514 The Worcester of 1898. acter to help but little in the new venture, and a beginning was made atthe rock-bed foundation of the corset business; 2^1r. Lancaster drafted andmade the first patterns, and personally cut the first samples; one girl was-hired, and with the first samples completed t
The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . \li!Sl liyg; JMi Um-t•MS; .(jg (Jg tJM it^- ygjiya yg ygtT Qsl jtM. yg; Mg rMBi lys ugi u^ , (Ugf |WjJMl_tS, e Mfii (yg ufc. tasi ^ imi [MB. yg ygifejQaliMgtJg ub/ ^ yis t^s,< c feffll i; I»/ US eg tJ^jt - ,*.«_• A. 514 The Worcester of 1898. acter to help but little in the new venture, and a beginning was made atthe rock-bed foundation of the corset business; 2^1r. Lancaster drafted andmade the first patterns, and personally cut the first samples; one girl was-hired, and with the first samples completed they were taken to market bythe proprietor and the first order secured. Additional hands were put towork in a few weeks, with Mr. Lancaster doing the cutting and superintend-ing and teaching the work at each process, and attending to all correspond-ence and keeping the books at night. It was from a. m. to ii p. m. inthose days, to use Mr. Lancasters own words, and we had all the trialsand set-backs of all new concerns struggling for life, and in addition we ha
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