The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . ton per 100miles to move freight. To-day a hundred pounds of freight can becarried from Worcester to Chicago for no more than it costs to send atrunk across the street. The third reason which I have given for the rapid growth of Worces-ter as a manufacturing citv, is the facilities which have been afforded The Worcester of 1898. 443 to mechanics to begin business in a small way without incurring theexpense incident upon the erection and equipment of a shop, and thereare few manufacturing enterprises in Worcester that have n
The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . ton per 100miles to move freight. To-day a hundred pounds of freight can becarried from Worcester to Chicago for no more than it costs to send atrunk across the street. The third reason which I have given for the rapid growth of Worces-ter as a manufacturing citv, is the facilities which have been afforded The Worcester of 1898. 443 to mechanics to begin business in a small way without incurring theexpense incident upon the erection and equipment of a shop, and thereare few manufacturing enterprises in Worcester that have not at onetime or another occupied room in buildings erected for rent with powerto a number of tenants. The first of these buildings, the old CourtMills, erected some time prior to 1832 and located at Lincoln square,was occupied at one time or another by the Messrs. Goes, manufacturersof wrenches; Ruggles, Nourse & Mason, makers of agricultural imple-ments; Thomas E. Daniels, maker of planing machines; Samuel Flagg,pioneer maker of machinists tools in RESIDENCE OF GEORGE H. BURTIS, 4 GERMAIN STREET. The ]\Ierrifield buildings, most widely known of all, were built in1835, and rebuilt after the fire of 1854. In 1859 they were occupied byover fifty firms employing from two to eighty hands each. A buildingfor the same purpose was erected by Doctor Heywood on Central streetabout 1846. The stone shop at the Junction lately occupied by theKnowles Loom Works was erected in 1851, and first and last has beenoccupied by a large number of tenants. An enumeration of the causes which have contributed to the growthand prosperity of Worcester would not be complete without somereference to the character of the people who have been prominent inher affairs. Worcester is essentially a manufacturing city, and it is toher successful mechanics that her prosperity has been most largely due. 444 The Worcester of 1898. The manufacturing interests of Worcester, almost without exception,began i
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