New Bedford, Massachusetts; its history, industries, institutions and attractions . Ashley & Co. comprises J. AugustusBrownell and Joshua B. Ashley, and they manufacture fine grades ofcarriages of all varieties, excepting coaches. The business wasstarted nearly seventy years ago by Joseph Brownell, the father of Brownell, in a building at the northeast corner of Fourthand Spring streets. About sixty years ago he moved his business tothe two story stone building forty by one hundred feet in area, on thesoutheast corner of the same street, and about thirty-eight years agothe present p
New Bedford, Massachusetts; its history, industries, institutions and attractions . Ashley & Co. comprises J. AugustusBrownell and Joshua B. Ashley, and they manufacture fine grades ofcarriages of all varieties, excepting coaches. The business wasstarted nearly seventy years ago by Joseph Brownell, the father of Brownell, in a building at the northeast corner of Fourthand Spring streets. About sixty years ago he moved his business tothe two story stone building forty by one hundred feet in area, on thesoutheast corner of the same street, and about thirty-eight years agothe present proprietors were admitted to the firm. In 1854 ^ reposi-tory one hundred by fifty feet in area, and four stories high, was builton Fourth street, next south of the building on the corner. Thisbuilding was occupied by H. G. O. Cole as a carriage manufactoryfor a few years, when Brownell, Ashley & Co. took possession, moving to the factory on Acushnet avenue, then Third street, inthe building vacated by George L. Brownell. The number of menemployed is INDUSTRIAL AND FINANCIAL. 273 At the carriage manufactory of Clarence Lowell twenty-fourmen are employed, and fine light carriages are made. Mr. Lowellcommenced manufacturing carriages on Middle street in 1874 ^^ in1880 moved into the factory formerly occupied by IL G. O. Cole,and previous to him by George L. Brovvnell, on Acushnet avenue,which he now occupies. This building covers an area nearlv ninetv-six by ninety-five feet and in a few months Mr. Lowell proposes totear down the present factory and erect on the site a four storv brickbuilding with basement which he will fit as a model carriage manu-factory. Between thirty and forty men will be employed in the newfactory. The carriage making business of James R. Forbes & Co. wasstarted in the spring of 1863, when Henry H. Forbes and Ilenrv bought the Elm street Methodist church at the corner of Elmstreet and Acushnet avenue, where the present firm is
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