. Connecticut of to-day : its chief business centres. Illustrated. 1890. el cigars, which are manufactured from carefullyselected tobacco, and have a wide sale, and are always in demand bythe trade: also all the leading brands of cigarettes and fine cut andplug chewing and smoking tobaccos of the most prominent and meerschaum and briar pipes, etc., and tobacco pouches,and every thing comprehended in smokers articles. G-2 HARTFORD. THE \VM. ROGERS MANUFACTURING Maiiuractiirers ofElectro Silvei-Plated Table Ware, Nos. 66 to 80 Market Street.—To the William Rogers JIanufact
. Connecticut of to-day : its chief business centres. Illustrated. 1890. el cigars, which are manufactured from carefullyselected tobacco, and have a wide sale, and are always in demand bythe trade: also all the leading brands of cigarettes and fine cut andplug chewing and smoking tobaccos of the most prominent and meerschaum and briar pipes, etc., and tobacco pouches,and every thing comprehended in smokers articles. G-2 HARTFORD. THE \VM. ROGERS MANUFACTURING Maiiuractiirers ofElectro Silvei-Plated Table Ware, Nos. 66 to 80 Market Street.—To the William Rogers JIanufactiiring Company—the found-ers of which were the originatoi-s of the electro-plating indus-try in America as applied to table-ware belongs the honor of pro-ducing goods which have become the standard, and made theJiame famous all over the civilized world. Like many anotherindustry which has grown to giant proportions, it was started in avery modest way, in 1*46, by Asa H. and William Rogers, under theliartnership name of Rogers Brothers, iu a cellar on State Street,. Five latter, so succf»stiil .tim s,.promising did the future look, that a joint-stock company wasformed, tand the factory at the corner of Trumbull and HicksStreets, now occupied by P. Jewell & Sons of leather belting fame,was built. This arrangement continued for six years, when thebrothers divided their interests. William Rogers withdrew fromthe Rogers Brothers Manufacturing Couipauy, and started the flruiof Rogers, Smith & Co., on Mechanic Street. In 1863, for somereason, both firms ceased to do business, and for three yeai-s theindustry seems to have died out. It was revived by William Rogersiu 1S65 as the William Rogers Manufacturing Company, having thefactory on the corner of Front and Grove Streets. His course wasfollowed in 1870 by William H. Watrous, who with his uncle. Asa , one of the original partnership, opened a manufactory on.\sylum Street, imder the name of
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