History of American textiles : with kindred and auxiliary industries (illustrated) . war w^ith Germany he went overseas as a of South Nyack, but still maintain their in- leader in Y. M. C. A. work and rendered terest of many years in Spring Valley such splendid service that it was made the affairs. 225 HISTORY OF AMERICAN TEXTILES. THE DARTMOUTH MANUFACTURING CORP. AND ITS PRESIDENT, WALTER HAMER LANGSHAW There is a particular sense of gratificationafforded in telling the story of a manufac-turer who has wielded an influence like thatof Walter Hamer Langshaw, one of the mostenergetic and far-s
History of American textiles : with kindred and auxiliary industries (illustrated) . war w^ith Germany he went overseas as a of South Nyack, but still maintain their in- leader in Y. M. C. A. work and rendered terest of many years in Spring Valley such splendid service that it was made the affairs. 225 HISTORY OF AMERICAN TEXTILES. THE DARTMOUTH MANUFACTURING CORP. AND ITS PRESIDENT, WALTER HAMER LANGSHAW There is a particular sense of gratificationafforded in telling the story of a manufac-turer who has wielded an influence like thatof Walter Hamer Langshaw, one of the mostenergetic and far-sighted executives inAmerican textiles. His rise has been ademonstration of inherent power over cir-cumstances. He knows the business of cot-ton goods manufacturing as only one canknow it who has spent his life from earlyyouth in unremitting attention to its every. WALTER H. LANGSHAW detail. Add to this intimate conversance akeen, constructive mind and you may de-duce the formula for his succoes. Langshaw is a Lancasboro name, as rec-ords show as far back as the sixteenth cen-tury. The Eagley Mills, near Bolton, werefounded in 1 790 by a member of the Hamer Langshaw^ v/as born in thetown of Eagley in 1859. From the Eagley Mills of England tothe mills of the Dartmouth ManufacturingCorporation in New England is almost aslong a step forward in textiling as that fromthe clipper ship to the trans-Atlantic dirigi-ble in ocean transportation. Aside from 226 the huge resources employed, the plant atNew Bedford, Massachusetts, is character-ized by modern, progressive managementthat has been the subject of admiring com-ment and discussion. Textile men recog-nize the hand of Langshaw in the corpora-tions rapid accumulation of productivestrength—some call it phenomenal growth,though it is no more of a phenomenon thanany superlative achieveme
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