New Bedford, Massachusetts; its history, industries, institutions and attractions . officers : President — William J. Rotch. Treasurer—William D. Howland. Clerk — Charles W. Plummer. Directors — William J. Rotch, Horatio Hathaway, Thomas , Charles W. Clifford, Morgan Rotch, William J. Rotch, andCharles W. Plummer. The corporation is named for William D. Howland, who so suc-cessfully managed the New Bedford Manufacturing Company, and itstitle is the Howland Manufacturing Company. The mill is two hundred seventeen by one hundred leet in areaand four stories in height, with a two-story pic
New Bedford, Massachusetts; its history, industries, institutions and attractions . officers : President — William J. Rotch. Treasurer—William D. Howland. Clerk — Charles W. Plummer. Directors — William J. Rotch, Horatio Hathaway, Thomas , Charles W. Clifford, Morgan Rotch, William J. Rotch, andCharles W. Plummer. The corporation is named for William D. Howland, who so suc-cessfully managed the New Bedford Manufacturing Company, and itstitle is the Howland Manufacturing Company. The mill is two hundred seventeen by one hundred leet in areaand four stories in height, with a two-story picker house, sixty-twoby one hundred feet, and an engine and boiler house ninet3-nine byforty feet. Work was commenced May i, 1888, and the main buildingwas completed August i, a period of seven weeks only having beenrequired for the brickwork. The mill started with twelve thousandnine hundred fifty-two mule spindles, twelve thousand two hundredeighty-eight frame spindles, and six thousand one hundred forty-fourtwister spindles. About one hundred fifty hands are 166 NEW BEDFORD. The company is building forty cottages for its operatives, and thedwellings are models. They are designed for single families and areof attractive and varied architecture. They are intended to providecomfortable, pretty, substantial, and convenient homes, adapted to themanner of life of the best class of cotton mill operatives. The City Manufacturing Company, which commenced in Decem-ber, 1888, the manufacture of fine medium cotton yarns in chains,skeins, and warps, and on spools and beams, was incorporated iVpril23, 1888, with a capital stock of $250,000 and the following officers : President — Otis N. Pierce. Clerk and treasurer — Benjamin Wilcox. Directors — Otis N. Pierce, Thomas B. Wilcox, Cyrenius , Thomas H. Knowles, Edward Kilburn, J. P. Knowles, Jr.,and Rufus A. Soule, of New Bedford, S. A. Jenks, Qf Pawtucket,William, H. Parker, of Lowell, and Charles Tucker, of
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