New Bedford, Massachusetts; its history, industries, institutions and attractions . ninety-two feet in area, four stories high, with an ell onehundred eighty-four by ninety-two feet, two stories high, a weavingshed one hundred eighty-four by ninety-two feet, one story high, anda picker house seventy-one by forty-seven feet, two stories high, allof brick. This mill has fifty-eight thousand three hundred twenty-eight spindles and one thousand four hundred twenty-eight total number of spindles in both mills is therefore one hundredsix thousand three hundred twenty-eight and the total nu
New Bedford, Massachusetts; its history, industries, institutions and attractions . ninety-two feet in area, four stories high, with an ell onehundred eighty-four by ninety-two feet, two stories high, a weavingshed one hundred eighty-four by ninety-two feet, one story high, anda picker house seventy-one by forty-seven feet, two stories high, allof brick. This mill has fifty-eight thousand three hundred twenty-eight spindles and one thousand four hundred twenty-eight total number of spindles in both mills is therefore one hundredsix thousand three hundred twenty-eight and the total number oflooms two thousand four hundred twenty-four. Both mills are drivenby Corliss double twenty-eight inch cylinder, five-foot stroke engines,of eight hundred horse power each. The two mills employ abouteleven hundred operatives. The company owns twenty-six four-tenement houses, which are rented to the help. d. 1 j^ INDUSTRIAL AND FINANCIAL. 157 The first president was James Robinson, who was succeeded byEdward Kilburn, who was in turn succeeded by Andrew G. Kilburn acted as superintendent and agent until January, 1884,when Manly U. Adams succeeded him in the latter capacity. Thepresent officers are : President — Andrew G. Pierce. Treasurer and agent — Manly U. Adams. Directors — Horatio Hathaway, William J. Rotch, William , Andrew G. Pierce, Edward Kilburn, William Watkins, andFrancis Hathaway. The Grinnell Manufacturing Corporation was organized March14, 1882, with a capital of $800,000 and the following officers : President — Edward Kilburn. Treasurer — Otis N. Pierce. Directors — Edward Kilburn, New Bedford, Stephen A. Jenks,Pawtucket, William F. Draper, Hopedale, Thomas M. Stetson,Joseph A. Beauvais, Andrew G. Pierce, Thomas B. Wilcox, John , Charles W. Plummer, and Otis N. Pierce, New Bedford. There has been no change in officers, but upon the
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