The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . s. BRIGHAM. th^ l^i^c David Whitcomb, be- came a partner, and continued inthat relation until his death, the style being G. Henry Whitcomb &Company. In the spring of 1865 new machines were purchased, and thebusiness increasing a new building was erected in Bigelow coiut, offIront street, and a removal effected January i. 1S66. The firm con-tinued in this location until 1873. when the first portion of the presentextensive plant was occupied. In 1879 the southeast ell was erected; in1886 the Prescott street addition was built
The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . s. BRIGHAM. th^ l^i^c David Whitcomb, be- came a partner, and continued inthat relation until his death, the style being G. Henry Whitcomb &Company. In the spring of 1865 new machines were purchased, and thebusiness increasing a new building was erected in Bigelow coiut, offIront street, and a removal effected January i. 1S66. The firm con-tinued in this location until 1873. when the first portion of the presentextensive plant was occupied. In 1879 the southeast ell was erected; in1886 the Prescott street addition was built, and in 1892 another ell wasadded, so that now it is one of the largest envelope factories in the country,and has a floor space of between two and three acres. The firm has largelydeveloped and built most of its machinery, and evolved to the same end, butthrough different lines, most of the improvements in methods in use byother concerns. As late as 1880 envelopes were gummed by hand, butsince that date this process has been accomplished by ingenious The Worcester of 1898. 485 Rapidity in, and consequently cheapness of, production have been the greatdesideratum in this business, and it has been achieved in a wonderful )- five girls could produce 60,000 envelopes in a day. Now one girlcan make 75,000 in the same time, and by the perfected machinery a farbetter envelope. The Whitcomb factory has a capacity of 2,000,000 envel-opes a day. Since 1868 a large paper-box manufactory and a printingestablishment has been carried on by the concern in connection with theenvelope business. In 1884 the Whitcomb Envelope Company was incor-porated, with David Whitcomb as President, and G. Henry Whitcomb asTreasurer. On the death of Islr. David Whitcomb in 1887, Mr. G. HenryWhitcomb was chosen to fill the vacancy, and acted as president andtreasurer till 1894, when Mr. ^I. F. Ijickinson, Jr., was elected president.
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