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; . brothers, Louis B. and Ernest M., he organized a companyfor the purpose of entering upon its manufacture. This firm, known asGoodall Brothers, together with the Mousam River Mills, referred toabove, was afterwards consolidated into the Sanford Mills. With theassistance of a talented inventor, the) perfect-working, wire-motion, powerplush loom, thereafter used in the mill, was produced and
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; . brothers, Louis B. and Ernest M., he organized a companyfor the purpose of entering upon its manufacture. This firm, known asGoodall Brothers, together with the Mousam River Mills, referred toabove, was afterwards consolidated into the Sanford Mills. With theassistance of a talented inventor, the) perfect-working, wire-motion, powerplush loom, thereafter used in the mill, was produced and put into operation. The company started with one loom, and from this small beginningsteadily grew until they reached the eminence of standing at the head ofthe mohair plush manufactories of the world. In 1911 the Board ofDirectors of the corporation consisted of E. M. Goodall, G. B. Goodall,John Hopewell and Frank Hopewell. The officers comprised E. , president; E. E. Hussey, vice-president; Frank Hopewell, treas-urer; Frank B. Hopewell, assistant treasurer; W. O. Emery, clerk; L. & Co., of Boston, selling agents. The following brief description of the Sanford Mills will give our. OF THE UNITED STATES 440 readers some idea of the magnitude of the plant operated by the SanfordMills Company: Mill No. I is the actual nucleus of all the Goodall enterprises; it isdevoted to the carding, spinning and weaving of carriage robes andvelours; is three stories high, 40 feet wide and 160 feet long, with a two-story ell 40 by 75 feet. Mill No. 2 is a three-story structure with basement, 140 feet carriage robe and velour finishing departments occupy the first andsecond floors of Mill No. 2, while the third floor is devoted to the dryingand storing of imprinted fabrics. In the winter of 1888-89, ^ roomy building was put up on the west-erly side of the Mousam River, connected with mills 2 and 3 by gradeand overhead bridges^ and here the printing, chemical, block-ma
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