The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . \l. • iv. If L The Worcester of 1898. 469 are made. The factory is at 1S6 Union street. C. W. Gilbert is Presidentand Treasurer; J. A. Colvin, Vice-President; and Clinton Alvord, GeneralManager. A. H. Steele manufactures battens and shuttles used on narrow-warelooms, at 54 Hermon street. COTTON AND WOOLEN MACHINERY. American Card Clothing Company. — In Worcester and the neighboringtown of Leicester the manufacture of card-clothing has been an impor-tant industry for upwards of a century, and has been particularly so inWorce
The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . \l. • iv. If L The Worcester of 1898. 469 are made. The factory is at 1S6 Union street. C. W. Gilbert is Presidentand Treasurer; J. A. Colvin, Vice-President; and Clinton Alvord, GeneralManager. A. H. Steele manufactures battens and shuttles used on narrow-warelooms, at 54 Hermon street. COTTON AND WOOLEN MACHINERY. American Card Clothing Company. — In Worcester and the neighboringtown of Leicester the manufacture of card-clothing has been an impor-tant industry for upwards of a century, and has been particularly so inWorcester during the fifty years just closed. The largest manufacturer of card-clothing in this country, the AmericanCard Clothing Company, has its general ofifices in the Knowles block in thiscity. This company was incorporated June 4, 1890, with an authorizedcapital of $1,500,000. Its first president, George L. Davis of North An-dover, died December 24, iSgi, and was succeeded by Joseph Murdock ofLeicester, and on the death of ^Ir. Murdock April 19, 1898, George
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