Lamb's textile industry of the United States, embracing biographical sketches of prominment men and a historical résumé of the progress of textile manufacture from the earliest records to the present time; . The management in 1911 occupied an office at 55 Congress Street,Boston, and did its own selling. Cranmore N. Wallace was the presidentand selling agent; Charles W. Hubbard, treasurer and secretary, and SidneyStevens, manufacturing agent. The history of the Ludlow Associates would be incomplete withouta reference to the improvements wrought by them in Ludlow. The vil-lage, at the time they
Lamb's textile industry of the United States, embracing biographical sketches of prominment men and a historical résumé of the progress of textile manufacture from the earliest records to the present time; . The management in 1911 occupied an office at 55 Congress Street,Boston, and did its own selling. Cranmore N. Wallace was the presidentand selling agent; Charles W. Hubbard, treasurer and secretary, and SidneyStevens, manufacturing agent. The history of the Ludlow Associates would be incomplete withouta reference to the improvements wrought by them in Ludlow. The vil-lage, at the time they purchased the mills there, consisted of two countryroads, with a few very old tenement houses, a single-room schoolhouse anda church owned by the company. The nearest railway was the Boston andAlbany, a mile away; later on the Springfield and Athol was built throughthe village and a spur track was laid to the mill yard. About 1878 new streets were laid out and constructed by the company,a number of new cottages were built by them, and a six-room schoolhouseto accommodate the increasing number of scholars. The company has sincebuilt all the sewers and supplied the village with water and 1 ^^ OF THE UNITED STATES 433 From this small beginning a beautiful town has sprung up, with six orseven miles of good streets macadamized, and with concrete gutters andconcrete curbing to the sidewalks. The company at this writing (1911)owns 558 cottages and tenements, most of which contain from five to sevenrooms and rent for from six to twelve dollars a month, nearly all beingfitted with baths. A model boarding house for girls is maintained bythe company, and a hospital building has also been provided. The townpossesses a handsome library known as the Hubbard Memorial Library,which was erected as a memorial by the widow and children of the lateCharles T. Hubbard. The social life and amusements of the village havetheir home in the beautiful building known as the Stevens Memorial
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