Inland Massachusetts illustrated A concise résumé of the natural features and past history of the counties of Hampden, Hampshire, Franklin, and Berkshire, their towns, villages, and cities, together with a condensed summary of their industrial advantages and development, and a comprehensive series of sketches descriptive of representative business houses To which is prefixed a short chapter on the Commonwealth at large . ids, a i^rincipal center of the elastic fabric industry, several of the largest fac-tories ill the country being established here. The most of t
Inland Massachusetts illustrated A concise résumé of the natural features and past history of the counties of Hampden, Hampshire, Franklin, and Berkshire, their towns, villages, and cities, together with a condensed summary of their industrial advantages and development, and a comprehensive series of sketches descriptive of representative business houses To which is prefixed a short chapter on the Commonwealth at large . ids, a i^rincipal center of the elastic fabric industry, several of the largest fac-tories ill the country being established here. The most of these, without doubt, is that of the Glendale Elastic FabricsCompany, which dates from 1867, whenit was organized and incorporated with$150,000 capital (since increased to5^44,000), to succeed the (llcndale\ulcani/cd Rubber Comijanv, foundedin 1S63. This is tlie first concern thatever undertook the manufacture ofrubber goring for Congress slices intlie United States, and the success ithas achieved in this specialtv is shownin tlie fact tiiat jircviouslv allthe elastics used for this ])urposewere imported, at tiiis time not onlyare they all of American make, andfar superior to any ever brought fromEurope, but considerable are made annuallv, principally to Canada and other marketson the Western hemis])here. The comjianys factory buildings are four in number—Xo. i, four stories, 46 .\ 97 feet; ipo ) MASSACHUSETTS IRATEU. 2, five stories, 40 x 102 feet ; \o. 3, foui stories, 45 x iio feet; rubber , two stories,30 X So feet—all brick, heated by steam, lighted by gas, and perfectly appointed in all tlepart-ments, the eqiiii)ment consisting in part of 250 looms, i,Soo braiders, twenty spooling andtwenty warping frames. A 75-horse-po\vcr steam engine and water-power to the same extentdrive the machinerv, and the company own twentv tenements lor the use of their operatives,who ninnber from 250 to 500, deiiendcnt upon the state of the m
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